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https://nypost.com/2026/07/29/us-news/faucis-biden-autopen-pardon-wont-spare-him-from-prosecution-for-5th-amendment-spectacle-gop-senators/
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci’s pardon from Joe Biden won’t save him from prosecution for obstructing Congress, Sen. Rand Paul warned on Wednesday.

Fauci, in a shocking move, invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times before the Senate

Paul set a committee vote of Aug. 5 to pass a resolution holding Fauci in contempt of Congress for dodging the questions.

“It’s against the law to obstruct an investigation of Congress. There will be repercussions to your refusal to testify,” Paul said.

Fauci was subpoenaed to appear Wednesday by Paul, who has long sparred with the former White House chief medical adviser over the origins of COVID-19 and the practice of government-funded gain-of-function research, in which pathogens are made more virulent for the purpose of preventing global pandemics.

The COVID outbreak, which began in late 2019 in the city of Wuhan, China, is confirmed to have killed more than 7 million people worldwide while shutting down the global economy and forcing millions of American kids out of schools for a full academic year — stunting learning and social development.

“Let’s just get one thing straight,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) warned Fauci when his turn came to grill the 85-year-old doctor. “You don’t have any rights under the Fifth Amendment because you’ve been pardoned, as you very well know, as the Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more. Brown vs. Walker, 1896, ‘When he has been pardoned, he may not stand upon his privilege.'”


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OOGA BOOGA BOOMERS, BROWNS ARE COMING

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6002107-trump-miller-ceuta-spain-migrant-crisis

President Trump and White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller are warning that Spain’s Ceuta migrant crisis could be a reality for Americans if Democrats win in future elections.

Some 60,000 migrants have entered Ceuta, an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast, Ceutan President Juan Jesús Vivas said, according to The Associated Press. They have come from Morocco over the past 24 hours, and more than 40 have died.

“It’s terrible. Remember that picture. That’s going to be us in three years if the wrong side gets in,” Trump told Fox News’s Jacqui Heinrich on Friday. “If the Democrats get in, you will not live a very good life.”

Miller, in a social media post reposting a video of the migrants breaching Spain’s border, said, “Democrats did this to America every single day for 4 years under Biden.”

He said, they “will do it again instantaneously, but orders of magnitude greater, if they are given any form of national power.”

“Democrats will see your home trampled and stolen by invaders and they will rejoice,” Miller wrote.

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https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/politics/doj-admits-reflecting-pool-renovation-flawed-drops-case-david-hearn

The Justice Department is admitting that a President Donald Trump-prompted $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing from DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro.

“It was not until after the return of the indictment [of Hearn], that the [Department of Interior] provided additional documents to the [US Attorney’s Office in DC] indicating that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings, and the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026,” Pirro’s office wrote.

Hearn’s attorneys said in a statement reacting to the decision, “The Trump administration’s case against David Hearn should never have been brought. Its dismissal today does not erase the abuse of government power in arresting and charging a patriotic American who did nothing wrong. The government’s approach was ready, fire, aim. The administration owes Mr. Hearn an apology.”

When CNN called the contracting company Friday evening, an employee with Atlantic Industrial Coatings said they hadn’t heard anything about the new filing, adding, “No comment.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/japanese-destroyer-fires-tomahawk-missile-for-first-time-2026-7
>A Japanese destroyer has launched a Tomahawk cruise missile for the first time, marking a major milestone in Tokyo's push to build out its long-range strike capability.
>Tomahawk missiles give Japan a new ability to strike targets beyond the reach of some other weapons in its arsenal, equipping it with a proven combat capability that could prove valuable to its naval forces in a potential conflict.
>The Japanese Ministry of Defense announced the successful test-fire of a Tomahawk Land-Attack Cruise Missile from the JS Chokai, a Kongo-class destroyer, earlier this week.
>"This live-fire test demonstrates steady progress in the Tomahawk project, and the Ministry of Defense will continue to work towards the early establishment of stand-off defense capabilities," the ministry said in a press release. The test-fire occurred in the Pacific Ocean with support from the US Navy.
>Chokai is Japan's first destroyer equipped to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles. The ship sailed to the US last fall to receive modifications for the weapon and training for its crew.
>Prior to departing, Chokai's crew conducted a mock loading drill with US Navy personnel using dummy Tomahawks. Now, the ship has fired the real thing.
>Japan has begun receiving initial deliveries of the Tomahawk missiles it ordered. The total sale of 400 Tomahawks — 200 Block IVs and 200 Block Vs — is expected to be completed next year. Despite reports that diminished US stockpiles following heavy Tomahawk use in the Iran war could impact deliveries, Japan's defense minister said in May that the ministry did not expect delays or changes to the delivery schedule.
>Future Aegis-equipped Japanese destroyers will also be armed with Tomahawk missiles, building off of Tokyo's larger national defense strategy that emphasizes buying more standoff weapons for striking enemy forces at greater distances.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/30/maga-trump-scandal-2026-elections-01013859

Americans are largely tolerant of scandals among politicians. But nobody is more willing to stick by an embattled candidate than a MAGA voter.

The POLITICO Poll finds President Donald Trump’s MAGA supporters are the most loyal of any group of voters — with majorities saying they would stick by GOP candidates confronted with an array of scandals, from a DUI conviction or accepting lobbyist gifts to more serious accusations including domestic violence, sexual assault and antisemitic social media posts.

Two-thirds of self-identified MAGA Trump voters say they would continue supporting a GOP candidate accused of sexual assault — 13 percentage points higher than the share of Trump 2024 voters writ large, which include those who do not identify as MAGA. By comparison, 40 percent of voters who backed former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024 would continue backing a Democratic candidate accused of sexual assault.

U.S. strikes Iran after Trump reportedly issues menacing new threat

da U.S. military attacked Iran on Wednesday after President Donald Trump vowed to “beat the f---ing s--- out of” the country, according to Fox News, following new attacks on American forces in the Middle East.
“They’re going to get a beating,” Trump said, according to Fox’s chief foreign correspondent, Trey Yingst.
U.S. Central Command said a “heavy wave of strikes” had been completed at 10 p.m. ET, two hours after they began.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/us-thwarts-iranian-missile-attack-launches-strikes-saudi-arabia-rcna589773

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDC-GqyaOUw&t=5511s 3

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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.