Linda C Lawrence

Confusion over the Alaska summit shows Vladimir Putin still calls the shots Donald Trump rewarding the Kremlin’s hardline attitude shows Russia can still sideline Ukraine from deal to end war In the five months since Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy met at the Oval Office in late February, Ukrainian officials have worked hard to repair the damage of that day, which ended with the Ukrainian president being kicked out of the White House. With advice from European allies, Zelenskyy recalibrated his strategy for dealing with the Trump administration, and there was a feeling it was broadly going well. “We managed to reset communications, to find a new language to work with Trump,” said one senior official in Kyiv a week ago. Continue reading...

Confusion over the Alaska summit shows Vladimir Putin still calls the shots

FBI agents are not trained to patrol streets. And every agent that is assigned to do that is NOT investigating:

*foreign spies stealing gov’t and trade secrets
*foreign and domestic terrorist threats
*crimes like fraud, corruption, trafficking, and violent crimes (among others)

Do you feel safer?

Trump Delayed a Medicare Change After Health Company Donations

A biotech firm gave $5 million to a pro-Trump committee, securing a Mar-a-Lago dinner conversation to lobby Trump. Just a month later, the Trump administration gave the firm a lucrative change in Medicare policy. @kenvogel.bsky.social Sarah Kliff and Katie Thomas www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

Is DC crime ‘totally out of control,' as Trump said? What the numbers show President Donald Trump called D.C. crime “ridiculous” in remarks Wednesday in the Oval Office. He threatened to federalize the police department and even bring in National Guard troops. But Metropolit...

I live in the Washington, DC area. It is a beautiful city that keeps getting better. (Have you seen the bike paths?). There has been a major spike in federal crimes, but these all stem from Trump’s actions and are not captured in the crime data. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/i...

Violent Crime in D.C. Hits 30 Year Low Total violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) a...

January 2025:

District of Columbia | Violent Crime in D.C. Hits 30 Year Low | United States Department of Justice share.google/qwk7WBnoypTo...

To repeat: Israel is deliberately killing journalists after labeling them as "terrorists." Based solely on their being Arab / Palestinian. This is not just racist targeting. It's genocidal. Every single leader of that country needs to be dragged before the ICC. War criminals, the lot of them.

Israel claimed responsibility for killing five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif, in a strike on their media tent outside al-Shifa Hospital, bringing the total journalists killed to 237 since the war began.

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I want to urge you to make waves. I want to urge you to rock the boat. I want to urge you to get off your duff. I want vou to speak out at whatever cost if it comes from your heart. You're going to build this country in which my six grandchildren will grow up. And when you see what you have done, I hope that you are proud of it. Ann Richards

I agree, Carmen!

When Ann Richards was governor, we were a Blue State.

Lets swing Texas Blue 2026!

You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.

What a coincidence that he’s also deploying them to DC

The Week Ahead August 10, 2025

Tomorrow, Newsom v. Trump goes to trial in a California court with Trump’s power to deploy National Guard troops nationwide despite the Posse Comitatus Act at issue. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

FBI dispatching agents to D.C. streets as Trump weighs calling National Guard The unusual move comes as President Donald Trump threatens a federal takeover of the nation’s capital.

JOURNALISM PROFESSOR: So, you're going to mention that violent crime is way down in DC in the lede, right? First paragraph?

WASHINGTON POST EDITOR: Uh...

PROFESSOR: Okay, but the second paragraph, then?

VOICEOVER: In fact, it appeared in the 23rd paragraph.

BBC: “Al Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza city has been killed.”

I've had plenty of complaints about Hochul but whew dropping Epstein's name on Fox News is absolutely 100% something Democrats should be doing as often as possible.

A photo of Donald Trump opening his new golf course at his Trump International Golf links resort on July 29, 2025, in Balmedie, Scotland, overlaid with the headline, "Donald Trump Is Mostly a Crypto Billionaire Now, Group Says."

Nearly 73% of Trump’s wealth — $11.6 billion of an estimated $15.9 billion — comes from crypto holdings that he built at record pace by misusing his office, the group claims. bit.ly/3JegGmF

Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."

"More [white] babies, y'all" white supremacy got Kristi Noem a little carried away.

FBI moves to dispatch 120 agents to D.C. streets as Trump vows crackdown on crime The unusual move comes as President Donald Trump threatens a federal takeover of the nation’s capital.

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"In D.C., violent crime is down 26 percent compared with this time in 2024, according to D.C. police data. Homicides are down 12 percent."

FBI moves to dispatch 120 agents to D.C. streets as Trump vows crackdown on crime The unusual move comes as President Donald Trump threatens a federal takeover of the nation’s capital.

2/ Mission for FBI surge to DC (including distraction from Epstein etc):

Stated goal "to help local law enforcement prevent carjackings and violent crime in Washington."

Trump said "on Sunday that he plans to 'immediately clear out the city’s homeless population.'”

FBI moves to dispatch 120 agents to D.C. streets as Trump vows crackdown on crime The unusual move comes as President Donald Trump threatens a federal takeover of the nation’s capital.

This is happening after Kash Patel has been bragging that the FBI is laser focused on "tier one" threats like fentanyl and China and organizational priority is to fan out across the country instead of DC.

Think of where all these FBI agents are being drawn from.

never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

NY’s @GovKathyHochul: “All of a sudden this happens when they refuse to release the Epstein files. No one’s buying this… Texas, knock it off, and we ll knock it off. But we’re not gonna sit on the sidelines.”

Prominent Al Jazeera journalist killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Anas al-Sharif was killed while inside a tent for journalists outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City A prominent Al Jazeera journalist who had raised concerns about being killed has died in an Israeli airstrike. Anas al-Sharif, known for documenting the release of hostages and for removing his body armour after a ceasefire, was killed while inside a tent for journalists outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City along with three colleagues. Continue reading...

Prominent Al Jazeera journalist killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

Photo of a young, handsome smiling man with dark hair wearing a PRESS vest

Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAISharifo • Translated by Grok Relentless bombardment... For two hours, the Israeli aggression has intensified on Gaza City. [video of an missile exploding in the darkness]

@AnasAlSharifo A To Whom It May Concern, The occupation is now openly threatening a full-scale invasion of Gaza. For 22 months, the city has been bleeding under relentless bombardment from land, sea, and air. Tens of thousands have been killed, and hundreds of thousands wounded. If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people's voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop. Please share this message and tag everyone who has the power to help end this massacre. Silence is complicity.

⚠️ Israel killed prominent Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif in Gaza.

A tent housing journalists outside of Al-Shifa Hospital was targeted.

He was reporting until the moment of his death.

The final words of one of his last messages were a plea to people to speak out:

“Silence is complicity.”

Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US government Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration

Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US government on.ft.com/3JaXE0w

Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”?

You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.