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50 Cent Offers New York’s Socialist Mayoral Candidate Six Figures to Flee the City |
50 Cent wants to keep Zohran Mamdani out of da club.
The high-profile rapper offered the socialist New York City mayoral candidate over a quarter of a million dollars to leave the Big Apple on Wednesday, writing on Instagram that he’s “not feeling” Mamdani’s plan to increase taxes on the city’s wealthiest citizens.
“Where did he come from?” 50 Cent asked. “Whose friend is this? I’m not feeling this plan. No. I will give him $258,750 and a first class one-way ticket away from NY.”
The post came in response to Mamdani specifically mentioning the hip-hop star during an interview on The Breakfast Club, saying he knows “if 50 Cent is listening, he’s not going to be happy about this. He tends to not like this tax policy.” That prediction hit the nail on the head. Read more.
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Violent Egyptian Deported After Kicking Border Patrol Beagle |
Freddie is a 25-pound beagle working for US Customs and Border Protection at Washington’s Dulles Airport. He seems like a very good boy.
The same cannot be said about Egyptian man Hamed Ramadan Bayoumy Aly Marie. According to authorities, Marie kicked Freddie like a soccer ball earlier this week when the on-duty sniffer detected over 100 pounds of prohibited food products in his luggage.
The incident unfolded on Tuesday when the dog alerted his handler to Marie’s travel bag, which he had just brought from Cairo. Marie responded by kicking Freddie “so hard that he was lifted off of the ground," giving him rib contusions and prompting an emergency trip to the vet. Images from the assault show the dog on his hind legs and mid-air with his ears standing up after absorbing the blow.
Marie made a court appearance on Wednesday, during which a judge ordered him to pay Freddie’s veterinarian bill. Border Patrol put him on a flight back to Egypt yesterday. Get ‘em out. Read more.
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Trump Announces Signing of New U.S.-China Trade Deal |
America’s war with Iran appears under control. So does its trade war with China.
Donald Trump announced the signing of a new U.S.-China trade deal on Thursday, saying the two nations agreed to its terms with little fanfare the previous day. The Chinese confirmed the agreement’s completion early this morning.
Under the new arrangement, China will review and approve export applications for items subject to export control rules, while the U.S. will cancel a range of existing restrictive measures imposed against Beijing. This could open the door for U.S. to acquire Chinese rare earth minerals. Read more.
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June Tariff Revenue Shatters All-Time Record |
$9.6 billion. $17.4 billion. $22 billion.
That’s how much tariff revenue the federal government collected in March, April, and May, respectively.
This month? It’s already made more than $26 billion.
The most recent measure of government receipts for "Customs and Certain Excise Taxes" revealed that figure earlier this week, continuing America’s collections spike during Donald Trump’s second term. Take a look at this chart for a jarring visual representation.
Since the start of this fiscal year, the federal government has raked in over $121 billion in tariff income. The Congressional Budget Office projects that the United States could reduce primary deficits by $2.8 trillion over the coming decade, as long as the next president keeps Trump’s levies in place. Read more.
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Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Planned Parenthood Defunding |
The Supreme Court handed America’s pro-life coalition a major victory on Thursday, rebuking an attempt to prevent South Carolina from eliminating Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood clinics.
The decision is the result of the Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic case, which centered around South Carolina’s blocking of Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. The organization said the move violated federal law, arguing that Medicaid patients have the right to sue to choose their qualified healthcare provider. The Court disagreed.
Rather than addressing states’ rights to defund groups like Planned Parenthood, the justices ruled that the typical redress for such a violation would be for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to withhold Medicaid funding from the state, not for an individual to file a lawsuit.
“Private plaintiffs to sue for violations of federal spending-power statutes only in ‘atypical’ situations … where the provision in question ‘clear[ly]’ and ‘unambiguous[ly]’ confers an individual ‘right,’" Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion, ruling that the law in question in the present case "is not such a statute." Read more.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Claims “Victory” After U.S. Nuclear Strikes |
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivered his first public address since America’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities on Thursday, claiming the episode represented a victory for his country and a “slap in the face” to the United States.
“The Islamic Republic emerged victorious and, in return, delivered a harsh slap to America’s face,” Khamenei said after over a week of silence. "The Americans failed to achieve anything significant in their attack on nuclear facilities,” he added, while saying the U.S. “gained nothing from this war” and only entered it to prevent Israel from being “completely destroyed.”
Everyday Americans definitively understanding the true status of Iran’s nuclear program may ultimately prove unfeasible. The CIA claims the project is “severely damaged,” but a leaked Defense Intelligence Agency assessment says the strikes may have only delayed it by a few months.
Regardless of the true result of the assault, there is no doubt that Washington’s deranged war hawk caucus will continue to push for a prolonged armed conflict with Iran. The president did the right thing this week by telling the neocons that America’s military is done engaging. We hope he stays that course. Read more.
