The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump celebrates his 79th birthday.
He is literally in cognitive decline.
He has a job approval of 37%.
The economy is unstable. His tariffs has all products shipped from Mexico and China on the rise. Hundreds of small businesses and several large companies announced closures.
Israel attacks Iran. Fears it will start World War III. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had told the junk food media that the United States was not involved in Israel striking nuclear facilities and Tehran. Trump countered it by saying that he was well aware of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli operatives launching the attack and warned that more deceptive attacks are on the way.
Two state lawmakers were shot in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. The president, Vice President JD Vance, Gov. Tim Walz, Sen. Amy Klobucher (D-MN), Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) and U.S. House members were notified of the attack. This latest incident of political violence towards elected leaders comes close to the one year anniversary of the attempted assassination and mass shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump survived a mass shooting and attempted assassination. The shooter impersonated a police officer.
ICE has ramped up more daring round ups of immigrants in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, San Diego, Miami, San Francisco and Seattle. There are expected protests against ICE.
Chaos on the president's birthday.
Gov. Greg Abbott activated the Texas National Guard.
The U.S. Marines detained a civilian in California. This is an unprecedented event.
Tucker Carlson turns on the president. He calls Rupert Murdoch, Mark Levin and Sean "Softball" Hannity a bunch of warmongering assholes. He warns Trump that the America First crowd is not keen on U.S. soliders fighting another endless war on behalf of Israel and Ukraine.
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was violently detained after he interrupted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem presser in Los Angeles. The White House dismissed the detainment as a stunt. Noem and Phil McGraw are actually filming events where ICE have violently detained immigrants.
No Kings Day.
Expected protests in major cities to call upon lawmakers to stop Trump from using his executive orders to get around Congress.
Walmart and many other companies are souring on Trump. The economic forecast has the United States likely or in the start of a recession. Trump dismisses it. The folks at MAGAland are boycotting Walmart. The company is facing a boycott over its dropping of DEI.
Now this military parade.
This multi-million dollar festival and parade celebrating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army kicks off Saturday morning, June 14 and will continue late into the evening – rain or shine, the White House says.
The 250th Birthday of the U.S. Army Grand Military Parade will conclude a day-long festival, full of music, fireworks and a fitness competition. The pomp and circumstance also coincides with Trump's 79th birthday.
It is expected to start at 6:30pm.
Trump, Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and a handful of Republican lawmakers are expected to be in attendance. First Lady Melania Trump and Second Lady Usha Vance might be there.
This is what y'all voted for.
Incompetent leadership, wasted resources, chaos and global instability.
Antonio Brown with Ye. The controversial media personality and former NFL star is not concerned about the cases he's about to catch.
This is one of President Donald J. Trump's supporters.
Former NFL star Antonio Brown once again makes himself an embarrassment.
But now this comes with a price. He could face a lengthy bid after an altercation lead to attempted murder.
Brown is wanted on an attempted murder charge in Miami, according to an arrest warrant.
The warrant, signed by a judge Wednesday and provided by the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, lists the charges as attempted second degree murder with a $10,000 bond. The Miami Police Department confirmed Friday that Brown has not yet surrendered to authorities.
Brown did not immediately respond to an NBC News request for comment. It is not clear if he has a lawyer.
The charge stems from a May 16 incident outside of an amateur boxing event in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, where videos circulating online appeared to show Brown in a melee where gunshots could be heard.
According to the warrant for Brown's arrest, Florida Highway Patrol officers were working off-duty as security for the boxing event when several people approached a lieutenant with reports of hearing gunshots outside.
Multiple witnesses identified Brown as the shooter, the warrant states, who was patted down and detained. Brown, 36, was not armed at the time.
The former Tampa Bay Buccaneers wideout then posted on X the next morning, stating he was not arrested and was the victim in the attack.
“I was jumped by multiple individuals who tried to steal my jewelry and cause physical harm to me. Contrary to some video circulating, Police temporarily detained me until they received my side of the story and then released me,” Brown wrote.
