The highest compliment that can be paid to the International Criminal Court is that the Trump administration is terrified of it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed that fear this week by declaring that the administration would use "all the tools at our government's disposal" to "dismantle" the ICC. This line of attack is less about American interests than the personal interests of many top Trump administration officials. Thanks to the Supreme Court and Trump's pardon power, they might never be held accountable in U.S. courts for their alleged crimes after Trump leaves office in 2029. Now they seek total impunity for themselves"and other war criminals around the world. Read more
Dummkopf Trumpf quietly denied nearly 6,000 clemency applications this month from convicts who mostly lacked political connections or wealth. The denials came after the diabolical Trumpf junta had raised hopes that Dear Leader might mark the country's 250th independence anniversary by granting clemency to as many as 250 people.
Hundreds of dangerous runamoks are amongst us.
In what could have been a scene out of the classic 1972 film Deliverance, father and son Joseph Charles Henrichsen (49) and Phoenix Henrichsen (23) abducted at gunpoint two US Forest Service employees, zip-tied them, and held them in a trailer for 15 hours before they were rescued by law-enforcement personnel in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
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The malicious Trumpf junta will not renew direct federal funding of community-based organizations that work on HIV prevention, the latest step in the nefarious cabal's campaign against America's LGBTQ community.
Dummkopf Trumpf's war against the LGBTQ community website
IDF Major-General Avi Bloch warned that Settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are having a dangerous and destabilizing effect: "Jewish terrorism threatens everyone's security." He mirrored what ex-PM Ehud Olmert recently stated about Israeli brutality in the West Bank where two more Palestinians were recently murdered. Since October 2023, Settlers and the IDF have killed 1,181 Palestinians and injured nearly 13,000 others; approximately 24,000 Palestinians have been arrested. At a recent public event in NYC, a rabbi declared: "If you really want to fight antisemitism, be a better Jew."
"Crimes against humanity"
A mass media company aligned with Donald Trump - Paramount, who already bought CBS - faces over $600 million in penalties after a federal judge halted its $110 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery and CNN.
FBI Director Kash Patel is planning to visit Russia later this year, likely in mid-October, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the situation. It would be an unusual and sensitive trip for an FBI chief to one of America's top adversaries. The plans come as Washington and Moscow continue to be at odds over the war in Ukraine, with U.S. lawmakers demanding the imposition of heavy new sanctions on Russia.
For weeks, Army Ranger School students put their bodies through a physical ringer, carrying heavy loads and marching far distances with little to eat and sparing sleep. But when Army researchers measured the course's grueling toll, they found that female soldiers experienced fewer physiological changes than their male counterparts.
Earth's climate systems are inexorably and often unexpectedly interconnected. ... Among the most influential planet-shaping forces is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an immense Atlantic Ocean current system that acts as a planetary conveyor belt. It brings balmy water northward from the tropics to Europe, then cycles the cooled water back south along the seafloor.
Carlson bashed his former pal yet again during a July 15 interview on Bloomberg journalist Mishal Husain's podcast, after she asked if it was time to hold Trump "fully accountable" for the Iran war reigniting. Husain said it made sense, since the president is the "most powerful man in the world." Carlson scoffed at the description. "I don't think he's the most powerful man in the world," Carlson said. "I have held him directly accountable, it's his fault, he's the U.S. president, he was elected. That's his job, and a huge part of the job is resisting pressure from outside forces."
Paramount's owners were planning to have secured firm control of Hollywood rival Warner Bros. Discovery by the end of this week. A federal judge's ruling Monday in response to a major antitrust lawsuit filed by a dozen states has ground the process to a halt.
The song has been streamed nearly 500 million times on Spotify.
Jul 20, 2026
It was on this day, 61 years ago, that Dylan released "Like a Rolling Stone," five weeks after completing the recording at Studio A of Columbia Records in New York City.
Upon its release, "Like a Rolling Stone" quickly stood out given its unusually long length of 6:13. In those days, songs played on the radio were usually around three minutes long, as the New York Times noted in 2004.
For its rankings of the 500 greatest songs ever in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked "Like a Rolling Stone" No. 1.
It maintained the top spot for the updated rankings in 2010, though Rolling Stone most recently listed it as the fourth-best song ever in 2024.
Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney's, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly.
President Trump will continue flying in the old Air Force One while the new Air Force One, a luxury jet donated by Qatar, undergoes additional security upgrades and enhancements, the White House said Monday. "The new Air Force One is perfectly safe for the President's travels, but will receive additional upgrades and enhancements in the fall which will take approximately one month to complete," White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to CBS. "During that time, the President will fly on the old Air Force One." Mr. Trump said Sunday that his new Air Force One will be sent off for defensive upgrades after some reports raised questions about its security capabilities.
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.
It can't have been fun for the anthropologists when their discipline was singled out as a hive of political groupthink. In fact, they got very angry about the "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences," commissioned by Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis. What will happen in the 2026 midterms? Sign up for Margin of Victory The 10 scholars who authored the report, which was released in June, offered anthropology as an example of a field where "we see a widespread deterioration in scholarly standards ... together with a toxic intellectual climate in which reasonable dissent on politically charged topics is routinely suppressed and punished." For instance: The American Anthropological Association canceled a 2023 conference panel on the relevance of biological sex to anthropology.
