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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called on Wednesday for older Americans to pass the political torch to a new generation, saying that it’s up to a new cohort of leaders to change the country’s “toxic political climate.” “As a 70-year-old person, I’m part of the problem,” Bush said at a luncheon at Miami’s Jungle Island hosted by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. “It’s time for my generation to get off the stage politically.” Bush, who served eight years as Florida governor before launching an ill-fated bid for the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential nomination, did not point fingers at any...

Singer Maren Morris leaving country music, blames the ‘Trump years’ Singer Maren Morris announced she is leaving Country music due to the effects the “Trump years” have had on the music genre. “After the Trump years, people’s biases were on full display,” the “Bones” singer said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times published Friday. “It just revealed who people really were and that they were proud to be misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic.” The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter added that she resents music being used as a “toxic weapon in culture wars.”

President Job Biden’s story about the success of Bidenomics just keeps shrinking. The Labor Department has consistently overestimated payroll growth predictions under the 46th president and has been forced to revise the data downward to reflect slower economic growth throughout 2023. In addition, the Commerce Department significantly revised economic growth downward, dropping last quarter’s Gross Domestic Product by three-tenths of a point from 2.4% to 2.1%. Experts say the administration’s overly positive economic predictions — especially on jobs — are masking the growing discomfort that every day Americans feel from inflation and rising interest rates. “The labor force participation rate...

In what is being called the “world’s worst traffic jam,” some 200 cargo ships are waiting to pass at the Panama Canal as, thanks to global climate change, the area experiences its worst drought in 100 years. As Futurism reports, the huge backlog has been growing for some time and might not get any better for a few weeks yet. The human-made passageway is famous not only as one of the world’s most impressive feats of engineering but as one of the most important trade routes on Earth. "..the flow of ships at the Panama Canal started at about 1,000...

I think that everytime NPR makes a ridiculous claim, I'm going to rant about it. Today they did a spot about the huge amount of snow pack and the good news for the Colorado river. But they ended the story saying that it would take a decade of winters like this last one to replenish what drought has taken. They never site sources. Yesterday NPR said that "the number one cause of death for children was firearms". And again no sources for their claims.

Ana Navarro, a CNN analyst and co-host of ABC’s “The View” criticized President Biden over what she called an insufficient effort to reach Hispanic voters. “I’ll tell you something, the Biden administration sucks at tooting their own horn. I told them this to their own face,” Navarro said during a discussion on “CNN Tonight.” “Look, they’ve done things like issue temporary protective status for Venezuelans, which is a very big deal for the Hispanic community. But they don’t toot their own horn.” Former president Trump, by comparison, Navarro argued, “did very little things,” for the Hispanic community, but did a...

I did not catch the organization that produced this crap but Fox chose to air it today. F Fox.

With six weeks to go until November’s elections, a new public opinion poll in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania indicates that Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is ahead of GOP nominee Mehmet Oz in the race for Senate, with Democratic state Attorney General Josh Shapiro leading Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano by double digits in the gubernatorial showdown. . . . .

This pic illustrates the irony that is gavin newsome's California. Maybe if Elon Musk threw in a trailer/generator/1000 gallons of gas for every Tesla purchase in California?

Three World Champion USA Athletes wearing the USA flag following a record setting 200M sprint. 19.32 seconds. 23.3 mph average! Thats bookin!

I almost feel dirty posting this. 'Almost' being the operative word. This list was 'allegedly' leaked by some 'allegedly' 4chan merry pranksters of a list of 'allegedly' named recipients of large sums of money 'allegedly' paid by Hunter Biden. The 'alleged' list was found on the 'alleged' Laptop that is paired to Hunter Bidens 'alleged' Iphone.

Liberal Democrats known as progressives have never commanded a political majority. Not even close, really. That’s why progressive candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren bombed in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, while the more centrist (at the time) Joe Biden won the Democratic nomination, then the presidency. The high point for progressives may have been the Green New Deal, which the newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York spearheaded in 2019 after her come-from-nowhere upset of a party stalwart. Democrats re-took control of the House that year, and the Green New Deal was a vision for sweeping,...

A set of lengthy silver and gold tubes dug up from a famous grave in the the Caucuses have been found to represent the oldest surviving drinking straws, with the scientists behind the discovery believing they were used for communal beer consumption. The specimens are 5,000 years old and help deepen our understanding of drinking culture in ancient hierarchical societies. The set of eight tubes was unearthed back in 1987 in the Maikop Kurgan burial mound, a famous grave for Bronze Age elites in the Northern Caucasus. Researchers had since concluded the meter-plus-long tubes to be poles for a canopy,...

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Some historical photos can't be explained. The more we look at them, the more disturbing and unexplainable they become. There's something so eerie about these beautiful photos, and it only takes a closer look to unveil the truth. You won't find these rare historical photos in books or museums. Our ancestors had done an excellent job at hiding the hard-to-swallow past from us. We've collected a rare collection of the most chilling historical photos ever that will send shivers down your spine. Please beware that some of the images in this gallery are for mature audiences only. Are you ready...

Wheres sleepy Joe?

United States women's national team forward Megan Rapinoe said the semifinal defeat to Canada in the Olympic Games on Monday is a "bitter one to swallow." The USWNT fell 1-0 through Jessie Fleming's second-half penalty and will miss out on the chance to win a gold medal. - Women's Olympics soccer bracket and fixtures "It's terrible. We just didn't have it today," Rapinoe said after the match. "Just too many errors from us again. I felt like the space was there for us to play and we just couldn't get into it, too many touches or, you know, an errant...

The massive federal coronavirus bailout will help fuel an unprecedented 40.8 billion dollars of spending by Pennsylvania's state government in the new budget year... The Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York writing the British Ambassador to the US this week regarding the case of Alta Fixler (Fixsler)... Four portions of Australia's largest city where some 450-thousand people live going into COVID lockdown... At Noon today local time (5 AM Eastern US Time) the indoor mask order in effect for Israel again... In Germany today a knife attack in the southern city of Wurzburg. Three dead, five seriously wounded......

The United States ranks last in media trust — at 29% — among 92,000 news consumers surveyed in 46 countries, a report released Wednesday found. That’s worse than Poland, worse than the Philippines, worse than Peru. (Finland leads at 65%.)The annual digital news report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford also found some improvement in trust in nearly all the countries surveyed — probably thanks to COVID-19 coverage — but not in the U.S. where the low rating was flat year to year.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy warned his members to stop the public bickering within the conference if they want to effectively push back on the Biden administration and win back the majority in 2022, a congressional aide tells CBS News. His blunt message to his colleagues on Wednesday's phone call: "Cut this crap out."