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https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5998948-carville-dr-fauci-diary-rand-paul/

Democratic political strategist James Carville said this week that the public “didn’t f—ing learn anything” from the publicly released diary entries of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who helped lead the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The main thing we learned from the release of his personal texts or emails or whatever it was, is we didn’t f—ing learn anything,” Carville said on his “Politics War Room” podcast alongside Al Hunt.

“This was basically an honest guy trying to deal with a once-in-a-millennium public health issue,” he added.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released thousands of entries from Fauci’s diary over the weekend ahead of a Senate hearing appearance, revealing the longtime health official’s notes during the pandemic.

The entries show Fauci and other U.S. and international health officials grappling with the origin of COVID in early 2020.

During a Feb. 1, 2020, phone call with leading scientists, some officials felt certain the virus “could occur naturally,” while others “felt that deliberate insertion” was possible. The two leading scientific theories are that the virus officially known as SARS-CoV-2 jumped from animals to humans at a wet market in Wuhan, China, or it leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where researchers study coronaviruses.

The diaries also show Fauci maintained close tabs on media coverage of him during the pandemic. In May 2020, the then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases wrote that he may be the “most famous and talked about person in the country.”

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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/30/abc-accuses-fcc-of-attempted-censorship-01016992

ABC accused Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr of “attempted censorship” in a regulatory filing posted Thursday, saying the agency is creating a potential chilling effect across the media by helping President Donald Trump attack his perceived adversaries.

“The retaliation against ABC is a signal to every media company in the country: accommodate the Administration’s view of what news coverage should look like or pay the price,” the Disney-owned television network wrote, in its sharpest response yet to the potential loss of its eight TV broadcasting licenses.

“Across the government, regulatory and contracting carrots and sticks have been trained on other disfavored speakers,” ABC’s lawyers added in the 119-page filing. “The tools vary; the objective does not: a media industry too fearful of official reprisal to report the news freely.”

Carr has repeatedly rejected accusations of censorship while defending his efforts to rein in what he calls abusive, politically motivated behavior by licensed TV broadcasters. “I don’t view the FCC as the speech police,” he told POLITICO this week for an upcoming episode of the podcast “The Conversation.”

In its filing, ABC pointed to an outpouring of support it has received in more than 152,000 comments in the agency’s license review, as well as recent warnings from conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and various pro-free-market organizations about the dangers of a politically motivated FCC. Those include letters from a bipartisan group of former FCC leaders, community and advocacy groups and lawmakers of both parties.

Apparently renaming military bases after dead faggots is cool when MIGA does it.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/07/28/south-carolina-military-base-to-be-renamed-after-lindsey-graham

WASHINGTON — Efforts to rename a major U.S. military installation in honor of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have drawn resistance from some veterans groups, local officials and military traditionalists, who argue the change would disrupt longstanding institutional practices and risk politicizing the Army’s naming conventions.
Critics of the proposal say the base in question has developed its own identity and operational legacy over decades of service by American troops. They contend that the facility’s current name has become intertwined with the training, deployments and victories associated with generations of soldiers who passed through it, transcending any single individual. Changing the designation, they argue, would disregard that accumulated history in favor of a contemporary political figure.
Proponents of retaining the existing name have invoked what they describe as a “spirit of continuity rather than division.” In their view, military installations should not be renamed to reflect shifting political winds or to elevate sitting or recent elected officials. The names, they say, were originally selected with local connections and institutional stability in mind, not as endorsements of particular ideologies or partisan careers.
Some opponents warn that the move would amount to rewriting or “washing away” established military heritage. They contend that frequent or politically driven renamings undermine the sense of permanence that bases provide for service members and their families, and open the door to further changes whenever political majorities shift.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/30/thousands-enter-spanish-enclave-ceuta-morocco-africa

The Spanish government is deploying extra troops and police officers to its north African enclave of Ceuta after thousands of people swam and waded into the tiny territory from neighbouring Morocco in a matter of hours.

Videos shot at Tarajal beach on Thursday showed crowds of people walking around the breakwaters and running on the beach and roads.

Most appeared to be young men, but there were also families with women and children. “Viva España!” some shouted to a freelance photographer working for the Associated Press, who was filming the scene.
Hundreds of migrants run and cheer as they enter Spain’s enclave of Ceuta

A spokesperson for the Guardia Civil force, which polices Spain’s borders, said the migrants were “massively entering from the sea” through the Tarajal breakwater but could not provide an estimate of the numbers.

Spain’s national broadcaster, TVE, reported that between 2,000 and 3,000 people had crossed into Ceuta, while the state news agency, Efe, said some had entered the territory by scaling the high border fence.

