Surprise appearance from independent Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman at the Republican Midterm Convention.
The betrayal continues.
Fetterman once again runs the right as his former staffers promise releasing more damaging ops against him.
Fetterman has endorsed Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) and said he will work with President Donald J. Trump throughout his chaotic second term.
Fetterman said he will still caucus with the Democrats but stated he is a "common sense" senator who worked with McCormick to save the dying steel industry.
Fetterman described McCormick as "the kind of senator that gets the job done," and said he was "proud to count him as my friend."
The 64-second pre-recorded video of Senator John Fetterman was played on the opening night of the Republican midterm convention. Standing in front of the iconic U.S. Steel mill in Pennsylvania while wearing his trademark black hoodie, Fetterman explicitly stated that he rejects "the extremes and socialism," which he labeled an "anti-American way of life".
The high-profile appearance underscores Fetterman's growing alienation from mainstream congressional Democrats, which has intensified following public fallout with former staffers and deep policy divides on international relations.
Despite intense speculation and ongoing efforts by Senate Republicans to persuade him to switch affiliations, Fetterman maintained, "I'm a lifelong Democrat who votes overwhelmingly with my party".
Democrats are mounting a serious primary challenger against Fetterman. The state party has formally severed its ties with him. The Democratic National Committee has not cut his fundraising apparatus yet.
Trump made a decre saying he will offer Americans a measley $5,000 if the Republicans continue to occupy the government.
Regardless of who wins, New Hampshire loses. Both Chris Pappas and John Sununu will be focused on the status quo and aiding Israel.
Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) and former New Hampshire senator John Sununu will face off in the general to replace Sen. Jeanine Sheheen (D-NH).
The pro Israel Democrat and the pro Israel Republican will make this a close election.
Karishma Manzur, the primary opponent aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America was the progressive pick. Pappas was backed by pro Israel Dems, AIPAC and numerous Democratic officials.
Scott Brown, the former Republican senator from Massachusetts and ambassador to New Zealand in the first Trump administration was defeated. He moved to New Hampshire in an attempt to defeat Sheheen, the first time. He was defeated by Sununu who was backed by President Donald J. Trump.
The race is Toss Up.
Kelly Ayotte, the current governor of New Hampshire easily won her primary. Ayotte was a senator before her defeat by Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH). She will face Cinde Warmington, a former New Hampshire Executive Council member.
This race is Likely Republican.
Pappas, a four term lawmaker and openly gay U.S. House member faces a formidable opponent in a Republican with widespread name recognition in the state, hailing from a political family that's spent decades in its leadership.
Sununu, 61, represented New Hampshire in the House and Senate for more than a decade, before he was ousted by Shaheen. The son of former Gov. John H. Sununu and brother of former Gov. Chris Sununu, his name carries significant weight in New Hampshire. In the GOP primary on Tuesday, he defeated former Sen. Scott Brown, who represented Massachusetts in the Senate from 2010 to 2013.
Pappas, 46, has represented New Hampshire in the House since 2019, where he's a member of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus. On the campaign trail, he's billed himself as an independent voice for New Hampshire. And he defeated a progressive candidate, medical scientist Karishma Manzur on Tuesday, despite a number of victories by insurgent Democrats elsewhere in the country this cycle.
With 53 Republicans in the Senate, Democrats would need to flip four seats to gain control of the upper chamber, while defending a handful of seats, like in New Hampshire.
Although Republicans have controlled New Hampshire's governor's mansion since 2017, the state hasn't elected a Republican to the Senate since 2010, and a Republican hasn't won in the state at the presidential level since 2000. But Pappas has acknowledged that the race is "highly competitive," telling CNN last month that "it will continue to be tight until the very end."
Despite Democrats' recent successes in Senate and presidential contests, New Hampshire is far from deep-blue territory, with elections often decided by narrow margins. President Trump lost by 2.8 points in 2024 and 0.4 points in 2016, and Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan defeated Republican Kelly Ayotte — now the governor — by roughly 1,000 votes a decade ago.
Pappas is already fucking up. He trying to make this election about Trump instead about affordability and grievances about foreign policy.
Pappas has sought to tie Sununu to Trump, who endorsed the GOP Senate candidate. In a victory speech Tuesday, Pappas cast his general election opponent as the president's "handpicked candidate."
"While New Hampshire families are struggling to make ends meet, John Sununu has thrown his lot in with Donald Trump," Pappas told supporters.
Sununu has strongly criticized Trump in the past, and has broken with the president since earning his endorsement, pushing back on the Trump administration's trade war with Canada. He has sought to keep the race's focus on economic and cost-of-living issues, and portrayed Pappas as a "career politician" on Tuesday.
"He's not an independent voice for New Hampshire," he said in a victory speech. "Chris Pappas has three main qualities: ineffective, partisan, and out of touch with New Hampshire."
