To skirt past a potential scandal, New Jersey governor Mikie Sherrill told her lieutenant governor that he has to go or face the consequences.
The Democratic governor is not popular already into her first year. She has a job approval of 49%.
In New Jersey, the whole state is a damn suburb. Most of the major cities are within driving distances to New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, DC.
Newark is the largest city in the state. It is a suburb of New York.
Trenton is the state capital. It sits on the banks of the Delaware River and borders Pennsylvania. The drive to Philadelphia from Trenton is less than a hour without traffic delays.
Sherrill is a moderate pro Israel governor. She is a former naval pilot and House member.
Dale Caldwell resigned Friday as lieutenant governor of New Jersey after an investigation found "serious, repeated violations of state policy, including ethical lapses and a substantiated finding of sexual harassment," Gov. Mikie Sherrill said.
His resignation came after the governor released on Thursday the findings of an investigation into Caldwell over multiple ethics violation complaints.
The probe found there was credible evidence that Caldwell made "a romantic advance toward a female staffer's friend," and after his advance was rebuffed, he made sexually inappropriate comments to the staffer about their friend, according to the investigation's findings.
The investigation "lays out a pattern and practice of long term concerning behavior multiple ethics trainings, multiple ethics violations, sexual harassment, substantial claims of sexual harassment and statements by the lieutenant governor in the report so obviously he was fully involved in this as well," Sherrill said at a news conference Friday.
In a statement to ABC New York station WABC, Caldwell's attorney said they will "continue to forcefully challenge the report."
"Dr. Caldwell's resignation, submitted to put an end to the targeted campaign to discredit his character, does not in any way diminish our outrage concerning the investigative process and its specious findings," said Thomas R. Calcagni, counsel to Caldwell. "Counsel is fully exploring all legal remedies to ensure a true, balanced, and unbiased record."
The probe began with an anonymous complaint accusing the lieutenant governor of "hitting on women at functions while traveling using taxpayer money," and "handing out his state business cards and asking women out on dates," according to investigators.
Caldwell's team "repeatedly cautioned him about his behavior," investigators said, but they found he also tried "on multiple occasions to secure a promotion for a state employee with whom he had a romantic relationship."
"I hold everyone in my Administration to the highest ethical standard. We all have a duty to follow our state ethics and harassment policy and our Code of Conduct. Anyone who violates these will be held accountable," Sherrill said in a statement Thursday where she gave Caldwell a day to resign.
Several other prominent New Jersey elected officials, including Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) also called on Caldwell to resign after the report was released.
"New Jerseyans deserve to have public servants who work to earn and keep their trust, not undermine it. The findings of the independent report are unacceptable," Kim said in a social media post Friday.
In New Jersey, the lieutenant governor serves as the secretary of state as well and oversees the state agency that includes oversight of elections. New Jersey's counties and municipalities handle much of the administration of elections.
Sherrill said Friday she is appointing an interim secretary of state to oversee the midterm elections.
Damn Keke. You smiling like this was a photoshoot.
R&B singer and media agitator Keke Wyatt, 46 is proud of her alopecia. She literally bald but still flaunting that Black beauty. She is joining lawmaker Rep. Ayanna Presley (D-MA) and Joy Ann Reid in embracing their alopecia.
Did you know that this entertainer has 9 children and 2 stepchildren?
Oh my god, she is bugging out. Out of those children, which one did she threaten with that leather glory?
She was released from the Henry County, Georgia lockup after spending a few nights on the roster.
Wyatt was arrested Sept. 20 in Henry County, Georgia, on charges of aggravated assault, terroristic threats and acts, and third-degree cruelty to children, Complex reports. Booking records identify her legal name as Ketara Wyatt Darring, though key details about the reported incident remain undisclosed.
The child cruelty charge is categorized as a “3rd Degree Witness” offense, according to booking records. Under Georgia law, this charge applies when a person alleged to be the primary aggressor allows a minor under 18 to see or hear a forcible felony, battery or act of family violence. The charge does not necessarily mean a child was physically struck. The records do not identify which child was involved or specify which act was allegedly witnessed.
Complex noted that potential penalties vary by charge and circumstances. Aggravated assault can carry a prison sentence, while a first or second conviction for third-degree cruelty to children is generally treated as a misdemeanor under Georgia law.
The Georgia arrest is unrelated to a separate assault case Wyatt faced more than two decades ago in Kentucky. Nearly 25 years ago, a Kentucky grand jury indicted her on second-degree assault charges after her then-husband and manager, Rahmat Morton, was stabbed during a Christmas Day domestic dispute in 2002, according to Complex.
That case was eventually dismissed. Wyatt later addressed the incident publicly, stating she acted in self-defense during a period of domestic abuse. She told ESSENCE Magazine at the time that her life was in danger and she “wanted to protect my kids.”
At the time of the 2002 indictment, Wyatt was a rising star whose debut album, “Soul Sista,” had reached the top five on the Billboard R&B and hip-hop charts. Her duet with Avant, “Nothing in This World,” was a top five R&B single.
Wyatt has not issued a public comment regarding the recent charges.
Big families poses big challenges.
Born in Indianapolis, Keke Wyatt shot to fame as a guest vocalist on Avant's smash single "My First Love." Her second duet with him was "Nothing in This World" was her one hit wonder.
Keke Wyatt’s representatives issued a statement strongly disputing the severity of the circulated booking information. Her team stated that official court documentation only reflects a single charge of simple assault and explicitly pushed back against the child cruelty narrative, asking the public not to repeat inaccurate information involving children.
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The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
When the cameras are off, you see the real Judge Judy. Another curmudgeon who stuck on the 20th century way of thinking.
Where's Reese Waters?
He got to drag the Crypt Keeper.
