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“You actually gave Dr. Fauci a presidential commendation before you left office.” TRUMP: “Uhhh… I don’t know who gave him the commendation.” 🤷🏼

8 years ago.

The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.

ICYMI: Jay Clayton is now the head of the U.S. intelligence community — a position that’s become central to Trump’s efforts to undermine U.S. elections. Clayton has no known intelligence background and has repeatedly declined to clearly state who won the 2020 election. https://demdock.com/3RhY8Xi

BREAKING: In 2019, SDNY prosecutors persuaded New Mexico’s AG to shut down his Epstein investigation by promising to share evidence of state crimes. Two weeks ago, SDNY U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton broke that promise. Today, he was confirmed as Director of National Intelligence.

give these men complimentary tickets immediately

Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith@mewefree.bsky.social · 3w ago

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

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: ...

Once again, Hegseth and Trump are resegregating the military along racial and sexual lines. It’s disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions

For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.

nytimes.com

Rod Stewart pays tribute to his friend Bonnie Tyler who died today at 75.

BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.

Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midterms

The dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms.

nbcnews.com

NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport

There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.

newrepublic.com

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

"As the Declaration of Independence tells us, we are all made in the image of one almighty god," says Trump. That's not true. It doesn't say that. It says "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights."

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

We fully exited the depression in 1941 when we entered WWII.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump: "I never want to be Herbert Hoover -- the president that probably took us into the Great Depression ... it took us 30 years to get out of it. FDR didn't get us out of it."

When oligarchs talk of “personal liberties and free markets” they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful. When oligarchs speak of “freedom,” what they actually seek is freedom from accountability. Know the truth.

"We have to decide if we want to just win symbolic victories, or if we actually want to make permanent, meaningful change. If it’s the latter, then inherently, that requires us to reform and expand the Supreme Court." Full video: youtu.be/f9ZvU1CT9T0

Ossoff: "The president was so humiliated in Hormuz he threw his toys out the stroller & refused to sign the affordable housing bill. That's after he gave some felon donor a no bid contract for the reflecting pool & it filled up with algae, which for some reason required the deployment of the Guard."

"We should not be telling our kids they are nothing... and replacing their own cognition, their own joy, with trash" No "A.i" in the schools. From at the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social rally with @comixaction.com at City Hall. h/t AMNY - full clip here: www.instagram.com/p/DZ_BLWRlT5H/

The founders, in the Treaty of Tripoli -- begun under Washington, signed by Adams, ratified by a Senate filled with other crafters of the Constitution -- said "the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." Tom Emmer is a dumb-as-dirt bigot.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Tom Emmer: "The founders created a Christian-based nation"

The Secretary of Defense is actively undermining national security

Michael Derby@michaelsderby.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hegseth drives out another highly regarded general: "A West Point graduate and a career special operations commander, Donahue commanded Delta Force units in Iraq and Afghanistan before leading the 82nd Airborne division from July 2020 to March 2022." Via NBC

Ossoff: Because in our time, what those who build ballrooms and monuments to themselves, who rake in billions through foreign princes while the people's savings vanish, along with their hospitals, what they hate the most is when the people try to hold them accountable at the polls.

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were finally informed of their freedom. This monumental news came two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation and effectively marked the end of slavery in the United States. #juneteenth

HAINES: I can tell my kids why it's important to have borders. It's much harder to explain when someone is dragged out of a house who isnt a violent criminal NAVARRO: I would urge you as a Christian & father to visit detention centers where kids are being held VANCE: I see we have 30 seconds left

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

The Dept of Interior claims that the algae in the reflecting pool is left over from rarely used pipes No. Painting the pool dark blue means that it absorbs heat much faster than if it were a light color. Warmer = faster algae growth That's why you don't see black swimming pools Science!

The fact that Elon Musk is now one of history’s greatest mass-murderers, due to his total destruction of USAID, is still far too little-known. It’s on all of us to shout this from the rooftops. Never shut up about Elon Musk’s genocidal crimes.

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation