August 1, 2026

02 U.S. Politics

Kyle Rittenhouse, Killer of Two, Cheers as Supreme Court Ends Bump Stock Ban – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com

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Gun rights activist Kyle Rittenhouse wants you to know that he’s very pleased with the Supreme Court, after the justices on Friday overturned a federal ban on bump stocks—devices that are attached to semi-automatic firearms to make them shoot as quickly as machine guns.

Bump stocks were banned under the Trump administration with bipartisan support after a shooter in Las Vegas used one to spray more than 1,000 rounds into a crowd at a concert, murdering 60 people and injuring hundreds more. As gun control groups and families of mass shooting victims mourned the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday, the 21-year-old Rittenhouse went online to share his own thoughts: “Time to go celebrate and buy a bump stock!” he wrote on X.

Biden Plays Chess, Trump Plays ‘Hungry Hungry Hippos’– www.newsbusters.org

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Can you imagine Joe Biden playing chess? Could he beat, say, an average seventh-grader? C’mon, man: I’m serious! Not a joke!

But on MSNBC’s Saturday edition of The Weekend, co-anchor Alicia Menendez claimed that whereas Biden is playing chess, Donald Trump is — at best — playing Hungry Hungry Hippos [billed as a game for “preschoolers.”] The daughter of Sen. Bob “Gold Bars” Menendez should describe what game he was playing. She’s not in the right place to swagger.

Co-host Symone Sanders Townsend chimed in to suggest that the better game analogy for Trump might be the card game Uno.

The comments came in the context of Biden’s participation in various recent events, including the G7 summit. Sanders-Townsend suggested that Biden’s performance counters any notion that he might be “a little too old.”

Whuh? Surely Sanders and the rest of the panel have seen this video from the G7 of a dazed and confused Biden doddering away until Italian PM Giorgia Meloni gently rescues him.

Trump’s Severe Memory Issues Revealed By Author 10 Days Before Debate– www.politicususa.com

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Author Ramin Setoodeh said that he spent extensive time interviewing Trump, and the former president has severe memory issues.

Ramin Setoodeh said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe:

I really got to know Donald Trump post presidency and I got to see what he was like. And over the weekend, he was talking about how Joe Biden needs to take a cognitive test. Joe Biden, you know, isn’t all there, Donald Trump has severe memory issues as the journalist who spent the most time with him, I have to say he couldn’t remember things, he couldn’t even remember me.

We spent an hour together in 2021 in May. And then a few months later, I went back to the White House, I went back to Trump Tower to talk to him about his time in the White House. And he had, I said, he, you know, he had this vacant look on his face. And I said, do you remember me? And he said, no, he had no recollection of our lengthy interview that we had and he wasn’t doing a lot of interviews at that time. So I think that the American public really needs to see this portrait of Donald Trump because this shows what he is like and who he is. And who he has always been.

Nixon justices helped end his presidency. Will Trump’s force him to stand trial?– www.dailykos.com

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Fifty years ago, three of the justices Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court joined in an 8-0 decision in the Watergate tapes case that effectively ended his presidency, ruling only 16 days after hearing the case. Nixon resigned from office just over two weeks later.

Now, three justices named by then-President Donald Trump sit on the court as it weighs whether and when he must stand trial on criminal charges that he conspired to overturn his 2020 election loss, a case they heard seven weeks ago. Two others also named by Republican presidents have brushed off criticism that they should step aside from the case over questions about their impartiality.

A retired federal judge says Judge Cannon appears to show ‘favoritism’ to Trump : NPR– www.npr.org

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Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, continues to make decisions that puzzle many legal observers.

Last month, Cannon delayed the start of the trial indefinitely. She’s taken months to make routine procedural decisions.

Trump is charged with taking classified and top-secret material with him to Mar-a-Lago after he left the White House and then taking part in a conspiracy to hide documents from federal investigators.

The Trump’s Trials team wanted to know how someone who has served on the federal bench views Cannon’s decisions, so we called retired federal judge Shira Scheindlin. Appointed by President Bill Clinton, she served as a federal judge for over two decades.

