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“You will see the difference,” the 67-year-old star raved.

192 House Democrats Refuse To Condemn Socialism As Party Scrambles To Avert DSA Civil War

It is not surprising whatsoever that nearly every House Democrat voted against a Republican-led resolution condemning socialism, giving Republicans fresh campaign material for the upcoming midterm elections amid the rise of the cancerous Democratic Socialists of America within the increasingly unhinged left-wing party. 

The nonbinding resolution, introduced by Republican Rep. Jeff Crank of Colorado, called on Congress to denounce “socialism in all its forms,” reject socialist policies in the US and support implementation of President Trump’s election-security legislation.

The measure passed 220-192. All Republicans supported it, along with eight Democrats: Kathy Castor, Vicente Gonzalez, Henry Cuellar, Darren Soto, Jared Golden, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Don Davis and Gabe Vasquez.

“The DSA candidate platform stands in direct contrast to our republic,” Crank, who introduced the measure, said ahead of the vote. “Getting rid of the United States Senate, open borders, defunding the police, allowing non-citizens to vote in federal elections; those aren’t consistent with our Constitution.”

🚨 JUST IN: US House votes to condemn socialism and a whopping 192 DEMOCRATS VOTED AGAINST IT

Final vote: 220-192

Read that again: 192 House Democrats, a vast SUPERMAJORITY, support socialism!

This is terrifying.

Vote RED in November because our nation depends on it! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/2poA8etyTS

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 1, 2026

To better understand DSA, we recently published a five-tiered “rainbow cake” mapping out the modern left, which places DSA on the far left within the reformist-socialist cohort.

Meanwhile, the unofficial spokesman for DSA, Hasan Piker, has called on his followers to “kill capitalist”...

Hasan Piker calls on his followers to kill capitalists:

“Yeah kill them! KiII those motherfuckers and murder those motherfuckers in the streets. Let the streets soak in their fucking red capitalist blood, dude.”

Democrats are campaigning with him. pic.twitter.com/YiZxGgRkgc

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 9, 2026

As we’ve pointed out, the DSA is selling the American public on an affordability pitch, but the agenda really has nothing to do with that, considering that its members are far-left and hell-bent on what they describe, in their own words, as “destroying the nation from within.”

Recently, DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer confirmed her party’s radical agenda:

• Abolishing the Senate, presidency, and Supreme Court
• Abolishing ICE, borders and prisons
• Defunding the Pentagon
• Mass amnesty for illegals

DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer confirms their platform includes:

- Abolishing the Senate, presidency, & Supreme Court
- Abolishing ICE, borders, & prisons
- Defunding the Pentagon
- Mass amnesty for illegals pic.twitter.com/rPQiT9HCXN

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 26, 2026

This is all related:

• “Americans Deserve To Know”: State Dept. Report Details Cuban Espionage, Subversion, And Role In Rise Of Far Left

It’s coming...

DSA chapter plans ‘Riots and Uprisings’ reading club to study ‘how people struggled’ https://t.co/GZSEHsLDFj

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 19, 2026

As we explained last month, citing Andy Laperriere, Piper Sandler's head of US policy research in Washington, younger Americans have no lived memory of Soviet breadlines or the refugee waves produced by failed communist states. That gap has made it easier to repackage far-left ideology without confronting its record.

Examples include:

• “Let’s Downsize”: Antifa Uses Instagram To Put ‘Luigi-Style’ Hit On Flock Camera CEO

The Democratic Party establishment is freaking out about DSA’s rise within the party. We’ve explained that socialist victories in local elections and the White House’s branding of DSA’s ascent as a communist takeover could benefit Republicans ahead of the midterms in five ways (read here). 

Musk overnight:

Joseph McCarthy was correct, one Communist was one too many.

However he didn’t go far enough to correct it. pic.twitter.com/0OhZ9LEIO6 https://t.co/l3WzALKwb3

— Zach Jones - Secretary of Psyops (@ZachJones1994) September 2, 2026

All in all, yesterday’s vote exposed the Democratic Party’s unwillingness to splinter the party and denounce DSA ahead of the midterms, because doing so would cause a civil war within the party. As for the American people, “destroying the nation from within,” as per DSA’s plan, is not a popular position among average voters.

Another headwind for DSA is that its socialist friends in South America have been rejected in a generational shift across a majority of those countries. Nomura expects the right-wing populist wave to gain momentum across Europe over the next 18 months, indicating that markets favor that shift.

Tyler Durden Wed, 09/02/2026 - 10:00

California may be the Golden State, but it’s looking pretty grim for retirees.

Rowan Henchy is a Bravo natural!

