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Exclusive | White House to Vet Smithsonian Museums to Fit Trump’s Historical Vision Top White House officials will scrutinize exhibitions, internal processes, collections and artist grants ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.

BREAKING WSJ:

The Trump White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America's 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with "Trump's interpretation of American history." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Illinois Gov. Pritzker to NBC:

"Governor Abbott is the joke. … He's literally helping whittle [democracy] away and licking the boots of his leader, Donald Trump."

"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."

Trump has parked tanks on the National Mall. The National Mall area has virtually no crime. This is how we know it is all for the cameras. He’s not targeting areas in the city with high rates of crime. He wants the strongman photo op. That’s it.

NEW: CPI Inflation rose to 2.7% year-on-year, increasing 0.2% month-on-month

Core CPI inflation rose 3.1% year-on-year, growing 0.3% month-on-month

Trump nominates Heritage Foundation economist as labor statistics chief EJ Antoni, longtime critic of Bureau of Labor Statistics, nominated to replace Erika McEntarfer, who Trump fired

With Trump’s nomination of Project 2025 contributor and Heritage Foundation’s chief economist EJ Antoni to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), expect politicized jobs reports information to become the norm.

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

Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."

Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office. 

Agreed--his supporters are not good human beings in any way, shape, or form.

An explanation of Trump’s DC takeover: though crime in the city is at a 30-year low, interest in the Epstein Files is at a 30-year high

Saw a woman today with a t-shirt that said "Faith, Family, Freedom" and wanted to tell her that the shirt was missing "Fascism."

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

Trump orders homeless he passed en route to golf course to leave Washington DC President demands unhoused residents leave US capital or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrests

Here’s a great article on the racist, fascist, anti-American madness and violence Trump is about to unleash in a city with *plummeting* crime rates and *no* epidemic of unhoused persons.

This is thinly veiled martial law, and we Americans will not accept it.

Hochul: "This is what I call a legal insurrection ... they know they're going to lose next year. That's the only reason they're engaged in this. It also might be a nice distraction from people asking -- all of the sudden this happens when? When they refuse to release the Epstein files."

Watching Trump flail about these past weeks over the Epstein files, I can't help but be reminded of Fitzgerald's observation from The Great Gatsby: "There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind...."

Epstein's former butler says Trump offered Epstein a job in his first admin. He also says he doesn't believe Epstein killed himself, and that he's now afraid for his own life because of the supposed suicides of Jean-Luc Brunel and Virginia Giuffre.

Michael Wolff says he urged Epstein to release information he had on Trump, but Epstein appeared worried about what Trump would do to him.

“He said, ‘I may be a pervert, but I’m not crazy.’ He then said, ‘Trump is a man without any scruples.’”

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

He never thought the world would have people as stupid as those in MAGA.

5 things Trump did this week:

1. Threatened to take over DC

2. Ordered unconstitutional census

3. Called his Epstein files scandal “bullshit”

4. Got roasted by South Park again

5. Went on another taxpayer-funded golf trip

Just curious as to how many Americans have taken seven vacations this year?

When is Trump going to lower grocery prices like he campaigned on?

This is MAGA's America: Family nay, Pedophilia yea.

“Diddler on the Roof”—I tip my hat.

Millionaire trophy hunter gored to death by 1.3 tonne bull on African safari Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking a 1.3 tonne Cape Buffalo bull, known as the Black Death, on Sunday when it suddenly charged at him at 35mph.

Millionaire American trophy hunter Asher Watkins, 52, was gored to death on the horns of a buffalo he tried to kill on a trip to South Africa.

Terminating the union contracts of 400,000 workers at the VA, many of whom are veterans themselves, is union-busting, plain and simple.

VA Secretary Doug Collins: taking away your workers’ union contracts isn’t putting veterans first—it’s putting them at risk.

Trump announces meeting with Putin to be held in Alaska Posting on Truth Social, President Trump stated that he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15 to discuss a new ceasefire agreement for Ukraine.

The United States is hosting Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15.

If we had a real president, he would not be coming because a real president would arrest him and send him to answer for his war crimes.

I miss when we had a president who wasn't Russia's stooge.

www.nbcnews.com/now/video/tr...

"Sorry, I couldn’t make it to the White House; I had an appointment with my dignity." - Imaginary Republican

Absolutely pathetic.

Look--up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's...Superlame!

Remember when Vice President Harris bought a few quality cooking items at a French cookery store with her own money and legacy media melted down?

J.D. Vance literally used the Army Corps of Engineers to manipulate a public waterway, so he’d have an easier time kayaking and it’s a blip on the radar.