“The situation is absolute chaos,” said Rachid Sbihi, the head of the association that represents Guardia Civil officers in Ceuta. “It’s not possible to give precise numbers, but there are thousands of migrants crossing.” He added that the border had “totally collapsed”.


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https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/29/congress/debt-limit-reconciliation-01015197

Republicans raised the debt limit by $5 trillion last year. Now they are already thinking about how to head off another dive over the fiscal cliff on President Donald Trump’s watch.

Independent forecasters predict the U.S. will reach the “X-date” — the ultimate deadline for preventing a U.S. debt default — sometime between next summer and early 2028, just as presidential primaries start kicking into gear.

To head off high-stakes negotiations with Democrats, White House officials have privately floated raising the nation’s $41.1 trillion borrowing limit in the party-line spending package many Republicans want to enact before the November midterm elections, according to two people granted anonymity to disclose private conversations.

The move could save Trump much angst if Republicans lose control of either chamber in the upcoming election, since any Democratic majority would demand concessions in a bipartisan negotiation to prevent an unprecedented default on the national debt, which currently sits at nearly $39.7 trillion.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/30/anthropic-supply-chain-risk-lawsuit-hearing
A federal judge seems likely to rule that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth overstepped their authority when they ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s technology and designated the artificial intelligence company a national security risk.

California-based U.S. District Judge Rita Lin — who issued a ruling in March to pause the company’s designation as a supply chain risk — said during a hearing Thursday that the administration’s case seems to have “gotten worse.”

“I don’t see additional evidence from the government really justifying what it did,” Lin said.

The legal dispute follows Anthropic’s longrunning clash with the federal government over the company’s position that its technology should not be used for lethal autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance. Trump administration officials have said the company should remove those usage restrictions.

Attorneys for the government have said the supply chain risk determination was due to concern about what they described as “AI model poisoning” — the possibility of Anthropic secretly altering its models after agencies deployed the technology, or implanting some kind of outside control mechanism.

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https://www.gbnews.com/news/manchester-illegal-migrant-school-armed-hammer-hatchet-kitchen-knife

An "attention-seeking" illegal migrant has been jailed after turning up at a school armed with a hammer, hatchet and kitchen knife.

South Sudanese national Both Douk Deng, 21, had become "increasingly frustrated" that immigration authorities were not helping him stay in Britain.

Deng, who has a wife and child, was arrested after workmen confronted the South Sudanese at Edgar Wood Academy in Heywood, Greater Manchester, on August 6 last year.

He was seen "mumbling" as he walked a "full circuit" around the school with a hammer, hatcher, seven-inch kitchen knife, and jerry can containing half a litre of petrol, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard.

A day earlier he had been seen spotted "acting oddly" at the Holy Family RC and CE College in Rochdale.

There, he kicked and damaged its intercom - though both schools had already closed for the summer.

Sara Haque, defending, said he maintained he did not have any desire to injure or hurt anyone, and there was no evidence he threatened any individual.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-promotes-freedom-haulers-initiative-fast-track-military-veterans-trucking-jobs

President Donald Trump on Thursday formally kicked off an administration initiative designed to fast-track military veterans into trucking jobs while removing illegal immigrant commercial drivers from America's roadways, arguing the effort will improve highway safety and create new employment opportunities for former service members.

Speaking at the White House alongside Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins and trucking industry leaders, Trump promoted the "Freedom Haulers Initiative," which streamlines the commercial driver's license (CDL) process for veterans with heavy vehicle experience gained during military service.

"Today, we're taking action to get illegal alien truck drivers off the American roadways and replace them with proud American veterans," Trump said. "It's about time."

Under the initiative, qualified veterans with heavy-vehicle experience gained during military service can apply to waive the CDL road-skills test, allowing them to avoid duplicating training they received in the military. Certain veterans in participating states may also qualify for a waiver of the written knowledge test. Veterans without military truck-driving experience will be eligible for expedited training that administration officials said could be completed in several weeks.

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Debt-ridden Democrats tap a surprising asset as collateral for $15M loan
Spoilers: Dems pawned off DemHQ.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/debt-ridden-democrats-tap-surprising-asset-collateral-15m-loan

As the Democratic National Committee (DNC) shouldered significant debt and fell behind its GOP equivalent, Democratic leadership decided to use its headquarters as collateral for a $15 million loan, according to public records.

The loan, first reported by NOTUS news outlet, was taken out in 2025 as the DNC struggled to keep pace with the Republican National Committee’s fundraising efforts ahead of the midterm elections.

While taking out loans ahead of high-stakes races is common, and using property as collateral to do so is not unheard of, the line of credit secured by the DNC was the largest ever taken out by the committee for an off-year election, according to NOTUS. The terms of the loan allow the DNC to withdraw an additional $5 million beyond the $15 million it already has taken, public records show.

