Signs of Israel Decline in US Public Opinion

I was once accosted by radical right-wing antisemitic republicans - as we were visiting Congress - who quipped that the New York Times should be more appropriately called "The Jew York Times".

The New York Times has often adopted a dubious objectivity on such issues as the Mideast and Israel. At times, it seemed to follow official US administration's policies and stances, although it gave a platform to opposing viewpoints.

But Israel's ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine has taken its toll on American public opinion now slowly but inexorably anti-Israel. What made it worse is Trump's idiotic and pedestrian support of Israel, which makes adhering to official US policy very difficult (not to mention the lawsuits and threats with which Trump regularly attacks the press). With shifting public opinion, struggling newspapers and media have had to adjust.

The New York Times for the first time ever is calling the Israeli Zionist lobby in the US, the America-Israel Political Action Committee or AIPAC as a 'hard-right' group. Wikipedia itself has also designated the other Zionist American lobby group, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) led by Jonathan Goldblatt, as a biased and unreliable source of information regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the intersection of antisemitism with that conflict. In 2024, ADL consistently conflated criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism. 

Just these two developments indicate a shifting ground for Israel support in the US. The ready availability of information on the Internet and the fast-paced dissemination of such information, including archives long hidden from the public, has lifted the veil of silence on the truth and the facts of the existence of Israel as a colonial rapist of Palestine. Entities like AIPAC and ADL are now struggling to continue convincing US public opinion of the actual worth of Israel to the US.

As a result, for example, the House of Representatives voted on a bill to cut military and humanitarian aid funding to Israel, which failed to pass but earned majority support among Democratic lawmakers. The bill was brought by outgoing Republican Rep. Thomas Massie from Kentucky who dared break through the Zionist omerta and aimed to cut military and humanitarian aid funding to Israel.

As the New York Times (NYT) reported on the vote, it highlighted how Democrats have increasingly vowed not to accept donations from AIPAC. Now the Zionist lobby curry favors from both sides of the aisle, giving money to both Democrats and Republicans to guarantee an unflinching blind support to the Zionist colony in Palestime. 

Among those who have committed not to accept AIPAC money is Rep. Seth Moulton, Democrat from Massachusetts. The NYT wrote, "Mr. Moulton, who is running for Senate, has also said he would no longer accept donations from AIPAC, the hard-right pro-Israel lobbying group that has recently become a toxic brand among Democrats".

Founded in 1954, AIPAC says its mission is to "encourage and persuade the U.S. government to enact specific policies that create a strong, enduring and mutually beneficial relationship with our ally Israel," and that it helps "elect Democrats and Republicans who support the alliance."

Prominent Democrats are increasingly comfortable publicly criticizing the stranglehold the Zionist lobbies have had over decades. For example, former Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California has voted in favor of the anti-Israel funding bill, yet was not long ago still a featured speaker at AIPAC's annual policy conference in 2019.

In the post-Oct. 7 political climate, support for Israel has dropped dramatically among Democrats while maintaining a significant swath among Republicans, although it has been losing ground among extremist radical right groups and prominent "repentant" figures in the GOP-MAGA world like Tucker Carlson and others. AIPAC has long been known as the sacred cow of the anti-Palestine lobby in the US since it supports Israel's genocide in Palestine, opposes an independent state of Palestine as a solution to the festering canker that Israel has been ever since its artificial creation with the rape of historic Palestine, and has been forever buying influence by giving money to both Democrats and Republicans. AIPAC is largely credited for making the US the only country around the world to support Israel's barbarity in Palestine and to block any international effort to find a suitable solution for both peoples.

Standing for a free and independent Palestine has become a standard platform of the Democratic Party (repeatedly adopting the two-state solution since the 1990s), and now has gained more momentum with the rise of the progressive base of the Democrats. Continued blind - and AIPAC-purchased - support for Israel against the will of the majority of the American people will be a significant liability for GOP-MAGA candidates in the 2026 and 2028 elections.

Calls to Impeach Trump for Threat he Poses to Free Elections

The senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts is calling on Congress to impeach Donald Trump after the fraudster criminal felon president claimed that those who "stole" the 2020 presidential election are still at work and plan to commit fraud in the 2026 midterm elections. 

Trump is thus preparing the ground to cheat in the elections and, if he loses (which is very likely), to claim they were rigged like he did in 2020-2021. This is standard criminal mafioso Trump deception he learned from his mentor Roy Cohn: Say that your own victims are the criminals, and claim you are their victim. Roy Cohn was a close friend and mentor to Donald Trump who represented him in a federal housing discrimination lawsuit. Cohn served as Trump's primary legal strategist and confidante until Cohn's death in August 1986. Just before his death, Cohn who was formally disbarred for fraud, along with dishonesty, deceit, and misrepresentation in June 1986, when a New York appellate panel revoked his law license after finding he had defrauded a dying client by tricking him into signing a document that named Cohn a co-executor of his estate.
Trump has been using words such as "rigged and stolen," "corrupt" and "cover-up" and cited some recently declassified documents to support his false claims. Critics in both parties say he has never substantiated his central contention that U.S. elections are marred by widespread fraud.

Markey posted: "And when [Trump] sends ICE agents to the polls, then we must turn civic action into civil disobedience and take to the streets. Sit in. Protest. Withhold our labor. Everything must be on the table," Markey urged.

Trump has lately declared that newly released documents prove that during a period of five years starting during the 2020 election cycle, the Chinese government acquired 220 million U.S. voter files. He is thus pointing the finger at a new "enemy", China, to fool his followers into believing another one of his hoaxes. The fact is that information on U.S. voters is publicly available or can be purchased from states.

Trump said the Chinese government wanted him to lose the 2020 presidential election and that "raw intelligence" obtained by the FBI in 2020 stated that Beijing even attempted to manufacture illegal ballots for former President Biden, who beat Trump in the election.

Markey has previously called for Trump to be removed from office in April when Trump threatened to wipe out the civilization of Iran if its leaders did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. "With each passing day, it becomes increasingly apparent that Donald Trump is unstable and a clear and present danger, not just to the American people but to the world. He must be removed from office before he causes incalculable and unfathomable harm," Markey said at the time.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Sunday said President Trump's primetime speech shows that he's not serious about securing elections, pointing to the recent firings of the remaining Democratic members at an independent election administration agency earlier this month.

"There was something called the Elections Assistance Commission. Nobody knows about it, but it works with local registrars, state registrars, making sure we vet voting machines," Warner said during a Sunday appearance on ABC News's "This Week." "Recently, Trump fired all the senior leadership, made the Republican quit, fired the Democrats. You know, this guy is not looking for a secure election because if we have a free and fair election, he and his allies are gonna get beat historically this fall," he added.

Warner has spent months casting doubt on the security of midterm elections, noting the possibility of White House interference. During a Sunday appearance on CBS News's "Face the Nation," the Virginia senator said Trump's Thursday address provided further evidence of a potential obstruction after the president cast doubt on the outcome of campaign races in 2018 and 2020.

"I think that what we just saw was this was the opening shot, the opening shot of trying to undermine Americans' confidence that their vote will be actually counted and mean something," Warner said of Trump's Thursday address.

"I fear as well that if he tries to pull something … he's not ruled out bringing ICE to the polls," he continued, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). "He's not even ruled out the idea of trying to bar certain voting machines."

Warner said another point of concern lies in the president's efforts to "dismantle" the Electronic Registration Information Center, which is a nonprofit, bipartisan data-sharing program used by states to securely cross-reference and clean voter registration lists of those who are deceased or who have moved away.

"There are so many absurdities and falsehoods in Trump's Thursday night speech, and I'm glad that most media treated it not as serious news," Warner told CBS News host Margaret Brennan.

Trump has attempted to double down on election security by urging lawmakers to accept the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, which has been met with some objection from Republicans coupled with unmatched support.

Meanwhile, The Guardian has published a report about the multiple crises that Trump has deliberately caused, backed by a defunct republican party that has all but become Trump's own personal party.


A man holds a sign at a rally near the White House against US military action in Iran in April 2026.Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

The Guardian cites widespread cuts to vital government agencies and shrinking of the federal workforce, various disease and illness outbreaks left unattended (nationwide outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic illness that can cause "explosive" diarrhea), and new environmental disaster vulnerabilities by rolling back environmental protections and refusing to acknowledge climate crisis. Trump has also slashed funding for scientific research and is seeking to advance legislation that would impose new voting restrictions.

From The Guardian:

Election security

Trump's zeal to downsize the federal government has spared few corners. Despite his professed concerns with election security – articulated on Thursday night in a conspiracy-laden attack on US democracy – his administration has dramatically weakened the offices intended to safeguard US elections.

