Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson, a fifth-generation logger who has touted his working-class bonafides on the campaign trail, is facing backlash from both sides of the aisle over a viral ad that critics are labeling as tone-deaf pandering. “If Republicans spend $46 million on these tv ads, who’s gunna be convinced by that?” Jackson is asked in the ad as he sips a boba tea.Jackson then looks around and smiles before saying “the 1%ers” as a photo of his opponent Sen. Susan Collins and Tesla CEO Elon Musk are shown on the screen.The ad’s caption reads “sips boba tea” alongside a boba and wide-eyed emoji.SUSAN COLLINS TEARS INTO BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS AS NEW CLAIMS EMERGE DURING CRITICAL SENATE BATTLEThe ad’s post on X was widely mocked by Democrats and Republicans and has been viewed over 2 million times.”Maine is the oldest median age electorate in the nation,” Democratic strategist Steve Schale posted on X. “I know I’m not a DC strategist but I really, really don’t get it.””Troy Jackson needs to win but videos like this are unhelpful and cringey,” liberal influencer Harry Sisson posted on X. “Please change it up! No boba tea!””The same people that ran Mallory McMorrow’s campaign into the ground are telling you to do this goofy sh**,” left-wing podcaster Kyle Kulinski posted on X. “Just get out there and tell the truth and speak from the heart for economic justice and against war and stop with all this bullshit. C’mon man. You’re smarter than this.”DEM SENATE NOMINEE BREAKS SILENCE AFTER SUSAN COLLINS’ OFFICE WAS VANDALIZED WITH VULGAR MESSAGE”It’s a little bit funny to be desperately trying to position as working class masculine male and have gen-z women run your socials like they would run their own personals,” Republican communicator Matt Whitlock posted on X.”… ,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Southern Regional Press Secretary Reilly Richardson posted on X.” Weird,” GOP communicator Steve Guest posted on X. “Looks like the first time that Troy Jackson has ever had boba.””Boba tea! Just like regular people! ” Journalist Chris Cillizza posted on X.”Want to remind you that Democrats were openly proud of how masculine their Maine campaign was going to be and then they ran this ad,” former Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh posted on X.Fox News Digital reached out to Jackson’s campaign for comment.A recent poll indicates Collins is ahead of her Democratic challenger in a crucial Senate showdown in blue-leaning Maine that could determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.Collins, who is running for a sixth six-year term in the Senate, stands at 49% support among likely voters, with former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, the Democratic nominee, at 46%, with 5% undecided in the New York Times/Siena poll. Collins’ three-point edge is within the survey’s margin of error.The survey, which was conducted Sept. 15–22, is one of the first to indicate Collins ahead of Jackson since he replaced former Senate nominee Graham Platner in late July.Platner, a combat veteran and oyster farmer, won the June Democratic Senate primary in a landslide. But a month later he dropped out following an explosive report containing an allegation of rape from a woman he previously dated. Platner denied the report but stepped aside. Collins slightly trailed Platner in most polling at the time he ended his campaign.Jackson, who campaigned alongside Platner earlier this year as he unsuccessfully ran for governor, won a special nominating convention to fill the party’s vacant Senate nomination.The poll release came as Collins pushed back against a report by ProPublica that the FBI sought to launch a pay-to-play investigation examining Collins and others. The investigation was later dropped and no one working for Collins was charged.Collins ripped the report as “offensive” and a “partisan hit job” orchestrated by Democrats.Jackson took to social media to claim that “Susan Collins is blatantly corrupt.”Collins’ advantage over Jackson in the new survey comes even as 55% of those questioned said they prefer Democrats to control the Senate next year, with 43% saying they’d like the GOP to retain the majority.Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
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Europe Races To Contain Energy Crisis With Patchwork Measures
Europe Races To Contain Energy Crisis With Patchwork Measures
Via Remix News,
European governments are racing to blunt a fuel shock that even some analysts now refuse to forecast, as Brent crude holds near $100 a barrel and diesel prices climb across Europe.
The international oil market has been expensive for months. What has changed is the confidence of the people paid to explain it. JPMorgan told clients on Sept. 17 that, for the first time since fighting began around Iran about seven months earlier, its commodities team no longer has a baseline view of how the disruption ends.
“We simply don’t know how to model the endgame,” the bank’s analysts wrote, after several economic thresholds they once assumed would force a diplomatic off-ramp, including oil above $100 a barrel, had already been crossed.
