Can Ruben Gallego make Democrats manly again?

Across from the U.S. Supreme Court building, up a labyrinth of stairs and hallways, behind a plain, wooden desk, sits cherubic Ruben Gallego. Graying beard. Electric-blue eyes. Standing “just slightly above” 5-foot-7, he tells me.

The junior senator from Arizona came up in politics as a progressive darling, but lately, Gallego reads as something else entirely. Not a centrist, exactly. He’s a…

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Trump’s Plan to Slap His Name on New York’s Penn Station Exposed

President Trump may soon have his name on the busiest train station in the country.

Newly released design renderings of a renovation project for New York’s Penn Station, first reported by Gothamist, show a large presidential seal with Trump’s name, along with gold railings, columns, and escalators in Trump’s signature style.

The federal government took over the renovation project from the…

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The Wanton Destruction of the Texas GOP Senate Primary

In mid-May, around two weeks before the Texas Republicans’ Senate primary runoff election, state Attorney General Ken Paxton dropped yet another ad smearing his opponent, incumbent John Cornyn, for having “turned his back on President Trump.” Accompanied by a cinematic score, replete with intense, brassy blasts (BRAAAM!), the ad spliced together Cornyn admitting “the idea of a [border] wall is…

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Strait of Hormuz closure pushes Pakistan into expensive $18.4 per mmBtu LNG deal

ISLAMABAD: State-run Pakistan LNG Limited (PLL) has approved a revised bid of $18.4 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) from TotalEnergies for delivery between April 27 and 30, while rejecting all other bids.

TotalEnergies had initially bid $18.88 per mmBtu but later revised its offer downward to $18.4 following negotiations.

After internal consultations, the authorities rejected all…

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Pakistan secures 3 bids for spot LNG cargoes

ISLAMABAD: After a gap of 28 months, state-run Pakistan LNG Limited (PLL) on Friday secured three bids at $17.997 to $18.88 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) for delivery between April 27 and May 8.

A total of four bids were received and three were declared the lowest.

For the first delivery window of April 27-30, TotalEnergies submitted the lowest bid of $18.88 per mmBtu. Vitol…

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New DHS Secretary Threatens to Sabotage America’s Biggest Airports

New Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin wants to punish “sanctuary cities” for refusing to cooperate with Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda by stripping them of customs and immigration services.

Mullin floated the idea in a Fox News interview with Bret Baier Monday night, saying that he believes “sanctuary cities is not lawful.”

“Some of these cities have international…

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Choose Class War, Not Boomer Resentment

The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.


“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…

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PM Shehbaz hails Saudi Arabia’s ‘restraint’, stresses urgent need for de-escalation of ongoing Iran war

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday said he had hailed Saudi Arabia for showing “restraint” during the ongoing Middle East hostilities and stressed the need for urgent de-escalation.

He made the remarks during a call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, wherein the two discussed Iran’s retaliatory attacks sparked by the US-Israel military actions on February 28.

“Spoke with my…

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Islamabad offers to host US-Iran climbdown effort

**• Insiders say Washington asked Pakistan to host negotiations; groundwork laid in weeks of ‘hectic diplomacy’
• Witkoff expected to lead engagement; no indication yet of who Iran may send
• Trump claims engagement on ‘15 points’
• Tehran implies existence of backchannel; spox says messages from US ‘received and responded to’
• Qatar, Turkiye support swift efforts to end war
• German president…

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Donald Trump Is Kneecapping Corporate Oversight

President Donald Trump has been carrying out a frenzied deregulation of financial markets. Recently, the administration stacked the US’s top watchdog of corporate auditors with Trump loyalists and former executives of the companies they will now oversee.


On January 30, Trump’s US Securities and Exchange Commission chair, Paul Atkins, a “deregulation zealot,” announced a suite of new…

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