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Masai Russell breaks the women’s 100m hurdles world record after clocking 12.09 seconds at the Zurich Diamond League 🔥 💨

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Trump just declared a National Emergency to Secure the Grid.

Something big is about to go down. https://t.co/0WMVYGO7hQ

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

The Pentagon is paying an X influencer with your tax dollars — and won't say what she does.

"Data Republican" got handed a leak by an Under Secretary of State, freaked out thinking she was set up, and in the process we found out she's a paid Special Government Employee. Hired in July. By the Pentagon.

They won't disclose her role.

And the real question: how many more blue-check "independent" accounts pushing pro-Trump talking points are on the federal payroll right now?

[Julie @Julie_In_The_OC]

New Instagram post grom Meghan. I ordered mine yesterday. 😃

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: OUTRIGHT LIES! RFK Jr.’s written records just exposed his confirmation hearing claims about Samoa as COMPLETELY UNTRUE.

With Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul leading the charge to cite Dr. Anthony Fauci with contempt after the federal COVID response leader invoked the 5th Amendment in his Congressional testimony, it’s worth pointing out a more worthy candidate for a contempt citation, right within the Trump administration.

In his confirmation hearing to become Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the Senate that his 2019 trip to Samoa had "nothing to do with vaccines." Unfortunately for his phony narrative, Kennedy’s own written letter, obtained recently by The Guardian and AP, proves otherwise — and used the word "vaccine" or "vaccination" eight times.

In a January 2019 letter to Samoa's prime minister, written on his anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense's letterhead, Kennedy explicitly proposed his team conduct a "detailed health informatics assessment" of Samoa's MMR (Mumps, Measles, and Rubella) vaccine program, following the deaths of two children after an improperly administered vaccine.

He speculated the deaths might stem from manufacturing issues and offered his assistance in investigating the tragedy. That's not ambiguous. That's Kennedy, in writing, before the trip, laying out a vaccine-focused mission in explicit detail.

Under repeated Senate questioning during his confirmation hearings, Kennedy flatly and continuously denied any connection to vaccines. When Senator Ron Wyden pressed him, Kennedy replied: "I went there, nothing to do with vaccines. I went there to introduce a medical informatics system." When Senator Ed Markey asked the same question the next day, Kennedy said: "My purpose in going down there had nothing to do with vaccines." He even claimed that no Samoan would say they skipped vaccination because of him.

Except a colleague on that same trip wrote to Samoan officials describing it as a vaccine-related "mission." The Samoan prime minister's own reply letter welcomed Kennedy's team specifically to assess "our MMR Vaccines." And while Kennedy was there, he met directly with anti-vaccine activists.

Months later, with vaccination rates still dangerously suppressed, measles tore through Samoa, killing 83 people, most of them children under five. Public health experts say that anti-vaccine activists, emboldened at least in part by Kennedy's visit, actively hampered outbreak response efforts.

Knowingly lying to Congress is a federal crime, though rarely prosecuted, and the statute of limitations runs five years, meaning it remains legally live for now. HHS's response was to call any suggestion Kennedy lied "outright defamatory" — without ever actually explaining the glaring contradiction between his sworn denials and his own written words. It seems as if Kennedy has enthusiastically embraced Donald Trump’s strategy of trying to repeat a lie often enough to make it commonly accepted reality.

This is the man now overseeing America's entire public health infrastructure during the country's worst measles outbreak in three decades. This is the man largely responsible for plummeting vaccination rates among America’s children, a situation that has led to the resurgence of diseases previously considered eradicated in this country.

Now that we know that Kennedy’s own paper trail suggests he misled the Senate to get confirmed for the job, it’s time for him to suffer the consequences of his lies and be removed from his role overseeing America’s healthcare system.

Please like and share if you agree!

[theGrio.com @theGrio]

Tyler Perry Studios is launching Maxscene, a new film division designed to help independent filmmakers develop, produce and distribute movies for theatrical audiences.

Read more #OnTheGrio

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[Covie @covie_93]

-It is still Lake Ontario
-It is still the Gulf of Mexico
-It is still the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
-He is still a pedophile.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

Well?

[Bronupdates @Bronupdates]

LeBron James wishes his wife, Savannah, a Happy Birthday. She turns 40 today. 🎂🎈👸🏾

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY QUEEN!!! WE ALL ARE READY TO CELEBRATE YOU!! ESPECIALLY ME! YOU’RE DESERVING OF ALL THE LOVE & VIBEZ YOU’LL RECEIVE TODAY & BEYOND!! LOVE YOU ∞ & EVA 🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎✨✨✨✨✨ LET’S GET IT!”

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

It's completely insane to me that these people really get on TV to reveal their real-life supervillain schemes and the world just proceeds as normal

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: Cheesecake Factory is outperforming Nvidia by 109% year to date.

$CAKE: 118%
$NVDA: 9%

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: BUSTED! Three Secret Service officials, including its top spokesman, are MARCHED out of offices amid an explosive probe into the catering truck leak!

The Trump administration’s hunt for the leaker who spilled the beans on the catering truck incident in Turkey just slammed Trump’s own Secret Service – hard.

