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Fauci diaries are out and Biden tapes released. Hope everyone has a good supply of popcorn.
Good morning. I need you to look at these four faces before you scroll past.
Look at them.
Because your government already looked away.
Pvt. Isabella Gonzales. Carrollton, Texas. She was 19 years old. NINETEEN. She could not legally buy a beer at a bar in the country she swore an oath to defend. But she could be deployed to a base in Jordan, sleep in a thin-walled barracks, get hit by an Iranian ballistic missile in the middle of the night, die in a war that Congress never authorized, and then be DELETED from the official casualty count like a clerical error.
Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad. 28. Ozone Park, New York. Same missile strike. Same barracks. Same night. She didn’t die instantly — she went MISSING. For days, her status was “Duty Status-Whereabouts Unknown.” They found her remains in the rubble. And after all that — after her family waited days not knowing if she was alive or dead — the Pentagon took her name off the list. Like she never happened. Like the missile never hit. Like the “ceasefire” held.
1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan. 25. Ewa Beach, Hawaii. Survived the initial strike. Died the next day from his injuries. His parents said he accomplished more in 25 years than most people do in a lifetime. His government couldn’t even let him stay on a website.
Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton. 30. Fayetteville, North Carolina. Nearly a decade in the Army. Killed dismantling a downed Iranian attack drone in Iraq. Not in combat. Doing cleanup. Taking apart the thing that was supposed to kill someone else. He left behind a wife. A 6-year-old son. A 4-year-old daughter. A little girl who will spend the rest of her life without her father because he was doing his job in a war his president won’t call a war, in a conflict his Congress won’t authorize, and now his Pentagon won’t even count him.
HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED:
On Wednesday, the Pentagon’s casualty website listed 18 American deaths in Operation Epic Fury — the war with Iran that started February 28. On Thursday, it said 14. Four names gone. Four faces erased. The Pentagon called it “temporary data disruptions.”
Data disruptions. That’s what they called Angel Rampersad’s remains.
The real reason — confirmed by three military officials to the New York Times — is that these four died AFTER Trump declared a “ceasefire” in April.
A ceasefire so real that Iranian missiles are landing on American barracks in July. A ceasefire so legitimate that 100 servicemembers have been injured since July 7th alone. A ceasefire that exists for one reason and one reason only: to reset the War Powers Act clock.
The law says the president has 60 days to fight without congressional authorization. Sixty days from February 28 is May 1. May 1 came and went. No authorization. No vote. No debate.
So the White House sent a letter to Congress saying the ceasefire “terminated” the hostilities. New conflict, new clock, no accountability.
Thomas Massie — a REPUBLICAN from Kentucky — said it plainly: “The Pentagon is pretending there have been two Iran wars separated by a brief ceasefire.” He’s one of only FOUR Republicans in the entire House who voted to enforce the law.
Four Republicans. In the ENTIRE party of flags and eagles and “freedom isn’t free.” Four.
And the cherry on top of this disgrace:
THE SAME DAY those names were removed from the Pentagon website, Donald Trump flew to Dover Air Force Base. He stood on the tarmac in front of cameras. He watched four flag-draped transfer cases come off a plane. He told the press: “I had a very sad day yesterday. Four great American patriots killed.” He used the number 18.
His own Pentagon said 14.
He saluted their coffins for the cameras and then let his Defense Department pretend they don’t count.
You brought them home for the photo. You deleted them for the paperwork.
Now I want to talk to the rest of you.
WHERE ARE THE BENGHAZI PEOPLE? Four Americans died in Benghazi and you held 33 congressional hearings. THIRTY-THREE. You made a movie. You put Hillary Clinton’s face on dart boards. You screamed “WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE” for YEARS. You built an entire political movement around four dead Americans.
There are 18 dead Americans right now in a war that was never authorized. The Pentagon is cooking the books. The bodies are coming home in boxes. And your timeline is QUIET.
WHERE ARE THE “SUPPORT THE TROOPS” MAGNETS? Where’s the outrage? Where are the posts? Where are the veteran organizations? Where are the Gold Star family advocates? Where are the people who cried over 13 servicemembers in Afghanistan and said “never again”?
It’s happening AGAIN. RIGHT NOW.
Where are the “never forget” people? Because you forgot FAST.
Where are the constitutionalists? The ones who say they’d die for the Second Amendment but can’t be bothered to defend Article I, Section 8 — the part that says CONGRESS declares war, not the president?
