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Reports of a MAGA civil war over Iran are greatly exaggerated

Reports of a MAGA civil war over Iran are greatly exaggerated

Published by Sam Flores

Donald Trump’s war against Iran lasted 40 days, with a fragile ceasefire set to expire April 22. The president and his handlers convinced themselves it would be a lightning war. This did not happen. He also believed the war would have a rally-round-the-flag effect, buoying his historically low poll numbers. Instead, the opposite happened: poll after poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose the war, and they blame Trump for the spike in gas prices, inflation, and other harm he has caused the economy. A new Zogby poll reports that 48% of likely voters are “ashamed” that he is president. This has led many political observers to conclude that the failed war against Iran signals one more step toward the end of Trump’s presidency. The term “MAGA civil war” is being bandied by outlets from the New Republic and the BBC to the Daily Beast and Forbes after MAGA influencers including Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones, who were once counted among Trump’s most staunch supporters, turned against him over his …

Mpox may be spreading asymptomatically, greatly increasing its threat, finds new study

Mpox may be spreading asymptomatically, greatly increasing its threat, finds new study

Published by Sam Flores

Mpox was first detected in the late-1950s, and there have been sporadic outbreaks of the virus in the years since. The largest outbreak to date began in the summer of 2022, a variant of the virus known as clade II spread through the Western world, including in Britain, the US, and large parts of Europe, mainly between men who have sex with men. At least 114,000 people have been infected with the variant in the last four years, 220 of which have died. More recently, a new variant of the virus, clade 1b, emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in late 2023 after undergoing a rare mutation. The virus spread rapidly through the war-torn DRC and the exact figures have still not been verified, but it is thought that there were at least 71,000 cases and almost 2,000 deaths – mainly in young children with weakened immune systems from malnutrition and the impact of other diseases like measles and malaria. The variant has also been detected in several other countries, including Britain, the …

The Crack-Up of Trump’s Base Is Greatly Exaggerated

The Crack-Up of Trump’s Base Is Greatly Exaggerated

Published by José Betancourt

To judge by recent accounts, Donald Trump’s intervention in Venezuela has imperiled his standing among his own supporters. Traditional-media outlets have warned of a MAGA schism, as have some high-profile right-wing influencers. “President Trump seized control of the Republican Party on an anti-interventionist ‘America First’ platform,” The New York Times reported on January 4, but his removal of Venezuela’s leader “threatened to open a new rift within the political movement he has built.” The former Trump strategist Steve Bannon told the paper that the president’s messaging “on a potential occupation has the base bewildered, if not angry.” Two months before the U.S. military captured Nicolás Maduro, the conservative commentator Tucker Carlson warned against American intervention and suggested that efforts to oust the Venezuelan dictator were part of—I am not making this up—a “globohomo” conspiracy to bring gay marriage to the country. The theory of a MAGA rupture over Venezuela has a certain surface plausibility. It’s also completely contradicted by what masses of Trump’s backers are telling pollsters. Two days after the Maduro operation, a Reuters/Ipsos …

King Charles and Queen Camilla ‘greatly saddened’ by Swiss ski resort fire | Royal | News

King Charles and Queen Camilla ‘greatly saddened’ by Swiss ski resort fire | Royal | News

Published by Sam Flores

King Charles has said he and his wife Queen Camilla are “greatly saddened” by the “devastating” fire at a Swiss ski resort, which killed around 40 people Charles said it was “utterly heartbreaking that a night of celebration for young people and families instead turned to such nightmarish tragedy”. About 115 people were injured, most of them seriously, at a bar in the Alpine resort of Crans-Montana less than two hours after midnight on Thursday. Authorities did not immediately have an exact count of the dead.  Crans-Montana is best known as an international ski and golf venue, and overnight, its crowded Le Constellation bar morphed from a scene of revelry into the site of potentially one of Switzerland’s worst tragedies. The statement, posted to @RoyalFamily on X, read: “My wife and I were appalled, and greatly saddened, to learn of the devastating fire last night in Crans-Montana, in Switzerland. It is utterly heartbreaking that a night of celebration for young people and families instead turned to such nightmarish tragedy. “While offering our admiration for the …