Maybe helping to coordinate Russia’s election interference for Trump?

🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

NEW: Mayor Mamdani announces that he has looked at all options and has determined he does NOT have the legal authority to arrest Netanyahu under the ICC warrant if he comes to New York, but the feds do, and he encourages them to do so. He adds that Netanyahu is NOT WELCOME in New York City.

The FIFA crowd wore him out with all that loud booing 😂

AOC: Ask Peter Thiel. Ask Elon Musk. Ask Mark Zuckerberg if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard. Ask any one of us here on this committee. If anyone wants to live right next to one of these centers, please raise your hand.

countdown to a saudi nuke www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Well, this adds up. No wonder she’s always “concerned.” Financial disclosure records show that Susan Collins received campaign contributions from men whose names have appeared in the Epstein files!

🚨 ICE just published their recent numbers and it's worse than we thought. JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day. JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.

Con Junior got community noted on his blatant lie.

🚨Caught on camera: Ken Paxton PANICS when asked about owning 15 homes worth $9 million on a $153,000 government salary. Paxton dodges, stammers, then says “I’d like to keep today to law enforcement!” Classic Paxton—refuses to answer, cuts the presser short. Texans deserve better.

NEWS: A Florida judge has ordered Donald Trump to turn over financial records sought by the BBC in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit. The judge granted the BBC's motion to compel records from Trump's revocable trust, handing the broadcaster a MAJOR early win in discovery.

“Don’t worry, Pete. That little speech I read was just for the voters back home. I have to put on these little shows to convince them I’m independent. You will get the $1.5 trillion for your wars even though I just gave ICE unlimited funding to run wild. We’ll just borrow more.”

His father-in-law (and the grandfather of the white appearing baby he’s holding) is Dinesh D’Souza, who was born in India and first set foot in the US at the age of 17.

Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.

It is sickening that the President would downplay the loss of 18 American soldiers killed during his ongoing Iran war & brag about how it’s not AS bad as some of the other disastrous American wars he promised he'd never repeat.

Trump's own intel agencies say the strikes aren't working. His own troops are getting hurt in numbers the Pentagon won't disclose. And his answer today was to tell reporters Iran is "begging" for a deal while U.S. bases quietly empty out across the Middle East. Your midday recap is here:

They are lying and trying to start a civil war.

Benny Johnson tells an agreeing Sen. Eric Schmitt that "the left is setting themselves up, they're training, they're ready to try and stage a mass slaughter event" "Yeah," Schmitt replies. "They're drawing federal officers out and then they have snipers."

Murray: "He has told us over 40 times now that a deal is near and the war will be over soon. But now he's asking for $70 billion more and for us to just trust him it'll work out."

Take 20 seconds , read the whole thing.

Wow -- Ken Paxton and his team abruptly shut down a news conference and bail after journalists try to ask him about his various scandals

I asked AOC about this and she said “they support a president who sexually assaults people, who is guilty on 34 counts, felony counts. So it's unsurprising to me that they are okay with and really take a blind eye. It's the culture of their party.”

Q: Dems ditched Graham Platner after sexual assault allegations. Two members of your conference -- Max Miller and Cory Mills -- face domestic violence allegations. Why keep them in the conference? MIKE JOHNSON: The key word there is 'allegation'

Pete Hegseth's opening statement to Congress is quickly interrupted by a protester who yells about the "illegal war" and blood being on his hands

Hegseth is interrupted by a second, third, and fourth round of protesters in quick succession

I don’t get why so many of you think our president is in mental decline, all he’s doing is imposing new taxes on you, because he thinks he’s punishing Canada, for being on fire

Paxton literally has an anti-Talarico poster pinned to his podium but when asked about Talarico he hides behind the skirt of his press Secretary. Talk about low T

Angus: "He's gutless. [Trump] couldn't look PM Carney in the face and say, I'm coming after your hockey sticks, because he probably knew that PM Carney would laugh at him. So he's got to go to Truth Social and try and rally the base ... This man is a freaking disgrace."

This administration keeps trying to play in our face. Let’s not get it twisted: Indigenous people were here first. They need to stop demonizing people of color to push their racist agenda.

MURRAY: Why exactly are billions of dollars for the National Guard and this administration's illegal strikes in the Caribbean urgently needed for the Iran war? HEGSETH: Because of Biden

HEGSETH: Iran is not charging tolls and they are shooting at ships right now MURRAY: Trump said he wanted to charge a 20% toll HEGSETH: We have a blockade and it is effective

MURKOWSKI: Is the administration still taking the position that it needs no authorization from Congress at this time? HEGSETH: We share the position with the White House that we have all the necessary authorities

1. NEWS President Trump says he wants U.S. airlines to begin flying directly to Lebanon for tourism purposes. U.S. commercial airlines have not operated regularly scheduled direct flights to Lebanon in decades. Lebanon is currently listed by the State Department as Level 4: Do Not Travel.

HEGSETH: I don't know what Lloyd Austin did for four years DURBIN: I'm sure he has questions about what you're doing now

DURBIN: Are you aware the administration has informed us that that money will not be available for Ukraine in many aspects until the next president is in office? CAINE: I'm not aware of that DURBIN: It's a fact

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Reminder: Hegseth was pushed out of TWO veterans nonprofits amid financial mismanagement allegations, running groups into debt, overspending on parties/events, and treating funds like personal accounts. Now, he's bankrupted the Pentagon despite a record budget and is demanding another $1.5 trillion

BREAKING: A federal appeals court panel has upheld White House aide Peter NAVARRO's criminal conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump: "Truly, it's the golden age of America"

Nothing says 'golden age' like gas over $4, endless foreign wars, skyrocketing costs, election denialism, and withholding millions of pages of the Epstein files.

HEGSETH: President Trump deserves the kind of praise he should get for undertaking this effort REED: Excuse me. So he should be praised for starting a war without authority and creating a situation in which the world economy is suffering tremendously?

HEGSETH: We had US boats that surrendered to Iranian ships during the Biden administration-- REED: Listen -- we're talking about the war you started. Not a situation in which oil was flowing freely, we weren't losing personnel. So your fallback to Biden is just a very very obvious excuse

Hegseth acknowledges that Russia and China are helping Iran

Hegseth interrupted by protester: Stop bombing children in Iran and Palestine. This is illegal

I am the super manly man in this race, and if anyone asks me a question I don't like I will run away with my hands over my ears saying "Nanana I can't hear you nanana"

He was impeached for being corrupt. His own office of lawyers resigned en masse because they thought he was a criminal. He was under federal indictment until Trump dropped the case. Did he think he could run for Senate and just…. Not have to talk about that stuff?

HEGSETH: I appreciate as much as anyone winning a war, but I sit in front of a committee that wants to talk about winning a war that's been going for 4 years, and talks about defeat in a conflict that's been going on for 4 months to prevent Iran-- SHAHEEN: I don't want to hear your speech

Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre's brother Sky Roberts says Todd Blanche showed a "complete lack of humanity" toward survivors, recalling Blanche telling him: "Virginia is not here. Your sister's not here to provide that testimony," despite evidence Giuffre provided implicating Prince Andrew.

Remember when Trump praised Putin for ensuring that Russia remained neutral in the war in Iran? tinyurl.com/4w9upv3k That was just five weeks ago.