Judith Sheindlin, 83 will turn 84 in mid October. Only one foot in the grave, baby.
The feisty television personality and former judge is best known for Judge Judy and Judy Justice. She also is preparing for her son to host his own television courtroom show.
We heard the whistle blow when she made a sit down for USA TODAY.
The judge became a judge of character of people. Mind you she and Joe Brown toe the MAGA line. Brown is knee deep in the shit. Also the booze and yayo. Sheindlin was diet MAGA by endorsing Zionist carp Nimarata Randhawa Haley.
Most know her as Nikki Haley.
You just retired from the television. We were rooting for the best until you opened your damn mouth. I mean your freedom of speech is assured. But the dollar is a free speech too. The audience that watched her shows were primarily Black, Latino and women.
That free speech comes with boycotts, ignoring Adam Levy's Adam's Law series and making sure the block button on Judy when she is on Nosey or her Pluto TV channel.
She blew that whistle and Black America heard that. We howled.
During a wide-ranging conversation in her home, the former family court judge and TV personality tells USA TODAY why she's done endorsing candidates but still believes America is "the greatest country in the world."
In reflecting on her record in court before becoming a TV star, the judge, born Judith Sheindlin, admits she hasn't given much thought to the idea of term limits in the Supreme Court.
"There's always an issue with a lifetime appointment," Sheindlin, 83, says. "You always have to know when to say goodbye, to whatever it is."
Her focus turns to age. The judge jokes that both her and her husband, former New York State Supreme Court justice Jerry Sheindlin, aren't getting older: They're just old.
Objection, you're very old.
We agree on something. Curmudgeons Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden are a bridge too old (I meant too far).
"I certainly wouldn't like to see an 84-year-old president of the United States," she laments.
At the end of his term in 2024, President Biden was 82. President Trump turned 80 on June 14 and has two years left on his term. She believes the ideal window for leaders is between the ages of 50 and 75, "when you've gathered a certain amount of life's experience."
"That's 25 years of great talent," she says. "And I don't see why we have to mess around with somebody growing up in office or somebody dying."
As for any endorsements, Sheindlin has only backed two candidates publicly: Michael Bloomberg and Nikki Haley. Both failed to win their respective party's nomination.
Very pro Israel politicians. Bloomberg, a billionaire who was former mayor of New York and 2020 presidential candidate as a Democrat. He was elected as a Republican and then became an independent in his third term.
Mind you, I supported him briefly before it was Biden. I was full Kamala Harris until she dropped out.
Haley. Well she is ashamed of her Indian heritage. At least Kamala was proud of her Indian heritage and is proud to be a Black woman.
Judy secret about who she backed in 2024. Obviously she ran to the Trumpster fire.
"I haven't dipped my toes in politics since, because it's a disgusting business," she says. "And one of the reasons that we don't have super-qualified people running for public office is the internet and mainstream media."
Black people used to tape and DVR your show. Now you talking that old white people shit.
Sheindlin believes that people who could help the country don't want to deal with the "daily colonoscopy" of the internet digging into potentially embarrassing details of their background.
"I agreed to put my money where my mouth was and come out and support them," she says of her past endorsements. "I don't think anybody's going to ask me again because my two candidates lost."
Judge Judy takes aim at socialism: 'If you don't like this country, go somewhere else'
In thinking about what she hopes for this next year (Sheindlin will turn 84 on Oct. 21), the TV personality responds with "peace." She then moves into territory that sounds far less pollyanna.
Sheindlin knows she's veering into the political arena with her comments. She doesn't care.
"We are a capitalist country that revered excellence, that revered entrepreneurship, that revered all the things that made us great," she continues, listing the creation of the polio vaccine, Apple, Amazon and even AI advancements, of which she notes, "Whether you like it or not, it's there."
"If you don't like this country, go somewhere else," she says. "Don't come to the greatest country in the world, the most successful country in the world and say, 'I want to change it.' There are other countries that have the something else that you want. Go there."
"We did that because we encouraged brilliance and excellence," she adds. "Those people pushed me. You said, 'Everybody should be equal.' Well, everybody's not equal. Some people are tall. Some people are short. Some people are musical. Some people are not. Some people have big breasts. Some people have no breasts. They're different."
Sheindlin is marking the 30th anniversary of "Judge Judy" premiering on TV with CBS airing a 90-minute special Tuesday Sept. 22, that looked back at the judge's life and career. Celebrities that took part in the program included Steven Spielberg, Samuel L. Jackson, Amy Poehler and RuPaul Charles.
Wow, all these folks see the mask off and still caught a coin.
Free speech.
Free country.
Didn't expect this on my radar. But now I am going to put her on my fuck your legacy memoriam.
I am so tired of elitism and the status quo. We shouldn't be worshipping celebrities.
They are just people with talent. They made it in an industry that is cutthroat in making or breaking people. If she didn't have the talent to generate ratings, she would be some old greeter at Walmart named Judith.
Am I the only one who finds the downfall of former Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema satisfying?
I mean I am rooting for John Fetterman, Ritchie Torres, Josh Gottheimer, Jared Moskowitz, Hillary Scholten, Jared Golden, Marie Glusenkamp Perez, Wesley Bell, Greg Landsman, Ted Cruz, Tommy Tuberville, Nancy Mace, Lauren Boebert, Max Miller, Randy Fine, Brian Mast, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jim Jordan, Andy Ogles, Keith Self, Tom Suozzi, Laura Gillen, Elise Stefanik, Mary Miller, Rich McCormick, John N. Kennedy, Marsha Blackburn, Ashley Moody, Katie Britt, Rick Scott, Tim Scott, Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance and those I may have forgotten to fail.
And those I will mention later the worst.
May their downfalls happen soon.