His administration began its time in power by downplaying the significance of Russia's threat of election meddling. His staffing cuts cost the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, which is tasked with countering cyber threats, a third of its workforce, according to Mark Warner, a Democratic senator. The administration has also proposed slashing the agency's budget by $707m in order to address "weaponization and waste".

Earlier this month, Trump ousted the only three commissioners left serving on an independent federal commission that assists states with election administration.

Other agencies that play a role in tracking and countering foreign election meddling have faced cuts too. The FBI has lost as many as 2,800 agents since January 2025, and when the federal housing official Bill Pulte took over as acting director of national intelligence, he fired dozens of staff members, according to CNN.

On his first day back in office, Trump pardoned about 1,500 people convicted or facing charges for the January 6 insurrection, and has also spread conspiracy theories sympathetic to Tina Peters, a Colorado election clerk convicted of charges related to breaking security after the 2020 election. The state's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, shortened her sentence earlier this year.

Public health

Trump administration funding cuts have led to a spectrum of worsening outbreaks.

Public health officials in five states, including hard-hit Michigan, were faced with one of the nation's largest outbreaks of the parasite cyclospora this summer, which causes "explosive" and watery diarrhea for weeks. Public health officials said their tracking of the disease was slowed because of a lack of resources. The administration cut $11.4bn in funding from state and local health departments just a year prior, and reduced the remit of a program dedicated to coordinating information on foodborne illnesses, including cyclospora.

Although the source of a five-state outbreak was linked to iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell on Friday, public health officials warned the outbreak could continue through August.

The US is also on course for another record year of measles cases in 2026, surpassing last year, which was itself the worst year for cases in three decades. Some public health officials worry the US is on course to lose its measles elimination status, gained in 2000.

And the outbreak of new world screwworm has caused concern across the ranching and conservation worlds, as the parasitic fly can be a major burden to ranchers and wildlife alike. While some entomologists argue the northern march of the flesh-eating fly was in the making for decades, several former officials told Politico last month that Trump's federal spending reviews slowed efforts to contain the issue. USDA reviews held up funding for the construction of one facility that was crucial in slowing screwworm's impact on the US cattle supply, the officials said, adding that a $100m research initiative meant to create new tools to slow the insect's advance was also delayed.

"We've already seen what happens when Donald Trump's political appointees are put in charge of health and science funding – disaster ensues," said Shaughnessy Naughton, president of 314 Action, which works to elect scientists to public office. "Screwworm monitoring, food safety surveillance and vaccine programs have been arbitrarily cut and less than a year later, we're facing multiple infectious disease outbreaks. All of this was preventable – but it's no surprise that Americans are getting sicker as Republicans continue to halt research and cut billions in funding for critical programs."

Environmental upheaval

Since re-entering the White House last year, the Trump administration has embarked on a far-reaching assault on environmental protections, rolling back clean air and water standards and promoting fossil fuels. Even as much of the country struggles to breathe as Canadian wildfire smoke spreads over swaths of the US, experts warn of an even grimmer future in which the US grows ever more vulnerable to environmental disasters and toxic exposure.

The administration's efforts to exempt polluting companies from emissions controls – in some cases by simply sending an email – could expose Americans to more unhealthy air. So may its attempts to undercut renewable energy expansion and support the buildout of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel.

Research shows Trump's pro-fossil fuel agenda has already helped push up the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, which are warming the planet and increasing the severity and frequency of wildfires, hurricanes and other environmental disasters. In one particularly audacious move this year, the agency repealed the 2009 endangerment finding, which serves as the legal foundation for all federal climate regulations. The president has also pulled the US from the United Nations' main climate treaty and top climate science body, while slashing funding for climate science.

As they have unmade environmental protections, officials have also shuttered climate and weather research offices, terminated climate science projects and scaled back environmental monitoring. Taken together, the administration's actions could leave Americans facing greater risks while weakening the nation's ability to anticipate and understand them.

Anna Betts contributed reporting

Trump is so Desperate he's Taking Huge Risks

Trump is showing signs that he is throwing a suicidal gauntlet. He signed an American capitulation in his Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Iran because, as he himself declared, he didn't want to be another Herbert Hoover with the legacy of a major economic depression. He also more recently said he didn't want to be another Jimmy Carter with a failed military venture against Iran.

Both of these statements reflect Trump's despair at having no visibility on what to do as he faces the competing trajectories of a failed war in Iran and a looming disaster in the November midterms. The American population is against the war, but more dangerously for Trump, it is very unpopular with his herd-of-moron base.

The more Trump escalates the war with Iran, the more risks he takes on the economy and on the elections. He also risks losing the support of his Arab Gulf Girls who are increasingly targets of Iranian retaliations. A sense of panic has now seized these "allies" because Iran is not only targeting the US bases there (from which US strikes are launched against Iran), it is beginning to target key infrastructure facilities (e.g. desalination plants).

But if Trumps backs down on Iran to rescue the economy (which he attempted with the MoU), he would be admitting defeat which is also nefarious for the Republican chances at the midterms and for his legacy.

Cornered between two negative options, it appears Trump is leaning to risk it all, which explains his resumption of strikes against Iran which has taken control of the war via its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. At the very least, and absent any direct attempt at toppling an Iranian regime that Netanyahu falsely told him would be a low hanging fruit, Trump is no longer thinking about ensuring a Republican victory in November and is more focused on saving his own legacy as a "strong" president who doesn't back down.

Someone said yesterday that Trump is like a 2-year old who lost his toy. His tantrum indicates he is willing to consider an election disaster as a foregone liability out of the impasse, since a continuation of the war closer to Election Day will reignite the war's inflationary impact on fuel and living costs and will meet with disgruntled MAGA voters whom he promised not to get into "forever wars overseas".

Many experts blame Trump's cowardice for signing a rushed MoU in a reflexive move to avoid economic recession and possibly depression, another sign that the war was launched without any plausible strategy to ensuring some success.

No one in the administration seems to be considering the "nuclear" option of a land invasion of Iran (for example, Kharg Island) as way out of the impasse, because the risks there are even greater of more escalation and loss of life.

Meanwhile, the Iranians themselves seem to have also reached their penultimate level of despair. Their increasingly menacing threats against the US Arab Gulf allies (and other Arab countries like Jordan) could unravel decades of cementing western (and American in particular) influence over the region. At some point, the shimmer and glimmer of the small emirates might begin to fade as the thousands of foreign expatriates who actually make the Gulf economies tick are beginning to leave, fearing for their lives and their livelihoods.

Trump's Own Words: I am Corrupt and I don't Care

I really believe that Donald Dumb ran for, and became, President not for politics, perhaps a bit for a streety racist ideology, but more importantly he became president to make money and to enrich himself. This whole Trump presidency was yet another of his money-making enterprises that failed and went bankrupt (Trump University, Atlantic City casinos....).

Donald Dumb's business entities have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection six times between 1991 and 2014. Will he cause the American State to file for bankruptcy? 
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How one day put conflicts of interest around Trump in stark relief
Analysis by Aaron Blake, CNN
Fri, July 17, 2026

Whether President Donald Trump and those around him are corruptly enriching themselves during his second term is a matter of personal judgment. Many Americans seem to think the president at least is.

But what is incontrovertible is that he and his team are doing almost nothing to disabuse people of that notion. Indeed, they seem to be increasingly leaning in on the idea that Trump can do whatever he wants — and that apparent conflicts of interest just don't matter.

Thursday was a case in point for how in-your-face this dynamic has become, with several stories about potentially profiting from the presidency, or proximity to it.

The first was a CNN investigation finding Trump has used his Truth Social account to promote more than 20 companies just days after buying stock in those same companies. He sometimes even announced government action that would benefit the companies.

The second was that, for the first time, we got details on a White House aide potentially engaging in insider trading using prediction markets. Trump's teleprompter operator made more than $90,000 by betting on what Trump would say in speeches and at events, according to a source. The news follows months of suspiciously well-timed trades making big money ahead of major Trump moves.

And the third — the pièce de resistance, which effectively combines the above bits of potential corruption — is that Trump's business is now going to let Wall Street firms pay to get quicker access to his Truth Social posts and try to make more money trading on them.

If that last one sounds like an uncharitable summary, it's not.

Trump, through his revocable trust, is the largest shareholder in the Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social. And Trump Media just announced that a new data feed, known as an API, will be for sale next month.

The API gives firms real-time data from the 10 most popular Truth Social accounts — the most popular of which is, of course, Trump's. Such firms use these feeds to scan for signals and execute trades automatically, before other investors can catch up.

Trump routinely uses his Truth Social account to make major announcements and send signals about his intentions.

Often, those signals actually seem intended to move markets. Witness just how much his posts about the Iran war were timed as markets were opening or closing for the weekend.