Communications Director Anthony Guglielmi and two other officials in his department were escorted out of their offices yesterday, had their security clearances suspended, and their work devices seized, and placed on leave.

The Secret Service is refusing to say what the alleged misconduct involves following an investigation that involved both the FBI and CIA.

The suspensions come amid an frantic push by FBI Director Kash Patel to find the source of a leak about Trump’s secret exit and much-ridiculed exit from Turkey after last month’s NATO summit.

Facing an Iranian assassination threat, Trump was reportedly smuggled off Air Force One inside a catering cart, leaving several Cabinet members behind while taking only a small group of close aides – including lovestruck aide Natalie Harp – before boarding another unmarked military plane.

The operation was designed to conceal the president’s movements. Once the details appeared in the press, Patel was ordered to find the leakers at all cost, and scapegoats were identified and sacrificed.

It has not been publicly confirmed that Guglielmi and the other two are actually going to be suspended or fired over that specific leak. But the timing is hard to ignore.

Guglielmi has led Secret Service communications for years and has the now-unfortunate distinction of being hired by Joe Biden, though he weathered defending the agency after the public criticism of the 2024 Butler assassination attempt.

This latest drama unfolds against a backdrop of festering turmoil inside the Secret Service.

Last month Guglielmi announced that an agent on Vice President JD Vance’s detail was under criminal investigation over a suspected media leak after agents were quoted complaining about having to take his kids to soccer practice in a government heli.

Sean Curran, a longtime Trump security presence whom he personally chose to lead the agency despite having no administrative experience, has been trying to overhaul training, equipment, and accountability after the Butler failures.

For now, the big question remains unanswered: What exactly do investigators believe the Secret Service’s own top flacks did?

Is their sudden removal a warning shot to announce they will hunt down anyone leaking information about Trump’s security and movements?

Trump has sent a clear message here. He trusts no one any more, and minions as high as an agency's top spokesmen, whose job is to control the public narrative -- are now vulnerable to being marched out of the building and publicly humiliated to make a point.

We say that if you have to compel your staff not to talk about what you are doing, you must not be doing it right. The paranoia is running high these days – and it’s only getting worse.

If the spectacle of Secret Service communications chiefs getting escorted out while the leak hunt intensifies has you shaking your head, please like and share.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A US senator walked up to an airport checkpoint and refused to have his face scanned.

His name is Jeff Merkley. He is the senator from Oregon. He has spent three years trying to get the TSA to tell travelers something the TSA already admits on its own website.

The face scan at the checkpoint is optional. Almost nobody is told.

There is one sentence that stops it. Here is the sentence, and everything the TSA does not want you to know about saying it.

First, the TSA's own words. From the TSA website:

"Travelers who do not wish to participate in the facial recognition technology process may decline the optional photo, without recourse, in favor of an alternative identity verification process, which does not use facial recognition technology to verify their identity."

Optional photo. Without recourse. Those are their words, not mine.

The TSA also says this on the same page:

"Travelers will not lose their place in line for security screening."

And using the alternative method "does not take longer."

So the two things a TSA agent might tell you at the checkpoint, that you will hold up the line or take longer, are ruled out by the TSA's own website.

Now the sentence. When you get to the checkpoint, before the scan, say this:

"I do not consent to the scan and would like to have my ID manually verified."

That is it.

The officer will take your physical ID, either a driver's license or a passport, and check the photo against your face the way they did for the last twenty years. Merkley has documented himself doing this on flights between DC and Portland.

Here is why almost no one knows.

Senator Merkley has been pushing this since July 2023. He went to Reagan Washington National Airport that summer to publicly demonstrate the opt-out and to challenge the TSA on how the program is being run. The Washington Post covered it.

In May 2025, Merkley introduced the Traveler Privacy Protection Act with Senators John Kennedy of Louisiana, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, and Roger Marshall of Kansas. Two Republicans, two Democrats. The bill is endorsed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Public Citizen, and three other watchdog groups.

Merkley's own words from that press release:

"Folks don't want a national surveillance state, but that's exactly what the TSA's unchecked expansion of facial recognition technology is leading us to."

And:

"Americans have the right to opt out of using TSA's facial recognition at the airport, and we need to protect that right. Our Traveler Privacy Protection Act safeguards the freedoms and privacy of all Americans by making sure no one is required to have their face scanned to travel."

Here is what the TSA is planning.

Facial recognition is currently at more than 84 US airports. The TSA plans to expand it to more than 430. That is nearly every commercial airport in the country. And per the bill's findings, the TSA is "eventually planning to make this technology mandatory for all travelers."

Right now it is optional. That window is closing.

The TSA says the technology is not being abused. Their exact wording:

"Biometrics are not used for surveillance. Facial recognition technology is solely used to automate the current manual ID credential checking process and will not be used for surveillance or any law enforcement purpose."

Take them at their word. The point is not that the TSA is doing something illegal. The point is you get to choose.

Here is the 5-minute action you can take tonight, before your next flight.

- Memorize the sentence: "I do not consent to the scan and would like to have my ID manually verified."

- Have your physical ID out and ready. Driver's license or passport. Not a screenshot on your phone.

