https://hotair.com/greenroom/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 24 Sep 2026 04:44:23 -0400<![CDATA[The California wealth tax will be on the ballot this November. In order to pass it, supporters need to get one vote more than 50 percent of the total votes cast. And for a while it appeared they were cruising to victory with some polls showing the tax running at +19. However, more recent polls show the race is tightening.]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:00:07 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Polling]]><![CDATA[Taxes]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/23/support-for-californias-wealth-tax-is-shrinking-n3819284<![CDATA[It's sad when some dreams crumble. I mean, it tugs at your heartstrings, seeing little crumpled faces from crushed hopes.]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:00:47 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Green Energy]]><![CDATA[Kathy Hochul]]><![CDATA[New York]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/23/nycs-electric-bus-love-affair-is-out-for-gas-n3819280<![CDATA[Russian parliamentary elections took place last weekend and, to no one's surprise, Putin's party solidified its control. There was only one anti-war party in the lead-up to the election and it was removed from the ballot. So basically every party on the ballot is a pro-Putin party.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:00:02 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Military]]><![CDATA[Russia]]><![CDATA[Ukraine]]><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/23/is-another-russian-mobilization-coming-n3819283<![CDATA[We don't cover a lot of royal family news here at Hot Air but this one seemed interesting. Princess Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, just published a book titled "Swan Song: Diana My Sister" offering his thoughts on his sister's life as well as events that happened after her death. The book is all over the news in the UK, especially because of some claims it makes about the behavior of then-Prince Charles and his reactions to Diana's death in a couple of phone conversations.]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:10:04 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[King Charles III]]><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]><![CDATA[Piers Morgan]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/23/new-memoir-about-princess-diana-is-already-facing-legal-action-n3819281<![CDATA[President Trump had a full social schedule yesterday. Besides dinking on networks that had pinky-sworn a blood oath to boycott coverage of him and meeting with the local communistas, President Trump took the opportunity to meet with American allies as well.]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:20:21 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Japan]]><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]><![CDATA[United Nations]]><![CDATA[Andy Burnham]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/23/mr-trump-meets-the-incredibly-squirmy-burnham-n3819269<![CDATA[There aren't many good things to say about Hasan Piker.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:30:28 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Communism]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/09/23/hasan-piker-has-one-great-virtue-n3819271<![CDATA[It has been nearly two weeks ago since I wrote about this extreme case of squatters in San Francisco. It happened in a wealthy neighborhood where homes are worth millions of dollars. And that may be why two different squatters appear to have been fighting over ownership of the property using fake deeds, or rather real deeds that appear to have been generated based on fake stories and fake credentials.]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:40:41 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Crime]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/23/follow-up-on-the-san-francisco-squatters-n3819273<![CDATA[AOC: Woke One was "crazy."]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:00:05 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Climate Change]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[Energy]]><![CDATA[Kathy Hochul]]><![CDATA[New York]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/09/23/for-some-reason-liberals-think-oops-is-a-good-political-slogan-n3819268<![CDATA[I still maintain&nbsp;that this is the stupid, left-wing controversy of the month. It's hard to top people burning their own shoes because a slant of light in an ad looks too much like a Klan hood. But this story about a lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts also contains a pretty great left-wing freak out. Consider this a runner-up to yesterday's story.]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:10:46 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]><![CDATA[Woke]]><![CDATA[LGBTQ+]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/23/have-you-heard-the-one-about-the-greenfield-gay-bar-n3819267<![CDATA[UN Secretary-General António Guterres is, thankfully, leaving the UN at year's end. Good riddance to bad rubbish.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:20:33 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]><![CDATA[Gaza]]><![CDATA[Hamas]]><![CDATA[Israel]]><![CDATA[United Nations]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/09/23/antonio-guterres-embodies-the-destructive-transnationalist-movement-n3819265<![CDATA[Somewhere between President Trump's surprise announcement that its once esteemed news network (along with fellow scurvy partisan media blackguards Politico and MS-NOW) was 'banned' from the White House and this morning, the folks at CNN had a single shining moment of being loved again.]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:30:28 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[CNN]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[Politico]]><![CDATA[White House]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/23/cnn-has-had-a-rough-24-hours-and-im-here-for-it-n3819263<![CDATA[We've all been told that mixing bleach and ammonia, two toxic but common household cleaners, makes them much more dangerous than either one separately.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:40:51 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Homelessness]]><![CDATA[ICE]]><![CDATA[Illegal Alien]]><![CDATA[Sunny Hostin]]><![CDATA[TikTok]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/09/23/main-character-syndrome-and-suicidal-empathy-a-toxic-mixture-n3819264<![CDATA[2024 is long enough ago that memories have dimmed for many people. She retains a high approval rating with grassroots Democrats for some reason, but most candidates running for office this year are staying far away from her.&nbsp;]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[2028 Elections]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]><![CDATA[Michigan]]><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/09/23/kamala-harris-out-reminding-people-why-she-lost-n3819238<![CDATA[It was only a week ago that Lilly Wachowski accused author J.K. Rowling of funding "trans genocide." This is the kind of obnoxious, hyperbolic language that ideologues adopt because they don't have much of value to say.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:00:57 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[J.K. Rowling]]><![CDATA[Transgender]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/22/boston-globe-trans-genocide-isnt-happening-n3819243<![CDATA[The hilarious thing about Donald Trump is that while working at 400 miles an hour, his brain still goes in 50 directions at once.]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:00:50 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Cuba]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Fox News]]><![CDATA[United Nations]]><![CDATA[Venezuela]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/22/troll-in-chief-can-you-see-me-now-dinking-on-cnn-n3819236<![CDATA[Beege wrote about this earlier and her post got me interested in reading the entire article published by the NY Times. All I can say is that the full story is even worse than Beege made it sound. I found myself feeling some actual anger at a parent who is so wrapped up in her own boutique politics that she can't be bothered to see things from the perspective of her own child for more than a few minutes at a time.]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:00:32 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[The New York Times]]><![CDATA[Woke]]><![CDATA[Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/22/nikole-hannah-jones-failed-as-a-parent-n3819241<![CDATA[When it comes to smearing Trump administration figures, the rule is simple: there are no rules.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:00:48 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Trump Administration]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/09/22/when-it-comes-to-destroying-trumps-allies-anything-goes-on-the-left-n3819235<![CDATA[This may be the dumbest internet freak-out of the month if not longer. Converse, the shoe brand, has apologized for an advertisement featuring a Korean K-pop star holding a pair of the companies shoes. Someone with way too much time on their hands decided the ad was racist.]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:10:31 -0400<![CDATA[John Sexton]]><![CDATA[Woke]]>https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/09/22/stupid-controversy-of-the-week-n3819239<![CDATA[I am beside myself on this one - just completely beside myself.]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:20:19 -0400<![CDATA[Beege Welborn]]><![CDATA[Denmark]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Greenland]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[NATO]]>https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/09/22/behave-yourself-or-youre-gonna-get-stationed-in-greenland-they-signed-the-deal-n3819231<![CDATA[Two things can be true at once: opening the doors to immigrants can be a boon to society, and opening doors to immigrants can be a disaster for society.&nbsp;]]>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:30:56 -0400<![CDATA[David Strom]]><![CDATA[Crime]]><![CDATA[Germany]]><![CDATA[Illegal Immigration]]><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]>https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/09/22/immigration-its-not-whether-but-who-n3819230