"The way Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) tells it, the only way to fight the 'oligarchs' is to travel like one.

"The socialist senator's campaign spent nearly $230,000 on chartered private jets during the second quarter of 2025 as the senator continued to jet-set the nation on his nationwide Fighting Oligarchy Tour, according to Federal Election Commission records released Tuesday. The campaign contracted exclusively with Ventura Jets, a New York company that specializes in providing private airfare for the same sort of corporate leaders that Sanders has demonized since launching his tour in February.

"Sanders's private jet budget during the second quarter of 2025 exceeded the nearly $222,000 his campaign spent on private airfare during the first three months of the year, and shows the Vermont senator remains unapologetic about living a millionaire's lifestyle while propagating socialist rhetoric on the campaign trail against 'oligarchs and corporate interests,' whom he's equated to 'heroin addicts' driven by greed."

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"President Donald Trump on Monday called for California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff to be prosecuted for alleged mortgage fraud.

"Trump said the mortgage giant Fannie Mae's financial crimes division concluded Schiff 'engaged in a sustained pattern of possible Mortgage Fraud' in a Monday morning post on the social media platform Truth Social. The president called on the California Democrat to face prosecution for alleged mortgage fraud for claiming a Maryland home as his primary residence for more than a decade.

"'Adam Schiff said that his primary residence was in MARYLAND to get a cheaper mortgage and rip off America, when he must LIVE in CALIFORNIA because he was a Congressman from CALIFORNIA,' Trump wrote. 'I always knew Adam Schiff was a Crook.'"

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"After stepping off the plane in Nashville, having paid far more than expected for your flight, the rental car desk awaits.

"Four days with a Toyota Camry costs $670. A Starbucks coffee on the way to the hotel is another $7.

"Your budget hotel somehow costs $500 for the weekend, breakfast not included. Eating out for dinner means the day's spending is comfortably into four figures.

"Welcome to America in the summer of 2025, where years of surging prices have left consumers struggling with widespread sticker shock.

"Inflation, which began to rise sharply in 2021, has significantly increased the cost of just about everything. Overall, prices are about 26 per cent higher than they were before the Covid pandemic, according to the personal finance company NerdWallet."

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"Like frogs slowly being boiled alive, Democratic Party leaders across America are trying to swim in the steaming pot of Zohran Mamdani's extremist agenda.

"Bereft of any principle, they're just desperate to stay politically afloat amid the far-left surge that's only grown more stormy since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas atrocities in Israel.

"Asked about Mamdani's refusal to condemn the pro-terror slogan 'globalize the intifada,' Democratic National Committee chief Ken Martin squirmed, 'We're a big tent party.'"

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"Over the weekend, Sam Zeff, a reporter for KCUR, Kansas City's NPR affiliate, told me over X that 'you wasted your money on your degree.'

"I am a recent college graduate with a degree in meteorology. Zeff was replying to my post on social media, pointing out that he, and other climate activists, were ignoring basic scientific facts when they blamed man-made climate change for the tragic flooding in Texas. The truth is that the rainfall and flooding along the Guadalupe River were not historically unprecedented and had little, if anything, to do with climate change. Neither heavy rainfall nor river flooding has increased in the Texas Hill Country over the last six decades.

"The devastating loss of life in Texas is a reminder of the importance of meteorology and accurate science when it comes to understanding the weather. This is no time for politics or finger-pointing from either the left or the right."

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"Explosive new evidence suggests that some of the highest-ranking officials in the Obama-era CIA and FBI perjured themselves regarding their claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin helped Donald Trump secure his victory in 2016.

"A newly released CIA review challenges their sworn denials to Congress that the Steele dossier -- a discredited set of allegations about Trump funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign -- was used as the basis for the years-long Russiagate probe that hamstrung President Trump's first term.

"The eight-page review conducted by career CIA analysts found the dossier did, in fact, worm its way into the text of the highly classified report known as an Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) to buttress the thinly sourced, yet inflammatory allegation that 'Putin and the Russian Government aspired to help President-elect Trump's election chances.'"

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"The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a judge's order preventing the Trump administration from conducting mass layoffs across the federal bureaucracy, for now.

"The court in its unsigned ruling said Trump's February executive order directing federal agencies to prepare for reductions in force (RIFs) is likely lawful.

"It enables federal agencies to resume implementing Trump's directive, though the high court left the door open for plaintiffs to challenge any agency's specific plan down the road."

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"Donald Trump has been accused of many outlandish things, but killing children with flash floods has to be among the worst.

"The first reflex of his critics was to blame him for the appalling tragedy in central Texas, where a flood on July 4 killed more than 100 people, including over two dozen children at a Christian summer camp.

"This is one of the deadliest floods in the United States in the last 100 years, and the toll among kids is a particular gut punch.

"It's natural that observers will ask how it could have happened, but the fact-free, malicious attacks constitute one of the more poisonously stupid episodes of the Trump years -- and that's saying a lot."

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"Although Democrats were unable to stop President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill from becoming law, their relentless attacks on its provisions -- particularly their fearmongering over cuts to Medicaid -- have left a lasting negative impression on many voters.

"By framing the bill as a ruthless assault on vulnerable Americans, the Democrats, the legacy media, and even a few Republicans -- North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis and Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon come to mind -- succeeded in planting doubt and stirring public anxiety about this legislation. ...

"In a recent op-ed, The Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote, 'No one is "gutting" the safety net: The GOP will have to rebut the Democratic and media distortions about their reforms or lose the 2026 election.'

"They are right. Republicans have 16 months to replace this false perception with the truth. They must make it their highest priority. Failure to do so will all but guarantee the loss of their majority in the House, and could even put their control of the Senate at risk."

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"No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July."