Posts by Kim Browne
Epstein Made People Listen to Trump Talk to Him About Sex
House Oversight Committee The photos were released through a Dropbox account, and nothing in the upload indicates who the photos are of or when they were taken. Lolita, written in 1955 by Vladimir Nabakov, is about a professor who kidnaps and sexually abuses a 12-year-old girl, which seems on the nose for a convicted sex…
Read MoreAffordability Isn’t a “Silver Bullet” for Democrats
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Democrats are increasingly discussing affordability and blaming high costs of goods on President Trump. But Brian Beutler and Will Stancil, two liberal political commentators, say the Democrats shouldn’t be too confident about this messaging.…
Read MoreDFI Retail’s Mannings – known as Guardian in Singapore – pulls out of mainland China
[SINGAPORE] DFI Retail Group’s beauty and health brand Mannings on Wednesday (Dec 17) announced the closure of all its stores across mainland China, citing “consumer behaviour” changes. The chain, which opened its first store in the mainland in 2004, is a household brand in Hong Kong and Macau, where it has operated for over half…
Read MoreJPMorgan bullish on Singapore stocks amid expected Asean rebound, names 7 top picks
The city-state’s rally has a ‘long way to go’, says the bank, which is also ‘overweight’ on Vietnamese equities [SINGAPORE] Asean equities will be at an inflexion point in 2026, with a recovery in earnings and valuations expected after years of underperformance, analysts at JPMorgan said. The bank’s 2026 regional outlook report advised investors to…
Read MoreFox News Finally Fact-Checks Trump’s Bizarre Claim About Drug Prices
“You know we won this thing by 400,000 or 500,000 votes,” Trump told Ralston, making up numbers out of thin air. “Just like we did Alabama and every other state in the South. And, uh, we won, we won, we won your state massively. They took votes away.” Ralston didn’t keep the call to himself,…
Read MoreTrump, 79, Falls Asleep After Signing Marijuana Executive Order
While signing an executive order to reclassify the status of marijuana Thursday, Donald Trump struggled to stay awake in the Oval Office. The anti-woke president, seated at the Resolute Desk, was surrounded by medical professionals and military veterans, among others, but his neck still drooped with his eyes closing before he jerked awake. Trump start…
Read MoreTrump Is Bombing Boats Because Stephen Miller Wanted to Bomb Mexico
“You know we won this thing by 400,000 or 500,000 votes,” Trump told Ralston, making up numbers out of thin air. “Just like we did Alabama and every other state in the South. And, uh, we won, we won, we won your state massively. They took votes away.” Ralston didn’t keep the call to himself,…
Read MoreNew Epstein Photos Reveal He Wrote Lines From Lolita on Girls’ Bodies
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released new photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate Thursday, and in some of them, handwritten lines from the book Lolita are visible on the bodies of unidentified girls or women. One of the photos shows “Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate…
Read MoreDem Leaders Decide to Bury Damning Report on Why Trump Won in 2024
Take, for instance, the Future Forward super PAC, which had a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars for the 2024 contest. Well before Election Day, the PAC came under harsh criticism from some Democrats who argued that it hadn’t spent sufficient money earlier in the campaign on ads attacking Trump, which may have allowed…
Read MoreTranscript: Mike Johnson Unnerved as ACA Revolt Worsens: “Bullshit!”
Sargent: Well, I want to pick up on what you just said there, which is that Mike Johnson is ideologically opposed to the subsidies getting extended. Clearly, he calculated that if it did get a vote, it would pass, right? I mean, this is the thing. What’s been revealed here is that the Republican position…
Read MoreThai central bank proposes controls on gold trade, ready to cut rates further
[BANGKOK] The Thai central bank is calling on the finance ministry to control gold trading after a surge in transactions helped drive up the value of the baht, its governor Vital Ratanakorn said on Thursday (Dec 18), adding that monetary policy could be further eased if needed after key rates were cut to a three-year…
Read MoreTry to Make Any Sense of What Trump Is Saying About Venezuelan Oil
Newhouse was also one of 35 Republicans who voted to establish the January 6 commission to investigate the Capitol insurrection, so it’s telling that after surviving two elections after that, he now thinks his time is up. Newhouse’s retirement means that only one Republican who voted to impeach Trump in Congress, Representative David Valadao of…
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