Sinema, 50 was the independent senator who was elected as a Democrat in 2018. Sinema served one term. During that term, she morphed from a fierce progressive House member earlier in her terms to this self righteous moderate who voted to keep the status quo.
She became an independent in 2022 shortly after she and then West Virginia senator Joe Manchin blocked then president Joe Biden's major bills. They stood firm on preserving the cloture (filibuster rule). She infamously gave a cutesy when she voted down the minimum wage increase.
Sinema was in deep trouble with Arizona Democrats. They formally withdrew their endorsement and warned her that her financial support will not come from them.
Ruben Gallego, then a House member and ex-husband of Phoenix mayor Kate Gallego decided to make a primary challenge.
Martha McSally, the former senator and House member decided to stay out the race.
McSally was so cringy. She lost to Sinema, got appointed to serve after that war mongering curmudgeon John McCain died. McSally later lost Mark Kelly, the former U.S. Marine and NASA commander. Kelly is the husband of gun violence survivor and former lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords. Another run would assure a three peat.
So it was up to washed up former TV reporter turned MAGA/MAHA firebrand Kari Lake to run.
After being trounced by Katie Hobbs in the governor’s race, Lake thought she could put the stilettos on and bounce that ass like she's a Black woman. Trump gave the blessing for her to run.
Gallego, a potential sex pest was hoping to beat two problems. Sinema out of options and no backing from prominent Democratic members or Republicans. She decided she will end the bid for a second session.
Gallego would beat Lake by two points. It was close. Lake left a bad taste in people's mouth. She was then a prominent figure who supported LGBTQ, Black Lives Matter and did fair coverage of both Democratic and Republican politicians. She went gaga for MAGA around 2017 after the curmudgeon won his first term.
Lake was given a position in the second Trump chaos. She is currently the Senior Advisor for the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
Gallego is a pro Israel moderate even though he lied his way to the seat. He called himself a progressive and said people like Sinema make Democrats run for the hills.
Pot calls the kettle black right.
Sinema would leave Congress for work as a senior advisor at the global law and lobbying firm Hogan Lovells. She also involved in crypto currency and AI firms.
Sinema, openly bisexual was hitting on her staff. She offered drinks and weed to some of the people she worked with.
When you tried to have your cake and you couldn't eat it.
She ended up getting with a married man. Her bodyguard, Matthew Ammel became close to Sinema. He often blocked protesters and kept her at arms length. They had a fling that developed into romance. A romance that his wife, Heather saw as a fucked up situation.
Heather filed for divorce and child support from Ammel. She also filed a lawsuit against Sinema calling her a "druggie whore". Paraphrasing it.
In North Carolina where Ammel previously lived, they have a law that can legally pursue damages if a marriage is ruined by adultery. She sued saying Sinema used her government authority to conceal an affair and ruined her husband who was vulnerable to PTSD from serving in the military.
Well the controversy got too much for Sinema. She broke off the relationship and started dating other People. Ammel, with PTSD reacted like he was played by this bitch.
Man, he had dinner at home and left it for some polarizing bitch.
So he took his frustrations into the Cave Creek, Arizona home Sinema lived in.
Ammel was arrested and charged with aggravated criminal damage after allegedly executing a $200,000 vandalization spree through her Arizona residence.The incident, which transpired in late August 2026, has brought intense public scrutiny back to a complex legal and personal feud involving both figures. Court documents and media reports highlight the following details surrounding the situation:
According to the probable cause statement, Ammel entered Sinema’s Cave Creek home while she was out of town and demanded that she post a video to her X (formerly Twitter) account.
When Sinema refused, Ammel allegedly threw approximately 22 paintings into her backyard swimming pool, spray-painted black lettering on another piece of art, and smashed expensive alcohol bottles and a mirror. The paintings alone were valued at over $123,000.
Ammel was arrested on September 17, 2026, immediately following his release from a mental health facility. He has since been released on bond with an electronic monitoring device.
Zio Buggy. Joe Manchin, John Fetterman and Kyrsten Sinema, may your lives be longer than your terms in the senate.
Ammel facing felonies on burglary and criminal damage exceeding $200,000 bill.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Sinema is still facing the civil lawsuit. In early September 2026, a federal judge officially denied her motion to dismiss the case, ruling that the lawsuit can move forward to trial.While the legal term for the lawsuit is an "alienation of affection" claim rather than criminal adultery, it functions as North Carolina's civil "homewrecker" law, allowing an aggrieved spouse to sue a third party for destroying a marriage.
Obviously, Sinema placed a restraining order on Ammel and he is likely restricted from owning firearms while he awaits trial. But you know a restraining order is just a fucking piece of paper.
While I don't want anything to happen to anyone, her karma moments are a curtsey for the folks who she left being.
Republicans and that apartheid genocidial ethnostate of Israel are back on that scary Muslim BS. This is a perfect example of free speech used in hate of religion and people of color.
If Republicans want to be the party of a dying coalition of boomers, so be it. This is the 21st Century and white men are dying faster.
Can't we put this energy on winning new groups?
The Republicans seem to be obsessed with hating on Muslims, transgender Americans, immigrants, vulnerable Americans and children.
This Shira Law nonsense is the latest example of how Republicans want to turn a distraction into a campaign spectacle.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and other Republicans are demonizing Muslims and Arabs.
Something "is real" and do "not see" it.
Cruz at the Republicans’ recent midterm convention in Dallas came after the Texas politician targeted Muslim Americans and their faith’s religious code.
“Sharia law has no place in America,” said Cruz. “We need to stand together and stop it now.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott chimed in moments later, vowing to “fully ban Sharia law in Texas.”
This curmudgeon Keith Self of Texas started the Anti-Sharia Conference which hosts a bunch of idiotic bigots.
