Governor Josh Shapiro says people who track AIPAC could be antisemites, and he says that monitoring AIPAC donors is "dangerous" and a way to "silence certain voices."
"I think what we have seen is a weaponization of that, and that is a danger to our system."
Shapiro was among the leading contenders to become Harris's running mate, and Harris interviewed him, Tim Walz, and Senator Mark Kelly on August 4, 2024, as part of the selection process. Harris chose Walz.
In her 2025 memoir 107 Days, Harris wrote that she "mused that [Shapiro] would want to be in the room for every decision" and told him that "a vice-president is not a co-president".
[X] Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee and Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida appeared on Fox & Friends from Capitol Hill to condemn surging antisemitic incidents, which have spiked since the October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. Burchett, who has critiqued Israel policy before, called out rhetoric from both parties and urged Christians to speak up, noting Jesus was a Jew. They highlighted threats like Texas candidate Maureen Galindo's calls to jail 'American Zionists,' vowing to expel her if elected, amid reports of a 367% rise in antisemitic propaganda in one recent month.
Rep. Tim Burchett is demanding that Christians in America reject antisemitism, saying it goes against their faith since Jesus was Jewish.
He says too many people are unfairly blaming Jewish communities, using the same kind of rhetoric Hitler used, and points out that Jews make up less than 2% of the population.
"The Christian community better stand up."
"I’m sick of that crap."
Rep. Tim Burchett is demanding that Christians in America reject antisemitism, saying it goes against their faith since Jesus was Jewish.
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Spanish police raided the headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party today in a fresh corruption scandal blow to Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose government is also facing fierce backlash over plans to legalise 500,000 migrants.
The Civil Guard said officers were searching the party's central Madrid offices under judicial orders linked to an ongoing probe into alleged financial wrongdoing involving a former Socialist Party member connected to a state-run company.
The raid is the latest blow for Sanchez and his Socialist government, which has been rocked by a string of corruption allegations involving senior figures close to the prime minister.
Just last week a different court said it was investigating former prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero for alleged influence peddling and other possible crimes tied to a government airline bailout. He has denied any wrongdoing.
Sanchez's wife and brother are being probed over allegations of influence peddling, which both have denied.
And, most damning for the Socialists, a former minister under Sanchez and a senior party official are both being investigated on allegations they played a part in a kickback ring that started during the Covid-19 pandemic, which they have denied.
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If they start arresting all the corrupt politicians, the rent seekers are going to have fewer choices. That will drive up the cost of political favors until it may be cheaper to operate legitimately.
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[REGNUM] The Donald Trump administration continues to crumble. The latest high-profile resignation was Tulsi Gabbard's departure as Director of National Intelligence.
Gabbard had long felt out of place on Trump's team. She was effectively sidelined from decision-making on Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. So she decided to step aside at the right time to avoid being associated with Washington's policy failures.
Tulsi initially seemed like a highly unusual candidate for a high-ranking position in the US intelligence community. She had served in the National Guard, meaning she had some military experience. But she later dove headfirst into politics, where she began asking some very uncomfortable questions of the American establishment. She criticized the support for terrorists in Syria, the escalation of relations with Russia in Ukraine, the omnipotence of the intelligence agencies, and the practice of mass surveillance.
In 2020, Tulsi, then a congresswoman from Hawaii, attempted to run in the Democratic presidential primaries. She lost, but increased her visibility and then parlayed it into appearances on major television shows and podcasts, mostly Republican ones. It was there that Trump's staff noticed her, offering Gabbard the job of Director of National Intelligence in late 2024.
In more than a year in this post, Gabbard hasn't achieved any major accomplishments. Her position entails overall coordination of all 17 existing US intelligence agencies. They are supposed to compete with each other, but within certain established boundaries. Furthermore, Gabbard has provided reports to both the US President and Congress on all pressing issues, from Ukraine to Iran.
It's been clear lately that Gabbard is deeply uncomfortable justifying Trump's actions, which she personally doesn't support. Inside information has been leaking constantly from the Office of National Intelligence—for example, that Iran managed to retain the lion's share of its missile systems and drones during the conflict. Gabbard was clearly trying to lobby for an end to the war, which ultimately happened.
