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Gun ownership is an American right, but critics say they shouldn’t be brandished before the surprised expressions of small children.In a weird turn of events, the wife of Republican Alabama commissioner was arrested after she reportedly pulled a gun on another woman at a recent children’s softball tournament in Florida.AL.Com reports April Dawn Wilks, the wife Geneva County

Federal workers for the U.S. Department of the Interior are being directed to wear pins promoting the president’s public-private partnership created to celebrate America’s 250th birthday — instead of the congressionally mandated group that was created to organize the events.According to Mother Jones, National Park Service employees have been ordered to wear the pins, under threat of “professional reprimands.”“When I asked if I would receive any disciplinary action if I chose not to wear the pin, I was told, ‘Yes,’” one person told Mother Jones.

Garry Kasparov, a Russian chess grandmaster regarded by some as the world’s greatest chess player, issued a warning on Thursday that he can foresee President Donald Trump’s next moves — and they pose a grave threat to American democracy.“I wish we could play chess, but unfortunately the games we are discussing now, they are not played by the rules,” Kasparov, who chairs the Renew Democracy Initiative (RDI), told independent journalist Ben Cohen,

Mediaite reports ESPN commenter and ardent President Donald Trump supporter Stephen A. Smith got hot today after a caller put him on blast for his misplaced devotion.Smith remains defensive of Trump, despite the president hazing him and calling him stupid whenever the announcer publicly disagrees with him. Last week, Trump berated Smith on Truth Social last week, calling Smith “an arrogant fool, a low IQ individual,” “�

President Donald Trump has so far not improved Americans’ economic quality of life nor prevailed in his war against Iran — and a former Republican says he cannot stop laughing at the 39 percent of America that still supports him.“There is a particular pleasure, once rare and rich, now increasingly common, in watching people who spent a decade telling you that Donald Trump’s 47-dimensional string theory quantum chess game in politics and diplomacy was wildly beyond the understanding of the libtard c--- mainstream media shills,”

A new poll from the Pew Research Center found that not only do more Republican Catholics side with President Donald Trump over the Pope, but their numbers are growing.In the poll released Thursday, it was revealed that 39 percent of Catholics who identify as or lean Republican think Pope Leo XIV has been “too critical of the Trump administration,” while just 32 percent think President Donald Trump has been “too critical of Leo.” 28 percent agreed both that “Leo has been too critical of Trump but Trump

An upcoming book reveals that two of the wealthiest men in the world, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, literally groveled to President Donald Trump after he returned to power — and the Republican openly mocked them once their heads were turned.Chronicled in their book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” The New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reported that Zuckerberg and Bezos flattered Trump incessantly after he won the 2024 election, according to a Thursday story in WIRED. On

President Donald Trump’s former communications director has a surprising prediction — namely, that the Republican’s abuses of power will actually help Democrats if they can take advantage of them.“Trump’s grift will be caught,” Anthony Scaramucci said in an X post on Thursday. “It always gets caught. The insider trading, the crypto grift, the international bribes, the ballroom donors getting contracts, the pardons going for five to ten million dollars a piece, there will be a reckoning for all of it.”Yet despite this “disgusting” conduct, Scaramucci argued that a Democratic president who is “reform-based�

Last week, a federal judge ruled against President Donald Trump's administration, which has tried to remove historic content featured at national parks. Trump's administration then demanded that her order be stayed, but on Thursday that too was denied. Judge Angel Kelley of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued an order that points out in great detail how poorly constructed the demand for a stay was written from the administration. She ordered the administration to restore all historic materials that were either altered or previously removed. Much of that included references

After an angry outcry on both the left and the right, the Trump administration's $1.7 billion "anti-weaponization fund" was reportedly discontinued. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche claimed that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was "not moving forward with the fund, period. But according to Zeteo reporters Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez, MAGA Republicans are quietly finding