An American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities.
As the US president renews his threats to claim the vast Arctic territory, materials to prepare for drilling were brought ashore in recent days on Greenland’s eastern coast.
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PEW RESEARCH: Presidential approval in the summer before the midterms
🔴 Reagan: 42% (1982)
🔴 Reagan: 63% (1986)
🔵 Clinton: 45% (1994)
🔵 Clinton: 63% (1998)
🔴 G.W. Bush: 65% (2002)
🔴 G.W. Bush: 36% (2006)
🔵 Obama: 47% (2010)
🔵 Obama: 44% (2014)
🔴 Trump: 40% (2018)
🔵 Biden: 37% (2022)
🔴 Trump: 34% (2026)
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It took a lot of very stupid decisions to get here but he did it!
Pew Research: President Trump’s approval rating before the midterms is the lowest of any president after 1953
ZVERNEC, Albania—Residents of this tiny coastal village were shocked two years ago when Jared Kushner posted renderings of a planned Mediterranean resort on a slim peninsula sandwiched by the azure sea and a lagoon where flamingoes flock.
The images were of a spit of land where their parents and grandparents once raised potatoes. The villagers contended the property was stolen from them in the 2000s by Artur Shehu—a suspected gangster who fled to Miami after a gunfight at his bar.
So they wrote a letter to Kushner saying they were locked in nearly two decades of court disputes with Shehu, urging the developers not to proceed. The site, they wrote, is “owned by the village and its residents.”
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Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner paid $120 million for a swath of coastal Albania to build a resort.
Problem is the seller is an Albanian gangster (based in Miami, of course), and the land belongs to a bunch of villagers. @WSJ uncovers this wild story:
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Can’t ask for better, bravo @HaleyforMI
Haley Stevens tells me that she plans to be active in stumping for Abdul El-Sayed through November — and, when I was with her, stopped Detroit residents on the street to encourage them to vote for him, calling him a “great candidate”
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These Things Show TRUMP Is LOSING POWER @TheRickWilson Wilson via @YouTube
CNN: MAGA’s net favorability among adults without college degrees has plunged 28 points, from +6 in early 2025 to −22 today.
We certainly don’t need another reason to be outraged by Donald Trump … but here’s another one.
Nailed it.
Oh wait
Trump Thought Opening the Strait of Hormuz Was Imminent. Iran Had Other Plans.
NEWS: Representative Max Miller is formally staying in the race to maintain his seat in Congress, his spokeswoman tells me.
The deadline is now passed for him to withdraw.
First this clown endorsed an extremist for Virginia Lt. Governor and now he's endorsing Mike Rogers. Isn't interesting what the two Democrats he opposes have in common?
The 30-year Treasury yield is at a 19-year high.
The bond market’s message to Washington is clear:
You can’t borrow trillions every year, tolerate persistently high inflation, and expect cheap financing forever.
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Bankhead (D) and Miller (R) are staying in but if they didn’t here’s how I would personally rate their races
US Senate Montana
Safe Republican —>Likely Republican
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OH-07
Likely Democratic—>Lean Republican
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“A first-of-its-kind analysis by ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021. The analysis also identified at least 120 in-hospital deaths of pregnant or postpartum women in 2022 and 2023 — an increase of dozens of deaths from a comparable period before the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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Under the radar but @runforsomething flipped two seats red to blue in TN this week -- Jennifer Konyn won a school board seat in Franklin County and Brandon Huckaby won a county commissioner seat in Knox County. Our big tent model helps community-rooted candidates win anywhere.
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But but but I was told by trump that the strait was open
Breaking News: Iran’s top security official said the Strait of Hormuz would not reopen until the U.S. met a sweeping list of demands, including withdraw the U.S. military from around Iran, pay war reparations and release frozen Iranian assets.
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I say this without snark: Todd Blanche will be remembered for leading the blatantly unconstitutional and vindictive indictment against a political enemy for protected speech. That's dark, and there's no need to leave office enabling it. Sad to see it.
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By UNANIMOUS consent, the Senate adjourned for recess until Monday, September 14 without passing the SAVE America Act. Nobody objected to the request, or asked for a roll call vote.
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“A first-of-its-kind analysis by ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021. The analysis also identified at least 120 in-hospital deaths of pregnant or postpartum women in 2022 and 2023 — an increase of dozens of deaths from a comparable period before the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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