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Trump, 79, forgets who is with him on Pittsburgh trip as rambling talk includes unlikely Unabomber story
In yet another deeply bizarre and unhinged speech, Donald Trump had to be reminded who was on the trip with him before launching into an entirely fictional story about how his uncle, John Trump, taught the Unabomber when he was at MIT. “Kaczynski was one of his students. Do you know who Kaczynski was? There's very little difference between a madman and a genius," said Trump, again appearing to praise a domestic terrorist. However, it is almost impossible that this story is true; Kaczynski never attended MIT. Trump would then go on to claim that he had personally secured $16 trillion in investment, which would be more than half the US's ENTIRE ECONOMY. If any other president had said this, there would be immediate calls to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the billionaire-owned corporate media and the GOP treat it as just another day at the Trump circus.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Marjorie Taylor Greene, entire GOP caucus completely flip-flops on Epstein
For months if not years, Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene have been banging the table and demanding the Epstein files be released in order to protect the children and serve justice to the pedophiles. But when they were given the opportunity to do so with a vote in Congress, they predictably folded and voted unanimously against a Democratic measure that would force the release of the files within 30 days. Almost as if they know a certain president is prominently featured in those files...

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Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher drops fundraising bomb on Lauren Boebert
Eileen for Colorado: Retired Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher can defeat Lauren Boebert in 2026. Boebert only beat Adam Frisch by 546 votes in the closest race in the entire country. Now, Eileen just out-raised Boebert by 14-to1 -- even out-raising Adam Frisch, the Democrat who came so close to beating Boebert! We all need to rally behind Eileen right now and donate to her campaign so she can finally send Boebert packing and flip this seat blue. Boebert is seriously struggling to fundraise. She spent nearly twice as much as she raised, so she's bleeding cash, further adding to her vulnerability. This race could decide control of the House! Will you chip in to help kick Lauren Boebert out of Congress for good?

Senate votes to move ahead on funding clawback package
Vice-President JD Vance cast the deciding vote to advance Trump's rescission package that would claw back funds allocated by Congress for NPR and a host of other things...which the White House will not specify. “[Office of Managment and Budget] is the problem. They won’t tell us how they’re going to apply the cut. I want to make it clear I don’t have any problem with reducing spending. … They would like a blank check is what they would like, and I don’t think that’s appropriate,” said Mitch McConnell in explanation for his "No" vote. The $400 million cut to the life-saving PEPFAR program is NOT expected to make it into the bill, but it's a small silver lining on a giant poopoo platter of austerity.

Irish tourist jailed by ICE for months after overstaying US visit by three days: "Nobody is safe"
Thomas, a 35-year-old tech worker and father of three from Ireland, came to West Virginia to visit his girlfriend last fall. He had a mental health episode and couldn't make his flight home; three days after he was supposed to leave, he was picked up by ICE and thrown in various prisons for over a hundred days. Despite immediately agreeing to deportation when he was first arrested, Thomas remained in ICE detention and was even forced to spend part of his time in custody in a federal prison for criminal defendants, where he was treated in the appalling, dehumanizing fashion that the Bureau of Prisons treats its inmates. “The staff didn’t know why we were there and they were treating us exactly as they would treat BoP prisoners, and they told us that,” Thomas said. “We were treated less than human.” He and other detainees were placed in an area with dirty mattresses, cockroaches and mice, where some bunkbeds lacked ladders, forcing people to climb to the top bed, he said. BoP didn’t seem to have enough clothes and gave Thomas a jumpsuit but no shirt and a pair of used, ripped underwear with brown stains. Some jumpsuits appeared to have bloodstains and holes, he added. He was often freezing and was given only a thin blanket. The food was “disgusting slop”, including some kind of mysterious meat that at times appeared to have chunks of bones and other inedible items mixed in, he said. He was frequently hungry. An absolute nightmare situation for an innocent man, it is obvious that ICE is deliberately throwing people into concentration camps and leaving them to rot simply for the sake of it, even violating their own promises to return foreign nationals to their own countries.