[See: https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/07/trump-opens-another-boutique-at-white.html

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https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2026/07/how-trump-tribe-is-cashing-in-big-time.html]

And in announcing the new API, Trump Media actually played up how much Truth Social impacts the markets.

"Markets already move on Truth Social posts," said Kevin McGurn, its interim CEO.

He added that the API would provide a more instantaneous feed of the platforms "most market-moving Truths," adding that it was part of a strategy to "monetize proprietary assets."

Other social networks sell access to their APIs. But Truth Social is different. It is not only largely owned by Trump, but its platform, which has struggled mightily financially, has one asset that is far and away its most valuable: the president's own posts. This new initiative is, in large part, "monetize[ing]" those posts, specifically. And the beneficiary, financially, could be Trump himself.

There is a major apparent conflict of interest here. The more Trump moves markets with what he says on Truth Social, the more incentive there could be to buy this API, and the more money could go to Trump. CNN has reached out to the White House.

It was certainly ironic that the announcement about Truth Social came on the same day we learned someone at the White House may already have been profiting off early access to information from Trump — his words. Longtime teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez is being investigated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for potential insider trading on a prediction site. (CNN has reached out to Perez, who has cooperated with the investigation, one source said.)

There's no evidence that Trump knew what Perez was doing ahead of Thursday. After the story came out, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters the president was aware of the reports and "he believes it's deeply unfortunate and frankly a disgrace." The White House has previously warned staffers against insider trading, and Leavitt said Perez had been placed on unpaid administrative leave.

On Trump's stocks, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly emphasized that they are managed by third parties, not Trump. But he can still be aware of which stocks are being bought and sold. "President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public," Kelly said, adding: "There are no conflicts of interest."

Of course, Trump has made little secret that he doesn't much mind how all of this looks.

As this May piece from Tangle's Isaac Saul lays out, there are myriad potential conflicts of interest between Trump's and his family's businesses, and Trump's official actions as president. Favors for foreign countries have repeatedly overlapped with them doing business with Trump's family. And that doesn't even get to the more than $1 billion Trump made on cryptocurrency last year.

And when asked in January by The New York Times why he's been so cavalier about mixing politics and business, Trump gave some telling responses.

"I found out that nobody cared; I'm allowed to," Trump said. He added that he declined to have his companies stop doing business abroad, as he did last time he was president, "because I got no credit in the first term."

It's as if he's daring people and Americans to start to care. Thursday reinforces how these questions might start getting harder and harder to ignore.

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Trump Opens Another Boutique at White House: Access to Security Info Impacting Stocks

Trump media firm plans to sell high speed access to Truth Social posts

Trump's media company is planning to charge for special high-speed access to Truth Social posts, including possibly his own affecting national security and financial markets.

The move announced Thursday would allow Wall Street trading firms and other institutions to get news from Truth Social contributors in milliseconds so they could profit off subsequent moves in stocks, bonds and interest rates. The most popular Truth Social poster is the president himself and, as the biggest shareholder of the public traded parent company, he would directly benefit.

"He's selling expedited, privileged access to information about what he is doing as president," said Kathleen Clark of Washington University School of Law and an expert in government conflicts of interest rules. "It's yet more brazen corruption, an improper exploitation of government power to enrich himself."

The Trump family company declined to comment about whether the new feature is profiting off the presidency.

Pete Hegseth's Nazi Methods to Improve Combativity of US Troops

The manly man, Pete Hegseth, a drunkard womanizer who was personally saved by Jesus (hahahahaaaa) gets his inspirations for policies from the Nazi playbook. Nazi scientists did test testosterone and other anabolic steroids on German soldiers during World War II to increase aggressiveness and physical strength. You might read some literature from Nazi apologists that that "theory" was debunked (you never learn how and by whom) as if merely saying so makes it a truth. Propagandists always inject into the news stream fake stories debunking historical facts as a way to cast a shadow of doubt on them. Zionists are the quintessential performers of this sort of revisionism of history on the Question of Palestine and its rape by foreign Zionist settlers from Europe.

After the synthesis of testosterone in 1935 by Nazi chemist Adolf Butenandt, steroids became one more tool in the eugenics programs the Nazis excelled at to improve the white Aryan race and prove its superiority over other races. They tested steroids on concentration camp prisoners first, then on their own soldiers to improve their combativeness and aggressivity. For example, the Nazis had a large-scale program of giving their soldiers pills of methamphetamine (Pervitin) to keep them alert and aggressive.

And now, the neo-Nazi-in-disguise, the drunkard womanizing white supremacist "Department of War" secretary Pete Hegseth, has been inspired by all the Nazi achievements - despite their brutality and inhumanity and their ultimate crushing defeat. He wants, like the Nazis did, to test US soldiers for their testosterone levels and find a "remedy" to this deficiency by, say, injecting soldiers with the male hormone to raise their level of aggressivity up to his standards of manliness and warmongering. Alternatively, he will demote those with low testosterone and perhaps even fire them.

Then again, as soldiers are increasingly fighting away from the battlefield, using joy sticks instead of rifles, and working from behind screens, all thanks to the same science and technology that Hegseth and his imbecile boss (and also the voodoo shaman RFK Jr.) have been undermining, one wonders what is the point of such a primitive method. Wonder no more: The Nazis did it, therefore I, the neo-Nazi moron Pete Hegseth, must copy it.

One wonders too what his scintillating policy will do with female soldiers who are naturally deficient in testosterone!

In one of his songs, Bob Dylan says "Join the army if you fail". Now many, though not all, soldiers become soldiers to serve. But many do so because they're poor, uneducated, or for a salary or because they don't know what to do with their lives. In fact thousands of foreign immigrants join the army in order to obtain a green card and become US citizens. So, before you decide whether to join the army, read below about what Pete Hegseth will do to you if you fail the testosterone test. Of course you could cheat by pre-injecting yourself before the test and pass. 

Here is what AI says about testosterone injections:

Testosterone injections can be harmful, particularly due to an increased short-term risk of cardiovascular events, stroke, heart attack, and death compared to topical forms like gels or patches.

Key risks associated with testosterone injections include:

Cardiovascular Issues: Injections cause "spikes" of super-normal testosterone levels, which research links to higher risks of heart problems, blood clots, and pulmonary embolism compared to sustained-release methods.

Serious Side Effects: Misuse or high doses can lead to liver disease, seizures, hypertension, and infertility (shrunken testicles, reduced sperm production).

Mental Health Effects: Users may experience aggression, mania, depression, hallucinations, or suicidal thoughts, alongside withdrawal symptoms like irritability and extreme tiredness if stopped suddenly.

Allergic & Respiratory Reactions: Specific formulations like testosterone undecanoate (Aveed) carry a risk of pulmonary oil microembolism (POME) and life-threatening anaphylaxis, requiring post-injection medical monitoring.

Prostate & Growth Risks: Therapy may stimulate benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), accelerate existing prostate cancer, or cause premature bone maturation in children, leading to stunted adult height.

Here's an after-thought, though, typical of the endemic corruption in MAGA's upper ranks. What if Hegseth and Trump and associates have stakes in testosterone-making companies? Compelling hundreds of thousands of young Americans to subject themselves to chemical mutilation could be a source of immense profits. 

Far-Fetched? Think again. Trump uses that tactic with warmongering. Why do you think Trump is one day a hawk on Iran (stocks tumble, he buys) then becomes a dove two days later (stocks rally, he sells)?

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Pete Hegseth says soldiers over age 30 to be screened for testosterone deficiency
Marina Dunbar
Wed, July 15, 2026


Defense secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled plans for a new screening program for testosterone deficiency among troops that will work to ensure service members have the 'right testosterone levels' to perform at their optimal condition. Photograph: Ümit Bektaş/Reuters

Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the Department of Defense will offer testosterone deficiency screening for soldiers 30 and older.

The US defense secretary unveiled plans for a new screening program for testosterone deficiency among troops that will work to ensure service members have the "right testosterone levels" to perform at their optimal condition in a video posted to X.

"I'm authorizing a new screening program for testosterone deficiency for our service members, ensuring you have the right testosterone levels to operate at your absolute best," Hegseth said in the video.

"As we know, the modern battlefield is brutal and unrelenting," he added. "It requires and demands maximum psychological and mental readiness, and by addressing these health markers early, we're keeping you on the leading edge of lethality, and giving you the same level of support that you give this nation – the absolute best."


"Warfighters" aged 30 and above will undergo annual tests as part of their health assessments, while those under 30 can choose to opt in, Hegseth said. Treatment, including testosterone replacement therapy, is voluntary and aimed at "restoring and optimizing" natural capabilities.

The initiative will prioritize long-term health, aimed at making sure troops remain "strong and resilient" for their entire lives. Hegseth also said that this program is part of the department's commitment to providing "elite medical care" and maintaining the physical and mental readiness required for modern combat.

Hegseth is not the first member of the Trump administration to address the so-called "crisis" of low testosterone, or "low T". Robert F Kennedy Jr, the 72-year-old health secretary, has spoken about injecting testosterone as part of his personal "anti-ageing regimen". In October, he warned, without evidence, that today's American teenagers have "50% of the testosterone of a 65-year-old man".

Testosterone, and concerns about a shortage thereof, has become a political fixation on the right. Alternative media commentators such as Tucker Carlson have decried a crisis of masculinity in films such as The End of Men, while influencers promote "T-maxxing" and direct-to-consumer testosterone injections.

In a statement, the American Urological Association said it "appreciates the Administration's understanding of the importance of screening men for testosterone deficiency", although "the diagnosis of testosterone deficiency should not be based on a single blood test alone."

Rather, the association said such a test could serve as a "baseline value" for individuals "who warrant further evaluation". The association also cautioned that a diagnosis of low-testosterone should not be made on one test alone, but rather based on symptoms and two separate tests.

The Trump administration has decried the use of hormones in gender affirming care, including both testosterone and estrogen, as "chemical and surgical mutilation". Hegseth's announcement did not address the more than 231,000 women who serve as active duty service members in the US military.

According to research published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, young men are being aggressively targeted online by influencers and wellness companies promoting hormone tests and treatments as essential to being a "real man", despite screening for low testosterone being medically unwarranted in most people in this age group.

Jessica Glenza contributed reporting

Ready for more Trump Onanism on Six-Year-Old MAGA Stolen Election Hoax?

Not only will the senile old imbecile masturbate publicly tonight on his "stolen election" hoax and denial of his utter defeat in the 2020 elections, but he will invite more MAGA morons to join him as he prepares to unveil his new plan to lie and cheat, again, in order to deny his upcoming defeat in the November midterms and in 2028.

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After six years, Trump brings his election obsession to primetime at the White House
NICHOLAS RICCARDI
Thu, July 16, 2026 


President Donald Trump speaks at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., during the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

In the weeks after Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, the people that Trump appointed to run the Department of Justice, cybersecurity agencies and intelligence departments all said the same thing — the election was fair, legitimate and free of major fraud or foreign interference.

In his second term, Trump has tried to use the levers of power to rewrite that well-settled history, something that he's expected to try again on Thursday night with an address to the nation.

He has already appointed loyalists who have echoed his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and made clear he expects everyone to follow his lead.

In an indication of how fealty to Trump's lies has become a litmus test for his administration, many of his nominees have steadfastly refused to directly answer the question of who won in 2020, preferring to tersely note that Biden became president. Jay Clayton, Trump's nominee to become the next national intelligence director, was the latest to repeat that formula in his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

"He had the most electoral votes," Clayton said of Biden. "He was declared the winner."

"And who has the most electoral votes? Is it the person who wins or the person who loses?" asked Sen. Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat.

"That's your characterization," Clayton responded. "I'm not going to continue to do this."

The president has embraced baroque conspiracy theories about an international cabal that penetrated U.S. voting machines that have led to libel suits against his allies when they've repeated the claims.

Ahead of his speech, Trump has teased "really big news" and said "it doesn't get bigger, because without free and fair elections, you don't have a country."

Election experts fear another round of falsehoods.

"There has been six-plus years of consistent findings from the intelligence community and from everyone who's looked at it that there was no foreign interference in 2020, and our voting systems were secure and accurate," said Victoria Bassetti of States United, a nonpartisan group supporting the state officials who run elections. "I suppose the president could come up with some new assertion or new conclusion. It would fly in the face of all the evidence."
Huge range of reviews find same thing: No major fraud

There's been an enormous amount of reviews of the 2020 election. Trump and his allies lost dozens of court cases challenging the results, sometimes before judges the president appointed himself. Numerous audits, recounts and investigations, including several by Republicans, found no major problems with the vote or count.

Trump's own attorney general at the time, William Barr, said there were no signs of significant fraud, a statement that earned him Trump's ire. Trump's appointee to run the agency that watches for cyberattacks on American election infrastructure, Chris Krebs, declared that the 2020 election was secure and there were no signs of tampering — which led Trump to fire Krebs and demand an investigation of him upon returning to power in 2025.

An intelligence assessment released in the early days of the Biden administration but completed on Jan. 7, 2021, in Trump's last days in office, found no foreign tampering with vote totals or election equipment in 2020. And, last year, Trump signed a federal document as part of a regular review of possible foreign influence in elections that declared "there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcome or vote tabulation in any United States election."
'Untold taxpayer resources' re-investigating the election

Since returning to office, Trump has launched a review of the 2020 vote. Federal agents have seized voting records in Democratic-run Fulton County, Georgia, and Republican-run Maricopa County, Arizona — two major metropolitan swing state counties that figured prominently in 2020 conspiracy theories.

Trump tapped Kurt Olsen, a prominent lawyer in the world of election conspiracy theorists, to head the probe. Olsen was previously sanctioned by the Arizona Supreme Court for false statements in a lawsuit he brought to challenge the 2022 loss of an Arizona governor's race by one of Trump's allies.

"He has committed untold taxpayer resources," said David Becker, a former Department of Justice lawyer who now leads the Center for Election Integrity & Research. "They've found nothing."

A search warrant affidavit filed in the Fulton County case was full of old, debunked conspiracy theories about the vote in the county. The FBI reassigned hundreds of analysts to go through the material.

Conspiracy theories have led to libel cases

Still, election conspiracy theorists have been buzzing — as they have ever since Election Day in 2020 — that Trump is about to reveal irrefutable evidence of massive election fraud.

One version alleges that Venezuela and possibly other countries manipulated U.S. voting machines to deprive Trump of a victory. Venezuela's former president, Nicolas Maduro, is currently awaiting trial in Manhattan on federal charges of drug trafficking after the U.S. military took him from that country's capital.

Those theories have led to massive payouts in libel lawsuits brought by voting machine companies and others. Fox News paid $787.5 million to settle one lawsuit over it airing those claims and others on the air in late 2020. Conservative networks Newsmax and One America News have also reached settlements with voting companies over airing those allegations.

A Denver jury found that Mike Lindell, a prominent election conspiracy theorist who Trump this week endorsed as a Republican candidate for governor in Minnesota, defamed an employee with a voting machine company by calling him a traitor.

Becker noted there has been a clear pattern over the six years of election conspiracy theories surrounding Trump's loss. Conspiracy theorists, including Trump himself, make sweeping allegations in public, sometimes with what seems to be massive reams of documentation from elaborate election databases. But they've lost regularly in court, where the threshold is whether there's any factual basis to the claims.

He suggested that anything new from Trump on elections be subjected to that same scrutiny.

"If someone's alleging a crime that occurred six years ago, we shouldn't be responding to their claims," Becker said. "We should be demanding they meet the burden of proof."

Trump's Message to ICE: Please Kill More Innocent Dark-skinned People in the Streets

Trump says ICE won't halt traffic stops after recent fatal shootings
Reuters
Updated Wed, July 15, 2026



WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said federal immigration agents won't end vehicle stops, one day after officials announced a ‌temporary pause in such stops after agents fatally shot two men in ‌Texas and Maine.

"We must be strong, tough, and smart, and we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.'s most ​important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!" Trump wrote in a social media post.

On Tuesday, Trump administration officials said the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency had ordered its officers to suspend most vehicle stops around the country after two men were ‌shot and killed by ICE ⁠agents during such stops six days apart.

An ICE agent on Monday killed a driver from Colombia in the coastal Maine town of ⁠Biddeford, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Portland. An ICE officer in Houston on July 7 fatally shot a Mexican national while trying to stop his vehicle.

"It's not a policy ​change, ​it's a temporary pause," Trump's border czar Tom ​Homan told Fox News Channel ‌in an interview on Tuesday referring to the vehicle stop suspension.

"This is going to be a short-term review to make sure ICE agents are safe and doing the right thing," Homan told the television network, adding that officers will use other options to make arrests.

The back-to-back shootings sparked protests in Maine, Houston and Boston and raised questions ‌over ICE agents' lack of body cameras.

The U.S. ​Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, has ​characterized both men as "illegal aliens" but ​acknowledged neither was the intended target of deportation operations that led ‌to their deaths.

Federal authorities have offered no ​evidence to support ​contentions that either man posed a threat to ICE agents or the public at large justifying the use of lethal force to stop them.

At least seven ​people have been shot dead ‌during federal immigration enforcement operations since January 2025, when Trump launched mass ​deportations after returning to office following campaign promises of an immigration crackdown.