Jayceon Terrell Taylor, please do not make me have to do this.
Don't make me treat you like Raymond "Benzino" Scott. Please.
You are one of the best lyricist of modern time. However, your behaviors are not productive and these endless grudges have to come to an end.
You gotta to be a better man.
Please it's 2026. Please don't be like The Game. Hell, don't be like me!
The Documentary III was released. The Game was ordered to foreclose on his home after he tried to pass the deed on Wack 100 after the federal judge dismissed his JTT Holdings, LLC scam.
The Game has been ordered by a court to sell his Calabasas home to help satisfy a $7.1 million federal lawsuit judgment awarded to former reality show contestant Priscilla Rainey.
The California appellate court officially upheld the $7.1 million judgment, rejecting the rapper’s latest attempt to vacate the default judgment. The court shot down his claims that legal summonses were improperly served.
The paperwork was there. Game just chose to ignore it.
Following his continuous refusal to pay the decade-old debt, a judge approved a request forcing Taylor to sell his Calabasas mansion to finance the multi-million dollar debt. The courts also dismantled previous attempts by Taylor to shield the property by transferring its ownership to his manager, Cash "Wack 100" Jones.
The Documentary III did not live up to expectations. It only sold close to 15,000 units.
With heavy features it did not carry weight.
Drake, Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Ye, Larry June, Marsha Ambrosius, Problem (JasonMartin), Leon Thomas, Tyga, Cool and Dre, DrakoTheRuler, PartyNextDoor and YG are notable features.
Fans heavily scrutinized the album, alleging that Taylor took multiple subliminal shots at fellow Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar and heavily referenced Lamar's high-profile feud with Drake. Taylor later went on Real 92.3 LA's The Cruz Show to deny the diss tracks, claiming he even removed a pre-recorded Drake verse from the single "No Brakes" specifically to "protect the West Coast".
If you do the math, The Game spent $8 million to earn less than $1.3 million. Because a feature from veteran rappers, singers, producers and mixers is costly. I mean how many people are paying respect to a rapper who sided with the opposition.
Kendrick Lamar sealed the West as one the greatest. Meaning that The Game siding with Lamar's enemies Drake and Lil Wayne is betrayal.
The Game, Kendrick Lamar and 50 Cent were top acts on Aftermath.
50 and K Dot still hold good terms with Dr. Dre. Game is completely shut out despite a truce with Dre.
Meet the woman who owns The Game.
The Game had a crash course during his brief time with Dr. Dre and 50 Cent. He was added to the group when 50 Cent was blowing up. Jimmy Iovine, then CEO of Interscope and Dr. Dre thought it would help build the brand and give Game an opportunity to shine.
Game shortly proved to be difficult to work with. When 50 was going after rappers who he felt were siding with Ja Rule, Game decided to stay neutral and felt it worth it to work with them. Then Game claimed that 50 didn't have much of an impact on his album. Three of the six songs had 50 Cent and two of the songs without him were written with his input. That led to 50 publicly stating that he was firing Game out the cannon with G-Unit and Aftermath Entertainment.
Game infuriated by the firing came to Hot 97 studios with his crew. The crew got into a fight with G-Unit's security and one member got shot. Game and 50 were ordered to make peace. Which they did in front of cameras. But the feud did not settle down. Game and 50 were trading shots. Game decided to release his most harshest diss aimed at 50 and G-Unit called 300 Bars and Runnin. The freestyle was one of the most brutal disses aimed at the media mogul and internet troll.
Game was let go from Aftermath and signed on to Geffen to release his four albums before he ended up being on the independent circuit.
Rainey hired a private investigator to help her secure the judgment ordered to her from her 2015 lawsuit, in which she accused The Game of sexually assaulted her repeatedly during the filming of his reality show, She’s Got Game.
He may end up losing his license to drive. In California, if you fail to pay court fees, they suspend your license.
ABC saying they are not done with Jimmy Kimmel. But are they?
Is Jimmy Kimmel Tonight on its way out?
Yearly wrap up.
The longtime ABC show could ending in May 2027. However, ABC is pushing back on the New York Post story claiming that his contract not being renewed. Kimmel is the No. 1 talk show on late night.
So Page Six claimed that Jimmy Kimmel, 58 is being told that his year to year contract is no longer obligated and they are trying to save money by eliminating the show.
The rumors spread so fast, I am assuming Sean "Softball" Hannity is licking his chops.
The network swiftly responded, with an ABC Entertainment spokesperson telling USA TODAY, "This information is inaccurate – any reports about the future of the show at this point are purely speculative."
The report was published hours before the show returns for its 25th season. The premiere will feature appearances from actors Andrew Garfield and Joey King.
