House progressives are getting fed up with efforts to accommodate Republican senators — and Joe Manchin. Look for them to start demanding swift action — and threatening payback.

Why it matters: The White House is under growing pressure to accede to the left's demand to bust the filibuster. That rule effectively requires the support of 10 Republicans for most measures in this 50-50 Senate, rather than the simple majority that most Democrats want.

What we're hearing: Democrats believe they have a narrow window to change voting rules at the national level, to ensure they don't get swept out of power due to Republican structural advantages.

• Many Dems believe that this moment — when they have total control of Washington — is extremely tenuous and fleeting.

One of the clearest signs of this coming confrontation is a tweet this morning by Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.), a leading House progressive, who criticized Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) for announcing his opposition to a sweeping voting-rights bill passed by the House in March.

Fred Ryan, publisher of the Washington Post, contends, "Something appears to be 'simply, simply wrong' at the Biden Justice Department." Ryan objected to the methods used to gain reporters records during leak investigations, and in particular, that instead of reversing decisions of the previous administration that Ryan believes impeded upon reporters' First Amendment rights, the Biden Justice Department, under new attorney general Merrick Garland, accelerated them.

After Biden took office, the department continued to pursue subpoenas for reporters' email logs issued to Google, which operates the New York Times' email systems, and it obtained a gag order compelling a Times attorney to keep silent about the fact that federal authorities were seeking to seize his colleagues' records. Later, when the Justice Department broadened the number of those permitted to know about the effort, it barred Times executives from discussing the legal battle with the Times newsroom, including the paper's top editor.

This escalation, on Biden's watch, represents an unprecedented assault on American news organizations and their efforts to inform the public about government wrongdoing.

Last month, The Post learned of secret subpoenas authorized by President Donald Trump's outgoing attorney general to obtain email information and home, cell and office telephone records of three Post reporters over a 3½-month span in 2017. We immediately requested an explanation and answers to several questions from the Justice Department as well as a meeting with the attorney general.

To date, no answers have been provided and the meeting has yet to take place. This delay is troubling. When asked about how the president's assurances can be squared with his Justice Department's behavior, White House press secretary Jen Psaki could offer no explanation. She subsequently released a statement disavowing White House knowledge of the actions that appear to have continued for several months during Biden's presidency.

On June 1, Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis became the latest governor to protect the rights of girls and women competing in athletics, by signing a bill into law — the "Fairness in Women's Sports Act" — which prohibits biological men from competing against female athletes.

Florida became the eighth state to protect female athletes from being forced to compete against biological men.

"We believe in the state of Florida, of protecting the fairness and the integrity of women's athletics," DeSantis said. "And I can tell you this in Florida, you know, girls are going to play girl's sports and boys are going play boy's sports, that's what we're doing. We're going to make sure that that's the reality. So the bill that we're doing today will ensure fairness for women athletes for years to come in the state of Florida. It says that athletic teams or sports that are designated for females are open to females. And we're going to go based off biology."

President Trump was also popular in Central America

Vice President Kamala Harris' much anticipated "foreign policy" trip to Guatemala to meet with leaders there about what can be done to stem the influx of illegal immigrants that are crossing into the U.S. from that country, got off to a bad start with Air Force 2 having to turn around because of "technical issue" and was then being greeted by pro-Trump, anti-Biden Guatemalan protestors.

"It is a technical issue. There are no major safety concerns," said Symone Sanders, spokeswoman for VP Harris.

Harris shook off the midair scare, telling reporters after she deplaned that "we all said a little prayer, but we're good."

The frustrated German foreign minister rages about being held 'hostage' by smaller, troublesome countries like Viktor Orban's. But he needs to remember why the veto exists: for democracy's sake.

The Germans, we must honestly believe, do try to rein in their exuberance for ensuring order, a treasured national characteristic that when exposed to wary foreigners can sometimes land the unfortunate Deutschlanders in die Scheiße.

