Legislative rush reprieves deserters, omits economic reforms

California Democrat driven from LGBTQ event ‘for being terrible on Gaza'

California Democrat driven from LGBTQ event ‘for being terrible on Gaza' California State Senator Scott Wiener, a progressive Jewish lawmaker and leading candidate to succeed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was chased out of a transgender community march in San Francisco for his alleged pro-Israel stance, Israeli media reported. A video posted by a local activist showed Wiener being accosted by a crowd in San Francisco’s Dolores Park and calling him a “genocidal piece of shit”. The activist filming the video then shouts, “I think your policy on the genocide in Gaza is terrible. I think you do not belong here.” In a statement, Wiener said the reaction forced him to leave the annual trans march for the first time in 22 years. He said attempts to intimidate and physically bully him crossed a line, according to The Times of Israel. The incident came days after Wiener said he was heckled by an anti-Zionist activist at a San Francisco bar. Scott Wiener showed up to the trans march and for the first time we kicked his ass out. It's sad because while he's written some good legislation for queers, hes ultimately a genocidal-supporting center right shill. Trigger warning: broken man walking away defeated. Vote Connie! pic.twitter.com/TXIB7omxde— Dimitry Yakoushkin (@decadimitry) June 27, 2026

Another Atrocity

Another one, among many: LORENZO SALGADO ARAUJO CAME TO THE UNITED STATES thirty-five years ago—a few years too late to benefit from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, popularly known as the “Reagan amnesty.” He worked in construction. By the 2000s, he was a small business owner who provided jobs and work for other men. They would drive to the North Houston suburbs and build houses. His dream was to build his own home for his family one day—a dream he achieved. On Tuesday morning, Lorenzo was picking up workers as usual shortly after 6 a.m. when he was confronted by ICE and killed. He was 52 years old. This man had been here for 35 years, had a business and raised three American sons who all went to college. He had no criminal record and was known as a responsible family man. The community is heartbroken. ICE is saying he was violent and they shot him in self-defense, but nothing indicates that’s true. They have no proof and have detained and probably deported the witnesses who were in the car when it happened. This story is getting national attention as it should. Minneapolic tactics aren’t over. IT’S STILL HAPPENING, they’re just keeping a lower profile. Markwaaaayne is pushing for higher quotas, he just wants them to be kept under wraps. I’m a little bit frustrated that so many progressives have failed to put this at the top of their list of moral atrocities being committed by the United States

Legal reforms deliver gains in crime reduction, road safety, efficiency

KUWAIT: Less than a year after the government unveiled the largest legislative modernization plan in Kuwait’s history, the reform program has moved beyond the drafting stage, with...

Why Right Wing 'Communist' Name-Calling Won't Work

This past week, after Democratic socialists swept a slate of primaries in New York City, Republicans launched a rerun of one of their most well-worn lines of attack: communism. President Donald Trump turned to Truth Social to insist that “many Communists running in badly failing Blue States” and that “America the Beautiful will NEVER be a Communist Country!!!” No one running in the New York elections ran as a communist. They ran as progressives, largely opposed to the disastrous policies put in place by Republicans, like an abusive anti-immigrant regime, social safety net cuts, and tax cuts for the wealthy. The attack was boringly familiar to anyone who’s paid attention to U.S. politics for the last 60-plus years. Conveniently for the right, whoever is in charge of the Democratic Party or is an influential voice within the party is one of the Four Horsemen of communism or socialism. In the 2024 election cycle, Trump alleged that former Vice President Kamala Harris—and by extension, former President Joe Biden—was a Marxist. This would have been news to anyone living on planet Earth during her time in office, because not a thing that she or Biden did could even remotely be considered communist in nature.read more

Delaware General Assembly roundup: Impacts on rural communities

This year’s legislative session saw a number of bills that will directly impact peoples’ lives in rural communities across the state, from gun ownership, farmland interests, wetland preservation and changes to town charters. Bills addressing rural communities tend to be more bipartisan in their introduction and support, as Delaware’s Republican minority largely represents the southern part of the state – and rural areas. The post Delaware General Assembly roundup: Impacts on rural communities appeared first on Spotlight Delaware.

