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  Supreme Court upends Trump's gerrymander gambit with surprise ruling We're gonna be honest, we did NOT see this coming. Brett Kavanaugh, of all people, issued a brief emergency docket order on behalf of the high court yesterday leaving in place last week’s ruling from the Missouri state Supreme Court, which blocked a GOP-gerrymandered map while a voter referendum against the disenfranchisement scheme plays out. Brian Tyler Cohen discusses the ramifications of Kavanaugh's surprise ruling and what it could mean for control of Congress. Trump complains about fallen 9/11 hero's "fame" While right-wing media throws a hysterical, wildly racist shitfit about Zohran Mamdani attending the 9/11 memorial ceremony simply because he's a Muslim, Donald Trump is out here publicly complaining about 9/11 rescuers who died while saving others. "They were sure they were going to die. Then suddenly, a rescuer appeared. They call him the man in the red bandana. Have yo...

Fact check: Trump’s story about being carried away by firefighters after the 9/11 attack   By Daniel Dale President Donald Trump departs after speaking at a "Steel Across America" event ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on September 8, 2026, in Washington, DC. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump has for years told false or unproven stories about what he supposedly saw and did on 9/11 and soon after. As the 25th anniversary of the terror attack approaches, Trump told another story at the White House on Tuesday — in which he claimed to have been carried away by firefighters amid fears of an imminent building collapse at some point after the attack. It’s possible there are elements of truth in Trump’s latest story, versions of which he has told before , but he hasn’t provided any evidence for it. And some parts of his Tuesday account — which he delivered at an event honoring 9/11 first responders — are misleading at best. He was miles away from the World ...

  THE NEW US STRATEGY IN IRAN Will Trump and Hegseth Give It a Chance to Work? Seymour Hersh Sep 9 ∙ Preview Men bathe in the waters of the Persian Gulf as vessels navigate the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Iran’s southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Monday. / Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images. A few weeks ago, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held a news conference to herald Operation Economic Outcast, a campaign that he said was as important as Operation Overlord, which led to D-Day during the Second World War. The new plan, he said, was “to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone.” It was one of the most misleading and garbled speeches a US official has given since America went to war with Iran...