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‘Ready For Ron’ Draft Wants DeSantis To Carry America 1st Agenda

Could the GOP presidential primary race in 2024 see the two big dogs of the new Republican Party squaring off against each other?

Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have been aligned on many issues and say they remain on good terms with each other. But DeSantis’ rising national profile combined with some questioning of Trump’s legacy on the COVID-19 pandemic has some on the right mulling a matchup between the two.

In an interview Wednesday, Florida attorney Lilian Rodriguez-Baz touted “Ready for Ron,” a petition effort she and longtime GOP campaign consultant Ed Rollins have launched to draft DeSantis to run for president in 2024.

“[W]e’ve seen how he’s managed to keep Florida’s economy alive and open throughout the pandemic,” Rodriguez-Baz told “Just the News, Not Noise” TV show. “He is consistently facing off against big corporations, he isn’t afraid to take the unpopular position … if it means that he’s going to be doing something that works.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Gets New Intern, Milo Yiannopoulos

Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos is working as an unpaid intern in the congressional office of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R‑Ga.).

Yiannopoulos, 37, announced the job on his Telegram account Monday with a photo of his official intern congressional badge.

“I’ve finally been persuaded out of retirement. But my skills are a bit rusty, so the best role I could land was an unpaid internship with a friend. Pray for me!” Yiannopoulos said.

“Mummy always said I’d end up in government!” the British commentator added.

Greene’s office confirmed to The Hill that Yiannopoulos is indeed their intern.

Yiannopoulos, who formerly worked at Breitbart, rose to prominence in the mid-2010s for his incendiary stances on feminism, Islam and other hot-button issues but fell out of public conversation after intense backlash.

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Mask Mandates Are Back

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) upgraded the monkeypox alert to level 2 on Monday, advising travelers to practice enhanced precautions, including wearing a mask.

The CDC advised wearing masks after closely monitoring cases of monkeypox that have lately been reported in numerous countries, including the U.S., reported Fox News.

NEW—the CDC has raised the Alert Level of #Monkeypox to Level 2 over the weekend—warning: “Travelers should wear a mask. Wearing a mask can help protect you from many diseases, including monkeypox”

Why the heck was there no big CDC / media advisory on this?

HT @mdc_martinus pic.twitter.com/F4lK30JNxT

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 6, 2022

The agency appears to have updated its website, erasing any direction advising travelers to wear masks. Instead, the CDC recommends travelers avoid close physical contact with infected people, wash their hands with soap and water, and avoid touching their eyes, nose and mouth.

“People usually become infected with the monkeypox virus through contact with the skin lesions or bodily fluids of infected animals or humans (alive or dead), including respiratory droplets, or through contact with materials contaminated with the virus,” according to the CDC’s notice.

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Political Target: Proud Boys Leader Charged With J6 Seditious Conspiracy

Henry Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the Proud Boys, and four other members of the group were indicted on Monday for seditious conspiracy.

These charges are in connection with the Jan. 6th Capitol riots.

The defendants include Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, 38, of Miami, Florida, the former national chairman of the Proud Boys; Ethan Nordean, 31, of Auburn, Washington; Joseph Biggs, 38, of Ormond Beach, Florida; Zachary Rehl, 37, of Philadelphia, and Dominic Pezzola, 44, of Rochester, New York.

All previously were indicted and remain detained. They pleaded not guilty to charges contained in earlier indictments.

In the news: New York Gov Signs Slew Of Strict Gun Control Bills Into Law

The superseding indictment adds two charges to the earlier indictment: one count of seditious conspiracy, and one count of conspiracy to prevent an officer from discharging any duties. All defendants now face a total of nine charges, and Pezzola faces an additional robbery charge.

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Justice Favors Swamp Rats, Especially In J6 Investigations

While holding firm in its promise to prosecute Jan. 6 offenders to the max, the U.S. Justice Department made a curious move last week. It withdrew its own plea deal with two lawyers accused of using Molotov cocktails in 2020 during George Floyd protests in New York City and allowed the defendants to plea to different charges that carried less prison time.

The rare reversal by DOJ in the case of attorneys Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman in federal court in New York stunned some legal watchers and added to a pattern of recent cases that some see as evidence of a two-tier system of justice.

The argument first surfaced among conservatives during the Russia collusion scandal when a defendant like Trump National Security Advisor Mike Flynn was pressured to plead guilty to lying to the FBI while the bureau’s then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was allowed to escape any punishment for allegedly lying during an internal investigation. McCabe even got the pension he was stripped of restored.