Kimmel was suspended last year after he made a mild joke in which he dissed President Donald J. Trump for his tepid grief over Charlie Kirk. The white nationalist was assassinated on Sept. 10, 2025. We are coming on the first year of that white nationalist's death.
ABC suspended Kimmel. He was off for one week and it drew massive backlash.
Kirk advocated for free speech also had rhetoric that was too extreme for most civilized humans. Kimmel tells jokes, some of them will hit nerve. But free speech.
Because of the Brenden Carr, the toilet brush head of the Federal Communications Commission pressuring license pulls, ABC made a bitch move.
Kimmel came back an apologized (by force). Since his return, he has become more popular and stood in solidarity with fellow late night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert as they faced pressure.
The Late Show was canceled in May.
Kimmel is to do his season premiere on Tuesday.
One guest host riled up the president. It was Rosie O'Donnell. She returned to the United States to host the show. O'Donnell left the U.S. in 2024 after Trump's winning the election settling in Ireland.
O'Donnell hosted her own show as well as being a main panelist on The View.
She was an early critic of Trump and the two are long time rivals. Her guest hosting pulled in massive ratings. It also drew the ire of the far right.
Kimmel is a rival of the president. He hosted Trump in the past. The two ended up having a nasty fallout over the Charlottesville incident. Kimmel also faced calls for his firing when he mocked First Lady Melania Trump's accent. She is Slovian-American model and business executive who is twice served First Lady of the United States.
If you claim these are critics, who do you call bigots?
Well free speech is obligated to even controversial figures. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is far from controversial. The mayor is actually one of most popular figures in American politics.
But to the bigots, he is a radical Jihadist who wants to turn New York into a socialist, communist, Islamic shithole. They are so concerned about his association to figures than the policies he ran on to make the largest city in the country affordable.
They focused on crime and dysfunctional issues around the five boroughs. Like they just ignore Eric Adams, Bill de Blasio, Michael Bloomberg, Rudy Giuliani and mayors past. Things happens in real time, the bigots are quick to hop on their platforms to point fingers. Instead of putting ideas on the table, Americans are being driven to noise.
September 11th is in its 25th anniversary.
Americans are once again putting forth a moment of phony solidarity to an event that changed the normalcy of the country.
We continue to put forth another solidarity moment which doesn't actually show solidarity. It only makes us more concerned that our politics are driving us further apart.
The reasons to why the bigots, the far right, Zionists and several of the victims families are demanding Mamdani not show up.
He is a Muslim.
He had held an event with media agitator Hasan Piker who criticized foreign policy decisions with Israel led to the attack on the United States.
Mamdani has worked to cancel New York City's association with Israel. He revoked the former mayor Eric Adams' restrictions on boycotting Israel.
Careful Elise Stefanik, you might age as ugly like Vickie Paladino.
Vickie Paledino, a controversial New York City Republican council member took the stage of a presser demanding that Mamdani not attend. She uttered Islamophobic rhetoric.
It's free speech.
She is a curmudgeon who tries to flaunt her ass around like a milf.
Paladino continued her fierce opposition, publicly slamming Mamdani over executive orders and accusing him of sending cryptic messages or gestures relating to 9/11 and Osama bin Laden.
Paladino, who appeared on Tuesday's edition of The Ingraham Angle. Last week, Mamdani signed a pair of 9/11-related executive orders. The first establishes an annual day of remembrance and service on Sept. 11. The second enhances New York's agency preparedness to thwart future attacks. During the signing ceremony, he gave one of the pens to Ramzi Kassem, the city's chief legal counsel. Kassem was an attorney for al-Qaeda operative Ahmed al-Darbi.
Oh shocking. Mandani giving a motherfucking pen to a defense attorney for a man who the federal government accused of being associated with the boogeyman group.
Republicans have expressed outrage at the city's first Muslim mayor for planning to attend a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the attacks. Attending such ceremonies is standard fare for New York mayors and other city politicians, but a group of 9/11 family members and others has urged Mamdani not to attend.
Ingraham read a statement from the mayor's office stating that Kassem attended the signing ceremony "to perform his official responsibilities" and that he was "personally invested in these executive orders" as a New Yorker who was in the city on 9/11.
"I am sick to death of all of this," Paladino said in response. "Sick to death of all of this. And I have tried– we have come out there. Today, I pounded that home so well. And I said, 'This is enough.'"
Paladino later added:
We need to be able to see through this total, absolute farce that they're trying to pawn off on New Yorkers and across the country. I'm telling you, this was symbolism. It was cryptic. But it was a message. The same way it's a message when he goes down to 9/11 – I hate to even say this, Laura – but you know, it's a message to Osama bin Laden that, look, "We conquered New York."
