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Dr. Fauci Hearing Drama

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. jumped into the Anthony Fauci hearing drama with a short message and a meme that quickly got attention online.

Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the most visible faces of the federal COVID response, appeared Wednesday morning under subpoena before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

The hearing was titled “Testimony of Anthony Fauci” and was scheduled for 8:30 a.m. ET on July 29 in Room SD-342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, according to the committee notice cited in the report.

Sen. Rand Paul has been one of Fauci’s fiercest critics for years. The hearing followed Paul’s release of what has been described as Fauci’s “Diary Package” over the weekend. Critics say the material shows Fauci’s concern with his public image during the pandemic era.

Once the hearing began, Fauci reportedly refused to answer questions and invoked the Fifth Amendment. That move immediately fueled fresh criticism from conservatives who have long argued that Fauci has never been fully held accountable for his role in COVID policy, government messaging, and the broader pandemic response.

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Bernie Moreno's testimony--

Trump keeps warning Iran

Trump Warns of Strong Military Action if Iran Diplomacy Fails

President Trump announced the U.S. is in very deep talks with Iran while warning that strong military action remains on the table if negotiations fail to produce results.

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the United States is engaged in "very deep talks" with Iran, while warning that "strong military action" remains on the table if diplomatic efforts fail to produce results. The comments came as U.S. forces observed a pause in strikes against Iranian targets.

Trump addressed reporters during a press availability, emphasizing that military pressure had forced Tehran to the negotiating table. "The only reason they want to meet is because we've been hitting them very hard," the president said. "They understand now that we are serious."

The remarks coincide with a fragile diplomatic pause in the ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict that began in late February. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz confirmed that the administration had halted strikes to give diplomacy more time, though he stressed that military readiness remained intact.

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It seems as if negotiations have been going on forever.

Two disgruntled Republicans holding up Todd Blanche's Nomination

Senate panel delays vote on Blanche's nomination as key Republicans withhold support

Todd Blanche's nomination to become attorney general stalled Wednesday as lawmakers scrapped a planned committee vote after key Republicans demanded more assurances about the settlement of President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 15. During Blanche's tenure as acting Attorney General the Justice Department has been under scrutiny for pushing President Trump's 1.8 billion dollar "anti-weaponization" fund and its handling of the Epstein files.

Law Takeaways from Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing for attorney general:

The Senate Judiciary Committee had been expected to vote Thursday on whether to advance Blanche's nomination to the full chamber. But resistance from two Republican senators on the committee who could block Blanche's nomination threw his confirmation into doubt.

A spokesperson for the committee said in a statement Wednesday night that the vote would be postponed "as work continues to secure sufficient support." The delay came after hours of negotiations between the Justice Department and Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis over the controversial settlement that afforded Trump and members of his family protection from tax audits.

Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina have thrown the confirmation of Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche into serious doubt by forcing a last-minute delay of a critical Senate Judiciary Committee vote. Why?

Because Cornyn was not endorsed by Trump and Tillis was called a "loser" by Trump, both senators are retiring and not returning to Congress next year. They are acting independently of party leadership to demand written guarantees from the Trump administration regarding a controversial Justice Department settlement.

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Mamdani: "We should reconcile and repair this legacy of slavery, stolen wealth and discrimination.”

Mamdani Won’t Rule Out Cash Reparations For New Yorkers

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is leaving the door wide open to taxpayer-funded reparations for slavery in America’s largest city.

The democratic socialist mayor refused to rule out cash payments when pressed during an interview with The Root’s Charles Blow, instead saying he would wait for the recommendations of an ongoing city study.

Blow asked Mamdani directly whether he would support cash reparations if the commission endorsed them.

“First, I want to say that I stand by what I submitted. It’s the truth. It’s not a personal assessment,” Mamdani responded, according to an official City Hall transcript.

“We often think about slavery and the complicity in slavery as being exclusively to certain geographic areas of the country,” he continued. “Here in New York City, we were very complicit. And so I look forward to whatever those findings are.”

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Rand Paul kicked out Fauci's attorney from Senate hearing

Capitol Police Remove Fauci Lawyer from Senate Hearing

Capitol Police escorted Dr. Anthony Fauci’s attorney out of a fiery Senate hearing Wednesday after Sen. Rand Paul accused him of repeatedly disrupting the proceedings.

The dramatic removal came as Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times and faced warnings that Congress could pursue contempt charges over his refusal to answer questions.

Defense attorney David Schertler sat beside Fauci throughout the nearly four-hour Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing. Schertler repeatedly attempted to intervene after Paul warned that Fauci could face consequences for refusing to testify.

Paul told the attorney several times that he was not authorized to speak during the hearing. When Schertler continued addressing the committee, Paul ordered Capitol Police to remove him.

“Security, please remove him from the room,” the Kentucky Republican declared.