Portland family detained at Canadian border facility for 2 weeks in apparent violation of immigration policy
In a repeat of the theme "nobody is safe," and "ICE doesn't even follow its OWN rules," Kenia Jackeline Merlos, her 9-year-old triplets, and 7-year-old son have been locked in an ICE concentration camp since June 28. ICE rules state that detained people must be released after 72 hours, but for some reason, this family has been in prison for a fortnight for...what, exactly, is unclear. ICE claims that Merlos was “attempting to smuggle illegal aliens into the U.S. on June 28," but no charges have been filed and no court documents have been submitted.

"A black hole:" Attorneys say they still can’t reach clients in Alligator Alcatraz
It turns out that giving Trump his alligator moat was not the only reason they built their concentration camp in the swamp. It's because ICE wanted a black site where they could disappear people and lose them outside the system. The detainees at Alligator Alcatraz don't show up in any of the usual databases. Lawyers say it’s not even clear where to file legal briefs due to muddiness about whether detainees are in the custody of the state or federal government, which has claimed the DeSantis administration has final say on who is brought to the site. Lawyers are having trouble finding phone numbers and emails associated with the site — at least ones that lead to responses. “I’ve called, I’ve emailed everybody and their grandmother and their grandmother’s sister. Nobody emails you back and nobody calls you back." The stories of Thomas, Kenia, and this new reporting together paint a picture of a fascistic police force that is merging the two carceral states — criminal and immigrant — and creating a liminal space of dystopian terror in which people are deliberately cast without rhyme or reason and ripping away any sense of security one might have from order and regulation and replacing it all with capricious, arbitrary sadism. And these monsters just got $40 billion.

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Donald Trump says those interested in Jeffrey Epstein inquiry are "bad people"
An increasingly desperate Trump, feeling control of the Epstein narrative slip away thanks to his own team's laughably poor decisions, has resorted to his usual method of damage control: bullying. “I don’t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday night when asked why his supporters are so interested in the case. “It’s pretty boring stuff. It’s sordid, but it’s boring, and I don’t understand why it keeps going. I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going." Yeah, Trump, hard to figure out why anyone would find it interesting after your entire political movement publicly fanned the flames of conspiracy until abruptly stopping a few days ago at your direction. But Trump is so used to getting his way, it's clear he doesn't understand that every time he kicks away, he only sinks deeper into a mire of his own creation.

Court nixes leaving medical debt off credit reports
A federal judge in Texas vacated a Biden-era rule that would have removed medical debt from consumers' credit reports, agreeing with Trump administration and credit industry arguments that the policy exceeded regulators' authority. The rule, finalized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in January, would have wiped an estimated $49 billion from some 15 million Americans' credit reports and prevented lenders from using medical information in their decisions. Welcome to the law in Trump's America, where good things are illegal.

CNN correspondent crew attacked by Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank
CNN Jerusalem Correspondent Jeremy Diamond has reported that Israeli settlers attacked the car that he and his crew were traveling in as they visited the West Bank on assignment over the weekend. The experienced journalist, who was previously the White House Correspondent for CNN, and his crew were making their way to the Palestinian town of Sinjil to report on the circumstances around the death on July 11 of U.S. citizen Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat. The 20-year-old Florida native was visiting family in Sinjil who allege that the young man was beaten by Israeli settlers who then blocked ambulances from reaching the area where he lay dying from his wounds. “As we were covering this story, my team & I were attacked by Israeli settlers. The back window of our vehicle was smashed, but we managed to escape unharmed,” wrote Diamond in a post on X, accompanied by an image of the damaged car late Monday. “This is just a sliver of the reality many Palestinians face in the West Bank amid rising settler violence.”

The White House has a plan for all that foreign food aid that DOGE cut: burn it
"Take food out of the mouths of hungry kids and then pay hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to burn it" is about as perfect a represtentation of the entire conservative movement as you could possibly find.