That's how scary all of this really is, to each and every one of us. New Yorkers need to wake up. He won this election not with born-and-bred New Yorkers. He won this election with transplants, ages 18 to 30 years old, making promises he could never keep. So, I am furious.
Bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs during a May 2011 raid on a safehouse in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Former president Barack Obama didn't listen to Israeli bullshit. He listened to U.S. intelligence. He ordered the assassination which was considered an illegal invasion into a nuclear weapon country like Pakistan.
By the way, Mamdani was nine years old when 9/11 happened.
Mamdani has advocated for the funds to those exposed to cancer from the debris when the World Trade Center collapsed. He promised Jon Stewart that New Yorkers will not be left behind when it comes to aiding their needs post 9/11.
While Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Claudia Tenney (R-NY) making asses of themselves for Trump, Mamdani handles business.
When Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Dan Goldman (D-NY) simp for Israel, Mamdani puts the work in for New York and the United States.
Right off the bat, the Midterm Convention for Republicans is a clusterfuck.
We begin the week with the rise in oil. The U.S. continued its strikes on Iran. The trade war between the U.S. and Canada begins.
President Donald J. Trump has become radioactive to Republicans. They are ducking the Republican Midterm Convention.
Thr president will deliver a keynote address on Wednesday and closing remarks on Thursday. Other speakers include Vice President JD Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Attorney General Todd Blanche, Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy, Jr. and the president’s son Donald Trump, Jr. The convention has been billed as a “primetime showcase” to boost morale, nationalize congressional elections and galvanise Republican voters.
The event in Dallas is not going off well.
Unlike traditional quadrennial conventions, this midterm gathering lacks delegates, and there are no official party platform votes or nominations taking place. Many lawmakers have privately complained that the two-day event functions entirely as a glorified campaign rally centered on Trump. To make matters worse, organizers established a $25,000 minimum fundraising contribution for lawmakers to attend. Many candidates argue that they cannot afford to leave their home districts to spend five-figure sums on a non-binding event just two months before Election Day.
Midterm elections are traditionally a referendum on the sitting president, and with Trump experiencing sagging approval ratings amid economic frustration over rising costs and international trade tensions, swing-district Republicans are trying to distance themselves. A Politico survey of over 70 Republican lawmakers and candidates revealed that more than 45 plan to skip the convention or remain undecided. Vulnerable incumbents in toss-up races worry that being photographed with Trump in Dallas will give Democrats instant footage for negative campaign ads.
Canada is about to impose tariffs on 700 products. Many of these products are common use and often bought.
The cost of gasoline is 4.19⁹ and diesel is 5.95⁹.
Consumer spending is on the decline. Many of our consumers are avoiding fast food, convenience stores and dine in restaurants.
Walmart is telling the economists that customer impulses are no longer driving them to the stores. On a Saturday afternoon at Walmart between 12pm to 6pm is looking pretty quiet.
Millions of shoppers are entering gas stations to pay for fuel but skipping discretionary items like soft drinks, snacks, lottery tickets, and energy bars.
Retailers like Walmart note that the average amount of gasoline purchased during a single fueling trip has fallen below 10 gallons for the first time in years.
In August, Duane "Keffe D" Davis was convicted as an accessory to murder. He was the driver and shot caller in the assassination of Tupac Shakur.
Today marks the 30 year anniversary of the shooting of Tupac Shakur.
As of today, we mourn the loss of Tupac Shakur, a poetic, spiritual, troubled and controversial figure in hip-hop. Hailed as one of the greatest rappers known, Tupac Shakur was a product of his environment.
His father and mother were both active in the Black Panthers movement. Tupac learned the rules of the game at an early age. He was artistic, gifted, intelligent and savvy.
He wanted to strive for great things.
His life was cut short at age 25. He was engaged in a bitter feud with rival rappers from the east.
Notably the Notorious B.I.G. who Shakur accused of setting him up in his first shooting which he survived at a recording studio in New York.
That led to the great war of the coasts.
To this day, Shakur's life is fascinating.
Praised as one of the most influential entertainers of modern history, Shakur was a flawed man who used his lyrics to detail life as a Black radical.
Listening to his albums inspires social activism.
On September 7, 1996, at 11:15 PM, Shakur, the famed American entertainer, was shot in a drive-by shooting in Paradise, Nevada. The shooting occurred when the car carrying Shakur was stopped at a red light at East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane.
Shakur was struck by four rounds fired from a .40-caliber Glock 22 pistol: two in the chest, one in the arm and one in the thigh. The driver, Death Row Records mogul Suge Knight, was grazed by a bullet in the shooting. Shakur died from his injuries six days later.