Muslim American civic leaders and scholars — in Texas and other states — are responding forcefully to this latest surge in anti-Sharia rhetoric that dates back more than 15 years.
They passionately defend Sharia — the way it’s practiced in the United States — as positive guidance that has elements in common with the codes of other faiths, such as the Ten Commandments and the collective body of Jewish law derived from the Torah. They rebut the claims of GOP critics that Sharia is a coercive code that threatens the U.S. Constitution and judicial system.
Though there are multiple interpretations of Sharia, its essence is to serve as a code for how Muslims should live and worship — covering such matters as prayer, pilgrimages, fasting, charitable donations and personal virtue.
Among the most energetic of Sharia’s defenders is Illinois-based Sabeel Ahmed, director of an outreach project called GainPeace. He travels widely around the U.S., with a recent focus on Texas, speaking at mosque-sponsored workshops and open houses.
“Sharia is often misunderstood,” Ahmed posted on Instagram after a midsummer visit to Plano, Texas. “Many people think Sharia is only about punishments, but in Islam it is Allah’s guidance for living with faith, justice, mercy, and responsibility.”
Ahmed attributes the durability of anti-Sharia vitriol to politicians and social-media influencers who want to rile up their voting base or their followers.
“They gain popularity by saying it,” he told The Associated Press. “It’s the job of the Muslims to educate what is the proper meaning of the word Sharia. We cannot be angry or hateful.”
Sharia’s role varies significantly among Muslim nations
Among those appalled by the anti-Sharia surge in the U.S. is Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, a Sudanese-born Islamic scholar who taught for many years at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta. He is a longtime critic of the relatively small number of governments in Muslim nations that coercively enforce Sharia, saying Muslims are better off in secular states where their religious observance is a matter of free choice.
An-Na’im says he and other Muslim Americans embrace Sharia willingly as a core part of their identity, even as they also embrace American values.
The demonization of their beliefs displays “a shocking ignorance of what Sharia means,” An-Na’im said. “It’s a total dehumanization of the other, the rejection of their right to be human.”
The rhetoric is similarly dramatic among Sharia’s opponents — epitomized by the two U.S. representatives from Texas, Republicans Keith Self and Chip Roy — who co-founded the Sharia-Free America Caucus in Congress.
This idiot Tommy Tuberville is running for the senate.
“Sharia is a direct threat to our Constitution and Western values and seeks to replace our legal system and erode our basic freedoms,” Roy said earlier this year. “Our immigration system must be prepared to confront this challenge and defend our Judeo-Christian values.”
By last count, the caucus had more than 60 members. All of them are Republicans, and its members have introduced several anti-Sharia bills since the caucus was formed last December. None of those measures have been successful.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, has designated the caucus as an anti-Muslim hate group.
“The bigoted rhetoric used by this caucus resembles the hatred that anti-Catholic politicians once unleashed against Irish Americans,” said CAIR research and advocacy director Corey Saylor.
“Islam is an American faith, present for over 250 years,” he added. “No one who wrote the Constitution or enforced it since has empowered these legislators to pick which religions get to exist in America.”
Texas has been a battleground for Sharia disputes
There has been substantive anti-Sharia action in Texas. In August, Attorney General Ken Paxton demanded documents from the Dallas-based Islamic Tribunal, which provides religious guidance to Muslims.
Paxton said in a news release that the investigation by his office sought to determine if the tribunal was engaged in illegal activity, such as acting as a court, applying foreign laws that conflict with Texas or federal law, or issuing rulings that imply government authority.
“This is America, and we will not be governed by sharia law,” Paxton said.
Rafael Edurado (uses Edward) Cruz getting his orders from his two masters. The guy who called him "Lyin' Ted" and the guy who said you bless Israel or he's gonna get cursed.
The Islamic Tribunal subsequently updated its website with a “ Clarification of Mission and Activities,” stressing that its guidance “complements, and never replaces, the legal, social, and professional services available in American society.”
“The Tribunal does not function as a court of law and does not issue legally binding judgments,” it said. “Our role is limited to mediation and religious arbitration requested by members of the Muslim community in matters related to faith, family guidance, and internal religious affairs.”
Any matters requiring legal enforcement are referred directly to the Texas judicial system, said the tribunal, which likened its work to the services provided by Jewish Beth Din courts and Catholic ecclesiastical tribunals.
Sharia defenders seek to broaden understanding of its essence
Asma Uddin, a professor at Michigan State University’s College of Law, has argued in her writings that many American politicians are depicting ordinary Muslim religious practices — such as prayer, choice of apparel, family counseling and mosque attendance — as evidence of a political danger.
In an interview with the AP, Uddin depicted the current wave of anti-Sharia rhetoric as fearmongering by politicians who view the issue as advantageous for them.
“When politicians use this, it’s giving them exactly what they’re looking for,” she said. “They’re looking for a scapegoat … and this gets people riled up.”
Sabeel Ahmed, who has made three outreach trips to Texas so far this year, plans a trip to Houston in a few weeks for another mosque open-house. He’s also working on a book to be mailed to Christian clergy across the U.S., seeking to broaden their understanding of Sharia and other Islamic practices.
“Islam is not to be feared,” Ahmed said. “People should meet a Muslim, go to the mosque, reach out to us. Let’s emphasize the commonalities we have.”
Abdul El-Sayed, Zohran Mandani, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Ilhan Omar, Lateefah Simon, André Carson, Rashida Tlaib, Keith Ellison and Adam Hamawy are prominent Muslim politicians.
They are Americans who are trying to work for the common good of the country.
Democrats are not popular but they are doing far better in generating voter enthusiasm despite the establishment trying to suppress frustrations with the status quo.
Lemonhead speaks at the UN. He goes after Iran, Hasan Piker and Zohran Mamdani.
Israel is an apartheid genocidial ethnostate. Its days are numbered.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a brief trip to the United States to do his United Nations general assembly. He couldn't make his latest trip to Washington.
President Donald J. Trump was having a state gathering with China's president Xi Jinping.
The White House continues to block CNN, MS Now and The Politico. Oh, the White House Press Pool pulled the plug on his state dinner and presser.
A Trump appointed judge told the White House to reinstate the press passes. The White House is appealing it.
Anyway, Netanyahu riding on his arrogant high horse decided to address New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and media agitator Hasan Piker.
This asshole began the year declaring that he stood “shoulder to shoulder” with Trump as the two countries launched a war against Iran. But this week, as world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, there are no plans for the two men to be in the same room, or even in the same city.
As the war with Iran has dragged on, Trump and Netanyahu have split over how to prosecute it, straining a relationship between the two allies. Netanyahu has also faced global criticism both for Israel’s war in Gaza and settler violence in the occupied West Bank. Instead of a packed itinerary, Netanyahu, who arrived on Thursday, was scheduled to meet only a handful of leaders before giving his speech.
The apparent snub underscored how badly the relationship between Trump and the prime minister has fractured. Many in Washington associate Netanyahu with the increasingly unpopular fight with Iran and Trump has labored to avoid the appearance that the Israeli leader forced him into a war that Trump said would be a “little excursion” lasting only weeks.
Netanyahu’s brief visit also demonstrated how isolated he is globally, three years after launching a punishing war in Gaza in retaliation for the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023. He faces an election next month widely seen as a referendum on his responsibility for the security failures surrounding the attacks and his ability to defend Israel’s reputation on the world stage.
Day after day this week, as other heads of state have stepped to the podium, many have harshly criticized Israel’s actions, particularly in Gaza. Ahead of his visit, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged his arrest, saying the U.S. should honor a warrant for Netanyahu issued by the International Criminal Court. He is wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Gaza, though the U.S. is not a member of the court and New York City lacks the authority to arrest him.
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.
Still, the prime minister is a master showman, and often turns to props and visual aids during speeches in flawless English to drive home his message. Last year at the summit, scores of diplomats walked out while he was speaking. But that is unlikely to faze him, as he speaks primarily to an audience of Israeli voters.
“He times his speech so that it is broadcast here in primetime,” said Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. who served under Netanyahu and lives in Israel.
But experts say without the usual high-profile meetings, the trip could hurt Netanyahu’s image at home.
“I think the trip is a mistake, because it exposes his weaknesses,” said Eytan Gilboa, an expert on U.S.-Israel relations and professor at Israel’s Bar-Ilan and Reichman universities.
While many Israelis view the U.N. as hostile toward Israel, he added, the fact that he could not secure a meeting with Trump only highlights how poorly Netanyahu has managed the relationship with his nation’s strongest ally.
In 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden was reluctant to host Netanyahu at the White House but still made time to sit down with him on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
“Israel cannot survive without the United States,” Gilboa said.
The slight in New York follows sharp criticism from Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel and a longtime supporter of Israeli settlements, of the settlers attacking Palestinian communities in the West Bank. In unusual remarks for an ambassador, he referred to the attackers as “terrorists.”
“It’s significant of a deeper rift,” Oren said of Netanyahu’s slim itinerary.
When Trump was in New York on Tuesday, he met with an array of leaders from Arab nations, as well as from Denmark, Japan, Greenland, Ukraine and Venezuela, among others. He then quickly returned to Washington to roll out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping.
For a leader who likes to portray himself as a global statesman, it is a “big, big miss for him at a time where he can’t afford misses,” Natan Sachs, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, said of Netanyahu.
On other past trips, Netanyahu met with a slate of high-profile leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and then-German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
This year, though, the prime minister’s office said “many world leaders” asked to meet with Netanyahu during his brief visit, but that he was on a “tight schedule” and needed to return to Israel before the start of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which begins at sundown on Friday.
On his schedule, the statement said, were leaders from Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Panama, Ethiopia, Greece, Slovenia, and Papua New Guinea.
Iran is hurting Jon Husted's standing with Ohioans.
Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) is still favored to win but I could be wrong. I mean the race is much closer than I thought. Former Ohio senator Sherrod Brown is mounting a surprise comeback.
For Ohioans, it's still a lose-lose situation.
Both candidates support fucking Israel. The state gives damn near $300 million in Israeli bonds while the Ohio rainy fund is depleted.
Both had supported the boondoggle in New Albany. Brown and then senator now vice president JD Vance along with Gov. Mike DeWine and then lieutenant governor Husted supported Intel building a massive semiconductor plant in rural (now suburban) Licking County.
New Albany and the city of Columbus annex land in Licking County to prepare themselves for the Silicon Valley of the Midwest. Now five years later, under this curmudgeon president, Donald J. Trump, Intel is a rock in a hard place. With these damn tariffs, the trade war with Canada and the Iran War, it has made electronics extremely expensive.
We have farmland destroyed, data centers blowing up in Licking County, low wage jobs, incompetent Republican leadership in the governor’s mansion and statehouse.
Yeah, Ohio is the Heart Attack of it All!
Ohioans are dying faster because the population is white, old, rigid and not willing to accept change. Think about how DeWine soured on Trump when he got the Supreme Court to end temporary protection for refugees. Haitians who lived in Springfield became scapegoat for the ICE raids. Thanks to the fake story of Haitians eating the dogs and cats from Trump and Vance, those dying Ohioans believe immigrants are threats to the way of life.
Not those idiots who peddle culture wars while picking your damn pockets.
