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Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Last week, Musk capped the speeds at which Ukrainian hardware could stay connected to the satellite-based network .. .. One of the people also claimed Musk and Trump discussed the matter prior to the decision ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

If your election-security plan begins by removing independent observers, the optics department has already called in sick.

If we want to clean up Trump's mess — and prevent it from happening again — here are 10 reforms every midterm candidate should support. Call them the “10 Commandments for a Better Government.”

“.. They’re going to do it either way,” Gardner said. “That they’re getting generous tax breaks for doing so is just icing on the cake for them.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

Nothing says “America First” like having Moscow sponsor the open bar.

It's impossible to ignore, Trumpism attracts a type.

#Denmark built so much wind that some blustery hours the turbines out-produce what the whole country is using. When that happens, the extra power doesn’t sit idle. It moves through Denmark’s links into the wider European network and heads to neighbors like Germany, Norway, Sweden. #ActOnClimate

Oligarchs need to be taxed back to humility.

If Jensen Huang has time to attend a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago and fly across the world to meet with President Xi Jinping, he can find time to testify in front of Congress about reports that NVIDIA technology is powering Russia’s war machine.

NEW: Congress appropriated $1 trillion for defense this year, more than twice as much as the combined budget for agencies overseeing health, veterans affairs, education, housing, agriculture and justice. We’re setting out to report on how this public money is being spent.

“This will affect Natalie forever” is particularly operatic - Harp is a senior White House aide, not a Victorian maiden whose reputation has been sullied because someone saw her ankle.

SCHWAB: “.. The labor force participation rate has given up all gains since February 2021.” #LFPR

The moment Collins announced she was a no on Blanche, you KNEW they had the votes.

Parnas: How much money was funneled through these banks to Epstein? Wyden: I think it’s certainly well over a billion dollars. One of the things we pointed out yesterday is that Deutsche Bank failed to properly report to the Treasury Department more than $250 million in suspicious transactions

America has experienced oligarchy thrice in its brief history. The first was under the slaveholding founders The second, the robber barons, a century later. A third American oligarchy emerged around 1980 — and has only gotten more powerful.

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

"Starting July 19, 2026, the European Union officially banned large fashion companies from destroying unsold clothes, shoes, and accessories. Instead of sending perfectly good products to landfills or burning them, companies must now donate, recycle, or repurpose them." via No one Cares

Outgoing Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis are reportedly undecided about Todd Blanche's nomination for AG. A single GOP "No" vote in committee this Thursday could tank Blanche's nomination entirely. Call and tell them to reject Blanche: (202) 224-3121

You would think Potus falling into a deep slumber, every day, on TV, would be a bigger story.... ....but Sleepy Joe.... Our media is hopelessly broken.

Summer Reading 😂

Happy 6th anniversary, this week. 🎂

THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵

Bernie's Correct, Again......

Duckworth on Hegseth announcing testosterone screenings for troops: "It sounds like gender affirming care to me, so I'm glad he's come around ... this is just more performative bullshit from the least qualified secretary of defense in our nation's history."

The internet was/is working fine without the data centers. Why all of a sudden. Are they so necessary? Anyone asking? #cdnpoli

A graduate of the Lviv National Academy of Arts, Ukrainian artist Mykola Kuryliuk works with acrylic on canvas, often featuring pop culture and astronaut themes. 😊 IG: @ mykolakuryliukstudio

When Trump says he won the 2020 election in his address to the nation tomorrow night, remember Fox News had to pay $787.5 million for lying to viewers and spreading that same lie… Never forget. Never forgive. 😎✨

Booker: Do you all know that they were constantly chipping away? I was told we would have 13 minutes for questioning. Then they brought it down to 10. Ten minutes of questioning for the confirmation of the highest law enforcement official in the land has never been done before.

How do you think it would have been covered if President Obama had to pay $5 million to a woman he sexually abused and defamed? Do you think the White House press would have asked him about it?

What I'll be watching tonight instead of listening to the never ending lies from the WH about "rigged" elections:

Public lands belong in public hands.

The air is full of smoke, the food is full of parasites, and the water is full of data center bacteria but at least we stopped all that DEI children's cancer research!

Rep. Thomas Massie has announced he'll introduce the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, a bill to give state AGs, DAs, 'authorized state officers,' and victims the right to sue DOJ for "unlawfully withholding, redacting, delaying, concealing, removing, or failing to publish Epstein-related records."

Laugh of the day. Science wins every time.

This is a cool visualization of how trees cool us down and asphalt heats us up. www.ctinsider.com/projects/202...

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

RFK Jr. made Cyclospora tracking optional, gutting a CDC program used to detect outbreaks. Now cyclosporiasis has hit 31 states. That's what happens when you dismantle the systems designed to keep us safe. www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.

It's a sign of how shockingly corrupt this country has become that a nominee for Attorney General is given a hearing by the Senate *the very same week* he has been referred by a judge for possible disbarment for unethical behavior. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding.

Ana Navarro: Let’s remember that lCE has kiIIed before, just kiIIed again today. A lot of times has lied about it, has explained it in a way that does not fit the video that we see and, testimony from people on the ground. Over 52 people have died in lCE custody.