But after reviewing security footage the following day, officers identified Brown as punching another man, sparking three other individuals to join the fight, according to the warrant. The footage then allegedly showed Brown taking the firearm of a security officer and approaching the man he had punched.
Cell phone video captured two shots fired, with the man Brown attacked "ducking" after the first shot was heard, the warrant states. During their investigation, officers found two spent shell casings and an empty firearm holster at the scene.
In an interview with authorities, the man who was allegedly attacked stated he had known Brown since 2022 and positively identified him as the person who shot at him, grazing his neck, according to the warrant. The man had visible injuries and was treated at the hospital the night of the incident.
The 36-year-old Brown has faced multiple run-ins with authorities over the years and throughout his 12-year career in the NFL, much of which was spent with the Pittsburgh Steelers following his 2010 draft.
Brown was released from the New England Patriots after one game in 2019 amid sexual assault allegations made by a former trainer, a lawsuit that was ultimately settled in 2021. Brown denied the allegations.
Brown was then signed by the Buccaneers, where he played for two seasons, during which he faced a three-game suspension for faking his Covid-19 vaccination status.
His life off the field continued to stir controversy as Brown landed himself on probation for attacking a truck driver in Hollywood, Florida in 2020.
In late 2021, Brown ended his NFL career in a dramatic fashion, puling off his jersey and walking off the field at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey before the end of Tampa Bay's game against the New York Jets.
Silentó vows to record music despite his lengthy term in the iron college for manslaughter. Maybe he will ask President Donald J. Trump for a pardon.
Rappers seem to like the incompetent president for his willingness to pardon criminality over victim's justice.
Genie of the lamp.
Trump pardoning criminals who caused havoc to victims should be a crime.
After all, y'all voted for this.
Silentó, the Atlanta rapper known for his hit song “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae),” pleaded guilty but mentally ill Wednesday to voluntary manslaughter and other charges in the 2021 shooting death of his 34-year-old cousin.
The 27-year-old rapper, whose legal name is Ricky Lamar Hawk, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston said in a statement.
Hawk also pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, possessing a gun while committing a crime and concealing the death of another. A murder charge was dropped as part of the plea agreement.
DeKalb County police found Frederick Rooks III shot in the leg and face in the early morning hours of Jan. 21, 2021 outside a home in a suburban area near Decatur. Police said the found 10 bullet casings near Rooks’ body, and security video from a nearby home showed a white BMW SUV speeding away shortly after the gunshots.
A family member of Rooks told police that Silentó had picked up Rooks in a white BMW SUV, and GPS data and other cameras put the vehicle at the site of the shooting.
Silentó confessed about 10 days later after he was arrested, police said. Ballistics testing matched the bullet casings to a gun that Silentó had when he was arrested, authorities said.
Mental illness did not contribute to rapper Silentó murdering cousin.
Rooks’ brothers and sisters told DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Courtney L. Johnson before sentencing that Silentó should have gotten a longer sentence, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The rapper was a high school junior in suburban Atlanta in 2015 when he released “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” and watched it skyrocket into a dance craze. Silentó made multiple other albums, but said in an interview with the medical talk show “The Doctors” in 2019 that he struggled with depression and had grown up in a family where he witnessed mental illness and violence.
“I’ve been fighting demons my whole life, my whole life,” he said in 2019.
“Depression doesn’t leave you when you become famous, it just adds more pressure,” Silentó said then, urging others to get help. ”And while everybody’s looking at you, they’re also judging you.”
“I don’t know if I can truly be happy, I don’t know if these demons will ever go away.”
Silentó had been struggling in the months before the arrest. His publicist, Chanel Hudson, has said he had tried to kill himself in 2020.
In August 2020, Silentó was arrested in Santa Ana, California, on a domestic violence charge. The next day, the Los Angeles Police Department charged him with assault with a deadly weapon after witnesses said he entered a home where he didn’t know anyone looking for his girlfriend and swung a hatchet at two people before he was disarmed.
In October 2020, Silentó was arrested after police said they clocked him driving 143 miles per hour (230 kilometers per hour) on Interstate 85 in DeKalb County.