Where are the fiscal conservatives? This war has cost $37.5 BILLION so far and Hegseth just told Congress he needs almost double that. You lost your minds over school lunches.
Where are the “law and order” people? The War Powers Act is the LAW. The House has voted TWICE to enforce it. The president is ignoring it. That’s not a gray area. That’s a constitutional crisis in broad daylight and you don’t care because your guy is doing it.
You don’t support the troops. You support the aesthetics of supporting the troops. You support the bumper sticker. You support the flyover at the football game. You support the flag as a prop. But when those troops come home in boxes and your government literally ERASES THEIR NAMES to cover a legal fiction, you scroll past to argue about Mel Gibson directing the Odyssey.
Isabella Gonzales was 19 years old. She was Latina. She was from Texas. She was a private in the United States Army. She could not buy a beer. She could die in an unauthorized war during a fake ceasefire in a country we’re not officially fighting in and be removed from a casualty list so the math works for a White House lawyer.
That’s what you’re OK with when you stay silent.
These are their faces. I put them here so you can’t pretend you didn’t see them.
Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19.
Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad, 28.
1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25.
Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30. Father of two.
They counted. They mattered. They served. They died.
And their government said: doesn’t count, wrong date.
Speaking of pedophiles, Harry O
The Tate sisters, er I mean BROS, yeah, right, are two of the gayest “men” on earth
Sally Quinn, a writer known as a “legendary D.C. hostess,” shared in her New York Times opinion piece Sunday the scolding she received last fall from Kellyanne Conway at a private club — and the opinion Quinn was told to keep to herself.
“Stop writing all these pieces about how terrible Washington is now and how everyone is so depressed and scared,” Conway snapped, according to Quinn. “We’re having fun! You know what your problem is? You’re not invited to the right dinners and parties.”
Quinn told her readers, “I held my tongue.”
But her opinion of her home town under Trump’s administration didn’t change.
“It’s not that the party is over, exactly,” wrote Quinn. “And to be clear, there’s lots more damage that will be done to this city, and to our democracy — not to mention America’s place in the world — before Trump and his rabble are through. But it’s clearly starting to dawn on the MAGA minions that the morning after is going to be a doozy.”
The socialite divulged the gory, grimy details of a mounting vibe shift in D.C. that she argues reached the tipping point the day of Trump’s Ultimate Fighting Championship bout on the White House lawn.
Quinn noted the mood at a hot restaurant felt weirdly off.
“The day before the cage fights, Cafe Milano, one of the hottest restaurants in Washington for the past 34 years, was packed,” Quinn wrote. “Much to the chagrin of some of the regulars, a number of the MAGA crowd in town for the U.F.C. event were there.”
“But the mood felt off. Less jubilant. As if they knew that the U.F.C. fights were really going to be the moment when MAGA jumped the shark.”
The cause for the supposed fall from grace for Washington’s MAGA crowd, Quinn suggested, was none other than Trump himself.
“The cage fights may have been the tipping point for many here — the moment, with the combatants tromping with cartoonish bravado through the White House, that it became clear that Trump was punch-drunk, raging against his enemies,” she wrote.
J. Michael Luttig, a former U.S. Court of Appeals judge who has turned against Trump, told Quinn why he felt the mood had changed.
Luttig said, “Trump eats his own.”Will Trump’s actions sabotage Republicans in the midterm
A reminder on the evolution of 2020 “stolen election” theories:
First we had mail-in fraud + Dominion + “illegal law changes” (Nov–Dec 2020) then → Georgia election workers + foreign interference/Italygate (Dec 2020–Jan 2021, concurrent) then → 2,000 Mules (ballot stuffers) (2022) then → social-media-censorship revival via Twitter Files (Dec 2022) then → renewed foreign-interference claims (2024–present).
Through all this, we’ve had:
1. Dominion getting $787 million from Fox News for defamation
2. Rudy Giuliani admitting he lied about Georgia election workers (and the jury awarding the workers $148 million)
3. Sidney Powell admitting in court “no reasonable person would conclude” her claims of election fraud “were truly statements of fact”
4. The Gateway Pundit retracting claims of election fraud in Atlanta
5. The Media company that put out D’Souza’s 2,000 Mules film apologizing and removing it after law enforcement proved it falsely accused people of fraud
6. Newsmax and One America News Network (OANN) settling with Smartmatic
It is NOT true that none of these allegations have seen a court room. Most have. Of the 64 cases of fraud that Trump and his legal team filed in court, 30 were dismissed that included a hearing on the merits, 14 were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his allies before a hearing, and just 20 were dismissed for lack of standing before a hearing on the merits.
