Missouri has four Republicans and two Democrats in Congress. They are redistricting to make it five and one by cutting Kansas City into three.
Judge called antisemitism on Trump and stopped the 2 billion dollar freeze on Harvard. Trump voters: you're an antisemite and voted for one. Youre a fucking awful person. Fuck you.
Ticket sales at Kennedy Center for the Arts have plummeted. Even previously scheduled artists are performing for neat empty rooms. New director proposed alliance with Christian Broadcasting Network and more bible based shows. New dance director, apparently unable to get "woke" out of ballet, suggests formats like reality TV So You Think you can Dance.
Quack running Florida public health, chosen by DeSantis for lack of credentials and lying on resume, thundered against measles and polio vaccine mandates, saying people should decide what happens to their God given bodies. Conveniently ignoring the fact that the children aren't the ones deciding. And that personal decision making does not apply to women and trans people.
'Not a great look': Trump officials point finger at Kristi Noem over 'embarrassing' gaffe A senior Trump official is pointing the finger at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for what they said was an “embarrassing” blunder that led to an unintentional “diplomatic snub,” Axios reported Wednesday. Top officials from Argentina were dispatched to Washington, D.C. last week after getting the green light from Noem to attend the signing of a new Visa Waiver program; however, due to what two insiders told Axios was a ‘lack of communication,’ they were unexpectedly sent home empty handed. "Let's just say this was not a great look from us," the senior Trump official told Axios. "It's embarrassing." The new Visa Waiver program would allow Argentinians to visit the United States for up to 90 days without a visa. The agreement was reached amid growing ties between the two nations, and after Argentina agreed to rollback its use of Chinese technology. Those Argentina officials, however, were told by DHS that no signing would take place, and ultimately left the United States without the agreement being signed, a mishap that DHS blamed on “missing a signature,” according to “two sources with knowledge of the situation” who spoke with Axios. Those sources said that in reality, Noem had failed to notify Secretary of State Marco Rubio of the agreement, who upon learning of the impending signing ceremony, issued a pause amid concerns over an Argentinian corruption scandal. Axios did not receive a response from DHS on the matter, which declined to comment on the mishap, or clarify whose signature was missing. Juan Pazo, the high-level official dispatched to the United States who heads Argentina’s Customs Control and Collection Agency, also declined to comment on the matter, and referred Axios to DHS for further comment. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/poli...isti-noem-over-embarrassing-gaffe/ar-AA1LMKbx
Like that is going to work. If ICE runs across Spanish-speaking people with no Visa, they're going to lock them up.
If they can make it through that extreme obstacle course. Still can't believe Dean Cain made it through.
Senator Mark Warner, top Democrats on Senate Intelligence Committee, had visit scheduled at intelligence site in his home state. The fact the meeting was happening was classified. Meeting cancelled after Laura Loomer, who holds no government post and has no security clearance, denounced it publicly. Senator Warner wants to know who indormed her of the scheduled meeting. He has now been told the meeting can be rescheduled but only if a Republican comes along.
'Nothing Is Going To Buy My Soul': GHF Whistleblower Reveals Horrors In Gaza Retired Green Beret Anthony Aguilar recalls the massacres he witnessed Israeli soldiers and American mercenaries carry out against Palestinians at aid sites. A retired U.S. Army officer who worked as a subcontractor for the shadowy Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is sounding the alarm over the atrocities he said he saw Israeli soldiers and American mercenaries carry out against starving Palestinians trying to access aid. Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar, who served 25 years in the U.S. Army Special Forces as a Green Beret, was hired as an independent subcontractor by UG Solutions to serve as armed security for the private, U.S.-funded GHF, which launched its so-called aid delivery sites in May. “When I first went into this, I was excited. I felt it was a noble cause,” he told Democracy Now! on Tuesday. “Within hours of being in Israel and seeing how this was going to unfold, I immediately had dire concerns as to the intentions, as to the execution, and what was going to happen when this fails.” Aguilar said he ended his contract on June 14 after witnessing his fellow security officers and soldiers with the Israeli Defense Forces repeatedly open fire on Palestinian civilians who had trekked to GHF’s four aid hubs. Armed officers often celebrated hitting civilians at the sites, where the United Nations says more than a thousand Palestinians have been killed. The IDF has maintained that soldiers only use their guns to deliver warning shots for unruly crowds. But Aguilar said that officers attacked civilians with tank rounds, mortars and fully automatic weapons with at least 210 rounds each of green-tipped, armor-piercing ammunition designed to kill. “The sites have not only become death traps, they were designed as death traps,” Aguilar told the outlet. “All four distribution locations were intentionally, deliberately constructed, planned and built in the middle of an active combat zone.” Since leaving Gaza, Aguilar has spoken to several media outlets and leaders about the horrors he saw while working for GHF, which was already under intense backlash from the international community for essentially weaponizing food aid against an entire people. Aguilar said to Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Tuesday that “a lightbulb went off in my head” when he was told directly that UG Solutions’ client was the IDF. UG Solutions and the GHF have both rejected Aguilar’s testimony as false, painting the officer as a disgruntled worker who wants revenge after allegedly being fired “for inappropriate behavior.” The IDF has said that it is investigating incidents of civilian harm at aid sites, though the military is known for either not completing probes or avoiding handing down consequences. Palestinians check bodies of people killed while waiting for aid a day earlier, at the Al-Shifa Hospital's morgue in Gaza City, on July 31, 2025. Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli forces killed at least 30 people when they opened fire on a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid on July 30. Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images “I didn’t take on this mission for personal gain or money. I took this mission because I believed in it,” Aguilar said. “I resigned my contract and left, walked away from the money — and they were paying us a lot of money — walked away from that money, because nothing is going to buy my soul. Nothing is going to pay for my values and my patriotism as an American.” Aguilar also documented the violence and chaos occurring at GHF sites from when he worked there, showing Van Hollen photos he’d taken of Palestinian civilians who were later attacked by Israeli soldiers and U.S. mercenaries. He also said that those very American mercenaries are in Gaza on a tourist visa — the same kind a family member would use to visit Israel. In one of his videos, first obtained by The Associated Press, gunfire can be heard at a site followed by American mercenaries whooping and cheering. One American says off-camera, “I think you hit one,” while another shouts, “Hell yeah, boy!” Aguilar said the shooters were UG Solutions contractors firing into a crowd of departing Palestinians. GHF has accused Aguilar of forging documents and presenting misleading videos, to which the whistleblower pushed back on by saying his videos’ metadata and geolocation have been analyzed for credibility, and that he wrote those operational plans because no other staff members had the experience to do it themselves. Read the rest. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ghf-...erican-mercenaries_n_688bd055e4b0f5cda4870a87