(Reporting ​by Susan Heavey; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama )

[Updated]: Democrat Party Should Get Rid of Chameleon Fetterman and his Disgusting Looks

[Update]: According to THE HILL, a majority of Democrats wants to throw Fetterman out of the party.

More than half of Pennsylvania voters wish Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) would leave the Democrat Party. Fetterman is not a centrist. He's not an independent. He's a Republican Trojan Horse pretending to be a Democrat. Now most Americans see through jerks like this (Joe Manchin is another one): 57 percent of Democrats, 55 percent of Republicans and 46 percent of independents want him out of the Democrat Party. Fetterman has often voted with Republicans on Capitol Hill and has been constantly critical of his party, so why doesn't he switch and stop playing a double agent game?

Not surprisingly, Donald Dumb's approval rating in Pennsylvania has plummeted, with just 39 percent feeling satisfied with his job handling and 58 percent disapproving. Since the chameleon Fetterman has consistently voted with Trump, he can ponder where his own future lies.

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John Fetterman has not grown up yet. He's stuck in his teenage years with an underdeveloped brain, constantly changing his looks because he's immature and doesn't know who he is or what he wants. 

Nearly every position John Fetterman has taken on nearly every issue has been against the Democrats and with the MAGA republican morons. Why is he still in the Democrat Party? If he has any backbone, the chubby moron should get out of the way so the Democrats find a substitute to run for his Senate seat in 2028.

The man knows it is downhill from now for the MAGA inbred degenerates. By 2028, he will be seen as a traitor by the Democrats who will not forgive him. He'll find himself clutching to the tailcoats of residual MAGA morons to get re-elected. Or maybe, he'll go back to his shed in the backwoods of Pennsylvania.

Fetterman's principles are not even in a compromise centrist grey zone. He is a full-fledged MAGA moron, obese to boot, dumb as a doorknob, always dressed like a teenage gangster that never grew up in shorts and hoodie, and with an on-off mustache and a dirty goatee.

His latest pukogenic nauseating position is in support of the genocidal Zionist colony in Palestine, which he is using to blackmail the Democrats. Given the massive lurch of the American people against the genocidal Zionists, after witnessing the barbarian killing of 100,000 innocent Palestinians by Holocaust survivors, the ethnic cleansing taking place every day in illegally-occupied Palestine, and the deliberate starvation and mass-murder of Palestinian children, the Democrat Party should have no place for criminal apologists like Fetterman. 

If this fatso baldie is unhappy to be with the Democrats, then the hell with him. Good riddance. Unprincipled fence-sitters like him are a Trojan horse that should not be trusted. The moment in America is no longer for centrist, ambiguous, watered down and treasonous positions: We need a clear and tough stance by the Democrats against the clear tough stance of the MAGA republicans. 

Get rid of him.

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Fetterman warns he would leave Democratic Party if it turns its back on Israel
Alexander Bolton
Wed, July 15, 2026


Fetterman warns he would leave Democratic Party if it turns its back on Israel

Maverick Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has said he has "no plans" to leave the Democratic Party, but he warned on Wednesday that if Democrats completely turn their backs on U.S. support for Israel, that would cross a red line that could push him out of the party.

"If our party ever becomes — and just makes it official — the anti-Israel party, that's when I would leave because that's been a moral clarity for me," he said during an interview at the Hill Nation Summit in Washington.

Fetterman said he "can't understand why the Democratic Party" — which shares an array of values with Israel as an important democracy in the Middle East — would turn against a long-standing ally.

The Pennsylvania Democrat says he has a major "concern" over the trajectory of many Democrats who have become increasingly critical of U.S. aid for Israel amid growing pressure from the party's progressive base.

"My long-term concern has been with the Democratic Party, as I am a member of that, is that our party is going to back away and turn their back to Israel," he said.

Fetterman cited Democratic support for an amendment sponsored by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to cut off $3.3 billion in annual security assistance to Israel and the success of progressive candidates who are harshly critical of Israel in Democratic primaries.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) and House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (Mass.), the No. 1 and No. 2 ranking House Democrats, split over Massie's amendment, with Jeffries opposing it and Clark supporting it.

Fetterman said Clark's support for the amendment reflects a trend in the broader party.

"You look at the kinds of individuals that are winning our recent primaries," he said. "It's becoming more anti-, anti-Israel and hostile to people" who are pro-Israel.

He criticized fellow Democrats who "are trying to ingratiate ourselves with that segment of the base of our voters are intensely, intensely anti-Israel."

Fetterman acknowledged he has been approached by Republicans about leaving the Democratic Party but declined to divulge "private conversations."

The senator expressed concern over progressive candidate Abdul El-Sayed's strong performance in polls in the Michigan Senate Democratic primary. He warned that Democrats will have to pour millions of additional dollars into the battleground state to be competitive in November if he is the nominee.

"Rogers just barely, barely lost in '24," Fetterman said, referring to former Rep. Mike Rogers (R), the Republican candidate who narrowly lost the 2024 Michigan Senate race.

"If El-Sayed wins, then that puts Michigan much more in play for us and would require us to spend more money. What's defined El-Sayed is the more anti-Israel and hostile-to-Israel thing," Fetterman said.

He also criticized El-Sayed and other progressive candidates' past comments expressing support for the "defund the police" movement, questioning whether Democrats truly learned the lessons of losing the 2024 presidential election.

"Now here's more Democrats to 'defund the police.' Here we are back to part of the worst impulses that we just can't resist. We forgot the crazy things that we said, and that cost us the election in 2024. Now we want to revisit that — if anything they're coming back in the strongest kind of terms. Look at the people who are winning," he said.

Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist candidate backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), deleted a social media account in which she called for abolishing police, borders and prisons, and claimed Israel doesn't exist. Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old activist, defeated Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.) in the Democratic primary for New York's 13th Congressional District.

Fetterman also expressed frustration with fellow Democratic senators who backed progressive insurgent candidate Graham Platner in the critical Maine Senate race, despite the fact that he was not carefully vetted and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) had intensively recruited Democratic Gov. Janet Mills to run for the Maine Senate seat.

Fetterman said he was "angry" that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) championed Platner so forcefully and was reluctant to withdraw his support even after The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported in early June troubling allegations about the candidate's past behavior.

"As a Democrat, I am angry at people like Bernie Sanders, that pushed that accused rapist. Why did so many people on that left embrace that accused rapist?" he said, referring to Platner.

"What was the appeal? Was it no record in public service? Was it the record of the Nazi ink? Was it the crazy things he said online? What was the appeal, roughing up his ex-girlfriends?" he asked.

"Why did you push these people? Why did you buy in and then plunge that most consequential Senate race now into chaos?" Fetterman fumed, arguing the implosion of Platner's campaign has made it "more difficult" to beat Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and win control of the Senate.

Fetterman demanded to know why his Democratic colleagues haven't apologized for backing Platner.

Platner ended his campaign after Jenny Racicot, a 41-year-old Maine woman, accused him of raping her in 2021.

"Did Van Hollen apologize to the victim? I don't know, I didn't see it. The same with Bernie," Fetterman said, referring to Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), a member of the group of Senate Democratic progressives who call themselves the "Fight Club," and who initially backed Platner but then withdrew his support along with many other Democrats.

"Where's the accountability?" Fetterman asked. "Imagine if I would have done that and pushed that kind of individual."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday dodged questions about whether she regretted backing Platner but made it clear that she called for him to end his campaign.

"I asked Platner to withdraw from the race. He has withdrawn. Now it's time for us to get a candidate in Maine and to take back the majority here in the Senate," she said.

The Battle is Not Between Weak Pseudo-Centrist Democrats and Real Democrats

When you have a Radical Extremist Right-Wing Fascist in power who is in the process of dismantling everything America stands for, the moment is not for weak elitist traditionalist "business-as-usual" Democrats to claim to be centrists. Enough of Fetterman-like Republican chameleons camouflaged as Democrats under a hooded sweatshirt.

When the Right-wing have seized power by cheating and lying to the American people in order to implement their neo-KKK racist, extremist white supremacist, Christian nationalist, agenda (Project 2025), it behooves the shy and timid Democrats to stop playing defense against Donald Trump's rape of America and adopt a more aggressive stance to assert their rightful place in American politics.

Have those who claim to be centrist Democrats allied themselves with those centrist Republicans who have, for the past ten years, enabled, protected and kept the gates open for the Trump barbarians to raid the henhouse and turn it into an uncivilized banana republic?

As long as the establishment GOP keeps protecting Trump and toeing the line behind his destruction of America, there is no need for Democrats to move to the center. THERE ARE NO CENTRIST REPUBLICANS ANYMORE. WHY SHOULD THERE BE CENTRIST DEMOCRATS?