One case, involving far too few votes to impact the election, prevailed in Pennsylvania. That case was about voter ID deadlines, not election fraud.
Those are the facts.
Whatever he announces on Thursday night, will be completely void of facts per normal.
The US Treasury has borrowed $155 billion every month of this fiscal year. It is now paying $24 billion a week in interest. This is the fiscally responsible party?
Biden’s administration released 68,000 illegal aliens into American communities in April 2024 alone.
American taxpayers footed a bill of at least $150 billion annually to cover the costs of that open border, according to the House Budget Committee.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform calculated that the bill reached $182 billion per year when fully accounting for the 20 million illegal aliens Biden invited in.
That’s your money – handed to people who broke the law to get here, while Biden’s team told you the border was “secure.”
The US can still win the World Cup, we just need to find 11,780 more goals.
The Lobe Rangers, a nonpartisan group of three Iowa farmers, will open one of their farms to the public on Saturday, July 25th, for a free field day built on a simple idea: show what already works with conservation farming and water quality.
The event runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 2195 250th St., Rockwell City. This event, which will be held at the farm of James Hepp, is open to the public at no cost.
“Meaningful change in our water can’t involve just a few of us doing the right things,” Hepp said. “It needs to be commonplace on most of the fields you drive past. That means cover crops growing every winter, less tillage, and nitrogen being applied when the crop can actually use it. We’re a long way from that. Pretending we’re not hasn’t gotten Iowa anywhere.”
Iowa’s water quality challenges remain at the center of public debate. The state’s own science calls for these practices on at least 60 percent of the landscape before Iowans should expect measurable improvement in water quality; on the Des Moines Lobe, combined adoption of the bundled practices is estimated below 10 percent.
The Lobe Rangers have used cover crops, strip-tillage and in-season nitrogen on their Des Moines Lobe operations for more than a decade. They’re inviting researchers, Des Moines Water Works, the public, and every Iowa officeholder and 2026 candidates to see the distance between the state’s official water-quality plan and the results it has actually produced.
• The field day opens with a keynote from Dr. Matt Helmers about the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy — the state’s official plan for cutting the nitrogen and phosphorus that move off Iowa farmland into its rivers and drinking water. Helmers is the director of Iowa State University’s Iowa Nutrient Research Center, Dean’s Professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and chair of the state’s nitrogen science team for the strategy.
• Q&A between the Lobe Rangers and Des Moines Water Works.
• Live equipment and rainfall-simulator demonstrations.
• Lunch provided at Noon.
• Panel discussion taking questions directly from the crowd. Panelists include the Lobe Rangers, Des Moines Water Works, Matt Helmers and retired Iowa State University researcher Jerry Hatfield, with additional voices expected.
Those farming practices that will be showcased at the field day are the same ones the state’s own strategy identifies as necessary to improve water quality. The Lobe Rangers have used these management practices for more than decade while staying competitive on yield.
“We’ve farmed this way for fifteen years, with yields right alongside everybody else’s,” said Zack Smith, a member of The Lobe Rangers who farms near Buffalo Center, Iowa. “We’re not asking anyone to take a risk we haven’t already taken ourselves…we’re asking folks to join us and help create a better Iowa.”
In keeping with the Lobe Rangers’ nonpartisan mission, identical invitations to the July 25 have been extended to all current state and federal officeholders representing Iowa and to all candidates for office in 2026.
The U.S. Office of Government Ethics released Trump’s annual financial disclosure. It is 927 pages long. For context, Barack Obama’s final disclosure was eight pages. Joe Biden’s was eleven. Donald Trump’s is 927.
In a single year, Trump reported nearly $1.2 billion in revenue from cryptocurrency ventures alone. He collected $635 million in royalties from the $TRUMP meme coin, a token he launched three days before taking office that has no utility, function, or value beyond paying Donald Trump. It peaked at $75 per token and now trades at $1.67, a 98 percent collapse. For every dollar in trading fees the creators of that coin collected, investors lost twenty. More than one million investors have collectively lost $2.3 billion. Many of them are his own supporters. An early group of investors who got in at dirt-cheap prices cashed out within days, pocketing nearly $700 million, including one account created just hours before the coin launched that walked away with $109 million. The terms of the offering prohibit buyers from joining any class-action lawsuits. The fine print labels the coin as “artwork.” And the president of the United States pocketed $635 million from it while the people who trusted him lost everything.