Apply the bet365 bonus code to bet $10, to get $365 in bonus bets for Mets vs. Rays.

The Sports Guy got himself into some hot water.

The 3.5-acre property in Bratenahl, Ohio, was previously owned by Gary Pellegrino, who bought the mansion for $1.95 million in 2023.

The 3.5-acre property in Bratenahl, Ohio, was previously owned by Gary Pellegrino, who bought the mansion for $1.95 million in 2023.

Michael Arterburn, a former domestic violence detective of 23 years, is schooling young adults on the useful tips, tricks and tools that could save their lives during a violent attack.

Yen Suddenly Spikes Sparking Intervention Chatter

Having broken hand held above 160/USD, this morning (as the G20 meeting comes to an end), the yen is suddenly spiking higher, prompting desk chatter of another intervention...

“The market remains on high intervention alert,” said Alex Cohen, a foreign-exchange strategist at Bank of America.

There was no obvious news or macro catalyst for such a move, and for now, there is no follow through but it appears 160 is the new line in the sand for the Bessent/BoJ plunge protectors.

Some traders suggested it was a simple stop-hunt (which could still be instigated by 'authorities').

“We hear rumors that this is intervention, but I am skeptical based on the size of the move,” said Andrew Hazlett, a foreign-exchange trader at Monex Inc.

Still, the moves in the yen against the dollar and euro “could not be explained otherwise.”

The magnitude of the move, however, fell short of those seen about a month ago, when Tokyo and Washington joined forces to support the yen to a degree unseen in decades, raising the stakes for anyone betting against the currency. Their first coordinated yen-buying operation since 1998 sparked a rally of about 5% from the weakest level in around four-decades near 164 per dollar, with both governments signaling further joint action if needed.

Tyler Durden Wed, 09/02/2026 - 09:35

The couple came under fire throughout the two most recent seasons of the Bravo show.

The couple came under fire throughout the two most recent seasons of the Bravo show.

The Red Cross distributed food to migrants in Ceuta on August 27 after protesters blocked access to the organization’s vehicles for more than two hours. Demonstrators were demanding that the Spanish government take action to address the migration situation in the enclave.

Tokenmaxxing Turns To Layoffmaxxing: Uber Slashes Thousands In "Significant" Overhaul

Bloomberg obtained a letter from Uber Technologies CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to employees announcing "significant organizational changes" across the company aimed at reallocating spending toward delivery, artificial intelligence, and an increasingly expensive robotaxi buildout.

"Today, we're making several significant organizational changes across Uber. We are removing layers, simplifying team structures, refining our global location strategy, and focusing our people and investments against the biggest opportunities ahead of us," Khosrowshahi wrote in the letter.

The latest Bloomberg data show that, as of 2Q26, Uber employed 36,600 people across its global workforce, meaning a 10% cut equates to about 3,600 workers.

Uber will eliminate nearly half of its teams with only one or two members and reduce by 20% the number of employees positioned seven or more organizational layers below the CEO. In other words, the restructuring is impacting white-collar workers that AI agents can likely replace. 

The company is also combining engineering and science teams while consolidating its separate restaurant, retail, and white-label delivery operations.

There was a report earlier this year that Uber had blown through its AI budget within the first few months of the year after encouraging employees to use frontier models as aggressively as possible. 

We summed that up perfectly...

Tokenmaxxing -> Layoffmaxxing https://t.co/ZHHLQDhIHO

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 2, 2026

Savings from the restructuring will be reinvested in Uber's core ride-sharing and delivery platforms, as well as the company's effort to build what Khosrowshahi called an "autonomous future."

Uber has pledged to invest more than $10 billion in robotaxi partnerships over the coming years as it seeks to become the dominant top player for summoning autonomous vehicles. The company has already invested in Avride, Lucid, Nuro and Rivian while reducing stakes elsewhere to free up capital.

WAYMO IS FIGHTING THE ROBOTAXI WAR WITH AN EXPENSIVE & CLUNKY PROOF OF CONCEPT COMPARED TO A SLEEK TESLA MODEL

Eight boxy Waymos. One million dollars.

Each one a $125,000 science project: lidar hats, radar arrays, custom compute, a chassis that still costs more than some… pic.twitter.com/jkYTD78rJ3

— 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋 (@DeepBlueCrypto) September 2, 2026

Khosrowshahi's companywide email in full: Team,

Team,

Today, we're making a number of significant organizational changes across Uber. We are removing layers, simplifying team structures, refining our global location strategy, and focusing our people and investments against the biggest opportunities ahead of us. As a result, we will be reducing the size of our team by about 10%. Everyone whose role has been affected has already been notified, except in countries where we will follow the required local process.

