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Trump aide Natalie Harp may be known for running on foot behind his golf cart but she wields astonishing influence, Haberman reveals





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US seeks Iranian pledge to free up Strait of Hormuz

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DOJ Subpoenas New York Times Journalists Following Air Force One Security Report

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DOJ election monitors are heading to six states for the 2026 primaries, but conservative lawsuits have already limited what they can do at the polls.

Federal agents showed up at reporters homes. Their crime Journalism.

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Trump's Truth Social Post Sparks Questions About Timing of Claimed Physical Examination

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Trump's Truth Social Post Sparks Questions About Timing of Claimed Physical Examination

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Wait and see: Trump weighs a return to war with Iran

The president is receiving an array of advice on next steps in Iran, with supporters of a return to war seizing on recent tensions to make their case.

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El fenmeno psicolgico detrs de las plataformas de nicho e ideolgicas

La necesidad humana de pertenencia y validacin ha encontrado en la era digital su herramienta ms potente y peligrosa. Plataformas como Truth Social no surgen por un simple vaco tecnolgico, sino como respuesta a una demanda psicolgica muy clara: el deseo de proteger las propias creencias frente al cuestionamiento externo. Cuando una comunidad siente que el entorno general invalida su postura, busca refugio en espacios diseados especficamente para blindar su visin del mundo.

Desde la psicologa de la conducta, estas redes funcionan como gigantescos sesgos de confirmacin automatizados. El sesgo de confirmacin es la tendencia natural de nuestra mente a buscar, interpretar y recordar nicamente la informacin que encaja con nuestros prejuicios. Al entrar a una plataforma donde todos comparten la misma ideologa, el usuario elimina la friccin cognitiva que produce el desacuerdo. Esto genera una sensacin artificial de seguridad y verdad absoluta, transformando el espacio en una burbuja de realidad paralela.

El verdadero peligro de estos entornos cerrados es el fenmeno de la polarizacin grupal. Cuando un grupo de personas con ideas afines discute un tema exclusivamente entre s, sus posturas no se moderan, sino que se vuelven mucho ms extremas. La ausencia de opiniones diferentes o disidentes erradica el pensamiento crtico. La moderacin empieza a verse como debilidad, y el discurso se radicaliza a gran velocidad porque no existe un contraste con los hechos del mundo exterior.

Estas redes de nicho demuestran que muchas veces preferimos la comodidad de una mentira compartida antes que la incomodidad de una verdad que nos obligue a cambiar de opinin. La fragmentacin de los espacios digitales no solo divide las conversaciones, sino que altera la forma en que procesamos la realidad misma. Salir de la burbuja y aprender a tolerar el desacuerdo es indispensable para mantener una mente sana y un criterio verdaderamente propio.

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Lazy Caturday Reads: Lots of Scary/Crazy News Today

Good Day!!

By Yulia Sidneva

The news is as crazy as usual today. Remember when weekends used to be quiet Heres whats happening:

The Justice Department has subpoenaed 4 New York Times journalists who reported on security issues related to Trumps new Air Force One. The administrations attacks on the First Amendment are getting out of hand.

Michael M. Grynbaum at The New York Times:

The Trump administration issued subpoenas on Friday to several journalists for The New York Times, after the news outlet reported this week on security concerns involving President Trumps new Qatari-donated Air Force One.

The subpoenas which seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan on Wednesday were an extraordinary escalation in President Trumps efforts to threaten and intimidate independent news organizations.

In some cases, the subpoenas were delivered by federal agents who showed up at reporters homes.

The Times denounced the administrations actions.

The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects, said David McCraw, The Timess top newsroom lawyer, in a statement on Friday evening.

Our journalists report the facts and advance the American publics right to know how their government is operating and their taxpayer dollars are being used, Mr. McCraw wrote. This brazen act should be seen as nothing more than an attempt to prevent the public from knowing what is happening in their country by intimidating journalists from doing their jobs.

The subpoenas contain few specifics, asking only that the journalists testify in regard to an alleged violation of federal criminal law. They were issued by Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan. Mr. Clayton, who leads one of the countrys most prominent law enforcement offices, was recently nominated by Mr. Trump to serve as director of national intelligence.

Representatives for the White House and the U.S. attorney in Manhattan did not respond to inquiries on Friday evening.

The Times journalists who received subpoenas included Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager and Eric Schmitt, who  on Wednesday that Mr. Trump had departed Turkey on the old Air Force One as a security precaution at the urging of the Secret Service. On Thursday, The Times  that the new Air Force One, a Qatari-donated Boeing 747-8, lacked some of the advanced security features of the older aircraft, including antimissile capabilities. Both articles cited sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security issues.

Before the Wednesday article was published, a senior official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation contacted a reporter and a senior editor at The Times to ask that the article be held, calling it an issue of national security, according to a person familiar with the conversation. The F.B.I. official declined to explain the security issue. The official also asked The Times to disclose its sources for the article the newspaper refused to do so. (A spokesman for The Times, Charlie Stadtlander, confirmed the account.)

