Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a Democrat, faced a week of hell thanks to the release of multiple bombshell reports about him and his allies. The first report revealed that LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a prominent billionaire venture capitalist, donated $10 million last month to a PAC supporting Talarico's campaign. This is problematic because Hoffman has ties to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. "The release of the Epstein files' showed Hoffman maintained contact with Epstein after the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor in 2008," according to The Texas Tribune. Yet Talarico has repeatedly insisted in his attacks on Republicans that "the Epstein class has no place in Texas." Unless, it appears, the so-called "Epstein class" is donating to one's campaign?
A dozen Somali gangs with hundreds of members, mainly teenagers, are wreaking havoc in Minnesota, committing public shootings and murders out in the open, according to local officials. Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher, whose office patrols the metropolitan region surrounding Minneapolis and St. Paul, told the Washington Examiner that as many as 300 Somali youth are engaged in gang activity around the Twin Cities area. Read more
Billionaire Tilman Fertitta, the good-for-nothing US Ambassador to Italy, was met with hundreds of furious Samaritans when he arrogantly arrived in Venice on board his super-luxury yacht -- replete with two helipads, swimming pool, and spa -- forcing riot police to clash with the righteous volunteers in 90F heat.
The Trumpf junta and mega-oligarchs are completely oblivious to the reality faced by the poor, the oppressed, the dispossessed, and the suffering
Another weekend music thread. Post what ever floats yer boat. The linked tune in the title is a Malcolm McLaren tune called Eiffel Tower, from the 80's. 1984 to be specific. Mr McLaren has also performed a tune, Swamp Thing. An interesting tune. ...
Oligarch and freshman US Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) will introduce legislation to sanction Canada and Canadian officials over the huge wildfires that have poured smoke and haze across the US, creating hazardous air-quality conditions. In addition, White House hobgoblin Stephen Miller's wife, Katie, posted on social media that the wildfire smoke over America somehow absurdly proves that Canada should be an American state.
Spure-wealthy idiotic AIPAC Republican
Victims of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein blasted Todd Blanche after meeting with the acting attorney general at the Department of Justice, a sit-down Sen. Thom Tillis urged Blanche to have as he seeks Senate confirmation as the permanent U.S. attorney general.
Those victims called Blanche condescending and evasive, saying he seemed motivated to talk to them face-to-face Thursday afternoon solely to get his nomination by President Donald Trump advanced by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"After meeting with Todd Blanche, I feel even more confident in urging senators to vote against his confirmation as the United States' Attorney General," Annie Farmer, one of those victims, said in a statement Thursday night.
Palestinian prisoners could be held in jails surrounded by crocodile-filled moats, under proposals put forward by the Israeli government.
Idit Silman, Israel's environmental protection minister, has reclassified the Nile crocodile as a "tended wild animal", paving the way for their use at detention centres.
The reclassification of the reptile followed longstanding protests from both human and animal rights groups. Read more
An employee of The GEO Group, the private-prison company that operates the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Aurora, has been arrested in connection with a shooting of a woman outside the facility Thursday night, Aurora police said. Brandon Booth, 42, was arrested on suspicion of charges that include attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and felony menacing, according to an Aurora Police Department release. The shooting occurred just outside the facility on Nome Street, where the victim had been among a group of demonstrators participating in a protest against ICE detention.
Russian hackers have been exploiting unsecured doorbell cameras and other internet-connected devices to spy on NATO military bases and weapons transport routes. This attack, revealed by Dutch intelligence, highlights the severe risks associated with poorly secured IP cameras and the consequences for organisations in the UK and across Europe.
Top of Drudge Report. There are elements many can agree with, but the damage to the Nation outweighs putting the DSA in charge. Read more
Chinese Tech Support: Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department's computer systems " with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel. Skills Gap: Digital escorts often lack the technical expertise to police foreign engineers with far more advanced skills, leaving highly sensitive data vulnerable to hacking. Ignored Warnings: Various people involved in the work told ProPublica that they warned Microsoft that the arrangement is inherently risky, but the company launched and expanded it anyway.
The Bureau of Land Management plans to reopen the area around Chaco Culture National Historical Park for possible oil and gas leasing, giving the public until July 29 to comment. In April, the Interior Department moved to revoke protections surrounding Chaco Culture with a proposal to rescind Public Land Order 7923, which put wide areas of land around the park off limits to mining and drilling. The BLM has now opened a 14-day comment period for the draft Environmental Assessment for Proposed Revocation of Public Lands Order 7923. The move came just days after President Donald Trump slashed the boundaries of two Utah national monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, by nearly 3 million acres. Both are important to tribes in the region. Read more
President Donald Trump's social network Truth Social announced on Thursday that it will start selling investors quicker access to posts from prominent accounts, opening an unprecedented new way the president could profit from his office. "Markets already move on Truth Social posts," said Kevin McGurn, interim chief executive officer of TMTG. "As adoption grows, we expect Truth API to become a meaningful, ongoing source of revenue for the company, creating lasting value for shareholders."
The Federal Communications Commission will vote to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule that is supposed to prevent a single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. The proposed change sets up a likely court battle over the FCC claim that it has authority to repeal a limit set by Congress.
A recent poll shows more voters would be more likely to support a democratic socialist candidate than a MAGA supporter or a candidate endorsed by Dummkopf Trumpf. In Maine, Democratic senate candidates are now for completely abolishing " not just reforming or fixing " ICE. In Pennsylvania, 57% of Democrats want US Senator John Fetterman (D-Israel) to leave the party.
Plenty of excellent non-AIPAC Democratic candidates to choose from
"As part of a broader employment investigation, it was discovered that Luna-Mejia's employer had removed her from the wage and hour tax reporting required by the State of Missouri," the DOJ alleged in its press release. "Further investigation determined Luna-Mejia had been receiving wages from that employer the entire time she received SNAP, but she did not report it on her recertifications. She also did not report the existence of her bank account in which she deposited her paychecks to further conceal her income. Investigators determined that had she been truthful about her income, she would have been ineligible for nearly $40,000 in benefits she received during that time." Read more
