Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.

Russian attacks on the Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia killed 10 people and injured dozens on Monday, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arrived in Washington, D.C., to discuss a possible path to peace with Moscow. nyti.ms/3JCbitG

Scene is two people and four horsemen of the apocalypse in coloured robes instead of the dark ones. Instead of the normal "death, famine, pestilence" etc, they have banners saying "Hope", "Justice", "Empathy" and "Just basically not being a dick" Horseman 1 is saying to the two people "THe whole apocalypse thing got too depressing so we've reinvented ourselves as the Four Horsemen of Working Together to Get Us All Out of the Mess We're in"

ICYMI- Horses Changing Courses- yesterday's cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com

A major determiner of when and whether Xi Jinping eventually thinks, "OK, *today* is the day it's finally worth the risk of invading Taiwan," is when and whether US cuts Ukraine loose.

Surely Marco R "knows" that. And that it would affect "life in America on a daily basis, and around the world."

One quarter of Israelis protested.

Important.

1. You may have noticed something. I used to talk about the president’s dementia pretty regularly, but haven’t in months. That’s because I’ve lost faith. I used to believe the Washington press corps would see the plainly obvious. I no longer believe that. The hypocrisy is too baked in.

NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.

Please take care when watching.

Aside from everything else, they’re pissing our tax dollars away on dragging National Guard troops away from their lives to participate in a stunt while they’re defunding food programs for kids and cancer research.

This is how everyone should treat this masked thugs!! ‘This is cowboy country and we don’t get down with that bullshit!…You got two options you can get the fuck off my property or we can get down.’ Bravo, sir‼️💥🔥💥

Not capitalism

What did you say the other day? Incandescent? Yes. That. 😡

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Whoa! Corey Lewandowski's business associate was awarded a total of $27M in DHS contracts since Feb 2025.

Knowledge is power, y’all — especially when it comes your healthcare rights! 💪
#HealthcareRights #Empowerment #JusticeByDesign

To put it more starkly, the president just fired the head of the IRS because he refused to break the law.

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

Hundreds and hundreds of kids...

The U.S. posted the worst jobs report since 2020, so Trump fired the head of labor statistics

Hiring someone to TELL us the job numbers are good, doesn’t MAKE them good. It just makes us unable to manage reality.

📌There are five times as many cases of measles as there were this time last year. In any other country, this would be looked on as an abject failure to protect people, and a crisis of leadership.
Here, it's just called a bad case of MAGA.

There is still beauty in the world. fb.watch/BfPHGNmqRR/?...

i'm crying laughing. she's literally never seen the word before.

Economy Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Fires That Agency’s Commissioner Hours after data showed cracks in the U.S. economy, President Trump said without evidence that Erika McEntarfer “rigged” the data “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.”

Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over a bad jobs report undermines government integrity and sends a chilling message to federal employees: tell POTUS what he wants to hear or else.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

It's wild watching someone else maybe blackmailing Trump. From prison no less.

And when (because I'm increasingly convinced we're in a when, not if situation) Trump pardons Maxwell, it might actually be enough to break the MAGA coalition permanently. Emphasis on *might.*

A Pregnant Texas Teen Died Under Texas’ Fetal Heartbeat Law It took three ER visits before a hospital admitted pregnant teen Nevaeh Crain, one of at least two Texas women to die under the state’s abortion ban.

At her second ER visit, Nevaeh Crain screened positive for sepsis, a life-threatening and fast-moving reaction to an infection, medical records show. But doctors said her six-month fetus had a heartbeat and that Crain was fine to leave.

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EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...