Fox News host Laura Ingraham is now "warning her own network's audience that the conflict is becoming a political liability for Republicans," and pleading with Trump to find a way out of the war before the general elections. In a broadcast from this week, she "didn't mince words" about what the fallout of the Iran war would be for the GOP. "With the midterm elections a little more than 100 days away, the clock is ticking for President Trump to get out of this war before voters head to the polls," Ingraham said. "It's making a lot of Republicans nervous. It's already, as we know, unpopular. According to the new Washington Post/Ipsos poll, 69 percent of Americans disapprove of the handling of this conflict. Republicans cannot let this become an endless distraction, especially if they want to win in November."
President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua said on Sunday that he would abolish his nation's elections, a blatant move to further strengthen his and his wife's authoritarian grip on the nation of seven million. "There will never be elections here again," Mr. Ortega, 80, said at a government rally marking the 47th anniversary of his leftist movement's revolution, to a smattering of applause. He then accused his opponents of trying to use elections "to seize the government, to seize power." Read more
"The Pentagon faces an urgent budget shortfall caused largely by the war in Iran, with some critical lines of funding set to run out within weeks even as President Donald Trump escalates the conflict with Tehran, according to lawmakers and current and former U.S. officials," the Washington Post reports. "The funding crunch is already leading the Pentagon to limit training and maintenance that help maintain military readiness, according to four current and former officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the budget constraints." "And the collapsed ceasefire with Iran could further strain the military's budget: After four U.S. service members died during more than a week of intensified fighting, officials in Washington signaled they were preparing for a wider conflict."
The Donnerboy Rule
The word integrity is rooted in the Latin word integer, meaning "whole" or "complete" " living by your principles, choosing honesty over opportunism, making ethical choices that may be inconvenient or unpopular, maintaining your moral compass. It is not possible to have integrity and be loyal to Trump. The two are in direct conflict. No one can be honest in a regime based on big lies. As the poet, philosopher and statesman Vclav Havel put it: "If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living in truth." So a choice must be made " personal integrity or loyalty to Trump. 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.
