Woman tried to run over Black children playing in the street.
A white woman is facing ten charges in Broward County after she tried to run over children playing in the street. The woman wanted "target practice."
A Brevard County woman is in jail after allegedly admitting to driving toward a group of kids as "target practice."
Pamela Dresser, 59, has been arrested and charged with 10 offenses related to child abuse, aggravated assault and threatening a public official, records show.
An arrest affidavit states Dresser swerved her car toward a group of children who were playing in the street. The children's mother told investigators that Dresser made a comment referring to it as target practice.
Smith, a mother of three, lives just down the block from where this happened. Her kids often rollerblade in the neighborhood.
"To know that a woman is stopping and saying those types of things, especially to — not my children, but possibly my children — is definitely a concern and needs to be addressed," she said.
The report said Dresser admitted to making the target practice comment but quickly tried to minimize it to officers by saying it was a joke.
She also said she had made a wide turn and denied swerving toward the children, according to the report.
Police said that while they were on scene trying to get both sides of the story, Dresser threatened officers.
The mother of the victims told police she yelled at Dresser when she swerved. She said the suspect gave her the middle finger and yelled a racial slur.
Dresser is being held at the Brevard County Jail without bond.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
In Florida, this suspect could face 15 years in the iron college for this.
The royals are billionaires. Okay, what about the Brits who are struggling because of their country's financial burdens?
The Drudge Report splashed the headline about the Prince of Wales being a billionaire.
The royals sure love their future king. A man who lavished in wealth and privilege.
Pictures of giving back to the community and posing with subjects. Oh the showboating.
All the wealth in the world and they still can't do jack shit.
Prince William and Princess Katherine are billionaires.
Prince William officially became a billionaire, with his personal net worth through the Duchy of Cornwall estate reaching £1.2 billion ($1.5 billion). The landed estate generates private annual profits exceeding £20 million for the future king, which he voluntarily pays income tax on.
The Duchy of Cornwall is a sprawling private estate established in 1337 to provide income to the heir apparent to the British throne. It covers over 50,000 hectares across 19 counties in England and consists of farms, residential and commercial properties, forests, quarries, and coastline.
It appears that Williams is richer than his father.
So if this generates negative press about the institution, when will we hear about what Duchess Meghan done while living in the United States?
The noise about Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan. They left the royal duties six years ago and the British junk food media cannot stop talking about them.
King Charles III is the most unpopular royal in British history. People should note that he and his brother Andrew were adulterers. Andrew was stripped of his royal title and forced to remove himself as a member. He was arrested this year in Great Britain and faces a U.S. investigation.
Andrew has ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Charles had cheated on Princess Diana with Camilla, the future Queen. Charles had other affairs but none were verified. Diana cheated too.
Meghan (born Rachel Meghan Merkle) is an American-British royal, former actress and activist. She married Harry in 2018 and have two children with him. Harry and Meghan hold British, American and Canadian citizenship.
It is well documented that for every negative story about Charles, William or Katherine, they're be at least five about Harry or Meghan.
Trump denies the U.S. attack a school in Minab, Iran.
The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. The attack was shocking.
Iran warned that any aggressions against it will result in crucial damage globally.
The Iranians stood on business. They used their sovereignty to close the Strait of Hormuz and put over 20% of the world’s oil at risk. They knew that the U.S. will be weakened by the attack.
Now four months into those going into its fifth month, stalemate.
The Memorandum of Understanding is stalled because President Donald J. Trump is facing pressure from Republicans, Israel and conservative agitators. They are angry over this.
Iran is likely going to keep the strait closed indefinitely thanks to our president's curmudgeon behavior.
Trump basically stuck a middle finger in Iran's face. He is telling the world that the U.S. can do whatever it wants and you just got be compliant.
Think now if Iran decided to target schools in Maryland, California, Ohio, Nevada, Kentucky, Florida, Virginia, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina and New York.
Some of the U.S. largest military bases are in these states. Schools are nearby.
If Iranians thought like Israelis or Americans and decided to target schools.
The Islamabad Memorandum in full:
The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war by signing this MoU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. Final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and other provisions of this paragraph.
The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran undertake to respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and to refrain from interfering in each other’s internal affairs.
The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran commit to negotiating and achieving the final deal in maximum 60 days, extendable with mutual consent.