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Sunrise 7-30-26

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STOLEN VEHICLE
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Criminal shot to death after stabbing police officer

ABC News Just Buried a Wisconsin Cop’s Stabbing to Protect a Suspect’s Image

Pierre Thomas Waits 103 Seconds to Mention the Knife

A Madison officer was stabbed Wednesday while trying to arrest a man caught prowling parked cars. The criminal, Corey Ruiz, 38, was taken to a hospital after the shooting and died there.

ABC World News Tonight anchor Linsey Davis opened with "growing outrage" over the shooting, without once mentioning that an officer had been stabbed.

NBC alone told viewers that public records showed criminal Ruiz with at least 40 criminal convictions, several of them for resisting or fighting officers. Court filings reviewed by CNN show Ruiz pleaded guilty since 2021 to charges including resisting police and battery against an officer.

Bystander video verified by NBC News captured people screaming "he's got a knife" seconds before the shots were fired.

Correspondent Pierre Thomas then spent a minute and forty-three seconds walking through video before he mentioned the officer's injury at all. Even then, Thomas buried it inside a sentence built to protect the suspect, not inform the viewer. He told America that "authorities claim the officer who fired the shot was injured by the knife."

Read that again.

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Democrats have become radicalized

Ted Cruz predicts AOC presidential bid and Mamdani Senate run as Democrats lurch left

Sen. Ted Cruz says the Democratic Party's future belongs to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and he's warning that the country will pay for it.

Cruz laid out his case this week on Fox News and on his X account, pointing to fresh polling data and the party's leftward drift as evidence that Ocasio-Cortez will seek the presidency.

The Texas Republican framed both predictions not as idle speculation but as the logical result of a Democratic Party that has handed its energy, its money, and its direction to its most radical members.

The senator's second prediction was sharper and arguably more consequential. Cruz told Fox News that Mamdani, who was elected mayor of New York City in November, will be the next Democratic senator from New York.

He called Mamdani "the single most powerful Democrat in the country", a label that skips past every governor, every committee chair, and every party leader still clinging to the old guard.

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A Cart of Anti-ICE Signage and a Bucket of Gasoline

Tom Homan Stopped Democrat Attackers Cold After the NYC Firebombing With One Warning for Mayor Mamdani

A man armed with axes, a machete and gasoline tried to burn down the federal building that houses ICE in New York City Monday.

Tom Homan skipped past the axes and the gasoline and blamed the people who armed that man with an excuse.

Andrew Arrabaca showed up outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan Monday morning hauling a cart marked with anti-ICE signage. He lit a firework packed inside a canister, fired five to seven rounds from an airsoft rifle at the building, then dumped a bucket of gasoline and set the entrance ablaze.

Federal investigators later found two axes, a machete, three knives and a hammer stashed in his gear.

PJ Media reported Homan has spent recent weeks warning on air that the hostility built up against ICE was about to boil over into real violence.

"There's still going to be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted," Homan told Fox News before the NYC attack even happened.

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Communist Fool Hasan Piker

Hasan Piker Goes Full Mao in a Literal Dictator Suit as the Left-Wing Civil War Turns Ever More Frightening

Sitting Congressman Shared The Stage With Piker's Communist Cosplay

Hasan Piker is not some random voice screaming into the internet void. He commands roughly 10 million followers across the internet.

On July 18, he took the podium at the College Democrats of America summer convention in Washington, D.C. He wore a suit styled after Mao Zedong, the communist dictator whose policies historians blame for tens of millions of deaths.

Democrat Congressman Jamie Raskin addressed the same two-day convention. So did gun control punk activist David Hogg.

Senate about to take a 5 week break

We Have Until August 6th to Pass the SAVE America Act

Break from what?

President Donald Trump on Monday called on the U.S. Senate to cancel its five-week August break, keeping lawmakers in session to advance several of his priorities, despite not having the votes.

Trump wrote in a social media post that he wanted Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., to keep the chamber open, preventing vulnerable Republicans facing reelection from the campaign trail, to pass a voter identification bill, among other measures.

“John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to ‘leave town’ until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER, where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they ever dreamed of, including a full and deep throated SAVE AMERICA ACT, the Budget, and the ever looming Debt Ceiling disaster, 1929!” Trump wrote. “The Dumocrats will do it on day one, and can’t believe how lucky they got with this Senate leadership.

Remember, stupidity always brings LOSING & DEATH!”

Trump followed up with another post about 15 minutes later, writing that whichever political party eliminates the rule that requires at least 60 senators vote to limit debate, known as the legislative filibuster, will hold an advantage in the Senate.

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Salads to Avoid

Sunset 7-28-26

The midterms are a referendum on how effective the Red-Green coalition has been at conning and subverting the American public. Peter Navarro frames the choice clearly:

Trump prosperity, security, affordability, border control, and deterrence — or Democrat inflation, sanctuary chaos, weaponized justice, Marxist street politics, and managed decline.

