Tom Digby

Luxurious UK manor JD Vance is set to stay in during family visit The Cotswolds, often dubbed 'the Hamptons of England,' are swarming with anticipation and security agents as Vice President JD Vance's luxurious summer plans begin in the UK.

Add the pricey English manor to the growing list of Vance vacations: skiing in Vermont, sightseeing in Rome, a family trip to Disneyland, and a kayaking outing where he had the military raise the river’s water level just for him.
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The wire transfer claim has been widely debunked

Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!

Front Page of the Day:

He will not be deterred.

#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

Mike Johnson hit with new accusation showing ‘clear-cut violation’ of federal law House Speaker Mike Johnson has been accused of using campaign money to pay his rent in what the government watchdog group Campaign Legal Center described as a “clear-cut violation of federal campaign ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has been accused of using campaign money to pay his rent in what the government watchdog group Campaign Legal Center described as a “clear-cut violation of federal campaign finance laws,” newly filed complaints allege.

www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...

What Trump most admires about the President of Azerbaijan: (1) he's president for life; (2) he arrived in office succeeding his father through the model of dynastic succession; (3) he's rich as Croesus, seeing no distinction between what belongs to his country and what belongs to him, personally.

New executive order puts all grants under political control All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.

Welcome to the Soviet Union

Trump tells his staff that the deal is this: Ukraine cedes a third of its territory to Russia; Russia gives up nothing whatsoever. Indeed, it gets more territory than it currently occupies.

Prediction: Trump meeting with Putin will reveal yet again that our president is a Kremlin errand boy. All his tough talk will TACO into nothing. And he will come out offering a peace plan that was dictated by Vlad. You won’t have to wait long to see if I’m right.

This mass gutting of the FBI is going on all over the country. FBI agents are being fired for not swearing the Führereid of loyalty to Trump. And nearly all of the people who are being fired are Republicans, too. Yet US media is largely ignoring everything that is going on.

I guess he can just keep firing people until the only person left is Laura Loomer?

I guess he can just keep firing people until the only person left is Laura Loomer?

I counted.

In this clip of less than 3 minutes, Trump lies 19 times.

I got a motor vehicle tax bill for $513. I'm demanding that the tax collector be fired and replaced with one who will make my tax bill $320.

Am I doing this right?

The craziest thing about Trump being convicted of 34 felony counts of fraud is that Trump is in the Epstein files.

The craziest thing about Trump cheating at golf is that Trump is in the Epstein files.

How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.

NASA once projected America’s loftiest ideals, Franklin Foer writes. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk: theatln.tc/yCNTdzVN

Autocrats don't allow bad news about the effects of their actions

Autocrats don't allow bad news about the effects of their actions

Trump wasn’t always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change? STAT asked experts to compare Trump's speech from decades ago to that in 2017. All noticed deterioration, which may signal changes in Trump's brain health.

Trump's slide into senile dementia accelerates: Comparing “Trump’s speech from decades ago to that in 2017; experts in neurolinguistics and cognitive assessment all agreed there had been a deterioration.” This “could reflect changes in the health of Trump’s brain.”

This article by a Republican is essential reading for all Republicans (and everyone else).

“.. a week that bore many authoritarian hallmarks — purging dissenters, rewriting history, criminalizing opposition and demanding total institutional loyalty .. Vast swaths of society are falling in line ..”

@axios.com
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Shingles vaccination rates rose during the COVID-19 pandemic, but major gaps remain for underserved groups Gains in vaccination may reflect heightened public awareness of the importance of vaccination during the pandemic.

Are you 50 or over? Have you gotten the vaccine for shingles?

If not, I encourage you to do so soon. Shingles is a very painful & debilitating disease that can cause blindness if you get it on your face. My husband got such severe muscle cramps from it, he fell down the stairs.

No pay wall.

Trumpist violence toward destroying the independent judiciary

GIFT LINK:
wapo.st/3H9C4ZI

Mamdani: I would say that for the former governor to have spent an entire day speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very politics New Yorkers want to leave in the past.

It is time that Democrats not only match what Republicans are doing with gerrymandering, but exceed it. Every Democratic controlled state needs to be looking to redrawing their maps -- not to gain 5 seats like in TX, but cumulatively 15, 20 or 30 seats. We must use every tool available.

[Alternative interpretation: "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." Most people read "and many of them..." as being specific to Epstein, but it could refer to Trump himself too.]

If any truth, any truth about anything at all, no matter how trivial, comes out of the White House, it will be newsworthy

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Like everything else in Donald Trump's life, the deportations are a vicious scam. Innocent people being kidnapped, abused, and tortured, without any semblance of justification.

Venezuelan Men Sent to CECOT on What They Endured and Reuniting With Their Families www.propublica.org/article/vene...