Get Your Ass Out The Country....

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.

May peace be our future. pic.twitter.com/3snGtcAA0J

— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) September 24, 2026

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.

C'mon Smalls, Y'all Hurting Me!

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.”

Curmudgeon Appointed Judge Tells Him To Allow The Press Back In!

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.’” 

Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian: We Will Not Bend The Knee!

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.

AIPAC Shakur Ditches Pro Israel Operative Fundraiser!

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.

Jeffries is becoming the Black "Kevin McCarthy." 

We In The House!

Juice.

The far left is mad. 

The centrists are mad.

The far right is mad.

Yet, former vice president Kamala Harris and Michigan senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed are not worried about the noise. It's about working to get people out to vote.

Where Harris struggled with Arab American voters and El-Sayed struggled with Black voters, the collaboration is real.

They are about unity. Despite the policy differences, the two have one thing in common.

It is the disdain for President Donald J. Trump.

Harris said Tuesday that the midterm elections offer a potential “stopgap” halfway through Donald Trump’s turbulent second presidency.

And she urged Democrats not to be undone by a bruising primary that saw El-Sayed, a staunchly pro-Palestinian progressive, defeat an establishment favorite in a matchup that echoed Harris’ political struggles here two years ago over her support for U.S. military aid in Israel.

“It’s OK to not be in love with a candidate,” Harris told several hundred attendees at an evening NAACP forum. “It’s OK to vote and ask everybody else to vote because this choice is better than that one. That’s what gets you where you need to go.”

El-Sayed did not attend the NAACP event where Harris vouched for him. But she sat beside the candidate earlier Tuesday during a roundtable on Black maternal mortality. That discussion focused on health care policy, with no direct mentions of Trump or the complexities of El-Sayed’s effort to stitch together Democrats’ disparate coalition in his campaign against Republican Mike Rogers.

“I’m here to support Dr. El-Sayed because on this subject, I know he will be a champion,” Harris said of the medical doctor and former Detroit public health chief.

The broader political significance overshadowed the narrower topic, however, as Harris and El-Sayed grapple with their own policy differences and Democratic Party infighting in a Senate race that will help determine control of the chamber.

El-Sayed needs the first Black vice president’s validation in Wayne County, where she remains popular and he faces pressure to attract Black voters who backed his primary rival last month — in no small part because some progressives and Arab Americans in Michigan withheld their votes from Harris in 2024 out of anger that she and then-President Joe Biden supported U.S. military aid to Israel.

El-Sayed has called Israel’s military actions in Gaza a genocide against Palestinians. Israel’s government rejects that characterization. He downplayed those differences Tuesday.

“I think I speak for all of us when I say, ‘Come on back,’” El-Sayed told Harris after the health roundtable.

For the former vice president, who is deciding whether to run for the Oval Office again, the trip reinforced her popularity among Black voters who will hold strong sway over Michigan’s early presidential primary in 2028. And it tested how she would confront lingering effects of her narrow Michigan loss to Trump in 2024.

Harris said at the NAACP event that she understands that some people are still “carrying some pain” about that election. But Black voters, she said, shouldn’t take themselves out of the political process.

“If you want to get elected, you have to come to us and through us,” Harris said. “We have got to turn out the vote in large numbers,” she added to applause. “We’ve got to be too big to rig.”

El-Sayed framed Harris’s visit as a party unity effort

Harris and El-Sayed did not take questions together before or after their afternoon event, so they did not have to discuss their previous differences over U.S. policy in Israel.

Earlier Tuesday, before meeting Harris, El-Sayed framed her visit as a demonstration of unity. “We’re building an electoral coalition here,” El-Sayed said, emphasizing the two Democrats’ shared focus on the economy.

The 2024 election “ended where it did because we could not find the places of agreement to be able to bring people together or move in the direction that we need to move,” El-Sayed added.

El-Sayed said Harris is an essential advocate helping him close ranks against Rogers.

“Her presence here speaking to communities that were really empowered by her voice throughout her political career, I think will help us to continue to bring our coalition together,” El-Sayed said.

