Dozens of Members of the US House are on their way to Israel on an AIPAC-paid trip after Speaker Johnson – also in Israel – called August recess early to avoid a vote on Rep. Thomas Massie’s resolution to release the Epstein files. [MORE]
An Israeli airstrike on Sunday night targeted a tent outside the gates of the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and killed five Al Jazeera journalists, including 28-year-old Anas al-Sharif, a well-known reporter who had a large following on X.
Al Jazeera said that the other four journalists killed in the bombing were correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and three cameramen: Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa. Two other people were also killed in the bombing.
Just minutes before he was killed, al-Sharif said in a post on X that Israel was escalating its bombing of Gaza City. “Relentless bombardment,” he wrote. “For two hours, the Israeli aggression has intensified on Gaza City.”
The Israeli military acknowledged that it deliberately targeted al-Sharif, claiming without evidence that he was a “Hamas terrorist” who “posed as an Al Jazeera journalist.” Last month, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a warning about the Israeli military’s smears against Sharif, saying it was likely a precursor to his assassination. [MORE]
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) joined with Democrats on Tuesday to become the first member of the Republican Party to call the crisis in Gaza a “genocide.”
Writing to X on Monday, Greene first acknowledged the terrorist acts of Hamas on October 7, 2023 before criticizing Israel’s response which has created a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
“It’s the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct. 7 in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide and starvation happening in Gaza,” Greene said.
Greene, who earlier this month led a failed attempt to strip $500 million of American military funding to Israel, escalated her criticism of the Israeli government in recent weeks after Israel bombed the only Catholic Church in Gaza. The outspoken Georgia congresswoman joins nine Democrats, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American member of the Congress, to call the crisis a genocide. [MORE]
MSNBC and CNN are hemorrhaging viewers. Tee hee. Compared to this same week last year, MSNBC lost 40 percent of its primetime viewers, while CNN lost 44 percent.
Fox News, meanwhile, crushed them both, losing only 16 percent of primetime eyeballs.
The public has wised up. Resistance TV no longer sells like it’s 2017. Just ask Stephen Colbert and Howard Stern.
That Fox News number is the one that counts, for it gives us context. Sure, last year was a presidential election year, which is the Super Bowl for cable news. Unless there’s a war, no one expects cable news to attract the same audience this year. But when Fox News loses only 16 percent of its year-over-year audience and MSNBC and CNN lose 40 and 44 percent respectively, there’s more going on.
Here are the raw numbers from the week of July 21, with the percentage loss from this same week last year.
Average Primetime / Demo Viewers Viewers
FOX: 2.41 million (-16 percent) / 232,000 (-41 percent)
MSNBC: 906,000 (-40 percent) / 78,000 (-58 percent)
CNNLOL: 480,000 (-44 percent) / 89,000 (-54 percent) [MORE]
Pursuant to a court settlement approved today in Kidd v. Noem, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are prohibited from identifying as state or local law enforcement and cannot engage in ruses that misrepresent their governmental identity or purpose.
U.S. District Court Judge Otis D. Wright II reviewed the settlement as part of a class action lawsuit challenging the agency’s home arrest practices in Los Angeles and the surrounding region. The lawsuit was filed in 2020, on behalf of an individual, Osny Sorto-Vazquez Kidd, and two community organizations that represent the class, the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ICIJ) and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA).
“Our vibrant communities are built on trust. This settlement makes clear immigration officers are not above the Constitution and will be held accountable for their deceptive practices,” said Diana Sanchez, staff attorney at the ACLU Foundation of Southern California. “We’ll be monitoring to ensure ICE does not violate the rights of our community members.”
The settlement prohibits ICE officers from using deceptive ruses to enter a home or when asking a resident to exit their home. This includes identifying themselves as state or local law enforcement (e.g., LAPD), probation, parole, detectives, or any other non-federal governmental agency. It also will prohibit ICE officers from falsely stating they are conducting a criminal investigation or looking for someone else, conducting a probation or parole check, claiming there is a safety or legal problem with a person’s vehicle, or misrepresenting that their purpose involves danger to a resident or public safety.
