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Monday, July 20, 2026

US Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler multiplied the value of her investment in Felon Musk's SpaceX after she was nominated for the job, earning millions of dollars from the company's record initial public offering.

Attractive oligarchess was already a billionaire. Ain't life just grand?


Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) thinks there's something queer about Secretary Pete Hegseth's fixation on masculinity. The congresswoman weighed in on the U.S. military's plans to test male service members' testosterone levels, telling journalist Scott MacFarlane there's something odd about being so obsessed with manliness while villainizing the LGBTQ community at the same time. Read more


  • "The Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution. Due to heightened tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation."
  • Similarly, Germany raised its national terror threat level from "Abstract" to "High."
    The incompetent Trumpf junta is bankrupting the US, making Americans less safe around the world, and getting people killed in the Middle East and the Caribbean.


    US Gestapo Gruppenfuhrer Tom Homan brayed on national TV (CBS Face the Nation): "I think no matter what people think of ICE, no matter what you think of immigration law, you should always comply with law enforcement... bottom line is -- we'll see when the investigation plays out -- [the dead victims] would be alive today if they simply complied."

    Tom Homan is not a good human being.


    Sunday, July 19, 2026

    Tropical Depression Two has formed in the northeastern Gulf and is expected to bring heavy rain and tropical storm-force gusts to the northern and eastern Gulf Coast in the coming days. Tropical Depression Two is forecast to become a tropical storm tonight or Monday, at which point it will be called Tropical Storm Bertha. Read more


    Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) unleashed her outrage on Pete Hegseth following the deaths of two U.S. service members. On Saturday, the secretary of defense took to X to repost the news of the military personnel killed and injured on Friday. "Godspeed, heroes," Hegseth, 46, declared. "Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve." In response, Greene, 52, sent a scathing message of her own. "Sacrifice?? What the f"k are you talking about??" she wrote on X. "They did not willingly sacrifice themselves." Greene " who resigned from Congress in January 2026 and announced she was done supporting the Republican Party " continued: "They were killed because of the war you, Trump and the admin, are waging on behalf of a FOREIGN COUNTRY, Israel."


    Between 2007 and 2024, Florida attempted to rebuild the Gulf of Mexico's ecosystem in an unusual way: dumping over 500,000 tons of recycled oyster and clam shells straight back into the water. These shells were gathered from seafood restaurants (quite literally scraped off of plates) as well as seafood plants. So essentially, a massive amount of sinking, rotting garbage was supposedly going to bring the struggling sandy seafloors back to life.


    Russian attacks kill 6 in Kyiv and other cities and expose gaps in Ukraine's air defenses

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) " Russia attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with ballistic missiles, drones and guided bombs Sunday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens, authorities said, again highlighting Ukraine's shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems.


    A Denver woman says she was falsely accused of stealing a package after a Flock camera allegedly linked her to a theft at a home in another Colorado town. Chrisanna Elser said a police officer came to her door with paperwork that purportedly showed she had taken a package from a porch in Bow Mar, Colorado. When she told the officer she had not been in the area at the time, she said he did not believe her.


    Iran's improving ability to strike sensitive targets has raised concerns among U.S. officials that the regime may be receiving targeting assistance from China or Russia, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported, as Iran killed two U.S. service members and left a third missing in an attack on a Jordanian air base.


    It's no secret that JD Vance has lost the confidence of many Jewish Republicans, who have taken issue with the vice president's reprimanding of Israeli officials, indulgence of anti-Israel conspiracy theories and silence on Tucker Carlson, the prominent pundit who has turned against Israel. But Vance is still thought by many to be Donald Trump's likeliest successor at the top of the party's ticket in 2028, leaving the GOP's Jewish supporters with the question of whom to back when Trump's second term ends. Read more


    They were the big losers from Brexit -- and they weren't even allowed to vote. A full decade after Britain's shock decision to leave the European Union, young Brits are clamoring for rapprochement. First and foremost, they want to be allowed to live and work in Europe -- just as their parents could.


    Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the F.B.I. would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents " cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute Department of Homeland Security agents implicated in violent encounters, according to people briefed on the decision. If enacted, such a change would sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of immigration agents, as the Trump administration draws mounting criticism over killings at the hands of federal officers. In the last two weeks, two fatal shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Texas and Maine have thrust the government's tactics back into the spotlight. Read more


    Israel is spending about $50 million on a US influence campaign to improve its tarnished image as American support has fallen over its genocidal wars against the Palestinian, Lebanese, and Iranian people. The PSYOP campaign, led in part by former Dummkopf Trumpf adviser Brad Parscale, uses AI-generated text messages, conservative media advertising, influencer outreach, websites, and AI chatbots to spin positive information about Israel. This is part of a broader $700 million diabolical Israeli effort to strengthen its terrible, but accurate, global image as a Pariah nation of mass murderers and ethnic cleansers.

    Israel is using part of our own billions of dollars we give them for free every year against us: "You're good people."


    As long as this deranged violent Republican misogynist who was accused of throwing boiling water on his ex-wife votes pro-Israeli in Congress, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) will continue funding Representative Max Miller (R-OH-7th CD) until Doomsday. New sordid details emerged about this lunatic whose August 2022 wedding Dummkopf Trumpf attended, describing this miscreant as "a great guy."

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    Saturday, July 18, 2026

    Batarti Gabbard, the 55-year-old brother of former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, was arrested Friday for allegedly trying to lure children to a hotel room in Honolulu, Hawaii using "gum and money," the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Saturday. "Batarti Gabbard, aka Bhakti Gabbard, allegedly approached several children, including a boy, age 9, and offered them gum and money to accompany him to his hotel room, according to police," the outlet reported. "He also asked the children for their names and wrote them in a notebook, police said. The children refused to go with him and the suspect walked away."


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