The bank said a Brent price near $90 would have been consistent with known supply and demand in September. Futures instead traded around $100 and higher as traders priced the risk of further losses that no one can yet measure. By Monday, front-month Brent was still hovering near $99 a barrel.
Inventories are doing little to cushion the blow. The U.S. Energy Information Administration has said prices are likely to stay elevated until Middle East oil trade is restored and stocks can be rebuilt. The International Energy Agency’s September report put the scale of the drain in starker terms: observed global inventories fell another 95 million barrels in August, taking the cumulative draw since February to 507 million barrels, or about 2.8 million barrels a day. World oil supply is now projected to average 100.7 million barrels a day in 2026, down 5.7 million from a year earlier.
Diesel shortages are acute
In some countries, such as Hungary, there is a major imbalance in terms of available energy sources. Crude held in strategic storage remains ample, but diesel is quickly running out. Data from the Hungarian Hydrocarbon Stockpiling Association show gas oil stocks at 520.3 kilotons at the end of January and about 390 kilotons at the end of both July and August. That thinner diesel cushion matters in a country where more than 1.3 million passenger cars run on the fuel and the regional market is competing for the same scarce imports.
Pump prices have already moved. Official and commercial trackers put Hungarian diesel around 701 forints a liter in late September on some official series and closer to 730 forints on daily station averages – well above the roughly 593 forints recorded at the end of June. The original worry in Budapest was not whether prices would rise, but how quickly 800 forints would stop looking like a distant ceiling.
That speed is not a mystery to central bankers. Bank of Slovenia research covering euro-area data from 2005 through 2026 found that a 10% rise in Brent lifts pretax diesel and gasoline prices by about 6.5% and 6.2%, respectively, over the longer term. A large share of the increase shows up at stations within the first two weeks – faster than the physical chain of shipping, refining and wholesale delivery would suggest.
The European Central Bank has reached a similar conclusion and added an unwelcome twist: refinery margins can amplify the shock. During the spring spike, Brent briefly reached $138 a barrel while diesel at the refinery gate jumped to $197. ECB staff later estimated that refining margins were contributing about 41 euro cents a liter to euro-area retail diesel in mid-September, and they told reporters those diesel margins may not peak until October.
The way down is slower than the way up. Taxes, refining and transport costs, inventories, margins and local competition all delay relief when crude finally eases. That asymmetry is why governments are acting now, before higher fuel bills work through freight, food and services and lift broader inflation.
Europe-wide crisis
The policy dilemma is the same from Lisbon to Warsaw: protect households and trucking firms without writing a blank check for fossil-fuel consumption. Europe has answered with a patchwork rather than a single rule. Some governments cap retail prices. Others cut excise taxes, sometimes below the European Union minimum. A third group aims help at farmers, haulers and other heavy users. A few still let global prices hit consumers with no cushion at all. The result is that the same barrel of oil can produce pump prices that differ dramatically at the pump across Europe.
Here are just a few examples of what Europe looks like in this regard.
Austria has been running a mineral-oil tax cut of 1.9 euro cents a liter into the end of September.
Belgium has implemented an official price ceiling.
Croatia cut diesel excise duty by another 3 cents, taking it 10 cents below the EU floor; Zagreb says the average diesel price is 1.91 euros a liter instead of 2.26 euros without the intervention.
Cyprus is offering an 8.33-cent discount through Nov. 30.
Luxembourg is absorbing 5 cents of the pump price from July through December.
Malta is using direct state aid to keep prices below the euro-area average.
Portugal decided on Sept. 17 to recycle extra value-added tax receipts from more expensive fuel into tax relief worth about 1.3 billion euros through year-end.
Slovenia posted official maxima of 1.748 euros for gasoline and 2.012 euros for diesel in the week of Sept. 22-28.
Spain has kept an excise cut below the EU minimum through Sept. 30.
Italy reduced and capped diesel duty into early October.
Montenegro and Serbia combine retail caps with lower excise taxes.
Targeted aid is running in parallel
Greece extended a 10-cent-a-liter diesel subsidy into October and is preparing a heating-oil package.
France steered relief to agriculture, high-mileage workers and construction rather than a blanket cut.
Ireland is rebating duty for commercial haulers and bus operators.
Spain added a 402 million-euro program for truckers on top of its general tax reduction.
Italy is offering carriers a tax credit for earlier extra costs.
