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🚨 BREAKING: Five people are dead after an Amazon cargo plane veered off the runway at Miami International Airport and sm...
09/07/2026

🚨 BREAKING: Five people are dead after an Amazon cargo plane veered off the runway at Miami International Airport and smashed into cars.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue confirmed the plane hit "multiple vehicles" on the ground after leaving the runway Sunday afternoon — killing five people.

The FAA and NTSB are responding. The cause of the runway excursion is not yet known.

This is the same airport where Marine One nearly collided with a passenger jet in August — because Trump's unauthorized White House ballroom construction disrupted air traffic control communications at Reagan National.

This is the same Amazon that Zohran Mamdani just went to war with — demanding the company directly employ its delivery workers rather than exploit them through subcontractors to avoid liability.

Amazon made $59 billion in profit last year.

Five people are dead.

We will update as more information becomes available.

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A man just physically attacked Ohio's Democratic gubernatorial candidate at the Ohio State Fair.Amy Acton — a physician,...
09/07/2026

A man just physically attacked Ohio's Democratic gubernatorial candidate at the Ohio State Fair.

Amy Acton — a physician, former Ohio Health Director and Democratic nominee for governor — was attacked by a man at the fair Sunday. She was not harmed. The attacker was taken into custody.

Acton grew up in poverty in Youngstown. She experienced homelessness as a child. She became a doctor. She stood alongside Republican Gov. Mike DeWine every day during COVID briefings — helping save lives while being targeted by armed protesters who showed up outside her home.

She resigned as Health Director in June 2020 after refusing to lift restrictions on county fairs — because hospitals were still overwhelmed.

Now she's running for governor of Ohio against Vivek Ramaswamy — and she's statistically tied with him in polling.

She was attacked at a fair.

This is the same Ohio where:

Max Miller — accused of holding a gun to his ex-wife's head and fracturing their toddler's collarbone — is still the Republican nominee for Congress.

This is the same Ohio where Brian Poindexter — a union ironworker — is leading Miller by 14 points.

Amy Acton was not harmed.

She will not stop.

Do you think political violence is getting worse in America? YES or NO 👇

The far-right just won a German state election with more than double the votes of the party that's governed it for decad...
09/06/2026

The far-right just won a German state election with more than double the votes of the party that's governed it for decades. They still might not get to rule it.

The AfD took 44.5% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, more than double the CDU's 18.5%, in what would be the first far-right-led state government in Germany since World War II.

But every other major party has ruled out governing with them, in a decades-old political pact known as the "firewall against the far-right." Falling just short of an outright majority, the AfD may win the most seats and still end up locked out of power entirely.

This is the same party whose leader went on national TV alleging, without evidence, that nursing home residents had their mail ballots filled out without their knowledge — a "rigged election" claim borrowed almost directly from Trump.

Germany built this firewall specifically because of its history. Sunday's results are the clearest test yet of whether it still holds.

09/06/2026

🚨 BREAKING: A plane bearing the Amazon logo just crashed outside Miami International Airport.

The aircraft went down Sunday afternoon near Miami — video of the crash is already circulating on social media showing the plane going down in a fireball.

Details are still emerging. The FAA and NTSB are responding. It is not yet known how many people were on board or whether there are survivors.

This comes as Mamdani's administration is in an ongoing legal battle with Amazon over the Delivery Protection Act — which would require Amazon to directly hire its delivery workers rather than exploit them through subcontractor arrangements Amazon uses to avoid liability.

Amazon made $59 billion in profit last year.

Its delivery drivers qualify for food stamps.

Its cargo planes are going down near Miami.

We will update as more information becomes available.

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George Pataki stood at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001.Twenty-five years later — he just revealed he has a 9/11-relate...
09/06/2026

George Pataki stood at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001.

Twenty-five years later — he just revealed he has a 9/11-related illness.

The former Republican Governor of New York — who led the state through the darkest days of 9/11 and spent months at Ground Zero coordinating the recovery — disclosed his diagnosis days before the 25th anniversary of the attacks.

Pataki joins more than 145,000 people currently enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Program — 67% of whom have at least one of 69 cancers linked to the toxic cloud at Ground Zero.

More people have now died from 9/11-related illness than died on 9/11 itself.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001.

More than 3,000 first responders and survivors have since died from cancers, respiratory disease and other illnesses caused by toxic exposure at Ground Zero.

Cancer diagnoses among WTC survivors have risen 1,680% in a single decade.

George Pataki is a Republican. He spent years fighting to get first responders the health coverage they deserved. He signed laws expanding benefits for Ground Zero workers.

This disease does not care about your politics.

It only cares that you were there.

DOGE gutted the administrative staff processing World Trade Center Health Program certifications — leaving critically ill people locked out of care they were promised.

25 years later.

Still dying.

Still fighting for care.

We will never forget — and we must never stop fighting for them.

Share this so George Pataki's story is heard. 🇺🇸🕊️

Jared Kushner just visited Kyiv for the first time.He has visited Moscow several times.Trump's son-in-law and special en...
09/06/2026

Jared Kushner just visited Kyiv for the first time.

He has visited Moscow several times.

Trump's son-in-law and special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Kyiv Sunday — welcomed at the train station by senior Ukrainian officials, then greeted by Zelenskyy at a ceremony in St. Sophia Square — one day after spending three hours behind closed doors with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin.

