On July 28, 2026, a Republican-led Senate committee questioned Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a leading face of the U.S. government's COVID-19 response, over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the hearing, Fauci declined to answer by invoking his Fifth Amendment rights more than 100 times. The Fifth Amendment protects people from answering self-incriminating questions. In a November 2022 decision to appoint a court monitor to oversee the Trump family businesses during his civil fraud trial, a judge wrote (PDF Page 9) that Trump invoked "his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 400 times in response to questions posed to him during his deposition." Trump and his defense team did not appear to contest that statement.
The US destroyed a family home on Iran's Qeshm Island, killing a husband and wife and their two-year-old son with a 2,000-pound munition called a Mark-84, one of the largest conventional bombs used by the US military; the couple's two other children were miraculously pulled from the rubble alive.
Unit cost of a single Mark-84: $16,000
Concern is mounting among high-ranking Republicans that the next generation of conservatives consists primarily of "rabid" "idiot" Nazis, according to a new report. GOP veterans have begun to fret that the pipeline feeding young conservative "talent" into government job has collapsed under the pressure of a Trumpist ideology that prefers sycophancy to smarts, Politico reported Saturday. "We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots," a senior GOP congressional staffer told Politico. "The organizations that bring young staffers to Washington, D.C. have spent the last decade prioritizing blind ideological loyalty instead of competence or intelligence." Read more
The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned Thursday that cyberattacks targeting water utilities are escalating and operators have been locked out of their operational technology networks. CISA said it was seeing a "significant escalation" of attacks targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and urged water utilities to remove publicly exposed devices from the internet, according to an advisory issued Thursday. PLCs are used to automate and monitor pumps and other functions used for drinking water and wastewater treatment. The FBI said that reported attacks have spread to seven states, following the initial series of attacks earlier this week in Minnesota, according to a public service announcement issued Thursday. Operators told the FBI that certain attacks have led to flooding and reduction in water pressure.
A top U.S. general is reportedly warning the Pentagon he does not have the resources to "protect" Israel from incoming ballistic missiles amid the ongoing Iran war. The Washington Post's Dan Lamothe reported on Saturday that Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, the head of U.S. European Command, sent a written warning to leaders at the Pentagon saying that "without another Navy destroyer he will be forced to choose defense of the United States 'homeland' over that of Israel," according to officials speaking on the condition of anonymity. Grynkewich is requesting another Navy destroyer ship in order to "protect" Israel. The warning comes as the U.S. military has stretched resources to create a blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) arrested a spy who activated over 1,000 Starlink satellite communication systems inside Ukraine on Russia's orders. The Russian military uses Felon Musk's Starlink satellite internet to conduct attacks, particularly for Shahed drone strikes.
These two are not good human beings
Trump alone is responsible for 28.6% of it " more than any other president in history.
... during his trans-inclusive US anthem.
Trump has backed off a promise to let Ukraine manufacture its own Patriot air defense interceptors, telling reporters that handing over the underlying technology was "a hard thing to give away" during a cabinet meeting at Camp David. The reversal is likely to unsettle Kyiv, which has spent the past year lobbying for both more interceptors and the means to produce its own, amid a global shortage that has been compounded by the volume of Patriot and Tomahawk stock expended in Washington's confrontation with Iran. Read more
Anthropic has admitted that its Claude models escaped sandboxes to access the open internet and attack three organizations -- but has also advanced decent excuses for the incidents. The AI upstart discovered the attacks after checking if security tests of its models had ever produced results similar to the attack on Hugging Face made possible by OpenAI models escaping onto the internet.
More than half of MAGA voters say they would support a Republican candidate accused of sexual assault, according to a new poll. In a recent Politico poll, 66 percent of MAGA voters who cast their ballot for President Trump in his last contest for the White House said they would back a GOP candidate even if "a former partner has accused the Republican candidate of sexual assault" rather than support the Democratic candidate in a hypothetical congressional race. MAGA voters showing support for a Republican candidate alleged to have committed sexual misconduct is not new. In fact, in May 2023, a jury found that Trump himself sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s.
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Democratic Socialist Oliver Larkin, who is running to represent Florida's 25th District, blasted President Donald Trump as a "pedophile president" Thursday on Fox News. Larkin was asked by Fox News @ Night anchor Trace Gallagher why he is socialist. "Well, Democratic Socialism is about bringing the systems of government that govern our lives under democratic control. We already pay a Medicare tax, why don't we all have access to Medicare? We already pay into Social Security, why are the wealthy and elite getting away with paying a lower effective tax late on Social Security than the rest of us, with the social security income cap? So the capitalist system in the United States of America, we've seen the great recession, we've seen the enormous transfers of wealth under covid-19 and we want equity in our system," he answered. Read more
Virginia GOP Rep. John McGuire appeared on Newsmax following Dr. Anthony Fauci's roughly three-hour hearing before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, which left Sen. Rand Paul going full crazy pants on the government's former top infectious disease expert. McGuire rambled that vaccines supposedly contain "human fetus baby parts" " apparently by way of something he called a "BLT sandwich" " and grumbled that ivermectin should've been used instead, tossing in a vague accusation that Big Pharma is just profiteering. Then he somehow pivoted to a separate matter: someone - presumably Fauci - facing possible contempt charges (a fine up to $100,000 and up to a year in jail), which he argued isn't a stiff enough penalty. He also echoed Senator Rick Scott's claim that the person in question is dodging accountability by hiding behind what Scott called a "fake auto pen pardon" " and said he hopes to see "accountability and justice" served.
"It is interesting if you read Tony's [Fauci] diaries and his diaries. We didn't know it at the time, but he talks about how he got vaccinated, then later had a pulmonary embolism, which we now know microcoagulation and embolism is a significant injury that's associated with the mRNA vaccines," Redfield said. "So I think the American public was misled in that regard too." He further excoriated narrative pushes around the purpose of the vaccine and the origins of the virus. "This vaccine never prevented infection, so when people said 'vaccinate your children so they don't infect grandma,' that was just a false statement. So very unfortunate," he added. "The American public was definitely misled. [Fauci] definitely had an intentional role, unfortunately, in misleading the American public around the origin of the virus, for sure, around the efficacy of the vaccines, and it's really sad."
The US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs reports: "The incompetent Trumpf junta has weakened America's counterterrorism defenses by downsizing staff, politicizing intelligence, cutting grants and forcing federal agents to focus on immigration enforcement, skewing its focus on domestic terrorism almost exclusively to left-wing groups, ignoring significant threats from far-right and white supremacist extremists."
Amerikkka is in real good hands