Contrary to Trump's Fascist propaganda, the Democratic Socialists are not the terrifying communists he wants to use as a scarecrow to force, once again, the average American into submission to his radicalized and un-American America. The Democratic Socialists are the exact counterweight needed to stop the Right-wing barbarians from continuing their rape of the country.

The "centrist" Democrats want to jump into the swamp, not drain it. They want to go back to the good old days of chumming with centrist Republicans. 

But THERE ARE NO CENTRIST REPUBLICANS TO CHUM WITH ANY LONGER. For ten years, these centrist Republicans have disrobed and exposed themselves for the barbarian lackeys of Donald Trump. How can any Democrat trust them?

The stunning victories by Socialist and Progressive candidates in congressional districts in New York City and Colorado have revealed the thirst by the American people for an assertive Democrat Party with the muscle to stand up and confront the right-wing extremism that inhabits the White House. Centrist Democrats have proven themselves poor opponents of Donald Trump.

In the Midwest, first-time Democrat Socialist candidate Melat Kiros beat to a pulp 15-term establishment "centrist" Democrat Diana DeGette in last week's primary in Denver's 1st Congressional District.

A trio of genuine (not fake) Democratic congressional candidates' victories, all backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, have emboldened progressives as they try to turn their upsets into a national campaign against Donald Trump's radical Far-Right GOP slaves and vassals.

Former Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri predicted that St. Louis will repeat the Colorado upset. Bush is running to win back her seat in the St. Louis 1st Congressional District. The genuine Democrats have also set their eyes on Michigan, which holds its primary on the same day as Missouri on Aug. 4. Then on Aug. 11, Wisconsin, which used to be the capital of socialist America in the early 20th century, will hold its primary elections. That's where DSA-backed state Rep. Francesca Hong is on the rise among a crowded field of candidates in the race to succeed retiring Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

This wave of progressive wins after a disastrous, incompetent and treasonous right-wing Trump decade is a bellwether of where the country stands. We need rational policies that lift the Trump-degraded middle class back to the center and sets the wealthy billionaires back from their grand theft of America.

It's undeniable that progressives are gaining momentum and attention, and that is because the American people have finally seen the hypocrisy of Trump's Far Right extremism and are listening to solutions like "Medicare-for-all," the Green New Deal, higher taxes on the rich and abolishing ICE-GESTAPO.

Here is a list of the up-and-coming Democrats who have the mojo to trash the scheming, cheating, neo-KKK dick-taitor and his followers. I don't care what you call them, Socialists, Progressives, Working Families Party, or whatever, as long as they are willing to fight Trump and his Republican Mafia tooth and nail. They are the REAL GENUINE DEMOCRATS who no longer want to go back to the extinct compromise-based approach to politics that the Republican Trump-asskissers have dismantled for no return as they cowered in fear of the Great Moron in the White Outhouse. I care for their message of bringing justice and real democracy for the many and not for the few to the vast majority of Americans, of lifting the middle class out of the mendacious situation in which Trump has thrown them as he, his family and his friends make billions and billions over their backs and over every ounce of decency that this country has always had.

Charles Booker - Kentucky Senate
Working Families Party (WFP)-backed Charles Booker is making his third bid for the Senate in red-leaning Kentucky. Booker defeated Amy McGrath in last May's primary and is the underdog in the general election against GOP Rep. Andy Barr. The winner will succeed Trump's butler in the Senate Mitch McConnell who is, thank God, dying after four decades or radical right-winging there. I have no qualms expressing no empathy for a dying old man because that is exactly what Trump does.

Bob Brooks - Pennsylvania 7th Congressional District
Brooks won the May Democratic primary in a swing district in northeast Pennsylvania, and is challenging incumbent GOP Rep. Ryan Mackenzie in a midterm race.

Connie Chan - California 11th Congressional District
Chan, an immigrant born in Hong Kong (which will be obviously used by the neanderthal MAGA Republicans to undermine her), serves on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She is running to succeed retiring former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Fellow Democrat Scott Wiener, a state senator, will face off with Chan in the general election in November.

Darializa Avila Chevalier - New York 13th Congressional District
Chevalier, a DSA member who was also backed by the Justice Democrats, stunned political circles from coast to coast in the June New York primary by ousting incumbent Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Chevalier is a down-to-earth common-sense community organizer who has not feared, like so many Zionist-terror-stricken Americans, criticizing the infallible genocidal Golden Calf, Israel, is considered the overwhelming favorite in the general election favorite in northern Manhattan and the Bronx.

Alissa Ellman - New York 24th Congressional District
Ellman, a U.S. Army veteran, won the June Democratic primary in the upstate New York congressional district. Ellman, who worked at the Veterans Administration before being fired by Elon Musk's DOGE cuts, faces Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney whose victory is no longer assured in the traditionally red district of Upstate New York.

Chris Galant - New York 1st Congressional District
Galant won the Democratic nomination in New York's June primary and will face off with the MAGA-establishment GOP Rep. Nick LaLota in eastern end and north shore of Long Island.

Aaron Gies - New York 23rd Congressional District
A college professor, Geis is another candidate supported by the WFP that won his Democratic primary election in New York in a landslide. He will confront a corrupt traditionalist pro-Trump incumbent MAGA Republican Nick Langworthy in western New York.

Angela Gonzales-Torres - California 34th Congressional District
Gonzales-Torres, a former neighborhood council president who also worked in the Los Angeles mayor's office, advanced to the general election in last month's California primary. Gonzales-Torres will likely defeat incumbent centrist Democrat Jimmy Gomez in the solidly blue congressional district anchored in Los Angeles.

Deb Haaland - New Mexico governor
Haaland, a former congresswoman who made history as the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary during her tenure running the Interior Department in then-President Joe Biden's administration, is the Democratic nominee for New Mexico governor. Haaland is considered the favorite as she faces off in the general election against Republican Gregg Hull in the southwestern district of the state.

Pat Halpin - New York 2nd Congressional District
Halpin, is the Democratic congressional nominee for a seat that covers the central portions of Long Island's South Shore. Halpin will certainly defeat the incumbent MAGA rep. Andrew Garbarino in the general election.

Adam Hamawy - New Jersey 12th Congressional District
Hamawy is a former U.S. Army combat surgeon who grabbed attention in 2024 as part of a volunteer team of American doctors who went to Gaza to alleviate the suffering of the innocent Palestinians from the Zionist genocide there. Hamawy won the party's congressional primary in the race to succeed retiring Progressive Democratic Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman.

Frederick Douglass Haynes III - Texas 30th Congressional District
Haynes, the senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, won the March Democratic primary in a landslide in the race to succeed Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who unsuccessfully ran for the Senate instead of seeking re-election. Haynes is the overwhelming favorite against MAGA Republican Everett Jackson in a district in the southern portions of Dallas.

Melat Kiros - Colorado 1st Congressional District
The DSA-endorsed Kiros defeated establishment Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette, who has served in Congress for 30 years representing the Denver seat. The 29-year-old first-time candidate and attorney, who is also backed by the JD and WFP, will certainly win now in the Democrat-dominated district.

Brad Lander - New York 10th Congressional District
Supported by Mamdani and WFP, Lander ousted incumbent Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman in New York's June primary. The former New York City comptroller ran against Mamdani in last year's mayoral primary before becoming one of his top allies in the general election. Lander is the clear favorite in the general election in the deep blue district which covers lower Manhattan and the northwestern neighborhoods of Brooklyn.

Brian Poindexter - Ohio 7th Congressional District
Poindexter, an iron worker and a councilman in a small city in suburban Cleveland, is backed by the WFP. He'll take on GOP Rep. Max Miller in the right-leaning district in the general election.

Chris Rabb - Pennsylvania 3rd Congressional District
Rabb won the June Pennsylvania primary in the Philadelphia anchored district in the race to succeed retiring Democratic Rep. Dwight Evans. Rabb is the overwhelming favorite in that race.

Claire Valdez - New York 7th Congressional District
Valdez, a state lawmaker endorsed by the DSA, won New York's June congressional primary to succeed retiring Rep. Nydia Velázquez in a district that includes parts of Brooklyn and Queens. Valez defeated Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso for the Democratic nomination and is the clear favorite to win in November in the Democrat-dominated district.

Mai Vang - California 7th Congressional District
Vang, a Sacramento city councilor, slightly edged Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui in the state's June nonpartisan primary. Vang and Matsui will face off again in November's general election for the solidly blue seat, which includes downtown Sacramento and suburban areas.

Randy Villegas - California 22nd Congressional District
Villegas, a school board trustee in the San Joaquin Valley city of Visalia, came in second to MAGA Republican Rep. David Valadao in California's June primary. Villegas, a Democrat, beat fellow Democrat Jasmeet Bains to advance to the general election against Valadao in the crucial swing district race.