Trump poised to be snubbed his own party as admin 'desperately needs cash' for war: report

A handful of GOP senators signaled trouble for the Trump administration as it pushes a controversial 1.5 trillion defense budget, Punchbowl News reported Tuesday.Representing a 42 increase from the previous year, the White House is hoping to push through its controversial 1.5 trillion budget proposal through reconciliation, a legislative process that allows bills to advance with a simple majority and bypass the typical 60-vote threshold. The Trump administration is also seeking an additional 78 billion to cover mostly Iran war expenses.But at least four Senate Republicans – enough to sink the package assuming all Democratic senators remain opposed to the proposal – are signaling trouble for the Trump administration, despite it “desperately needing the cash infusion,” Punchbowl News reported.“[Sen. Susan Collins (R-MA)] is one of four key Senate Republicans who have said a defense reconciliation package is unlikely to materialize,” Punchbowl News reported. “Reconciliation is President Donald Trump’s preferred vehicle for boosting military FY2027 funding to 1.5 trillion.”As for Democratic senators, most, if not all, are likely to reject the White House’s request entirely.“Democrats are unlikely to back a supplemental given their opposition to a total defense budget of 1.5 trillion, the administration’s slow-walking aid to Ukraine and Trump ignoring Congress during the Iran war,” Punchbowl News’ report reads.Amid the ongoing negotiations, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been meeting with lawmakers recently in an effort to shore up support for a 350 billion “special budget bill” for additional military spending, though he’s already faced “resistance” from both Republicans and Democrats, The New York Times recently reported.

Bombshell Report: FBI Infiltrated Gavin Newsom's Inner Circle

New reporting in the New York Post suggests the FBI may have infiltrated Governor Newsom's inner circle, convincing Democratic Insider Alexis Podesta to secretly record conversations with Newsom's then chief-of-staff Dana Williamson, who in May pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax charges. The accusation of Podesta wearing a wire comes according to Williamson's attorney. Newsom's office, meanwhile, responding, saying there is no evidence that the alleged use of that wire on one of the FBI's informants was in any way connected to the Governor. This, capping a busy week in California politics, in which new laws went into effect, the gas tax went up, state workers were required to go back to the office, former Vice President Harris and Governor Newsom courted NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani amid a surge of progressive candidates, backed by the DSA, winning Democratic primaries across the country, and controversy over the failure of legislation that would have barred sex offenders from running for office in California. "Inside California Politics" host Nikki Laurenzo joins Micah Ohlman and Courtney Friel to break it all down and offer her Independence Day message ahead of America's 250th. July 3, 2026. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/ktla?sub_confirmation=1

'Pink Flamingo' protesters in Tirana demand resignation of PM Edi Rama | DW News

Anti-government 'Pink Flamingo' protests in Albanian continued for the 35th day, sparked by a luxury property development linked to Donald Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. Protesters in the capital Tirana are calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Edi Rama, the temporary replacement of his government, constitutional reform and an end to corruption. Chapters: 00:00 Albania protests swell over luxury resort plan 00:44 How did an environmental protest become a national movement? We talk to journalist Besar Likmeta in Tirana 02:04 How serious a threat is this to the government? 03:34 Can the movement bring political change? 04:37 More from DW Correspondent Rashela Shehu: What are the protesters demanding now? 06:08 Is there evidence of foreign interference? 07:28 Is Rama losing his grip on power? #albania #flamingo #protest #trump #pinkflamingo #jaredkushner #dwcurrentaffairs For more news go to: http://www.dw.com/en/ Follow DW on social media: ►Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dwnews ►TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dwnews ►Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deutschewellenews/ ►Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwnews Für Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https://www.youtube.com/dwdeutsch Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1