El-Sayed vs. Rogers is a critical contest for Senate control

If Democrats hold the Michigan seat, which was opened by Sen. Gary Peters’ announced retirement, they’d still need to win at least four more currently held by Republicans to flip the chamber. If Rogers, a former congressman, Democrats’ path to a majority would narrow.

Rogers’ campaign framed Harris’ visit as a sign of weakness for both Democrats.

“Abdul is so desperate that he’s parachuting Kamala Harris into Michigan to save his flailing campaign,” said Alyssa Brouillet, Rogers’ spokesperson.

Rogers has been campaigning in Detroit, a predominantly Black city where his campaign is optimistic he can pick up support from voters hesitant to support El-Sayed.

Black voters could prove especially important as El-Sayed also faces pressure among white Jewish voters who typically back Democrats.

“Jews in Michigan are currently scared” by their Senate options, said Barry Goodman, a Democratic National Committee member and major Michigan fundraiser in the party. Goodman backed Stevens in the primary.

The race is also seen as another referendum on progressives’ viability in battleground races. El-Sayed is running to the left of the Democratic Party establishment, including advocating for universal healthcare.

Goodman described himself and many other Jewish Democrats as “holding our noses and voting for Abdul” because they “believe in the Democratic ticket and they believe that one man can help win the Senate but can’t destroy the Senate.” Other moderates, Goodman said, are still deciding whether to back Rogers or sit out the Senate race.

El-Sayed has attempted to soften his approach on Israel and Gaza. He has apologized for some past controversial comments and said he is committed to Jewish safety.

Michigan will also be a key state for the 2028 Democratic presidential primary

As she has in recent interviews, Harris gave no indication when she will make an announcement about her 2028 plans. But the NAACP crowd roared when she was asked about her intentions.

Under Democrats’ recently revised nominating calendar, Michigan now will hold the fifth presidential preference primary in 2028.

And while Harris did not recalibrate her Israel stance while in Michigan, campaigning with El-Sayed is notable given her past tensions with Democrats’ left flank.

“She probably figures she won’t lose her establishment folks, so maybe she makes gains to her left,” Goodman said.

Ahead of Election Day this November, Harris also has campaign stops planned in Nevada and Georgia, two other important states on the political map.

The Beef Is Real!

Wendy's is not dying yet. It is facing a real crisis ahead.

Wendy's is facing some real beef. I mean its real.

Yearly wrap up.

The Dublin, Ohio-based fast food company is planning on closing up to 300 locations reducing its nearly 6,000 U.S. restaurants. If it closes in Canada, that is nearly 500 locations.

Massive blows and their beef is with the beef prices.

Where they're known for fresh square beef and their very delicious food, the costs are rising and the quality is declining.

One of the largest U.S. franchisees for Wendy’s has filed for bankruptcy protection after the restaurant chain tried to terminate its franchise agreement.

Meritage Hospitality Group, which operates 314 Wendy’s restaurants in 15 states, said in a statement last week it intends to keep operating its restaurants and paying its 9,000 employees during the bankruptcy process.

Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Meritage filed its bankruptcy petition in federal court in western Michigan on Sept. 17. According to court documents, Wendy’s filed a notice of termination of the company’s franchise agreement “effective immediately” on Sept. 16.

Wendy’s claims Meritage owes $27.4 million in royalties and fees and $119.5 million in continuous operations fees, which companies charge to franchisees when they close locations, according to court filings. Meritage closed 60 underperforming Wendy’s locations late last year as part of a restructuring.

Asked for comment Monday on Meritage, Wendy’s said its focus is “strengthening the long-term health of the brand.”

“We worked with this franchise organization and its lenders for more than a year to find a sustainable path forward,” the company said. “Ultimately, based on these circumstances, we determined that termination was the appropriate course of action.”

Wendy’s shares were up 1% in afternoon trading Monday.