Immediately upon the signing of this MoU, the United States of America will begin the removal of its naval blockade and any disturbances or impediments against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and will fully end the naval blockade within 30 days. During this period, the traffic of vessels will be in proportion to the numbers of pre-war traffic being restored by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States of America further undertakes to remove its forces from the proximity of the Islamic Republic of Iran within 30 days after the final deal.
Upon the signing of this MoU, the Islamic Republic of Iran will make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days only from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa. The traffic of commercial vessels will immediately start, and considering the need for removing the technical and military obstacles and demining by the Islamic Republic of Iran, will be instated within 30 days. The Islamic Republic of Iran will conduct dialogue with the Sultanate of Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz in discussion with other Persian Gulf littoral states in line with the applicable international law and the sovereign rights of coastal states of the Strait of Hormuz.
The United States of America undertakes with regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least $300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The mechanism for the implementation of this plan will be finalized as part of a final deal within 60 days. All required licenses, waivers and permissions needed for the relevant financial transactions will be granted by the United States of America.
The United States of America undertakes to terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the United Nations Security Council resolutions, i.e. IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] Board of Governors resolutions and all unilateral U.S. sanctions, primary and secondary, in an agreed-upon schedule as part of the final deal. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America acknowledge the critical importance of the sanctions-termination issue above mentioned, and expressed their intentions to immediately address these issues in the negotiations, in order to achieve mutual agreement on them.
The Islamic Republic of Iran reaffirms that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran have agreed to resolve the disposition of stockpiled enriched material, pursuant to a mechanism that will be mutually agreed upon in accordance with the schedule mentioned in paragraph seven, with the minimum methodology to be downblending on site under the supervision of the IAEA. The two parties also agreed to discuss the issue of enrichment and other mutually agreed matters related to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear needs based on a satisfactory framework being agreed upon in the final deal. The final deal will confirm the provisions of this paragraph. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran acknowledge the critical importance of the nuclear issues above mentioned and express their intention to immediately address these issues in the negotiations in order to achieve mutual agreement on them.
Pending the final deal, the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran agree to maintain the status quo. The Islamic Republic of Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, and the United States of America will not impose any new sanctions and will not deploy additional forces in the region.
The United States of America undertakes that immediately upon the signing of this MoU until the termination of sanctions, the U.S. Department of Treasury will issue waivers for the export of Iranian crude oil, petroleum products and derivatives, and all associated services, including banking transactions, insurances, transportation, etc.
The United States of America undertakes to make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the implementation of this MoU. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran will mutually agree on the procedures related to the release of these funds during the negotiations. Such funds, either retained in the original account or transferred, shall be made fully usable for payment to any ultimate beneficiary designated by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States of America undertakes to issue all necessary licenses and authorizations accordingly.
The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran agree that an executive mechanism will be established to monitor the successful implementation of this MoU and the future compliance of the final deal.
After signing this MoU and subject to the beginning of the implementation of paragraphs 1, 4, 5, 10 and 11 of this MoU and the continuing implementation of these measures, the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran will start negotiations regarding the final deal exclusively on the other paragraphs.
The final deal will be endorsed by a binding UNSC [U.N. Security Council] resolution
These warhawks are angry about it.
Terrorism is now becoming a term of colonialism. When people resist colonialism, imperialism, theft of their resources, rejection of religious inclusion and Western narratives, the U.S. and many others call it terrorism.
The U.S. and Israel will not continue on unpunished.
That word is mostly reserved for people who are not white, Christian or Jewish.
The U.S. and Israel will never stop killing people. The world is realizing that all these attacks on individuals the two claim as terrorists are not sticking with the world.
The world is tired of the gaslighting from the U.S. and Israel. It is time to stop believing their bullshit.
The children in Minab will never be forgotten. Thanks Google and Middle East Monitor.
Hana Dehqani (8)
Zahra Bahrami (7)
Zeynab Bahrami (10)
Mahdis Nazari (7)
Athena Chamani-nezhad (6)
Fatemeh Dorazehi (10)
Nadia Shahmiri (9)
Fatemeh Rahdar (10)
Zahra Behrouzi (8)
Asna Raisi (12)
Liana Mohammadi (7)
Sara Shayesteh (5)
Zoha Pasand (8)
Esra Zakeri (9)
Salma Zakeri (6)
Zahra Ansari (7)
Fatemeh Fadavi (10)
Athareh Zarei (10)
Fatemeh Zahra Karimi (7)
Athena Ahmadzadeh (10)
Khadijeh Darvishi (9)
Hananeh Mehdikhah (7)
Arina Arab-Kish (8)
Trump said on Wednesday it may never be known who was at fault for a deadly strike on a girls' school in Iran on February 28, the first day of the Iran war, that killed scores of children.