Hudson said at the time of Silentó's arrest in the killing of Rooks that he had been “suffering immensely from a series of mental health illnesses.”
This may be performance but regardless unprecedented.
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) reacted to the blatant war crimes conducted by Israel. But in their statements, I bet they will say:
"ISRAEL HAS A RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF."
When former vice president Kamala Harris said that President Donald J. Trump will target political enemies, she wasn’t lying.
Y'all voted for this.
Padilla was violently detained after he interrupted a presser from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
On Thursday, Padilla was forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country.
Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing the California senator by his jacket and shoving him from the room as he tried to speak up during the DHS secretary’s event. Padilla interrupted the news conference after Noem delivered a particularly pointed line, saying federal authorities were not going away but planned to stay and increase operations to “liberate” the city from its “socialist” leadership.
“I’m Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” he shouted in a halting voice.
Scuffling with officers outside the room, he can be heard bellowing, “Hands off!” He is later seen on his knees and then pushed to the ground and handcuffed in a hallway, with several officers atop him.
The shocking scene of a U.S. senator being aggressively removed from a Cabinet secretary’s news conference prompted immediate outrage from his Democratic colleagues. Images and video of the scuffle ricocheted through the halls of Congress, where stunned Democrats demanded an immediate investigation and characterized the episode as another in a line of mounting threats to democracy by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said what he saw “sickened my stomach.”
Motherfucker ain't sickened by children being blown up by Israel.
Spare me the bullshit Charles Ellis Schumer. You fucking scumbag.
“We need immediate answers to what the hell went on,” the New York senator said from the Senate floor. “It’s despicable, it’s disgusting, it’s so un-American.”
In a statement, DHS said that Padilla “chose disrespectful political theater” and that Secret Service “thought he was an attacker.” The statement claimed erroneously that Padilla did not identify himself — he did, as he was being pushed from the room.
“Padilla was told repeatedly to back away and did not comply with officers’ repeated commands,” the statement said, adding that “officers acted appropriately.”
The fracas in Los Angeles came just days after Democratic U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver was indicted on federal charges alleging she assaulted and interfered with immigration officers outside a detention center in New Jersey while Newark’s mayor was being arrested after he tried to join a congressional oversight visit at the facility. Democrats have framed the charges as intimidation efforts by the Trump administration.
It also follows days of rising tension between Trump and Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom over the federal military intervention in California. In a speech earlier this week, the governor warned that “democracy is under assault before our eyes.”
Emerging afterward, Padilla said he was removed while demanding answers about the Trump administration’s “increasingly extreme immigration enforcement actions.” He said he and his colleagues had received little to no response to their questions in recent weeks, so he attended the briefing for more information.
“If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question … I can only imagine what they are doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers throughout the Los Angeles community, and throughout California and throughout the country,” he said.
Noem told Fox LA afterward that she had a “great” conversation with Padilla after the scuffle, but called his approach “something that I don’t think was appropriate at all.”
This is America.
The White House accused Padilla of grandstanding.
“Padilla didn’t want answers; he wanted attention,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said. “It’s telling that Democrats are more riled up about Padilla than they are about the violent riots and assaults on law enforcement in LA.”
Padilla, the son of immigrants from Mexico, has been a harsh Trump critic and his mass deportations agenda. In a social media post, he said of recent federal immigration raids in Los Angeles, “Trump isn’t targeting criminals in his mass deportation agenda, he is terrorizing communities, breaking apart families and putting American citizens in harm’s way.”
Padilla in 2021 became the state’s first Latino U.S. senator when he was selected by Newsom to fill Kamala Harris’ Senate seat after she was elected vice president. At the time, Padilla was the state’s chief elections officer.
Harris wrote in a social media post Thursday that Padilla “was representing the millions of Californians who are demanding answers to this administration’s actions in Southern California.” She called his forceful removal “a shameful and stunning abuse of power.”