Michigan is Meritage’s largest market, with 54 Wendy’s locations there as well as five Morning Belle and Blue Porch Bar & Grill restaurants. The company also runs 44 Wendy’s in both Georgia and Florida; 29 Wendy’s in Connecticut; 24 Wendy’s in Tennessee; 23 Wendy’s in Oklahoma and less than 20 Wendy’s each in Arkansas, Indiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Virginia.

Dublin, Ohio-based Wendy’s has been struggling for several years with outdated stores, high beef prices and stiff competition. It closed 240 restaurants in 2024 and said earlier this year that it planned to shutter up to 358 locations this year.

Wendy’s same-store U.S. sales fell 7% in its most recent quarter.

“Wendy’s is an iconic brand with exceptional assets. Today we are clearly not performing at our potential,” Wendy’s President and CEO Bob Wright said in a statement last month. Wright joined Wendy’s in May after previously serving as the CEO of Potbelly.

In the Dayton metro area, they have closed 15 locations so far.

Maxxing Out!

Being an asshole should be crime. This doofus Clavicular is being charged with rape.

A controversial MAGA influncer is facing the end of his road.

Okay, Republicans and President Donald J. Trump, since you're so obsessed with Hasan Piker, can we put the heat on you assholes associating with an alleged rapist?

Yearly wrap up.

Nevermind, the president is an alleged rapist. So it's no surprise that these morons would support these predators.

Braden Peters, 20, is charged with rape, administering a substance for sexual intercourse and procuring alcohol for a person under 21 in the alleged May 23, 2025, assault in Chatham, according to court records. A clerk-magistrate found probable cause for the charges on Sept. 4, and a criminal complaint was issued Sept. 8.

Best known as the social media influencer “Clavicular,” who gained a following promoting the online “looksmaxxing” trend, has been charged in Massachusetts with raping a 17-year-old girl who told police she became heavily intoxicated after he gave her alcohol at his family’s Cape Cod home.

An email and text message were sent to Peters’ publicist seeking comment Tuesday. Peters, who lives in Florida and is not in custody, is scheduled to be arraigned in Massachusetts on Oct. 14.

“We are not commenting at this time since the proper authorities are handling this,” said Andrew Moss, one of the teen’s attorneys.

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The accuser told Chatham police that she and Peters began messaging on Instagram and that he later paid her to appear in “looksmaxxing” videos he streamed online. She said Peters knew she was 17 but that he told her to tell his viewers that she was 18 and that vodka he gave her was water, according to a police report.

On May 23, 2025, the girl said she took a rideshare from her grandparents’ home to Peters’ family home on Morris Island, a gated community of multimillion-dollar homes overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. She told police she was greeted by Peters’ mother and grandmother before being escorted by Peters to his room, where he was livestreaming on Twitch.

She told police she drank what she believed amounted to two or three shots of vodka and became increasingly intoxicated. An officer who reviewed clips from Peters’ livestream said one showed the girl telling Peters, “Wait I’m so drunk though.” Peters responded, “It’s OK,” before the two kissed, according to the police report.

After the livestream ended, she said, they went to his bedroom, where she later fell asleep and awoke the next morning to Peters raping her.

The alleged assault was previously described in a lawsuit filed against Peters in Florida in April. An amended complaint filed in June accused Peters of sexual battery over the Cape Cod encounter. The lawsuit also accuses Peters of later injecting the girl with a fat-dissolving substance during a livestream without consent.

Peters’ attorneys have denied the lawsuit’s allegations, saying in a July court filing that the encounter was consensual and calling the lawsuit a “publicity grab.” Attorneys for Peters in the Florida civil matter did not return an email seeking comment about the Massachusetts charges.

Peters, the face of the “looksmaxxing” trend, is a well-known social media and internet personality whose pursuit of achieving traditional attractiveness by any means necessary became the subject of intense interest and discourse early this year.

Asshole went back to posting.

He livestreams his activities on close to a daily basis, often streaming his time at parties and clubs or talking with women. His largest followings are on TikTok, Instagram and the streaming platform Kick.