Larger packages are still moving through parliaments
Germany will cut energy tax by 14 cents a liter from Oct. 1 through year-end, about 17 cents once lower VAT is counted, in a 2.5 billion-euro package.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz said drivers who depend on a car every day “are reaching their breaking point.”
Berlin is also talking with the oil industry about a temporary price cap modeled on Luxembourg or Belgium, aimed at Jan. 1, 2027.
The Czech government will restore a station-margin ceiling from Oct. 1, cut diesel duty to the EU minimum and cap retail margins at 2.50 koruna a liter.
Poland has floated a 60% levy on oil companies’ extra profits to finance about 4 billion zlotys of price relief, though the plan faces parliamentary and constitutional hurdles.
The International Energy Agency has described the response as global, not merely European. In a matter of months, the number of countries applying fuel subsidies rose from 16 to 38, and the number cutting energy taxes rose from 40 to 57. Pew Research Center, drawing on IEA tallies from mid-June, counted 113 countries that had taken at least one energy-cost measure after the Iran war, including tax changes in 55 countries and fuel subsidies in 32. The agency’s own warning is implicit in those numbers: governments are treating the symptom at the pump because they cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz from a finance ministry or end the war in Ukraine.
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Wed, 09/30/2026 – 05:00
SEN RAND PAUL: Our budget deficit is out of control. Congress must pass my Six Penny Plan
In 2011, our national debt was about $15 trillion, and the U.S. Treasury spent over $450 billion on interest. Washington was printing money it didn’t have, buying its way out of yet another financial crisis and sending brand-new, taxpayer-funded subsidies to health insurance companies through Obamacare. It was clear then that this massive level of spending was not sustainable.It was in this moment of explosive deficit spending that a new generation of conservative leaders—myself included—rode into Congress on a mandate from the American people to restore fiscal sanity and financial freedom. I left my medical practice to stand for public office because I would not let our children and grandchildren be bankrupted by reckless politicians.The fight for fiscal responsibility continues, and I plan to force a vote on my latest balanced budget proposal—the Six Penny Plan—later this year.GOP FISCAL HAWK SOUNDS ALARM ON ‘OUT OF CONTROL’ FEDERAL SPENDING, SAYING ‘BOTH PARTIES HAVE FAILED US’But I regret to inform you that Congress has completely lost the plot.The national debt has now surpassed $40 trillion. Congress now spends over $1 trillion on interest every year. Congress spends more on interest than on national defense. This enormous debt is contributing to rising interest rates and inflation, hurting every American. It’s a blinking red warning light—just as bright and red as the ink on our budget documents.Congress’ answer to this growing fiscal bomb? More of the same. Congress passed a continuing resolution earlier this summer to extend the status quo and will debate another extension before the end of this year.The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way. When Congress takes up government funding later this year, it can pass my Six Penny Plan, which will balance the budget within five years.$50 TRILLION IN DEBT IS NOT A DISTANT THREAT. AMERICA IS SPEEDING TOWARDS ITNo one can say he or she supports a balanced budget while voting against the only balanced budget that came up for a vote. No more empty promises. No more excuses. No more games.The Six Penny Plan doesn’t prescribe any particular program or budget category to be cut—it even specifically exempts Social Security from cuts. The Six Penny Plan simply sets a maximum spending level. What Congress wants to do within that maximum is up for debate. This budget reflects the basic questions of priorities many Americans have confronted at different points in their lives, whether because of unexpected expenses or a loss of income: Which expenses can Congress keep, and which can Congress cut? Under the Six Penny Plan, Congress needs to find a six percent cut each year for five years. After that, once the budget is balanced, spending can increase based on the additional revenue from economic growth.WASHINGTON IS DRIVING AMERICA TOWARD A DEBT CRISIS WE CAN’T IGNORE ANY LONGERInterestingly, when I first proposed what became the Penny Plan in 2018, Congress would not have had to find any cuts, but merely work within a spending freeze for five years. Its inaction then is only making the job harder now.In subsequent years, it became the Penny Plan when it required a one percent cut, then it became the “Pennies Plan,” and today it is the Six Penny Plan because it requires us to find six pennies out of every dollar.CONGRESS SPENDS $7 TRILLION. HERE’S HOW THAT MATH WORKS OUT IF YOU THINK OF JUST $100Kicking the can down the road has been standard procedure in Congress for too long. Lawmakers have treated the debt like someone else’s problem, to be dealt with some other day in the future. Well, the future has arrived. Every year that Congress does nothing only adds fuel to the debt bomb and increases the risk of a bigger explosion down the road.It’s also time to call inaction on the debt what it is: a vote to increase the hidden inflation tax on everyone; a willful decision to let inflation wreak havoc on our cost of living. Inaction is unacceptable.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONThe Six Penny Plan is the answer. The good news is that, when it was voted on in 2024 and 2025, the Six Penny Plan was supported by a majority of Senate Republicans. Because a budget resolution needs only a majority vote to pass, rather than a supermajority, Senate Republicans have the numbers to pass the Six Penny Plan.In other words, this is the moment. Support for the Six Penny Plan has been building, and there should be enough votes. Let’s show that conservatives mean what we say and can follow through on our promises to balance the budget. Let’s pass the Six Penny Plan.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM SEN RAND PAUL
Mamdani Strategy on Protecting Jews Is Denounced by Jews
The mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, a boycott-Israel activist since his college days who as recently as this month was denouncing the Israeli prime minister as a war criminal who should be arrested and prosecuted, rolled out a “strategy to combat antisemitism” that was immediately met with withering derision from the very Jewish community the strategy was ostensibly intended to protect.
