SOCIAL MEDIA

(Headline USA) Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has issued a formal order terminating President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate conservatives persecuted during the Biden administration---a move that follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomination to become attorney general. A spokeswoman for Texas...

(Headline USA) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pitched President Donald Trump and other American officials on helping Ukraine win permission from tech titan Elon Musk to use his Starlink satellite communications system to guide strikes inside Russia. The push for expanded use of Starlink comes as Zelenskyy looks for alternate ways...

(Adam Herbets, The Center Square) Some of the biggest checks in California politics never touch a campaign account. Most of them were written because Gov. Gavin Newsom asked for the money, totaling more than $340 million. Elected officials are increasingly taking advantage of state laws that allow them to solicit...

(Headline USA) U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, said his former son-in-law, U.S. Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, should not be serving in the House and should “seek professional help” as Miller defended himself against allegations of domestic abuse in a live video on X on Sunday. Moreno, who has been publicly restrained...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump said on Saturday night that he decided to hold off on launching major strikes on Iran that he said would have inflicted “military terror” on the country, which came after media reports said he was ready to significantly escalate the war. “The USA is locked and...

(Headline USA) Wildfires in eastern Washington state forced the evacuation of 60,000 people in the Spokane area while destroying at least 600 homes, businesses and other structures, authorities said Sunday. The fires in and around Spokane, the state's second largest city, burned about 8.2 square miles over the weekend and were...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The suspect in a fatal shooting at a fast-food restaurant in Idaho died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. The suspect was identified as 24-year-old Chad Williams. https://twitter.com/ScopeReport_/status/2084007901518078128?s=20 Authorities said they are confident that Williams acted alone. In all three people died and seven were injured in...

(Headline USA) Ken Martin is in survival mode. Desperate to save his job as chair of the Democratic National Committee, he is avoiding media appearances, monitoring his critics' social media posts and refusing — at least so far — to make any substantive changes at his troubled organization. A half dozen state...

(Headline USA) Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur is being treated for non-life threatening injuries after a car accident in Toledo on Sunday morning, her office said Sunday. Kaptur, 80, was a passenger in a vehicle headed to a church service “when the car she was traveling in was struck,” the statement from...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) A newly resurfaced interview from 2023 shows that Francesca Hong, the frontrunner to win Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, has mental health issues. https://twitter.com/PeterBernegger/status/2083375592020320503 Following the withdrawal of former Lt. Gov. (and failed 2024 Senate candidate) Mandela Barnes, the socialist-aligned Hong was enjoying a decisive lead going into...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The typically anti-Trump publication Newsweek asserted on the cover of its Aug. 7-14 newsstand edition that “Trump was right” in an article about his military action to arrest ex-Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/2083244317477339399 The cover illustration showed the U.S. president straddling the Gulf of America with one...

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Far-left activists with apparent ties to the Democratic Socialists of America recently established their own autonomous zone in Wisconsin’s capital city, Madison. https://twitter.com/SchulteLaura/status/2083196716069609728 The tent cities have become a familiar sight in far-left cities where the destructive and disruptive occupation is openly encouraged by government officials. Investigative reporter...