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You may say I'm a dreamer 😎🤗

[Debx 🦋 @Debx1112]

Well I know what's right
I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin' me around
But I'll stand my ground

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Cyclosporiasis, the parasite causing the current explosive diarrhea outbreak, is at a level 20x higher than its yearly average.

This comes just 1 year after the Trump admin removed a cyclospora tracking mandate from the 'Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network.'

[CNN @CNN]

A member of a federal crime-fighting task force in Memphis shot and killed a person there on Wednesday, the second fatal shooting by a task force member in four days, and the fourth death involving the unit since it started in September. https://t.co/sxGclZdfGg

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE slam man's head against stone wall—send him to hospital with fractured skull.

Man's hands were already behind his back.

Agents then physically assault legal observers—soon as they realize they're caught on video.

Threaten to shoot witnesses with taser—even firing it up.

Agent holds taser sideways "gangster style"—is this proper training?

Man was taken to Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital.

Incident occurred outside the Kane County Judicial Center in the St. Charles suburb of Chicago, Illinois.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Read the timeline again slowly. A man who spent a decade risking his life alongside American Special Forces gets picked up by ICE while dropping his kids at school. He complains of chest pain that evening. By morning his tongue is swollen. Within an hour of that, he is dead.

Out of more than fifty deaths in ICE custody under this administration, his is the first ruled an accident. The death certificate has a date on it that predates his own arrest. The county will not release the autopsy that might explain that discrepancy, because ICE asked them not to. That is not how an accident gets investigated. That is how one gets managed.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Meijer: Jenny Racicot and Lyndsey Fifield both said this guy is a creep. Do not trust him.

Tanden: There are 13 women who said they were assaulted by Trump.

Meijer: We've been talking about Donald Trump for the past ten years.

Tanden: You do not get to throw stones at a Democratic Party when you have stood by.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Shocking new reporting from CNBC reveals Donald Trump purchased MILLIONS of dollars in Axon stock just two weeks before ICE agreed to purchase $220 MILLION in tasers from Axon. Trump is corruptly profiting off the violence he perpetuates. Americans deserve answers.

[PGPDNEWS @PGPDNews]

MISSING: 11-year-old Dahlia Williams. Last seen on 7/8/26 at approx 7:00 pm in the 500 block of Castlewoof Pl in Upper Marlboro. She is 5’1” & 90 lbs. Last seen wearing a black shirt and black shorts. If located, please call 911.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jennings: Gas prices are lower today than when he took office.

Phillip: No it’s not.

[R. Smith @chubby2600]

Scott Jennings argues that Democrats lacked courage because they supported a candidate they knew was a 'scumbag' until his poll numbers dropped. However, Laura Coates quickly points out, if the rule is that a party must abandon any candidate facing credible allegations of misconduct, domestic violence, or sexual assault, then high-profile Republicans like Donald Trump, Herschel Walker, and Roy Moore should have been disqualified by their party long ago.

Demanding strict moral standards from political opponents while ignoring the misconduct of your own candidates undermines the entire argument.

It highlights a glaring double standard when commentators criticize Democrats for supporting candidates with severe character flaws, while remaining silent on Republican figures facing similar or worse allegations.

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN split screen of Trump reversing his statements on Iran.

[World News Tonight @ABCWorldNews]

Outrage is growing after a man from Mexico was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Houston, Texas. Officials say the man was shot after he “weaponized his vehicle” and refused to follow commands. Mexico is now considering legal action. @JohnQABC reports. https://t.co/SjYdeOrfwE

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“How can one be disqualifying but not both?”

@ScottJenningsKY attempts to defend the indefensible (as usual) - as Republicans say Platner must be canceled even as they make Trump president, despite court cases + bragging about sexually assaulting women, Epstein, etc.

H/T @Acyn

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Donald Trump has pardoned more than 70 people convicted of fraud.

[PGPDNEWS @PGPDNews]

MISSING: 11-year-old King Parker. Last seen on 7/8/26 at approx 3:00 pm in the 2400 block of White Hall St in Suitland. He is 4’8” & 60 lbs. Last seen wearing a rust colored shirt, khaki pants and black crocs. If located, please call 911.

