Assuming El-Sayed wins, it's a big moment for the Sensible Centrists. Do they (many) continue their racist campaign against him, or embrace the Vote Blue No Matter Who ethos?
I expect they'll tone it down but spend months doing the "more in sorrow than in anger, I'm here to report that he just won't be able to win the general election with this latest misstep, which I will amplify on every channel..." dance.
Someone forgot to tell Americans that FIFA is clownishly corrupt.
According to four executives at U.S. host city committees, all of whom asked to remain anonymous to protect relationships, FIFA management repeatedly assured the cities they would receive the same $1 million contribution towards legacy, despite no public statement ever being made by the organization.
The World Cup host cities in the U.S. were Seattle, San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Atlanta, Philadelphia, New York/New Jersey, Miami and Boston.
The four executives said this promise was made verbally by members of FIFA’s senior management, and reiterated to cities in meetings, but it has not been paid, meaning several cities are now asking FIFA staff for updates on the payments.
People mock Pete Hegseth, but if were are out of missiles then turning the troops into High T Supersoldiers is the best option.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the military's readiness for future conflicts.
The missiles are principally the Army's surface-to-surface weapons, known as Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM). The U.S. has used "virtually all" of these weapons, according to two of the sources.
And I mean it this time!
War talks: President Donald Trump said it’s Iran’s “last chance” to sign a deal with the United States, after again calling off strikes and promising to continue talks. He also claimed talks between the US and Iran would start Monday and that a Strait of Hormuz deal was in place, but Iran has denied any negotiations are ongoing.
The replacements are usually worse, but one small joy we get is Trump humiliating his lickspittles.
President Donald Trump is considering removing Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, over a Justice Department conclusion that problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool stemmed from a flawed renovation rather than vandalism, two people familiar with his thinking told CNN.
No she doesn't get any credit for doing the right thing here. She had no choice.
I can't claim that nobody has benefitted from their relationship with Trump, but many get burned, especially the ones who are confident they won't.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino wants the Trump administration to help keep him in office and has scheduled private talks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio Monday amid growing pressure to resign over his scheme to sell off the World Cup to Josh Kushner’s private equity firm, The Post has learned.
Two sources familiar with the matter confirmed Infantino will hold a call with America’s top diplomat just after 9 a.m. ET.
“He wanted to get online with the secretary and talk about how soccer can be a form of soft power for America,” said one insider briefed on the matter. “But we all know that it is about job protection. It is not about anything else at this point.”
Maybe this will work out for him, but even with the Kusher connection, I suspect Trump has already forgotten him.
Not that the fossil fuel industry has ever been that.
WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump again called on oil companies to lower gasoline prices for U.S. consumers on Monday, chiding Chevron (CVX.N), opens new tab Chief Executive Mike Wirth for not crediting his administration's efforts to help the oil industry.
Trump took issue with Wirth a day after the CEO was interviewed on the Fox News program "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo."
"The only thing he conveniently forgot to mention is that, without the genius, foresight, strength, and stability, of the TRUMP Administration, the Oil Industry, and our Country itself, would be DEAD!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. "As an example, they threw Mike and Chevron out of Venezuela, but now they're back, far bigger and stronger than ever before, expecting to make a fortune!"
"That goes for other Oil Companies as well ... and get your consumer (retail!) Oil Prices DOWN, NOW!" Trump wrote.
I hate how expensive things are at the oil station, that place where I buy retail oil.
.@RepChipRoy what are you doing about it? We hear about mosques in your state more than any other, besides Michigan. We don’t need to hear your impassioned interview appearances about it; we need you guys to DO something.
— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) August 3, 2026
You guys run the US government.
DO something. https://t.co/ZdZpKRAs2D
The request from a senior officer at the US military command carrying out President Donald Trump’s war with Iran came in an email: We need ideas.“We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” an officer in US Central Command’s intelligence branch wrote in a message sent Wednesday to a broad group of military analysts, according to a source familiar with the message. A second source also said that a senior US military officer sent the message last week soliciting new ideas for how to deal with Iran.
In his latest comments, Trump said Iran and US partners Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar had urged him to hold off on the strikes.
“When the allies asked to call it off, you’ve got to sort of say, ‘Well, let’s see.’ And the reason they ask is they think there’s a deal,” he said.
“There’s a deal on [the Strait of] Hormuz, and then there will be a deal on the nuclear, or you might call it the denuclearisation of Iran.”
He said Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had also urged against the strikes, warning of possible unintended consequences.
If I were upset about primary successes of The Left, I'd be mad at the Professional Democrats in charge of making that not happen.
For months, Schumer and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York had made their unofficial backing of Stevens clear, inviting her to donor events and directing other support her way. Gillibrand even went so far as suggesting to several donors, ominously, that McMorrow had been a member of the Democratic Socialists of America – even though McMorrow isn’t.
I bet this is the one!
President Donald Trump said Saturday night that the US is canceling a planned attack on Iran, citing progress in talks.
Trump said the US “is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” but that he agreed to requests by Iran and other Middle Eastern countries “to hold off any attack in that the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to.”
I think this "conventional wisdom" was always self-serving nonsense designed to please the donor class, and the broader class of people served by their donations.
NEW: Polling of 18 Cook-rated toss-up districts shatters conventional wisdom about how to win in a swing district.
— Ravi Mangla (@ravi_mangla) July 31, 2026
Independents *and* moderates want outsider candidates who will stand up to the political establishment.
The middle of the road is where you get run over. pic.twitter.com/oVQl3SypV8
No worries, journalists, you can still trust them presumptively next time.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has dropped its case against a former Olympic canoeist charged in connection with damage to the Reflecting Pool, acknowledging their allegations against David “Davey” Hearn don’t hold water.
In a filing Friday afternoon, a supervisor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, which is headed by Jeanine Pirro, wrote that officials obtained information that undermined “the evidentiary basis for the indictment” against Hearn.
I know we have the problem of 'which scandal to choose' but every American should know Davey Hearn's name and hear about this for the next 15 years. Using the DOJ to go after private citizens for Trump's bullshit is actually a big deal.