Davis, a former South Side Compton Crips gang leader in California, stated that he, Terrence "T-Brown" Brown, Orlando Anderson, and DeAndrae "Dre" Smith were in the Cadillac involved in the drive-by shooting. Anderson, also a member of the Crips, was suspected in the murder for many years but denied being involved and was never charged; he was killed in an unrelated gang shooting in 1998.
On September 29, 2023, Davis was arrested after being indicted by a grand jury for first-degree murder of Shakur; he was found guilty of Shakur's murder on August 31, 2026.
For decades, Shakur’s killer went unidentified. Some people believed Orlando Anderson, a member of the Los Angeles gang Southside Crips, was responsible. Earlier in the evening, prior to the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon heavyweight fight, Anderson had been attacked in the lobby of the MGM Grand Hotel by a group from Death Row Records, including Suge Knight. When a videotape of the attack came to light, Knight, who was out on parole at the time, had to return to prison to serve out a nine-year sentence. Suspecting revenge as a motive, Shakur’s mother filed suit against Anderson for her son’s death, but the case was never resolved because Anderson was shot to death in May 1998 in a shoot-out outside a Los Angeles car wash.
Before his death, Shakur was also the defendant in a couple of civil lawsuits. When Ronald Ray Howard shot a Texas state trooper to death after listening to Shakur’s songs in 1993, the trooper’s widow filed suit against Shakur for manufacturing and distributing music that allegedly incited “imminent lawless action.” In October 1994, two 17-year-old kids in Milwaukee killed a police officer in a sniper attack after claiming they had been “geeked up” by Shakur’s music.
After leaving a Mike Tyson boxing match, Shakur and Suge were on their way to an afterparty when this event happened. Suge was driving his black BMW when a pearly white Cadillac sedan pulled alongside and fired upon the car.
Shakur was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support. He would die of his injuries on September 13, 1996. The case remains open and to this day, other than Davis, no other person has come forward with information.
Even being careful in her approach, former Ohio medical advisor Amy Acton has not escape the vicious actions of MAGA.
Dr. Amy Acton is the most prominent Ohio Democratic nominee for governor in a long time. She never had the Richard Cordroy or Nan Whaley style of failure to reach out to voters.
Acton is viewed as Ohio's version of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Fauci lead the National Institute of Allegery and Infectious Diseases under six U.S. presidents. He found President Donald J. Trump by far the most inept leader to handle a deadly disease outbreak.
Acton followed the advice and offered recommendations to the Republican governor.
He ordered a statewide shutdown of most businesses and facilities in Ohio.
Republicans and many of her opponent's allies are placing the blame on her.
I am certain that outgoing governor Mike DeWine and his wife Fran might be secretly rooting for Acton to win against her Republican opponent, nominee Vivek Ramaswamy.
Already some of these far right agitators are claiming it was staged or a false flag.
Ah, free speech people.
An armed assailant lunged at the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people, campaign officials said.
The suspect knocked volunteers to the ground and was arrested with “multiple weapons,” Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman Chris Anderson said in a statement.
Acton, the state’s former public health director, was not injured, but her campaign said multiple people were hurt.
“Dr. Acton will always stand up to the chaos, hate and vitriol that pits us against one another,” said Addie Bullock, communications director for the campaign.
Ohio State Highway Patrol and other authorities at the fair quickly responded “when a man tried to forcefully push himself toward Dr. Acton as she was speaking and injured other attendees at the Mahoning County Democrat booth,” Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said in a statement.
“Violence or the threat of violence at political or public events is always unacceptable,” he added.
The alleged suspect apprehended.
The attempted attack is the latest political violence to roil the United States. And the Ohio gubernatorial race is one of the most high-profile races this year as the campaigns enter the final six weeks of campaigning before the election in November.
Acton is facing Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, who has parlayed his national name recognition, tech industry connections and alliance with President Donald Trump into a record fundraising haul that he is tapping for advertising spots aimed at the November election. He is using campaign rallies and advertising to criticize Acton.
Ramaswamy’s campaign called the incident Sunday unacceptable.
“Candidates should be able to meet with voters without having to worry about threats or violence. What happened today is completely unacceptable and has no place in politics, and we hope hope that no one was hurt,” Ramaswamy’s communications director, Connie Luck, said in a statement.
The fairground’s police department referred inquiries to the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department, which didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment. The Ohio State Highway Patrol didn’t immediately respond to a request for information.
The incident brought condemnation from Ohio Republican Sen. John Husted, who said on X that he and his wife were “disturbed by the attempted attack on Amy Acton today at the Canfield Fair. We are grateful for law enforcement’s quick response. There is no place for this kind of behavior, and it must never be tolerated.”
I called her a communist but I don't want Amy Acton to get harmed.
The country has seen a rise in political violence over the past decade. That includes the 2017 shooting at a Republican congressional baseball team practice in Alexandria, Virginia; the 2022 hammer assault on the husband of Democratic then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in California; the 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally during his presidential campaign as well as another on the president at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April; and the assassinations last year of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk in Utah.