According to the most recent publicly available data Latinos make up more than 50% of Border Patrol agents and 24% of ICE agents. [MORE]
Democrats are increasingly explicit about their goals to turn illegal aliens into future voters — making Republican talk of amnesty or compromise more worrisome. Those efforts would be nothing less than hammering the final nails into the coffin of both the Republican Party and America.
At a Fort Worth “The People vs. The Power Grab” rally, Beto O’Rourke laid it out plainly.
“We absolutely failed to live up to the expectations that we set, so next time we win power, we’re going to drive that car like we stole it,” O’Rourke said. “We’re going to legalize every DREAMer, every DREAMer’s parents, every hardworking American doing backbreaking work that makes this country so g-dd-mn great in the first place, even greater as US citizens.”
O’Rourke isn’t the only Democrat to suggest turning illegal aliens into citizens. Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost said in June that he wants to “document every single [illegal alien] with a speedy path to citizenship.”
Given the chance, Democrats will choose voter registration over deportation. They are simply waiting for their next chance at power to pull the trigger. [MORE]
In a virtual convening hosted in collaboration with the Vera Action Institute, Democratic mayors from Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, and Newark offered a vigorous defense of their cities’ efforts to reduce violent crime—arguing that Democratic-led urban centers are leading the country in crime reduction through data-driven, community-focused, and comprehensive public safety strategies.
The roundtable was introduced by Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, president of the Democratic Mayors Association, who opened the conversation by drawing a sharp contrast between local results and federal rhetoric.
“We wanted to have this conversation [about] the work that Democratic mayors all across this country are doing to reduce violent crime despite the chaos and cruelty and confusion coming out of D.C.,” Bibb said. “Since I took office nearly three years ago, we’ve seen a nearly 46% reduction in homicides while investing in law enforcement, but also investing in nonviolence interventions… deploying an all-of-government approach to solve violent crime.”
The conversation was co-hosted by Insha Rahman, director of the Vera Action Institute, who underscored the national context of this progress. [MORE]
The ACLU of the District of Columbia today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information to find out how the Washington DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency (HSEMA) has used surveillance software that can track and monitor people’s connections with others and that can monitor what people say, who they know, where they go, and what they do.
The civil rights and liberties organization requested records related to the District’s purchase and use of software offered by Cobwebs Technologies, a cyber intelligence firm founded in 2015 and in 2023 merged into the software company PenLink, Ltd. Cobwebs has offered three types of software (Tangles, Webloc, and Lynx) that can be used to track and monitor people based on cell phone, web, and social media activity , including identifying a person’s location.
Between 2020 and 2024, the HSEMA spent nearly $350,000.00 to license the Tangles software. Little is known about how Tangles and potentially other technologies offered by Cobwebs have been used in D.C. A leaked 2020 Tangles training manual shows local examples of types of targets that could be monitored, including a Twitter username of a Black-led activist group, an anonymous independent journalist who was shot in the leg by DC police in 2020, and #DefundDCPolice.
The ACLU-D.C. filed today’s FOIA request “to understand and analyze how the District is using any Cobwebs products to determine its impact on the privacy interests and civil and constitutional rights of D.C. residents.” The ACLU-D.C. requested “any and all documents” related to Cobwebs products, including HSEMA’s purchase or licensing of Cobwebs products; instructions and training provided to HSEMA staff using those products; the use or capabilities of artificial intelligence in connection with any Cobwebs product; and more. [more]
A verdict has been reached in a civil suit related to the 2020 police shooting of 18-year-old Deon Kay. Natasha Kay filed the lawsuit against DC Police following his death.
"The jury came back in favor of Ms. Kay on all counts. There was a negligence count, a battery count, and a count for wrongful death. The verdict amount exceeded $650,000," according to Attorney Yaida Ford.
The civil lawsuit verdict follows a report by the government in 2021 that found the shooting was justified, but said the officers involved "acted recklessly and without a plan."
