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White House warns 'The View' could be canceled next after Joy Behar's anti-Trump rant​

'Obama is everything that he is not: Trim, smart, handsome, happily married,' Behar said​


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White House warns 'The View' could be canceled next after Joy Behar's anti-Trump rant

The White House attacked “The View" co-host Joy Behar in a statement on Wednesday by calling out the show’s low ratings and saying it could be canceled.
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She should have also mentioned Nobel Peace Prize winner.
 
Wheels81 said:
She should have also mentioned Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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I love that Trumpers complained for years and years about Democrats running a "cancel culture", but now that they have all the power they're running a far more blatant, brazen, and powerful "cancel culture" than Democrats ever had. Just Example #1001 of GOP projection.
 


Thailand recalls ambassador to Cambodia amid border tensions, ruling party says​


“… following a landmine incident that injured a Thai soldier along the disputed border between the two countries.

The Thai Foreign Ministry has lodged a formal protest with Cambodia, saying the landmines found in the area were newly deployed and had not been encountered during previous patrols, the party said on social media.

… In the landmine incident on Wednesday, the soldier sustained injuries and lost his right leg, the party said.

Earlier, Thailand accused Cambodia of placing landmines on the Thai side of the disputed border area after three soldiers were injured, but Phnom Penh denied the claim and said the soldiers had veered off agreed routes and triggered a mine left behind from decades of war…”
 
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Thailand recalls ambassador to Cambodia amid border tensions, ruling party says​


“… following a landmine incident that injured a Thai soldier along the disputed border between the two countries.

The Thai Foreign Ministry has lodged a formal protest with Cambodia, saying the landmines found in the area were newly deployed and had not been encountered during previous patrols, the party said on social media.

… In the landmine incident on Wednesday, the soldier sustained injuries and lost his right leg, the party said.

Earlier, Thailand accused Cambodia of placing landmines on the Thai side of the disputed border area after three soldiers were injured, but Phnom Penh denied the claim and said the soldiers had veered off agreed routes and triggered a mine left behind from decades of war…”
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"Trump speaks the languages we moderns can understand. The language of preference: I want. The language of power: I have the leverage. The languages of self, of gain, of acquisition. Trump doesn’t subsume himself in a social role. He doesn’t try to live up to the standards of excellence inherent in a social practice. He treats even the presidency itself as a piece of personal property he can use to get what he wants. As the political theorist Yuval Levin has observed, there are a lot of people, and Trump is one of them, who don’t seek to be formed by the institutions they enter. They seek instead to use those institutions as a stage to perform on, to display their wonderful selves," writes David Brooks.

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“The Trump administration illegally withheld funding from a roughly $12 billion federal child care program known as Head Start, according to congressional investigators, who said that President Trump and his top aides had wrongly interrupted the flow of money enacted by Congress.

The disruption appeared to be resolved by June, according to the Government Accountability Office, a legislative oversight agency. But its conclusions, published Wednesday, still referenced reports showing that the government’s actions may have caused immense financial hardship to some child-care services, which struggled to receive federal aid for about three months.

… The Head Start program funds child care and other services for families in poverty, serving roughly 800,000 children up to age 5, according to recent federal estimates. Even though the safety-net initiative has long enjoyed bipartisan support, Mr. Trump considered proposing its full elimination as part of his fiscal blueprint for 2026, calling its curriculum “radical.”

The president ultimately backed off the idea once he issued his full budget this spring. But some Head Start centers still began to report significant difficulties in getting federal funds that Congress had already approved.…”
 
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“The Trump administration illegally withheld funding from a roughly $12 billion federal child care program known as Head Start, according to congressional investigators, who said that President Trump and his top aides had wrongly interrupted the flow of money enacted by Congress.

The disruption appeared to be resolved by June, according to the Government Accountability Office, a legislative oversight agency. But its conclusions, published Wednesday, still referenced reports showing that the government’s actions may have caused immense financial hardship to some child-care services, which struggled to receive federal aid for about three months.

… The Head Start program funds child care and other services for families in poverty, serving roughly 800,000 children up to age 5, according to recent federal estimates. Even though the safety-net initiative has long enjoyed bipartisan support, Mr. Trump considered proposing its full elimination as part of his fiscal blueprint for 2026, calling its curriculum “radical.”

The president ultimately backed off the idea once he issued his full budget this spring. But some Head Start centers still began to report significant difficulties in getting federal funds that Congress had already approved.…”
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A spokeswoman for the White House budget office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Its leader, Russell T. Vought, has denied past allegations that the administration illegally impounded funds, while arguing that the law itself is unconstitutional. Mr. Vought has also signaled he could try to push the limits of those rules to cancel billions of dollars in spending closer to the end of the fiscal year, which concludes Sept. 30.

As they look to sidestep Congress to conform the budget to the president’s views, Mr. Trump’s top aides have also attacked the watchdog. The White House has derided the investigators’ work as partisan, questioned their legal findings and worked alongside House Republicans in a bid to block nearly four dozen open inquiries into its spending cuts, according to documents previously viewed by The New York Times.…”
 
nycfan said:


“The Trump administration illegally withheld funding from a roughly $12 billion federal child care program known as Head Start, according to congressional investigators, who said that President Trump and his top aides had wrongly interrupted the flow of money enacted by Congress.

The disruption appeared to be resolved by June, according to the Government Accountability Office, a legislative oversight agency. But its conclusions, published Wednesday, still referenced reports showing that the government’s actions may have caused immense financial hardship to some child-care services, which struggled to receive federal aid for about three months.

… The Head Start program funds child care and other services for families in poverty, serving roughly 800,000 children up to age 5, according to recent federal estimates. Even though the safety-net initiative has long enjoyed bipartisan support, Mr. Trump considered proposing its full elimination as part of his fiscal blueprint for 2026, calling its curriculum “radical.”

The president ultimately backed off the idea once he issued his full budget this spring. But some Head Start centers still began to report significant difficulties in getting federal funds that Congress had already approved.…”
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Because Trump and his minions do not think about connecting those dots. They see a program that helps poor and minority kids and figure there is no political blowback from those constituencies. The fact that it contradicts an alleged Trump objective means they might have thought things through but they never do that and MAGA doesn’t care.
 
nycfan said:

Trump Administration Greenlights Chevron to Resume Pumping Oil in Venezuela​

Advocates of the move have warned that China would gain ground in the region as U.S. companies pull back​


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“… The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Under the agreement, no royalties or taxes would go to the Maduro regime, according to two people familiar with the terms, though details weren’t yet clear.

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The Trump administration revoked Chevron’s Biden-era license to pump oil in Venezuela earlier this year. The move was championed by hard-line critics of President Nicolás Maduro’s government, including Rubio and key Florida Republicans in Congress, whose support Trump needed for his sweeping domestic policy package.

The move was criticized by oil interests as well as by some MAGA acolytes such as Laura Loomer, who warned that it would hand Venezuela’s oil fields over to China and undermine American energy leverage in the region.

Chevron has long made that same argument, which has resonated with Trump administration officials, people familiar with the discussions said.

Trump’s decision is the latest pivot in what has been months of conflicting Venezuela negotiations….”
 
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