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  • Trump suggests when he might make VP pick as these four contenders reportedly emerge

    05/03/2024 7:09:53 AM PDT · by rod5591 · 24 replies
    NY Post ^ | May 2, 2024 | Diana Glebova
    Former President Donald Trump has laid out the most concrete timeline yet for when he might select his running mate for the 2024 Republican ticket. “I’ll be picking, but probably not too much before the convention, which I happen to be having in the great state of Wisconsin,” the presumptive GOP nominee told FOX 6 Milwaukee during a campaign visit to the battleground state Wednesday. The Republican National Convention will be held in Milwaukee July 15-18. Traditionally, the vice presidential nominee will address the delegates on the penultimate night of the gathering. A source familiar with the conversation previously told...
  • Legislators Pass Election Bill That Would Favor Democrats in November

    05/03/2024 7:03:43 AM PDT · by PBRCat · 5 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | May 3, 2024 | Rick Pearson
    But the election bill given final approval by Senate Democrats Thursday on a 35-3 vote, with 18 Republicans voting “present” in protest, would further help Democrats maintain control in the next General Assembly. Under the measure, local political party organizations could no longer appoint candidates to fill out legislative ballots where the party did not field a primary candidate. Current law allows the appointment process within 75 days of the primary.
  • Alabama governor signs bill enshrining Biden on November ballot

    05/03/2024 5:59:22 AM PDT · by Redmen4ever · 19 replies
    The Hill ^ | 5/2/2024 | Lauren Irwin
    The legislature unanimously passed, and the Governor signed a bill allowing a "one-time" fix of the deadline for parties to certify their nominees, allowing the Democrats to do so following their otherwise late national convention.
  • "When the Biden administration told the American people that the vacc*nated couldn't get the virus, was it MISINFORMATION or DISINFORMATION?"

    05/03/2024 5:53:53 AM PDT · by george76 · 22 replies
    X twitter ^ | May 2, 2024 | Kyle Becker - Jim Jordan
    "When the Biden administration told the American people that the vacc*nated couldn't get the virus, was it MISINFORMATION or DISINFORMATION?" NO ANSWER. "When the Biden administration told the American people that the virus didn't come from a lab was that MISINFORMATION or DISINFORMATION?" NO ANSWER. "When the Biden administration said that *MASKS WORK* was that MISINFORMATION or DISINFORMATION?" NO ANSWER. These were the "EXPERTS" who silenced millions of Americans during the Cov*d pandemic. But it turns out the "EXPERTS" were the biggest peddlers of misinformation and disinformation . This was FRAUD on a massive scale and people MUST be held...
  • How Hamas Bought Joe Biden-Bloodstained currency, smuggled gold bars and a $200,000 check

    05/03/2024 5:29:38 AM PDT · by SJackson · 8 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | May 3, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield
    On March 1, 2018, Joe Biden got a $200,000 check. The story of where that check came from involves everything from “bloodstained currency” to smuggled gold bars to ‘The Exorcist’.But above all else it involves an enemy Muslim tyranny with ties to 9/11 and Hamas.When I first broke the story a week before Election Day, it was about how hospital patients in smaller poorer hospitals, including one that had inspired ‘The Exorcist’, had suffered because of the corrupt greed of the Biden family. But even then there was a strange element which led to one of the key figures in...
  • Wait Until You See How Many Venezuelans Were Arrested in Chicago This Year

    05/03/2024 4:39:48 AM PDT · by george76 · 8 replies
    PJ Media ^ | MAY 02, 2024 | KEVIN DOWNEY JR.
    The last thing the communist stronghold city of Chicago needs is yet another crime wave, but thanks to Democrats, globalists, and most importantly, the voters, the Windy City has a brand new problem. ... As of this writing, 755 people have been shot in Chicago this year, and 161 have been murdered. In just the first quarter of 2024, Chicago cops have arrested over 1,000 Venezuelans for a wide array of crimes.. One would think the newcomers replacements flowing into Chicago from Venezuela would be grateful for the free housing, free food, free healthcare, and pocket cash they receive, all...
  • Rep. Matt Gaetz posts video of former prosecutor who investigated Trump pleading the fifth under questioning