[Crimes Reais @CrimesReais]

🚨VEJA: Criança autista de 7 anos é agredida por vizinho ao tentar entrar no elevador do prédio onde mora.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Look how uncomfortable the normally-cocky Scott Jennings looks here when asked to defend Trump’s treatment of E Jean Carroll which a civil court found to be liability for sexual abuse.

A reminder that Dems should still be going much bigger on all the allegations against Trump.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Tanden to Jennings: I'm not going to accept lectures from people who support Donald Trump, who was credibly accused by 13 women…

[Keith Ellison @keithellison]

The President of the United States used the power of his office to direct millions of people toward a classroom full of kindergarteners. No President should ever use that office to mock children or invite the world to do the same.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

In April 1967, a 20-year-old farm boy from South Dakota did something that would change the Vietnam War—he fell off his ship.

Seaman Douglas Hegdahl was standing on the deck of the USS Canberra when the recoil from a five-inch gun knocked him overboard into the Gulf of Tonkin. He treaded water for five hours, then swam for seven more. When fishermen finally pulled him from the sea, they handed him to North Vietnamese forces.

The interrogators didn't believe his story. They thought he was a spy, a commando, someone important. They beat him and threw him into the Hanoi Hilton—the most notorious prison of the war.

But Hegdahl made a choice that would save hundreds of lives. He became "The Incredibly Stupid One."

He played up his country accent. He stared wide-eyed at things he'd never seen before. When they ordered him to write a confession, he claimed he couldn't read or write. The guards, used to illiterate peasants in their own country, believed him completely. They even assigned someone to teach him—who eventually gave up, convinced Hegdahl was hopeless.

What they didn't know was that Hegdahl had a photographic memory and the discipline of a soldier.

Because they thought he was harmless, the guards let him sweep the prison yards. He walked between cellblocks. He memorized the layout of the camp and the route into Hanoi. He even sabotaged enemy trucks by adding dirt to their fuel tanks.

But his real mission was gathering intelligence.

With the help of fellow prisoner Joe Crecca, Hegdahl set out to memorize something impossible: the names, ranks, Social Security numbers, and personal details of over 250 fellow American prisoners. How do you remember 250 names under torture, starvation, and the constant threat of death?

He used "Old MacDonald Had a Farm."

Every day, Hegdahl repeated the names to the tune of the children's song. Over and over. Names became melodies. Data became memory. While the guards laughed at the "stupid" American humming in the prison yard, he was conducting one of the most important intelligence operations of the war.

When North Vietnam offered early release as a propaganda tool, Hegdahl initially refused—prisoners had sworn an oath to leave together or not at all. But his commanding officer, Captain Dick Stratton, ordered him to go. "You're carrying the names," Stratton told him. "Their families need to know they're alive."

On August 5, 1969, Hegdahl walked out of the Hanoi Hilton.

When he returned to the United States, he recited every single name. Every rank. Every identifying detail. His memory transformed 250+ missing men into confirmed prisoners of war. At the Paris Peace Talks in 1970, he confronted North Vietnamese negotiators with firsthand accounts of torture—and the pressure he brought helped secure the eventual release of all American POWs.

That farm boy who "fell off a ship" had just freed an entire army.

Decades later, in 1998, Hegdahl stood before an audience of veterans and families at the Richard Nixon Library. Thirty years after his release, he stood and sang—to the tune of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"—the names of 256 men he'd memorized in captivity.

Not one name forgotten.

Sometimes the most dangerous people are the ones your enemy thinks are harmless. Sometimes genius wears the mask of stupidity. And sometimes, a child's lullaby becomes the most powerful weapon of all.

[R. Smith @chubby2600]

Scott Jennings, you really need to stay off CNN. For someone as intelligent as you are, your defenses of Donald Trump often come across as completely illogical. You twist yourself into knots trying to justify his actions.

What frustrates me most is the hypocrisy. You press people with tough questions and expect straight answers, but when the same questions are turned back on you, you dodge them. We’re not asking you to speak for the president we want to know what you actually think. Your personal views matter here.

This constant selling out makes you look despicable. Deep down, you know Trump made serious mistakes, yet you still go to bat for him. It’s a sad compromise