Federal political committees spent more than $40 million on expenses labeled as security during the 2023-24 campaign cycle, the most recent one for which data is publicly available, according a report released in April from the Public Service Alliance, a nonpartisan group that focuses on security for public officials.
Before running for governor, Acton had been recruited by DeWine in 2019 to lead the Ohio Department of Health while serving as an associate professor of public health at Ohio State University. As the COVID-19 pandemic ramped up in early 2020, she was thrown into the state and national spotlight — becoming a source of comfort to many viewers of the governor’s daily news conferences.
For her service as health director, Acton earned the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation’s Profile in COVID Courage Award, the Columbus Foundation’s Spirit of Columbus Award and Ohio State’s highest alumni honor, the Alumni Medalist Award.
Her position as the face of the DeWine administration’s aggressive stance against the virus also earned Acton many enemies, among them Statehouse Republicans and average Ohioans who opposed pandemic restrictions.
Don't believe the hype. More Americans are independent.
The Republicans are not doing so good right now. They rode the wave of anti establishment and frustrations with the economy that former president Joe Biden handled.
Now two years into President Donald J. Trump's chaotic second term, Republicans are split. They still love him, but the policies and his fly off the handle antics are tiring.
The president is getting richer while his supporters (who aren't rich) struggle in this country.
The Drudge Report lays out a splash saying that Republican enthusiasm is down.
Not gonna lie, it is true. But the Democratic Party isn't doing well either.
Did you know they are struggling to get donor money?
Small donors are not contributing. Both parties are swamping emails and mass texts to get you fearing the unknown. They are literally pointing fingers at one another over who is responsible for the country's predicaments.
I have deactivated my ActBlue and WinRed accounts. In the past I voted for both Democrat and Republican candidates. I went on who could improve my life and make my paycheck better.
Since losing my job at the local casino and now working at a uniform cleaning company, my paychecks are matching up to the growing expenses.
No one should be forced to put aside a doctor, a dentist, a mechanic, a vacation, a family event or groceries because of the cost of living. The U.S. is the richest country in the world but 45% of its people feel like the middle class no longer exist.
There are three classes: the working class, the well off and the super wealthy.
While the working class is vilifying the poor who need the safety net to survive, they certainly don't care about a super wealthy person buying a super yacht.
They vilify Muslims, Black women, transgender women, protesters and the homeless.
They don't throw their anger at private equity companies, billionaires, lobbyists, foreign influencers, elected lawmakers and companies ruining their lives.
Most Americans don't know who their elected leaders are other than the president, vice president and possibly their governor. Trump is the representative of the United States, its territories and its aligned sovereignties.
It is time to tell you a honest truth.
The Democratic Party is not winning me over with their policies. They are not convincing me that voting for them will make things better. We are not seeing much other than a party willing to use identity politics to shut down honest concerns about the Democrats being too cozy with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
A growing share of American voters have not identified with either party in recent years. Back in 2002, roughly a third of voters surveyed by Gallup identified as either Republican, Democrat or independent. By last year, 45% of respondents called themselves independents, with only 27% identifying as either Democrat or Republican.
Independent means you have no political alliance or vote for a candidate that identifies with your views. It could be an independent, Democrat or Republican.
The recent uproar about Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Rula Jabreal shows how a sliver of the Democratic Party will react to free speech over policies. That 4% of the Democratic Party will eventually leave and join other factions or minor parties. When the crucial presidential election comes forth and the Democrats lose again, they will blame that 4% they shut out because of free speech and not policy decisions that drove criticism.
Become an independent.
Make the Democrats and Republicans earn your vote. If they want to waste time on distractions, let them. But in crucial elections when you withhold your vote, you will finally realize that their noise drove you to put in the earplugs.
The Democratic Party will never learn and if it takes losing numerous key elections to get them to learn, then so be it.
The path to victory is a strong movement of progressive activism and aggressive pushback against the very distractions that cost them votes.
Laura Lommer, Rula Jabreal and Hasan Piker have riled up the Democratic Party.
Many of the prominent Democrats who posted on social media did not come to the defense of Angie Nixon, the surprise Democratic nominee for Florida.
Bakari Sellers called her a "lost cause."
Angie Nixon winning the Democratic nomination for Florida's 2026 U.S. Senate special election, political commentator Sellers argued on Native Land Pod that national Democrats should redirect limited campaign funds away from long-shot races in Florida and toward more flippable seats in states like Ohio and North Carolina.
Nixon was called a "ghetto Black bitch" and Sellers said nothing.
The Democratic Party members who rock with Israel were tepid or not responding to it.
