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Iowa’s 6-week abortion ban went into effect last month, meaning that more than 600,000 women...

CNBC: The months long Trump Media stock slide continued Wednesday, as shares of the company majority-owned by former President Donald Trump fell below $20 for the first time since the Truth Social maker went public in March of this year. As of 12:45 p.m. ET, the stock price of DJT has dropped more than 75% from its intraday high on March 26, the day the company debuted on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Trump Media stock price Trump Media has also lost more than half its value since its recent surge on July 15, the first trading day after the Republican presidential nominee narrowly survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Trump’s stake is still worth $2.2 billion but he has an agreement that prevents him from cashing out. That agreement is going to expire on September 20th. Golly, what do you think he’ll do??? What a nice little scam… If he does sell — or if he even appears likely to — investors could lose confidence in Trump Media, a situation the company’s own regulatory filings have acknowledged.

In June this year, Liberal MP Julian Leeser introduced a bill in Federal Parliament for a Commission of Inquiry into Anti-semitism at Australian Universities (2024). According to Leeser, the Australian Human Rights Commission, tasked by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with carrying out a general inquiry into racism, including anti-semitism, was unsuitable due to its support Continue reading »

Zionism has followed the twisted logic of a long line of modern ideologies that ended up committing mass murder. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself … It is a question of finding Continue reading »

Some US commentators are advocating a recalibration of America’s full-spectrum global posture, while others, including Condoleezza Rice, energetically beg to differ - naturally for the good of the world. Continue reading »

As China commemorates the 120th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s birth, in the second instalment of a three-part series, we look at the impact of his policies – from the factories to the countryside. A year after Deng Xiaoping stepped down as China’s paramount leader, Mindy Guo took a risk and left her secure job in Continue reading »

It is primarily in the hands of Israelis to reject their settler colonial occupation, their apartheid laws, and their current government and nationalist parties. The alternative means the loss of their humanity. Since its creation in 1948, Israel has been embroiled in many wars with Palestinians and some Arab countries. Historically, these wars have sparked Continue reading »

Deng Xiaoping (1904-97) was born in Guang’an, Sichuan province, 120 years ago. By the age of 74, the man who had witnessed nearly the entire 20th century changed China’s trajectory and indirectly shaped the world as we know it today. In my quest to enrich my understanding of China, a significant encounter has been with Continue reading »

The Second Session of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality is now just weeks away. Opinions differ markedly among reformers about its trajectory so far. Some are deeply disillusioned and fearful. Others see evidence of real progress even if change is slow and incremental. The views of the former were represented in a recent editorial Continue reading »

On 22 August, Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned of the deadly effect a military attack on Russia’s nuclear power complex at Kursk would have on civilian communities in Russia, Ukraine and potentially across Europe. He had previously warned of the consequences of such attacks on Ukraine’s nuclear reactors at Zaporizhzhia. Continue reading »

It wasn’t a joke. This is something he obviously seriously believes. He is repulsed by any woman who has not given birth and has been crusading against them for years: GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance in 2021 made yet more disparaging comments about people without children, this time turning his ire to teachers. Part of Vance’s remarks were resurfaced on Tuesday by Heartland Signal, a digital outlet based in Chicago. NBC News later reviewed and shared video of the entire event. During a forum for Republican Senate candidates in Ohio hosted by the Center for Christian Virtue in October 2021, Vance weighed in on the question of how to make schools more responsive to parents. Vance claimed the left wants “to control what our children learn.” “I think our conservative idea is that parents and family should determine what children learn, what values they are brought up with,” he said.

The Lincoln Project gets very subversive. Trump’s going to be very disturbed: LaCivita is a real piece of work. He was one of the swiftboat guys back in 2004 and has ascended the ranks of GOP politics ever since then. He’s a character assassin and a dirty trickster which is obviously what appealed to Trump. But he’s establishment too. Trump shouldn’t trust him. Heh.

Texas is opening a fossil fuel-backed business court stacked with judges who’ve represented oil and gas companies.

One of the central tenets of writing is that you should always “write what you know.” In the words of acclaimed author P. D. James: “All experience, whether it is painful or whether it is happy, is somehow stored up and sooner or later it’s used.” And I truly adhere to this philosophy. Our pasts are our fuel. Our memories are our ammunition. And our own unique life story is the thread from which we sew the tapestry of human creation.

