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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Conservative Political Action Conference Partners with Latino Wall Street for Inaugural CPAC Latino Summit
NEW YORK, June 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and Latino Wall Street today announced their collaboration to host the first-ever CPAC Latino Summit, scheduled for June 28-29, 2025, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Florida. The two-day event represents a strategic alliance between CPAC, America's largest gathering of conservative activists, and Latino Wall Street, an organization focused on Hispanic financial literacy and economic advancement. The summit aims to bridge conservative political ideology with Hispanic entrepreneurship and economic development. Summit Objectives and Programming The inaugural CPAC Latino Summit will address the intersection of conservative governance and Hispanic business leadership across the Americas. Programming will emphasize free-market economics, traditional values, and political engagement within Hispanic communities. Planned activities include keynote addresses from prominent conservative figures, panel discussions on emerging financial technologies including cryptocurrency and fintech innovations, networking sessions connecting Hispanic business leaders with potential investors, and special evening events designed to foster community building. The summit's programming will explore how market-based solutions and conservative principles can address challenges facing Hispanic communities while promoting economic independence and political participation. Leadership Perspectives Tony Delgado, Latino Wall Street's founder, emphasized the partnership's potential to provide Hispanic communities with enhanced access to capital and political influence. "We're creating pathways for economic empowerment that align with principles of individual responsibility and free enterprise," Delgado stated. CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp highlighted the natural alignment between conservative values and Hispanic community priorities. "Conservative principles of limited government, economic freedom, and strong families resonate deeply within Hispanic communities across America," Schlapp noted. Event Details and Participation The summit will take place over two days in South Florida, a region with significant Hispanic population and business activity. The location was selected to maximize accessibility for attendees from across the Americas. Registration information, media accreditation, and corporate sponsorship opportunities are available through the official summit website and participating organizations' digital platforms. The event represents an expansion of CPAC's traditional programming to address the growing political and economic influence of Hispanic Americans in conservative politics and free-market advocacy. About CPAC: The Conservative Political Action Conference is an annual gathering of conservative activists, politicians, and thought leaders that has operated for over five decades as a primary forum for conservative political discourse. About Latino Wall Street: Latino Wall Street focuses on financial education and economic empowerment within Hispanic communities, providing resources for entrepreneurship and wealth building. Join the Movement Tickets, media credentials, and sponsorship opportunities are now available at and Media ContactX-Factor Mediatom@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Latino Wall Street Sign in to access your portfolio
Time of India
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Menswear feud turns ugly: JD Vance threatens deportation after being mocked by viral style critic
JD Vance, Vice President of the U.S., is angry at a Twitter fashion critic who made fun of his clothes. The fashion critic is Derek Guy, also known as 'Menswear Guy' on Twitter. He's famous for roasting politicians' bad fashion, especially Republicans like Vance, as per reports. On Sunday, Derek Guy posted on X that he is an undocumented immigrant who came to the U.S. from Vietnam as a baby. He said growing up without legal papers made life scary and full of stress. He also said it affected his chances in school, work, and life in general. Guy shared this to help break the stereotype that all undocumented people are criminals or gang members. He said most are normal people, like your neighbors, according to The Daily Beast report. JD Vance, fashion guy feud A random user on Twitter posted, "JD Vance I know you're reading this and you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever," suggesting deporting Guy. JD Vance responded by posting a GIF of Jack Nicholson with a creepy smile, nodding 'yes,' which looked like a silent threat to deport Guy, as stated in the reports. Even if it was a joke, the threat feels real, especially since the current administration is increasing arrests of undocumented immigrants, not just those with criminal records. Derek Guy clapped back at Vance on Twitter by saying, 'I think I can outrun you in these clothes,' and posted photos of Vance's tight suit and high socks at CPAC, as mentioned by The Daily Beast. In another tweet, Guy said, "You're tweeting for likes. I'm tweeting to be mentioned in the National Archives," showing he's taking the moment seriously and historically. Guy also joked about where to find him, saying, 'Here is my house,' and posted a photo of Men's Wearhouse, a popular suit store, as per reports. Live Events This weird feud started because Guy has mocked JD Vance's fashion many times in the past, like bad ties and badly fitting suits. Even though JD Vance used to say only violent criminals should be deported, his tweet shows he might be okay with targeting critics too, as per The Daily Beast report. FAQs Q1. Who is Derek Guy and why did JD Vance react? Derek Guy is a fashion critic who mocked JD Vance's style, which led to Vance reacting with a deportation hint. Q2. Why are people upset with JD Vance's tweet? His tweet looked like a threat to deport someone just for making fun of him, which many found wrong and scary. Economic Times WhatsApp channel )
Spectator
09-06-2025
- Politics
- Spectator
What Poland can teach the Internet Right
A change in politics is coming. Until now, the progressives were the ones with networks, stemming from Joe Biden's White House, to think tanks, and the legacy media. For the right, politics was not a fair fight. The internet has changed that. Karol Nawrocki's win in Poland's presidential election marked a key moment in the translation of the new right from the internet to geographical reality. Donald Trump's backing was combined with that of Kristi Noem, the US Secretary of State for Homeland Security, at Poland's first ever Conservative Political Action conference (CPAC). From the 1960s onwards, the progressives turned universities into a reproduction mechanism for their own political ideals in a 'long march through the institutions'. Conservative ideas were forced online. Right-wingers adapted to online systems of idea replication, becoming more aggressive to optimise for social media engagement. It took Trump's two elections to get the 'Internet Right' into the institutions.
The Hindu
07-06-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Polished conservative
Karol Nawrocki, a 42-year-old conservative historian, won the run-off of the Polish presidential election on June 1, securing 50.89% of the vote against the liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski. This victory, one of the tightest in Poland's post-communist history, was achieved after Mr. Nawrocki finished second in the first round of voting on May 18, with 29.54% against Mr. Trzaskowski's 31.36%. Mr. Nawrocki's victory came as a surprise to many observers, as initial exit polls on election night showed Mr. Trzaskowski with a narrow lead. His path to victory was built on successfully mobilising voters who in the first round had supported far-right candidates, overcoming Mr. Trzaskowski's first-place finish in the initial ballot. Throughout his campaign, Mr. Nawrocki ran as an independent candidate but was heavily backed by the nationalist-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, the political home of the outgoing president, Andrzej Duda. His victory was also welcomed by the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump, who had hosted Mr. Nawrocki a month prior to the election, with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem publicly endorsing him during a Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Warsaw. Before his presidential run, Mr. Nawrocki served as the president of the National Institute of Remembrance (IPN) — a powerful state institution responsible for prosecuting Nazi and Communist-era crimes and shaping Poland's historical narrative. His leadership at the IPN, and his prior role as director of the Gdansk World War II Museum, were marked by an emphasis on Polish heroism, victimhood, and the decommunisation of public spaces, aligning with the historical policies of the PiS government. Mr. Nawrocki's public career is built upon his academic work as a historian with a doctorate focusing on Poland's anti-communist resistance, a theme that consistently informed his institutional policies. This focus on narratives of national struggle against foreign domination resonated with the electorate, delivering him a sweeping 64.2% of the vote in rural villages, even as Mr. Trzaskowski dominated large cities with over 66% of the vote. Prior to the presidential campaign, Mr. Nawrocki was a figure largely unknown to the broader Polish public, having never held elected office. Throughout the campaign, he cultivated a strongman image, frequently posting videos from boxing rings and shooting ranges, which contrasted with the more polished, multilingual image of his rival, Mr. Trzaskowski. Right-wing support The election saw Mr. Nawrocki successfully consolidate the right-wing vote in the second round, reportedly attracting 87% of the supporters of the third-place finisher, far-right leader Slawomir Mentzen. This coalition of voters backed his platform opposing the EU's federalist tendencies and climate policies, and vowing to block Ukraine's bid to join NATO. During his rise in public life, Mr. Nawrocki has faced serious personal allegations, including claims of past involvement in organised football hooliganism, which he has publicly admitted. More severe accusations, which he has vehemently denied, concern the acquisition of an apartment from an elderly person under allegedly questionable circumstances. With his inauguration set for August 6, Mr. Nawrocki's victory sets the stage for a period of political tension with the centrist government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Polish presidential power to veto legislation, combined with the Tusk government's lack of a parliamentary supermajority to override such a veto, creates a high potential for political gridlock over key reforms concerning the judiciary, abortion law, and civil unions. While Mr. Nawrocki has voiced support for Ukraine's defence against Russia, he has expressed scepticism about its potential NATO membership and has questioned the long-term costs of aid to refugees, a rhetorical shift from the previous government's posture. This stance was noted by international observers, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offering congratulations, while Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán — a critic of EU policy — hailed Mr. Nawrocki's 'fantastic victory'.