The report said police were responding to an Instagram LIVE stream showing men flashing guns inside a car. Additionally, the report said the officers sought out the car near 225 Orange Street, and when they got out of their cruiser, saw another man running, not Deon Kay.
Officer Alexander Alvarez's body camera footage shows him taking off after this person, gun out. Then, it shows Deon Kay getting out of the back of the car and running away.
The video shows a gun in Deon Kay's right hand about a second before Officer Alvarez shoots him in the back. Police said the gun was found about 98 feet away from Deon Kay. There are still discrepancies in opinion on whether or not Deon Kay threw the gun before he was shot, or if the impact of the bullet caused it to fly out of his hand.
Following the verdict, Ford said that while Alvarez was cleared by MPD's Internal Affairs, a jury of impartial people looked at the same evidence, and MPD reviewed and saw it differently.
According to Ford, Natasha Kay has been awarded $655,000 for the death of her son. She anticipates that the District will appeal the decision.
"So tomorrow, the District has made a request to ask the judge to overturn this verdict," Ford explained. "We will come back to this courtroom at noon, the fight is not over."
Once this request is formally filed, the District has 30 days to appeal the judge's decision. [MORE]
TRUMP’S FREEDUMB IS FOR RACISTS ONLY. If you can’t sit outside your house and drink a beer or be left alone then you are probably living in a prison or in D.C., which is a free range prison that just got more restrictive. Here is yet another example of racists using authority to dominate Black people - as this is all theater for Neuropeons, who vicariously are pleased with the fuckery of Black people, although they get nothing tangible out of it. A Gang of Trump’s Race Soldiers pop up at a Black man’s house in D.C. pointing flashlights talking about ‘you got your ID on you?’ The fake white cop said ‘we’re here for Donald Trump to stop the violent crime . . so quality of life offenses like drinking in public and smoking in public can’t happen.’ Is he really fucking serious? Drinking or Smoking in public and other quality of life crimes are minor misdemeanors, citation offenses - not violent crimes and thus cannot be the lawful basis of an “emergency order” to suspend the authority of an elected local government.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday placing Washington DC’s police force under federal control, invoking emergency powers that face potential constitutional challenges over scope, duration and procedural safeguards.
The order cites Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which grants the president authority over local police during “special conditions of an emergency nature.” Its status as a federal district rather than a state gives the federal government unique oversight authority over DC.
Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act, allows the President roughly 30-day control over the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). D.C. leaders said two liaisons will directly respond to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, and meetings continue over the extent of the federal activities.
Notably, the statute requires genuine emergency conditions that threaten federal operations, not general public safety concerns. If challenged, the Trump Administration would likely have to convince a court that DC’s crime statistics truly constitute the type of crisis the law envisions.
By way of statistical justification, Trump’s executive order stated “the District of Columbia now has a higher violent crime, murder, and robbery rate than all 50 States.” Asked to consider whether these findings justify the White House’s invocation of Section 740, a court might question the Administration’s decisions to compare DC, a dense urban area of 700,000 residents, to entire states that include rural and suburban areas with typically lower crime rates.
The order also excluded key context regarding crime trends. According to data released by the DC’s Metropolitan Police Department, violent crime has been trending downward since 2023. By August 11, 2023, DC had seen 163 homicides, 110 cases of sex abuse, 888 assaults with a dangerous weapon, and 2,105 robberies. Motor vehicle thefts — categorized by DC police as a property crime, not a violent crime — numbered 4,443. In 2025, those figures are: 99 homicides, 54 cases of sex abuse, 533 assaults with a dangerous weapon, and 898 robberies. Car theft is also down, at 2,904. In 2024, violent and property crimes were down across the board. In January, shortly before Trump took office, the US Attorney’s Office for DC announced that violent crime in the district had hit a 30-year low.
