Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) threw her hat into the race for South Carolina's U.S. Senate seat, days after President Donald Trump gave her his "Complete and Total Endorsement."
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The State Department published an extensive report on Monday detailing how the Communist Party of Cuba has invested over half a century in the infiltration and destruction of American politics, accusing the communists of setting the infiltration of campuses as a "priority."
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There’s no doubt that Christopher Nolan’s "The Odyssey" took one of the foundational works of Western civilization and transformed it — but BlazeTV host John Doyle believes it was for the worse.
“Feeling very vindicated dude,” Doyle says, adding that he’s “never been a Chris Nolan fan.”
“Honestly, part of me almost wants to cope and say that Christopher Nolan is actually our guy. He’s going behind enemy lines. He’s a secret patriot. He’s actively trying to ruin any possibility of further adaptations with this kind of stuff,” he says.
But unfortunately, Doyle doesn’t think that’s possible, as it’s “one of the most in-your-face, on-the-nose subversions that has ever been made by Hollywood.”
The most obvious, Doyle says, is that they cast Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy and Ellen Page, who now goes by “Elliot,” as a soldier.
“He made ancient Greece into this kind of rainbow nation,” he says, “where you’ve got white Greeks, black Greeks, Asian Greeks, you know, even Greeks on Homer-ian H-1B visas from the Greek city state of Kolkata looking you, the audience member, directly in the eye and saying we are Greeks from Ithaca, right?”
“It basically means nothing. It’s literally just driven by visual spectacle for third-world masses with practically every actual integral plot point being completely obliterated,” he continues.
“And in so far as there even is a message, they removed all male sexuality from it. They feminized it. Gave it a once over with therapy-speak SSRI nonsense. And yeah, they made it about overcoming trauma and about how war is freaking bad,” he adds.
Doyle calls it the “complete inversion” and “antithesis” to the original "Odyssey."
“It was supposed to be, you know, an epic poem meant to be spoken before a crowd using their imagination to paint the story for them, right? Paint the picture in their mind carried by the weight of the verses given and what it was imparted in meaning,” he explains.
“The adaptation, like modern garbage that tries to be carried entirely by the visual spectacle. It erases every thematic point in and every moral of the original. It just inserts the most boilerplate libtardism imaginable. War bad, therapy good, men bad, women good, ancient morality bad, progressivism good, freaking trauma,” he says, adding, “It's really, it’s not even worth the watch.”
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One candidate has emerged as the apparent victor in Maine’s scramble to replace former Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner — but unfortunately, his politics don’t appear to be any less radical than those of his predecessor.
Platner officially withdrew from the contentious Senate race on July 10 after a former girlfriend accused the self-described oyster farmer of sexual assault, causing his financial and political backing to quickly dissipate.
'It’s become very clear to me that abortion is health care, and I believe in health care for everyone.'
Maine counties held nomination meetings over the weekend to select delegates for the Democratic Party’s upcoming convention, where former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson pulled through as the frontrunner to replace Platner, winning more than three-quarters of the total delegates’ votes.
Jackson, who spent two decades in the state legislature, has cultivated a reputation as a staunch progressive in Maine politics. His Senate campaign website highlights policies including Medicare for all, tax increases on billionaires, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, codifying a federal right to abortion, and cutting U.S. funding for Israel’s “genocide” — positions that closely resemble the platform on which Platner won the primary.
Despite voting against a 2009 bill legalizing same-sex marriage, Jackson has since changed his views on the issue, calling his vote “something I regretted from the start.” In 2024, Jackson’s voting record received a 100% from Equality Maine, a gay rights advocacy group.
Jackson also opposed abortion rights earlier in his career, earning a perfect score from the Maine Right to Life Committee in 2010. Yet by 2023, he had co-sponsored a bill allowing late-term abortions under certain circumstances.
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Troy Jackson stands with supporters during a July 14 demonstration outside a federal immigration office in Scarborough, Maine, following the fatal shooting of a man by ICE agents. Ryan Murphy/Getty Images
“It’s become very clear to me that abortion is health care, and I believe in health care for everyone,” Jackson told the New York Times.
Jackson’s background, including his experience as a logger and purportedly as a union organizer, has also made him appealing to the progressive left.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) threw his support behind Jackson even before Platner officially dropped out.
“[Troy Jackson] is someone who has spent his life standing up for these progressive values,” Khanna wrote. “The movement is about standing for Medicare for All, opposing foreign wars, and getting money out of politics.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) organization, Our Revolution, followed suit, praising Jackson’s “commitment to workers, lower prices, and affordable housing,” which “best reflects the platform that won the primary.”
Earlier this year, Jackson unsuccessfully ran for governor of Maine, finishing third in the Democratic primary’s ranked-choice voting. Despite his defeat, he managed to secure the endorsement of the Maine chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, the organization behind a plethora of other far-left candidates around the country — many of whom have been successful in their bids for elected office.
“Maine DSA proudly endorses Troy Jackson for governor!” the organization posted, adding, “The Maine working class will wield its collective power, and Maine DSA will have a seat at the table.”
Jackson also frequently appeared alongside Platner on the campaign trail during their respective primary campaigns. The two shared a stage at a “Fighting Oligarchy” event with Sanders over Memorial Day weekend, signaling the close political alignment between the candidates even before Jackson emerged as Platner’s likely successor.
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Troy Jackson, Bernie Sanders, and Graham Platner during a Fighting Oligarchy event in Portland, Maine, on May 25.. Sophie Park/Bloomberg/Getty Images
In the aftermath of the sexual assault allegation, Jackson called on Platner to drop out of the race, doubting his ability to defeat incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins.
“He's just not going to win, and he's going to leave us with another six years of income tax cuts for billionaires and no health insurance," Jackson said.
Jackson’s nomination is expected to be finalized at the July 25 convention, where he will face Collins in a race that could help determine control of the Senate.
“In November, Mainers will defeat Susan Collins, and we will take back our Senate seat from the billionaires and corporations who think they own it,” Jackson wrote in a post on Sunday evening.
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A "confrontation between two groups" preceded a shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that left nine people wounded, according to FOX 10 Phoenix.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) endorsed Muslim Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in the primary race, asserting that he is the only candidate who can build a "grassroots" movement to usher in leftist projects like universal health care.
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On Sunday, the cameras were on Spain's Ferran Torres, as he scored the goal that delivered "La Roja" their second World Cup championship. On Monday, the cameras were on him again, for a very different reason.
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