The UJA-Federation of New York, the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, and the New York Board of Rabbis issued a joint statement denouncing Mamdani’s plan. “It fails to address a central issue that the mayor himself has perpetuated: rhetoric that demonizes and delegitimizes Israel inevitably leads to the targeting of Jewish New Yorkers,” the statement said. “Those who truly seek to address antisemitism must unequivocally reject such rhetoric and help ensure that Jewish New Yorkers are never made to feel suspect, excluded, or unsafe in their own city.”
The Anti-Defamation League of New York and New Jersey also laced into Mamdani. “This mayor does not treat the hate facing Jewish New Yorkers as an emergency and refuses to acknowledge the different shapes it takes. Since he took office 271 days ago, ADL has recorded hundreds of antisemitic incidents in NYC, nearly 40% of which were related to Israel,” the league said. “He has looked the other way as flags glorifying terror groups have been flown outside synagogues, a deliberate act meant to intimidate families walking in to pray, and as crowds gathered outside houses of worship voicing support for the same groups. At the same time, he continues prioritizing his anti-Israel agenda over the basic promises he made to Jewish New Yorkers.”
ADL’s national CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, also weighed in. “Security grants do not substitute for moral clarity. A mayor who will not define antisemitism, will not confront terror flags being marched around in Jewish neighborhoods and terror sympathizers at the doorstep of a synagogue, and will not put his own politics aside is not fighting this crisis. He is managing around it,” Greenblatt said. “The mayor’s actions or inactions only serve to help fuel antisemitism in NYC.”
Israeli diplomats based in New York were even more fierce in their denunciations of Mamdani and his “strategy.”
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said, “Mamdani, you fan the flames and then shout ‘fire.’ You are the one who kindled the hatred in New York City against Jews! You are the biggest inciter—and the last one who can comment on this matter.”
The consul general of Israel in New York, Ofir Akunis, said in a statement directed at the mayor, “Until you recognize that your language against the Jewish State, which you don’t recognize as the homeland of the Jewish people, is the fundamental reason for the rise of antisemitism in New York City, it will continue to increase.”
Mamdani rolled out the strategy with a press release that, at nearly 5,000 words, was almost as long as the strategy itself. It included quotes from 38 politicians and far-left community activists, many of them anti-Israel activists. Among them was Rev. Chloe Breyer, whose father, Stephen Breyer, was a Jewish Supreme Court justice. Rev. Breyer is an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of New York who “received her Ph.D. in Christian Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in 2017 and her doctoral dissertation focused on interfaith activism, Christian peacemaking, and Islamophobia.”
Absent from the 38 people quoted in the press release was the sole member of the Mamdani administration with a scintilla of credibility in the mainstream Jewish community, the police commissioner, Jessica Tisch.
The NYPD’s director of social media and digital strategy from 2014 to 2020, Yael Bar Tur, said of Mamdani, “Oh look, the wolf has come up with a sheep guarding policy.”