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“I’m 60, Y’all”: Michelle Obama Blames Age for Perceived Marital Problems |
For months, many people have speculated that the Obamas could be heading for a divorce. Michelle refusing to join Barack at Jimmy Carter’s funeral and Donald Trump’s inauguration made those conversations inevitable.
The former first lady addressed the swirling divorce rumors this week, claiming the reason she and her husband are rarely photographed together is because they’re too washed up.
“It’s like, ‘OK, so we don’t Instagram every minute of our lives. We are 60. We’re 60, y’all,'” she said on NPR’s “Wild Card” podcast. “You just are not gonna know what we’re doing every minute of the day.”
She also claimed her “ambition,” not marital issues, fueled her decisions to skip the aforementioned events. As you may recall, Michelle opted for a Hawaiian vacation instead of attending the Carter funeral. “Ambitious” is hardly the word that comes to mind. Read more. |
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Surfing Dogs Catch Waves in California |
Huntington Beach, California, held its “Incredible Dog Challenge surf contest” last week, featuring K9s ranging from ages 2 to 13 barreling through the Pacific’s waves in pursuit of a claim to four-legged surfing immortality. If such a spectacle strikes you as some sort of joke, think again.
“They are treated like pro athletes,” one dog owner said of the competitors. “I mean, we have kind of like a workout schedule to prepare them for this.”
The competition’s champions included Koa, a cancer-survivor pup from Carlsbad, CA, and Petey, a local West Highland Terrier. Petey won the small-dog division.
See photos from the event here. |
Armed 64-Year-Old Woman Blocks Highway in Lawn Chair |
You never know what you might encounter on the highway.
A fugitive kangaroo. Mexican protestors. Maybe even a meth-smoking raccoon.
Drivers in Texas stumbled across a different kind of surprise on Thursday, as a 64-year-old woman pulled out a lawn chair and a gun and made herself comfortable in the middle of Interstate 45 outside of Houston.
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The near-senior citizen’s bizarre sit-in sparked an hours-long standoff with police before her eventual surrender, highlighted by her refusal to comply with law enforcement’s commands and repeated suicidal gestures. The ordeal began when she appeared to intentionally crash into the back of an 18-wheeler. The incident caused no injuries. Read more. |
Happy anniversary, America.
This may come as a surprise, but it has officially been one calendar year since the presidential debate that ended Joe Biden’s career. At this time 365 days ago, the majority of Americans still expected the dazed and confused politician to claim his party’s 2024 nomination, defying precedent by becoming the first commander in chief who couldn’t be trusted to successfully execute a grocery run to compete for a second term.
You know what happened next. Blank stares into space. Mumbles. Incoherent ramblings. And a total and complete panic inside the Democrat Party. Looking back, Donald Trump doing anything other than winning in an Electoral College landslide seems impossible. His first opponent couldn’t talk, and his second wasn’t much better. In the moment, however, thanks to hysterical media lies about the Republican nominee and multiple attempts on his life, the election’s outcome felt completely up in the air.
Now that we’re five months into the 47th president’s term, a look back at the Biden debate debacle offers some important perspective. Has Donald Trump been a perfect leader? Of course not. No human could be. But we are very lucky that he, and not either of the nauseating alternatives, is representing our country in the White House.
Thanks to Trump, the United States has a secure border, NATO members are finally committing to contribute to the alliance, DEI is gone, and foreign handouts are considerably more under control. Would any of that be the case under a Harris administration? Of course not. We’d probably have Spanish as a co-official national language, every month would be Pride Month, and U.S. troops could be on the ground in Ukraine. And that’s not to mention the Oval Office cackling we would’ve had to deal with. America’s earplug industry would have boomed.
As longstanding members of the perfection caucus, we find it easy to get worked up if the president doesn’t govern in the precise ways we would if we sat in his chair. It’s a natural human reaction to following the news and caring about your country. With that being said, today’s debate anniversary serves as a valuable reminder that last year’s election saved America from the preposterousness and national humiliation of another four years of Democrat rule. The country might not have survived.
The takeaway? We’re glad we have Donald Trump. We’re sure you are too.
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June 27, 1923: The first successful air-to-air refueling. A DH-4B carrying Lts. Virgil Hine and Frank W. Seifert passed gasoline through a hose to another plane flying below, carrying Lts. Lowell H. Smith and John P. Richter. The feat demonstrated the feasibility of extending flight times by transferring fuel between aircraft while in the air, paving the way for modern militaries to use the practice in operations like last weekend’s B-2 bomber attack on Iran. A few months later, Smith and Richter used the refueling technique to set an endurance record, staying aloft for 37 hours and 15 minutes. Read more.
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