    05/02/2024 8:54:46 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Just The News ^ | 05/02/2024 | Nicholas Ballasy
    Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., posted a video on Thursday of a former prosecutor who investigated former President Trump pleading the fifth under questioning about his actions.The video was recorded during a closed session of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government in May 2023, according to a congressional source.Mark Pomerantz, former special assistant to the New York County District Attorney, can be seen in the video declining to answer several questions, such as, "Did you knowingly break any laws when investigating President Trump?" and "Did you misuse any federal funds when investigating President Trump?"His counsel appeared to...
  • Elon Musk: "X will leave San Francisco if Aaron Peskin is elected as mayor"

    05/02/2024 11:51:14 PM PDT · by RandFan · 55 replies
    X ^ | May 2 | Elon Musk
    "𝕏 will leave San Francisco if Aaron Peskin is elected as mayor." 一 Elon Musk
  • 'Aggression against Palestine': Turkey suspends export and import operations with Israel

    05/02/2024 10:24:33 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 38 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 3/5/24
    Turkey on Thursday suspended all export and import operations with Israel due to what it described as its "aggression against Palestine in violation of international law and human rights," the Turkish Trade Ministry announced, according to the Anadolu news agency. "Since the first day, our country has rushed to the aid of the people of Gaza, delivered tens of thousands of tons of humanitarian aid to the region by ships and planes, especially food, health and medical aid materials, evacuated thousands of patients and stood by our Palestinian brothers and sisters in these difficult days," the ministry said. "However, the...
  • Biden Administration Has Cemented $1 Trillion Worth Of Rules And Regulations In 2024, Analysis Finds

    05/02/2024 10:22:52 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 24 replies
    The Biden administration has saddled the U.S. economy with more than $1 trillion worth of final rules and regulations thus far in 2024, according to analysis conducted by the American Action Forum (AAF).The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final emissions regulations for light- and medium-duty vehicles, which some have characterized as an electric vehicle (EV) mandate, pushed the costs of the Biden administration’s regulatory agenda over the $1 trillion threshold for 2024, alone, according to AAF’s analysis. Across all agencies and regulatory actions last week, the federal government published regulations imposing $103 billion worth of total costs and 11.6 million annual...
  • Hundreds of UCLA Students Convert to Islam, Pray to Allah

    05/02/2024 8:31:48 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 96 replies
    Townhall ^ | 05/02/2024 | Sarah Arnold
    Hundreds of University of California of Los Angeles (UCLA) students converted to Islam and participated in a massive group prayer to Allah on Wednesday night. Just before police officers moved in and dismantled defiant pro-terrorism protest encampments at UCLA, students said Muslim prayers as the sun set over the campus. The pro-terrorism students chanted "Allahu akbar" during the prayer and chanted "Allah is the greatest" of all gods. This is not a university in some Islamic country.This prayer was held at UCLA in California.Perhaps some think this is a harmless prayer, something that we can understand as freedom of religion.And...
  • Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Just Destroyed Alvin Bragg’s Case Against Trump

    05/02/2024 8:13:59 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 32 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 05/02/2024 | Matt Margolis
    Former President Donald Trump was back in New York City Thursday for his criminal trial, and it's been a pretty good day for him. During Thursday's proceedings, Keith Davidson, the lawyer representing adult film actress Stormy Daniels, gave revealing testimony that completely undermines Bragg's charges against Trump. For starters, Davidson argued that the $130,000 payment to Daniels should not be construed as "hush money" but rather as a legitimate "consideration" payment. Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Johsua Steinglass pressed Davidson on the witness stand about Daniels’ statement in January 2018, which Davidson prepared for his client, that denied any relationship with...
  • New York City’s mayor and police commissioner just revealed that out of those arrested at Columbia and City College, nearly half of them were outside actors NOT affiliated with either school.

    05/02/2024 9:06:33 PM PDT · by george76 · 42 replies
    X twitter ^ | May 2, 2024
    NYC Mayor and NYPD PC have released new information showing that approximately 48% of individuals arrested on Tuesday evening at Columbia and City College NY protests were unaffiliated with the schools.
  • Refrigerator chemical ban may chill N.Y. economy, stakeholders say

    05/02/2024 4:37:07 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 44 replies
    timesunion.com ^ | May 2, 2024 | Raga Justin
    Business groups are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration to delay regulations that would significantly restrict widely used coolant chemicals — a priority under the state’s sweeping climate law — that they say could wreak financial havoc on stakeholders ranging from grocery stores to hospitals. The mandates have stoked concerns from trade groups ranging from the Business Council to the New York Farm Bureau. A broad coalition of business interests sent a letter to Hochul and the state Department of Environmental Conservation on Wednesday arguing that the state’s timeline is not feasible. DEC’s proposed phaseout of chemical compounds known as “hydrofluorocarbons,”...
  • Race to the White House: Trump Is Trouncing Biden by 15-Points in This Key State That Went Blue in 2020 (Michigan)