Aisha Wahab - California 14th Congressional District
Wahab came in first in California's primary and will face off with fellow Democrat Melissa Hernandez in the general election in the district south and southwest of Oakland. The winner in November will fill the seat left vacant when then-Rep. Eric Swalwell, who was running for governor, ended his campaign and resigned from Congress in April amid scandal involving sexual misconduct allegations.

Rep. Alma Adams - North Carolina 12th Congressional District
Adams has represented a blue district anchored in Charlotte and surrounding Mecklenburg County for nearly a dozen years. Adams cruised to renomination in the early March primary and is considered the clear frontrunner against MAGA challenger Jack Codiga, a finance professional.

Rep. Greg Cesar - Texas 37th Congressional District
Cesar, a former Austin city councilman and chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, currently represents the state's 35th district, but is running for re-election in the recently redrawn 37th District. The Texas MAGA barbarians gerrymandered the districts in a blatant attempt at preventing any Democrat from winning.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal - Washington 7th Congressional District
Jayapal, the first Indian American woman elected to Congress, for a decade has represented a Seattle-based district. Jayapal served as chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus for four years earlier this decade, is very likely to be re-elected in the Pacific Northwest district.

Rep. Tim Kennedy - New York 26th Congressional District
Kennedy represents a western New York district that stretches from Buffalo to Niagara Falls. Kennedy is the favorite for re-election this autumn in his district.

Rep. Ro Khanna - California 17th Congressional District
Khanna, one of the most prominent progressive lawmakers in the House who never shied away from standing up to Trump, was first elected to Congress a decade ago by ousting Democratic incumbent Rep. Mike Honda. Khanna is also a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender and will surely win in the district located in the South Bay and East Bay portions of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Rep. Summer Lee - Pennsylvania 12th Congressional District
Lee, the first Black woman to represent Pennsylvania in Congress, is a former DSA member and part of the Squad. Lee is expected to cruise to re-election this fall in a district that includes much of Pittsburgh and its eastern suburbs.

Rep. John Mannion - New York 22nd Congressional District
A former high school biology teacher, Mannion served as a state lawmaker before winning election to Congress in 2024. Mannion is favored to win re-election in the upstate New York district that includes Syracuse and Utica.

Rep. LaMonica McIver - New Jersey 10th Congressional District
McIver, a former Newark municipal council member, represents an urban and suburban district in northern New Jersey. She drew national attention last year when she was among a group of Democrats attempting to make a congressional oversight visit to an ICE facility in Newark. She was later indicted under orders from Trump himself for "forcibly impeding and interfering with federal officers" during the visit.

Rep. Analilia Mejia - New Jersey 11th Congressional District
Mejia, the co-director of the nonprofit progressive advocacy group, won a special election in April in the race to succeed now Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who stepped down from Congress after winning last November's gubernatorial election. Mejia represents a northern New Jersey seat west of New York City, and is favored to secure a full term in the district.

Rep. Joe Morelle - New York 25th Congressional District
A former New York state Assembly majority leader, Morelle was elected to Congress in 2018. Morelle is on a glide path to re-election in the Democratic-dominated upstate New York district anchored in Rochester.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - New York 14th Congressional District
Eight years after ousting then-House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley in a shocking primary upset, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's political options look brighter than ever. The four-term progressive firebrand from New York City has irked Donald Trump who made sexist remarks about her. She is eyeing a potential 2028 bid for the White House or a possible challenge to longtime Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer whose star has dimmed in his constant attempts to compromise with uncompromising extremist Donald Dumb. Ocasio-Cortez, best known by her acronym AOC, is the most visible member of the Squad. She's expected to cruise to re-election this autumn in a dark blue district that covers parts of the Bronx and Queens.

Rep. Ilhan Omar - Minnesota 5th Congressional District
Omar, the fist Somali American elected to Congress and the first woman of color to represent Minnesota, is also a member of the Squad. Omar is one of the first two Muslim women elected to U.S. Congress. Like AOC, Omar has been a frequent target of Donald Trump's sexist, racist and islamophobic rage. He even accused her of incest to undermine her. Her district includes the entire city of Minneapolis and some of its inner suburbs.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley - Massachusetts 7th Congressional District
Pressley, a former Boston city councilor, won election to Congress in 2018 by ousting longtime Democratic establishment weakling Rep. Michael Capuano in the Democratic primary. The first Black woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts, Pressley is another well-known member of the Squad. She is an overwhelming favorite for re-election in a Democrat-dominated district that includes much of Boston and some of the city's suburbs.

Rep. Delia Ramirez - Illinois 3rd Congressional District
The daughter of undocumented immigrants, Ramirez served as a state lawmaker before winning election to Congress in 2022. Ramirez is all but certain to win re-election this fall in her district that includes neighborhoods in northwestern Chicago and the city's western suburbs.

Rep. Josh Riley - New York 19th Congressional District
Riley is seeking a second term in a competitive and large district located in New York's Catskills, Hudson Valley, greater Capital District, Southern Tier and Finger Lakes regions. He will face off this autumn against Republican state Sen. Peter Oberacker.

Rep. Pat Ryan - New York 18th Congressional District
Ryan, a West Point graduate who served two tours of duty in the Iraq war and was awarded two Bronze Stars, co-founded a software company following his military career and later served as Ulster County executive. Ryan is likely to win re-election this autumn in a district that includes some of New York City's northern suburbs and exurbs, as well as the Hudson Valley cities of Newburg, Kingston, and Poughkeepsie.

Rep. Lateefah Simon - California 12th Congressional District
Simon, who served on Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) board of directors and as a California University System trustee, was elected to Congress in 2024, succeeding longtime Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee. Simon is the first member of Congress known to be born legally blind in both eyes, and the first Muslim member from California. Her re-election is certain in the district that includes Oakland and surrounding Alameda County.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib - Michigan 12th Congressional District
First elected to the House in 2018, Tlaib, along with Ilhan Omar, is one of the first two Muslim women in Congress. A former state lawmaker, Tlaib and fellow Squad member Ocasio-Cortez are the first female DSA members to serve in Congress. Tlaib is expected to easily secure re-election. During her tenure, the Palestinian-born congresswoman has been a vocal critic of both the Trump and Biden administrations, is sharply critical of Israel, and calls for abolishing ICE.

Rep. Paul Tonko - New York 20th Congressional District
A longtime former state lawmaker, Tonko was first elected to Congress in 2008. Known as a staunch progressive, Tonko is heavily favored to win re-election in a left-leaning seat that includes New York's Capital District as well as Saratoga.

Dumb MAGA Morons Prefer Hifalutin Conspiracies to Reason and Science....

Today, America's MAGA idiots are serving a paella of conspiracy theories. Enjoy.

.... No wonder they elected someone just a tad less dumb than them, namely Donald Dumb. But be reassured, he's dumb alright, but he's also a criminal, and that is the dangerous combination that got him elected by those dumber than him, and with which he is wrecking the country.

Remember how the now-repentant MAGA imbecile from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG), said that Jews are already somewhere up in the cosmos  pointing lasers at earth to start wildfires. With a primitive brain like this, how can one believe that these MAGA racist antisemites "love" Israel? In fact, they love Israel not because of its Jews, but in spite of its Jews and for the sole reason that Israel for them is an American military base and the Israeli army is an American militia. Which is why I predict that once they no longer have any use for Israel (when oil and gas dry up in the Arabian desert), they will dump it and move on to new ventures.

Just like her super-moron sister Laura Loomer, MTG is the prototype of the dumb American southerner who believes that God created Southern White Inbred Americans with the mission of running the world and that all other "darker" people are like the animals that the garbage Torah pontificates about, i.e. they are created by God to serve the only real humans, the American white morons, the biblical heirs to the genocidal Hebrew barbarians and their bloody rape of Palestinian Canaan. They believe that their brand of the Christian religion (the Evangelical, which is the latest in a long series of mutations and schisms) is the true one, just like the Muslims who believe that their barbaric monotheistic cult is the latest "revelation" and Mohammed is the "last" prophet, or like the primitive orthodox Jews who still believe that their god Yahweh "chose" them some 3,000 years ago as the Queen Tribe of stinking camel-herding nomads in a barbarism pageant during the Bronze Age.

Here is a Wikipedia rundown of MTG's mind-shattering conspiracy theories (which I think she discovers after a moonshining partouze behind her white trash trailer somewhere in the boonies of the backward state of Georgia:

Greene has promoted Islamophobic, antisemitic, and white supremacist views including the white genocide conspiracy theory, as well as QAnon, and Pizzagate. She has amplified conspiracy theories that allege government involvement in mass shootings in the United States, implicate the Clinton family in murder, and suggest the attacks of 9/11 were a hoax. Before running for Congress, Greene supported calls to execute prominent Democratic Party politicians, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. As a congresswoman, she equated the Democratic Party with Nazis, and compared COVID-19 safety measures to the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Greene promoted Russian propaganda and praised its president Vladimir Putin. Greene identifies as a Christian nationalist.

