Duckworth: "First and foremost, Trump is the one who started this war. Trump is the one who started this war without any actual plan for how he was going to execute the mission. So the blame for those 18 service members' deaths lays at the feet of the president. It sits on the resolute desk in front of him in that gilded Mary Antoinette of an Oval Office."
🔹Taiwan reported 4,766 new COVID-19 cases last week, a +66.5% increase over the previous week.
🔹The surge included 5 deaths and 25 severe cases.
🔹The NB.1.8.1 subvariant is the most prevalent strain, accounting for 58.76% of new cases over the past 4 weeks.
Source: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/07/22/2003861156
Never forget; in the FOTUS’s military, with all the anti-DEI campaigning to do things like trying to erase the contributions troops other than those who aren’t or weren’t male, aren’t or weren’t white, 19 year-old Isabella Gonzalez will disappear from any Pentagon website. God DAMN Kegsbreath, the FOTUS and all his fucking goons to fucking hell. This just … never should have happened. Can’t tell I’m pissed, can ya?
#USpol
#VeteransAgainsttRump
“Canada is becoming the abused wife that Trump is lashing out at because things are going so badly at work. His hopes and dreams are crashing: The midterms look bad. His leg is caught in a veritable bear trap in his Iran War. So he goes home and beats up his wife, or in this case, lashes out at Canada. It’s another case of executive self-soothing oddly akin to what got Trump into Iran in the first place.”
Because he's a rich, well-connected Republican criminal.
Only people who have little money and few connections go to jail for committing crimes when the GOP is in charge.
For Republicans, the rule of law is meant to force working class people to submit, while protecting the rich and powerful.
More fuel for my generally-held opinion that private schools should be banned. https://www.propublica.org/article/private-schools-vouchers-growth-florida-arizona-west-virginia
"Paxton—who has been #Texas attorney general since 2015—has acquired 15 properties worth $9 million in states like Utah, Hawaii, Florida, and Oklahoma, all on a #government salary while in the midst of both a #Senate run and a divorce.
...Paxton, who has echoed #Trump ’s concern with voter #fraud, voted using an address he didn’t reside at in six elections in two years."
https://newrepublic.com/post/213343/ken-paxton-flees-press-conference-scandals-voter-fraud
#KenPaxton #Corruption #GOP #Republicans #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #Elections
@AlliFlowers
I look at the changed trajectory of EV sales in countries that have been lagging behind post-Republicans' latest Middle Eastern war as a good sign that there has been some massive, permanent demand destruction for fossil fuels, except coal but that's short-lived.
Also, there has been a lot of new green fertilizer investment since the Strait of Hormuz was closed too.
MURPHY: Will you make public the amount of money you're spending to upgrade Trump's new plane? And second, can you commit to this Congress that the committee isn't going to take this plane with him when he leaves ?
HEGSETH: Its investment is classified. And that's not a decision for me to make
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) on X
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@edri/116951508393558972
Do not travel to the USA.
Not for work, not for a conference, not for a vacation, not for a festival, not for your son's college graduation, not for your daughter's wedding.
It's not worth getting "detained" (getting locked away in a concentration camp).
Do not travel to the USA.
"I ran around New York City as a child, trying to get an STD to kill a pedophile because I didn’t believe the government would ever stop him."
https://open.substack.com/pub/annepmitchell/p/new-epstein-survivor-comes-forward
At the one earlier in March, #Trump wore a baseball cap that is for sale on his business’ website. And just days later, his PAC used a photo of that dignified transfer in a fundraising email. It featured Trump saluting with a flag-draped transfer case, which holds the remains of a soldier, in the foreground.
#kakistocracy #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #ForeverWars #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #military #service
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"#German prosecutors have charged a 15-year-old boy from #Bavaria with allegedly planning a #terrorist attack against a #synagogue after investigators found that he had stockpiled a large quantity of #pyrotechnic materials.
The indictment was filed with the juvenile division of the #Augsburg District Court, the German newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine reported.
The teenager faces several charges, including preparing a serious act of violence endangering state security, intentionally possessing #explosive materials without authorization, causing an #explosion and inflicting dangerous bodily harm."
https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/bjrzlf2nmx?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Charles Simmons, the father of 28-year-old Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, told NBC News “that was not something we talked about.”
While Simmons had some kind words for #Trump & #Hegseth — & made clear he didn’t speak for other families — he said he had not urged them to keep fighting the #war.
“No, I didn’t say anything along those lines,” he said.
#kakistocracy #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #ForeverWars #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #military #service
“Nearly 100 American service members injured in multiple Iranian airstrikes on bases in the Middle East region this month…”
Pointless. Needless.
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