The USIC advised the detestable Trumpf junta that Iran's government is unlikely to feel significant impact or soften its negotiating position as a result of the costly billion dollar a day offensive the US is waging against Iran on behalf of Israel -- who is now sitting out the war to save their own manpower and treasury -- leaving Tehran and Washington stuck in an indefinite limbo between peace and war.
Expensive quagmire with no clear exit
Donald Trump is facing intense scrutiny over the billions his administration has raked in from Venezuela that now appear to have vanished into thin air. Analysis by the Financial Times suggests the White House has brought in $13 billion from Venezuelan oil sales so far after capturing despot Nicolas Maduro in January and installing vice president Delcy Rodriguez in his place.
The lawyer, Kenneth Kies, was forced out after raising concerns about White House involvement in tax audits, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The detestable Israeli Death Forces (IDF) killed 12 Palestinians in Gaza City on Tuesday, including the entire al-Masri family (Firas, Salsabeel, three daughters, one son) while they slept without a chance to surrender. The murderous IDF continues its constant violations of the US-backed so-called ceasefire deal, which only disarmed Palestinian resistance fighters " not the serial killers of the Middle East. Since Oct 2025, Israel has killed at least 1,168 Palestinians and wounded 3,798. The Lancet UK estimates the death toll in Gaza as over 75,000 human beings. US Special Envoy for Peace mega-oligarch Steve Witkoff referred to the Palestinians in Gaza as "two million Nazis" and IDF Dr Sabo Amos likened them to cockroaches that needed exterminating.
The Dr Josef Mengele of the IDFRead more
He thinks the voters he's trying to reach are stupid. Read more
Despite the fact that the US launched the billion dollar a day illegal war against Iran "at the request" of Israel, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated his country won't waste soldiers or money attacking Iran. "Israel's less visible role was "a blessing for Israelis" since it "reduces the risk of casualties and allows daily life to continue largely as normal, without midnight sirens, trips to bomb shelters, or major disruptions." So, American taxpayers and US Servicemembers should pay the price for defending Israel while they enjoy world class universal healthcare and Americans are stuck with the BBB, a terrible for-profit healthcare system, and a depleted treasury with sky-rocketing prices for fuel and food. Got it.
State Dept rationale for attacking Iran
Speaking from a podium with James Talarico's (D) face plastered on it alongside the caption "Talarico: Handcuffed to his record," Texas AG and US Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R) was unable to answer questions about his 15 houses and alleged voter fraud, so he stamped out of a press conference while 22 slack-jawed sheriffs stood around mouths agape.
Ken Paxton is not a good human being
Some, maybe many, people on the right have indulged in the fantasy that universities are left-wing brainwashing operations, and that professors have the power to turn students into wild-eyed radicals who are left of Marx and Trotsky.
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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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"
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.
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."
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.