"This is not new," a DNC official told Fox News Digital Monday of the loan. "The loan documents were publicly released in November, and the DNC’s building was also used as collateral in our prior lines of credit in 2019, 2018, 2014 and many other years." I hope the building isn't too flamable.

What is new, however, is the DNC’s considerable debt.

The financial gap between Democrats and Republicans, as well as the former's higher-than-usual debt load, could leave the DNC with less flexibility to support candidates in the midterm elections. The national party’s debt and smaller cash reserves could limit its ability to respond quickly, invest broadly and compete with the GOP’s far larger war chest, a boon to conservatives who are currently struggling in the polls.

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https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/joe-biden-audio-tapes-memoir-release/6531264/

Newly released audio tapes, disclosed by a conservative activist group, appear to show Joe Biden sharing classified information with a biographer and sometimes claiming memory lapses during interviews that occurred before his election to the presidency in 2020.

About three hours of audio and 117 pages of transcripts — with many redactions — were released by the Oversight Project, an arm of the Heritage Foundation, after Biden lost a prolonged legal fight to keep his conversations with his memoir ghostwriter, Mark Lewis Zwonitzer, private.

“They didn't even know I had this,” Biden told Zwonitzer in October 2016, near the end of his second term as Barack Obama's vice president, as he talked about sensitive foreign policy matters handled by the administration.

In one 2017 session, after Biden had left the West Wing and before he'd launched his own presidential campaign, he appeared to admit retaining classified information from his time as vice president.

“I just found all the classified stuff downstairs,” Biden said. “I wrote the President a handwritten 40-page memorandum arguing against deploying additional troops to Iraq -- I mean, to Afghanistan on the grounds that it wouldn’t matter, that the day we left would be like the day before we arrived.”

The potentially classified information itself is redacted in both the audio and transcripts that the Oversight Project released.

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Trump Will End Subsidies for Medicare Drug Premiums

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/medicare-drug-subsidies-part-d.html

>Millions of older Americans could pay more for their prescription drug coverage next year.

> President Trump nominates Adam Candeub to head the DOJ Antitrust Division.
> Candeub previously authored a Heritage Foundation report calling for the criminalization of online pornography to "protect marriage and promote human flourishing."
> Advocates for enforcing federal obscenity laws (such as the Comstock Act) and state-level prosecutions against porn sites and major platforms like Google that distribute explicit material.
> Supports age verification mandates and proposed using online surveillance (like analyzing digital activity) to enforce restrictions.
> Takes an expansive view of antitrust law: argues FTC/DOJ should consider social media's impact on mental health and happiness, not just traditional economic harm or consumer prices.
> If confirmed, Candeub will oversee ongoing DOJ antitrust lawsuits against Big Tech giants including Google and Apple.

https://reason.com/2026/07/22/trumps-new-doj-nominee-wants-to-ban-online-porn-and-prosecute-big-tech/

Trump recalls friendship, spats in eulogy for Lindsey Graham

To President Donald Trump, who eulogized the late Sen. Lindsey Graham Tuesday afternoon, the longtime lawmaker from South Carolina was a good friend, a once maligned rival presidential candidate, a decorated statesman and a vital ally when it counted.

The president commemorated Graham, who died earlier this month due to a heart issue, in a speech at the National Cathedral in Washington, D. C., that sought to portray him as a titan of the Senate.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/28/trump-lindsey-graham-eulogy-01013726

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https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/07/27/mcconnell-shares-second-photo-amid-absence-says-he-will-not-attend-kentucky-political-event/

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us-appeals-court-rules-trump-cannot-implement-mail-in-voting-order-2026-07-25/

BOSTON, July 25 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Saturday declined to allow U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to implement in 23 states his executive order that aims to tighten rules for mail-in voting ahead of November elections that will decide control of Congress.
The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the administration's request to lift an injunction several Democratic-led states secured on June 25 from a lower-court judge who concluded that key parts of the Republican president's order were unconstitutional.

In asking the court to pause U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani's ruling while it pursues an appeal, the U.S. Department of Justice had argued
, opens new tab that because government agencies had yet to finalize actions and policies to implement Trump's directive, any lawsuit challenging his order was premature.
The appeals court, in a 2-1 ruling, rejected that argument.
"As the district court reasoned, the (executive order) lays out a clear set of rapidly approaching deadlines by which states must coordinate with federal officials and comply with new voting procedures — all while the states must also ensure that their officials and the public understand the evolving set of rules that would govern the upcoming September and November elections," the judges wrote. "The Plaintiff States have no practical choice but to respond to the (order) now."
Before Talwani ruled, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., rejected a related effort by Democrats to block Trump's order on similar grounds. The Justice Department warned that absent a ruling in its favor from the 1st Circuit, it may be forced to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.