Author: Press Room
London’s Metropolitan Police force again attempted to downplay the criminality and violence of the multicultural Notting Hill Carnival, claiming that the street festival passed “largely without incident”, despite a record number of arrests and a man drowning to death. According to initial estimates from Scotland Yard, there were 636 arrests over the course of the two-day Afro-Caribbean event, a figure that will likely continue to rise. People were arrested for various offences, including sexual assaults, stabbings, and attacks on emergency workers. The 636 arrests this year easily surpassed last year’s record of 528. According to the Met, 242 arrests were made…
The Washington Post is spotlighting a young Haitian migrant who tragically killed himself in Ohio amid the deportations mandated by the 2024 presidential election and managed by President Donald Trump’s agencies. “A promising young man, a high school honors grad… His blood is on their hands,” claimed pro-migration advocate Aaron Reichlin at the American Immigration Council. The suicide was described by one of The Washington Post’s many journalists who claim to cover migration issues: Pierre Damas Bel, 20, parked on the shoulder of Interstate 70 in Springfield, Ohio, some time before 8:45 a.m., got out of his vehicle and walked into westbound…
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh ordered Michigan officials to respond by noon Wednesday to an emergency request seeking to place a voter identification amendment on the state’s November ballot. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the Board of State Canvassers, and other state officials must answer the application filed by Americans for Citizen Voting. The order does not indicate how Kavanaugh or the Supreme Court will rule. It gives Michigan officials an opportunity to present their arguments before the justices decide whether to grant emergency relief. Americans for Citizen Voting turned to the Supreme Court on Monday after Michigan election…
The GOP-led US House of Representatives censured creepy Rep. Chuck Edwards on Tuesday. Earlier this year, Edwards was investigated and censured by the House Committee on Ethics over allegations that he had behaved inappropriately with female staffers. Rep. Edwards withdrew from his reelection campaign after the House Ethics Committee recommended the censure. The stunning withdrawal came just two days after the bipartisan House Ethics Committee released a report recommending that the full House censure Edwards over what investigators described as “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct” toward two young female staffers. According to the committee’s official report, investigators conducted 16 witness…
Brazil’s top election authority, the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), suspended the presidential campaign of outsider right-wing candidate Renan Santos on Monday for allegedly using “unregistered” social media and other online resources in the campaign. Santos condemned the suspension as “absurd” and stated that he will file an injunction seeking relief against the ruling. Other Brazilian presidential candidates have publicly expressed their support for Santos over his suspension by the TSE. Santos, a 42-year-old politician, is one of 13 candidates running for president of Brazil in the October elections. He is the nominee of the right-wing Mission Party. Santos is also one…
Wendell Berry’s Politics of Coming Home When I got the news last night that Wendell Berry had died, I was on my front porch with my dogs and my daughters. We had been inspecting a large brown toad who was wandering among the stones in the front yard. Toads spend the summer feasting, fattening themselves for the long winter they will spend burrowed beneath the frost line. Spiders, slugs, worms, and insects are digested into vital stores of fat. By the time September arrives, the summer’s work is visible. This particular toad was so large that my smaller dog, a…
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) responded to a question on if Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is qualified to be in the Senate by saying that “I certainly haven’t sat down and compared. My first choice wouldn’t be Mike Rogers or Abdul. It would be someone else. In fact, I would have loved to see my colleague be nominated there.” Co-host Kailey Leinz asked, “Is he qualified to serve as the next senator from Michigan if he doesn’t denounce Hasan Piker and some of the things he said?” Sherman answered, “There are…
When you think of Trump tax cuts and Democrats, the first thing that comes to mind is Democrats complaining that the tax cuts only benefit the rich. For good measure, they typically say not only the rich, but Trump’s rich buddies, as if he is doing a favor just for a select few, powerful, connected people. Well, now California Senator Adam Schiff has finally found a Trump tax cut idea that he likes. It’s all about a tax incentive to save jobs in Hollywood. In other words, a tax cut that would benefit a very select group. And make no…
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States is carrying out “large and powerful” strikes against Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz, warning Tehran that any retaliation would trigger a far heavier response while revealing an even larger attack is “waiting in the wings” that would leave “very little” of the Islamic Republic. “The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no…
Ship tracking firms reported that two supertankers carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday night. The tankers were struck by “unknown projectiles” within minutes of each other while passing through the strait near midnight. The two Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC), the Saudi-flagged Sidr and Liberia-flagged Senegal Prosperity, each loaded cargoes of about two million barrels of crude oil from Saudi Arabia’s Juaymah terminal last week. WATCH — President Trump: I’m the Last Person to Trust Iran: Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, Aramco, suspended loading from the Persian Gulf terminal of Juaymah in February…