Jacob Pratt

the Elizabeth Warren CNBC hit that triggered Trump: "Trump ran for office saying he'd lower costs on day 1. Cost of groceries are up, cost of housing is up, healthcare is up. And where is Trump? He's passing a signature bill to throw people off healthcare so he can do tax cuts for billionaires."

While I’m grateful for he and his family stepping up in this way, I must reiterate that democracy SHOULD NOT BE A BATTLE OF THE BILLIONAIRES!

It actually goes back to the ancient Greeks!

Texas House Democrats offer a brief response to Gov. Greg Abbott's threat of arrest and expulsion: "Come and take it."

I was referring to Israel's claim that this war is, in its entirety, self defense.

As a reminder, under international law self defense is required to be proportional.

Aerial shot of Gaza City, burned and bombed into burned and shattered, unliveable wreckage as far as can be seen.

Whole area that used to be houses, shops, public transport routes, made into rubble and blackened, unliveable ruins. Aerial shot shows vast area entirely obliterated as habitable, attacked again and again by Israeli forces.

Several wrecked Gaza schools, shown from the air, pulverised by Israel's forces: windows all gaping, bombed out and covered in ash and dust. Some people are trying to live in makeshift camps amid the destruction, in former quadrangles and bomb sites.

Aerial shots of neighbourhoods with destroyed apartment buildings, houses, offices and shops, all bombed by Israel's government. Starving people are trying to live in tents and makeshift cubbies on the former roundabouts on a main road.

This what Israel has done to Gaza. Forbidden pics by a Washington Post photographer whose Jordanian air crew didn't pass on Israel's order to only photograph aid being dropped. City, suburbs, schools, people: bombed to rubble. People being starved in makeshift camps on road roundabouts. #Genocide

Plume of smoke rises from a volcano

The Krasheninnikov volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, has erupted for the first time in 600 years.

It’s linked to the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the area a few days ago.

Me three months ago:

Worth pointing out that this is only possible because the “textualists” on the Supreme Court don’t like the text of Section 5 of the 14th Amendment or Section 2 of the 15th Amendment and so they just choose to act like those clauses don’t exist.

In Ada County, Idaho, 27,000 acres are burning after explosive ordnance disposal teams detonated an unexploded device upon request. Strong winds spread the fire.

Good morning glorious citizens of America! I bring to you great employment news from President Donald Trump!! Thanks to the glory of his leadership, our unemployment is down to -1,500% and jobs are UP BY ONE TRILLION!!! All hail emperor for life!!

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down after losing funding from the Trump- and GOP-supported recissions package, "despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB."

CORDER LIST: 606 U.S.) FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025 24-109 24-110 ORDER IN PENDING CASES LOUISIANA V. CALLAIS, PHILLIP, ET AL. ROBINSON, PRESS, ET AL. V. CALLAIS, PHILLIP, ET AL. The parties are directed to file supplemental briefs addressing the following question raised on pages 36-38 of the Brief for Appellees: Whether the State's intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution. Supplemental briefs for appellants are due on or before Wednesday, August 27, 2025. Supplemental brief for appellees is due on or before Wednesday, September 17, 2025. Reply briefs are due on or before 2 p.m., Friday, October 3, 2025. The time to file amicus curiae briefs is as provided for by this Court's Rule 37.3. Word limits and cover colors for the briefs should correspond to the provisions of this Court's Rule 33.1(g) pertaining to briefs on the merits rather than to the provision pertaining to supplemental

😬The Supreme Court will consider whether the intentional creation of a majority-minority congressional district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments.

If the answer is yes, SCOTUS will effectively declare that what remains of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This is very, very ominous.

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....

Breaking Bloomberg:

The FBI redacted Trump's name in the Epstein files.

"An FBI [Freedom of Information Act] team redacted Trump's name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the documents, according to three people familiar with the matter."
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

lol

Judge Coughenour continued:

“Looking back at what happened in Germany, my good friend Judge Lasnik said, ‘Where were the judges? Where were the lawyers?’”

“We need a call to action in this country from our lawyers and our judges to say ‘not in our country, not on our watch,’” he said.

'Worst-case scenario of famine' is happening in Gaza, food crisis experts say The leading international authority on food crises said in a new alert that the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” and “widespread death” will occur without immediate action.

BREAKING: Food crisis experts say the 'worst case scenario of famine' is happening in Gaza.

Worst-case scenario of famine unfolding in Gaza, UN-backed food security body says - live updates The IPC does not declare famine in Gaza but says there is

Morning Bluesky.

Official recognition that a worst-case famine is happening in GAZA. The UN-backed monitor the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative says: air drops over Gaza will not avert the “humanitarian catastrophe” unfolding across the territory.

Remember that the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli leaders for using starvation as a method of warfare. That was in eight months ago. The situation significantly deteriorated in the meantime, leading to the declaration of "worst case" of famine today.

Prisoners’ Phone Calls Will Soon Be Free in New York State

New York is about to make all prison phone calls free. This move will make it easier for the state’s over 30,000 prisoners to stay connected to loved ones, saving them over $13 million a year. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...

What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.

NYT reports that a mysterious, *$984 million* transfer from a Pentagon"black box" account might be paying for the renovation of Trump's "free" Qatari jet.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

“Nearly a third of Gazans had not eaten for several days, the U.N.’s World Food Program said this week.”

Phillip: He denied being briefed on the files, which he was.

He denied knowing Prince Andrew, despite pictures of them together, including at mar-a-lago.

And he denied being on Epstein's plane when he had many times.

The British trade deal wasn't what they said it was, the Vietnamese are still yet to confirm Trump's announcement, and the Japanese say they're not signing a binding agreement. The White House has released the text of ZERO (0) deals, and maybe it's all just social media posts all the way down.

Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans In early July, the top official at the U.S. embassy in South Africa reached out to Washington asking for clarification on a contentious U.S. policy: could non-whites apply for a refugee program geared toward white South Africans if they met other requirements?

this is an explicitly white nationalist administration in a way that even woodrow wilson shied away from www.reuters.com/world/africa...

People are once again forced to be displaced in #Gaza by Israeli Authorities orders.

They have nowhere to go.

🚫 No one is safe in Gaza.
🚫 No place is safe in Gaza.
🚫 Not aid workers, not medical workers, not UN staff.

Over 650 days of relentless killings, destruction, and despair.

#CeasefireNow

Cracks widen in Japan and US’s interpretation of tariff trade deal Tokyo officials contest Washington’s claim that American investors assured of vast share of profits from joint investment

“.. Japanese officials said there was no written agreement with Washington — and no legally binding one would be drawn up.”

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/c118...

In the not-so-distant future, Israel will have to reckon with its war crimes in Gaza | Opinion ***

If you believe all human beings are created b’tzelem Elohim, in God’s image, then you must speak up now against the daily atrocities in Gaza.

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...