The filing also shows that Trump purchased Amazon stock worth between $500,000 and $1 million on September 23, the same day a trial began in Seattle federal court for an FTC lawsuit against the company. That trial ended two days later when Amazon agreed to settle. He purchased between $1 million and $5 million in Axon Enterprise stock roughly two weeks before ICE moved to solicit a five-year, $220 million Taser contract with specifications that experts said effectively excluded any bidder other than Axon. In just the first three months of 2026, he reported more than 3,600 buy and sell orders worth between $220 million and $750 million, in companies like Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Oracle, Broadcom, Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs. Nearly all of them are companies whose fortunes he directly controls through his own policy decisions. Many, if not all, are also donors of his.
If this had been Joe Biden or Barack Obama’s financial disclosure the right would have impeached both Presidents. When it is Donald Trump’s financial disclosure, the right is “nothing to see here”. It is sad.
Many of these people on this site wouldn’t know what socialism is even if the mailman delivered their social security check on a road just plowed by the city, past a fire station and a police station funded by their taxes, on the way to a public school where their grandchildren get a free lunch while their Medicare-funded ambulance waited by a stoplight maintained by public infrastructure funds all while they bitch about Democrats giving away free stuff to immigrants.
The new name for the Reflecting Pool in DC is up for a vote. Do we call it The Deflecting Pool or is it “Strait of Warm Ooze.”
This is make a lot of people who voted for him happy.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-unemployment-benefits-fraud-b2997881.html
Just twelve days after trump declared victory over what he called “Biden filth,” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is peeling apart in real time, its fresh coat of “American flag blue” paint lifting off the bottom in massive chunks and floating to the surface of an already swampy, algae-choked mess.
The whole disaster reads like a contractor cutting every corner to hit a July 4th photo-op deadline. Pool coatings fail for a pretty predictable set of reasons: improper surface prep, rushing the cure time before flooding the basin, or a chemical imbalance that destroys the paint’s bond. In this case it appears to be all three at once. Workers have been dumping hydrogen peroxide into the water to fight the algae bloom, and as any pool professional will tell you, that chemical is essentially a paint stripper.
The contract was handed to Atlantic Industrial Coatings through a no-bid process at $13.1 million, going to a Virginia company that had never once held a federal contract before this job. As pool service owner Cochise Wanzer II put it to the AP, “What do you expect?” The pool coating, designed for smooth plaster and concrete surfaces, was applied to a reinforced concrete basin that was rushed through prep and flooded before the material had any real chance to bond.
For $13.1 million, the American public got a green swamp with peeling walls and phosphate levels far above safe limits. Experts say the whole thing likely needs to be stripped and redone from scratch, meaning the country may end up spending that same money twice just to get back to where it started. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING trump touches gets ruined
WORST. DEAL. EVER.
A developer wants to build a big apartment house in Clear Lake maybe first he can tell us where Jodi H is buried hear he knows
As health care costs soar, our government is spending money on cage fights on the front lawn of the White House and desecrating the Lincoln Memorial by holding weigh ins for the on the steps leading up to Lincoln’s statue. They are also spending a billion dollars a day on a war that will end sometime in the future with more than likely a worse deal than was previously in place.
Affordable Care Act (ACA/Obamacare) Plans: Insurers raised ACA marketplace premiums by an average of 26%. Actual out-of-pocket premium payments surged by an average of 114% due to the expiration of enhanced federal subsidies.
Employer-Sponsored Plans: The average annual premium for a workplace family health plan rose by 6%, reaching nearly $27,000. Employers are expected to pass a portion of these increases on to workers via higher paycheck deductions and out-of-pocket deductibles.
Medicare Part B: Monthly standard premiums for Medicare Part B shot up by nearly 10% to $202.90.
Eventually, even employers who now provide health insurance to their workers will stop doing that. What is trump’s solution? Take out a loan.
Great day in Washington, D.C. Trump’s name has been removed from the Kennedy Center. If you MAGAs are upset, you can still find his name over 35,000 times in the Epstein files.
Now that the democrats have their own resident Nazi running for the senate, suppose they will stop calling republicans Nazi’s?