“Any party switch risks shifting the balance of power in a closely divided Senate.”
No, no it does not.
53 Republicans
45 Democrats
2 Independents that caucus with Democrats.
Assuming Mitch is really dead and they are holding that announcement until 8/3 to avoid a special election, that would vacate the seat:
52
45
2
Fetterman flips:
53
44
2
No actual difference.
No, it’s proof you think Trump was President a year before he was re-elected and 2 years before he was actually President.
Have you considered changing your username to “confidentlywrong” instead of “Nonconfrontational”?
DEFINITELY more on brand.
Again, you lose sir, I award you no points.
“Monday, April 17, 2023”
Who was President in 2023? 😉
Citing the arrest documents of Chinese nationals operating an illegal police station to intimidate dissidents, thoroughly disproving your “debunked” link from a different city and country.
Take the “L”, move on, and don’t report comments you disagree with when they are materially factual.
In Montreal, not New York City, or France:
As alleged in the complaint, Lu and Chen are charged with conspiring to act as agents of the PRC government as well as obstructing justice by destroying evidence of their communications with an MPS official. The defendants worked together to establish the first overseas police station in the United States on behalf of the Fuzhou branch of the MPS. The police station – which closed in the fall of 2022 after those operating it became aware of the FBI’s investigation – occupied a floor in an office building in Manhattan’s Chinatown. While acting under the direction and control of an MPS Official, Lu and Chen helped open and operate the clandestine police station. None of the participants in the scheme informed the U.S. government that they were helping the PRC government surreptitiously open and operate an illegal MPS police station on U.S. soil.
“The PRC, through its repressive security apparatus, established a secret physical presence in New York City to monitor and intimidate dissidents and those critical of its government,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “The PRC’s actions go far beyond the bounds of acceptable nation-state conduct. We will resolutely defend the freedoms of all those living in our country from the threat of authoritarian repression.”
“Since early 2026, French counterintelligence services have dismantled nine clandestine structures operating in France under the direction of China’s Ministry of Public Security. The sites were notably used to track down dissidents.”
This was reported as “conspiracy nonsense”, but if you know, you know:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-are-chinas-alleged-secret-overseas-police-stations
The closest thing he got to telling the truth is that China got ahold of voter data… because voter data is public information.
I got voter data for my area for 2020, seriously, just ask the elections department.
Russian propaganda is not allowed.
Substack blogs are not allowed.
We require links go to the original sources, not re-hosters.
In this case, your link has a link that reads “Go to Original” which points here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/middleeast/forever-war-trump-iran.html
If the original is paywalled, you can put the re-hoster link in the body or as a top level comment.
Please update the link on your post or we’ll have to remove it.
We require links to articles, not walls of text personally posted. This is the second post you have had removed, read the rules in the sidebar before continuing.
Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article:
"Israeli law defines rape as all non-consensual penetration.
. . .
When she refused, guards pulled off her clothes, groped her and forced her to kneel. One of them inserted her fingers into Liedtke’s vagina and then her anus, Liedtke said.
“There were two and then later three female soldiers that told me to take off my clothes,” she said. “They started touching me. I said no. I told them I don’t want to be touched and that they were hurting me. Then they grabbed my hands, so I couldn’t move, then they pushed me down and I still tried to scream, and then they covered my mouth so I couldn’t scream.”"
That meets the legal definition of Rape under Israeli law.
Even in cases, like Trump in New York, where it only becomes sexual assault:
https://www.courthousenews.com/narrow-focus-on-rape-definition-wont-get-trump-a-new-trial/
“The finding that Ms.Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape,’” Kaplan wrote. “Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.”
Oh, there are people who LIKED Kissinger? LOL.
Always good advice! I run Firefox on mobile with the usual plugins and avoid a lot of silliness and nonsense.
(Submits the ‘evidence’ from the My Pillow guy…)
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/27/1172382495/he-proved-mike-wrong-now-hes-claiming-his-5-million
Here’s the problem:
The vast majority of people have never seen the works of the old masters in person, only copies on their devices or pictures in print.
When you see a painting like that in person, the texture and brush strokes interact with the light in the room to give you a completely luminous experience.
But more to the point, that experience cannot be reproduced digitally. Even a photograph of the actual Mona Lisa is inferior to actually seeing the Mona Lisa.
I encourage everyone, where possible, to get to your local museums and see what you can see. It’s a wonderful experience!
Site is being reported as cancer on mobile, but it looks safe on my side. If anyone is seeing anything off, let me know and I’ll pull it.
And already proven wrong, 4 years ago. This isn’t a revelation.
You also have to love how PA Democrats are like “Don’t threaten us with a good time!”
“Polling indicates 57% of Pennsylvania Democrats want Fetterman to exit the party.”