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[Lake Michigan @LakeMichigan13]

A Great Lakes city making a good decision. Thank you @CityRochesterNY 🌊🌊

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

When America is gone, remember NYT headlines like this and never again ask what role corporate media played in normalizing the most dangerous man on Earth

[Lake Michigan @LakeMichigan13]

Goodnight humans.
Be kind to all 🌊🌊

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

Just a reminder to @RepJeffries. kushner is not a member of govt despite pretending he is.

He is driving intense self dealing and corruption. He enables Trump.

There really is no excuse for a secret meeting, especially before the election

[Parker Molloy @ParkerMolloy]

In South Carolina, trans girls have been banned from competing in K-12 girls sports since 2022. They're banned from competing in the NCAA and Olympics. This is literally an issue that doesn't affect SC at all anymore. They got what they wanted. How is this still a priority?

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

We're losing a war to Iran, we're alienating our allies, we're emboldening our enemies, our stalwart service people are being subjected to deprivations...and this is what the Commander in Chief is doing.

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million.

That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Democrats should introduce national paid sick and parental leave and call it the MITCH Act. If you can be missing from your job for months as a U.S. Senator and still collect your full paycheck, working Americans should get the same deal.

[Phil Gordon @PhilGordonDC]

U.S. acceptance of Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz is an extraordinary outcome only made conceivable by an administration that squandered legitimacy, alienated allies, attempted regime change in a war it had not adequately prepared for and that is being forced to accept a catastrophic outcome without viable alternatives.

Counterfactuals are impossible to prove but in other circumstances Iran's closure of Strait by brazenly attacking maritime traffic and neighbors' civilian infrastructure would likely have justified and led to a united, global response--like the U.S.-led naval escort mission during the Iran-Iraq war, the global coalition that reversed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1991, the multinational naval force enforcing UN sanctions in the Gulf in the 1990s, or the UN Security Council sanctions on the Iranian nuclear program in the 2010s--that led to the JCPOA.

Instead US and other countries are now being forced to accept an outcome that would have been unthinkable before the war but seems to have become unavoidable because of it.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Wolf: What hasn’t been discussed publicly, to my knowledge, is the fact that, in my opinion, President Trump committed a crime in negotiating the settlement agreement in this case and it’s possible that Mr. Blanche would be found to be a co-conspirator in that crime. Let me try to explain…

Congress enacted a statute that makes it illegal for the president or the vice president to directly or indirectly request the initiation or termination of a tax investigation. There’s a potential five-year prison term for violating that statute.

Donald Trump would not have immunity from criminal prosecution for violating that statute in this case because he filed this lawsuit in his personal capacity. Therefore, negotiating the settlement was not an official act for which he has immunity as president.

So, in this case, he was negotiating essentially with himself. As Judge Williams said in Trump v. IRS—a case in which I’m one of the 35 plaintiffs who, through excellent lawyers, persuaded the court to reopen the case and find that this was not a genuine case—it wasn’t a real case or controversy that was legitimately in federal court. It was a collusive case brought for an improper purpose: to get a personal benefit for President Trump, his family, and his allies.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

"Each President is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House and its Executive Residence. The President has no—and claims no—constitutionally assigned authority over that property"

In sweeping, 136-page ruling, DC appeals court blocks construction of Trump ballroom

[Desirée Townsend @Cheering4Change]

A Capitol Hill source sent me a Department of Energy hotline on S.1674, the Mammoth Cave National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2025, which is Senator Mitch McConnell’s bill.

That raises an obvious question: if Senator McConnell is still at George Washington University Hospital, how did this legislation move forward? Do Senate staff have the authority to advance legislation like this on behalf of a senator?

I followed up with Senator Mitch McConnell’s communications director, Stephanie Penn, hoping to get answers and a response to the questions raised in my previous video. Specifically: Where did this legislation come from, and how was it approved if the senator remains hospitalized?

Stephanie Penn had no response and walked into Senator Katie Britt’s office.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It's strange. No photos of Mitch McConnell leaving the rehab center. None of him arriving at the departure airport. None of him at the arrival airport. None of him arriving at his Kentucky home. None whatsoever.

Just a statement and reporters giving a quick salute.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Unless you held your personal phone up to a dying patient so they could gasp “I’m sorry…I love you…goodbye…” to their family on a group call you organized, you do not judge Fauci.

Unless you did the same for a patient who was already unresponsive and nearing death so their loved ones could say the things they never said and you were never meant to hear, you do not judge Fauci.

Unless you rationed oxygen, medical equipment and life-saving medications, because your top-rate, first-world country, and its self-aggrandizing medical system failed, you do not judge Fauci.

Unless you’ve lost three patients in 45 minutes going from one bedside to the next so they did not die alone, praying the prayers a priest was meant to say because they could not come, you do not judge Fauci.

Unless you’ve zipped a human being in a bag knowing no one else would ever gaze upon that face again, and placed it on a table in an office or on the floor of a refrigerated trailer meant for sides of beef, you do not judge Fauci.

Unless you hold a degree in nursing or medicine, or epidemiology, or public health, or at the very least can connect the dots, the very simple dots, you do not judge Fauci.

For if you lived and sit in judgment of decisions you did not make and do not understand, decisions for which you were never considered, and never would be, you are a fool and look dumb before humanity and God.

And may God help you, because you clearly cannot help yourself.

~Jason M. LaForest, July 30, 2026

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Republicans have the majority in the Senate and House and they're telling you they cannot rein Trump in, so stop giving them power. They're telling you they refuse to use it.

[Evanston, IL Police @EvanstonPD]

Intermittent road closures throughout the day on Dodge from Lake to Simpson for a house move. Use caution or choose a different route.

[IWBC @IWBC4Me]

Enjoy the Maybelle Blair Meal at participating Rockford-area Bucciferro Family McDonald's restaurants, July 21-26! A portion of every meal sold benefits the IWBC. #BaseballWorldCupW #MaybelleBlair #WomeninBaseballWeek

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2026: $719 billion

Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2026: $255 billion

Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2026: $212 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2026: $7.25

Obscene. We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

Donald Trump owes the families of Illinois $1,700 a piece because he overcharged them with his self-imposed tariffs.