Mayors under whom the Jewish community in New York City flourished—Ed Koch, Rudolph Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg—didn’t need some elaborate office for combating antisemitism. There’s a case for simply scrapping the entire operation. The best thing for the Jews is pretty much the best thing for other New Yorkers—a pro-growth, tough-on-crime approach combined with aggressive surveillance of institutions that might pose terrorist threats. When I was a partner in a New York-based newspaper that faced a threat, Bloomberg’s police commissioner, Ray Kelly, had so many heavily armed personnel on our doorstep to protect us that my biggest worry was whether there was any ammunition remaining for the troops deployed at the time in Afghanistan and Iraq. And those were just the visible measures.
Mamdani’s strategy promises “listening sessions” and “listening to constituents.” Maybe if Mamdani listens enough he will discover that, aside from a smattering of fringe figures, the Jewish community in his own city detests him. And for good reason. He, his father, and his wife have aligned themselves with those who would wipe the Jewish state of Israel off the map, while also aiming to eradicate the free market economy and associated system of strong property rights and rule of law in which American Jews have prospered.
Mamdani professes to admire Jewish contributions to New York City culture. He mentioned Leonard Bernstein, who is from Boston, and Katz’s, a non-kosher deli. One thing he seems to have appropriated without acknowledgment is the trait of chutzpah, or gall. Yiddish For Yankees or, Funny, You Don’t Look Gentile, by Martin Marcus, defines it as “colossal nerve.” Leo Rosten’s The Joys of Yinglish explains the term to mean “unbelievable, unmitigated, astounding, brazen gall.” The common definition used to describe chutzpah involves a story: Someone murders his parents, and then begs for mercy in front of the court, arguing that he is an orphan. Here the blood is on Mamdani’s hands. The court of public opinion detects no remorse. No mercy is merited.
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Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Says Expanding Health Care Access Is ‘Top Priority’ But Doesn’t Provide Coverage For Campaign Staff
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D.) has said that expanding health care access and driving down costs is a “top priority” as she faces a difficult race to hold her swing seat in Washington’s Third Congressional District. But that apparently doesn’t apply to the Democrat’s staff. Gluesenkamp Perez doesn’t provide health coverage to her campaign staffers, according to financial disclosures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Nor does she provide health benefits to employees of the auto shop she co-owns with her husband, according to a former mechanic at the shop.
“When I was there we did not have health care,” Colton Stender, who worked full-time at Dean’s Car Care from 2016 to 2019, told the Free Beacon. “I’m pretty damn sure that no one else was.”
It doesn’t appear that policy changed in the ensuing years. A job listing in 2021 for a full-time service writer, which named Gluesenkamp Perez as the contact, didn’t list health insurance as a benefit.
Likewise, Federal Election Commission records show that Gluesenkamp Perez’s campaign has paid for some benefits like liability and workers’ compensation insurance, but no direct payments were made for a group health plan. It does employ the human resources platform Gusto, which sometimes manages benefits like health care, but the records don’t show what services the company provided for the campaign, which did not respond to a request for comment. Her 2022 and 2024 campaigns were similar.
Her failure to provide her employees with health care coverage stands in stark contrast to her comments on the campaign trail.
“No one should have to choose between groceries and medicine, or delay care because they’re worried about the next bill,” a Feb. 6 fundraising email said. Another fundraising email Gluesenkamp Perez wrote the next month, which included the subject line, “Expanding health care access,” said she “won’t stop fighting to expand access and lower costs … across Southwest Washington because all of us deserve access to affordable, quality health care.”
Gluesenkamp Perez told the Washington State Standard that bringing down costs, including for health care, “is my top priority.” She’s made similar statements dating back to her first campaign and throughout her time in Congress.
The disconnect between her stated concerns about health care and her refusal to provide coverage for her campaign staff comes as she faces what’s expected to be a difficult bid to hold her swing seat in Washington’s Third Congressional District. It’s also the latest example of Gluesenkamp Perez—whose political brand revolves around relating to the financial burdens her working-class and small business-owner constituents face—making statements that are at odds with her record.
The Democrat has been a vocal supporter of organized labor and collective bargaining, yet Dean’s Car Care was listed in federal records as “NonUnion,” the Free Beacon reported.
Gluesenkamp Perez has also suggested that she owned a business in southwestern Washington, yet her shop is actually located across state lines in Portland. The distinction is crucial, since the Evergreen State’s minimum salary for staff not eligible for overtime is the equivalent of $80,172 annually—more than twice the nearly $35,600 that Oregon requires.