The War in Iran enters its seventh month. No end in sight. At the United Nations, Iranian president Mousad Pezeshkian told the world that Iranians aren't terrorists. They weren't the ones who bombed a school, a sports venue, a wedding and a crucial bridge. They weren't the ones who killed their Ayatollah, their top generals, their scholars, their scientists and their police officers.
The finger was pointed at the United States and Israel. They walked out in protest.
Average price of gasoline regular is $4.56⁹ and diesel is $7.14⁹. It is putting a squeeze on Americans and they are fed up with this.
Trump wants to point the finger at former president Joe Biden. While Biden did some curmudgeon shit in his one term, the current curmudgeon is damn near three years into this chaotic term still running on blaming Biden.
Husted is concerned about the war because Ohioans are seeing Republicans as ineffective in the state house, the governor's mansion, the U.S. House and U.S. Senate.
A resolution aimed at ending President Donald Trump’s war in Iran failed by a single vote Thursday as Husted voted no despite saying this week the war should end.
The Senate defeated the resolution by a vote of 49 to 50, with four Republicans in favor and Sen. John Fetterman, the independent of Pennsylvania, against.
The vote came as Republicans are increasingly antsy about Trump’s war, which has dragged on for months, pushed up gas prices and aroused voter anger at the Republican Party ahead of November elections to decide which party controls Congress.
There’s nothing remarkable about a Republican backing Trump in his war, except Husted and several other GOP candidates in close election contests said this week the war should end.
“The war needs to come to an end as quickly as possible so that we can lower gas prices,” Husted told Politico on Tuesday. Husted ducked reporters after the vote.
Voting in favor of a “war powers” resolution directing the president to cease hostilities in Iran would have been probably the simplest and most direct way for Husted to wield his power as a U.S. senator to influence the situation. Yet Husted decided to stick with Trump.
Democrats have hammered Republicans for supporting the war, which Trump launched in February and said would last a few weeks.
Ohio has a choice between two old doofuses.
“Senate Republicans, if they knew what was good for them, would have joined us in pushing for an end to Trump’s war seven months ago,” Democratic leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said before the vote.
The four Republicans who voted for Thursday’s resolution were Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rand Paul (R-KY) and Thom Tillis (R-NC). It was the first time Tillis had voted against the war. He said the administration has failed to brief members of Congress and ignored the war powers law’s deadlines for seeking authorization.
“I’m inclined to vote on something unless I’ve been properly briefed and convinced that we’re on the right track. I haven’t gotten that brief,” Tillis told reporters.
Meanwhile, Republican Senate candidates in tight races — Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) and former Michigan lawmaker Mike Rogers — have said the conflict should end, as have a handful of other Republicans running in the midterms.
“Iowans are being squeezed and shouldn’t have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran,” Hinson said this week on X, despite having repeatedly voted against war powers resolutions in the House. Seven other Republicans, including two of Hinson’s colleagues from Iowa, broke with the president to support the resolution when the House adopted it last week.
The war powers statute, enacted in the 1970s after the Vietnam War, gives Congress fast-track procedures for voting on such resolutions. Lawmakers drew up the statute specifically to stop presidents from dragging the U.S. into endless conflicts in other countries, though the law hasn’t been fully tested in courts. The type of resolution the Senate voted down on Thursday wouldn’t have been presented to the president for his signature if it had been approved, meaning it was a symbolic vote.
Sens. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) voted against ending the war even though they’re both in close races. Sullivan on Thursday criticized Iran for having sponsored terrorist organizations that have killed and wounded thousands of U.S. service members over the years.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who sponsored the resolution in the House, called the Senate vote “a slap in the face to the millions of American people who want this war to end.”
The White House pool is still offline as long as Trump continues to defy federal orders.
President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance will vehemently oppose a federal judge's decision to allow access to CNN, MS Now and The Politico. They are still denying access to the White House.
U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, appointed by Trump in 2017 with near unanimous vote had ordered the White House reinstate the press passes of journalists, photographers and video producers who work for these companies. He cited that the ban on these outlets are unconstitutional.
The legal battle began after President Trump declared the news organizations banned via a post on Truth Social, alleging that they trafficked in falsehoods and published sensitive information. The news organizations filed a joint lawsuit, which drew widespread solidarity from across the media industry. Five major networks (ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC) issued a rare joint statement condemning the restrictions, while nearly 50 news organizations signed a friend-of-the-court brief opposing the ban as First Amendment viewpoint discrimination
In granting a 14-day temporary restraining order reinstating the outlets’ access while their legal challenge proceeds, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly wrote that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed in their lawsuit against the Trump administration, at least on the grounds that their credentials were revoked last week without due process.
Trump, he wrote, did not dispute that the outlets “did not receive notice and an opportunity to be heard before their hard passes were revoked.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for overnight comment from NBC News.
“This is a strong ruling vindicating freedom of the press, due process and the rule of law. We greatly appreciate the court’s swift action,” the attorney representing the news outlets, Ted Boutrous, said in a statement.
Trump had posted on social media before a Wednesday hearing in the case that he expected the “totally disloyal” Kelly, whom he nominated to the bench during his first term, to rule against him — adding that “as usual, we’ll go for appeal.”
Trump announced the ban on the three news outlets in a post on Truth Social on Friday, saying it was “a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!”
“Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America. Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow,” he said.
Thursday’s order rejected the White House’s argument that banning the outlets was motivated by national security concerns, saying it offered little proof to back up the claim.
“Certainly, that is not what President Trump said when he announced that he was ‘banning’ Plaintiffs from the White House — instead, he focused on the alleged lack of truthfulness and negativity of Plaintiffs’ reporting,” Kelly wrote.