But let it be Hasan Piker or Rula Jabreal.
Democratic members of the House and Senate quickly rushed to their social media to condemn Piker and Jabreal. Their criticism of AIPAC and Israel's association with top members have become contentious. Piker said that Israel has put Jewish Americans in a position of danger. He said the actions of that apartheid genocidial ethnostate is not representative of Jewish faith. Yet, he said that many Zionists will equate Israel with Judaism and it makes folks believe Jews control the narrative. He said that Israel's action leads to violence for Jews. It earned a swift condemnation from Democrats.
It was constantly mentioned by the most fiercest defenders of Israel. It was endless played on CNN, MS Now, NewsNation, Newsmax and especially on Fox.
Abdul El-Sayed had to publicly distance himself from Piker because he is constantly being dogged down with endless questions about him.
Now Jabreal is facing criticism and condemnation because she labeled House Minority Leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) an "AIPAC Monkey" in a tweet. Of course, she was called out for it and deleted in social media. However, the noise got loud quick.
Prominent pro Israel Democrats immediately condemned her. She appeared on The Joy Reid Show Podcast with her correspondent Wejahat Ali. On Ali's podcast, Jabreal apologized for the monkey reference. She did not apologize for calling out Jeffries for being influnced by AIPAC.
Jeffries caught flack for his secret meeting with Jared Kushner.
The House member also allowed his caucus to vote with Republican menbers to denounce socialism and the Democratic Socialists of America. Reps. Hillary Scholten (D-MI), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) tried to incorporate their version to condemn Piker.
Jeffries allowed members to publicly vote to strip away federal funds from colleges and universities if they allow faculty or students boycott Israel. Gottheimer and Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) drafted a bill that allocates appropriations away from public institutions if they divest in Israel. They claim it is to combat antisemitism and make Jewish (IDF soliders living in the U.S.) feel safe while on U.S. colleges. The bill passed and it will head to the Senate. It faces an uphill battle but could pass and President Donald J. Trump could sign it into law.
Jeffries who is a huge recipient of AIPAC funding has faced backlash for
Remember the law that forced ByteDance to divest from TikTok. It was one of former president Joe Biden's biggest blunders of his term. He signed into law to ban TikTok because of the "security threats" it posed. They claimed it was because of China having personal data. Patently false. TikTok U.S. was eventually sold to Oracle and is controlled by David Ellison of Paramount Skydance. Ellison and his father, Larry are trying to close the deal to own Warner Bros. Discovery. Biden's support of the TikTok ban cost him his second term and former vice president Kamala Harris her historical victory.
TikTok at one time was extremely popular with pro Palestinians content. It influenced a growing movement of young voters who felt the U.S. government was allowing Israel to get away with murder. The Anti Defamation League, AIPAC and other groups lobbied Congress to pass the TikTok ban because in the words of Jonathan Greenblatt, "
"We really have a TikTok problem, a Gen Z problem... We have a major generational problem in the United States and the numbers of young people who think that Hamas', you know, massacre was justified is shockingly and terrifyingly high.
It's not a left and right problem, it's a young and old problem. The same brains that gave us Taglit [Birthright Israel], the same brains that gave us all of these amazing other innovations, need to put our energy towards this, like fast."
The push to ban TikTok led to a backlash that Trump, a former supporter of the ban to capitalize on.
The U.S. fighting a war in Iran and is triggering a global war.
Trump's war with Iran has screwed up the world. The Strait of Hormuz carries over 20% of the world's oil and trade. Iran effectively put the world on blast. They said that for years, the U.S. and Israel bullied countries into submission. They are not scared of them and knew the day would come when they can place their bargaining chip on the table.
Many progressives are frustrated with Democrats putting Israel ahead of their base.
I am basically saying that Jeffries will be "Kevin McCarthy with a tan."
I am Black and frustrated with MAGA, do nothing Democrats and the status quo.
It is time for the U.S. to focus on the people instead of the chaos overseas. It is time to dump Israel and Zionism.
Jonathan Karl Fetterman, the 6'8" independent U.S. senator from Pennsylvania. Elected in 2022, serving the current term as senior senator along with Republican junior senator David Harold McCormick.
Elected as a Democrat but classified as an independent in 2025. Ran as a progressive ended up a far right conservative.
He votes 74% with the Democratic Party, 16% with the Republican and 10% not voting.
The Wall Street Journal has written a bombshell story about the independent senator.
Former staffers and allies believe he has gotten tired of the job, been fixated with going on Fox and letting Israeli handler speak on his behave.
Fetterman is considered so toxic within the Democratic Party, he publiclly been denounced by the state's commonwealth party. That lead to the calls of primary challenges or just ignoring him as they consider him a "one and done."
