Scott B.

Billionaires, now is the time to step up and prove your *real* worth.

In Dayton, Ohio, vacant positions for purchasing agents resulted in delays in acquiring hundreds of prosthetics, according to an internal VA report from May. Kasperowicz said the hospital has recently cut processing time for such orders by more than half.

Prez Trump has said, "We love our veterans. We're going to take good care of them."

We got internal docs showing VA cuts & chaos have doctors and others to flee.

In one hospital, lack of staff has led to delays in acquiring *hundreds of prosthetics.*

www.propublica.org/article/vete...

James Lovell, astronaut who commanded the Apollo 13 moon mission that nearly ended in disaster, has died. He was 97.

I did not realize that Portugal and Italy had leishmania. Given climate change we probably need to consider the possibility that diseases that we aren’t familiar with in N America will start extending their ranges, and we may start seeing them here…

Wonder how sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh and sexual predator Clarence Thomas will vote on the fate of sexual predator Ghislaine Maxwell.

Editorial: DeSantis’ dishonest aggression, suspension threat hits Orange County Let’s get one thing straight. Last week’s threat by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier — to suspend all seven members of the Orange County Commission if they didn’t sign off …

Editorial: Last week’s threat by #Florida AG James "Oopsie!" Uthmeier to suspend all 7 members of the Orange County Commission was outrageously out of line, a lawless disgrace based on a wobbling pile of half-truths and outright lies. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/01/e... via @orlandosentinel.com

Drowned out: While Texans beg for help, the GOP redraws the map to cheat.

The purpose of the special session wasn’t about flood relief. It was about stealing elections.

Let me make it plain: Over 100 dead. Flood victims plead for help. Republicans were busy rigging maps for Trump.

Whether it's threatening to slit the throats of federal workers, promoting extrajudicial killings at the border, throwing Fauci across the Potomac or kicking Democrats in the teeth, the DeSantis administration continues to advance a violent imagery in their politics.

It's not healthy.

For anyone.

DeSantis: FHP arrests 3,000 in immigration crackdown, plans new strike team Florida Highway Patrol troopers have "apprehended almost 3,000" immigrants this year, and the agency announced a new strike team to increase arrests.

Popular opinion has turned against the GOP's widespread and indiscriminate crackdown on immigration, so of COURSE #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous is promising to ramp up arrests with an FHP strike team. www.floridatoday.com/story/news/l...

TRUMP HAD A 15 YEAR OLD GIRL WORKING IN AN ADULT SPA
MASSAGING ADULT MEN

‘STOLEN’ BY EPSTEIN
TO MASSAGE ADULT MEN -AND HAVE SEX WITH THEM

@cnn-news.bsky.social
@pbsnews.org @rollingstone.bsky.social @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social

YouTube video by Democracy Docket Are We Doing Everything We Can to Save Democracy?

NEW VIDEO: As the DOJ is collecting sensitive voter data around the country and the GOP ups the stakes with their gerrymandering efforts in Texas, I am concerned what is going on is being overlooked.

I lay out my concern and what we need to do now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2E3...

There's a Major Publishing Slowdown at CDC's Flagship Journal Each MMWR article now requires clearance by the HHS secretary, sources said

A story I wish I'd written: What the heck's up with #MMWR? So little being published there these days. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas. His lawyer says authorities won’t give a reason.

Tae Heung Kim, 40:
- Lived in US since he was 5
- Has green card
- Getting PhD at Texas A&M
- Researching vaccine for Lyme disease
- Has 1 minor pot charge from 2011, since sealed

Also: Detained incommunicado by DHS after returning from wedding in Korea

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

‘1984’ is upon us

If you think cutting $1 trillion from medicaid won’t cost people insurance and make things more expensive you don’t understand how things work

Nashville Banner: Pregnant Mother in Tennessee Denied Care for Being Unmarried

Forget about what year it is. What century is it?

nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d...

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.

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Rep. Jim Jordan may be deposed over OSU sex abuse scandal The Ohio Republican could be deposed as soon as Friday

Jim Jordan set to be deposed today over the OSU sex scandal. Wrestlers claimed they told Jordan about the genital exams Dr. Strauss was performing on them and he shrugged it off.
He called one wrestlers brother and begged him to lie.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Trump and Noem with a big FU to the “bad and evil” people who lost loved ones in the Texas flooding

Graphic discussing how drastic cuts to the National Weather Service are largely to blame for the loss of life in the deadly Texas flooding.

#ResistanceUnited

Repubs are whining that Democrats are "politicizing" the deadly flooding in Texas by blaming drastic cuts to the National Weather Service for the loss of life.

If this happened on a Democrat's watch, they'd be calling for investigations and impeaching half the administration.

Could it have something to do with the lavishly funded, meticulously planned, deliberate, persistent campaign of disinformation waged against science by far right figures who announced their intentions, which was abetted by centrist media platforming it uncritically in the name of “objectivity?”

If only there was someone who could predict something like this?

I don't know what else to say about the Trump regime other than they have grown more confident they can performatively fabricate and lie with impunity and get away with it.

They've become authoritarians - all of them - for they've come to believe in their own power to determine what is true.

USAID didn’t fail. It fed 127,000 kids—then was erased mid-crisis. No speech. No tribute. Just silence. They didn’t end a program. They liquidated a covenant. The last American promise not built on conquest—but care.
🔗 thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com

They just gave ICE a budget bigger than most of the world’s militaries.

Instead of investing in housing, jobs, or health care, they’re funding fear — tearing families apart in our neighborhoods.

These raids must end.

Lightning sets off Sanford fireworks early, but rest of city’s event still on tap The planned Sanford fireworks display Friday night for the Fourth of July was canceled after city officials said a lightning strike triggered them going off ahead of schedule.

Oh, #Florida! "The planned Sanford fireworks display Friday night for the Fourth of July was canceled after city officials said a lightning strike triggered them going off ahead of schedule." www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/07/04/l... via @orlandosentinel.com

Waiting for the legacy media to demand Trump apologize for his antisemitic slur…

🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

Ahead of Independence Day, I spoke with Erin Smith.

Smith's husband died by suicide days after responding to Jan 6

About Trump pardons: "It was like a punch in the gut. Not just for me, but for every officer, from the Capitol Police, DC Police & the other departments that responded that day"

*Republicans* did this. Republicans.