Democratic senators quickly gathered in the chamber, denouncing the treatment of their colleague — a well-liked and respected senator — and urged Americans to understand what was happening.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Trump is making this country “look more and more like a fascist state.”
“Will any Republican senator speak up for our democracy?” Warren pleaded.
Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., called on Noem to resign, saying that there was no justification for Padilla’s treatment and that the Trump administration needed to be held accountable.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., accused Padilla of “charging” Noem and indicated that the behavior “rises to the level of a censure.”
“My view is it was wildly inappropriate,” Johnson, a Trump ally, told reporters outside the House chamber as Democrats walking past shouted over him, “That’s a lie!”
“A sitting member of Congress should not act like that,” Johnson said, loudly speaking over reporters’ questions. “It’s beneath a member of Congress. It’s beneath the U.S. senator.”
Senate Republican leader John Thune said he has spoken to Padilla and is trying to reach Noem but hasn’t yet connected with her.
“We want to get the full scope of what happened and do what we would do in any incident like this involving a senator and try to gather all the relevant information,” the South Dakota senator said.
The No. 2 Republican, Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, said that he was unaware of what happened but that Padilla should have been at work in Washington.
The stark incident comes as Congress faces increasing episodes of encroachment on its authority. As a coequal branch of the U.S. government, the Trump administration is exerting its executive powers in untested ways.
As part of their work in Congress, lawmakers are responsible for providing oversight of the administration, its agencies and actions.
Several senators and representatives have been exercising their oversight roles by surveying the treatment of immigrants and others being detained as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation operation.
From the steps of the U.S. Capitol, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said what happened to Padilla “was un-American” and those involved must be held accountable.
“This is not going to end until there is accountability and until the Trump administration changes its behavior,” he said.
This is the beginning of the end of the United States as a superpower. Thanks to our unequivocal support for Israel, we will end up being driven to global war.
Start watching the prices of oil, soft drinks, medicine and produce rise.
President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Congress were notified of the unilateral attack on Iran by Israel. They struck in an urban area around Tehran, Iran. It is the national capital and largest metropolitan area.
Now we will hear the junk food media say threats of terrorism and the such from Iran. The "Israel has a right to defend itself" nonsense.
Fuck that shit.
Iran has a right to defend itself.
The victims that were killed.
– IRGC Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami
– Strategic Commander Gholam-Ali Rashid
– Nuclear scientist Dr. Tehranchi (linked to weapons testing)
– Ex-Atomic Energy chief Fereydoon Abbasi
This action will be regarded as a war crime and possibly a regional conflict.
Iran has the full ability to engage in use of nuclear weapons to protect themselves from Israel and the United States.
Israel must be stopped.
Iran has a full duty to retaliate and engage in conflict with the apartheid ethnostate. No more holding back or restraint. Do what most countries never would do!
Destroy Israel and Zionism.
Iran has no choice but to defend itself from Israel and the possibility of U.S. warfare.
The villain here is the state of Israel. It is a state sponsor of terrorism globally.
I don't give two fucks about your feelings or your religion. Israel doesn't represent Jewish or Christian faith. It is a white apartheid ethnostate that perverted Judaism and Christianity under the banter of the Holy Land.
Jesus the Nazareth, if he existed in this time would condemn this.
Israel carried out "preemptive" strikes against Iran on Friday, targeting its nuclear plant and military sites, after Trump warned of a possible "massive conflict" in the region.
Explosions were heard Friday morning in the Iranian capital, state TV reported, adding that Iran's air defence were at "100 percent operational capacity".
Israel declared a state of emergency, with Defence Minister Israel Katz saying that retaliatory action from Tehran was possible following the operation.
"Following the State of Israel's preemptive strike against Iran, a missile and drone attack against the State of Israel and its civilian population is expected in the immediate future," Katz said.
Oil prices surged as much as 6 percent on the strikes, which came after Trump warned of a possible Iranian attack and said the U.S. was drawing down staff in the region.
"I don't want to say imminent, but it looks like it's something that could very well happen," Trump told reporters at the White House Thursday when asked if an Israeli attack loomed.