While he said he will not caucus within the Republican conference, the independent senator has drawn a "red line" when it comes to Democrats and Israel. He said he will not caucus with the party of Abdul El-Sayed and Angie Nixon won their senate bids.
Bombshell.
The 57 year old senator skipped the funeral of three slain York police officers.
When a joint funeral was held for three police officers killed in the line of duty near his home county, Fetterman reportedly balked at the three-hour duration, texting aides that the length "may be a nonstarter".
He dissed the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
In leaked text messages published by The Wall Street Journal, Fetterman scoffed at a scheduled meeting with representatives from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). When told they wanted to discuss Medicaid cuts and vaccine concerns, Fetterman replied, "Well, I'm not," adding, "I'm convinced they just want free trips to DC."
He skipped injured veterans to appear on Sean "Softball" Hannity, Jesse Watters, Mark Levin and Laura Ingraham's shitshows. Fetterman literally appears on that Softball Hannity shitshow over 60 times.
According to former staff, a group of paralyzed veterans traveled from rural Pennsylvania to meet with him. Staff told the veterans Fetterman had fallen ill, but less than an hour later, he arrived at his office showing no signs of illness to conduct a pre-planned interview on conservative media to discuss foreign policy. He also took aim at Abdul El-Sayed and former contender Graham Platner. He also obsesses over Hasan Piker.
A foreign agent told Fetterman that he will make sure he gets his points across.
Fetterman has prioritized foreign policy and meetings with Israeli officials over local issues. The report noted he met with Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter and planned to write an op-ed using points supplied by the embassy; however, his staff withheld the talking points out of concern it could violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Many of his former Democratic allies have called the senator a disgrace. Rep. Brendon Boyle (D-PA) who is considering a senate run called Fetterman a "trust fund baby."
"John Fetterman is a disgrace. Our state deserves better than a lazy trust fund baby who is too lazy to do the job."
President Donald J. Trump, Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) and Senate Leader John Thune (R-SD) have tried to convince Fetterman to join their caucus. Fetterman said numerous times, he will continue to caucus with the Democrats and he would be a "shitty Republican."
Nonetheless, most Pennsylvania Democrats rather he just become a Republican and they run a candidate who can defeat him.
Melissa Payne didn't see a veteran. She saw a man threatening her. She had warned him to leave her alone. The guy paid the price.
Melissa Payne will head home and will not have any guilt. Well a civil lawsuit but no time in the iron college or the noise claiming it was a race issue.
Florida's Stand Your Ground law is controversial because it allows use of deadly force when using a firearm when the shooter has exhausted all their opinions to de-escalate or retreat from a threat.
The man who verbally threatened, followed and attempted to attack Melissa was shot.
Payne stayed with the victim and called the law. She did everything right according to the law.
Payne was trying to back into a Florida Walmart parking lot when the victim, Bart DiGuglielmo confronted her earlier this year. She will not face charges, the Broward County State Attorney said on Thursday.
A “Stand Your Ground Immunity Memo” was published by the state attorney and goes over the details of the interaction and relevant laws.
DiGuglielmo exited his car, “inexplicably” abandoned it in the lane of travel, and walked toward the store. At that time, Payne successfully parked her car.
DiGuglielmo returned to the scene shortly after, and a witness reported hearing him say, “I’m gonna f- your s- up,” to Payne. He then reentered his car, drove away at high speed, and parked two aisles down, the memo said.
After parking, DiGuglielmo did not enter Walmart; instead, he walked toward Payne, who was sitting in her car with her niece’s infant daughter while her niece was in the store.
The memo said multiple witnesses described him as being “visibly angry” and “shaking” as he confronted Payne again.
As DiGuglielmo approached, Payne exited her car with a firearm in her hand. Witnesses told police that Payne gave him multiple warnings not to approach, saying she would shoot him if he kept coming up to her.
Video from a nearby vehicle shows Payne backing up, continuing to put space between her and DiGuglielmo, while he continues to “aggressively approach.”
After pursuing her around another vehicle as she backed away, DiGuglielmo momentarily looked like he was going to walk away before turning around and approaching Payne again. At that point, she fired once and struck him in the abdomen.
She was briefly taken into custody by the Broward Sheriff’s Office and made a statement to a responding deputy. The memo said her statement was consistent with the multiple videos taken of the interaction.
The memo explains that Florida is a “Stand Your Ground” state, meaning a person has no duty to retreat if they are not doing anything unlawful and if they “reasonably believe” that using force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm.
In these cases, it is not the defendants responsibility to prove whether her belief was reasonable, but is the prosecutions job to prove that she was not reasonable.
“The State cannot prove, by clear and convincing evidence, that Melissa Payne’s fear of great bodily harm was not reasonable,” the memo said.
As such, the state attorney found that Payne is immune from criminal liability in the shooting.