Reuters first reported in March that an initial internal U.S. military investigation showed U.S. forces were likely responsible for the fatal strike in Minab in southern Iran. The Pentagon has since elevated the probe but it has not acknowledged any preliminary findings.
"I don't know that they are ever going to solve that problem," Trump told reporters.
"I don't know that they are ever going to solve that problem in terms of whose fault was it because there were missiles flying all over the place, and it's horrible what happened but there were missiles flying all over the place," he said.
"Somebody said it was our missile, maybe it wasn't our missile but I have seen nothing to lead me to believe it was," Trump remarked, adding: "I don't think it was us."
The strike on February 28, when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, killed more than 175 children and teachers, according to Iranian officials.
The strike may be the result of U.S. use of outdated targeting data, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters in March.
Deliberately attacking a school would likely be a war crime under international humanitarian law. U.S. officials have publicly said Washington would not deliberately target a school.
The strike caused global outrage. The U.N. human rights office called it "absolutely horrific."
Trump initially claimed, without evidence, Iran was responsible. He has since said he does not know enough about the strike, that an investigation is ongoing, that he will accept the results of the inquiry and that "nobody" purposefully attacked the school.
Roger Taney was a terrible Chief Supreme Court Justice. John Roberts will join him in being one of the most terrible. Over 20 years and some the worst decisions in history.
Major rulings are coming and it will likely not be good for the United States.
Once again, white men are becoming more of threat to the structure of the nation.
President Donald J. Trump has proven that white men can not be leaders much longer. The Congress proves they can't govern on behalf of the public. The Supreme Court is not ruling like a body of justice but more like an activist with a podcast or talk show.
We are about mark 250 years of misinformation and deception. The United States was founded by white colonialists with a lack of education, improper hygiene and this notion that they must have shiny things. The founders looked upon the elites as inferior only to become those they loathed. Out of 45 men, one Black man was the U.S. president. They saw other people who were their likeness as cattle and toys for their pleasure. They molly wopped religious nonsense on the indigenous and Africans to keep them in fear of death.
They took our history and made it into their own. They refuse to pay for the labors that made this country exist.
They hijacked islands, expelled royals (the Kingdom of Hawa'ii), colonized communities and place their own branding of how governance to exist.
They literally fought one another over how they can keep people enslaved either as servants or pleasure to their misguided families.
Since 1948, all the U.S. presidents maintained a special relationship with a religious apartheid genocidal ethnostate. As we are moving closer to another world war, our current president isn't stepping off that boat yet.
He is afraid that country could ruin his legacy as a playboy real estate developer turned politician. He is afraid that the facade of his namesake will be tarnished for generations.
More and more Americans are looking at the -isms as distractions. Because your free speech should not impede on me feeding my family, paying my bills, providing my safety or the luxury to do anything. The -isms are inherited from your family members or some dumb ass agitator getting rich off the words spewed in the junk food media.
I do not condone hate. But if these assholes want to hate people because of their race, gender, religion, disabilities, mental fitness, body type, sexual orientation, gender identification, political votes, social standings, economic standings, immigration status or the feelings of others, let them cook in the filth.
They are repressed in their feelings. Even if they scream in your face, all you see is a red nose, makeup, a goofy wig, a big suit and big shoes. They are juggling around balls.
We can rid ourselves of one only to have thousands of others to reenact the very same shit.
They want to gas you up to commit crimes against one another. I am done worrying about someone using their free speech to disrespect me. They can say whatever the fuck they want.
They are going to bathroom dropping ducces like me and everyone else.
I support a country that works for the public in the common good. I believe everyone has the right to be themselves.
I am supportive of Black culture. I support more Black own and employed businesses.
I support the rights of our gay, lesbian, transgender, non conforming and bisexual community.