“Certainly, that is not what President Trump said when he announced that he was ‘banning’ Plaintiffs from the White House — instead, he focused on the alleged lack of truthfulness and negativity of Plaintiffs’ reporting,” Kelly wrote.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office a short time after the post, Trump referred to his directive as “the ban on the free press.”
“I don’t want them in my office. I don’t want them here,” he said.
He said the policy was not in response to a particular report, but because of “cumulative stories over the last few years.”
“They purposely write negative news. And they do that because they want to try and diminish the Republicans and a Republican administration,” he said. “If they could straighten themselves out, I’d love it,” he added.
The outlets said in their suit challenging the ban that Trump’s remarks show the policy was motivated by “retaliation” and “intended to cow” the outlets “into changing their reporting and threaten other journalists lest they suffer the same fate.”
The “Constitution does not allow a president or any other government official to deprive the press of their First Amendment rights and liberty and property interests with no notice or process based solely on that official’s dislike of the content of their reporting. The ban is patently unconstitutional and should be immediately restrained,” they argued.
The White House appeared to be trying to address those due process claims in letters to the news outlets on Tuesday, which told them they could “contest this initial decision” in written responses by Friday.
The letters accuse them of publishing “sensitive security information, and misinformation” which “undermines the President’s ability to safeguard the national security.”
They cited specific articles about munitions stockpiles impacted by the Iran war and sanctions against Russia, but also one about a request for $1 billion in funding for East Wing renovations that the president had said would be fully funded by donors, and another about negative “vibes” at the recent Republican midterm convention.
Addressing the “extraordinary” standard that the government argued gave it the right to revoke the outlets’ passes without prior notice, Kelly wrote that the sorts of stories cited in the letters “are routine,” and stretch back months or even years.
The letters also allege the organizations have “exhibited behavior in violation of the standards of professionalism and decorum expected of those given access to the White House Complex.”
Trump made a similar argument in a Truth Social post Monday.
“It is called the Oval Office, and it should be treated with Decorum, Respect, and Dignity, not defiled by Third Rate Clowns, who purposefully distort, twist, and degrade with everything they write or publish,” he wrote.
But Kelly pointed to a D.C. Circuit Court case, also involving Trump, that found that for a reporter’s hard pass to be revoked, the government must first publish standards of conduct that would lead to the revocation.
Nothing in the record demonstrates “formally articulated standards,” the judge wrote. And one standard the defendants “appear to offer” — reflected in the letters sent to the outlets — “is so vague it hardly does the trick.”
NBC News previously reported that Trump’s Friday announcement caught a number of high-level White House aides off guard. A senior White House official defended the move to NBC News earlier this week, saying, “Nobody close to the President was surprised at his action to hold the fake news accountable.”
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the White House Correspondents’ Association and a group of 49 news and media organizations — including NBCUniversal Media LLC, the parent company of NBC News — filed a legal brief in the case Wednesday backing the three outlets.
The filing said the president’s stated reasons for the ban “are transparently viewpoint discriminatory” and “inconsistent with the First Amendment.”
“The ban at issue in this case does exactly what longstanding D.C. Circuit precedent” has said the government can’t do, the filing said — “prohibited three news organizations from access to the entirety of the White House and its grounds due to the content of their reporting.”
It also clashes, the filing said, “with bedrock Supreme Court precedent, which recognizes that ‘even though a person has no ‘right’ to a valuable governmental benefit,’ the government ‘may not deny a benefit to a person on a basis that infringes his constitutionally protected interests — especially, his interest in freedom of speech.’”
We are not terrorists. We support peace. We will not be bullied by America or Israel.
The United Nations general assembly has become a controversial affair. Nation leaders gather to address the world about their progress.
With this session there is controversy. Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Mexico, Canada, Türkyie, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, Israel and the United States are making the world less safe these days.
Scratch that.
The United States, Israel and Russia are making the world less safe.
On Feb. 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a series of attacks on Iran. The first days of the war, the Iranians confirm that a school in Minab was attacked, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was assassinated and their critical infrastructure was damaged.
Iran responded in kind.
Allegedly, the U.S. and Israel are not reporting the causalities. They are literally hiding damages, injuries and death.
Iran said that the world's economy is collapsing and it ain't their fault.
Iran’s president said Wednesday that his people have been “victims of terrorism” by the United States, delivering a rare wartime speech at the U.N. General Assembly a day after President Donald Trump said he may “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if a deal isn’t reached soon to end the nearly seven-month war.
The defiant speech by President Masoud Pezeshkian marked a striking instance of a foreign leader addressing the world body while their country is at war with the host nation. While defending his country, Pezeshkian held up large photos of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the more than 150 Iranian schoolchildren killed on the first days of the war.
“We have only defended ourselves. We are not terrorists,” Pezeshkian said at the General Assembly. “Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks and aggressions imposed upon our country. And we defended ourselves with utmost strength. America and Israel attacked us.”
He added of the United States: “Yes they did hit us, but we did not bend the knee.” Toward the end of his speech, Pezeshkian called out Trump by name.
“It must be understood by Mr. Trump and those who seek to bully us that we are ready for dialogue and diplomacy and negotiations without accepting the language of force,” he said.
Shortly after, both U.S. and Israeli officials blasted the speech, saying that it was hypocritical for the Islamic Republic to present itself as the victims of the world.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters: “I don’t know what standing Iran has to lecture anyone on human rights or the international system when they habitually violate it.”
Marco Rubio and Michael Walz walked out when Iranian president spoke.
A Busy 24 Hours For U.S.-Iran Relations
Arriving in New York under heavy security and scrutiny, Pezeshkian — who, within Iran’s political landscape, is considered a moderate politician — addressed world leaders a day after Trump used the same stage to mull whether to massively escalate a war that has already spiraled out of control.