This wasn't a decision we made lightly, because it will have a real impact on our teammates and friends who have worked hard for Uber. It's important to say that these changes are about how we're organized and what we're prioritizing, not about anyone's contributions to Uber, which we always value.

I'm sure you're asking, 'Why, and why now?'—particularly since our business is performing so well. Over the last 5+ years, Uber has grown by orders of magnitude, with our top line nearly tripling. We've built new products, expanded into new businesses, reached more consumers and supported more earners, and become a much larger and stronger company. But that growth has also brought complexity: more layers, more coordination, more fragmented ownership, and in some cases structures that made sense when businesses were smaller but no longer serve us well at our current scale.

Our opportunity from here is enormous: we have the chance to bring Uber to hundreds of millions more people; to invest even more in drivers, couriers and merchants; and to innovate across our core businesses and build the autonomous future.

To do those things, we need to make deliberate choices about where we put our people, our time, and our capital.

The changes we're making today are designed to do two things: make Uber simpler and faster, and create more capacity to invest in our future. A leaner organization will mean clearer ownership, faster decisions, and more time spent building rather than coordinating. It will also generate savings that we intend to reinvest in growth, innovation, and the capabilities that will matter most over the coming years.

It's our job as leaders to make these difficult calls, and to give you transparency into our thinking and our decision-making process. Here's what we are doing and why:

• Organizational health: In Pulse surveys and conversations with many of you, we've heard that too much work requires coordination across teams, debates take too long, and decision-making rights are unclear. I'm sure many of you have felt that you spend too much time "aligning" rather than building, shipping, or serving customers. To improve this, we have reduced roles primarily focused on coordination, and have clarified the remit of the coordination roles that remain. We also cut down the number of management layers by broadening manager scopes, particularly where we had "micro-teams" of only 1-2 reports. In all, we've reduced the number of employees who sit 7+ layers from the CEO by 20% and the number of micro-teams by nearly 50%. The outcome is a simpler org chart geared toward building versus managing.
• Team simplification: We brought together teams where fragmentation was creating duplication and slowing decisions. The most significant example of this is Mac's decision to combine our three current Delivery Ops teams (across Restaurants, Retail, and Direct) into single-threaded teams at the global, regional, and country levels. Running these three businesses separately made sense in their early days, but that structure is no longer serving us at scale. Bringing the P&Ls together under single owners will reduce overlap, clarify accountability, and allow GMs to allocate capital more efficiently and effectively based on their strategic imperatives. Another example of this: in Tech, we're combining our Core Services Engineering and Science teams, mirroring the structure we already have on Mobility and Delivery.
• Location strategy: The benefits of sitting together, collaborating in person, and solving problems as a team are clearer than ever in our post-Covid world. With that in mind, we're establishing clearer principles for where roles and teams should be based, with the goal of concentrating teams in a smaller number of key hubs. Global teams will be concentrated in our largest global hubs, NY and SF; regional teams in designated regional hubs; local teams in country hubs; and tech teams in tech hubs. We'll prioritize co-location between managers and their teams wherever possible, particularly for earlier-career employees. We are also asking the vast majority of remote employees to move to an office, and going forward, only ~1% of employees will be remote. We'll also continue to reinforce compliance with our hybrid work policy, which requires three days a week in the office. You can read more about our location strategy here.

I realize this is a lot of change, but we decided it was better to make one big shift rather than multiple small ones. We also know organizational changes can be hugely distracting, and our job is to create an environment that allows you to focus and do your best work. With these decisions now made, our focus is on the future.

We have tremendous momentum, significant financial capacity, and opportunities in front of us that are larger than at any point since I joined the company. The decisions we're making today are difficult, but they will help us build an even stronger Uber for the years ahead.

You can read more about the changes across the company here, and please be sure to read specific follow-up information you'll receive from your leaders about what this means for your team, so we can all keep building together.

Uber on,
Dara

The restructuring follows a subdued stretch for Uber shares this year, which were down 8% year-to-date through Tuesday's close after trading largely range-bound between $70 and $80.

The market welcomed the cost-cutting measures, with shares gaining nearly 2% in premarket trading in New York.

Tyler Durden Wed, 09/02/2026 - 09:20

The accused ringleader of a cocaine trafficking operation run out of two Penn State frat houses was hauled into a Pennsylvania court, along with his alleged henchmen, for a hearing Wednesday morning.

Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico is edging out scandal-scarred state AG Ken Paxton by a paltry 0.6 percentage points among likely voters, a new poll shared with The Post found.

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