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A candidate for Republican House speaker in Alabama is facing ouster after his “profane tirade” about the Republican Party got leaked to the press.AL.com reports Stan Cooke, a candidate for chairmanship of the Alabama Republican Party, announced on Facebook that he would move to expel House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter from the party if he wins the chairmanship because of a comment Ledbetter let fly during a closed GOP House caucus meeting.The shadow of an unpopular National Republican Party brand may be crashing aga

New Republic columnist Greg Sargent says a grand jury may have laughed President Donald Trump’s prosecutors out of court, but the details of the prosecutions suggest horrific abuses of power that carry no humor whatsoever.“Donald Trump’s efforts to jail his Democratic enemies have thus far mostly been marked by ham-fisted, buffoonish failure,” said Sargent, speaking on the politicized DOJ’s war on Sen. Adam Schiff, (D-Calif.), former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and six Democratic lawmakers who produced a video that made Trump angry,

A jovial President Donald Trump hosted a Black History Month celebration on Wednesday, ad-libbing many remarks that drew online criticism.'He's Not a Racist. He's My Friend'"Talk about a piece of work, but he could fight, couldn't he, huh?" Trump said. "Mike Tyson, boy, I tell you, Mike has been loyal to me. Whenever they come out, they say, 'Trump's a

Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum and conservative commentator Mona Charen bemoaned the killing blow to conservatism dealt by President Donald Trump.“With the rise of Trump, I saw the destruction of pretty much everything [conservative,” Charen told Frum in an interview for the Atlantic. “ … [H]e was also the antithesis of what I regarded as conservative virtues. So for example, he encouraged people

Gizmodo reported on Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump’s Wednesday Mar-a-Lago conference pushing their family crypto company, World Liberty Financial. “In many ways, it’s a victory lap for the Trump family, a recognition that there is no mechanism available to stop the unprecedented corruption that’s being done out in the open, as foreign governments and U.S.-based executives jostle to please the Trump regime and profit from their proximity to political power,” reports Gizmodo.“We were the most canceled people in the world in 2020, 2021,” Eri

PsyPost reports a new study is revealing that average-intelligence men have a more conservative mentality, while gifted men and women tend to be more varied.The study, “Exploring exceptional minds: Political orientations of gifted adults,” authored by Maximilian Krolo, Jörn R. Sparfeldt, and Detlef H. Rost, sought to discover if distinct political patterns emerge when comparing gifted adults to a control group of average intelligence.The exhaustive multi-decade study began by administering more th

In recent months, President Donald Trump's administration has tried to bypass parts of the law to nab those it believes are in the United States illegally. In some cases, they have used "administrative warrants," which are not the same as judicial warrants, which require a judge's sign-off. However, in one recent case, they didn't even try that. That strategy is coming back to bite them as a Trump-appointed federal judge in Indiana demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement immediately release a Brazilian man he said was "unlawfully detained in violation of the laws or Constitution of the United States."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared stunned when a reporter asked her for examples of President Donald Trump falsely being called a racist.The president this week used his statement on the death of Reverend Jesse Jackson to argue that he is not a racist.“Despite the fact that I am falsely and consistently called a Racist by the Scoundrels and Lunatics on the Radical Left, Democrats ALL, it was always my pleasure to help Jesse along the way,” he wrote.On Wednesday, a reporter asked, "Whe

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in a more conservative direction.Led by Germain Gauthier from Bocconi University in Italy, it is a rare, real-world randomised experimental study on a major social media platform. And it builds on a growing body of research that shows how these platforms can shape people’s political attitudes.Two different algorithmsThe resea

Rep. Ro Khanna on Wednesday demanded action from both the Trump administration and US Congress after the United Nations Human Rights Council said it found evidence of a potential “global criminal enterprise” in the US government’s files related to the investigation of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.In a video posted on social media, Khanna (D-Calif.) issued a series of demands in the wake of the UN council’s Tuesday declaration that the actions of Epstein and his associates “may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity.”First, Khanna said that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ)