In fact, it “guarantees the problem is never solved."
Because if there's no crisis, they aren't needed
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Senate moves on measure to force Trump authorization for Iran actions
After eight attempts, the U.S. Senate has finally advanced a War Powers Resolution limiting military activities against Iran, passing 50-47.
Key details:
-Four Republicans crossed the aisle to vote yes: Susan Collins, Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul
-Democrat John Fetterman broke ranks to vote against the resolution
-This is the first time any Iran war powers resolution has cleared the Senate
-Comes hours after Trump said he was "an hour away" from ordering new strikes
-Trump previously called the War Powers Act "totally unconstitutional"
The political ground is shifting fast.
This comes as the Pentagon admitted the war cost $29 billion (real number closer to $1 trillion), and Iran's missile sites are 90% operational, the Senate finally found the spine to put a leash on the war.
Whether the House follows is the next question.
Whether Trump signs or vetoes is the bigger one.
The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war.
Tonight, for the first time in this war, a majority of senators said that power means something.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/senate-moves-on-measure-to-force-trump-authorization-for-iran-actions/
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Senator Gillibrand went ballistic after Sean Duffy called out her hypocrisy on private jets and luxury spending.
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We Are Being Conditioned To Expect Some Sort Of A “Big Reveal”, And All Of A Sudden It Seems Like Just About Everyone Is Talking About UFOs And Aliens
By Michael Snyder
Right now a new movie by Steven Spielberg entitled “Disclosure Day” is being promoted extremely aggressively. In fact, it has been a long time since I have seen so much hype for a new movie. If you have not seen it yet, the trailer for “Disclosure Day” is extremely creepy…
One of the reasons why the concept for this film is resonating so strongly with so many people is because we have been conditioned to expect that “disclosure” is coming, and that once “disclosure” occurs it will dramatically alter how we all view the world.
I think that this is extremely dangerous.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/we-are-being-conditioned-to-expect-some-sort-of-a-big-reveal-and-all-of-a-sudden-it-seems-like-just-about-everyone-is-talking-about-ufos-and-aliens/
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Whistleblower confirms top Minnesota Dems knew every detail of the $9 billion scam
CONFIRMED:
Not only did Aimee Bock, the mastermind behind the $9 billion Minnesota Somali fraud operation, confirm that Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison knew about the fraud, but Aimee Bock just told the NYP that the g’ddamn Somali Ilhan Omar was in on it.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/whistleblower-confirms-top-minnesota-dems-knew-every-detail-of-the-9-billion-scam/
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Trump officials are planning to repeal limits on ‘forever chemicals’ (PFAS
via theguardian
The Trump administration has announced a plan to kill Biden-era drinking water limits on four Pfas “forever chemicals”, and to delay the implementation of standards for two other compounds.
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing two separate rules to delay and rescind the limits. The rules must go through an approval process that can take several years, and almost certainly will be challenged in court.
The Trump administration’s plan comes just two years after the US Environmental Protection Agency set legally enforceable drinking water limits for six of the most dangerous Pfas compounds that have been studied. The chemicals include some of the most toxic substances, and are linked to a range of cancers and other serious health problems.
The new Trump plan aims to undo or delay those limits, which public health advocates say would put the nation’s health at risk. Pfas are ubiquitous in the environment and estimated to be contaminating drinking water for more than 200 million people across the US.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/trump-officials-are-planning-to-repeal-limits-on-forever-chemicals-pfas/#more-221068
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MPs brand Keir Starmer's rushed launch of Digital ID a 'fiasco' that 'spooked' the public - as figures show Government has spent 672,000 advertising the unpopular scheme
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15831743/MPs-brand-Keir-Starmers-rushed-launch-Digital-ID-fiasco-spooked-public-figures-Government-spent-672-000-advertising-unpopular-scheme.html
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Massive delayed maintenance nightmare incoming Homeowners skipped roof, HVAC, and foundation repairs for years, now six figure repair bills are hitting.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/massive-delayed-maintenance-nightmare-incoming-homeowners-skipped-roof-hvac-and-foundation-repairs-for-years-now-six-figure-repair-bills-are-hitting/
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Commercial Oil Inventories Are Depleting Very Fast And Global Supply Chain Stress Is Spiking
We are watching a slow-motion train wreck play out right in front of our eyes, and nobody can stop it. Every single day that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, commercial oil inventories will get even lower and national strategic oil reserves will get even lower. Right now the global economy is using more oil than it is producing, and everyone agrees that we are reaching a major crisis point.
Unfortunately, we may arrive at that major crisis point even sooner than many experts were originally projecting.
The head of the International Energy Agency is warning that commercial oil inventories are “depleting very fast”…
http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/commercial-oil-inventories-are-depleting-very-fast-and-global-supply-chain-stress-is-spiking
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Korean Bubble Mania: Retail Investors Max Out On Margin Debt, Choose To "Risk Complete Collapse" Than Miss Stock Rally
An employee in her 20s wrote that rather than missing out on the rally, she would “risk complete collapse,” adding that she had used 150 percent margin financing to fully leverage into stocks.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/korean-bubble-mania-retail-investors-max-out-margin-debt-choose-risk-complete-collapse-miss
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Dip-Buyers Rescue Stocks (ish) From Bond Bloodbath Ahead Of NVDA Earnings; Oil Up, Gold Down
...0-DTE traders putting lipstick on pigs as bond bulls bail...
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bullion-bitcoin-battered-bond-bloodbath-triggers-momo-meltdown-slams-semis
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Multiple States Begin Ejecting Illegal Immigrants From Subsidized Healthcare
Democrats say this will put sick children with no proof of citizenship at risk, but didn't they insist a few months ago that there "are no undocumented migrants" receiving taxpayer funded healthcare...?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/multiple-states-begin-ejecting-illegal-immigrants-subsidized-healthcare
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IRGC Says It Foiled US Arms Shipments To 'Terror Groups' Near Border With Iraqi Kurdistan
Last week, Trump slammed Iranian Kurds for "stealing" US weapons & failing to deliver them to "protesters"...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/irgc-says-it-foiled-us-arms-shipments-terror-groups-near-border-iraqi-kurdistan
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"A Breakthrough": White House Says Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Announcement Is Imminent
“We’ll have an announcement,” Witt said. “I wish I could say more..."
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/breakthrough-white-house-says-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-announcement-imminent
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Americans Who Can Are Dropping Medical Insuranceby Tyler Durden
Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,
Have you observed what is happening with medical insurance in the United States? There is an upheaval taking place. You might be experiencing it yourself.
The Wakely Consulting Group has taken upon itself to track trends in the medical insurance market, both pricing and participation.
Their latest report has documented an ongoing and profound shift, one so dramatic that it portends something truly meaningful for the future.
Lacking serious reform of the system from Congress, it seems that consumers are taking matters into their own hands.
Congress declined to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) starting in January. Consumers have examined their bills and plans in light of the price increases which range from 25 to 115 percent depending on conditions and levels. More than a million people have dropped their coverage entirely. More will do so through the end of the year.
Wakely comments: “Based on unique data collection from 80 percent of the ACA individual market, Wakely ... estimates a material reduction in enrollment for 2026, ranging on average from 17 percent to 26 percent in total.”
This is happening because, fortunately, there is no individual mandate to be enrolled in anything since the Supreme Court deleted that portion of the program.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/americans-who-can-are-dropping-medical-insurance
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Trump Announces Expansion Of TrumpRx With 600 New Generic Drugs
(EVEN A BROKEN CLOCK IS RIGHT TWICE A DAY. ALL PRAISE TO PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN NETANYAHU.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-announces-expansion-trumprx-600-new-generic-drugs
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Memorial Day Gas Demand Surge Collides With Hormuz Shock As $5 Demand-Destruction Line Nears
Gas prices in 2022 did not top out until mid-June.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/memorial-day-gas-demand-surge-collides-hormuz-shock-5-demand-destruction-line-nears
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Americans Are Getting Behind On Their Debts At A Very Frightening Pace
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
U.S. households are now 18.79 trillion dollars in debt. In 1980, U.S. households were just 1.4 trillion dollars in debt. Over the past several decades we have witnessed a household debt binge that is unlike anything that we have ever witnessed in our entire history. But if consumers could handle that debt load, there wouldn’t be such a high level of concern. Unfortunately, just like we witnessed prior to the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, Americans are getting behind on their debts at a staggering rate. This isn’t going to end well, but of course many of you know that already.
As a result, we are beginning to witness a tsunami of delinquencies…
While families took on more debt, they also fell behind. Credit card delinquency rates are now the highest they have been in 16 years (13.1 percent). Overall student loan delinquency rates soared to 10.3 percent, the highest recorded since 2020. Significantly more student loan borrowers are also entering serious delinquency, with their loans more than 90 days past due (10.9 percent) compared to the first quarter of 2025 (8.0 percent). In fact, delinquency rates have increased for all credit types tracked by the FRBNY since the final quarter of 202
In April, there were more than 42,000 foreclosure filings…
New data released by real estate analytics firm ATTOM found that 42,430 properties nationwide received foreclosure filings in April 2026, including default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions.
The Department of Labor keeps careful track of employment and the demographics thereof. Their latest report on men in the labor force is both mysterious and deeply alarming. It turns out that the labor force is missing about 7 million men who would otherwise be working. Close to a third of working-age men have vanished from the labor force.
The labor force participation rate among “prime age men,” age 25 to 54, in the 1950s approached 100 percent. Now it is 89 percent, meaning roughly 11 percent are not in the labor force (neither working nor looking for work).
Among all men over 16 years of age, the rate is a devastatingly low 66 percent, so about one-third are gone. Among U.S.-born men, nearly 22 percent are gone.
This is really quite shocking.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/americans-are-getting-behind-their-debts-very-frightening-pace
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Dirty Brad Raffensperger Loses GOP Gubernatorial Primary in Peach Tree State Shellacking!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/dirty-brad-raffensperger-loses-gop-gubernatorial-primary-peach/
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Gavin Newsom Finally Cleaned Up a Homeless Encampment – In Front of the Home of One of His Rich, Connected Friends
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/gavin-newsom-finally-cleaned-up-homeless-encampment-front/
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Panda Express Employees Call the Police on Man for Wearing a MAGA Hat Inside and Flashing a Harmless Gesture at Cook (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/outrageous-panda-express-employees-call-police-man-wearing/
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Virginia Teacher Abby Zwerner Testifies She Warned Assistant Principal Multiple Times Before 6-Year-Old Shot Her in Classroom: ‘He Was in a Violent Mood’ (VIDEO
Three days before the incident, Zwerner testified that the boy became defiant and slammed her cellphone onto the ground after she instructed him to do something.
On the morning of the shooting itself, she immediately noticed something was wrong.
“The student appeared to be off and appeared to be in a violent mood,” the former teacher told the jury, according to a report from the New York Post.
Zwerner said she went directly to assistant principal Ebony Parker to voice her concerns.
“I told her that he seemed off and that he was in a violent mood,” Zwerner recounted.
During lunch that day, Zwerner witnessed the boy menacingly staring down a school security officer.
“I witnessed the student was staring her down, very focused on her and he slowly got up from his seat and ever so slowly approached, still not breaking eye contact at the security officer and that stuck out to me as well,” she testified.
At recess, the boy kept both of his hands inside his jacket the entire time.
When the class returned to the room, Zwerner looked over and saw the unthinkable: “I looked over, and a gun was pointed right at me.”
The 6-year-old was holding the loaded handgun and fired, shooting her through the left hand and into her chest.
(She starts testifying at 4 minutes.)
Abby Zwerner was awarded $10 million by a civil jury in November 2025 after suing former Richneck Elementary assistant principal Ebony Parker for negligence in the 2023 shooting incident. The jury found that Parker ignored multiple warnings that the 6-year-old student had a gun, despite staff raising concerns at least three times that day.
The $10 million verdict was later challenged, with Parker’s legal team and the Newport News School Board filing a motion to dismiss the verdict, arguing the injury fell under worker’s compensation and that workplace violence is an "actual risk" of teaching. However, the civil trial proceeded, and the verdict stood as a significant ruling against Parker, who remains the sole defendant after claims against other administrators were dismissed due to sovereign immunity.
The civil lawsuit began on October 28, 2025, with jury selection and concluded with the verdict on November 6, 2025.
Zwerner originally sought $40 million in damages, citing physical and psychological trauma, including PTSD and lasting hand injuries.
The verdict is expected to be paid by the Virginia Risk Sharing Association, which insures public schools.
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The Democrats Are About To Destroy John Fetterman
John Fetterman has become the most interesting politician in America, and the Democratic Party’s most uncomfortable mirror. His willingness to speak honestly, vote his conscience, and refuse to define himself purely in opposition to President Donald Trump has made him a hero to some and a traitor to others.
Back in March, he declared the party had no real leader except Trump Derangement Syndrome. Democrats, according to Fetterman, are so consumed with opposing President Donald Trump that they've failed to construct a coherent agenda of their own. That's not a fringe critique. It's a fairly accurate description of where the opposition party stands as we head toward the 2026 midterms.
Last week, Sen. John Fetterman wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post making the case that he'd make a terrible Republican, and he's right. He's pro-choice, firmly behind legal marijuana, a committed supporter of LGBT rights, a staunch defender of SNAP benefits, and a reliable friend to organized labor. His overall voting record is overwhelmingly aligned with the Democratic caucus.
“It wasn’t long ago when Democrats wanted a secure border. I voted on an immigration bill in 2024 to make sure an influx the size of Pittsburgh doesn’t come through the border like it did under the previous administration,” he wrote. “I have co-sponsored legislation to stop the flow of fentanyl. I was the lead Democrat on the Laken Riley Act, and I strongly believe that someone who comes here illegally and commits a violent crime should be deported. Full stop.”
He noted how his party used to oppose government shutdowns because they put “American livelihoods at risk” and held workers “hostage.” Yet, he stood alone as a Democrat when he voted to end his party’s recent shutdowns, saying he “took no pleasure in voting against my party” but felt that keeping “the lights on” for TSA, homeland security, airports, and “everyday Americans” mattered more than “partisan games.”
As far as he’s concerned, his occasional departures on border security, crime, and Israel are a sign of his party becoming more extreme, not him becoming more conservative.
In a recent conversation on Reason's Reason Interview podcast with Nick Gillespie, Fetterman was asked to reflect on how his politics had changed since he backed Bernie Sanders in 2016. His answer cut to the heart of the Democratic Party's ongoing identity crisis. "Well, I mean, you know, in 2016, it was much more about the minimum wage and some other very basic kinds of things," he said. "And now that's just turned into much more standing with Cuba, standing with Venezuela, standing with the Iranian regime, and turned that into much more becoming more increasingly anti-American for me. So my views really haven't changed that much." The punchline came shortly after: "What's really changed is the party."
That is a sitting Democratic senator describing his own party's base as "increasingly anti-American,” and describes himself as lonely inside the party he still agrees with over 90 percent of the time. And how has the party responded to one of its more prominent voices offering this kind of candid self-assessment?
By quietly beginning to show him the door.
A report from Punchbowl News last month made it quite clear how his party sees him. Pennsylvania Democrats on Capitol Hill wouldn't commit to supporting a Fetterman reelection bid, and none would explicitly endorse him. Rep. Brendan Boyle, who is rumored to be eyeing a 2028 Senate run himself, said he'd "be very surprised if [Fetterman] ran in the Democratic primary." Rep. Chris Deluzio, also said to be interested in the seat, acknowledged "serious disagreements" with Fetterman over the war in Iran, before adding a diplomatic "we'll see what comes after '26." Rep. Summer Lee simply said of Fetterman seeking reelection, “Up to him. At his own peril."
That's the kind of language you use for someone the party has already written off. And clearly they have. He still votes with Democrats more than 90 percent of the time. And yet Pennsylvania Democrats won't even give him a courtesy endorsement for a future Senate bid.
Democratic voters in Pennsylvania aren’t any more forgiving.
A February Quinnipiac poll found that Fetterman sits at 46 percent approval among Pennsylvania voters overall. This isn’t great, but the partisan breakdown is most interesting: he’s underwater 62%–22% among Democrats, while running 74%–18% among Republicans.
As far as the party's progressive base goes, anything less than 100% compliance isn't enough, especially when you break with the party on issues like Israel, immigration, or anything that can be characterized as insufficiently hostile to the right. Fetterman's independent streak might help him win a general election, but it won’t help him win a Democratic primary.
That's the trap, and he appears to know it.
He's made it quite clear he won't become a Republican. His op-ed was practically a manifesto on the subject. But a man who describes himself as "lonely" inside his own party, who watches that party signal it won't back him for reelection, has a big decision to make. Will he try to win reelection as a Democrat, become an independent, or not run at all? One thing is for sure: his future inside the Democratic Party is already closed.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-are-about-destroy-john-fetterman
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