Donald Trump loved Britain. His mum was Scottish. He loved the Queen. He likes the King. And he’s mates with Nigel Farage.But lately, Trump has turned on Britain. And while I obviously take umbrage with the emerging stances on the Falklands and the union, I also understand how he feels let down by a place […]
Donald Trump loved Britain. His mum was Scottish. He loved the Queen. He likes the King. And he’s mates with Nigel Farage. But lately, Trump has turned on Britain. And while I obviously take umbrage with the emerging stances on the Falklands and the union, I also understand how he feels let down by a place he once regarded as his proud ancestral home. Successive Tory and Labour governments have wrought economic, geopolitical, and demographic carnage on the United Kingdom. As I warned would happen at the time, slippery eel Boris Johnson was too busy with Ukraine and Net Zero to care about anything domestic besides locking people down during COVID. Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham have doubled down on his failed philosophy, adding a…Open
When Richard Gere publicly criticized President Trump's USAID cuts, the White House communications director responded not with a policy defense but by recycling a baseless urban legend that has followed the actor for more than 35 years. On July 21, White House communications director Steven Cheung posted on X: "Not going to listen to a […] The post White House invoked a decades-old, unsubstantiated rumor to dismiss Richard Gere — and revived a story that says more about America than about the actor appeared first on American Almanac .
When Richard Gere publicly criticized President Trump's USAID cuts, the White House communications director responded not with a policy defense but by recycling a baseless urban legend that has followed the actor for more than 35 years. On July 21, White House communications director Steven Cheung posted on X: "Not going to listen to a guy who may have put a gerbil up his a**." The post came after Gere, 77, criticized what he called Trump's "ignorance" regarding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development at an event promoting an educational partnership on migration. Gere also remarked, "He has idiots around him." Cheung's response did not address USAID, migration policy, or any of Gere's specific claims. Instead, it reached…Open
A senior at a small upstate New York school earned an in-school suspension on her very first day back for carrying a cup of coffee, and her challenge to the rule exposed a transparency failure the district now admits it needs to fix. Julie Kaputa showed up to Beaver River Central School in Beaver Falls, […] The post New York high schooler suspended on first day of school for bringing a cup of coffee appeared first on American Almanac .
A senior at a small upstate New York school earned an in-school suspension on her very first day back for carrying a cup of coffee, and her challenge to the rule exposed a transparency failure the district now admits it needs to fix. Julie Kaputa showed up to Beaver River Central School in Beaver Falls, New York, on September 3 ready to start her senior year. She brought coffee. A staff member told her to finish it or throw it out. Kaputa refused and walked to the main office instead. The school handed her an in-school suspension for violating a brand-new policy banning outside food and drinks. It was the first day the rule existed in practice, and Kaputa was already on the wrong side of it. But what happened next turned a minor…Open