NPR reached out to Judge Cannon’s office for a response and received a statement from her court that their judges do not comment on pending cases.

Christian Nationalists Are Opening Private Schools. Taxpayers Are Funding Them. – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com

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Earlier this month, former President Donald Trump held his first campaign rally as a convicted felon at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, hosted by the arch-conservative student group Turning Point USA. This wasn’t Trump’s first appearance at Dream City Church; he also held a rally there with Turning Point USA in 2020. For events like this, it’s an ideal venue: A weekly attendance of around 21,000 believers makes this one of the largest churches not just in Arizona but in the nation.

Fox News Host: MSNBC Praising Biden Is Bad For Him– crooksandliars.com

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Fox News host Harris Faulkner made a bizarre analogy favoring diminished Donald.

She’s upset that MSNBC contributors have praised President Biden and are unfriendly to Trump.

Do you understand the Fox News/Harris Faulkner “logic”?

Faulkner played a video mashup.

MSNBC: This was a great week for the president.

He’s having these back-to-back weeks both the national stage and domestically.

The president is playing chess, and the former president, at best, is playing like Hungry Hungry Hippo.

Well, if that, maybe Uno. I’m gonna give him Uno, maybe. He’s playing Uno.

Uno, and somebody keeps telling him to draw four.

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Team Trump Continues to Fight Kangaroo Court Gag Order

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Trump ridicules special counsel’s gag order request in new filing in classified documents case

The attorneys continued, comparing the request to the gag order Trump is under in a separate case in New York, adding, “Like Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Smith seeks to restrict President Trump’s campaign speech as the first presidential debate approaches at the end of this month.”

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Male Swimmer Larping as Woman Cannot Race them in the Olympics

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Biological cheater William Thomas, who declared he was a woman so he could go from the bottom 100 in college swimming to the top in college swimming, was informed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland that his petition to cheat against women in the Olympics was not going to happen.

Thomas was hoping to have a court overturn a policy from World Aquatics banning men from participating against women in swimming even if the man is now larping as a woman. The organization said. “A biological female athlete cannot overcome that advantage through training or nutrition. Nor can they take additional testosterone to obtain the same advantage, because testosterone is a prohibited substance under the World Anti-Doping Code… World Aquatics should remain committed to the separation of athletes in sport into men’s and women’s categories based on biological sex.”

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The Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected a challenge on Wednesday brought by Lia Thomas against World Aquatics’ ban on transgender athletes participating in the women’s category at elite swimming competitions, thus barring him from participating in the 2024 Summer Olympics.

The court’s rejection is a massive win for women’s sports and a major defeat for transgender athletes’ attempts to subvert biological reality.

World Aquatics’ transgender policy prohibits male athletes from competing against women, stating male-to-female transgender athletes are only granted permission to compete in the women’s category “if they can establish to World Aquatics’ comfortable satisfaction that they have not experienced any part of male puberty beyond Tanner Stage 2 or before age 12, whichever is later.”

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Appeals Court Panel Stikes Down Racist Job Offer from Fearless Fund Management

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The financial company Fearless Fund Management decided to announce a contest for business funding that would not be open to anyone but black women. They were sued by The American Alliance for Equal Rights on behalf of three people who were not black women.

The 11th Circuit panel struck down the racist policy 2-1, with the far-left judge on the panel dissenting based on the claim these potential candidates were “flopping,” and they never intended on applying in the first place. That judge was Robin Rosenbaum, who made it clear in the dissent this she has no business being in any government office. She was nominated by the far-left anti-American president, Barack Hussein Obama.

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A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently threw a wrench into the blatantly discriminatory practices of big money corporate interests. In American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Fearless Fund Management, over a bizarre dissent by Judge Robin Rosenbaum, Judges Kevin Newsom and Robert Luck upheld an injunction against a venture capital fund with tens of millions of dollars in assets that gives money only to businesses owned by black women. Nobody else is eligible to even apply.

The plaintiff, The American Alliance for Equal Rights, sued on behalf of three of its members—business owners who are not black women and who are, therefore, not allowed to compete in Fearless Fund Management’s funding process. Fearless Fund was apparently fearless about violating anti-discrimination laws.

