NEW: President Trump suffered a pair of embarrassments when he got bad headlines over the botched Reflecting Pool and new Air Force One And in both cases, an angry Trump lashed out - and his government took extraordinary steps to punish those he blamed www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Once-Shameless President Is Deeply Embarrassed
As Donald Trump faces one humiliation after another, he is attacking those he blames.
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Lumber has now dropped for 10 straight days, its longest losing streak since December 2024 🚨 🚨 Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 📉 📉
A long-rumored Trump administration plan to repurpose a private prison in rural western Minnesota for use as a detention center for undocumented immigrants has come to fruition.
It’s official: A dormant prison in rural Minnesota will become an ICE detention center
A long-rumored Trump administration plan to repurpose a private prison in rural western Minnesota for use as a detention center for undocumented immigrants has come to fruition.
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Update: “President Javier Milei’s latest push to lure private [tech] investment to Argentina suffered a setback Wednesday as lawmakers watered down,” but did not eliminate, apparently Thiel-aligned “legislation to ease limits on foreign land ownership in response to fierce backlash.” 8/5/26… 1/
Milei Guts Bill to Ease Property Laws in Face of Public Uproar
President Javier Milei’s latest push to lure private investment to Argentina suffered a setback Wednesday as lawmakers watered down legislation to ease limits on foreign land ownership in response to ...
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El-Sayed: "We've been talking about an illegal apartheid regime for a very very long time, and that supersedes Netanyahu itself. So I just think we need to treat Israel the way we would treat any other country that behaved the way Israel is behaving."
Dr Oz: "The reality is all these grifters have come because we invited them into the federal government to steal our money"
Breaking: CoreCivic has announced they've sold the 1,600 bed Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minn., to the U.S. through the Department of Homeland Security for $495.6 million. CoreCivic will still manage the facility, which is expected to start receiving ICE detainees this fall.
So that’ll be nearly $1 billion between sale and operations for 1600 beds.
Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · 4h agoBreaking: CoreCivic has announced they've sold the 1,600 bed Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minn., to the U.S. through the Department of Homeland Security for $495.6 million. CoreCivic will still manage the facility, which is expected to start receiving ICE detainees this fall.
youtu.be/-SrAoL3OtQg?... Seriously if the ballroom ever actually gets built it will be trash too, because it’s all just one big money laundering scheme
Trump Goes MAD and Destroys EVERYTHING
YouTube video by Adam Mockler
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Lively and no punches pulled here. Also, for a change, pretty darned optimistic...
The DSR Network@thedsrnetwork.bsky.social · 2h agoProgressives across America just keep winning. @wajali.bsky.social joins @djrothkopf.bsky.social to celebrate these victories and forecast what progressives and Democrats should do to keep the momentum going into November and beyond. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... youtu.be/KJmjYxbS3QU
El-Sayed on Rogers: "What he's missing is that politics has changed since 2000 when he got in office. Now, it's not enough to just get $70m & run 30 second ads. You actually have to stand for something, & this is a guy who doesn't want to explain why he's backing Trump on the most ridiculous war..."
El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
New Mexico sued the U.S. Justice Department, accusing federal officials of stonewalling the state’s criminal investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein on.wsj.com/4c4M0jj
New Mexico Attorney General Sues DOJ for Access to Epstein Files
A lawsuit accuses the Justice Department and Todd Blanche of stonewalling the state’s investigation into activities at Zorro Ranch.
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Heads up. Milei introduced his Thiel-aligned “Super RIGI bill” in an op-ed, “opening with “praise for the Dutch East India Company.” As noted by others, the Dutch East India Company was granted a “commercial monopoly, its own army, currency & legal system, & the power to declare war.” 7/31/26 … 1/
Scientists have captured images of the sun’s surface in the finest detail yet, revealing a strange and dynamic facade.
New images of the sun show its surface in the finest detail yet
Scientists have captured images of the sun’s surface in the finest detail yet. Researchers were able to peek with the help of a telescope on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
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watching the candidate forum for the US Senate seat currently held by Tina Smith and it's incredible how Royce White's response to every question is to spout insane conspiracy theories about transgender people and the uniparty. This guy was the GOP's nominee for a Senate seat two years ago!
Royce White is now ranting about "transgender sex dolls" during a forum that is supposed to be about agricultural issues. This guy is a serious Republican in Minnesota who had the party's nomination for a Senate seat two years ago. Insanity.
Ukraine is moving to establish a National Pantheon to honor generations of people who defended, built, and shaped the nation.
Ukraine wants a National Pantheon to honor its heroes. Now it has to decide who belongs there
Ukraine is moving to establish a National Pantheon to honor generations of people who defended, built, and shaped the nation. The effort comes after years of Russian attacks that have damaged churche...
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Missouri Republicans Count on Foot Dragging to Help Jam Through Gerrymander talkingpointsmemo.com/news/missour...
Missouri Republicans Count on Foot Dragging to Help Jam Through Gerrymander
Missouri Republicans have been transparent about their strategy to drag out the...
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Lesson from Michigan primary: Democrats don't have an identity crisis, they have a leadership crisis. My new video breaks it down: youtu.be/6Jon_4pmtEY
Lesson from Michigan primary: Democrats don't have an identity crisis, they have a leadership crisis
YouTube video by The Dean Obeidallah Show
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Google will face an estimated £5 billion ($7 billion) opt-out class action over allegations it inflated search advertising prices, as the Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled that the case can proceed on behalf of almost 900,000 U.K. advertisers.
Google £5B Search Ads Class Action Gets Green Light - Law360
Google will face an estimated £5 billion ($7 billion) opt-out class action over allegations it inflated search advertising prices, as the Competition Appeal Tribunal ruled Wednesday that the case can proceed on behalf of almost 900,000 U.K. advertisers.
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Most republicans just need to see an old white man with a tie and snazzy toupee to believe him. They don’t need to hear any words.
“The Reflecting Pool mess is different from other Trump obsessions because it reveals just how immune to evidence and logic his beliefs have become, even when a trusted lieutenant wheels an entire box of supporting evidence into the Oval Office.”
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 7h agoTrump’s outburst over the Reflecting Pool is a sign of dangerous dysfunction in the Oval Office, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/OMivBxpl
