Minnesota State

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Columbus, OH

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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s personal finances are much different from what one would expect from a politician.Axios reports that the Democratic vice presidential nominee doesn’t own any stocks, nor does his wife, Gwen. His financial disclosures as a member of Congress from 2007 to 2019 and as governor don’t show him owning bonds, private equities, mutual funds, or other securities. He and Gwen’s only investments appear to be in state pensions, including teacher pensions from their years as educators. Walz also has never earned money from book sales, because, unlike other elected officials, he has never published a book. He...

Tim Walz Is Like No Other Politician—and His Finances Prove It

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has only just been named as Kamala Harris’s running mate, but Donald Trump is already mad. The Republican presidential nominee and convicted felon’s campaign immediately fired off a fundraising email Tuesday morning with some over-the-top but unspecific attacks, with an insane subject line not likely to gain traction beyond the MAGA faithful. The email continued along the same lines. “He’ll unleash HELL ON EARTH and open our borders to the worst criminals imaginable,” the email read. “He’ll rubber stamp Kamla’s [sic] GREEN NEW SCAM and light TRILLIONS of dollars on fire. But the real killer: he’s...

Trump Is Already Losing It Over Kamala Choosing Tim Walz as V.P.

Arkansas State

After Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was chosen as Kamala Harris’s running mate, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders immediately attacked him—only to get trolled by the internet. “In her first big decision Kamala reveals who she answers to—the far left,” Sanders posted on X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday morning. The replies to her tweet quickly called her out. Several commentators pointed out the contrast between their records as governors—Sanders loosened child labor protections while Walz made school lunches free. Even their photo ops with children show disappointment versus happiness. Others pointed out the absurdity of calling Walz “far left”—as if that attack line would work on a military veteran, high school football coach, and teacher. These early attacks, along with a panicked angry email from the Trump campaign, show that the GOP doesn’t have much of an attack line against Walz right now. It’s fitting that the man who coined the Democrats’ favorite “weird” criticism of Republicans isn’t easily attacked himself. On top of that, Trump and Republicans still haven’t come up with a good way to attack Harris. The only question is whether all of this will lead to Democrats retaining the White House in November.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Immediately Trolled After Attack on Tim Walz

Philadelphia, PA

Republican Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance appeared at a Kamala Harris rally in Phila—oh, it wasn’t a Harris rally? Then why on earth did he bring a massive sign that said “KAMALA”?Donald Trump’s gaffe-prone running mate appeared at his own rally in Philadelphia Tuesday, where he stood in front of a sign that said, “KAMALA CHAOS”—only it didn’t quite read that way.Vance had invited several people onstage with him to speak about the ways they’d been negatively affected by the Biden administration’s policies, specifically immigration. However, the small crowd that lurked behind Vance covered the word “CHAOS” on the low-hung...

Trump’s New Sign Attacking Kamala Hilariously Backfires

Over the weekend, The New York Times reported that Donald Trump is deeply unsettled about Kamala Harris’s successful launch, even as polls show her edging into a small lead. His anger has led him to escalate the private conspiracy-mongering about Democrats supposedly cheating in the election. We talked to Amanda Carpenter—a leading Never Trump conservative and an editor at Protect Democracy—about why it’s so disturbing that Trump is already laying the groundwork to overturn a loss, a novel way he might try to pull this off, and whether the GOP will ever move beyond MAGA. Listen to this episode here.

Trump’s Private Anger Over Kamala’s Poll Surge Takes an Ominous Turn

Coronado, CA

One day in March 2017, Mitch McKay and his wife, Suzanne, took a walk on the sand near Imperial Beach, a small surf town south of San Diego where they’d raised their children. Suzanne liked to collect sea glass, and they often brought a spare grocery bag to pick up any trash they found amid the seaweed and driftwood. “It was our ritual,” Mitch said. Back home, Suzanne started to suffer from splitting headaches that seemed to emanate from the back of her neck, near the base of her skull. The headaches soon got bad enough that she went to...

The California Beach Town Awash in Poop

Donald Trump returned to X (formerly Twitter) ahead of a one-on-one interview with Elon Musk Monday. But rather than elevate that, or attack his current opponent’s policies, one of Trump’s first ads directed at his 88.1 million followers on the platform appeared to narrowly focus on President Joe Biden.The roughly two-minute video—captioned “TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!”—attempted to frame Trump as a candidate primed for election since 1987, when he was still a major New York City developer. “In the ads, he says there’s nothing wrong with American foreign policy that a little backbone won’t cure,” a dated broadcaster can...

Trump Appears to Have Forgotten Who He’s Running Against in New Ad

Kevin Roberts styles himself as a modern Prometheus, and thinks he’s here to bring the fire. The president of the Heritage Foundation’s forthcoming book, Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America, opens with metaphors about fires, claiming that in 2020 “our country went up in flames” and now it’s time to “fight fire with fire.” Using the massive California forest fires of 2020 as a stark, vivid metaphor, Roberts argues that America’s institutions have become “deadwood in a forest,” and that conservatives “can’t merely continue putting out fires”; they must be “brave enough to go on the offense,...

Voters Have a Right to Know What Kevin Roberts’s Disturbing Book Says

South Carolina State

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Los Angeles County, CA

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In 1981, pop-music sensation Andy Gibb was at the top of the charts. The younger brother of Barry, Robin, and Maurice, a.k.a. The Bee Gees, commenced a tumultuous romance with actress Victoria Principle, who played Pam Ewing on Dallas, TV's then-Number 1 prime-time series. But after the relationship ended, Andy's life, already challenged by substance abuse, did as well. This is their tragic story.