I empathize with Palestinians, Haitians, Cubans, Iranians, Congolese, Sudanese and Somalis as they face decades of colonialist punishment because they stood on business to not exploit their resources for betterment of the capitalist.
I empathize with our indigenous communities in the United States and Canada.
I empathize with our Americans who have disabilities.
I support Black fatherhood and Black empowerment.
The Trump Administration won. They can now legally deport Haitians and Syrians who filed for temporary asylum.
I support Black women and date them. I have dated outside my race and will continue to do so. I hold no bias towards white women, Asian American women, transwomen, women with disabilities, women with body type and any woman of color. I would date anyone who like me for being me. For now, I rather stay single.
I am not anti anything.
I am basically relying on survival as my tool for success now in this chaotic second term of Donald J. Trump.
Here's a question.
Why are we paying federal and state taxes to a government that don't give a fuck about you?
They want to take away your rights but still have you pay them to do so. Make it make sense.
Current Supreme Court.
Clarence Thomas - longest held. George H.W. Bush.
John Roberts - second longest, current Chief Justice. George W. Bush.
Samuel Alito - George W. Bush.
Sonya Sotomayor - Barack Obama.
Elena Kagan - Barack Obama.
Neil Gorsuch - Donald J. Trump.
Brett Kavanaugh - Donald J. Trump.
Amy Coney Barrett - Donald J. Trump.
Kentaji Brown Jackson - Joe Biden.
The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for the Trump administration to potentially revive an immigration policy once used to turn back migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The justices, in a 6-3 decision, overturned a lower court order blocking the practice that limited the number of people who could apply for asylum each day under the Obama administration and during Trump’s first term.
Advocates said the tactic created a humanitarian crisis as thousands of people settled in unsafe makeshift shelters to await their turn. The Trump administration said it was necessary to deal with an increase of asylum seekers at the border.
The policy isn’t in place now, though authorities have imposed other restrictions on asylum seekers.
The administration argues that metering is a critical tool that’s been used by presidents of both parties and should stay available. Federal attorneys say people turned away at the border could come back later, though lines were thousands of people long when the policy was in place before.
The case is one of several immigration suits is considering this term, including Trump’s push to end restrict birthright citizenship and his administration’s effort to strip legal temporary protections for migrants fleeing instability and armed conflict.
Under federal law, migrants who arrive in the U.S. must be able to apply for asylum and be screened for fear of persecution in their home countries.
Louisiana and many southern states can now remove hair or religious symbols from inmates at their discretion.
The Justice Department argued that people stopped by authorities haven’t arrived, so immigration agents don’t have to let them apply.
But attorneys for people seeking asylum say the law has long meant anyone arriving at a port of entry should be screened, and blocking arrivals disregards the nation’s ideals.
Metering was first used during President Barack Obama’s administration when large numbers of Haitians appeared at the main crossing to San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico. It was expanded to all border crossings from Mexico during Trump’s first term in the White House.
Under federal law, migrants who arrive in the U.S. must be able to apply for asylum and be screened for fear of persecution in their home countries.
The Justice Department argued that people stopped by authorities haven’t arrived, so immigration agents don’t have to let them apply.
But attorneys for people seeking asylum say the law has long meant anyone arriving at a port of entry should be screened, and blocking arrivals disregards the nation’s ideals.
Metering was first used during President Barack Obama’s administration when large numbers of Haitians appeared at the main crossing to San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico. It was expanded to all border crossings from Mexico during Trump’s first term in the White House.
It ended in 2020 when the government introduced greater restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic, and President Joe Biden formally rescinded it in 2021.
The same year, a California-based federal judge found that metering violated the asylum seekers rights and the law requiring screening. A divided appeals court panel affirmed the ruling but nearly half of judges on the full San Francisco-based court voted to rehear it, a strong signal that might have caught the attention of the Supreme Court.
U.S. law allows people seeking refuge to apply for asylum once they are on American soil, regardless of whether they came legally. To qualify for asylum, they must show a fear of persecution in their homeland for specific reasons, like race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion.
People who are eventually granted asylum can’t be deported. They can legally work, bring in immediate family, apply for legal residency and seek citizenship.
Hawai'ians can carry firearms into private facilities. It now justifies folks who want a revolutionary movement to reclaim Hawai'i as sovereign kingdom.
The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Tuesday in an immigration case dealing with the government’s power over green card holders accused of crimes.