The threshold question was whether the Alliance had standing to sue on behalf of its members. Each member provided an affidavit showing that they are “able and ready” to participate in Fearless Fund’s competition, meet all prerequisites but the racial one, and have concrete plans to use the funds they would get to build up their businesses if they weren’t racially excluded.

That is all that is required to establish standing according to Judges Newsom and Luck, and they are correct – these business owners have an obvious claim since they are explicitly excluded from even applying for the $20,000 in venture capital offered by Fearless in its grant contest.

Yes, Fearless Fund discriminates against Alliance members because of their race, but that isn’t enough to establish standing, according to Judge Rosenbaum, an Obama appointee. In her dissent, Rosenbaum accused the Alliance of “flopping”—that is, faking an injury the way soccer players do by flopping on the field– “to manipulate the referee into inappropriately exercising his power to award a penalty kick in the box.”

That’s a strange position to take in the 21st century because, by Rosenbaum’s illogic, members of the NAACP who during Jim Crow avoided hotels, restaurants, and buses where they knew they’d be turned away would be “flopping” because they didn’t go in and get turned away. This retrograde view of civil rights ignores that, as Justice Brett Kavanaugh put it recently, “discrimination is harm.” It would also force victims of discrimination into humiliating and even potentially dangerous situations before letting them seek justice.

Johnson to Force Garland Contempt Issue through Courts

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Speaker Johnson has stated he will be taking his case to the courts to force the DOJ to comply with both the subpoena Garland ordered and the House’s resolution calling for Garland to be prosecuted for contempt.

“It is sadly predictable that the Biden Administration’s Justice Department will not prosecute Garland for defying congressional subpoenas even though the department aggressively prosecuted Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro for the same thing,” the Speaker declared.

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Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that the House will go to court to enforce the subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland for access to President Joe Biden’s special counsel audio interview, hours after the Justice Department refused to prosecute Republicans’ contempt of Congress charge.

“It is sadly predictable that the Biden Administration’s Justice Department will not prosecute Garland for defying congressional subpoenas even though the department aggressively prosecuted Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro for the same thing,” Johnson said in a statement. “This is yet another example of the two-tiered system of justice brought to us by the Biden Administration.”

In a letter to Johnson earlier Friday, a Justice Department official cited the agency’s “longstanding position and uniform practice” to not prosecute officials who don’t comply with subpoenas because of a president’s claim of executive privilege.

Federal court blocked new rules aimed at protecting transgender students– www.washingtonpost.com

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A federal court temporarily blocked the Education Department from enforcing new regulations aimed at protecting transgender students in schools, finding that opponents who sued to stop it are likely to prevail when the case is fully considered.

The sweeping set of rules, issued in April, represent the Biden administration’s interpretation of Title IX, a half-century old law that bars discrimination in schools based on sex. The rules are set to take effect Aug. 1, and impact every K-12 school, college and university in the country that accepts any type of federal funding.

The regulation states that discrimination based on sex includes discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, and would require, for instance, schools to allow transgender students use bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity and to use students’ preferred pronouns.

It was challenged in federal court by four states — Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana and Idaho. The preliminary injunction applies in only those four states, though similar challenges are pending in other states. Thursday’s order was the first ruling in any of the cases.

Joe Biden OKs ‘DACA 2’ Parole Amnesty– www.breitbart.com

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President Joe Biden’s proposal will offer an amnesty — and quick access to green cards — to perhaps one million migrants, according to PBS.org.

“Biden is expected to make the announcement Tuesday, according to multiple sources, at a planned White House event marking the 12th anniversary of the [2012] Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shielded more than 800,000 [younger migrants] brought to the U.S. as children,” PBS reported June 13.

The Associated Press (AP), however, said the amnesty offer is not finalized:

The people said those actions could be unveiled as early as next week, although a White House official stressed Thursday that no final decisions have been made on what Biden will announce, if anything. As of earlier this week, Biden had not been presented with the proposal for his final approval, adding to the uncertainty for the timing of any announcement.

Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging federal rules to accommodate abortions for workers – Baltimore Sun– www.baltimoresun.com

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CHICAGO (AP) — A lawsuit filed by 17 states challenging federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions lacks standing, a federal judge in Arkansas ruled on Friday.

Republican attorneys general from each state, led by Arkansas and Tennessee, sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April, days after the agency published rules for employers and workers to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a 2022 law requiring many employers to make “reasonable accommodations” for pregnant or postpartum employees.

In addition to more routine pregnancy workplace accommodations like time off for prenatal appointments, more bathroom breaks, or permission to carry snacks, the rules say that workers can ask for time off to obtain an abortion and recover from the procedure.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in Arkansas argued the regulations go beyond the scope of the 2022 law that passed with bipartisan support.

Eastern District of Arkansas U.S. District Judge D.P. Marshall, Jr., who was appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama, denied the states’ request for a nationwide preliminary injunction on the federal rules, which are scheduled to go into effect on Tuesday.

“The States’ fear of overreach by one branch of the federal government cannot be cured with overreach by another,” Friday’s ruling says.

Supreme Court Affirms the Standard for NLRB Injunctive Relief– www.swlaw.com

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In the latest labor law brew-haha, the U.S. Supreme Court reconciled a circuit split by requiring the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to marshal substantial proof to win temporary injunctions against employers for alleged unfair labor practices. The decision weakens what has been one of the NLRB’s most potent tools in recent years during ongoing labor disputes.

Background

The National Labor Relations Act (the Act) prohibits employers and unions from engaging in certain “unfair labor practices.” 29 U.S.C. §§ 158(a), (b). The NLRB enforces the prohibition, and its authority kicks in when a person files a charge with the agency. 29 U.S.C. § 160(a). If the charge appears to have merit, the NLRB issues a complaint triggering adjudicatory proceedings within the agency. Because the administrative proceedings can take years, Section 10(j) of the Act permits the NLRB to seek a preliminary injunction in federal court while the proceedings unfold.

Senate GOP Slams Door on Supreme Court Ethics Bill – RedState– redstate.com

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Is it too much to ask that our elected representatives actually read the Constitution that they take an oath to uphold?

There’s been a lot of talk about the need for an expanded code of ethics for the Supreme Court, and Congress — specifically, congressional Democrats — have been seeking to codify such a requirement. On Wednesday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with other Senate Republicans, put the kibosh on a bill requiring exactly that.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican senators on Wednesday blocked a bill requiring the Supreme Court to adopt a code of conduct and create a mechanism to enforce it in the wake of several high-profile controversies.

The legislation, the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal and Transparency Act, would require Supreme Court justices to adopt a code of conduct, create a mechanism to investigate alleged violations of the code and other laws and improve the disclosure of potential conflicts of interest.

Senate Dems publish more of Thomas’ undisclosed jet travel paid for by Crow– www.politico.com

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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday revealed new trips and flights that Justice Clarence Thomas took on Republican billionaire Harlan Crow’s dime — including some that Thomas has not previously disclosed.

The documentation is the result of a November subpoena issued to Crow by the panel’s Democrats and includes three private jet trips that Crow provided for Thomas.

The most recent unreported private jet travel was in June 2021 when Crow flew Thomas between Washington D.C. and San Jose, Calif. Other private jet trips occurred in May 2017 between St. Louis, Mo., Kalispell, Mont. and Dallas Texas and March 2019 flights between Washington D.C. and Savannah, Ga.

The documentation also includes travel that Thomas disclosed in records that were made public last week, including private jet and yacht travel for a July 2019 trip to Indonesia.

JUST IN: House Republicans Introduce New Bill to Rename US Coastal Waters as ‘Donald John Trump Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States– conservativeroof.com

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A House GOP lawmaker is spearheading an effort to name the United States’ coastal waterways after former President Trump.

Rep. Greg Steube, a Republican from Florida, plans to introduce legislation this Friday to rename the area of ocean immediately adjacent to the United States, known as the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), as the “Donald John Trump Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States.”

If passed, it would mandate the name change on any applicable laws, maps, documents and other records.