The same party that made America unaffordable now wants to campaign on affordability. The same coalition that defends open borders now pretends to care about wages and housing.

The scam is obvious. Import millions, strain communities, inflate costs, then blame capitalism.

Good Night, Patriots!

Sunset 7-28

A federal judge has struck down several Illinois laws that provided in-state tuition and state financial aid benefits to illegal immigrants.

On Friday, US Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft announced that the US District Court ruled in favor of the federal government’s lawsuit against the State of Illinois and Governor JB Pritzker.

The court denied the state’s motion to dismiss and declared that Illinois’ in-state tuition rules for public universities and community colleges, its RISE Act, and the Illinois DREAM Act are “unconstitutional and invalid.” [AmericanJournalDaily]

Good Night, Patriots!

Louisville Courier publishes a "Pre-Obituary" of Mitch McConnell

Joseph Gerth, Wise guy

Louisville Courier Journal publishes hostile 'pre-obituary' of Mitch McConnell while senator recovers in hospital

A Louisville Courier Journal columnist published a blistering column he called a "pre-obituary" of Sen. Mitch McConnell, writing it while the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican is still alive and reportedly recovering from a hospitalization that began more than five weeks ago.

Despicable Columnist Joseph Gerth did not wait for McConnell to die. He said he timed the piece deliberately, publishing it on July 22 so that, in his words, "no one can complain, 'How dare you write that about a dead guy?'" 

The column, carried by McConnell's hometown paper, called the state's longest-serving senator a "detestable figure" and accused him of damaging the country's trust in government over a career spanning 42 years and six reelection victories.

The column landed while McConnell remains out of public view following a June 14 fall at his home that sent him to the hospital. His Senate office went nearly a month without issuing any public update on his condition, a silence that drew pointed questions from Kentucky's governor and fueled rumors about the senator's health.

On July 12, McConnell's office finally released a statement and a photo showing him sitting up in a hospital bed, holding a newspaper, with his wife Elaine Chao beside him.

Ten days later, the POS 💩💩 Gerth published his column.

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McConnell releases Health update

Mitch McConnell releases health update, saying he’s not ready to return to work yet

They must have heard AOC's complaint

McConnell has missed the last 38 votes on the Senate floor since his June 14 hospitalization. He said he’s undergoing “intense physical therapy” but didn’t offer a timeline for his return.

“I’m still working hard to get back to my full schedule of work in the Senate and in Kentucky, keeping up with intense physical therapy per my doctors’ orders,” McConnell, R-Ky., said in a statement. “Unfortunately, that means I won’t be able to make it to Fancy Farm, Kentucky this Saturday.” 01:06

Thune says he defers to McConnell and team on health updates

McConnell, who said he’s in rehabilitation care after a fall at his home last month, added that there’s “no place I’d rather be” than the annual picnic in Kentucky this weekend and “I hate that I’ll miss the fun this year.” He said he’s “looking forward to getting back to the Senate and to Kentucky soon.”

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Cancel Senate August break and pass the Save Act

Trump demands Senate cancel August break until it passes stalled voting bill

President Donald Trump on Monday demanded that Senate Majority Leader John Thune cancel the chamber’s upcoming August break until senators pass a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill, even as Republicans lack the votes to advance it.

Trump has repeatedly urged Thune to scrap the legislative filibuster, which effectively sets a 60-vote threshold for most legislation in the 100-member Senate, or find another workaround to pass the voting bill, known as the SAVE America Act.

But Republicans hold only a 53-47 majority, and Thune has consistently said they don’t have the votes to pass the bill or change the rules to get around the filibuster.

“John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to ‘leave town’ until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER,” Trump wrote on social media.

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Boasberg blocks a State Department Policy

Judge Boasberg blocks Trump visa restrictions on foreign censorship actors in First Amendment dispute

Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has temporarily halted the Trump administration's policy of restricting visas for foreign nationals tied to the suppression of American free speech, a move conservatives say shields the very actors who helped silence them.

Boasberg, an Obama appointee who has clashed repeatedly with the Trump White House, issued a stay blocking the State Department from enforcing its policy against individuals connected to organizations like the Global Disinformation Index.

The GDI drew bipartisan scrutiny after it produced what critics called blacklists of conservative news websites, while receiving federal funding during the Biden era.

Fox News Digital reported that the judge found the administration may be engaging in viewpoint discrimination that violates the First Amendment.

Boasberg's role in this case is difficult to separate from his broader record. President Obama nominated him to the federal bench in 2010, and Fox News has described him as "a major judicial antagonist across President Donald Trump's two administrations." His rulings have repeatedly put him at odds with the current White House on immigration, national security, and executive authority.

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