The 6-3 decision centers on an immigration officers’ 2012 decision to put lawful permanent resident Muk Choi Lau on immigration parole when he returned from a short trip to China because he had been accused of a counterfeiting crime.
Lau argued that the officer overstepped their authority, and the decision wrongly allowed the Department of Homeland Security under then-President Barack Obama an easier path to removal after he pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit clothes in New Jersey.
The high court disagreed. “Border officers did not have the burden to establish by clear and convincing evidence that Lau had committed a crime involving moral turpitude,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the opinion.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, writing that the decision to put Lau on immigration parole effectively sentenced him to “immigration limbo” before he’d been convicted of any crime.
“I worry that the Court has now handed the Government a massive blank check,” she wrote in the dissent joined by her two liberal colleagues.
The liberal group Alliance for Justice echoed that concern, saying the ruling could provide an expanded path for revoking green cards.
But Advancing American Freedom, a group founded by former Republican Vice President Mike Pence, called it an important case to allow the removal of people who “abuse the privilege of being granted lawful permanent resident status.”
The decision comes as the high court considers a series of immigration-related issues against the backdrop of President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown, though this case started before Trump took office.
His administration argued that suspicion of a crime is enough to put a lawful permanent resident, also known as a green-card holder, on immigration parole. Federal attorneys urged the court to take an expansive view of executive authority over immigration.
The court is also considering cases over Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship, potentially revive a restrictive asylum policy and end temporary legal protections for migrants fleeing war and natural disasters in their homelands.
The court also gave the federal government the power to rescind temporary protection visas for Haitians and Syrians.
The court also ruled that Hawai'i cannot bar gun owners from private facilities for public use. So basically, a person can carry firearms into malls, schools, restaurants and religious facilities without being told to leave.
The court also ruled that Louisiana was justified in cutting off dreads of a man who is a Rastafarian.
The justices condemned what happened to the former inmate, Damon Landor. But they ruled that a federal law designed to protect the religious rights of inmates does not permit lawsuits for money damages against individuals even when rights are violated.
The high court, in a 6-3 decision, agreed with lower courts that without exception had ruled that the law, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, can’t be used to hold those who violate inmates’ rights financially responsible.
Soon.
Folks are going to look at the Supreme Court as fucking joke. They are going see the court members feel the heat. Just you wait. You don't see the out in public much because they are protected by the U.S. Marshals. But folks are seeing that the decisions are not going to sit well.
You keep poking the hive and bees come out and sting.
Again, I am not endorsing violence. I have a strong feeling that the status quo will tear this nation apart. Again 1 out of 20 Americans believe violence is the only way to stop problems. That is a problem.
After his 2023 firing from Fox, Tucker Carlson went to the independent circuit and became one of the most popular podcasters on the right. He was considered one of the most prominent figures in helping President Donald J. Trump win his 2024 bid.
Now two years later, Carlson has officially severed ties with Trump and the Republican Party. He is no longer willing to call himself a Republican.
Carlson, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Brandon Straka and Megyn Kelly have "walked away" from MAGA because Trump failed to keep his promises,
The U.S. and Iran are still at war. Iran directly told the U.S. that for a truce, the United States must end sanctions, repay for all the damages it causes to its sovereignty, stop labeling them terrorists, stop Israel from invading Lebanon, hand Benjamin Netanyahu over to the International Criminal Court, acknowledge the genocide in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, acknowledge Iran has full control of its waterway (Strait of Hormuz), leave their nuclear power alone and apologize for the killing of children in Minab.
The president said the U.S. did not attack the school and he deflected to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Israel continues invading Lebanon, bombing Gaza ans allowing occupiers kill without impunity in the West Bank.
Carlson was recently banned from Israel after he did his interview with U.S. Ambassador To Israel, Mike Huckabee.
The Epstein Files are still being delayed by Interim Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Republicans are too busy worrying about distractions instead of focusing on the economy.
Tucker Carlson has major influence on the MAGA base. If he says he is sitting it out, bet you money many others will too.
Carlson said on a podcast that “there’s no chance I would support the Republican Party” ahead of the November midterm elections, dismissing the political affiliation he’s defended as a pundit for decades, including as one of Fox News Channel’s most popular hosts.