Trump said he believed a "pretty good" deal on Iran's nuclear programme was "fairly close", but said that an Israeli attack on its arch foe could wreck the chances of an agreement.
The U.S. leader did not disclose the details of a conversation on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but said: "I don't want them going in, because I think it would blow it."
Trump quickly added: "Might help it actually, but it also could blow it."
A U.S. official said there had been no U.S. involvement in the Israeli strikes on Iran.
The United States on Wednesday said it was reducing embassy staff in Iraq -- long a zone of proxy conflict with Iran.
Israel does coward shit. Hossein Salami was killed by the criminal Israeli regime.
Israel, which counts on U.S. military and diplomatic support, sees the cleric-run state in Tehran as an existential threat and hit Iranian air defences last year.
Netanyahu has vowed less restraint since the unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Tehran-backed Hamas, which triggered the massive Israeli offensive in Gaza.
The United States and other Western countries, along with Israel, have repeatedly accused Iran of seeking a nuclear weapon, which it has repeatedly denied.
Israel again called for global action after the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) accused Iran on Wednesday of non-compliance with its obligations.
The resolution could lay the groundwork for European countries to invoke a "snapback" mechanism, which expires in October, that would reinstate UN sanctions eased under a 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by then U.S. president Barack Obama.
Trump pulled out of the deal in his first term and slapped Iran with sweeping sanctions.
Iran's nuclear chief, Mohammad Eslami, slammed the resolution as "extremist" and blamed Israeli influence.
In response to the resolution, Iran said it would launch a new enrichment centre in a secure location.
Iran would also replace "all of these first-generation machines with sixth-generation advanced machines" at the Fordo uranium enrichment plant, said Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
Did the second term curse come early? If Trump defends Israel, he will throw American troops into global war. If he continues to target civilians protesting his policies, he will throw the U.S. into a civil war.
Iran currently enriches uranium to 60 percent, far above the 3.67-percent limit set in the 2015 deal and close, though still short, of the 90 percent needed for a nuclear warhead.
You know what blood libel is?
Watching people blown up by military weapons of destruction by a country devoted to ethnic cleansing.
They are riled up enough to cause havoc.
Israel is conducting Nazi-like actions. They are attacking Gaza, the West Bank, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran and Yemen. They are blackmailing critics. They are calling for U.S. lawmakers to crackdown on antisemitism and protests on college campuses. They are ignoring the United Nations and International Court of Justice warnings about their occupation. They are threatening the lives of prosecutors in the International Criminal Court.
Israel launched a new hasbara to target the West with the notion that their actions prevent terrorism from invading the West. The latest attacks on pro Israeli protesters has only fueled the U.S. to pass more stupid draconian laws to strip freedoms to protect Israel, Christian and Jewish superiority.
Of course, they will blame Hamas for their attacks.
WHITE PRIVILEGE IS REAL! IT'S "SUIT AND TIE" WHITE SUPREMACY ON TELEVISION, RADIO, THE INTERNET AND AMERICAN POLICY!
FOR EVERY BAD COP, THERE WILL BE A DEAD COP!
IF THE UNITED STATES CONTINUES TO AID ISRAEL, THE WORLD WILL BOYCOTT THE U.S. AND ABANDON THE DOLLAR!
I DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET OR THE COP'S VERSION.
THERE IS NO GOD!
GOD IS NOT FIXING THIS!
FUCK YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS!
Trump gave us open season.
Netanyahu has an active warrant for crimes against humanity. The International Criminal Court has issued the warrant.
Netanyahu continues to be allowed entry in the U.S. since it doesn't recognize the ICC as a legitimate court. Most countries recognize the court. Only genocidal countries like Belarus, Israel, Russia, India and the United States ignore the rule of law.
This will not go unanswered.
Israel has become one of the biggest road blocks in the Republican and Democratic Parties. Also the age issue is haunting both of the parties. Many of the leaders are old, tired and stuck on 20th Century policies that drive America futher down.
Israel and its allies overplayed the use of antisemitism.