The Tragic Death of Pop Star Andy Gibb & His Traumatic Romance with 'Dallas' Star Victoria Principle

Cedar Key, FL

Since touching down off Florida’s Gulf Coast Monday, Hurricane Debby has claimed four lives in the state, dumped more than a foot of rain across the Southeast, and left many fleeing tornadoes as temperatures in parts of the Sunshine State breached 110 degrees. As Debby lurches up the East Coast—depositing heavy rains as far north as Vermont—Floridians continue to grapple with a storm whose effects won’t be leaving them anytime soon. Home insurance rates in Florida are among the highest in the nation, having increased by nearly 20 percent in 2023. The average homeowner there pays $10,996 per year; the national...

Hurricane Debby Is Fading; Florida’s Hellish Insurance Crisis Isn’t

Colorado State

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David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Entrepreneur

Trademark lawyer Jeremy Green Eche purchased the domain in 2020.

He Bought the Harris-Walz Website Domain 4 Years Ago for $8.99 — Someone Just Paid Him $15,000 For It

UFC head Dana White, the wife beater, is “a fighter.” North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is “very tough,” while China’s Xi Jinping is “strong.” Elon Musk, the transphobe who has turned X into a megaphone for bigotry, is a “genius.” So said Donald Trump during his 75-minute live-streamed interview with Adin Ross, the 23-year-old gamer and influencer.The verbs and adjectives for all of the women they discussed were very different. Kamala Harris was said to be “weak” and “stupid”; Nancy Pelosi and Alexandria Occasion-Cortez were “crazy”; and AOC was described as “ranting” and “screaming.” And, of course, there was...

Trump Is Going All in on Weird, Lonely Young Dudes Who Hate Women

Galax, VA

In early July, a dairy farmworker in Colorado tested
positive for H5N1, the current strain of avian flu that’s ripping through
dairy cows. It marked the fourth human case contracted on a dairy farm; a
worker tested positive in Texas in April, and then two others in Michigan.
While the virus has yet to be found spreading among the general public, it’s
clear that the dairy industry’s workforce is very much at risk of infection.
And each time a new person gets sick, it’s a chance for the virus to mutate,
allowing it to potentially spread beyond the agricultural workforce.  Yet there is effectively no federal agency with the...

Why Isn’t the Government Protecting Farm Workers From the Bird Flu?

At Donald Trump’s Thursday’s press conference at Mar-a-Lago, the former president compared himself favorably to Martin Luther King Jr. After incorrectly claiming that “no one was killed on January 6th,” Trump went on to gloat that the crowd at his insurrection rally was larger than the March On Washington, which Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic speech at the Lincoln Memorial. “Nobody’s spoken to crowds bigger than me,” said the former president. “If you look at Martin Luther King when he did his speech and you look at ours...we had more.” Trump on his January 6 speech: "Nobody has spoken to...

Donald Trump’s Obsession With Crowd Size Reaches a New Low

Missouri State

Missouri Representative Cori Bush became the second “Squad” member to get knocked out by the efforts of pro-Israel lobbyists Tuesday night, losing her primary race to St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Wesley Bell.The race was tight, but Bell held a small but steady margin over Bush as the votes were counted.The blow-up race became yet another temperature gauge on Democratic divisions over hot-button political issues, including the Israel-Palestine conflict. The fundraising arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC—the United Democracy Project PAC—spent more than $7 million on Bell’s campaign to undermine the pro-Palestine Bush’s influence in D.C.The...

Cori Bush Loses Missouri Primary After Massive AIPAC Bid to Defeat Her

Tucson, AZ

The U.S. Air Force is claiming that it cannot depollute drinking water that it contaminated with dangerous forever chemicals, because the U.S. Supreme Court has stripped federal regulators of the authority to make them clean it up. In June, the Supreme Court overturned the Chevron deference, a 40-year-old doctrine that required judges to defer to a federal agency when determining the meaning of any ambiguous laws that agency should try to enforce. The Air Force has claimed that without the Chevron deference, the Environmental Protection Agency cannot order them to address their own pollution, The Guardian reported Monday. In Tucson,...

Air Force Says Supreme Court Gave It Right to Poison Drinking Water

Chicago, IL

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Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

Denver, CO

In addition to collecting more than 8,000 used needles in the past year from Denver drug users, the Harm Reduction Action Center passed out 10,000 meth pipes and “snort kits,” according to a newsletter sent to its supporters Thursday. They also connected about 1,700 people to medical, mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Denver group hands out 10K meth pipes, ‘snort kits,’ connects 1,700 to treatment annually

Kamala Harris’s vice presidential pick probably won’t make a huge difference to the fate of the planet. That said, Tim Walz is better than many alternatives: He hasn’t been actively boosting the oil and gas industry like his main competition, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. He’s worked to pass some impressive climate and environmental measures and presided over an extraordinarily productive Democratic majority in Minnesota. He also seems like a pretty normal guy with a wholesome energy that contrasts starkly with his Republican counterpart’s weird subcultural obsessions.The importance of Harris choosing Walz doesn’t have much to do with his record. Vice...

Tim Walz Is Not a Left-Wing Hero

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