“Not gonna support the Democratic Party,” Carlson was quick to add, speaking late last week on the show “Can’t Be Censored.” “I don’t know what I’m going to do.”
Carlson, who has amassed a large following on his own podcast since being fired from Fox News in 2023, has more recently diverged from the party, a disillusionment supercharged by President Donald Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran in February.
Carlson supported Trump in 2024. After the war began, he apologized for supporting the then-presidential candidate and “misleading people,” saying it wasn’t intentional.
He’s repeatedly criticized the war as being at the behest of Israel at the expense of Americans, and attacked the party for failing to represent its own voters, citizens and nation.
“They are making decisions on the basis of other criteria, what’s best for this company, what’s best for Israel, what’s best for our donors,” he said. “That’s not just, like, they are off in the wrong direction, like, that is unacceptable, that’s treasonous, it’s immoral, it can’t continue.”
“I’ve been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican Party, I mean very consistent defender, but there’s no defending this,” he said. “So no, I’m out. And if I’m out, then I think a lot of other people are out.”
AIPAC claims victory. Adrian Boafo, a gay Black Democrat wins the seat occupied by Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD). The Pro Israel lobby continues to put a wedge between the party's establishment and the insurgent wing.
We slept on this one.
The establishment pick wins. The AIPAC backed Democratic candidates better not get comfortable with the status quo. Harry Dunn, the former U.S. Capitol police officer who survived the Jan. 6 attacks comes up short again.
AIPAC and the dark money came in like a vulture and picked the bones.
They relied on a crowd field to push through their choice.
We are dedicated to removing Pro Israel Democrats. Ritchie Torres, John Fetterman, Josh Gottheimer, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer ain't shit and they'll never be shit.
Their days are numbered. They win this round, but 2028 is coming and they will be targets for defeat.
Adrian Boafo, a Maryland state delegate will be the nominee to replace Rep. Stony Hoyer (D-MD) who announced he will not seek reelection in 2026.
Boafo was then a campaign manager for Hoyer. He was endorsed by Hoyer, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and many of the Democratic Party's establishment wing.
Ironic, progressives didn't focus on stopping this guy.
Boafo has won the Democratic nomination in Maryland's 5th Congressional District, the Associated Press projects, prevailing in a crowded race to succeed retiring Rep. Steny Hoyer. The AP called the race at 9:28 pm.
Boafo is a state delegate from Bowie and Hoyer's endorsed choice. He's also backed by Gov. Wes Moore and Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD).
His bid drew more than $8 million in outside spending, including from a cryptocurrency-aligned super PAC — prompting rivals Dunn, Bareebe and Baker to jointly criticize the "dark money" supporting him.
His bid drew more than $8 million in outside spending, including from a cryptocurrency-aligned super PAC — prompting rivals Dunn, Bareebe and Baker to jointly criticize the "dark money" supporting him.
The 5th District seat came open after Hoyer — first elected in 1981 and a former House majority leader — announced he would not seek another term, ending one of the longest congressional tenures in Maryland history. Two dozen Democrats filed to replace him.
Boafo advances to the Nov. 3 general election and is favored in the Democratic-leaning district.
Warning to any candidate that continues to back Israel....
State assemblywoman Claire Valdez secures the Democratic nomination to replace Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY)
So how are you doing?
Claire Valdez, Brad Lander and Darializa Avila Chevalier were endorsed by New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani. They were vehemently opposed by KHive, Zionists and establishment Democrats.
It appears that Reps. Dan Goldman (D-NY) and Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) learned that their support for Israel doomed them. Soon, Reps. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Haley Stevens (D-MI) are gonna find out too.
Israel and AIPAC are toxic to Democrats.
That idiot who accosted Chevalier and her mother by shouting "You hate the Jews" helped push the vote clearly in her favor. You cannot be worrying about Israel while living in New York City, the country's most expensive community.
All that smoke from several of KHive's most fiercest Kamala Harris supporters did not stop the momentum.
Michael Blake and Jose Vega were too polarizing. Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) would have been defeated had the progressives lined up a candidate that no ties to Israel or LaRocheism.
But hey, three for three is the Mamdani effect. It helped Adam Hamawy win his nomination to become the U.S. House member from New Jersey.
It helped Katie Wilson win. First democratic socialist to win the mayor seat in Seattle, the largest city in Washington.