“I have a big decision to make,” Trump said in his wide-ranging address Tuesday. “Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world. Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again?”
Hours after those stunning threats, Trump told reporters that his chief envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, met for about three hours with the Iranian officials on the sidelines of the annual gathering. But he offered few details about how the discussions transpired or the substance of the exchange.
“It was a very good meeting,” Trump said. The president later added that the Iranian officials were “not the highest level, but it’s something.” Also on Tuesday, Rubio said Trump is open to meeting with Pezeshkian while he’s in New York.
But Tehran downplayed Tuesday’s unscheduled exchange, which were the first indirect talks between U.S. and Iranian officials since a June ceasefire unraveled. Esmail Baghaei, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, maintained the country’s negotiating position in talks with U.S. officials, demanding that Washington end its blockade of Iranian ports and release frozen Iranian assets,
Baghaei said the talks — conducted indirectly through Qatari mediators — were “not anything new.”
Rubio echoed that sentiment Wednesday, saying that “it was a continuation of conversations that have occurred in the past.”
“If there’s an opportunity to exchange ideas and messages, we will. And that’s what largely yesterday was — it was positive in that regard,” he said. “But ultimately, I don’t want to mischaracterize this as a major breakthrough.”
Israeli ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon is a buffoon.
More Than A Year Of Negotiations Have Taken Place
Pezeshkian’s address elaborated on where Tehran stands as more than a year of start-stop negotiations between the two longtime adversaries have failed to produce a sustainable solution. His speech came as intermittent attacks continued in the Strait of Hormuz off Iran’s coast, where commercial shipping remained below prewar levels.
His address last year came months after the 12-day Israel-Iran war that saw the assassination of many of the Islamic Republic’s highest military and political leaders and once again broke down weeks of negotiations with the United States.
“Ladies and gentlemen, you all bore witness that this past June, my country was subjected to a savage aggression and flagrant contravention of the most elementary principles of international law,” Pezeshkian said at the time.
Another secret meeting Jeffries planned on attending but pulled after an article release.
The hits keep on coming.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is once again caught working behind the scenes to undermine Democratic candidates. He was supposed to attend a fundraiser sponsored by a Democratic operative who endorsed Republicans in the senate races in Florida and Michigan. This operative is aligned to the Israeli government.
Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) who is retiring from the House is rooting for Rep. Mike Lawler (D-NY). Former governor Paul LePage who is running to replace him is likely to win that seat. Golden who refused to endorse then Maine Democratic nominee Graham Platner has not endorsed Tom Jackson, the controversial replacement.
Sen. John Fetterman (I-PA) has endorsed Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) in his reelection bid in 2030. The independent senator remains committed to be in the Democratic Caucus despite his calls to join Republicans. Fetterman, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema were roadblocks to former president Joe Biden in the past.
Manchin has endorsed Michigan Republican Mike Rogers and Maine Republican senator Susan Collins for their senate bids.
In a piece titled “Jeffries Abruptly Cancels Fundraiser With Fox News’s Favorite Dem,” The Bulwark reported on Tuesday that Jeffries was set to attend the event with corporate lobbyists from a “Trump-allied” firm called Ballard Partners. Among the lobbyists scheduled to attend was Michael LaRosa, an ex-spokesperson for former First Lady Jill Biden. Last month, LaRosa made waves by announcing his support for Republican Mike Rogers in the U.S. Senate race in Michigan against Abdul El-Sayed, who has called for an end to U.S. aid to Israel. Ballard Partners has an office in Tel Aviv.
LaRosa frequently applauds the president’s foreign policy efforts. He’s gone out of his way to compliment Vice President JD Vance and attack New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, even signing a petition encouraging the latter to skip the recent 9/11 memorial ceremony.
The company you keep. Former press secretary turned MS Now host Jen Psaki poses with far right agitator Michael LaRosa. He is a gay Israeli operative who worked in Dr. Jill Biden's office during the Biden presidency.
LaRosa has criticized Democrats for embracing DEI policies, insisted they’d gone “silent” on Iranian protests, and argued that the party’s rhetoric is “out of control.”
“My party has been out of control with the hyperbole, the aggressive rhetoric, the Nazis, the fascists, the autocrats, all this stuff,” he declared in 2025. He has doggedly gone after far-left figures, including Hasan Piker and Graham Platner—positions that others in the party adopted as those figures became more scandalous. But he has angered Democrats by criticizing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, whom he slammed for his ties to “big tech, healthcare, and A.I.” (and for “summering in Egypt”—not sure what he’s getting at with that one). He has encouraged voters to back the Republican in the race, Mike Rogers, in part, he explained, because he could “smell [the aftermath of 9/11] from where I was from in Pennsylvania.”
Hours after the report was published, Jeffries withdrew from the event.
“Leader Hakeem Jeffries does not plan to participate in any event hosted by Ballard next week or at any point in the future,” Jeffries spokesperson Justin Chermol told The Bulwark. “The event is not on his calendar and it is not taking place. Throughout this cycle, he has personally raised over $200 million for House Democrats and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The average contribution to his re-election campaign is $28.00 per donation.”
The earlier this month controversy was Rula Jabreal calling Jeffries an "AIPAC monkey" on the Wajahat Ali podcast. The Democrats spent two fucking weeks attacking Jabreal and by association Hasan Piker.
Jabreal apologized but the KHive, Congressional Black Caucus and several agitators like Shannon Watts continue to seize on the remarks.
Jeffries faces heat for the continued support of Israel, allowing House members to break on controversial bills, the rejection of democratic socialism, Medicare for All, the secret meeting with Jared Kushner, the tepid endorsement of Zohran Mamdani after securing his nomination for mayor and his tepid responses to President Donald J. Trump's anctics.
