Posts by Kim Browne
One Man’s Brave Anti-Trump Crusade in America’s Reddest State
The anti-Trump resistance won’t get very far unless it brings the fight to the red states, and states don’t come any redder than Wyoming. Fully 77 percent of Wyoming’s voters are registered Republicans, and in 2024 Donald Trump beat Democrat Kamala Harris there by 46 percentage points. No Democrat has held statewide office in Wyoming…
Read MoreMarkets gear up for series of Fed cuts with bullish bets at risk
Markets have also priced in reductions continuing deep into 2026 to ward off a recession [NEW YORK] A key question for investors this week is whether US Federal Reserve officials push back against market bets on a series of interest-rate cuts extending into next year. A quarter-point reduction is seen as a sure thing when…
Read MoreSGX’s new index needs clear differentiators to avoid being ‘just another index’, say analysts
While it can raise the profile of larger non-STI stocks and attract fund products, analysts call for more clarity on criteria for inclusion [SINGAPORE] Market watchers have floated ideas for the Singapore Exchange’s (SGX) upcoming equity index – from one that tracks companies earning more than 70 per cent of their revenues at home to…
Read MoreThe Palestinian Organizer Who Wouldn’t Be Silenced
In early March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Mahmoud Khalil—a Palestinian Columbia University graduate student, campus organizer, and legal permanent resident—and detained him for more than three months, as the Trump administration worked to strip him of his status and deport him. (Khalil has since graduated.) For many, Khalil’s arrest marked a terrifying inflection point.…
Read MoreBrazil Stopped Its Trump. It’s Pathetic that We Couldn’t Stop Ours.
Republicans obviously deserve blame too, particularly the Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling that defined much of what Trump did after the 2020 election as official acts of the president and therefore not subject to prosecution. It’s worth noting that the United States was particularly ill-equipped to punish an anti-democratic president because we, unlike most other democracies,…
Read MoreGenocide in Gaza?
Of course, the situation in Gaza is dynamic, and due to actions on the part of the Israeli government and its military, much of the population there is now on the verge of mass starvation. At the start of Hitler’s reign, which killed some six million Jews, the Jewish population of Europe was approximately 9.5…
Read MoreTrump’s Best Allies Are His Biggest Weakness
Donald Trump was lustily booed at the U.S. Open in New York, and his excursion to one of D.C.’s despots’ club restaurants was interrupted by chanting protesters. But the opposition to the president extends well beyond the Acela corridor. As CNN’s Harry Enten noted this week, Trump’s approval rating is plummeting and he’s now “underwater…
Read MoreMAGA Thinks Alleged Kirk Shooter Was Radicalized by … College
“For 33 hours, I was … I was praying that if this had to happen here, that it wouldn’t be one of us. That somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country,” he said. “Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for. Just because I thought it would make it…
Read MoreDamning New Emails Show Just How Much Ghislaine Maxwell Helped Epstein
“For 33 hours, I was … I was praying that if this had to happen here, that it wouldn’t be one of us. That somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country,” he said. “Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for. Just because I thought it would make it…
Read MoreUtah Governor Laments He Can’t Blame an Immigrant for Kirk’s Death
“For 33 hours, I was … I was praying that if this had to happen here, that it wouldn’t be one of us. That somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country,” he said. “Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for. Just because I thought it would make it…
Read MoreTeam Trump to Use Unverified Data to Blame Deaths on Covid Vaccine
The findings they plan to present appeared to be pulled from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, which collects claims of adverse reactions and results of taking vaccines. But because the claims are self-reported and unverified, the system can sometimes be exploited by anti-vaccine activists. People sometimes submit fraudulent claims, or they deliberately…
Read MoreTrump Has Chosen the Lucky City for His Next Crackdown
Trump on Bolsonaro: It’s very much like they tried to do with me but they didn’t get away with it pic.twitter.com/6fIa4ceZKK — Acyn (@Acyn) September 11, 2025 “Well, I watched that trial, I know him pretty well. Hard leader … I thought he was a good president of Brazil. And it’s very surprising that that…
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