In addition to questions over whether an emergency declaration is warranted, the order appears to contain constitutional vulnerabilities insofar as it lacks procedural safeguards, hearing requirements, or clear standards for when the emergency declaration will end, potentially violating due process rights. The indefinite suspension of local democratic governance could also raise separation of powers concerns. [MORE]
According to FUNKTIONARY:
Neuropeans – (Neurotic Europeans)—neurotic, ignorant, narcissistic and self-deluded white supremacist Caucasians operating at the mythic and rational levels of consciousness only. 2) Fascists. (See: Weiteko Disease & White Supremacy)
Neuropeons – neurotic, stupid and self-deluded poor white trash. 2) skin-heads. 3) Nazis, Neo-Nazis and Theo-Nazis. (See: KKK, WOTAN, Weiteko Disease, Fascism, Racism White Supremacy, Stupidity, Ku Klux Klan & Yurugu)
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday placing Washington DC’s police force under federal control, invoking emergency powers that face potential constitutional challenges over scope, duration and procedural safeguards.
The order cites Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which grants the president authority over local police during “special conditions of an emergency nature.” Its status as a federal district rather than a state gives the federal government unique oversight authority over DC.
Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act, allows the President roughly 30-day control over the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). D.C. leaders said two liaisons will directly respond to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, and meetings continue over the extent of the federal activities.
Notably, the statute requires genuine emergency conditions that threaten federal operations, not general public safety concerns. If challenged, the Trump Administration would likely have to convince a court that DC’s crime statistics truly constitute the type of crisis the law envisions.
By way of statistical justification, Trump’s executive order stated “the District of Columbia now has a higher violent crime, murder, and robbery rate than all 50 States.” Asked to consider whether these findings justify the White House’s invocation of Section 740, a court might question the Administration’s decisions to compare DC, a dense urban area of 700,000 residents, to entire states that include rural and suburban areas with typically lower crime rates.
The order also excluded key context regarding crime trends. According to data released by the DC’s Metropolitan Police Department, violent crime has been trending downward since 2023. By August 11, 2023, DC had seen 163 homicides, 110 cases of sex abuse, 888 assaults with a dangerous weapon, and 2,105 robberies. Motor vehicle thefts — categorized by DC police as a property crime, not a violent crime — numbered 4,443. In 2025, those figures are: 99 homicides, 54 cases of sex abuse, 533 assaults with a dangerous weapon, and 898 robberies. Car theft is also down, at 2,904. In 2024, violent and property crimes were down across the board. In January, shortly before Trump took office, the US Attorney’s Office for DC announced that violent crime in the district had hit a 30-year low. [MORE]
President Donald Trump announced he will federalize the District’s locally run police department for the ostensible purpose of attempting to cut crime and the actual purpose of pleasing his neuropeon base, who vicariously enjoy watching law abiding non-white people get dominated by authority. At a White House news conference Monday, Trump said he’s bringing in 800 National Guard members to assist with law enforcement in D.C. Trump added, “We will bring in the military if it’s needed” but said “I don’t think we’ll need it.”
Besides engaging in symbolic politics, Trump has otherwise delivered little of tangible value to poor or working class white people whom he claims to champion. It sounds like his effort here is basically political theater to vicariously please Neuropeons as the National Guard appears to have few actual police powers and will most likely just stand around and post up. Also, his authority over DC police appears to be only for 30 days.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday placing Washington DC’s police force under federal control, invoking emergency powers that face potential constitutional challenges over scope, duration and procedural safeguards.
The order cites Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which grants the president authority over local police during “special conditions of an emergency nature.” Its status as a federal district rather than a state gives the federal government unique oversight authority over DC.
Section 740 of the D.C. Home Rule Act, allows the President roughly 30-day control over the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). D.C. leaders said two liaisons will directly respond to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, and meetings continue over the extent of the federal activities.
Notably, the statute requires genuine emergency conditions that threaten federal operations, not general public safety concerns. If challenged, the Trump Administration would likely have to convince a court that DC’s crime statistics truly constitute the type of crisis the law envisions.
By way of statistical justification, Trump’s executive order stated “the District of Columbia now has a higher violent crime, murder, and robbery rate than all 50 States.” Asked to consider whether these findings justify the White House’s invocation of Section 740, a court might question the Administration’s decisions to compare DC, a dense urban area of 700,000 residents, to entire states that include rural and suburban areas with typically lower crime rates.
