One of the arguments against funding universal school meals in Seattle now is "the money may run out and we'll have to yank the program in 3 years." What's baffling to me about that argument is that the council funds things with literal ONE-TIME money all the time. This is an ongoing tax source!

The U.S. State Department has issued a Worldwide Caution for Americans overseas, citing increased tensions in the Middle East and the possibility of unexpected security threats. Officials say the global security environment remains unpredictable

NEW: In the Virginia case where the judge has asked Todd Blanche to rescind the $1.776B slush fund in writing, the government argues that because Blanche testified under oath that the fund is dead this past Wednesday, the issue is moot and the case should be dismissed. 1/

He is so shameless with his insider trading and market manipulations.

One service member is also missing in action following the strikes in Jordan.

A group that advocates for private school funding programs estimated that last year, states allocated $10.6B to these programs, up 29%. One company encouraged churches to tap into public funds, calling them "God's new gold mine."

Alex Jones is a big reason Andrew Tate became as famous as he is. Alex had a little skirmish with Joe Rogan, but offered an olive branch one day via text seemingly just so he could get Tate onto Rogan's podcast. I swear to you these are real texts, even the "Chinese monkey pig hybrid" part.

This would probably be an ideal time to have a Legislative Branch that worked and provided checks and balances on an insane, incompetent, reckless, and rapidly deteriorating Executive Branch.

Before being arrested in Miami on new rape and sex trafficking charges, the Tate brothers were palling around with Rep Wesley Hunt (R-TX) in Washington. Photos are appearing now in English newspapers (not reported in Texas, of course). www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Virtually every country in the world *except* for the US is responding to the Iran War in a rational way -- ie, trying to reduce their reliance in imported fossil fuels.

Protester sues Los Angeles cops over shot to head with projectile. "James DeSimone Law represents Daisy Ureno, who the firm says was struck while sitting in a public seating area outside L.A. City Hall. The shot... rendered her unconscious & caused head trauma." davisvanguard.org/2026/07/lapd...

TODAY IN MAINE Protesters demanding justice for Joan Sebastián Guerrero. His family deserves answers. I haven’t even been allowed to access his body, and his parents are still trying to get visas so they can bring their son’s body home to Colombia.

If you were wondering who owns our government.

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

I went to school with polio victims. It was a childhood scourge until the vaccine was invented. People who think they know about vaccines would do well to learn the history of communicable diseases.

There is exactly ONE active criminal investigation into Epstein's ranch. It's stuck. Not for lack of evidence...because the DOJ won't hand it over. New piece. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Buttigieg: You can see it in the carnival of corruption that is Washington, D.C., today. The leader of the free world flying around in a secondhand jumbo jet from a foreign country while he makes a billion dollars on crypto deals propped up by foreign leaders.

Lindsey Graham voted to block an independent commission on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot www.thestate.com/news/politic...

Lindsey Graham voted to acquit Donald Trump for his role in the January 6th Insurrection www.wtoc.com/2021/02/13/s...

“Remember that Lindsey was a prosecutor in the Clinton impeachment and was an ardent Benghazi pursuer. So it’s not as if we haven’t seen that aspect of Senator Graham’s politics before. It is not necessarily new,” said Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paul...

It doesn't count as speaking ill of the dead if you're simply listing the things they did and quoting them while they were alive

If the next Administration is not from the GOP fascist party, this must have consequences. Going after critics in this way is... well, I say that as a German... unamerican. Literally. apnews.com/article/trum...

They say it comes in threes...

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Every Trump statement about the death of one of his closest "friends" is weirder and more inappropriate than the last one It is hard to be both a sociopath and a public figure, especially in situations in which you are asked to simulate normal human emotions and sensibilities

When DHS shot Marimar Martinez in Chicago last October, they also claimed she tried to ram agents with her car. She survived, so they even charged her criminally. They lied. She had done no such thing, and the goon who shot her bragged about it in texts. They dropped the charges against her.

Sickening and un-American. Watch authoritarianism work.

ICE issued a fast-track solicitation for 5,500 detention beds across 4 regions, giving providers 5 business days to respond. The narrow geographic and operational rules match four existing GEO Group centers, at the same time the agency activated a mothballed jail in Colorado.

President Donald Trump launched his latest attack on voting last night when he ousted the three remaining commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This must have been known to more than a few people in the administration. And they *still* let Donald fly a defenseless plane near a war zone in the next country, which has vowed to kill him. Overheard at the White House: "Will no one rid me of this turbulent boss?"

The real buried lede: he was trading the images online to access actual CSAM. So Grok wasn't just producing images in a silo, but stimulating the CSAM production economy.

"Grok allowed the man to generate extreme images depicting incest and rape [of his 11 year old stepdaughter] without flagging any harmful behavior... Seemingly, xAI’s child safety system only intervened after the man input a prompt for “gang rape.”"

Exclusive: Three men who were alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was killed in an immigration operation, said a federal officer fired at them almost immediately after exiting his vehicle and that at no point did the driver veer in his direction.

Billionaires have been prepping for this for a while now. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The recently announced MAGA mid-term convention in Texas in September is odd, too.

This was also verified by reporter Aaron Parnas on his IG account… 💀☠️

A Police Executive Research Forum report from 2014 showed that CBP officers were purposely placing themselves in front of moving vehicles, and then shooting at them. This isn’t something that can be reformed. Abolish ICE. www.npr.org/sections/the...

1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:

They shot the wrong man. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo… 52, father of three, no record, seeking a work permit… was picking up his construction crew on his way to work. He wasn't even their target. ICE gunned him down and called it self-defense. A working man is dead. DEAD.

Trump’s ICE shot Houston construction worker Lorenzo Salgado Araujo from an unmarked car on his way to work, then blamed him. His son only knew it was his dad from the voice on Facebook, crying for help as he bled out in the street. This is regime terror!

Trump has traded as much as $696M in stocks over three months as president. He is using the office to enrich himself and these trades only scratch the surface of his corruption. ⬇️

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

I had a twenty minute voicemail from Mitch McConnell last night, sounded like he said "don't unplug me, the Grim Reaper is in the hall."

The Daily Atrocity coming from The Israelis/Israel:

Once again ICE kills. Once again, we are being told that the murdered victim tried to weaponize his car, assaulting the ICE goons. Once again, I remind you: DO NOT BELIEVE A SINGLE WORD THIS REGIME SAYS. IMPEACH CONVICT THEM ALL REMOVE #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DOOR

Kasie Hunt asked Scott Jennings on live TV if McConnell would be willing to call in to CNN. The discomfort on Jennings’ face while he tried to bullshit his way around that answer was really something. Methinks we still aren’t getting the whole story.

Trump "ceasefires" are mighty noisy.

We cannot let them get away with pretending a sitting US Senator is alive when he’s not.