Happy Monday, friends! Warm up your soy chai latte—it was a busy weekend!
**No Kings Day Protest: The Biggest in US History**
No Kings Day on Saturday marked the biggest single-day protest in US history, with more than 7 million people estimated to have attended across more than 2,600 locations—including some of the very Trumpiest places. (NPR / Waging Nonviolence) Just look at the size of those crowds! Rebecca was there in Detroit, and so was at least one giant inflatable wang!
What’s this? Jeff Tiedrich has awarded Rebecca the Nobel Best Sign At No Kings Day Prize? She is ever so humbled, and **she f***ing accepts.** (Tiedrich) Certain snowflakes got very triggered.
**Online Reactions and AI Imagery**
JD Vance posted some AI-generated content on BlueSky showing Trump being crowned while everybody bowed to him, and the White House shared AI images of Trump in a plane, wearing a crown and dropping payloads of crap all over protestors in America. What a metaphor. And isn’t the oxygen mask supposed to go over your nose?
**Dutch Intelligence Trust Issues**
The heads of Dutch intelligence services have said they now share less information with the US and are keeping all their secrets on paper, citing growing concerns that the US cannot be trusted. (NL Times)
**Marco Rubio and MS-13 Informants**
Speaking of trust, The Washington Post reports that Marco Rubio sold out MS-13 informants under US government protection in a quid pro quo deal with El Salvador in exchange for their acceptance of prisoners to CECOT. (Washington Post gift link)
**Trump Commutes George Santos’ Sentence**
The world’s most powerful troll commuted the prison sentence of audacious scammer George Santos, which means that Santos not only doesn’t have to serve the rest of his seven-year sentence, but also doesn’t have to pay the approximately $400,000 restitution to his scam victims. That’s so Trump! (New York Times archive link)
**Trump Plans to Meet Putin in Budapest**
Trump announced on Thursday that he plans to meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary. When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the meeting location, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did,” with Communications Director Steven Cheung adding, “Your mom.” Guess Putin is my mom! (HuffPost)
**First Federal ANTIFA Terrorism Charges Filed**
The first-ever federal ANTIFA terrorism charges have been filed in Texas against Autumn Hill and Zachary Evetts, who were present at a demonstration on July 4 at the ICE Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. Although gunfire was exchanged and a police officer was shot, they are not charged with involvement in the shooting, but with “providing material support to terrorists” and “aiding and abetting.” (The Intercept / indictment / DFW Support Committee)
**ICE Ordered to Keep Body Cameras On**
On Friday, a federal judge again ordered ICE in Chicago to keep their body cameras on. Russell Hott, field director for ICE in Chicago, abruptly left his post a day after a federal judge in Illinois demanded he appear in court to answer questions about why ICE keeps teargassing protestors and journalists without warning. (WTTV)
**Tensions with Colombia Escalate**
Are we going to war with Colombia next? President “Crap Plane” has been ranting on his website that Colombian President Gustavo Petro is “an illegal drug dealer,” “low rated and very unpopular,” and warned to “close up” drug operations or the US would do it “and it won’t be done nicely.” This follows Petro’s objections after a Colombian fisherman was killed by US forces in Colombian waters, despite his boat being disabled and using its emergency distress beacon. Where’s that same sass when it comes to Putin? (NBC)
The US has now blown up a seventh boat, with Fox News host Pete Hegseth claiming that the three killed onboard were members of Ejército de Liberación Nacional, a Colombian guerrilla group. It sounds like war with Colombia might be next. Meanwhile, survivors from the sixth boat incident have been repatriated to Ecuador and Colombia instead of disappearing, so I guess that’s something positive? (CBS / NPR)
**Incident at Camp Pendleton**
Pushup Pete’s Camp Pendleton party ended in chaos when a live shell detonated over I-5, dropping fragments on a California Highway Patrol vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President JD Vance’s protective detail. Oops—his bad, bro! All these new wars are gonna go great. (NY Times)
**Young Republicans “I LOVE HITLER” Group Chat Leak**
The Daily Beast reports that insiders believe the Young Republican “I LOVE HITLER” group chat was leaked by Gavin Wax, chief of staff in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, reportedly because he was upset about being left out of a selfie with Trump. LOL. Meanwhile, Vermont state senator Samuel Douglass, who was part of the chat, has resigned. (Daily Beast archive link / The Guardian)
**Columbia University Student Still in ICE Detention**
One of the student protestors from Columbia University, Leqaa Kordia, remains in ICE detention. (New Yorker archive link)
**Questionable DHS Spending**
Where is Homeland Security getting $172 million to buy Kristi Noem two Gulfstream G700 luxury jets? (The Independent)
**Prince Andrew Relinquishes Duke Title**
Prince Andrew announced on Friday he is voluntarily handing back his title of Duke and giving up membership of the Order of the Garter—though he still remains a prince, somehow. This comes amid ongoing revelations from the Epstein Files detailing how close the two were. (Epstein once called him “the only person I’ve met who is more obsessed with pussy than me.”)
The Metropolitan Police have also said they are investigating reports that Prince Andrew used his police protection to try to obtain personal information about his accuser, Virginia Giuffre. Sounds like this guy’s garters ought to be in prison—with him in them! (BBC)
**More Epstein Files Released**
More Epstein files were released Friday, including records showing Epstein had multiple appointments, phone calls, and dinners with Matthew Menchel, the Miami US Attorney’s Office chief criminal prosecutor who spearheaded Epstein’s cushy 2007 plea deal. There may even be a photo of the two on a ski trip together. Oh boy! (Miami Herald)
**History Corner**
“Roger Taney’s Contemporaries Hated Him As Much As You Probably Do.” (Balls and Strikes)
**Rest in Peace, D’Angelo**
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