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Over the course of the past decade, a number of far-right figures have competed for the favor of President Donald Trump, among whom few have remained as loyal as conservative political operative Roger Stone and MAGA provocateur Laura Loomer. Stone played a key role in advising Trump’s first campaign, while Loomer — after rising to prominence as a conspiracy theorist and alt-right rabble-rouser — became loosely affiliated with his second.But now, after 15 years of friendship, Stone and Loomer have erupted in a highly public feud, with the two trading blows online and pulling no punches. T

President Donald Trump, not Iran, is the one who was “begging” for a ceasefire, and had been for weeks before he announced a “double sided” end to hostilities late Tuesday evening, according to The New Republic, citing a report in the Financial Times.That report reveals that “the Trump administration had been privately pushing for a ceasefire for weeks to alleviate the economic strain caused by Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, and depen

The Wall Street Journal reports the Trump administration is threatening payback to NATO members who refused to join in the president’s unannounced war with Iran — which drove up global fuel prices.“The proposal would involve moving U.S. troops out of North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries deemed unhelpful to the Iran war effort and station them in countries that were more supportive of the U.S. military campaign,” said anonymous officials with knowledge. “The proposal would fall far short of President Trump’s recent threats to fully withdra

Pope Leo XIV chronicler Christopher Hale says he has confirmed that Trump’s Pentagon threatened to declare war on the Vatican.“In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre — Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States — and delivered a lecture,” said Hale.“America has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world,” Colby and his associates informed the cardinal. “The Catholic Church had better take its side.”As the room temperature grew, Hale said he confirmed that one U.S. official “reached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the Avignon

On Wednesday, the big talk of the day was about the tenuous ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, and whether or not the war wrought consequences that are beneficial or harmful to the U.S. and wider world. According to the American Conservative Managing Editor Jude Russo, however, nobody should be “fooled” by those who praise the outcome of President Donald Trump’s “stupid war.”While both the Trump Administration and Iranian government were quick to claim victory, they did so citing a 10 point plan that Trump called a “workable basis” for a peace d

President Donald Trump “cannot be trusted,” warned an adviser to a different Republican president — and he left America weaker after retreating from his war against Iran.“Donald Trump started a war with no plan to win, no strategy to leave,” declared former President George W. Bush adviser Steve Schmidt in a Substack post on Wednesday. “Without the support of the American people, he threatened nuclear war and then backed down. And there wasn't one single Republican in the entire Congress who said a word about

Photogenic British leading man Theo James says raising a son amid the rise of the toxic manosphere is “terrifying.”The Daily Mail reports the 40-yer-old is a dad to a four-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son, and the last thing he wants is for his children—or anybody’s—to be ‘lured’ in by bogus ideas of noxious masculinity.“'It's a lot about deep seated insecurity, ultimately,” said James, speaking on

President Donald Trump’s ceasefire with Iran exposed him as “weak and unstable” to the entire world, according to a prominent editor.“Whatever inspired President Donald Trump to not unleash an even more severe bombing campaign against Iran on Tuesday night — and possibly commit scores of war crimes by obliterating civilian infrastructure in the process — a two-week ceasefire is a positive, if short-term, development,” wrote MS NOW senior editor Anthony L. Fisher on Wednesday. “But this should not be celebrated as some kind of victory for America or for the Iranian people, who remain under the yoke of a sadistic theocra

According to a new poll, not only do a majority of Americans support the impeachment of President Donald Trump, but one in seven Republicans want him removed. "This is an unprecedented result this early in a presidential term,” said pollster John Bonifaz. The only other two-term president to receive majority support for impeachment was Richard Nixon, who managed to keep voters from turning against him until late into his second term, well after the Watergate scandal broke. While Democratic opposition to Trump is nothing new, the rising desire for impeachment a

On Tuesday night, April 7, Republicans suffered a major humiliation when Judge Chris Taylor (a former Democratic state legislator) defeated Judge Maria S. Lazar by roughly 20 percent in a Wisconsin Supreme Court election. The race was technically nonpartisan, but it became largely a referendum on Donald Trump's second presidency. And while Taylor was backed by Democrats, Lazar was supported by Republicans.With Taylor's victory, liberals will have a 5-2 majority on the seven-seat Wisconsin Supreme Court. In an