बागमती प्रदेश सभा: दुई विधेयक बहुमतले पारित

मकवानपुर । बागमती प्रदेशसभाको आजको बैठकले प्रदेश विनियोजन विधेयक २०८३ र प्रदेश आर्थिक विधेयक २०८३ लाई बहुमतले पारित गरेको छ । बैठकमा प्रदेशका आर्थिक मामिला तथा योजना मन्त्री प्रभात तामाङले प्रदेश विनियोजन विधेयक २०८३ लाई पारित गरियोस् भनी प्रस्ताव पेस गरेका थिए। प्रदेश सभाका सदस्यहरू क्रमशः ईश्वर सापकोटा, सृजना सैजु र रत्नप्रसाद ढकालले सरकारको आर्थिक []

Housing, AI, and labor issues up for debate in House economic development package

Legislators have proposed 688 ways to change an economic development bill the House plans to pass Wednesday. Some amendments carry statewide implications as representatives look to squeeze as many of their priorities as possible into the late-session legislation.

Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina Applauds Passage of State Budget

RALEIGH, NC – Today, Governor Josh Stein signed into law North Carolina’s first comprehensive state budget since 2023, a budget crafted by the General Assembly that will further reduce individual income taxes, increase teacher and law enforcement pay, and offer additional funding to communities still recovering from the lingering impacts of Hurricane Helene. Americans for [] The post Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina Applauds Passage of State Budget appeared first on Americans for Prosperity.

Cuba suffers new nationwide blackout, third in six months

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) —Cuba on Monday suffered its third nationwide power outage since the start of the year, the state electricity company said.The impoverished island was already struggling to keep the lights on before US President Donald Trump in January imposed an oil blockade, which has depleted the already dwindling supply of fuel for Cuba's power plants.There has been a total disconnection from the national electricity generation system, the UNE power utility wrote on X, adding that it was investigating the causes.The blackout is the eighth on the island of 9.6 million people since late 2024.It comes as the state imposes increasingly draconian power cuts across the country -- over 24 hours at a stretch in parts of Havana and over 70 hours in some rural areas -- in an increasingly desperate attempt to conserve fuel.Power outages have been a feature of life for years on the communist-run island, where the electricity generation system, composed mainly of ageing Soviet-era plants, is in shambles.The pace of blackouts has accelerated since the fuel blockade began, however, with authorities citing a lack of fuel to run the generators that support the creaking national grid.Since January, Washington has only allowed one oil tanker, from Russia, to dock in Cuba.The blockade, coupled with a flurry of sanctions on the Cuban state and foreign companies that do business with it, have tipped the country closer to the brink of collapse.Food, drinking water and medicine are in increasingly short supply, prompting the United Nations to warn of a humanitarian emergency.The government has invested heavily in solar energy to try alleviate the electricity shortages, but solar power, while increasing, still represents just 10 percent of the energy mix.

More Than One Way to Fix Social Security

To the Editor: Re “Congress Must Act Now to Save Social Security,” by Bernie Moreno and Elizabeth Warren (Opinion guest essay, June 24): Senator Moreno and Senator Warren frame the elimination of the income cap on payroll taxes as a “common-sense solution,” but it entirely ignores the structural flaws of such a policy and the []

Congress can’t term-limit itself — the Supreme Court already said so, twice

Fourteen state legislatures have passed a resolution asking for something Congress could, in theory, hand them for free: term limits on its own members. They aren’t asking Congress to pass a law. They’re applying for an Article V convention, the slower path to a constitutional amendment, because the faster path doesn’t exist. Twenty more states []

You Can Now Be Arrested For Sticking Your Hand In Donald Trump’s Disgusting Reflecting Pool

Things big and small are going bad for Donald Trump. He’s losing bad enough on land and at sea in Iran, but worse at a pool back in D.C. One might say the growing algae debacle on the National Mall left him up shit's creek without a paddle, and so he had an Olympic canoer arrested. Trump painted himself into an American Flag Blue corner with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, so somebody has to pay. Now arrests are being made. It’s another sign of how far the republic has fallen that the biggest reaction to throwing folks in jail to distract from presidential fuckups is laughter. But here we are. The Ponzi Scheme of Chaos rolls on. To recap: Trump had bogusly declared that an urgent situation existed with the Reflecting Pool—or, as he also called the formerly regal body of water on the National Mall, the “the Reflecting Pond” and “the Reflecting Lake at the Lincoln Monument”—so he could give no-bid contracts to Republican Party loyalists. Among the folks hired to basically put the pool back in the same shape it was already in was John J. Cafaro, a cartoonish looking man whose résumé, The New York Times reported, shows convictions for bribery and illegal campaign contributions. Cafaro’s pool company is called Greenwater Services, and, sure enough, he’s delivered green water to the National Mall.