Gluesenkamp Perez has routinely used her auto shop to portray herself as a blue-collar, hands-on worker, running campaign ads and posting stock footage showing her inspecting parts and sliding out from underneath cars. But a deleted portion of her shop’s website said Perez worked “mostly behind the scenes managing the business side of Dean’s” and “enjoys making spreadsheets and burning the cookies for our holiday gift boxes.”
Questions surrounding her image date back to her college years, when she says her father cut her off financially because she stopped going to church, forcing her to pay her own way by juggling multiple jobs, working as a barista, a nanny, and what she called an “iPhone case factory,” but was actually a boutique artisanal workshop that made wooden, hand-crafted cases.
Financial disclosures, however, show Gluesenkamp Perez’s father loaned her between $24,000 and $47,999 to help her buy her first property just two years after she graduated from college, casting doubt on her tale of woe, the Free Beacon reported. She also indicated in 2016 that she owed her father-in-law, her grandmother, and a family friend as much as $47,999, plus up to $23,999 to her grandmother—only her debt to her father remained by the time she filed her next disclosure in 2018. None of her disclosures show any student debt, despite attending Reed College, a prestigious private institution which cost about $46,000 before room and board around the time she attended.
Around the same time she was purportedly struggling to pay her tuition—and going unusual lengths to avoid paying rent, like living in an attic crawl space—Gluesenkamp Perez embarked on a bicycle trip from Portland to Quito, Ecuador, which typically takes three to six months and would have required stepping away from paid work during a time when students often rely on summer earnings to save money.
Gluesenkamp Perez’s self-styled branding in recent years led a former roommate to say the congresswoman is “definitely cosplaying as a poor person.”
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Walmart’s bestselling suede sneakers with memory foam insoles are now $31
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Why we love this deal
Everyone has their preferences when it comes to shoes, but sneakers are a style that most people can agree on as being good to have at least one pair in the closet. Fitness fans and those who love to exercise have at least one pair for gym sessions, kickboxing class, or some outdoor cardio walking or running, but most people, even those who opt for other ways to get their heart rate up, understand the importance of a good, sturdy sneaker. Perfect for all-season wear, they provide lots of support, absorb impact with each step you take, and they prevent a lot of pain and strain that other styles, especially heels, make your feet ripe for. The only thing that could make them better is that you don’t have to spend a fortune to add a new pair to your closet. Right now, Walmart has the super stylish Beranmey Sneakers on sale for 38% off.
The $50 bestsellers, which come in a handful of colors, are now available for just $31. Perfect for all kinds of wear, they are great at keeping your feet protected and warm, especially as the autumn temperatures cool down.
Beranmey Sneakers, $31 (was $50) at Walmart
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Why do shoppers love it?
These shoes immediately grab your attention with their design and construction. Although the specific material isn’t listed, they are made with a suede-like fabric that gives them a textured, fuzzy feel that you can noticeably see with every step you take. That, plus the fun color-blocking pattern and striped sides make them a great choice for folks who like more than a basic white sneaker.
Support and comfort are the name of the game with these shoes, especially with the sturdy rubber sole, thickened heel design, and special foam insoles. Memory foam provides exceptional cushioning, support, and all-day comfort inside the shoe, as does the flexible heel design that cups your foot instead of harshly rubbing against it. Ideal for extended periods of standing or walking, the shoe is designed to prevent foot fatigue even when you’re wearing them for hours on end. The insole and the outer portions of the shoe are covered with fine holes to promote airflow and reduce sweat accumulation. This will help keep blisters and chafing from occurring.
The rubber sole, which has a tread design to prevent slipping on slick surfaces, is thicker than your average tread, giving the shoes an almost platform-like effect. That portion of the shoe is always white rubber with brown accents, but the rest of the sneaker depends on the color combination you choose, of which there are 10 options to select from.
Related: Nike’s $153 Air Max sneakers offer all-day comfort and support
Available in sizes 5.5 through 9, this is a women’s sneaker so size accordingly.
Details to know
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Colors: 10.
Sizes: 5.5 through 9.
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Lace up the super stylish Beranmey Sneakers and enjoy all-day comfort without any pain and strain.
Winklevoss-owned Gemini switches Zcash software ahead of faster 25-second blocks
The new Zakura nodes caught up with the network in just over six hours in Gemini’s deployments. The crypto exchange’s previous software took close to a day.