Not really. It’s a hudna, because the Mad Mullahs won’t accept anything else.
However, the declared ceasefire did not strengthen her own position in Washington.
In recent months, many of Gabbard's aides, like the head of the Counterintelligence Directorate, Joe Kent, have resigned amid scandal. They then began appearing on right-wing podcasts and actively criticizing their opponents—representatives of the "deep state," Washington "hawks," and the Israel lobby. It's possible a similar fate will soon await their former boss, especially since she still has a large following.
By leaving, she wants to "slam the door." The dismissal process will last a month—until the end of June. During this time, Gabbard expects to publish numerous revelations, covering a wide range of topics. From the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the so-called "Havana syndrome," fraud in the 2020 election, biolabs in Ukraine, and the origins of COVID-19.
In short, we're talking about all the explosive themes that members of Trump's team so actively exploited during the last election. True, there are some doubts that Gabbard will be able to implement all of this. There are obvious facts—for example, the US intelligence community has already established that the mythical "Havana syndrome" never existed. By this, US Democrats were referring to certain "irradiators" allegedly used by Russia.
For years, American diplomats complained about the effects of these "irradiators"—first in Cuba and then in other countries. However, after the fact, it turned out that they were simply acclimatizing. The strange sounds the diplomats heard when they felt ill were simply the chirping of cicadas.
Now, Republicans in Congress are once again seeking to open an investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci, the person in charge of the pandemic response in the United States. His institute is accused of funding projects to study coronaviruses in Wuhan, which involved attempting to add new properties to them. It's quite possible that Gabbard's revelations will trigger a new investigation into the origins of COVID-19. For Trump's team, this will be another pretext to pressure China, although the White House is no longer in a position to seriously threaten China.
Other topics remain uncertain—for example, the American "deep state" will likely vehemently resist the release of any credible information about Ukrainian biolabs. Representatives of the US intelligence community will try to carefully conceal all of this in the wake of Gabbard's resignation. She has already developed a serious conflict with CIA Director John Ratcliffe in recent months. Last year, Gabbard's representatives even attempted to seize certain documents from CIA headquarters, and shortly before the resignation of the head of national intelligence, there were reports that her home might have already been searched.
Overall, Gabbard's departure now seems entirely logical. She waited until the main phase of the war with Iran was over, so it's difficult to accuse her of betraying her own president in the midst of hostilities. Tulsi can now claim he was misled and coerced into military escalation. And her task is to publicly counter Washington's hawks, something Gabbard is clearly better at than working behind the scenes within the intelligence agencies.
She will be replaced by CIA representatives at the top of the Office of National Intelligence: Ratcliffe is de facto taking control of the entire American intelligence community. Incidentally, he also distanced himself from the Iran fiasco just in time—it's no wonder the press leaked reports that the CIA director advised Trump not to start that mess before the conflict began. Ratcliffe is currently busy negotiating with Cuba, where he is attempting to provoke a split in the elite and a change of power, and spying on US opponents Russia and China.
In Venezuela, where the operation was largely reconnaissance rather than military, Ratcliffe managed to achieve some results. In Cuba, however, the Americans could get bogged down in the same way they did in Iran. Especially since the Cubans could now also have purchased attack drones from third countries, which they would use against American military bases in the event of an escalation.
So the risks of a drone war—in close proximity to the United States—are now becoming quite real. And this will undermine the position of the main proponents of an attack on Cuba, like Ratcliffe.
Gabbard, meanwhile, has the opportunity to formulate a new ideological basis for the MAGA movement in the approaching post-Trump era. It is now clearly experiencing a crisis of values. Isolationists dislike Trump's foreign policy activism, while hawks in Congress are dissatisfied with the White House's attempts to negotiate a deal with Iran on less-than-favorable terms for the United States. They view this as a de facto capitulation of America.
The rift within the Republican Party is widening ahead of the midterm elections, where they risk a painful defeat. Starting next year, the focus will shift to the next presidential race. Republicans will therefore have to decide where to go after Trump. And many of his former allies, from Tucker Carlson to Elon Musk and, of course, Tulsi Gabbard, will participate in this ideological search.
It will be interesting to see how November goes, and how Regnum analyzes it all.
