Maria Bartiromo: 'Trump Checkmated Iran With This Beginning Of A Blockade'

Someone has been smoking some strong stuff over at Fox "news." Here's Trump apologist Maria Bartiromo on this Sunday's Fox & Friends Weekend, just ahead of her insane half hour plus long phoner with Trump, pretending the talks that just fell apart with Iran are part of his grand strategy to force China to buy American oil.

BARTIROMO: He directed allies to buy oil and gas from America. Now, the US and allies are increasing their naval presence in the Strait of Hormuz right now, to indicate to the world that yes, Iran wanted the strait closed, it will then be closed. And all the traffic will be redirected to the Gulf of America, where the United States will up its capacity and up its sales of oil and gas to the rest of the world.

There is a second front developing right now in this war, and that second front is about the economy. The United States military has destroyed the economy of Iran and will continue to do so. The president has talked a lot about helping the people of Iran. As much as this is decimating Iran and its economy, it is helping the people of Iran on the other side of this.

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Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smart glasses

These glasses are a step back from an ambitious plan that once called for Apple to launch a variety of mixed and augmented reality devices.

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The FBI’s ‘Proactive’ Domestic Terrorist Plans Should Terrify Us All

Anyone who has read George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four novel, published in 1949, surely remembers the Thought Police going after “thought criminals.” Thanks to Kash Patel and his MAGA comrades in the Trump administration, it is now a case of art imitating life. And they want more money for it.

Ken Klippenstein caught the little-noticed provision in Donald Trump’s proposed budget that should scare the s**t out of everyone in the C&L community. “Buried inside it is a new FBI-led center dedicated to ‘proactively’ hunting Americans the government classifies as so-called domestic terrorists,” Klippenstein wrote.

He was referring to the “NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center.” It is staffed with personnel from 10 federal agencies, Klippenstein says. “It is busy ‘proactively’ identifying domestic terrorists” who, the budget request says, “are motivated by a range of ideologies" and “pose an elevated threat to the Homeland.”

So, who are these “potential” domestic terrorists and what ideologies do they hold? Besides those supporting “the overthrow of the U.S. government,” the budget request claims that violent conduct “commonly” relates to “views associated with anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism and anti-Christianity … extremism on immigration, race and gender. [sic] and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion and morality.”

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Walmart-owned Flipkart, Amazon are squeezing India’s quick commerce startups

Flipkart's ongoing expansion beyond major cities and heavy discounting is raising risks for India's quick commerce startups, analysts say.

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Kalshi wins temporary pause in Arizona criminal case

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Friday that it has won a temporary restraining order preventing Arizona from pursuing its criminal case against Kalshi.

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AMC will stream ‘The Audacity’ premiere in 21 parts on TikTok

Is this a smart way to build buzz, or just an odd attempt to recreate Quibi?

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USPS Disenfranchised Hundreds Of Wisconsin Voters

On Thursday, Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Paulina Gutierrez announced that hundreds of voters were silenced when their absentee ballots were delivered the day after Tuesday's election. Per Wisconsin state law, ballots have to be delivered by the time the polls close on Election Day.

Per Gutierrez, the election commission received only 20 absentee ballots from the United States Postal Service on Tuesday, which was Election Day in Wisconsin. This was despite having been in contact with USPS several times during the day. However, on Wednesday, USPS delivered 269 ballots to the election commission, through no fault of the voters who did everything they were supposed to do.

Gutiérrez said of the 269 ballots she received the morning after Election Day, 17 had no postal date and 252 had postmarks on or before April 6.

"We've never experienced this before where we got no ballots and then all of a sudden the first delivery in the morning is that many," she said.
"This is a smaller election too, so that number may be normal in like a presidential ... It's just completely unprecedented for us."

Similar problems were reported in Dane County, where they received 107 late ballots, even though some of them were postmarked as early as late March.

I'm sure that it's purely a coincidence that this is happening in the two biggest Democratic bastions in the state.

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