- When you get to the podium, hand the agent your ID and say the sentence in a normal tone. Do not apologize.

- If the agent pushes back or tells you it will take longer, calmly repeat the sentence. If they still refuse, ask for a supervisor.

- This applies to TSA checkpoints only. International arrivals into the US go through Customs and Border Protection, which is a different agency with different rules. For most US domestic flights, the sentence above is what you need.

Here is the last thing.

The TSA already admits, on its own website, that this is optional. A sitting US senator has spent three years asking them to put that in plain sight at the checkpoint. They have not. The signs at the podium do not tell you. The agents often do not tell you. The airline app does not tell you.

Congress is being lobbied by the airlines to keep it that way. Reuters reported in July 2025 that the airline industry publicly opposed Merkley's bill.

Right now, before the 430 airport rollout, you still have a one-sentence way out.

Say the sentence. Show your ID. Walk through.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

A recall has been issued for IV saline injections due to contamination with fiberglass.

[Roberto Shenanigans @Rob_Shenanigans]

Shedeur Sanders will not play in the final preseason game and the reason why is because the Browns, from a P.R. standpoint, cannot survive the backlash if Shedeur goes out there and lights it up tomorrow night. It'll make them look tragically stupid for starting Deshaun in Week 1

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HE WENT THERE! Abdul El-Sayed hits "nepo baby" and "idiot" Trump where it hurts most by bringing up his alleged mistress Natalie Harp.

And he was just getting warmed up. Democrats finally have a real fighter...

"And I just want to point to two issues right now that we're dealing with. Number one, as hard as he tries, as hard as he tries, this guy wants to pretend like he never met Donald Trump," El-Sayed said of his MAGA opponent Mike Rogers. "I don't know who that is, who's that?"

"And Donald Trump, because he can't resist the red meat, can't seem to keep my name out of his mouth," he continued. "Habibi, if you can't say the name, don't say the name! 'Abdoool, Abdool.' How are you going to say it like that, man? That's creepy. 'Abdool.' Holds on to the L a little too long. 'Abdoool.'"

"You know, Natalie's going to show him this clip and he's going to be so mad," El-Sayed added. "'Abdool.' Try Abdulrahman!"

Natalie Harp has been at the center of a media firestorm ever since Senator Jon Ossoff mentioned her during a rally. Her bizarre relationship with Trump has since come under close public scrutiny, and it's clear that she is deeply unwell and hopelessly devoted to him. A popular theory now holds that she's actually carrying on an affair with our demented, sexual predator President.

The mere mention of her name by Ossoff was enough to send the White House into total meltdown mode and every MAGA proxy in the media went on air screeching that it was "misogynist" to imply the existence of any untoward relationship between her and Trump. As they say, hit dogs do holler.

And Dr. El-Sayed wasn't done there.

"$3,200 is what we already pay because of the tariffs. And now he's slapping another 50% tariff on top of that," he said. "Who do you think pays for a tariff?"

"Now, Donald Trump doesn't understand economics," he continued. "I get he, you know, you get money from daddy, become a nepo baby, and then all of a sudden you think you're some kind of like, you know, master businessman."

But perhaps the most brutal part of his speech came when he slammed Mike Rogers for supporting Trump despite knowing how wrong and stupid of a President he is.

"The thing about Mike Rogers which makes him so much more frustrating is he knows better," said El-Sayed. "So it's one thing to be an idiot. It's another entirely to be so small as a human being as to know the other person is an idiot and do what they want anyway because all you want is power. "

"There's being dumb and then there's being cowardly," he continued. "And I can't blame somebody for being dumb. Like, Donald Trump was born with what he had you know what I mean? Like you know. But cowardice? Cowardice is unforgivable. Now, we challenged him to five debates, how many do you think he's agreed to? He's agreed to one. Those four debates, that's cowardice. You hear me? Cowardice."

"Anytime, anywhere, on any issue, in any moment, you name it I'm happy to debate you. I'll debate you in your house in Florida if you want to," he added, getting in another zinger.

This man is going to make a fantastic U.S. Senator. Imagine what he could do with a committee assignment and subpoena power!

Please ❤️ and share if you're rooting for El-Sayed!

[Evon @_evon3929]

Walmart is installing digital price tags across all 4,611 US stores by end of 2026.

Kroger already has them in 25% of locations.

The FTC has confirmed personal data is being used to set individual prices. Here is what to do:👇

[Kay Ross-Levy 🌺 @KayRoss96]

Sold out again after it was restocked a few hours ago

[Anna Beth @AnnaBethS4]

Office of Prince Harry & Meghan, Duke & Duchess of Sussex
NEWS - 26 Aug 2026

META TO PAY BILLIONS IN CHILD ENDANGERMENT SETTLEMENT, ISSUES NO APOLOGY

https://t.co/7JyHKTkIqz

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

RFK Jr. walked out of a press conference after he was asked about his ties to the maker of a popular kratom drink that this year donated $1m to MAHA PAC & secured a major policy win from HHS & the WH despite serious health risks, as revealed by @nytimes: https://t.co/OvgCq7kxKQ