House Republicans joined Democrats last week in shameful Congressional votes that defeated two common-sense amendments in a national display of the Uni-party flexing its muscle. First, an amendment by Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) to strip Senate-inserted earmarks from the FY2026 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill failed in a lopsided 136–291 vote. While the House version of the […] The post The Main Street Caucus Keeps the Uni-party in Charge of Washington D.C. appeared first on StoneZone .
House Republicans joined Democrats last week in shameful Congressional votes that defeated two common-sense amendments in a national display of the Uni-party flexing its muscle. First, an amendment by Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) to strip Senate-inserted earmarks from the FY2026 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill failed in a lopsided 136–291 vote. While the House version of the bill contained no earmarks, the Senate added roughly $1.3 billion in pet projects including the funding of abortions, gender procedures on children, DEI activism, and other wasteful pork-barrel projects for special interests with 76 House Republicans joining Democrats to save the profligate spending . The second betrayal came when an amendment to block a…Open
Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a former prime minister, has been nominated to the post by the main Shiite Muslim bloc in the Iraqi Parliament.
AI:President Trump has issued an ultimatum to the Iraqi government, threatening the immediate withdrawal of United States support if Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is allowed to reclaim power as Prime Minister. This move comes after Iraq's primary Shiite Muslim bloc nominated Maliki for the position, a development that poses significant risks to regional stability and American interests in the Middle East. As tensions escalate between Washington and Tehran, this political maneuvering in Baghdad forces a choice between maintaining a strategic partnership with the United States or facing total isolation from global support.Open
Newly-leaked emails show ex-leftist journalist-turned-snitch Paul Mason attempted a legal crusade to silence his critics and censor The Grayzone’s reporting. While Mason blames “Russian intelligence” for a blacklist he created, he privately admitted to creating what he called “the network graphic” in talks with the elite legal team he enlisted to target this outlet.
This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Once a well-known British broadcast pundit and columnist who fashioned himself as a voice of the movement behind former Leader leader Jeremy Corbyn, Paul Mason is now the butt of a seemingly endless stream of jokes from his former peers among the left. Their mockery focuses on revelations which first appeared in a 2022 Grayzone investigation exposing Mason as a snitch who attempted to supply dirt on leftists to secret British government contacts. Among the most significant documents disclosed in our report was a bizarre chart Mason created to illustrate his view of Chinese and Russian control over Corbyn and the entire…Open
Thune, who is from South Dakota, confirmed that he is committed to getting the E15 legislation "across the finish line," and said he even spoke to the president about the topic on Tuesday morning.
President Trump told ABC News' Rachel Scott on Tuesday he hasn’t "heard" comments over the weekend from top administration officials labeling Alex Pretti a "domestic terrorist" and an "assassin."