    05/02/2024 9:00:13 PM PDT · by bitt · 15 replies
    https://redstate.com ^ | 5/2/2024 | By Brittany Sheehan
    Six months ahead of the November election, former President Donald Trump is leading Democrat incumbent Joe Biden by a whopping 15 points in Michigan, a key swing state. According to a Kaplan Strategies survey, the former president polled 51 percent to 36 percent in the battleground state. The margin of error for the survey was plus/minus 3.5 percentage points. The pollster reports Trump's success is rooted in maintaining the stability of his favorability ratio, writing: Key to Trump’s dominance in our poll has been his campaign’s ability to stabilize his favorable to unfavorable ratio to a degree better than Joe...
  • Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID

    05/02/2024 8:56:47 PM PDT · by RandFan · 22 replies
    BBC ^ | May 2 | BBC
    Former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson was turned away from his local polling station after forgetting to bring acceptable photo ID. As first reported by Sky News, he returned later with the necessary ID and was able to vote. He cast his ballot in South Oxfordshire, where voters are choosing a police and crime commissioner. New rules requiring photo ID to vote were introduced by Mr Johnson's government in the Elections Act 2022. The change was rolled out last year, with local elections in May 2023 the first time voters needed to show ID. According to the Electoral Commission, about...
  • The Left’s Phony ‘Fake Electors’ Crusade Ramps Up As 2024 Election Draws Closer

    05/02/2024 8:10:00 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 2 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 05/02/2024 | M.D. Kittle
    The litigious left has run into some problems trying to sell its legally flawed narrative that alternate electors for Trump tried to overthrow the 2020 election. Perhaps not surprisingly, swing state leftist prosecutors are ramping up the phony “fake electors” show trials, with Biden v. Trump 2.0 little more than six months away. And the Trump-hating accomplice media will be aiding and abetting this specialized brand of lawfare every step of the way. But the litigious left has run into some problems trying to sell its legally flawed narrative that former President Donald Trump, along with his campaign attorneys...
  • Investigation: Biden Executive Order Focuses on Registering Convicts to Vote

    05/02/2024 8:09:36 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 2 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 2 May 2024 | JOHN BINDER
    An executive order signed by President Joe Biden has focused on registering convicts to vote and exclusively involved left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs), an investigation from the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project revealed.In March 2021, Biden signed an executive order titled “Promoting Access to Voting,” which he billed as a “nonpartisan” government-wide effort to “expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.”Two months after the order was signed, the Biden administration held a “Listening Session” with several NGOs — all of which identified with the Democrat party or left-wing policy initiatives, according...
  • Republicans Seek to Prevent Joe Biden from Importing Palestinians to the U.S.

    05/02/2024 7:05:48 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 22 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 2 May 2024 | JOHN BINDER
    Reps. Andy Ogles (R-TN), Tom Tiffany (R-WI), and Scott Perry (R-PA), as well as dozens of Senate Republicans, are moving to prevent President Joe Biden from resettling Palestinians in American communities.In a letter to House Appropriators, Ogles, Tiffany, and Perry ask that a provision be included in the Fiscal Year 2025 spending bill that prohibits expenditures “of any funds to issue a visa or grant parole to any alien holding a passport issued by the Palestinian Authority.”The House Republicans write:Whatever fanciful leftist notion to the contrary, the United States of America cannot be expected to absorb the rest of the...
  • Trump Changes Track, Signaling He May Not Testify at Trial

    05/02/2024 4:38:31 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 38 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | 5/2/2024 Updated: 5/2/2024 | Catherine Yang
    Former President Donald Trump gave a substantially different answer when asked on May 2 whether he would testify in his own defense at trial. “Well I’m not allowed to testify, I’m under a gag order,” he told reporters before leaving court on Thursday afternoon. On several previous occasions, President Trump’s response was an emphatic “yes” when asked the same question. This change came the same day New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan held a second hearing over whether President Trump violated his gag order. “We’re going to be appealing the gag order. I'd love to answer that question, it’s...