Fast Company
07-06-2025
- Business
- Fast Company
Trump got what he needed out of Elon Musk
In his role as head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk spent several months gleefully subjecting parts of the government he doesn't like to an array of metaphorical power tools. 'We spent the weekend feeding USAID [United States Agency for International Development] into the wood chipper,' he wrote on X in February, after pushing to illegally withhold billions of dollars appropriated by Congress to fight famine, care for sick people, and vaccinate children against deadly diseases. 'Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead.' A few weeks later, Musk celebrated his accomplishments to date by taking the stage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference while triumphantly waving a chainsaw overhead. 'This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy,' he yelped, just in case the reference was too subtle for anyone in attendance. 'CHAINSAW!' On the one hand, Musk's efforts set up some of his businesses to make a bunch of money, and delighted Republican politicians whose idea of 'wasteful' spending is anything that does not make hedge fund executives or car dealership owners wealthier. On the other hand, his White House tenure shaved billions of dollars off his net worth, made it genuinely embarrassing to own a Tesla, and transformed Musk into one of the most reviled political figures in the country. Now, as Musk leaves the Trump administration and returns to the private sector—and as the two men engage in oafish public meltdowns on their respective social media platforms—the question of whether DOGE was, on balance, 'worth it' for Musk sort of depends on what happens to his portfolio over the next quarter or so. Already, Musk has embarked on a miniature image rehabilitation tour, framing himself in time-honored reactionary tradition as a tragic victim of his own success. In a soft-lit interview with The Washington Post, he said that DOGE had become the 'whipping boy for everything,' and bemoaned the 'uphill battle' he faced for simply 'trying to improve things in D.C.' In an interview with Ars Technica, Musk admitted that he 'probably did spend a bit too much time on politics,' and expressed eagerness to get back to the business that really matters: presiding over failed SpaceX launches. As a result, many retrospectives on Musk's time at DOGE read like obituaries, both for the organization and the movement it represents. In a recent Reuters profile, for example, a former DOGE staffer predicted that it would 'fizzle out' without Musk, and analogized the remaining employees to 'kids joining a startup that will go out of business in four months.' But talking about DOGE in the past tense is wrong for several reasons. First, Musk's actions will continue to inflict pain and suffering long after Trump has left the White House. One expert estimates that Musk's cuts to USAID have already resulted in about 300,00 preventable deaths, most of them children. Even if the $180 billion that DOGE says it has cut is a generous overestimate, people still died because Elon Musk decided it would be fun to cosplay as the president for a few weeks. Second, Musk's efforts to pillage the federal government will not end the moment he leaves town. A recent Washington Post analysis estimated that Musk's companies are propped up by $38 billion in government funding. Although Trump has threatened to stop doing business with Musk during their ongoing posting war—much, much more on that below—SpaceX in particular is integral to the modern U.S. space program, parts of which would grind to a halt without the (non-exploding versions of) Musk's rockets. Reluctant though Trump may be to keep paying out on these contracts, it would presumably be even more embarrassing for him to leave NASA without a viable in-house method of retrieving astronauts from space. Finally, DOGE was not and was never going to be a one-off effort to, as the conservative activist Grover Norquist once put it, make the government small enough to 'drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.' For decades, Republicans, at the behest of their corporate donors, have pushed the idea that government should be run like a business, and insisted that the legitimacy of any government expenditure depends on the associated return on investment. Only if elected officials do something about the scourges of wasteful spending, inefficient regulation, and dastardly bureaucracy, the argument goes, can America ever hope to reach its full potential. But Republicans face the same basic challenge every time they try to follow through on this promise: Although voters theoretically support the idea of making government more efficient, the real-world cuts Republicans would make to effectuate that goal are wildly unpopular. Normal people don't want to gut the National Park Service or the U.S. Postal Service, for example. They don't support making it easier for big banks to rip off consumers, and they definitely don't like GOP politicians threatening to take Sesame Street off the air. By outsourcing much of this unseemly work to Musk and DOGE, Republican lawmakers found a possible solution to their vexing PR problem: a method of speed-running some of the more controversial aspects of their policy agenda, but without having to cast costly votes to implement it. Now Musk is learning the hard way that although he was using the Republican Party to enrich himself, the Republican Party was using him, too. Republican lawmakers are attempting to pass Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill,' a budget reconciliation bill that would result in some 10.9 million fewer people with access to health insurance by 2034, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Although the bill would cut some $1.3 trillion in federal spending over a decade, it's still projected to add an additional $2.4 trillion to the national debt over that same period, thanks to a cool $3.7 trillion in tax cuts. Musk at first described himself as 'disappointed' by the bill's price tag, which he said 'undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing.' When his opinion failed to persuade the White House (or Republican leadership on Capitol Hill) to change course, Musk began lashing out, calling the 'Big Ugly Bill' a 'disgusting abomination,' and vowing to help 'fire all politicians who betrayed the American people' by voting for it. He then went on to call for Trump's impeachment, threaten to start a new political party, link Trump to the late Jeffrey Epstein, and otherwise mock the president as a hypocritical, spineless ingrate who would have lost the 2024 election in humiliating fashion if not for Musk's generous infusions of cash. As it turns out, when you just spent four months torpedoing your brand in pursuit of a shared ideological goal, watching your purported allies immediately abandon it can be a frustrating experience. In one sense, this constitutes a 'split' with Trump, in that Musk is indeed trashing the signature policy initiative of a president whose candidacy he supported to the tune of more than a quarter-billion dollars. But it is also evidence that Musk never fully grasped the nature of his relationship with Trump in the first place: While he was out there taking the (well-deserved) reputational hits for doing all the slashing and burning that Republicans wanted to see, GOP lawmakers were preparing to do what they always do: abandon this fiscal responsibility song and dance at their earliest convenience, and enact more tax cuts that will disproportionately benefit the wealthy at the expense of everyone else. When he took the gig at DOGE, Musk imagined himself as a revolutionary, uniquely positioned to identify and cut 'wasteful' spending by virtue of the power in the Republican Party that he believed he'd rightfully purchased. But Musk believed so strongly in his abilities that he forgot that the GOP does not care about saving public resources, but about redirecting that money to its political allies instead. Even if this iteration of DOGE 'fizzles out,' there will be another DOGE before long, because Republicans will never stop looking for ways to slash programs that help vulnerable people, and there will always be someone like Musk who is willing do their dirty work in exchange for the chance to line his pockets.
