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On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that the president doesn’t see Iran’s seizure of two ships as a violation of the ceasefire because the ships weren’t American or Israeli. Host Martha MacCallum asked, “I want to ask you about these ships that Iran seized. We’re continuing to get reporting on this. Does the seizure of two ships — as we said, they were Greek and Mediterranean-owned ships with cargo on them, and the reports are that Iran basically seized them and then moved them into Iranian waters. We don’t…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has cautioned the Republican Party in Florida from redistricting after Virginia voted to approve a plan that could grant Democrats four additional U.S. House Seats. “The constitutional amendment narrowly backed by voters bypasses a bipartisan redistricting commission to allow the use of new districts drawn by Virginia’s Democratic-led General Assembly,” reported the Hartford Courant. “The state Supreme Court is considering whether the plan is illegal.” In a statement to PunchBowl News founder Jake Sherman, Hakeem Jeffries said that Republicans in Florida will suffer further losses if they move forward with redistricting. “If Florida Republicans proceed with…
The Southern Poverty Law Center is accused of “manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose” The US Justice Department has charged the anti-racist Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with wire fraud over its funneling of more than $3 million to white supremacist and extremist groups, including the organizers of the deadly ‘Unite the Right’ Charlottesville rally in 2017.In an indictment handed down by a grand jury in Alabama on Tuesday, the SPLC was charged with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. According to the Justice Department and the…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” host Laura Ingraham responded to assertions by the White House that Iran didn’t violate the ceasefire by saying, “Maybe I’m thick here, but didn’t they attack three ships?” And wondering how that wouldn’t constitute a violation of the ceasefire. While speaking with Coordinator for Counterterrorism during the first Trump administration Amb. Nathan Sales, Ingraham said, “Now, Mr. Ambassador, the White House claimed today that Iran did not violate the ceasefire. Maybe I’m thick here, but didn’t they attack three ships? How is that not violating the ceasefire?” Sales responded that…
Florida GOP Rep. Maria Salazar says her pending Dignidad Act is intended to deliver “cheap labor” to all sectors of the economy. “When people tell me that I am trying to help big business to have cheap labor, I’m going to answer them: It’s not [just] big business, it’s not only agricultural or construction or hospitality or health care or manufacturing — it’s more,” Salazar told a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday. She added: Who else? The farmers, people in the dairy business. We all like milk, right? Well, there are 150,000 jobs available in agriculture right now … Manufacturers!…
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) argued that “Donald Trump weaponized redistricting, first in North Carolina in 2023, and the three seats that he stole were the margin of victory for the reconciliation bill” and said that “in Republican states that have followed Donald Trump’s effort to rig elections, they’ve done it in the back room.” Kaine said, “[W]hen Donald Trump weaponized redistricting, first in North Carolina in 2023, and the three seats that he stole were the margin of victory for the reconciliation bill that kicked 80,000 Virginians off the SNAP food benefit…
President Donald Trump’s redistricting war now rests on Florida — and his onetime primary rival Gov. Ron DeSantis. The Sunshine State is the GOP’s likely best remaining chance to claw back an edge to keep their House majority, after voters approved a gerrymander in Virginia that will allow Democrats to pick up as many as four new seats. Now all eyes are on Florida to deliver a new map that could net the party anywhere from three to five seats, with legislators scheduled to hold a special session next week. National and state Republicans are counting on DeSantis to deliver…
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Amb. Nathan Sales, who served as Coordinator for Counterterrorism during the first Trump administration, said that Iran has violated the ceasefire “from the moment the ink was dry on the agreement” by failing to actually open up the Strait of Hormuz like they agreed to. Sales said, “Well, Laura, they’ve been violating the ceasefire from the moment the ink was dry on the agreement. The trade was, the United States stops its punishing and crippling military offensive against the Iranian regime, and, in return, the regime opens up the Strait, and…
HBO late-night host Bill Maher and actor Woody Harrelson blasted the Democrat-controlled state of California, saying the state “deserves to be shit on” over its tax policies while discussing the struggles in owning a cannabis store in California. “It’s not easy to make a business work in California,” Maher said at the beginning of Monday’s Club Random podcast episode, while explaining why he decided to record the April 20 show at, The Woods, a cannabis store he co-owns with Harrelson. The True Detective actor concurred, adding, “California just messes with every business.” “I mean, I don’t want to, like, start this off… well, why not? Like,…
If you’re a Cabinet official thinking of pursuing a new professional opportunity, Senate Republicans have a request: Now’s the time to call it quits. The departure this week of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who is following former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi out the door, has some GOP lawmakers pondering a larger Cabinet shakeup and what that could mean to an unsettled Senate floor schedule. Senate Republicans are already trying to juggle a shrinking window for lawmaking before the November midterms — including at least one potential party-line budget reconciliation bill, a litany of measures…