That’s why, whenever I’m writing, I always make it a point of pride to draw from the rich wellspring of my lived experiences and write exclusively about the terrible relationships I have had with women who look like my mother.

Everyone has a story to tell. And my story is one where I keep dating emotionally distant brunettes who used to dance in college.

Over the weekend Donald Trump whined that the Harris campaign was treating him like the incumbent and it’s totally not fair: The fact is that they are framing some of the campaign as a referendum on Trump. And why wouldn’t they? He’s running on the lies about the alleged halcyon days when America was great (2017 -2019) and she’s running on “a new way forward” and “we’re not going back.” If he doesn’t want to be seen as the incumbent maybe he should stop pretending he is one. From the moment Trump glumly flew off to Mar-a-lago on January 20, 2021 he’s been acting like a president in exile. He’s been running a shadow government, with GOP officials rushing to get his permission before they take any action and everyone clamoring for his dispensation in their election campaigns .One of the most obvious examples of his power with the GOP was his thumbs down on the painfully negotiated bipartisan border bill. He didn’t even pretend that it had anything to do with the policy, he just didn’t want Biden to be able to run on it as one of his accomplishments.

As I write this, Putin is bombing Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, and the price of crude oil has gone up three percent. Both are good reasons for the UK to make the move to homegrown renewables — something the last government ignored, and Labour has rightly put front and centre of its energy policy with the […]

There are 245 key Russian facilities Ukraine could strike today. It has the capabilities, but not the permission. Why deny them?

Good news for Democrats if registrants turn out There is more than vibes to demonstrate that Kamala Harris leading the Democrats’ ticket has changed the dynamic of the presidential contest. There is data. Tom Bonier summarizes voter registration changes since the changeover. Young Black women are leading the way, seeing their registration almost triple, relative to the same point in 2020. Young Hispanic women aren’t far behind, with a 150% increase in registration. Black women overall have almost doubled their registration numbers from 2020. These changes are, unsurprisingly, substantially to the benefit of Democrats. Democratic registration has increased by over 50%, as compared to only 7% for Republicans. These new registrants are modeled as +20 pts Dem, as compared to +6 during the same week in 2020. What’s “wild,” Bonier adds, is that this voter registration spike “even surpasses the post-Dobbs surge.” Democrats stand to benefit in swing states like Georgia and North Carolina with their large populations of Black voters.

This fall marks Tommy Tate’s twentieth year as a crossing guard for the city of Washington, DC.

The political press has doubled down on horse-race coverage of the election, overlooking the threat Trump poses to democracy.

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Well over a thousand people ‘denied a vote’ due to issues with mandatory photo ID rules in the capital

Just reading between the lines here USA Today: Democratic vice-presidential nominee and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz appeared on the popular social media account “SubwayTakes” Monday, marking the latest moment in the social media battle defining the 2024 presidential race. In the video Walz discusses the value of well-kept gutters, regional hardware stores and the Minnesota delicacy that is the Juicy Lucy style hamburger. The account features host Kareem Rahma interviewing people and asking for “hot takes” on subways, primarily in New York City. The account has over 484,000 followers on Tik Tok.

Doctor Who: Death in the Stars is the debut murder mystery novel written by Bonnie Langford (w/ Jacqueline Rayner) and featuring Mel Bush.

“The good news keeps coming for Vice President Harris. She has now not only made up ground in public polls in the swing states in her campaign for president, but has now actually taken narrow leads in three critical states that would put her at just enough electoral votes to win the White House, according to polling averages.” — NPR

I have one job, which is to convince Americans that Kamala Harris is a lying, Antifa-loving child trafficker who drinks baby blood. I thought it would be easy, but it’s not going very well. Harris keeps rising in the polls, and my Trumpworld bosses are getting more erratic by the day, which, you know, is really saying something.

I’ve tried everything: whispers, hashtags, and a prime-time ad on the Tucker Carlson Network. But no matter how craftily I disseminate the Kamala libel, and no matter how many Republicans parrot the talking points, nothing seems to work.