“Looksmaxxing” has origins that trace back to the “involuntary celibate” or “incel” community, an online subculture made of people, primarily men, who believe society unjustly denies them sexual or romantic attention. Peters has denied being linked to the group in any way and said many times that looksmaxxing is about self-improvement.

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

People, please do not resort to the levels of those who profit off the anger. The anger of right wing Americans in the wake of white nationalist Charlie Kirk's death has sparked a censorship and harassment campaign.

Erika Kirk, Elon Musk, Scott Presler, Laura Loomer, Riley Gaines, Lizzy Savetsky, Blaire White, Derrick Evans, Joey Saladino, Hermes, Eric Daughetry, Paul Szypula, Roseanne Barr, Steve Bannon, James Woods, Cam Higby, Kanye West, Tucker Carlson, Catturd, CJ Pearson, Stephen Crowder, Savanna Cannon, Tomi Lahren, Jack Posobiec, Snoop Dogg, Ray J, Waka Flocka Flame, DaBaby, James O'Keefe, Jacob Wohl, Ryan Metta, Buck Sexton, Clay Travis, Mila Joy, Rick Ross, Ben Garrison, Todd Starnes, Jeffrey Mead, Nick Fuentes, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, Milo Yiannapolous, Nick Shirley, James Carville, Roger Stone, Terrence K. Williams, Ian Miles Cheong, Lindy Li, Guy Benson, Andy Ngo, Alexis Wilkins, Olivia Krolcyzk, Brandon Tatum, Neal Boortz, Tom Finton, Nick Cannon, Adin Ross, Candace Owens, Nick Sorter, Jillian Michaels, Patrick Bet-David, Harvey Levin, Tommy Robinson, Phil McGraw, 50 Cent, Nicki Minaj, Harris Faulkner, Tara Bull, Theodis Daniel, DJ Daniel, Kevin Sorbo, Dean Cain, Maria Bartiromo, Simon Abeta, SNEAKO, Lily Gaddis, Rob Schneider, Gunther Eagleman, Nelly, Chaya Raichik, Erick Erickson, Meghan McCain, Tim Pool, Van Jones, Lauren Southern, Megyn Kelly, Amir Odom, Lawrence Jones, Ainsley Earhart, Dom Lucre, Glenn Greenwald, Jesse Watters, Debra Lea, Brianna Wu, Bill O'Reilly, Mark Levin, Steve Bannon, Myron Gaines, Rochelle "Silk" Hardaway-Richardson, Juanita Broddrick, Mordechai David, Jake Lang, Larry Elder, Eylon Levy, Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Brian Glenn, Braden "Clavicular" Peters, Matt Gaetz, Chris Cuomo, Nick Sorter, Fred Guttenberg, Alex Jones, Owen Shroyer, Bill Cunningham, Andrew Tate, Tristan Tate, Kevin Hodge, Keith Hodge, Sage Steele, Bill Maher, Forgiato Blow, Rick Santorum, Vanilla Ice, Amber Rose, Greg Gutfeld, David Limbaugh, Jeffrey Mead, Ian Carroll, Gordon Robertson, Malachi Maxey, April Chapman, Ali Alexander, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, Shannon Watts, Brent Bozell, Dalton Eatherly, Matt Walsh, Benny Johnson, Olivia Nuzzi, Ryan Lizza, Ronna Romney McDaniel, Laura Ingraham, Matt Drudge, Greta Van Susteren, Nancy Grace, Mike Lindell, Clavicular, Vince Langman, Brian Kilmeade, Glenn Beck, Xaviaer DuRousseau, Sean Davis, Ian Jaegar, Christopher Rufo, Joey Mannarino, Sean "Softball" Hannity and every far right agitator in the junk food media scared of being taken out by a gunman. They are scared that the bullet won't miss. They want you to risk your freedom or your life to protect their right to gas you up to commit unspeakable crimes against one another.

Let me be clear: I do not condone violence towards to politicians, media personalities, animals and property. I am not condemning things any longer. I am getting tired of putting empathy on antipathy.