From now on, as long as there is no violence towards anyone practicing Judaism or Islam, I will not hold my tongue when criticizing Israel, Jews, President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance, former president Joe Biden, former vice president Kamala Harris, most members of Congress, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, the Canary Mission, Zionism, colonialism, imperialism, slavery, racism, Christian nationalism and white supremacy.
They are the cause of global instability in the world.
Again, as long as there is no violence towards anyone practicing religious beliefs, there is no antisemitism when criticizing the Jews.
Let's clear up the junk food media's account of Oct. 7. The Israelis used the Hannibal Directive to massacre the settlers to prevent Hamas from taking IDF soliders. The IDF has used the weapons to kill settlers at a festival.
Hamas has been very clear on who they targeted. They targeted the IDF and the walls. They do not target civilians. Israel has exaggerated the way this went down.
They have used American weapons to kill children, women, men, their own settlers, journalists, doctors, humanitarian aid workers, UN peacekeepers and their own IDF soliders. Israel has killed Americans, British, German, Australian, Canadians and French citizens.
No investigations were carried out to why Israel targeted them.
Israel refuses to allow independent monitors into Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.
IDF soliders who refuse to carry out orders are often taken out by snipers.
The "hostages" were IDF soliders.
Gholam-Ali Rashid was killed by the Israeli regime.
Israel has violated the ceasefire. They are planning on invading Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria. They have stopped humanitarian aid and attacked any attempts by volunteers or independent surveyors.
Israel wants the U.S. to start a war with Iran.
The supporters of former president Joe Biden and former vice president Kamala Harris are playing on this "We tried to warn you" nonsense. How can you morally stand on principles of being a progressive and back Israel?
First and foremost, Americans have a right to vote for whomever they chose.
Second, Harris failed to win over voters. She stuck with former president Joe Biden on the economy, Israel, Ukraine, immigration and inflation. The former president failed to listen to voters and his base.
The former president gave unilateral support and cover. We knew Trump would be worse. We demanded that Biden and Harris put pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel to stop killing. We urged them to stop invading other countries. Biden ignored the concerns. The Democrats paid the price.
This shows a lot of "tone deafness" within the Democratic Party.
It is not Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) or the former supporters' fault for Biden and Harris' missteps. She warned them that Arab Americans did not like being ignored.
Those fucking hypocrites sat in silence as Israel is killing men, women and children.
They can fuck themselves.
Israel has killed Americans. No one was held accountable.
The killing of Rachel Corrie did not move George W. Bush to cut Israel loose.
Marked for death.
The deaths of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, Tawfiq Abdel Jabbar, Mohammad Khdour, Omar Assad, Shireen Abu Akleh, Jacob Flickinger and Kamel Ahmad Jawad were never investigated by the U.S. Justice Department.
Mask off.
Resistance is not terrorism.
Occupation of oppressed people is not peace.
A two state solution is "separate but equal" and a de facto apartheid.
Telling other countries to take Palestinians is ethnic cleansing.
A sovereignty seizing land in a violent conflict is a war crime.
A violent attack on children throwing rocks at tanks is justified in the minds of those who support Israel.
Spitting and shoving Christians, Satanists, non Zionist Jews, Muslims and Hindus is considered a custom in Israel. How is this disgusting act justified?
The double standard in media coverage is the Israelis are hostages and the Palestinians are prisoners. Some of the Palestinians held in Israeli custody are children under the age of 14.
When Russia seized Ukrainian land and Crimea, the U.S. pushed for sanctions.
When Israel seized Lebanese and Syrian land, the U.S. recognized it as Israeli sovereignty. They have actively rejected sanctions imposed on Israel.
When the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Russian president Vladimir Putin, the United States praised the decision. When it came to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the United States rushed to sanctions and threaten imprisonment for the workers at the ICC.
Iran supports the resistance. The U.S. and Israel labels it as an enabler of terrorism and war. Yet, Israel has created the conflicts by forcing regime change, killing their civilians, their scientists, their military generals and their diplomats. No one seems to call this terrorism. In fact, some U.S. lawmakers see it as justifiable offense.
