@kateiswell Best not to “cast your pearls before swine”…they’ll trample them under their feet and then turn on you. Some lessons hurt. Protect your heart, there are many yet who are worthy of you. ❤️
Today on Earth, the United States and Iran exchanged their heaviest attacks in weeks. American forces struck military targets along Iran’s southern coast, and Iran retaliated against American bases in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq. Washington reported no American or allied casualties.
Congo’s Ebola outbreak passed 3,000 deaths, with more than 6,100 confirmed cases across six provinces. Health officials said the virus is spreading faster than their ability to track and contain it, making this the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record.
The United States national debt passed $40 trillion as borrowing costs continued to rise. Decades of spending by both parties brought us here, while Washington remains deeply committed to promising restraint immediately after spending more money.
America ran out of commas before it ran out of excuses.
Across Spain, people gathered in support of Ceuta and against the government’s handling of the mass border crossing one month ago. From Madrid to Ceuta and throughout the country, Spanish flags filled the streets as demonstrators declared that Ceuta is Spain.
A federal judge blocked President Trump’s latest attempt to restrict birthright citizenship for certain children born in the United States. The judge cited the Supreme Court’s earlier ruling protecting citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
In Utah, a judge ordered the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk to stand trial on aggravated murder and other charges. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
German authorities investigated two suspected attacks on the country’s electrical infrastructure within 24 hours. One knocked power plants totaling 4,200 megawatts offline, although officials said the national grid remained stable.
A federal judge refused to force Google to sell its advertising exchange despite an earlier ruling that the company had illegally suppressed competition. Google will instead be required to provide competitors with greater access to its advertising systems.
Google avoided a breakup and received instructions to behave itself.
In Malta, a jury acquitted businessman Yorgen Fenech of helping orchestrate the 2017 car-bomb assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Three men have been convicted of carrying out the killing, but nearly nine years later, no one has been held responsible for ordering it.
In Minneapolis, a shooting inside a downtown apartment building left two victims and the suspected gunman dead. Three police officers were injured, including two who were shot and remained in stable condition.
Police in Tucson confirmed that the shooting outside a gay bar earlier this week was a targeted attack motivated by hatred of the LGBTQ community. Two men were killed before the gunman turned the weapon on himself. Investigators found a note containing the names of other LGBTQ-associated businesses.
The NBA suspended Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer for one year, fined the team $30 million and stripped it of five future first-round draft picks for circumventing salary-cap rules involving Kawhi Leonard. Leonard was also fined $700,000.
Apparently the salary cap was less of a rule and more of a creative-writing assignment.
Tiger Woods accepted a plea deal in his Florida impaired-driving case. He pleaded no contest to reckless driving, avoided jail and lost his driver’s license for five years.
Two-time Grammy-winning jazz singer Cassandra Wilson died at 70. Known for her unmistakable contralto and her ability to move between jazz, blues, folk, country and R&B, Wilson was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2022.
And astronomers discovered an enormous ten-sided weather pattern circling Saturn’s south pole. It joins the planet’s famous six-sided storm at the north pole.
Saturn now has a hexagon at one end and a decagon at the other. Even the weather has homework.
That was one day on Earth.
See you tomorrow. September is not easing in gently. 🌎
Kmele Foster: “It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working, ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.”
Jemele Hill: “How is it not?”
Kmele Foster: “I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty. The idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is. That is not white supremacy.”
Jemele Hill: “Do you think capitalism has always worked that way?”
Kmele Foster: “I’ve actually just described the basic facts of the economics.”
Hill: “That ain't how it's always worked.”
Kmele Foster: “Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable, it barely needs to be defended.”
Jemele Hill: “How was it absurd?”
Kmele Foster: “It barely needs to be defended.”
Jemele Hill: “What do you mean it barely needs to be defended?”
Kmele Foster: “You actually have to articulate what the connections is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell with whomever you like. What does that have to do with white supremacy?… What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property?”
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: First openly gay judge of Bexar County, Texas Rosie Speedlin-Gonzalez has been BANNED FOR LIFE from EVER serving on the bench again after she unlawfully ordered an attorney to be handcuffed
GOOD RIDDANCE, DEI 👋🏻
She's now signed a formal agreement providing for her resignation and lifetime ban — Christian Post
Dear President Trump,
I live in the beautiful state of Oregon. I have lived here over 50 years. There is no more beautiful state than Oregon with the Columbia River on our northern edge of our state. We have two beautiful mountain ranges and vast desserts. It’s been carefully designed by God.
Our state is in near collapse with the democratic chokehold of the democratic party. We have a crazed democrat governor that is up for reelection in November. We have never had a governor that has been so out of cinque with what Oregonians want, in my lifetime.
She has destroyed our state. Rose City Antifa has ruled downtown Portland. Some of our largest businesses have already left the state, with more to follow. Daily people are packing up their entire lives and leaving Oregon.
The tax burdens have become excessive with more to follow, always. I am an avid supporter of you and your administration sir. Our state wants Kotek removed from office. In November we have the chance to vote for a republican governor. The republican candidate running against her has been a head in the polls for a couple of months.
People of Oregon loath our governor. She is right up there at the top of list of worst governors in our country. She is taxing us to death, and she plans on forcing onto her Universal Healthcare plan next year that has been reported to cost us many more times what we are currently paying.
She has never listened to the will of the people. She has an entire administration and the democratic party behind her. It has been over 40 years since we have had a republican governor.
This is the first chance we have had to elect a republican governor again. But sir, it’s not going to happen if we don’t have divine intervention.
Our state is riddled with democratically controlled election workers that are committing fraud. They will not even allow the Republican election monitors to sit near the area where the ballots are counted. Some have reported that they have to sit 20’ away. Others have reported that they have a special room they have to sit, with an observation window to view through. One observer was not allowed to enter the building to take her shift.
Numerous people reported receiving letters from their county election office telling them their ballot had been eliminated because their signatures on the ballot didn’t match their voter registration card. These were republicans, and they had not changed their signatures.
We of course have Vote by Mail, and after our state went to that form of election, people we know should have won, didn’t.
Sir, our state deserves and needs to be included in the states that you are looking in for voter fraud.
Our Secretary of State Dan Rayfield is doing everything he can to stop USPS from sending out ballots because he knows he won’t keep his job.
He sent out a message on X yesterday stating that our ballots were ready to be put into the mail, and we should expect to see them soon. Sir, we have never received ballots prior to 3 weeks of any election. He is doing everything he can to make sure our elections fail.
Please President Trump, help us. Secretary Mullin put out a post on X yesterday stating the states that DHS would be sending out federal employees to look into the fraud and make sure the Dominion counting machines aren’t tampered with. It was with great disappointment; I heard Oregon was not among the states included.
We desperately want to turn our state RED and begin to make our state Great Again, too. Without your help sir, we will be left with this person that is catering to illegal immigrants and her tran/gay community. We will be totally lost if we don’t see real change in this state. The only way we can begin to recover is if we are able to elect the true winner for governorship. It is my belief we will have the opportunity if we make sure our elections are conducted with integrity.
@POTUS@WhiteHouse@AAGDhillon@SecMullinDHS
Katie Hopkins fought back against a criminal that blackmailed 27 venues into cancelling her…and cancel culture’s bravest soldier just collected four convictions against him
Congratulations Katie 🏆🇬🇧