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“WATCH: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink now says he’s “ashamed” of ESG, admits @RonDeSantis “hurt” his firm by pulling $2 billion in assets.
This is a win … but DeSantis is just getting started. ”

https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1673695148193067010

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In Greece, while the ruling center-right New Democracy Party won a landslide victory, with 40.5% of the vote, its triumph was overshadowed by the success of the Spartans, a recently formed far-right nativist group that gained 12 seats in Greece’s 300-seat Parliament.

The Brothers of Italy last year became the first far-right party to win an Italian election since World War I.

Earlier this month, the anti-immigration Finns Party entered a four-party coalition to rule in Finland.

In September 2022 Sweden saw the hard-right populist Sweden Democrats win more than 20% of the vote to become the country’s second-biggest party.

The far-right Vox Party in Spain is expected to do well in national elections next month, hovering around 14% in opinion polls. In 2019, the party won 15% of the vote and 52 lawmakers.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) can count on the support of about 20% of the German public, according to opinion polls; on Sunday, it won an important regional election in the eastern state of Thuringia.

Last year Marine Le Pen, the then-leader of the National Assembly, came closer than ever to becoming France’s first far-right president.

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Last week, the Wall Street Journal’s Sabrina Siddiqui faced trolling after she asked Narendra Modi about discrimination against minorities in India.

Audio Of Trump Conversation About Secret Iran Attack Plan Contradicts His Denial
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/06/audio-of-trump-conversation-about-secret-iran-attack-plan-contradicts-his-denial/
The audio makes clear that Trump had a specific document in his hand prepared by the Defense Department that was still secret and had not been declassified by him, contrary to his denial in an Bret Baier interview that he just had a stack of news clippings.

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Listen for yourself. CNN obtained the recording:

“The Trump audio:

"See as president I could have declassified it. Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret."

"Now we have a problem," a staffer responds.”

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1673487276708331521

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Who's the Rino?

https://twitter.com/Ops_Overlord/status/1673374730869698562/photo/1

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The trend is not Trump's friend. He keeps digging the "unfavorable" hole deeper.
https://twitter.com/WhereIsTruth23/status/1673420002936995840

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Penn State funding stalled because it injects kids with puberty blockers | The College Fix
https://www.thecollegefix.com/penn-state-funding-stalled-because-it-injects-kids-with-puberty-blockers/
‘To sit by and allow public funds to be used in experimental activities causing reversible harm to children, some under the age of 10, makes lawmakers complicit in this abuse couched as health care,’…

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Do Republicans want to win?

NBC Poll: DeSantis Leads Biden by Six Points in Swing States, But Trump Trails by Two | National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/nbc-poll-desantis-leads-biden-by-six-points-in-swing-states-but-trump-trails-by-two/
The good news for Biden is that the weaker general-election candidate, Trump, has seen his lead grow over DeSantis among GOP primary voters nationwide.

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How we know Trump's internal polling looks vastly different than the publicly released polls we're getting:
https://twitter.com/dadbodpolitics/status/1673430970760871939

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A movement to weaken American child labor protections at the state level began in 2022. By June 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Jersey and New Hampshire had enacted this kind of legislation, and lawmakers in at least another eight states had introduced similar measures.

The laws generally make it easier for kids from 14 to 17 years old to work longer and later—and in occupations that were previously off-limits for minors.

"[This] allow(s) young adults to develop their skills in the workforce" - Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on signing Iowa's more permissive child labor law.

A year after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization stripped women of nearly 50 years of constitutional protection to make their own health-care decisions, women have faced trauma and near-death experiences and been deprived of medical care. That includes women who never contemplated having an abortion. The Dobbs-aggravated shortage of doctors practicing obstetrics-gynecology, especially in rural areas, leaves millions of women without access to health care.

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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre became flustered on Friday after she was pummeled with questions about the most recent scandal involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. The questions from nearly a half-dozen reporters stemmed from newly released testimony by two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers indicating that Hunter Biden once invoked his […]

The star of the film “My Best Friend’s Wedding” made a gesture in support of a cherished cause when he walked off the set of “The View” on Friday in “protest.” Dermot Mulroney, who has also had starring roles in films like “Young Guns,” “Point of No Return,” and, more recently, “Secret Invasion,” was being […]

A previously unnoticed change in Donald Trump’s online fund-raising appeals allows him to divert a sizable chunk of his 2024 contributions to a group that has spent millions to cover his legal fees.

And these idiots just keep giving thinking they are 'owning the libs' with every dollar they give this grifter.

#Trump #PAC #Grift #Grifter #GQP

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/us/politics/trump-donations-legal-fees.html

In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.

Popular Fox News host Greg Gutfeld shared big news this week when he revealed that he’s thought about the idea of taking over the primetime slot that was previously held by Tucker Carlson, who was taken off the air by the network in late April. “Obviously, it’s crossed my mind,” Gutfeld told The Wall Street […]

Fox News host Laura Ingraham went rogue on her show and called out a prominent House Republican for coming on Fox News to talk tough, yet he continues to vote with Democrats. During a segment on “The Ingraham Angle,” Ingraham put Ohio Republican Rep. Mike Turner on blast for voting with Democrats to shoot down […]url

Former President Donald Trump has yet to announce a running mate for his 2024 campaign but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t settled on someone. Previous reporting claimed that the 45th president would likely choose a female running mate and several names have been mentioned. But one of those names — former Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari […]

A year ago today the Supreme Court made the bad call to overturn Roe v. Wade, taking away abortion rights for millions of American women. At the time privacy advocates got a little concerned because we now live in an age where all of our private messages and location information is stored up in a cloud somewhere. So it could potentially be used against us, especially in situations as sensitive as seeking reproductive healthcare. Fast forward to today, and we are witnessing the ramifications of that decision..

Everyone knows that both Trump impeachments were partisan witch hunts. As a matter of fact, the level of attack against Trump has remained so consistent for the past 6 years that they’ve now become cliché and are backfiring—even some liberals now sympathize with the 45th President. On Thursday, two members of the GOP filed resolutions […]

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