NewsFlash

Estimates are saying roughly 17,000,000 people in this country will lose their healthcare due to the BBB.

Trump's run up a bill of (from online estimates) over $60,000,000. for costs associated with him playing golf since taking office.
The estimates for the retrofit of the 747-8 bribe jet from Qatar are being said to be over $934,000,000.

For f's sake!

Some good news -  Soccer coach who says he was deported over his tattoo celebrates his release from CECOT - https://abcnews.go.com/US/dreaming-soccer-coach-deported-tattoo-celebrates-release-cecot/story?id=124075548

"...hundreds of residents of the Venezuelan town of Machiques de Perija lined the street and cheered as a Venezuelan National Guard truck pulled into town to drop Reyes Barrios off at his home.  The crowd threw confetti, jumped up and down, and joyfully roared as he exited the vehicle."

https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/904fc7b0-5e38-46ab-abfb-d105a1c079bf/soccer-welcome-ht-jt-250725_1753477422729_hpMain_9x16.jpg?w=1500

The leading Republican candidate for governor of California calls Auschwitz 'solution for homelessness' - https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/california-governor-candidate-calls-auschwitz-solution-for-homelessness-sparks-critisism/ar-AA1JnFpI

And

Republican Candidate Proposes Forcing Migrant Women to Marry American Men - https://www.newsweek.com/republican-kyle-langford-proposes-forcing-migrant-woman-marry-2060334


[What can I possibly say here.]

Judge issues temporary injunction against Trump administration cancellation of humanities grants - some of the grantees lost grants simply because they had received them during the Biden administration. - https://apnews.com/article/doge-trump-humanities-first-amendment-43e25c97dcd665f0cbfb285a6d517888

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:e7xeev7y5qk3k375ztcx6fg5/bafkreihqyvyqaemcpxyahzdabdyqiaqawjmeqshpjjdvfksl7tdy2526le@jpeg


Yup, nothing to see there. Right.

https://www.aol.com/news/donald-trump-drowned-scottish-bagpipes-123758628.html

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2087837/donald-trump-keir-starmer-scotland

Someone buy that piper whatever drink he wants, for me?

Judges dismissed cases, Justice Dept dropped cases against LA protesters: the Feds lied  - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/doj-la-protesters-false-claims?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Korean Scientist With Green Card Returning to the USA via SFO Detained for a Week Now and Denied Access to His Lawyer - https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/29/korean-scientist-green-card-detained/  or  https://www.commondreams.org/news/korean-legal-resident-detained

AHEM.... Oklahoma State Superintendent Who Requires Bible Be Taught In Classrooms Accused Of Airing Porn During State Board of Education Meeting - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/oklahoma-porn-investigation-school-bibles-b2796857.html [If it was a set-up, it was a good one!]   or  https://www.comicsands.com/walters-oklahoma-superintendant-pornography?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

SNOPES examines report Pentagon secretly transferred $934M from program to upgrade land-based nukes to renovate Trump's new Air Force One [plane from Qatar]  - https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/07/28/trump-pentagon-air-force-one/   NYT article - https://archive.ph/BLyal#selection-1001.188-1001.208

Things still not going well at Town Hall Meetings (Republican) in the heartland - https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/listen-crowd-confronts-pfluger-fiery-030746910.html      Full recording:

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Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA chief, plans to revoke the 2009 “endangerment finding”, the EPA’s legal basis for regulating climate pollution. This isn’t rollback. It’s sabotage. Without it, the EPA can’t limit emissions from cars, power plants, or industry. Decades of progress gone.

EPA Releases Proposal to Rescind Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, Regulations that Paved the Way for Electric Vehicle Mandates - https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-releases-proposal-rescind-obama-era-endangerment-finding-regulations-paved-way

ooooooooooooooooooooooo!    "You are fat, you are a joke, you are stupid, you are not funny, you are not as smart as you think you are," Fuentes said, later adding, "This entire thing has been a scam."   Far-Right Influencer Denounces Trump Over Epstein: 'Liberals Were Right' - https://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-influencer-denounces-trump-epstein-liberals-were-right-2100489

GOP Bill Seeks to Strip JFK’s Name From Kennedy Center and Replace It With Trump’s - Bill's sponsor suggested that Trump would be a more deserving namesake than John Fitzgerald Kennedy. -  https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-bill-seeks-to-strip-jfks-name-from-kennedy-center-and-replace-it-with-trumps/

An inconvenient truth -   https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:y4zs4cabaezzwx3bz2e5nnj2/bafkreid7ctetno4oj2sr6sgcbsr6yjm2z5v4kepnsa6nk6rtq65g7afwou@jpeg   A memory refresher about Rumeysa Ozturk, https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-6c3978da98a8d0f39ab311e092ffd892

Universities are downsizing due to cuts in Federal funding - Nearly 600 Duke Employees Take Buyouts - https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/07/28/nearly-600-duke-employees-take-buyouts  and  https://www.highereddive.com/news/colleges-layoffs-budget-reductions-july-2025/752856/    The list of institutions in this article is not comprehensive.

I wish I could drink alcohol, some days.