Despicable: Trump administration shields Taylor Farms and Taco Bell, as thousands are poisoned in cyclosporiasis outbreak share.google/uRycW7l6wse5...

Tonight, he goes after the National Academy of Sciences, regarding climate change:

Another week, another story involving Ken Paxton. The chair of Texas Tech board of regents donated nearly $275,000 to Paxton’s Senate fundraising committee one day before Paxton’s office rode to the rescue of Texas Tech in its bizarre Brendan Sorsby gambling fiasco

#ETTD - World Cup edition

He was booed!! 🤣🤣

By Dennis Goris:

Spain wins the World Cup apnews.com/live/world-c...

Today's cartoon by Dennis Goris:

Another U.S. fatality: apnews.com/article/iran...

DOGE was supposed to be dead. Its remnants are everywhere. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

Israel's $50 Million Experiment to Change U.S. Public Opinion The Israeli government is trying to shore up its U.S. reputation with help from influencers, Trump insiders and millions of AI-driven texts www.wsj.com/politics/isr...

Disgraceful: The Justice Department is Pulling Back on Prosecuting Corporate Crime www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

"remember that hypocrisy is the most hopeless as well as the meanest of crimes..." -- Margaret Fuller, who died #OTD 1850, in "Woman in the Nineteenth Century"

On this date in 1941, Winston Churchill launches his "V for Victory" campaign.

On this date in 1881, Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull surrenders to US federal troops at Fort Buford in the Territory of Montana.

He lost 60 cases!!

Edgar Degas was born #OTD 1834.

Today's cartoon by Drew Sheneman. "What we are really seeing are the desperate efforts of a man with the approval rating of a root canal trying to keep people from going to the polls and telling him what they think about his performance..."

TrumpRx promised a supermarket for cheaper drugs but delivered a boutique www.npr.org/2026/07/16/n...

"For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security." -- George McGovern, born #OTD 1922

"Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives." -- George McGovern, born #OTD 1922

"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard." -- George McGovern, born #OTD 1922

On this day in 1848, the women’s suffrage movement in the United States was launched with the opening of the Seneca Falls Convention, which sought to gain certain rights and privileges for women, notably the right to vote.

On this date in 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott open the 1st women's rights convention, at which those gathered (Frederick Douglass being among them) put forward a Declaration of Sentiments, declaring that "all men AND WOMEN are created equal."

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” — Thomas Jefferson

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” — Thomas Jefferson

In light of today's deaths of two US soldiers in Jordan, it's a good time to be reminded: Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Pew Research Center: Most countries don’t observe daylight saving time www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Pew Research Center: People in Many Countries Now View China More Positively Than the U.S. More also have confidence in Xi than Trump, according to a survey in three dozen countries www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/...

Democracy Docket: "Donald Trump didn't reveal evidence of voter fraud on Thursday night. Instead, his speech was the culmination of a crisis he and Republicans manufactured as an excuse to take over elections..." newsletters.democracydocket.com/trump-didnt-...

Simply despicable: Trump administration allows killing of species threatened with extinction www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

"More voters would be more likely to support a democratic socialist candidate than a Make America Great Again supporter or a candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump, the CNBC All-America Economic Survey found." www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/d...

The SAVE America Act Backfire Trump's speech didn't make the case, while sowing voting distrust www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

A Look Inside the Newly Public Election Intelligence Files The White House released 269 pages of documents -- many newly declassified -- as part of an election-security review www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump's Week of Policy U-Turns and Election Allegations President's recent moves have frustrated some Republicans, who worry he isn't focused on the economy ahead of the midterms www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Nothing but lies:

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." -- Hunter S. Thompson, born #OTD 1937

"A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance." -- Hunter S. Thompson, born #OTD 1937

"As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder." -- John Glenn, born #OTD 1921

On this date in 1925, Adolf Hitler publishes "Mein Kampf." The original title was "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice"

By Bill Bramhall:

"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word." -- William Makepeace Thackeray, born #OTD 1811, in "Vanity Fair"

"A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones." -- Nelson Mandela, born #OTD 1918, in "Long Walk to Freedom"

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate & if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." -- Nelson Mandela, born #OTD 1918

"It always seems impossible until it's done." -- Nelson Mandela, born #OTD 1918

It's unconstitutional: DHS Secretary Mullin threatens to prosecute election chiefs who refuse voter roll demands www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...