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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Amazon just saved nearly $8B on its 2025 tax bill — despite profits hitting $90B — thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Remember: Amazon spent $75M producing and marketing the Melania movie, while Jeff Bezos gave $1M to Trump's inaugural fund. Quite a return on investment, huh?

Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...

CDC Deputy Director Ralph Abraham thinks measles outbreaks are the “cost of doing business” in a world of global travel. Because travel didn't exist during the last 20 years, when we had effectively eliminated the disease. lnk.thebulwark.com/4tv9aXt

The USDA releases its annual food security report today, possibly for the last time, after the Trump administration moved to end the survey and tighten SNAP rules.

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Trump’s lying (again). The shutdown isn’t about ‘illegal aliens,’ it’s about Republicans refusing to extend health care subsidies for millions of Americans.

Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans. U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties. Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed. This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda. It was always about cruelty.

Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. has now cut her entire division.

Just watched Trump's UN speech in its entirety. My God.

He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell. Listen to the survivors.

Dear citizens of the USA, Sorry if I offend by pointing out that you are not taking concentration camps and the military in your cities seriously enough… but now you have war ships poised to attack Venezuela. Yes, I applaud your homemade signs… but I think we’re past that now? This will enrage some.

Trump has attacked and undermined vital nonpartisan data, including: -BLS monthly jobs numbers -DC crime statistics -EPA emissions database -NOAA & National Weather Service forecasting Like every dictator, Trump knows the major enemy of tyrants is an educated public.

BREAKING: Hours after Texas lawmakers approved a new gerrymandered congressional map, Texans ask a court to block it. They argue the new map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the 14th amendment by diluting Black and Latino voting power.

A judge ruled the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts.

"The actions add up to an unprecedented attempt by a sitting president to interfere in a critical election before it’s even held, moves that have raised alarms among those concerned about the future of U.S. democracy..." apnews.com/article/trum...

When and why is Air Force One painted baby blue and mint green?

The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.

Well, that’s an illegal waste of taxpayer money and law enforcement resources. It’s also a sign that their election rigging coup project is more important than their ethnic cleansing project.

We are already an authoritarian country. We’re not working to prevent it; we’re now working…to get out of it.

Finally, a united nation.

Imagine in another country a corrupt president was trying to change the election laws. Then that president's political ally threatened to remove all the legislators of the other party to get it done. That's what's happening in Texas right now.

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Can't make this up: Trump's billionaire Treasury Secretary admitted, on camera, that parts of their Big Ugly Betrayal of a bill are a ‘back door for privatizing Social Security.'   These people love to say the quiet part out loud: they are coming for Social Security.

Despite backlash, Ms. Rachel is featuring a child from Gaza on her show to amplify the voices of children in warn torn conflict zones. “Speaking out for kids in this situation is more important than my career,” she said. wapo.st/3HeTCnb

Disrupted, throttled, and blocked. In a new report, HRW documents how Russian authorities are carrying out mass scale censorship online. Learn more: bit.ly/3Uyfv3U

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The price of 1 lb of ground beef is now higher than the federal minimum hourly wage…

Trump got impeached the first time after trying to get Ukrainian prosecutors to smear his Democratic rival. Now he’s using a U.S. prosecutor to try and get Ghislaine Maxwell to smear a bunch of Democrats. Same corrupt criminal, same playbook.

NEW: Republicans have long claimed noncitizens are illegally swinging elections, pushing for tougher voting laws as the solution. This year, they launched investigations into noncitizen voting, but the findings were clear: it was virtually nonexistent. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social

As President Trump golfed Saturday at his course in Turnberry, Scotland, protesters took to the streets to denounce his presence in Britain, criticizing the administration’s policies on immigration, the war in Gaza, Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein and other issues. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/w...

He’s not interesting. He’s not smart. He’s not anything. He’s just a mean, stupid, mediocre narcissist. https://trib.al/fSjSBTh

Exclusive: The former senior CIA officer who helped oversee the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election says DNI Tulsi Gabbard and the White House are “lying” when they claim that it was an attempt to sabotage President Trump.

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What’s happening, evidently, is that a troubling number of law enforcement offices view press coverage of public protests as a threat, rather than a protected legal and constitutional right. Bill Lueders on the cops joining the war on the press: www.thebulwark.com/p/cops-join-...

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After the Paramount-Skydance merger, CBS will now officially become state media for the Trump regime. Brendan Carr, Chairman of the FCC, said the government is placing “an ombudsman in place for two years,” which he described as “basically a bias monitor that will report directly to the President.”

In an effort to shrink the federal government, President Trump and congressional Republicans have taken steps that are diluting the country’s ability to anticipate, prepare for and respond to catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather events, disaster experts say.

Sen. Ted Cruz stripped weather forecasting funds from Trump's megabill. Then the floods came.

From our segment today. The details on the impact of the Senate Bill on 70 million + Americans. The GOP is hoping these details remain hidden. Don’t let them succeed.