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At 83, Michael Palin is still exploring “countries on the edge,” from Venezuela to the Philippines. He talks about travel, loss and Monty Python’s unlikely diplomatic power.

🤪 Trump’s “logic” 🔽 The war with Iran has nothing to do with high oil prices around the world. Zelenskyy is responsible for that. Also Trump: “The war with Iran will end very soon. Oil prices will drop like a rock.” 🤔🤔🤔

It's deeply irresponsible to treat anything Trump says as credible. He's flailing and desperate to save face, and he knows he can lie because the corporate media will dutifully parrot his words and spread his propaganda. There's a good chance Zelenskyy has no idea what the hell he's talking about.

i am sure this is right. us policy toward the ICC, over many years, has been driven by irrational fear of a runaway prosecutor that would target americans (recall 2002 Hague Invasion Act) AND, more recently, israel. trump adm policy is off-the-rails hostile in part b/c of this. at same time...

Since Trump claims that it was “the military” that requested to use the arch to store sniper ammo & drones, these are the times when a Democratic majority could bring Gen. Dan Caine before Congress to find out from him if that is true & why. As usual, Republicans will do nothing.

Trumpy, yes, gas is a little more, just a little, but we're preventing Iran from having a nuke because i want all the nukes and we can't allow them to have a nuke because everyone knows nukes are bad.Very bad. Nukes cause all sorts of bad things, like they go boom. So yes, $50b is ok. Arch time.

Moscow is on fire this morning. I have only this to say: burn baby burn.

Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon kill 4 people and wound 20 others #AssociatedPress

WELKER: Do you believe President Trump has committed impeachable offenses at this point? RASKIN: Undoubtedly. We don't have time to remotely scratch the surface.

👺 Kremlin sees "harbingers of war" in Berlin's response to Leipzig drone incident

🔥 SMOKINNNN! 🔥 😂

Why Can’t the Supreme Court Tell Trump No? Easy, they are making millions and millions of dollars from Trumpy's friends. When you buy the court, you can do pretty much anything. Even an illegal ballroom none of us will ever be invited to see. joycevance.substack.com/p/why-cant-t...

U.S. troops killed or wounded since July 7 are now counted separately from casualties during the first months of the Iran war. theintercept.com/2026/08/04/u...

Trump’s tombstone should read “got into a years long fight with a wading pool and lost.”

One year ago, an Israeli settler shot and killed the Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen in the occupied West Bank. A new report from the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq looks closely at the circumstances of his death and his killer, Yinon Levi. We speak with Tahseen Elayyan of Al-Haq.

Carville: Progressive left 'too hot-headed to know that they're not popular' #TheHill

Trump: “My REAL Polling Numbers, not those made up by the Fake News Media, are the best they have ever been”

Please caption this morning's Truth Social AI slop from the president...

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Social-media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate face threats to their lives in the Miami jail where the brothers are being held pending extradition on UK rape charges, their lawyer said

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FUCK ICE & the ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION!

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N7628 Landed near Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Apx. flt. time 2 h 9 min.

apnews.com/article/eggs... Nearly 100 people in 17 states have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak tied to recalled eggs, federal health officials said. 26 people have been hospitalized.

🇷🇺 It's amazing what 4.5 years can do. Just look at how Russian war correspondent Aleksandr Sladkov has changed his tune. 🤯🤯🤯😁😁😁

Every time the Tates get arrested, their media empire kicks into gear.

Ladies & Gentlemen…I Present… The Glamour Bitches Of The Republican Party. Give Them A Hand And Grab ‘em By The Pussy! 👏🏼

www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-... ICE needs to explain why it has purchased commercial spyware capable of covertly taking control of phones as well as collecting messages, photographs, location information and other personal data.

Israeli Settler-Soldiers Took Me on a West Bank Tour Celebrating Evictions of Palestinians "There are no Arabs here,” one soldier told me, as government-backed settler violence spikes. theintercept.com/2026/07/23/w...

Trump issues more Truth Social threats as the war expands and Republicans drown us in more debt to pay for it.

Linda McMahon on good uses of AI in schools for students: "They spend the first couple of hours with AI and then the rest of the day they are implementing things they have learned. It's remarkable."

Linda McMahon says some elementary school students should be put on a "pathway" to become plumbers

Both Saudi Arabia and Iran are terrorist regimes. Most of the hijackers of 9/11 were Saudi's, The Crown Price of Saudi Arabia MBS murdered Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi without any ramifications.

Bernie's Correct On The Saudi Nuclear Deal. What Could Possibly Go Wrong.......?

Trump's A 34 Time Convicted Felon, And Is Alteady A War Criminal For Bombing Civilian Targets And His Statement that "A whole civilization will die tonight", if demands were not met.

Sen. Pete Ricketts on why the Trump administration isn't included in his stock trading ban bill: "What we want to do is make sure we're not locking out people who come from a successful business. We don't want to keep a successful business person from coming to Congress."

it wasn't long ago that we had FBI directors who didn't post like jilted pre-pubescent boys

Trump’s late-night ‘shock move’ leaves experts horrified over midterms: ‘My stomach sank’ #RawStory

NEWS: Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Iowa Ashley Hinson says her family can barely afford groceries. Her disclosures say she’s worth up to $7M richer since taking office. And the “all my stocks are sold” claim? Also false. The receipts 👇

“I recognized him immediately: not from his appearance, but from his voice crying in the street as he was bleeding out." That's what Ronaldo, one of Lorenzo’s children, shared. As a daughter of immigrants, it’s hard not to see my own family in these tragedies. We just want our papas to come home.

YESTERDAY - ST. CHARLES, CHICAGO While handcuffed and not resisting, ICE agents smashed a man’s face into a stone wall, then assaulted a U.S. citizen multiple times, once they realized they were being filmed by him and other people, who were also threatened by Trump’s thugs. #ICEOUT

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) , a candidate for Florida governor, has been accused of threatening to "crush" a mother during an altercation in a gourmet grocery store.

Netanyahu on Fox & Friends makes a plea to President Trump to not supply Turkey with F-35s because "it will upset the power balance in the Middle East, which is ultimately guaranteed by Israeli air superiority"

Belarus’s president says his army will not take part in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, seemingly ruling out Kyiv’s fears that Moscow was pressuring Minsk to join its war effort. Lukashenko told an audience of senior officers & military graduates on Monday that Belarus wouldn’t send troops to Ukraine.

New in PN: Democratic voters want fighters "Leadership needs to read the room: their constituents know the old rules are dead. They instinctively understand that Trump’s lawlessness demands more than strongly worded pressers. Finding a 'middle ground' won’t work against a tyrannical force."

i love this for Stephen Miller