An EEZ refers to the waters directly adjacent to a country’s coastline where it can claim sole rights for fishing, drilling, and other activities.

Blue State Dems Plot To Sabotage Anti-Crime Push With Bizarre Legislative Maneuver– dailycaller.com

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California Democrats are pushing a series of bills to crack down on the wave of retail theft that has rocked the state. But there’s just one catch – the bills would be repealed should a ballot measure imposing harsher punishments for certain crimes be approved.

Democrats in the California State Legislature inserted clauses into the bill package earlier this month that would repeal the laws if the ballot initiative passes. The move has enraged Republicans, who accused the Democrats of “playing games,” according to The San Francisco Chronicle.

“Democrats need to stop playing politics with public safety and let voters decide on fixing Prop. 47,” said Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher in a press release. “These poison pills show that Democrats aren’t serious about ending the crime wave–they just want to look like they’re doing something because their years-long support for criminals has become a political liability.”

More landlord mandates could be signed by Pritzker | Illinois– www.thecentersquare.com

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(The Center Square) – A lawmaker blaming climate change for the flooding in the state created legislation that will mandate landlords inform prospective tenants if their property is in a high-risk flood zone.

Senate Bill 2601 is on the governor’s desk awaiting further action. State Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid, D-Bridgeview, the bill’s sponsor, said a flood can be financially devastating and that this legislation will protect working families.

“Illinois will be joining numerous other states and offering this important information and protection for renters,” said Rashid.

State Rep. Travis Weaver, R-Edwards, said every year legislators pass legislation that regulates small business and landlords thereby increasing housing costs.

President Joe Biden is alive, despite fake information posted on Ancestry.com– www.politifact.com

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“Joe Biden is not real,” reads the text in a recent Instagram video.

The evidence that the commander-in-chief is an impostor? A screenshot from Ancestry.com “showing he actually died in 2018 in Guantanamo, Cuba.”

This post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.)

As Snopes reported, such a page did appear on Ancestry.com but appears to have since been deleted. But the page was archived May 28 and June 12. It says Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. — the president’s full name —  and includes other factual details about his life such as his birth place (Scranton, Pennsylvania) and birth date (Nov. 20, 1948).

But it also says he died in 2018 in Guantánamo, Cuba, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Hundreds Of Protestors Gather In Los Angeles Over Lack Of Charges In Murdered General Hospital Actor Case– www.louderwithcrowder.com

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Since Los Angeles County has a progressive prosecutor who does not like to prosecute, brazen crimes are becoming increasingly frequent. Murdered General Hospital actor Johnny Wactor fell victim to the culture of criminality that District Attorney George Gascón condones.

More than 200 protestors rallied in Downtown Los Angeles near the scene of the crime where Wactor was murdered to call for safer streets as well as to put pressure on officials to prosecute the suspect in the case.

According to KTLA:

A march demanding justice was held on Wednesday in honor of slain “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor, who was shot and killed while trying to stop catalytic converter thieves last month.

The suspects were in the process of stealing Wactor’s vehicle’s catalytic converter when “without provocation, [he] was shot by one of the individuals,” LAPD added.

Friends and family of the late actor, who was known for his role as Brando Corbin in the popular soap opera “General Hospital” and appeared in “Westworld” and “Criminal Minds,” held a rally in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday morning and marched towards city hall, calling for local leaders to take action against the violence.

Fani Willis Appears to Fire Back at Rudy Giuliani’s “Ho” Attack – Mother Jones– www.motherjones.com

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Last Friday, my colleague Stephanie Mencimer had the distinct honor—or misfortune—of witnessing Rudy Giuliani’s apparent attempt to convince the Christian right to help him amid his dire financial troubles. That effort saw Giuliani airing crude, conspiratorial rhetoric before the faithful which at one point, saw Giuliani calling Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney in Donald Trump’s Georgia case, a “ho.”

Now Willis is responding, condemning the conservative critics who have relentlessly targeted her since she took on Trump’s Georgia election interference case. While speaking to leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Georgia, Willis appeared to single out the former New York City mayor’s denigrating remarks. She declined to call out Giuliani by name, but the subject of her remarks was evident.