Coffee Break: AIPAC Wins in Kentucky, Loses in Pennsylvania
The AIPAC-backed candidate in Kentucky’s 4th Congressional district won, but two AIPAC-supported candidates lost in Pennsylvania’s 3rd.
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Coffee Break: Primaries, Redistricting Reveal American Political Fault Lines
A series of primary races and the national partisan fight over mid-decade redistricting are revealing the deep fault lines dividing both American political parties.
Read more...Iran War: Trump in China, Ship Seized in the Strait, War Powers Vote Comes This Close, Saudis Make Peaceward Moves
Trump was in China, but that didn’t stop Iran from seizing and sinking ships, the Saudis are wheeling and dealing for peace, and a War Powers vote almost passed.
Read more...Coffee Break: Epstein Class All-In on Massie Primary But Do Midterms Matter?
$10 million is being spent in a single primary as Congress abdicates its constitutional role and efforts to manipulate the midterms escalate.
Read more...Coffee Break: Trump Admin Combines Reality Show Nonsense With Very Real Grifting
Trump’s Transportation Secretary distracts with a reality show launch as a Trump-linked company launches a $4.8 billion IPO.
Read more...Coffee Break: Self-Dealing and Self-Deluding Two Sides of Trump and His Ilk
The Trump regime’s flagrant corruption and obvious irrationality beg the question, ‘Are there any rational actors in power today?’
Read more...Coffee Break: Abundance Bro Seth London & Lis Smith’s Caper Typifies State of the Art Dem Dark Money Schemes
Venture capitalist and Abundance bro Seth London’s ambitious dark money scheme employing powerful consultant Lis Smith is best of its loathsome class, but far from alone in backing centrist candidates.
Read more...Coffee Break: OpenAI Trial Pits Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is getting his day in court against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman as both men aim for record-setting IPOs amid scrutiny and skepticism over revenue.
Read more...Coffee Break: Has the Ellison Infotainment Empire Peaked?
The Ellison infotainment empire financed by father Larry and nominally helmed by son David, may have peaked with the shareholder approval of Paramount-Skydance’s purchase of WBD (Warner Bros Discovery).
Read more...Iran War: Narrative Dissolution as Ceasefire Continues Except in Lebanon
A western media distracted by Saturday night’s alleged attack on Trump is letting the Iran War narrative dissolve into several related streams as the ceasefire continues, except in Lebanon and the high seas.
Read more...Iran War: Israel Strikes Lebanon, Trump’s Negotiations Rug Pull, the View from the UAE
Today’s Iran War update includes Netanyahu ordering strikes on Lebanon, Trump rug pulling “negotiations” in Pakistan, the MSM publishing more bad war news for the US, and some takes from the UAE and Israel.
Read more...Iran War: Waiting Is the Hardest Part, Back to Pakistan, USraeli Attack Incoming?
All of the ominous signs that have preceded previous “suprise attacks” on Iran are here: the markets are closed for the weekend, Kushner and Witkoff are headed to Pakistan for negotiations, and US forces are assembling across West Asia.
Read more...Iran War: Trump Says Time Is on His Side, Iranian Leadership Is Divided, Iran Begs to Differ
As the ceasefire continues, discussion of the Iran War centered on whether the US or Iran is better positioned to outlast their opponent.
Read more...Iran War: Inflation Hitting the U.S., More to Come, Don’t Tell Mr. Market
Inflation is hitting U.S. shores and more bad war news keeps making the MSM. Plus, Iran seized some ships and Israel is Gaza-ing Lebanon.
Read more...Coffee Break: Israel Dominant Issue in Michigan Democratic Senate Primary
Michigan is on the frontlines of the American Democratic Party’s internal battles over Israel with a competitive U.S. Senate primary and lingering fallout from the suppression of Pro-Palestine campus protests.
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