And now a new "florilège" of conspiracies has emerged after the death of Lady Lindsey and the semi-mysterious disappearance of the very old and senile Senator Mitch McConnell. These southern neo-KKK bastards have such a wild imagination because they lack reason. They do not believe in reason, science and technology and generally use the Torah as the source of all knowledge (like Muslims do with the Koran). Hence, they have to fill the deep crevasses in their shriveled brains (because of brainwashing, inbreeding and methanol fermentation) with stuff they make up.

The interesting thing about these really idiotic people is that they claim to believe in some Big Zombie in the Sky called God. Yet, they never involve "God" as an actor or a conspirator, although he would add a great deal to their theories. After all, He is omnipotent, omniscient and is capable of really weird things like raising the dead or appointing Donald Dumb as president.

The reason they push God out of their conspiracy imaginings is because attributing someone's death to God would be a killer of all their imagined conspiracies. You would assume that when someone dies, a typical Christian (or other numskull religious imbecile) would attribute the death to "God's calling that someone back". But it's never the case with these barbarians.

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GOP conspiracy theories run wild after Lindsey Graham’s death
Analysis by Aaron Blake, CNN
Tue, July 14, 2026


US Sen. Lindsey Graham is seen in an elevator ahead of a vote on Capitol Hill on January 30, 2026 in Washington, DC. - Tom Brenner/Getty Images

Prominent figures in the conservative and MAGA movements have led the charge in spreading baseless conspiracy theories about the absence of Sen. Mitch McConnell and now the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham.

It's part of a pattern in which conspiracy theories about the deaths and ailments of prominent Republicans are increasingly coming from inside the party's own house — with little in the way of efforts to combat it from GOP and MAGA leaders.

At Charlie Kirk's memorial service last year, for example, Tucker Carlson seemed to play footsy with the burgeoning but baseless conspiracy theories that Israel was behind Kirk's killing. He compared the conservative activist's death to "guys sitting around eating hummus" in Jerusalem plotting to kill Jesus Christ.

But save for a few conservative critics, prominent Republicans largely ignored it.

And when Carlson was even more direct last month — saying Kirk "was most likely murdered for his evolving views on Israel," a claim that remains unfounded — Republicans still largely ignored it, despite it coming from a conservative thought leader who is close to Vice President JD Vance.

Republicans have similarly ignored the much more in-your-face campaign to promote this conspiracy theory from the highly popular podcaster Candace Owens.

And some key right-leaning figures have even suggested the assassination attempts against President Donald Trump might not be what they seem.

All of it suggests a GOP base that has become more conspiratorial in the Trump era is turning its theories inward.

The McConnell theories

The McConnell theories began with yet another close ally of the White House, far-right activist Laura Loomer. After the Kentucky Republican had been missing for three weeks with few details from his office, Loomer claimed a source had told her the senator was "brain dead" and "not coming back."

Others in the MAGA movement picked up the ball and ran with it. After one of them alleged that other senators were "ALL in on it together," GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah responded that they "know nothing about his condition."

It got to the point where the cable network NewsNation even asked a House Republican whether McConnell was still alive. Indiana Rep. Marlin Stutzman's response? "I don't know if he's alive or has passed away."

At least some of the blame for feeding these conspiracy theories surely lies with McConnell's office, which resisted disclosing his condition. It ultimately said Sunday, after Graham's death, that McConnell had fallen, had been briefly unconscious and then developed pneumonia. It also released a photo of McConnell in the hospital with his wife and a current newspaper.

Loomer responded by baselessly suggesting the photo had been manipulated.

GOP Sen. Ron Johnson also said in a TV interview Monday afternoon that the McConnell photo might be "an older photo." (He later told reporters that was a "rumor" and to "assume it's false.")

Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Monday called the theories "crazy speculation online." But he also suggested McConnell could help tamp them down.

"But you know, I think that anything he can do to just keep these, you know, crazy conspiracy theories off of the, off the grid, so to speak, I think would be helpful," Thune added.

GOP Sen. John Cornyn of Texas later echoed calls for transparency, telling reporters, "I wish Sen. McConnell and his team had done that earlier. I think it would have resolved a lot of questions."

A wide array of theories about Graham's death

That was only an appetizer for what lay ahead. Graham's death late Saturday night quickly spawned theories on the right that some nefarious foreign government was behind it.

Loomer cited how the South Carolina Republican had just been in Ukraine pushing for sanctions against Russia. Conservative commentator Marc Thiessen cited Russian President Vladimir Putin's alleged assassinations of foes and said it was "not a conspiracy theory to suggest something else might be at play."

Others like Kylie Jane Kremer, who organized rallies to try to help Trump overturn the 2020 election, questioned whether it was Iran, noting that regime has decried the hawkish Graham, too. (Kremer earlier this month accused Trump's foes of manipulating the weather to make the celebration of America's 250th anniversary unbearably hot.)

MAGA activist Matt Van Swol said Graham "dying out of the blue like this doesn't make any sense at all."

Still others pointed the finger, as is often the case, at Israel.

And FBI Director Kash Patel probably didn't help matters by concluding his social media post about Graham's death by saying, "The FBI is assisting local authorities and has made every necessary resource available." Many wondered why the FBI would be needed if Graham died from natural causes. The preliminary cause of death from the medical examiner — an aortic dissection — was trending on the internet.

Cornyn stopped short of advocating the idea that Graham didn't die of natural causes, but he called for the release of a toxicology report to "rule out any foul play."

"Given where he was and the sorts of things he was advocating for, I think we just ought to resolve all those questions by seeing what the toxicology reports show," he said Monday.

Also strikingly, one of those spreading baseless theories that something might not be as it appears was a leader of Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA, which has been a rare force fighting the conspiracy theories about Kirk's own death.

"I'm not sure how a guy goes from visiting a drone production facility in Ukraine to suddenly dying," Turning Point COO Tyler Bowyer posted on X. "Seems like important context."

Trump dismissed conspiracy theories around Graham's death in a Newsmax interview Monday night: "I'd love to say yes, but I think he had some problems," adding that Graham's father "passed away at about the same age."

He went even further Tuesday, saying the FBI is "wasting their time" while downplaying the conspiracy theories.

"I know there's all sorts of conspiracy theories going along, and I don't think the FBI — I think the FBI is wasting their time if they're doing that," Trump told reporters when asked why the agency was looking into the death or if he had gotten any updates.
The Trump and Kirk examples

The conspiracy theories on the right extend to the July 2024 assassination attempt against Trump. A number of figures who have broken with the president have increasingly suggested there was something suspicious about the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania. They include Carlson, former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, former Trump counterterrorism official Joe Kent and podcaster Tim Dillon.

The Justice Department and FBI have said the would-be assassin was Thomas Crooks, who left little in the way of a paper trail but appeared to be suffering from mental health problems.

And despite the fact that Kirk's alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, is now on trial and evidence is coming out, conspiracy theories about his death are proving remarkably resilient.

It remains unclear how much these theories have penetrated on the right and are actually believed. After a more recent assassination attempt against Trump — at the White House Correspondents' Dinner this spring — a Fox News poll in May found just 11% of his voters said it was at least "probably staged."

But 30% of registered voters overall said that. And having 1 in 10 people who voted for Trump believe such a thing is pretty stunning, in and of itself — especially given theories about that one weren't as prevalent on the right.

There isn't good public opinion data for the conspiracy theories about the deaths of prominent Republicans, McConnell's absence or other assassination attempts against Trump.

Another complicating factor is that it may be politically challenging for some Republicans to go after these theories too strongly. That's because some of them are being promoted by people with real influence and ties to Trump. Loomer has proven a weirdly influential figure with Trump over the years, and Carlson — the former highest-rated host on Fox News — was reported to be instrumental in getting Vance installed as vice president. Also, plenty on the right like Megyn Kelly have appeared reluctant to tangle with Owens.

But the Kirk conspiracy theories were a great example of how this can go wrong for the party. Trump really wanted to use Kirk's assassination as the basis to go after left-leaning groups he claimed (without evidence) were responsible for such violence. Yet prominent MAGA figures were undermining that political strategy by suggesting it wasn't the left but instead their chosen villain that was responsible.

To the extent deaths like these are going to be instantly greeted with conspiracy theories, that creates a real collective-action problem for Republicans.

But thanks to the GOP's many years of humoring Trump's own amplification of conspiracy theories, it's a problem long in the making.

This story has been updated Tuesday with additional developments.

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