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The sky is falling! OMG, Trump is coming apart and will kill himself any minute. We need to invoke the 25th now!!!! Oh, wait, her husband has what???
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The DNI is a notional position, a buffer or media and congressional gatekeeper as it were. Unless something has changed, her position had no authority over CIA budget, hiring, or operations. The Director of the CIA is the main mug for the Nation's intelligence. After a year, I suspect Gabbard realized the job actually amounted to little. Being there for her husband was the more honorable course of action.
How about another trip to Havana Director Ratcliffe? You've very obviously gotten Moscow stirred up over the last one.
Her husband has Cancer.
She chose him over a 24/7 - 80 hr a week constantly back-stabbing political job.
Actual Facts
Mrs. Gabbard's husband, Abraham Williams, has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. That is why she submitted her resignation from her position as Director of National Intelligence well in advance.
She is doing what any sincerely dedicated spouse does.
They refocus, to care for each other in serious times of need.
But, still she did not DUMP & RUN on Trump or the US Citizens. She is doing a smooth as possible turned until June 30th, which is when her resignation will take effect.
BTW: To get a better view of the commenter: Malek Dudakov.
Look at the focus of the topics he writes and are published internationally. It would be safe to say he is no fan of MAGA.
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Tulsi is loyal to our country and to Trump and has not sought her own interest. She knows that she won’t get this time back. Her contribution was always going to be a breaching operation. I expect that by July she will be surfing while Abraham’s health allows it. The water in the Potomac is too filthy to even kayak.
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...that river is going to be nasty while Trump literally is cleaning up DC.
[Federalist] Jackson’s comments are especially insane given that there is nothing new about lower courts being bound by the Supreme Court’s guidance.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said it’s "absolutely a legitimate question" as to whether lower court judges should defy the Supreme Court and its decades of precedent when it comes to emergency docket decisions.
U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel of the District of South Carolina was interviewing Jackson at the American Law Institute earlier this month when he said: "I have found, as a district judge, it mystifying at times, where an emergency docket decision of maybe just two or three pages, appears to countermand longstanding Supreme Court precedent. Are we to apply the brief, the short stay decision, or denial of stay? Or are we to follow 50 years of precedent? It’s a perplexing thing to do."
Jackson said it is "absolutely a legitimate question and a legitimate concern."
"I mean, what is a lower court judge to do after the Supreme Court has intervened early on to tell everyone who’s likely to win the case?" Jackson continued, later adding it’s "mystifying" that the Supreme Court could stay a decision even after a lower court judge "made findings of fact" or held hearings.
Jackson’s comments are especially insane given that there is nothing new about lower courts being bound by the Supreme Court’s guidance (including an emergency order). But this wasn’t the only time Jackson was seemingly unaware how the court she sits on works.
The high court ruled 6-3 in Louisiana v. Callais that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is designed to enforce the Constitution’s prohibition on intentional racial discrimination, but not force states to engage in race-based discrimination by creating majority-minority districts. The court held that Louisiana’s congressional map that had two majority-Black districts was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
Shortly after, the Supreme Court released an order in an 8-1 decision that, as described by The Federalist’s Shawn Fleetwood, would "fast-track the transmission of its decision to the lower courts rather than wait 32 days, as per normal custom." The decision was made "in accordance with existing SCOTUS rules," as Fleetwood pointed out. The decision allowed Louisiana to move toward new maps mid-election cycle rather than using the current, unconstitutional maps.
Jackson issued a dissent claiming the court’s 8-1 decision "has spawned chaos in the State of Louisiana."
"Not content to have decided the law, [the Supreme Court] now takes steps to influence its implementation," Jackson wrote. "The Court unshackles itself from both constraints today and dives into the fray. And just like that, those principles give way to power. Because this abandon is unwarranted and unwise, respectfully, I dissent."
Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, wrote a concurring opinion that said Jackson’s charges "cannot go unanswered."
Alito said that Jackson’s position "would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional." Alito added Jackson’s dissent offers one "trivial" reason for her proposed course of action, and another that is "baseless and insulting."
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No, it isn't a legitimate question. They are bound by the highest court's decision, whether they like it or not.
Defying SCOTUS is the judicial version of sedition and insubordination and any judge that does that needs immediately arrested, disbarred and banned from the bench.
