BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

The past three summers have been the worst on record for Florida's coral reefs. To try to restore them, scientists are breeding corals that can handle heat better, using coral from other countries. By @lsommer.bsky.social

Nearly seven million pregnant women and young children depend on WIC for healthy foods. Advocates say funding could run out in about two weeks, leaving states to close the gap if their budgets allow.

Police identified a 35-year-old man they believed was responsible for attacking a synagogue in Manchester, England, during a Jewish holiday.

this should be a much bigger story

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Remember when Hillary Clinton called some Trump supporters “deplorable“?

NEW: In newly unsealed testimony, a SpaceX insider revealed that Elon Musk’s company had directly received money from Chinese investors, raising questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.

Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

The Trump regime is dissolving the Union unilaterally, that's what these actions *are*—repudiation of the American constitutional order vis-a-vis federalism.

An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones: "In New Hampshire we do not provide health insurance for illegal immigrants, we have never done that, and you are just wrong."

LEAVITT: We have millions of troops who are currently going without pay FOX: Somebody on our program said Russ Vought signed off so every military member gets paid. But are you saying they're working without? LEAVITT: Well, we are certainly looking at how we can fix this problem

Leavitt: "Democrats should know that they put the White House and the president in this position. And if they don't want further harm on their constituents back home, then they need to reopen the government. It's very simple."

REPORTER: Should ERs check immigration status before treating a dying patient? LEAVITT: That's probably not a question for me to answer. That's a question for healthcare professionals and legal experts to answer. (That's not a no!)

Johnson: "Russ does this reluctantly. He takes no pleasure in this. Russ has to sit down and decide which policies, personnel, & programs are essential & which are not. That's not a fun task and he's not enjoying that responsibility...if they keep the govt closed, it's gonna get more & more painful"

REPORTER: The HUD website blames 'radical Democrats' for the shutdown. Is that an appropriate use of taxpayer money, being overtly political? MIKE JOHNSON: I think what the HUD website says is the objective truth

Mike Johnson: "Many of you asked me this morning about sombreros and memes and why Hakeem Jeffries is all alarmed by that. Look, these are games, these are sideshows, people are getting caught up in battles over social media memes ... to my friend Hakeem, man, just ignore it."

MIKE LEE: Russ Vought has been dreaming about this moment since puberty MIKE JOHNSON: Russ Vought does not enjoy this responsibility

Tim Walz: "We're in a massive misinformation campaign. The president himself tweeting out AI videos of fake news reports on healthcare. This is really dangerous. I cannot express to you the concern and absolutely bafflement and fear of our European allies asking me, 'Is this stuff really going on?'"

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

$50 for this hat?

"If they can arrest James Comey, they can definitely arrest Google CEO Sundar Pichai. But the rest of us now have to live in a country that is much closer to oligarchy, thanks in large part to the quiescence of the tech bros who fashion themselves as defenders of free speech." — @lizdye.bsky.social

But if you joke about Trump or say something we don't like about Charlie Kirk it's curtains for you. We don't make the rules. Oh wait, we do.

"Adding insult to injury, $22M of the [Google] payoff will go to the Trust for the National Mall, [to] be spent to build the 90,000 sq ft monstrosity Trump plans to construct in the WH’s East Wing. The “ballroom” will dwarf the main WH building, which is only 55,000 sq feet." Very good read here:

Jeffries: "Trump and the Republicans spent all year last year promising they were gonna lower the high cost of living. They also spent all of last year running away from Project 2025 ... now all of the sudden, Donald Trump admits it was his project all along. He just did it earlier today."

Mike Johnson: "Schumer led the Democrats in the Senate to hand that pen to Russ Vought. And I think there could be some good that comes out of it if we limit the size and scope of government, but it is not a job he relishes. He's being forced in that position."

Tenney: "Everything the Democrats say the Republicans are they're projecting. They're authoritarians -- that's what communism and socialism leads to -- and if you disagree with them, they silence you."

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned last year after a woman in Oklahoma accused the pastor of sexually abusing her in the 1980s pleaded guilty to five counts of lewd and indecent acts with a child, authorities said.

Holy shit. Russ Vought is 49. I seriously thought this mutherfucker was in his late 60s. Further proof that being a monster will age you hard.

“This guy was the greatest blackmailer ever. That’s how he had money.” Who was Epstein blackmailing? Well, look who shut down the government to hide the files. Maybe they know. https://bit.ly/475oQal

In MD, a burial plot is discovered with the bodies of more than 200 black boys linked to a state juvenile detention facility with a history of abuse & neglect from the late 1800s. Delegate @jeffrielongjr seeks the truth behind what happened to these young boys. youtu.be/fw0wobKIBNg?...

Meiselas: I think this is a serious oversight issue. $17 trillion is apparently missing right now, and we’re in a government shutdown. Trump keeps saying he’s got $17 trillion. Where did it go? Garcia: If there is $17 trillion somewhere, the government doesn’t know about it.

Meiselas: There’s the golden ballroom, which he claims is being funded by companies or corporations. Garcia: Well, stay tuned, because we’re asking those same questions. Who’s involved? Are foreign governments paying for it? Oversight is already working on getting those answers and investigating..

Meiselas: You’re saying to Donald Trump, to Senator Thune, to JD Vance: show up at the Capitol. We’re going to do this in front of the press and address these issues before the American people, correct? Jeffries: That’s my position—and we’ll even let Mike Johnson into the meeting as well.

Sanders: These projects have been appropriated. They were signed by a president. It is illegal to rescind them. And to say to people in Vermont, in New York and California, oh, you didn't vote for Donald Trump, we're going to take away funding that was supposed to go to your state… illegal

The point of white-washing and soft-power spectacles like the Riyadh Comedy Festival isn’t to get a couple of stand-up comics to look the other way; it’s to get the whole world to look the other way.

You don't place trust in—or do business with—those without ethics or scruples. I can't believe the very institutions that taught this principle to generations of Americans never learned that lesson themselves. Any deal you do with Trump, he'll break. Then he'll break you. How do they not see this?

She called it. The media blew it by letting a serial liar off the hook

FACT CHECK: Donald Trump’s trade war is crushing soybean farmers. Full stop. Republicans like Bessent down to TN’s Rep. Rusty Grills sound delusional blaming Biden. That math ain’t mathin’! Soybean sales to China under Biden last year: $13B Soybean sales to China under Trump this year: $0

Only the weakest men are afraid of flags. Pettiest, cancel mob on the planet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, don’t know anything about it, don’t know who is involved. Trump today:

Trump takes credit for any ceasefire or conflict that is resolved between two countries anywhere in the world despite the fact that he had zero involvement, never spoke to the leaders involved, never heard of the countries, and can’t find them on a map.

All those 2024 media fact-checks that said, “Donald Trump and the Trump campaign deny any connection to Project 2025” look pretty ridiculous right now. A Trump denial is not a fact. You just used his lies to “debunk” a reality that was obvious to anyone paying attention.

July 24, 2024

Trump’s former “spiritual advisor.”

Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.