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San Francisco Gate reports employees are searching for someone who appears to have illegally driven a car through the delicate bristlecone pines ecosystem of the Inyo National Forest.“Adam Leidy, Inyo National Forest’s off-highway vehicle and over-snow vehicle program manager, posted two videos to his Facebook account in late May — one flagging tire marks on the wrong side of

President Donald Trump genuinely appears in no hurry to end his self-created Iran war disaster, which is tearing down Republicans’ chances in the November midterms. And Zeteo reporter Harrison Mann believes that might be because the president is truly clueless about the pain he’s putting on grumbling voters.It’s hard for many Americans not to feel the increased pain at the pump and the ag

Guardian writer Chris Stein says do not expect the lock-step Republican Party to find it’s spine and wholly disown it’s MAGA king in time for the November midterms — but you can expect a smattering of GOP adherents to break away as a matter of political survival.“The wrath of Donald Trump has kept congressional Republicans in line for much of his second term thus far,” said Stein. “But as the November midterm elections draw closer, the president’s allies in the Senate and

Let’s start with some questions today, before we arrive at the answer.What if Kamala Harris had become president, promptly leveled the historic East Wing of our White House, and then spent each day like a petrified drama queen shrieking that taxpayers should purchase her a new ballroom?What if Harris had spent her time in office plastering her face and name on inanimate objects, while food prices she promised to lower spiraled out of control, and then belittled the people who dared mention this?I’m not done.What if Harris and her administration had spent their time attacking science and vaccines and then did nothing as Measles — MEASLES — made a deadly comeback across America? What if Harris had become president and picked silly and insulting fights with our NATO partne

For years President Donald Trump has joyfully plundered former president Joe Biden’s perceived lack of energy and measured, sluggish delivery for insults. But during one of his Oval Office afternoon televised announcements the Trump showed some semblance of mercy.Irish Times correspondent Keith Duggan says it’s almost like the famously snoozy Trump was feeling a rare bout of empathy.A reporter specifically asked Trump if he had noticed a cognitive decline in his predecessor when they met at the White House following Trump 2024 November victory, and Trump — in his typically

Bulwark founder Sarah Longwell hosts frequent surveys with Trump supporters. And her latest foray reveals Trump’s fans have had it with the president’s failure to deliver on promises, however, and they may sit home in a huff as Republicans tumble in November.“My brain is literally spinning with so much,” reports one Trump voting woman. “I think that he sold us a bag of — I'm not going to curse, but I do not like the way things are going, even with ICE. And border control for me was a very big thing. That was one of my biggest concerns with this election was cleaning up the countr

This year at least five red states are trying to erase Pride month, renaming June to celebrate the heterosexual family—as if it’s not celebrated every day in American life.The homophobic MAGA GOP Congressman Andy Ogles of Tennessee—one of the aforementioned red states—this week posted on X that “homosexuality has no place in America,” wishing his followers a “Happy Nuclear Family Month.” A

Class has always mattered, and now social democratic parties that sprung from a working class — including the Australian Labor Party – are finding out why.Over many years, and in many countries, a growing view among political actors and within political science was that class was losing its punch. The line was something like this. The working class once voted for labour parties. The middle class voted conservative. But over many years) that difference between how the classes voted got smaller and smaller. In some places it disappeared. The “

Up until the last minute, Democrats in ultra blue California were on the ropes in the governor’s race and local elections, with boisterous Trump-style candidates making huge strides with populist arguments.But then the long, dark shadow of President Donald Trump fell over angsty voters, and weekend news reports reveal something changed. The New York Time reports this has plenty to do with the violent thrashing of a fading MA

A federal whistleblower has revealed plans by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency to falsely list millions of people in the Social Security database as dead in a scheme to pressure them to leave the US.In an interview published Friday by The Washington Post, former Social Security Administration (SSA) executive Jeremiah Schofield outlined a DOGE-concocted scheme that would have potentially cut people off from wages, banking, and government benefits by falsely listing them as dead.Schofield said a DOGE employee told hi