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Wouldn’t that argument be extended to the Feds defying the lower courts?
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If it's ever conclusively proven that Biden won the 2020 election by cheating, what happens to appointees like KBJ?
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Well, by arguing that The Supreme Court is not the the supreme court, she should recuse herself from any further positions, basically arguing that any decision she makes unlawfully influences a future decision of a lower court, which she argues has ability to overturn or ignore her decision, for all intents and purposes abolishing The Supreme Court and it's branch of government.
She should not have a decision within the judges, but as a lawyer who can argue about the role of judges within the judicial system.
[IsraelTimes] Chris Rabb, a progressive state lawmaker who is staunchly critical of Israel, is poised to become the newest member of Congress's "Squad" after winning a Democratic primary Tuesday in Philadelphia.
Since no Republican sought that party's nomination, Rabb is a shoo-in to succeed retiring Democratic Representative Dwight Evans.
Rabb was endorsed by progressive stalwarts US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and far-left online streamer Hasan Piker and drew financial backing from the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Rabb had made opposition to Israel and AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying group, a focal point of his campaign in Pennsylvania's Third Congressional District.
He also recently made headlines when it was reported that his Instagram account had shared a post saying the Bondi Beach massacre was a false flag by "Zionists." he disavowed the post and said it was shared by a former staffer.
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Rep. Al Green lost to his primary challenger Christian Menefee. Memefee is pretty far to the left as well, but doesn't have the seniority Green did. Rep Larson in CT lost in the primary for his seat as well earlier this month. Another long time congress creature gone.
[Townhall] And Al Green (D-POS) is out of Congress
It’s official. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is the Republican nominee for Senate after defeating incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in Tuesday’s runoff election.
The runoff kicked off after no Republican candidate managed to win over 50 percent of the vote in March’s election.
The race appeared to have been decided on May 19 after President Donald Trump endorsed the attorney general, giving him a late boost before the runoff. Up to that point, the president had given no indication as to which candidate he might support. But in a post on Truth Social, Trump explained that Cornyn had been slow to sign on to the president’s agenda, which cost him the endorsement.
Paxton and Cornyn have been going scorched earth on each other since the runoff campaign began. Cornyn and his allies outspent his opponent as each lobbed attacks at each other. Some Republicans expressed concerns that the battle might cause further division on the right.
Paxton was highly favored among the Republican MAGA base due to his vociferous support of President Trump and his policies. Under the Biden administration, the attorney general made a name for himself by lodging a series of lawsuits against the White House over the former president’s policies — especially when it pertained to immigration.
On the other hand, Cornyn is largely viewed among Republican voters as a member of the old guard establishment, despite his support for Trump’s policies. This election, like several others, reveals that the Trump populist wing of the party is gaining more power as the establishment tries to maintain a semblance of relevancy.
Now that Paxton is the nominee, he will face off against state Rep. James Talarico, who has cultivated an active following of supporters. A Texas Public Opinion Research survey showed Talarico leading Paxton 46 to 41 percent, with nine percent undecided.
However, other polls suggest the race will be a close one. Still, Democrats remain buoyed by the numbers, believing it is their opportunity to take a seat in a state that has not elected a Democratic senator since 1988.
It’s also worth noting that Talarico’s bizarre past comments on Christianity, sexuality, and gender ideology have been coming back to haunt him. Over his political career, he has made a series of ridiculous statements about God being nonbinary and the story of the Virgin Mary affirming biblical support for abortion.
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Note also, the Pomaded Pimp Al Green was primaried out of Congress. No more Impeachment V8.0, performative rants during the SOTU or other juvenile ghetto hijinx
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Some great news out of Texas this morning!
Maybe I missed it, but did the New York Slimes endorse Cornyn as well?
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I took the opportunity to go vote against Cornyn yesterday, hopefully for the last time. Cornyn had a habit of shanking the voters when it would make him popular with the NYT.
Not certain Paxton will be better, but he won't be Cornyn.
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Thune spent $100M to re-elect Corn Pop. It would be good to get an accounting of which consultants accepted the money and to make sure that MAGA candidates don’t waste money on those firms based on the outcome.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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