But that argument has long since escaped the boundaries of the Russia case to other investigations far and wide in America.

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Soros spent $40 million to elect 75 ‘social justice’ prosecutors

Sky-high campaign donations from liberal anti-police billionaire George Soros and his groups have helped to elect 75 “social justice” prosecutors in whose cities jailings have plummeted and crime has surged, according to a new report provided to Secrets.

In a 17-page report compiled by the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, a decade of spending has put Soros prosecutors in enough big cities that they represent 1 in 5 people, or about 72 million. That includes about half of America’s 50 most populous cities and counties where 40% of U.S. homicides occur.

Soros is a well-known proponent of social justice prosecution, which calls for lighter sentences, especially of minorities. The movement, however, has led to higher crime in some cities and has been decried by pro-law-and-order conservatives.

Police have led the charge against liberal prosecutors who have been refusing to file charges that lead to long prison sentences.

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The Supreme Court’s June of Doom Is Upon Us

The Supreme Court did something strange last week: It didn’t hand down rulings in any of its argued cases. Many weeks of the year go by without Supreme Court decisions, of course, but that tends to be less common in the month before the court wraps up its annual October-to-June term. The court is now entering the final stretch of its most turbulent term in recent memory with a major backlog of prominent cases.

Is behind-the-scenes friction stemming from last month’s leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization affecting the justices’ work? There are some signs of sluggishness in their usual output. Bloomberg’s Greg Stohr noted earlier this week that the court has only handed down decisions in fewer than half of its argued cases this term—the ones that go through the full briefing and oral arguments process. Using numbers from SCOTUS stats guru Adam Feldman, Stohr reported that this is the furthest behind that the court has been on deciding cases by this point in the calendar since at least 1950.

As a younger legal journalist, I used to occasionally have stress dreams where the Supreme Court would hand down all its major decisions on the same day, and I would have to write about each of them simultaneously. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would almost wonder if the justices were intentionally planning something like that to get back at the press corps for violating the sanctity of its inner workings with the Dobbs leak. But there are two far more likely explanations for the court’s eleventh-hour rush this year.

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Food Prices Surge 14%

Americans are changing their shopping habits because of soaring food prices. And disruptions in the international farming community have some worried about the food supply heading into 2023.

The BMO Real Financial Progress Index, a quarterly survey from BMO and Ipsos, shows that 42% of surveyed adults “are changing how they shop for groceries,” including “opting for cheaper items, avoiding brand names and buying only the essentials.”

The report found “46% are either dining out less or consciously spending less when dining out.”

Record high energy costs and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been major factors in rising food prices.

Gas prices hit new record highs every day in the past week. According to AAA, the national average gas price rose to $4.85 on Sunday, with diesel gas prices at their own record of $5.64 per gallon.

That added cost makes it more expensive for farmers to operate equipment, transport goods to market, and more.

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School terror: Seattle principal stonewalled police

A man suspected of being high on meth allegedly jumped over the fence at a Seattle elementary school, entered a portable classroom, and attempted to steal students’ backpacks. It prompted a school lockdown. But when police arrived, the school principal would not cooperate. It likely played a role in the suspect then attempting to hijack a delivery van moments later.
The suspect is 20-year-old Liban Harasam and, according to police, is a High Utilizer — the designation for prolific offenders that the Seattle City Attorney will now prioritize after arrest.
Police say Harasam arrived at Sand Point Elementary school just before 2:30pm last Thursday. Police documents allege he hopped the fence to the campus where, according to a parent, he was al …

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70 UK Firms Adopt 4‑Day Week

Thousands of workers across the United Kingdom are set to begin a four-day work week trial from Monday while still receiving 100 percent of their wages.The experiment has been arranged by not-for-profit organization 4 Day Week Global in partnership with the think tank Autonomy, the 4 Day Week Campaign, and researchers at Cambridge University, Oxford University, and Boston College, who are campaigning for a shorter working week without impacting wages.
During the trial run, which will last for six months, employees in the UK will work four days a week while receiving 100 percent of their pay with the aim of boosting productivity and well-being among workers.
Similar pilot schemes are taking place in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
In the UK, more than 3,300 workers at 70 UK companies are taking part in the trial, Joe Ryle, campaign director for the 4 Day Week campaign told “Good Morning …

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