The order also excluded key context regarding crime trends. According to data released by the DC’s Metropolitan Police Department, violent crime has been trending downward since 2023. By August 11, 2023, DC had seen 163 homicides, 110 cases of sex abuse, 888 assaults with a dangerous weapon, and 2,105 robberies. Motor vehicle thefts — categorized by DC police as a property crime, not a violent crime — numbered 4,443. In 2025, those figures are: 99 homicides, 54 cases of sex abuse, 533 assaults with a dangerous weapon, and 898 robberies. Car theft is also down, at 2,904. In 2024, violent and property crimes were down across the board. In January, shortly before Trump took office, the US Attorney’s Office for DC announced that violent crime in the district had hit a 30-year low.
In addition to questions over whether an emergency declaration is warranted, the order appears to contain constitutional vulnerabilities insofar as it lacks procedural safeguards, hearing requirements, or clear standards for when the emergency declaration will end, potentially violating due process rights. The indefinite suspension of local democratic governance could also raise separation of powers concerns.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the D.C. National Guard will be “flowing into the streets of Washington in the coming week.” He also said the Pentagon was “prepared to bring in other National Guard units, other specialized units.”
“Between 100-200 Soldiers will be supporting law enforcement at any given time. Their duties will include an array of tasks from administrative, logistics and physical presence in support of law enforcement,” a statement from the Army said. [MORE]
Showcase Black broadcaster Shannon Sharpe will not return to ESPN, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The decision comes less than two weeks after Sharpe resolved a lawsuit that accused him of sexually assaulting a woman during their relationship. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the decision has not been announced.
Sharpe’s last appearance on ESPN was in late April, when the lawsuit was filed in Nevada. No details of the settlement were released. The lawsuit had sought $50 million. [MORE]
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson unveiled a $40 million investment in revamping the city's homeless shelters, declared as the largest of its kind in Chicago's history, which will significantly upgrade shelter amenities and create more private living spaces for residents in need. This funding is set to enhance facilities, including installing air conditioners and elevators, and expanding dining areas, addressing a profound need for dignified living conditions. As the MOPD Commissioner Rachel Arfa put it, “Now more than ever it is important for all of us to honor our disability community and protect our civil and disability rights, programs and services that help all of us live independently and thrive in each of our 77 communities,” emphasizing the city's commitment to its disabled residents. [MORE]
A Missouri bill going into effect Aug. 28 creates a task force to address the crisis of missing and murdered African American women and girls in the state.
The idea, which came from Sen. Angela Mosley, D-Florissant, has been years in the making.
Mosley sponsored a bill in the Missouri Senate in the last legislative session to create the task force, and the language for that bill was added into House Bill 495, which Gov. Mike Kehoe signed after it passed the General Assembly.
The issue of Black women going missing has been on the rise in recent years. According to the National Crime Information Center, in 2022, of the 271,493 girls and women reported missing, about 36% of those missing women and girls were Black. Black women and girls only made up about 14% of the female population in the U.S. at that time. [MORE]
On June 1, the office of Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols announced the creation of the Greenwood Trust. A trust is a legal arrangement where a trustee holds and manages property or assets for the benefit of a third party, the beneficiary, and may also be used to shield such assets from taxation and/or for bequeathing said assets to subsequent generations.
“Today at the Greenwood Cultural Center and on Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day, Mayor Monroe Nichols brought forward a plan for a Road to Repair that will help unify Tulsans and heal multi-generational wounds from the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which stands as one of the worst race massacres in U.S. History,” the statement said in part.
The statement also stated that the private charitable trust “will serve as an avenue to encourage economic growth and development in North Tulsa, the historic Greenwood District, and surrounding neighborhoods, with a focus to address disparities experienced by Tulsa Race Massacre survivors, descendants, Historic Greenwood District and North Tulsa residents and businesses.” [MORE]
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