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A socialist lawmaker in New York City has claimed “biological need” gives shoplifters the right to steal from store shelves. State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher, who describes herself as a “neighborhood organizer” and “democratic socialist,” made her comments on Thursday outside Manhattan Criminal Court, the New York Post reported Saturday. She was joined by members of Court Watch NYC, which claimed they monitored hundreds of arraignments for several days and found half of those cases were misdemeanors. Gallagher said: Most of what we saw were crimes of poverty-people who are stealing things like toothpaste, people who were stealing things like, you…

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Trump’s peace envoy said Gaza would not be rebuilt if it could be “taken over by terrorists or blown up again” The US would not allow the reconstruction of Gaza until the Palestinian enclave is fully demilitarized, President Donald Trump’s peace envoy Jared Kushner said following meetings with Hamas officials and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, held a rare meeting with Hamas officials in Cairo on Sunday and spoke with Netanyahu the following day. According to the envoy, Hamas had reaffirmed its support for Trump’s peace plan and committed to “giving up their weapons.”“Time will tell whether that’s…

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Karen Bass and Nithya Raman America has a polling problem. In the recent Michigan Democrat Senate primary, the polls were way off. Then the same thing happened in the Wisconsin Democrat governor primary. In both cases, the polls favored the far left candidates. Now the same thing is happening in Los Angeles, although in this case, the poll favored Karen Bass, the supposed establishment candidate over Nithya Raman, the DSA loon candidate. From the Los Angeles Times, via Yahoo News: Poll showing Bass leading Raman by double digits was bogus, company says A poll claiming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass…

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President Donald Trump doubled down Monday on declaring the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory, asserting that Washington has “total control” of the strategic waterway as Tehran threatened a military attack to break the U.S. naval blockade and declared a shift toward a more offensive posture. “I just think it’s a great idea,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked to elaborate on his suggestion last week that the strait could be declared U.S. territory. Trump repeatedly pointed to the blockade as the basis for American control. “We control it. We control it with the blockade,” he said. “And…

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Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said President Donald Trump views servicemembers as “toys” and props to show off strength. Partial transcript as follows: GALLEGO:  Well, I’m glad they’re resolving their problems now, but where was the leadership for so long that it got to this point? And I think later on, he says, like, this is a problem of a long ago. I was just speaking to a spouse just about three days ago, and this is the current problems right now. And then it really goes to the deep, deep, deep problem here is that this…

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The agency reportedly ignored the Playboy founder’s warnings, contacting an alleged rape victim only 15 years after his first call Playboy founder Hugh Hefner repeatedly contacted the FBI on behalf of a model who alleged that Jeffrey Epstein had raped and trafficked her, but the agency did not contact her until 15 years later, the New York Post has reported.According to a lawsuit filed against the US government by 32 of Epstein’s alleged victims and cited by the Post, former Playmate Audra Lynn Christiansen sought Hefner’s help in 2005 after telling him about the alleged abuse. Despite his repeated calls…

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Screencap of Twitter/X video. Being a radical, leftist lunatic apparently runs in Abdul El-Sayed’s family. The half-sister of the Michigan senate candidate is a professor at the University of Chicago who has participated in anti-ICE protests and even allegedly assaulted a police officer. What a charming family they must be. Don’t you want to elevate them to the United States Senate after hearing this? This is just another warning sign about El-Sayed as a candidate. FOX News reported: Controversial socialist Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is facing fresh scrutiny after it was revealed that his close relative is a far-left professor…

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Files declassified by President Donald Trump on former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and the Chinese spy known as Fang Fang reveal that the disgraced ex-congressman admitted to the FBI he had a sexual relationship with her  — and that the bureau attempted at one point to recruit her without her knowledge. The documents prove that the United States government was aware of the suspicious relationship between Swalwell and Fang since at least 2014, years before Axios broke the story in 2020. A zip file of documents, labeled “Rusty Thumbs” after the FBI’s codename for Fang, was published on the White…

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Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Pennsylvania state Rep. Chris Rabb (D) said the United States is “not a purely capitalistic society.” Partial transcript as follows: ED O’KEEFE: Part of the reason why we wanted to have someone like you here, given that you are the Democratic nominee, but also a member of the DSA, what is a voter getting from a Democrat and a member of the DSA like you that they aren’t necessarily getting from a Democrat like Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, who we had on earlier? RABB: That’s a great question. I listened to that segment, and it…

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A Texas state legislator called Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico the “most liberal” candidate in the state’s history when reacting to allegations that the latter embellished his first story as a lawmaker. As The Western Journal previously noted, Talarico suspiciously predicted he might be mistaken for an intern after he was first elected to the state House in 2018. Twice after that election, Talarico said he feared he might be mistaken for a support staffer when reporting for his first day of work. On Nov. 20, 2018, Talarico told KVUE-TV he feared he would be “stuffed into a locker” and…

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