Hamas stated the reasons for the attack on occupation forces. It has nothing to do with the Jewish religion, a concert or Iran.
The IDF has the weapons to destroy everything. All on the American taxpayer, Israel has killed civilians, their own citizens and the status quo.
Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions.
Israel must be held accountable for war crimes and the U.S. must end its aid. Our taxpayer money should not help Israel any further.
Israel is the red line. If any lawmaker, entertainer, athlete or social media influncer backs the apartheid ethnostate, they will face a boycott.
Regardless of political affiliation, if you are supporting Israel, you are not getting donations or a vote from me.
Americans Are Tired Of The Status Quo.
The Resistance Must Stop Israel!✊️🇵🇸 🇮🇷 🇾🇪 🇮🇶 🇵🇰 🇹🇷 🇪🇬 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 🇪🇸 🇮🇪 🇱🇧
Israel 🇮🇱 Will Be Destroyed. ☠️☠️☠️☠️
This 🇮🇱 And Zionism Will Be Regarded As A Symbol Of Evil In The 21st Century.
I will hold President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance accountable.
The call number to the White House and U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police.
Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to", blaming "illegal immigrants" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable. Let them know that you are tired of going to war at the behest of Israel or Urkaine. You want our American military out of the Middle East and every fucking international conflict in the world. You want legislation to focus on ending gun violence, lowering costs, improving healthcare and building relationships with other nations. Let them know that we are tired of police officers using immunity when committing death of suspects in custody. Let them know that you are tired of private equity firms getting away with destroying small businesses and long established companies. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-Semitic or in support of terrorism.
We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We don't want any more wars on behalf of Israel. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and legislators avoid influence from lobbyists.
If you’re growing up in the 1980s and heard your parents' vinyl records, cassette tapes or even the infamous 8-track, you knew of the soul group Atlantic Starr.
One of its founding members has passed away.
Wayne Lewis, founding member of the platinum-selling R&B group Atlantic Starr, has died. He was 68 years old.
Lewis died on Thursday, June 5, according to a Facebook post from Atlantic Starr on Friday, June 6.
“It’s with great sadness we have to post the passing of Wayne Lewis,“ the post reads. ”Please keep the family in your prayers and respect there privacy.”
A cause of death was not revealed.
Born April 13, 1957, Lewis co-founded Atlantic Starr with his brothers David Lewis and Jonathan Lewis in 1976 in White Plains, New York, according to Billboard.
Other early members of the group were Clifford Archer, Sharon Bryant, Porter Carroll Jr., Joseph Phillips, Damon Rentie and William Sudderth. Bryant and Rentie were later replaced by Barbara Weathers and Koran Daniels, respectively.
Atlantic Starr signed with A&M Records and released its debut, self-titled album in 1978 followed by their sophomore effort, “Straight to the Point,” in 1979.
The group initially scored several hits on the R&B charts — including “Stand Up,” “When Love Calls” and “Send for Me” — before achieving crossover success.
Music that makes babies.
Atlantic Starr’s first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 was 1982’s “Circles,” which peaked at No. 38. The song also reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
The group’s biggest commercial success came in 1987 when “Always” topped the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts. “My First Love” in 1989 was Atlantic Starr’s only other No. 1 on the latter chart.
Ananda Lewis passed away from stage IV breast cancer.
Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, the days of watching MTV and cartoons was a childhood that I miss. Nowadays, you can watch most of this on streaming platforms or certain networks on cable. Even on over the air, you have MeTV Toons which celebrates one year on the air this month.
Ananda Lewis, former MTV VJ and news reporter has passed away at the age of 52.
Lakshmi Emory, whom Lewis once described as a “phenomenal sister” in a birthday message, shared news of her death in a June 11 Facebook post.
“She’s free, and in His heavenly arms,” she wrote next to a black-and-white photo of Lewis. “Lord, rest her soul.”
Emory did not share additional details, including Lewis’ cause of death.