Here's what came out of the Moscow meeting:

Nothing publicly announced. Putin's aide described the talks as "constructive, frank and useful" — diplomatic language for: no breakthrough. The Russian side gave Witkoff and Kushner their "comprehensive assessment of the battlefield situation".

Then they flew to Kyiv to deliver Putin's message.

Here's the brutal context:

Ukraine is facing a critical shortage of US-made interceptor missiles — the same Patriot missiles America ran out of after 13 nights of striking Iran. Ukraine needs them to defend its energy infrastructure this winter. Russia has been bombing Kyiv's power grid for months.

Both Russia and Ukraine agreed to pause aerial attacks on each other's capitals this weekend to allow the visits — bringing a brief respite. No broader ceasefire is in place.

Washington's push to end the Ukraine war has stalled for six months — because of the Iran war.

Now the Iran war is at a stalemate.

And Kushner is in Kyiv for the first time.

Is this peace push real — or another diplomatic photo opportunity? YES or NO 👇

An Air Force widow was told her kids weren't entitled to combat pay because the war that killed their father is official...
09/06/2026

An Air Force widow was told her kids weren't entitled to combat pay because the war that killed their father is officially called "small potatoes."

Maj. Alex Klinner died when his refueling aircraft crashed in Iraq in March, supporting military operations against Iran. His widow, Libby Klinner, says the Air Force initially told her that because Congress never formally declared war, she and her children weren't eligible for hazard pay and combat-related tax breaks.

JD Vance has publicly rejected calling it a war at all, saying "there is no active shooting." Trump himself told reporters, "I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us."

It took Klinner posting on Instagram, and that post going viral, for the Air Force to finally review her case and confirm the benefits.

18 service members have now died and 790 have been wounded in this fighting. The administration renamed the operation and changed how it categorizes the casualties. What hasn't changed is a Gold Star family having to go viral just to get what they were owed.

So sad what is happening in the U.S., a country with ZERO control over its president. WOW!
09/06/2026

So sad what is happening in the U.S., a country with ZERO control over its president. WOW!

The Army Secretary warned the White House repeatedly about Pete Hegseth.The White House did nothing.Then Trump was "surp...
09/06/2026

The Army Secretary warned the White House repeatedly about Pete Hegseth.

The White House did nothing.

Then Trump was "surprised" when told how bad the problem was.

ABC News just revealed the full inside story of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll's resignation — and it's more damning than the original reporting.

Driscoll repeatedly warned Chief of Staff Susie Wiles — not just Trump — about Hegseth's "widespread and seemingly indiscriminate firing of senior military officers." He warned that Hegseth was blocking qualified officers from advancing through the ranks after they had been thoroughly vetted. He warned that the chaotic purge was "shrinking the pool of officers available for future senior commands."

Then Driscoll told Trump directly when he resigned.

Trump appeared "surprised by the extent of the problem."

The President of the United States — who calls himself the commander-in-chief — was surprised to learn that his Secretary of Defense had fired more than two dozen senior military officers without explanation during an active war with Iran.

Here's the full Hegseth military leadership destruction:

❌ Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George — fired over Kid Rock
❌ Navy Secretary John Phelan — forced out without explanation
❌ 25+ senior military officers — fired or sidelined without explanation
❌ Army Secretary Dan Driscoll — resigned after months of warnings ignored

18 American soldiers are dead in Iran.

The USS Abraham Lincoln was at sea for 270+ days.

America ran out of Patriot missiles.

And Trump was surprised.

Is Pete Hegseth destroying the US military? YES or NO 👇

The Supreme Court just handed Republicans two election gifts in 24 hours.**Gift #1:** The Supreme Court granted an emer...
09/06/2026

The Supreme Court just handed Republicans two election gifts in 24 hours.

**Gift #1:** The Supreme Court granted an emergency Republican appeal Friday — clearing the way for cheaper TV ad rates for Republican candidates ahead of the midterms. Federal law requires TV stations to give candidates the lowest available advertising rate during election season. Republicans argued a lower court ruling was blocking that access. The Supreme Court agreed — giving GOP candidates a financial advantage in the final sprint to November 3.

**Gift #2:** Missouri Republicans — after the Missouri Supreme Court unanimously blocked their gerrymandered map — immediately appealed to the US Supreme Court Friday asking them to reinstate it. Justice Brett Kavanaugh gave opponents until Monday to respond. A Tuesday deadline looms for ballot changes.

Here's what's at stake in Missouri:

The gerrymandered map was specifically designed to carve up Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's Kansas City district — splitting Black and minority voters into three Republican-leaning districts to flip a safe Democratic seat. The Missouri Supreme Court blocked it unanimously. Republicans went straight to SCOTUS.

Here's the full Supreme Court election interference scorecard:

✅ Cleared path for Trump's mail ballot restrictions
✅ Let Trump keep building his unauthorized $400M ballroom
✅ Granted Republicans cheaper TV ad rates
⬜ Missouri gerrymander — pending

Democrats need 3 House seats to flip the chamber.

The Supreme Court may hand Republicans one of them back.

Is the Supreme Court rigging the 2026 midterms? YES or NO 👇

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