But German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, speaking at this year's conference of Germany's ambassadors in Berlin (now there's a hot Zoom ticket), was clearly so incensed that any attempt to deploy such caution went out the window.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Monday that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was to blame for the COVID-19 pandemic and signed laws that thwart foreign influence across the state.

"I really hope that we're going to have accountability for the origins of the COVID pandemic because this just did not need to happen," DeSantis said at a press conference. "The Chinese Communist Party is primarily to blame, but there's also American money that very well may have flown to Wuhan."


On Monday, DeSantis signed two bills aimed at preventing CCP from influencing Florida's educational institutions and from committing corporate espionage.

The French antitrust authority said on Monday it had handed down a 220 million euro ($267 million) fine to Alphabet's Google for abusing its market power in the online advertising business.

The watchdog said the sanction was the first of its kind in the world and that it had reached a settlement with the U.S. firm under which Google agreed to end some of its self-preferencing practices in the intricate automated online advertising business. ($1 = 0.8226 euros)

Back in April I published an article titled 'Globalists Will Need Another Crisis In America As Their Reset Agenda Fails'. In it I noted an odd trend which many of us in the liberty media have become aware of over the years - Almost every major man-made catastrophe in the US and in many other parts of the world in the past couple decades has been preceded by a government or globalist "exercise". These exercises and war games tend to mimic the exact disaster that would eventually strike the public only days or weeks later. Sometimes the mock disaster exercises and the real events happen at the same time.

The covid pandemic was no exception. It's quite miraculous...

I have specifically outlined the bizarre "coincidence" of the World Economic Forum's Event 201 exercise, a war game co-funded by Bill Gates and Johns Hopkins and launched in October of 2019. Event 201 simulated a global novel zoonotic coronavirus pandemic (supposedly spread from bats to people) that "required" a global lockdown response. Only two months later the real thing actually happened. Almost every aspect of the Covid event has played out exactly as was practiced during the WEF war game.

One very disturbing element of the covid response has been the coordinated suppression campaign by Big Tech platforms from YouTube to Facebook and Twitter. This campaign has sought to undermine or destroy any facts, data and opinions which run contrary to the government narrative on covid, even if the official narrative on covid ends up being completely wrong. The strategy was described in detail during Event 201 and it was executed with extreme efficiency among supposedly disconnected companies and governments around the world. It's almost as if they KNEW a coronavirus pandemic was about to happen, and they were already staged to control the public reaction well in advance.

Amazingly, The New York Times - 22 May 2021 - predicts massive population reduction over the next few decades.

"Fewer babies' cries.

More abandoned homes.

Toward the middle of this century, as deaths start to exceed births, changes will come that are hard to fathom."

And -

"All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal unmatched in recorded history that will make first-birthday parties a rarer sight than funerals, and empty homes a common eyesore."

And it continues,

"Maternity wards are already shutting down in Italy. Ghost cities are appearing in northeastern China. Universities in South Korea can't find enough students, and in Germany, hundreds of thousands of properties have been razed, with the land turned into parks."

Is it all true? It remains to be verified. Omission?

At no time does the article mention the eugenist nature of deliberate population reduction, in connection with the covid plandemic, the coerced and by many accounts poisonous - vaccination campaign, with a non-vaccine, but instead a novel, totally untested mRNA-type "gene therapy" which the US CDC has allowed to be applied as an "emergency measure" in these dire circumstances of a pandemic, that actually lacks all characteristics of a pandemic, but has to be pumped up to make it appear as a pandemic - with literally almost all deaths appearing from whatever causes - even car accidents - can be - and "must" be categorized as covid deaths.

The Falklands will be left at the mercy of Argentina because of a delay in deploying a shield similar to Israel's Iron Dome system, Defence sources have warned.

The Telegraph understands that Sky Sabre, a medium- and short-range surface-to-air missile, which uses the technology behind Israel's Iron Dome shield, has still not become fully operational, despite a deadline of 2020.

Now deploying troops are having to train on the old Rapier, a short-range air defence system introduced in the late 1990s, which sources have described as being "bordering on unserviceable".