Lewis was an MTV staple in the late ‘90s, hosting “Total Request Live” and video countdown show“Hot Zone.” She also hosted her own talk show “The Ananda Lewis Show” in 2001.
Lewis was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer in 2019, but later revealed that she opted against the double mastectomy doctors recommended at the time.
In a January 2025 op-ed for Essence, Lewis shared that she tried alternative methods to monitor her breast cancer, including cuting out alcohol, sugar, monthly ultrasounds, high-dose vitamin C IVs, hyperbaric chamber sessions and qigong exercise, among others.
One of the memorable MTV hosts of the 1990s.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, she discovered that her tumor had grown and underwent genetically targeted fractionated chemotherapy, which is a treatment that destroys cancer cells without harming healthy ones, according to Cleveland Clinic.
However, a PET scan done in October 2023 confirmed that her cancer had progressed to Stage 4 cancer. This time, she shared that she underwent treatment at an integrative facility.
While Lewis had previously said she regretted refusing to undergo mammograms out of fear of radiation exposure, she urged the importance of women getting informed and learning about prevention.
In her 2025 Essence piece, she wrote, “Going into 2025, I would say to women: Do everything in your power to avoid my story becoming yours. If I had known what I know now 10 years ago, perhaps I wouldn’t have ended up here.”
Adding, “I encourage people to look at the information and studies that exist. Seek them out, learn from them and apply the changes to your life, so that you can continue to thrive and live as long as you can.”
La Fortaleza is the oldest mansion in Puerto Rico. It serves as the mansion of the current governor Jenniffer González-Colón. She is a Republican who favors statehood.
President Donald J. Trump might be willing to do this without any hesitation.
After all he allowed a comedian to call it an island of garbage. And they are no closer to be a part of the United States or having representation that affects allocations of federal funds. He wanted to violently take Greenland and Canada.
He tried the island like shit as they are suffering through a power grid failure.
Oh, remember Trump failed them during Hurricane Maria.
They are pretty much an autonomous incorporated territory.... a commonwealth.
With a population of 3.7 million residents, Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory (if it was a U.S. state) it would carry at least three congressional districts, two senators and a estimated net worth of $8.3 billion in tax revenue.
The Drudge Report has a blaring headline about the island planning on cutting ties with the United States and rejoin the Espana. The island was acquired in 1898 after the Spanish-American War.
Part of the Puerto Rican population is now showing interest in joining the European Union by reuniting with Spain. The "Adelante Reunificacionistas" political movement, born in 2017, is gaining momentum with its audacious plan for Puerto Rico to reintegrate with Spain as its 18th autonomous community.
Rep. Pablo Hernández Rivera (D-PR) is the current resident commissioner of Puerto Rico.
The founders of the movement claim that approximately 13% of Puerto Ricans support this idea, viewing it as a pathway to a more prosperous future.
"Puerto Rico never wanted to separate from Spain," the organization's president Jose Lara said.
Lara argues that since becoming a U.S. territory, Puerto Rico has experienced over a century "of subjugation" and stagnation under American governance that hasn't granted them complete citizenship rights.
Even though they are U.S. citizens, Puerto Ricans can't vote in presidential general elections and lack voting representation in Congress.
"We want Puerto Rico to regain the status it lost when it joined the United States," Lara said.
He said emphasizing Spanish as the primary language and preserving Hispanic cultural traditions are key in persuading locals about the benefits of reintegrating with Spain.
"We want a future of progress, and we believe that future lies in Spain," he said.
It is possibility for Puerto Rico to separate itself from the United States. The push for statehood remains strong but waning. To continue as an incorporated territory only means 3/5 of a human.
Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands have no equal representation or voting rights for president.
Republicans strongly oppose granting presidential voting rights to the territories.
Democrats have struggled to pass the John Lewis Voting Act. They couldn't do it with Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema and John Fetterman blocking the majority from passing meaningful legislation.
The filibuster could be removed if Republicans are angered by Democratic opposition to the Big Beautiful Bill and Trump’s controversial nominees.
Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens. They have to register in the United States and be a resident of the state to vote for president.