It helped Janeese Lewis George become the Democratic nominee for Washington, DC mayor. She is a democratic socialist.
Hasan Piker, a progressive agitator and streamer can claim victory once again.
Mamdani’s slate of fiery progressives swept establishment-backed Democrats in the state’s congressional primaries on Tuesday, ousting two sitting congressmen in a resounding show of force for the democratic socialist leader of America’s largest city, who is fighting to reshape the Democratic Party in New York and beyond.
Espaillat, who leads the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and is in his fifth term, was defeated by Mamdani’s most polarizing pick, Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist who once helped organize pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University.
Goldman, a two-term incumbent, was beaten by the Mamdani-backed former city Comptroller Brad Lander, a fixture among New York progressives who has often shown sympathy to the democratic socialist movement. And another Mamdani ally, democratic socialist state Assembly Member Claire Valdez, defeated the handpicked successor of retiring Velázquez.
Tuesday’s primaries represented a major political gamble for the 34-year-old mayor, whose strength is surging, and a potential headache for Democratic leaders, who fear that Mamdani and his loyalists may push the party too far left ahead of November’s midterm elections — when voters across the nation will decide which party controls Congress for the last two years of Trump’s final term.
The sweep also sends an undeniable message to establishment Democrats in Washington, including House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who campaigned against Mamdani’s candidates and lost. Mamdani and his slate were openly fighting for dramatic change on key issues, Israel’s war in Gaza and affordability chief among them.
The mayor ping ponged across the city to celebrate his allies’ victories, declaring that his election had helped ignite a new era.
“A year ago, it was not the end of a political movement. It was the beginning,” a smiling Mamdani charged at Valdez’s celebration party in Brooklyn, reflecting on his mayoral victory last year, as the crowd chanted, “DSA! DSA!”
Later, at Avila Chevalier’s celebration in Manhattan, he added: “We are showing there is a new path for politics in our city and in our country.”
In Washington, Jeffries downplayed the influence of the Mamdani-backed candidates before polls closed on Tuesday.
“We have agreed to strongly disagree,” Jeffries said of Mamdani on Capitol Hill. “There are 215 members of the House Democratic caucus. A handful of primaries that go in one direction or the other, in a given state or two, aren’t going to reshape who we are as House Democrats.”
Meanwhile, Democrat Jack Schlossberg, the 33-year-old grandson of former President John F. Kennedy, failed in his bid to write his own chapter in Camelot lore as he competed in a crowded field for a seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler. Mamdani made no endorsement in that hotly contested race.
Establishment Democrats celebrated the victory of state Assembly member Micah Lasher, a longtime government hand backed by Democratic leaders, who prevailed in a field that also included anti-Trump activist George Conway and assembly member Alex Bores, whose proposals to regulate artificial intelligence triggered tech industry blowback.
Mamdani’s insurgents sweep to victory
Mamdani, whose first six months in office have drawn praise from establishment Democrats and even President Donald Trump, had made a big push to promote the three congressional candidates who challenged Democrats supported by the party’s leadership.
Two of Mamdani’s congressional slate identify as democratic socialists, while Lander has allied himself with the movement in the past.
In his celebration speech on Tuesday, Lander vowed to abolish the federal bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, described Israel’s war in Gaza as “genocide” and referred to “Trump’s fascism.” He has been especially outspoken against Trump’s immigration crackdown and was acquitted earlier this month on charges related to a protest inside a building housing an immigration court.
All three of Mamdani’s candidates have promised to “abolish ICE,” condemned the “genocide” in Israel and vowed to “tax the rich” if elected.
Claire Valdez is the next generation.
Avila Chevalier, 32, was in her first race for political office in facing a longtime member of the House. Espaillat, 71, was the first Dominican American elected to Congress and has been representing his district in upper Manhattan and the Bronx for nearly a decade.
Avila Chevalier cast herself as an outsider. Espaillat’s allies called Avila Chevalier unfit for office, pointing out a history of inflammatory and profane social media posts when she was in her 20s.
Around an hour before polls closed, she was standing on a street corner in Harlem campaigning with controversial streamer Hasan Piker. Later, with Mamdani at her side at her Manhattan celebration, said slammed the “Democratic machine” for discounting her supporters.
“Today we make it clear -- the politics of the past ends today,” she said. “No longer will we accept a politics that throws scraps at us and acts as if we should be grateful for them.”
