After Another Ugly Antisemitic Incident in LA, the Left Has Few Words, No Answers

A violent antisemitic mob descended upon a Los Angeles synagogue on Sunday and harassed the congregants, injuring several. Yet the response from the LA media and authorities has been pitiful. The initial protests were organized by Palestinian Youth Movement LA and Code Pink LA, the same coalition of people who’ve organized the protests on college campuses and in our cities. Some of the protesters filmed their march down the streets of Los Angeles holding Palestinian and pro-Hamas flags. They screamed chants like, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution.” This…

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Trump Says the Quiet Part Out Loud, Trumpets Kennedy, Stein, West as Spoiler Candidates for Biden Reelect

Donald Trump: “Cornel West—he’s one of my favorite candidates. I like her also—Jill Stein. You know why? She takes 100% from them. He takes 100%. Kennedy—probably 50-50.” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, MoveOn Political Action called out Donald Trump for saying the quiet part out loud: Third-party spoilers will deliver the White House to Trump. During the Trump campaign’s Saturday night rally in Philadelphia, Trump acknowledged that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jill Stein, and Cornel West would all take votes away from President Biden —emphasizing that that’s why they are his…

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Proposed 2% federal pay raise gets support in 2025 defense authorization bill

With both Senate and House lawmakers advancing legislation that aligns with President Joe Biden’s 2% federal pay raise request, civilian federal employees appear to be a step closer to a smaller pay bump for 2025. The Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the fiscal 2025 National Defense Authorization Act last week showed support for a 2% raise for DoD civilian workers and a 4.5% raise for military members. In a vote of 22-3 on June 13, committee lawmakers advanced the 2025 NDAA to the full Senate for consideration. The House…

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Trump Dreams of a Swifter Death Penalty

Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. During a recent campaign event in Phoenix, Arizona, Donald Trump mused about capital punishment. “We’ve never had [such] massive amounts of drugs pouring into our country,” he said. “And by the way, you’ll never solve the problem without the death penalty.” Trump also said he had made a deal with Xi Jinping prior to the end of his term that would have seen China executing anyone found to be manufacturing fentanyl for sale in America, though the only…

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Sen. Schmitt Demands Answers From State Department-Funded Censorship Org

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., demanded Thursday that the Global Disinformation Index provide specifics on its efforts to blacklist conservative news sites, in a letter exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. GDI, a nonprofit based in the United Kingdom, compiles lists of sites—such as conservative media outlets—that it deems as spreading “disinformation” and shares these lists with advertising firms to demonetize the outlets, the Washington Examiner first reported. Despite describing itself as “nonpolitical,” the Global Disinformation Index consistently assigns higher ratings of disinformation risk to conservative media while rating liberal…

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