Clause-wise discussion taking place over four bills in NA panel today

Kathmandu, July 9: Clause-wise discussions are taking place over four bills in today's meeting of the National Assembly...

Reps introduce 2,747 bills, pass 363 in three years

By Gift ChapiOdekina, Abuja ABUJA — The House of Representatives says it introduced 2,747 bills and passed 363 during the first three years of the 10th National Assembly, describing the record as evidence of its commitment to legislative reforms and governance. Chairman of the House Committee on Rules and Business, Hon. Francis Waive, disclosed the [] The post Reps introduce 2,747 bills, pass 363 in three years appeared first on Vanguard News.

General : Dewan Rakyat: Three Bills, Suhakam Motion Among Third Week's Highlights

KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 (Bernama) -- The third week of the Dewan Rakyat sitting saw the tabling and passage of two bills, alongside debates on a wide range of issues concerning public well-being, healthcare, food security, energy, national security and governance.

Pat Gray exposes the truth about the new wave of radical democratic socialist candidates

As a growing number of democratic socialists win elections and progressive policies gain traction nationwide, BlazeTV host Pat Gray is incredibly concerned about the left’s plans for America’s future.“They are doing their damnedest to ruin this country — just bring it completely down, because ... it can’t be brought down from without. So they’re hell-bent on doing it from within,” he says.Executive producer Keith Malinak agrees, pointing out that the new Equality Act the left is pushing is essentially the same thing as the Civil Rights Act.“It will take the Civil Rights Act and say, ‘Hey, guess what, trans people get all those rights, too. And you have no choice,’” Malinak explains.“They’ve got their own problems in the party because they’re being taken over by communists and they don’t even care,” Gray chimes in.“In fact, some of them are in love with it,” he says, explaining that radical democratic socialists have been winning elections across the country.“We had a 29-year-old Ethiopian-born socialist in Colorado who just defeated a 30-year congresswoman. She’s been elected 15 times, and now a 29-year-old Ethiopian who’s a socialist just beat her,” he explains, pointing out that this particular congresswoman, Melat Kiros, has claimed America deserved 9/11.Kiros also “wants all illegals who are here to just be granted immunity and amnesty and citizenship.”“And she wants to abolish ICE. And she was elected,” Gray says.Want more from Pat Gray?To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

"Criminal Approach to Politics": Trump Ally Abelardo de la Espriella Wins Colombian Presidency

Right-wing Trump ally Abelardo de la Espriella has clinched a narrow victory in Sunday’s runoff presidential election in Colombia, defeating leftist Senator Iván Cepeda, an ally of current President Gustavo Petro. De la Espriella ran a fearmongering, “tough-on-crime” campaign, promising to build mega-prisons inspired by El Salvador’s authoritarian President Nayib Bukele, to bomb “narcoterrorist camps” and to abandon Petro’s peace efforts. His reported victory is also a win for U.S. President Donald Trump, whose administration is waging an intensifying “war on drugs” across Latin America, targeting left-wing leaders like Petro with false allegations and threats of military intervention. “De la Espriella clearly represents a criminal approach to politics: lying, propaganda, coordination and collusion with criminal narcotrafficking, restriction of rights, and money laundering,” says longtime Colombian activist Manuel Rozental. With his victory, says Rozental, “We expect to have military operations and a U.S. intervention within the country. We expect to have human rights abuses. We expect to have militarization. And it’s all for the extraction of resources and the link of drug trafficking to the U.S. government, U.S. interests and global mafia.”