In East Harlem, 47-year-old voter Sara Hyler said she flip-flopped several times between Avila Chevalier and Espaillat in the lead up to Election Day, but eventually cast her ballot for Avila Chevalier after learning about heavy support for the incumbent by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
“It was the breaking point, my last straw,” she said of the donations to Espaillat by the lobbying group, also known as AIPAC.
Hyler said it was important to elect a new crop of progressive Democrats who aren’t beholden to AIPAC and the Israeli government. “As much as I support Israel, I don’t think we should be paying for them,” Hyler said.
The war in Gaza was a dividing line between Goldman and Lander, both of whom are Jewish. Lander assailed Goldman for not being tough enough on Israel over its military action against Palestinians. Goldman has consistently criticized Israel’s government and condemned settler violence but has stopped short of describing the conflict as a genocide, which Lander has done.
Mamdani had backed Valdez over Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, in the race to succeed Velazquez in a district covering parts of Brooklyn and Queens. Though Reynoso won Velazquez’s endorsement, he failed to earn the mayor’s backing.
A Trump acolyte triumphs in upstate New York
In northern New York state, a Trump acolyte with no previous political experience prevailed over a conservative state lawmaker in the Republican primary for a seat soon to be vacated by U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik.
Anthony Constantino, head of the custom sticker company Sticker Mule, won the GOP nod in New York’s 21st Congressional District, overcoming New York state Assembly Member Robert Smullen for the nomination.
Constantino had showcased his enthusiasm for the president by putting a massive “Vote For Trump” sign atop one of his company buildings. He also released a hip-hop album titled “Thank You President Trump,” and commissioned a statue of Trump and gave it to the president in Florida. Trump has endorsed him.
Smullen, who had strong support from local Republicans, had argued that Constantino’s antics, which include regular bashing of the state GOP, make him unfit to serve in the House.
The road ends for controversial South Carolina lieutenant governor. Whomp, whomp.
Lieutenant Governor Pam Evette was endorsed by President Donald J. Trump. What happened?
He endorsed the other guy too. It kind of screwed her.
It appear the run off election did not favor her.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), I guess she got her revenge. She endorsed Alan Young, the South Carolina Attorney General. He ended up being the nominee.
Young is now likely to be the next governor. Republicans will likely keep the governor seat.
Trump has now fully endorsed Young despite his backing of Evette.
Wilson has won the Republican nomination for governor of South Carolina, NBC News projected Tuesday, after a closely watched runoff that featured President Donald Trump’s unusual double endorsement of two candidates.
Wilson is now heavily favored heading into the general election in South Carolina’s first open governor’s race since 2010. Republican Gov. Henry McMaster was term-limited and could not seek re-election. Democratic candidate Jermaine Johnson won his primary this month.
In the initial June 9 Republican primary, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette finished first with 29% of the votes, while Wilson placed second with 26%, with both advancing to the runoff.
Alan Wilson wins the runoff.
Trump had expressed support for Evette less than two weeks ahead of the initial primary.
However, he posted on Truth Social a few days before Tuesday’s runoff that he would now endorse both Wilson and Evette.
“These were the two that I was hoping would get into a Runoff, and they did. I can’t hurt one of them by only endorsing the other, so, therefore, I am going to endorse, for Governor of South Carolina, both Pam Evette and Alan Wilson! It’s a Wealth of Riches — With either one, you can’t go wrong,” he wrote.
Before Trump’s double endorsement, Reps. Ralph Norman and Nancy Mace (R-SC) endorsed Wilson after they finished third and fifth, respectively, in the first primary. Sen. Tim Scott(R-SC) also backed Wilson.
South Carolina has elected Republican governors in every election since 2002, when its last Democratic governor, Jim Hodges, was leaving office.
Before this race, Trump’s preferred candidates had faced challenges in several recent governor’s races.
In Iowa’s and Georgia’s campaigns for governor this month, the Trump-backed candidates lost in their primaries.
Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-IA), whom Trump endorsed, lost his Republican primary in Iowa to businessman Zach Lahn. After the race, Trump suggested he had not been fully familiar with the contest and remarked that “the other person was much more Trump” than Feenstra.
Then, in Georgia, political newcomer Rick Jackson, a billionaire businessman, defeated Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in the race for governor.