This is really frightening. Fortunately, The Times has deep pockets and can defend their journalists.

By Miroco Machiko

Ashraf Khalil and Will Weissert at the AP: .

The Trump administration has subpoenaed several New York Times journalists after their report on security concerns involving the new Air Force One, according to the paper.

The new jet, which President Donald Trump received as a gift from Qatar,  last week.

The subpoenas issued Friday seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury in Manhattan on Wednesday, the paper said, adding that federal agents delivered some subpoenas to the reporters at their homes.

There was no immediate response from the White House or Department of Justice to requests for comment on Saturday.

Issuing subpoenas represents a major escalation in the Republican presidents effort to threaten independent new organizations by leveraging the power of the federal government against them. It is also part of a systematic pattern by Trump to attempt to undermine press freedom in order to shield him from negative coverage.

Earlier this year, the Justice Department issued subpoenas seeking to compel testimony from reporters at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. In both cases, the department later withdrew the subpoenas.

During his first term, Trump suggested that the press constituted an enemy of the American people. Since returning to the White House last year, he has waged  unlike any in modern U.S. history.

Trumps  against news outlets and media figures he believes are overly critical of him has included  against outlets , threatening to revoke TV broadcast licenses and seeking to bend news organizations and social media companies to his will.

This is the article the Times published on Wednesday that so outraged Trump and his goons.

Tyler Pager Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, and Eric Lipton at The New York Times (gift article):

President Trump flew out of Turkey on Wednesday night on the old Air Force One instead of his new Qatari-donated Boeing 747-8 as a security precaution related to the resumption of hostilities with Iran, according to people briefed on the plans, who said the change came at the urging of the Secret Service.

The swap deepens questions about whether the new plane, which the president had pressed to be ready as soon as possible, was retrofitted with sufficient security measures over the last year. Lawmakers and some officials  about whether the expedited timeline allowed for the addition of an advanced missile defense system and other modifications used to protect the president.

By Jacquie Hughes

In a statement, Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, said that the new Air Force One is a state-of-the-art aircraft that has been fitted with high-level security protocols that ensure the safety of the president and his staff. .

But people briefed on the new planes capabilities, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security issues, said the new plane does not have all the features of the older plane. The switch in the presidents aircraft when he departed Turkey was a precautionary measure made at the advice of the Secret Service and not because of a specific threat, they said.

Mr. Trump, who has marveled at the luxury touches of his new jet, flew on it on Monday night to go to Turkey for a NATO summit. After his arrival, the conflict with Iran reignited, and the United States launched a series of strikes against that country while Mr. Trump and NATO leaders were about 1,000 miles away in Ankara.

The president on Wednesday denied that the change in his aircraft was made because of security concerns. Instead, he asserted that the swap was so the new jet could leave early and make stops at U.S. military bases to show it off to the troops because the aircraft is magnificent.

But when pressed by reporters in Ankara about the reason for the change, Mr. Trump also repeatedly noted that he was Irans No. 1 target, and referred at one point to having seen or been briefed on a list of Tehrans targets in recent days.

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So Trumps on again off again war with Iran is back on. Iran apparently fired on some ships in the Strait of Hormuz, and Trump ordered some retaliatory strikes on Iran while he was overseas. Iran is also threatening to assassinate Trump and he is again threatening them with war crimes.

AP: .

The U.S. is demanding that Iran make a public statement saying the  is open and that ships crossing the vital corridor wont be attacked anymore, senior U.S. officials said Friday, adding that internal Tehran power struggles have made it difficult to reach and keep a deal.

The U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe to reporters the , said the resumption of strikes this week came after what they described as a rogue faction of Iranian hard-liners trying to sabotage the ceasefire between Tehran and Washington.

It comes as U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated on social media Friday that he views the interim ceasefire deal as OVER! But he said the U.S. would continue talks aimed at putting a permanent end to .

The officials said Friday that Trump is giving U.S. negotiators limited time to reach a deal with Iran, but, in a sign of the challenges ahead, they underscored that the president had a wide range of options if talks fall apart. They also said a power struggle was playing out in real time in Iran after U.S. and Israeli strikes at the start of the war killed its longtime leader, .

The U.S. is working on pressing Iran to make a public statement that the , a vital waterway for world energy markets, is open and free to ships to transit, the officials said.

By Tetsuo Takahara

Barak Ravid at Axios: .

Iranian Supreme Leader  announced on Saturday that revenge for his fathers assassination will most certainly be carried out.

Why it matters: The statement was published after the burial ceremony for his father, former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Throughout the weeklong funeral procession, there were massive public calls for the death of President Trump.

Mojtaba Khamenei, who didnt appear inI public during the funeral ceremonies, didnt specifically mention Trump. But earlier this week, Israel gave the U.S. information that suggested Iranian officials recently discussed the idea of assassinating Trump, U.S. and Israeli officials said.

What hes saying: Mojtaba Khamenei who was seriously wounded in the attack that killed his father, and hasnt appeared in public since pledged on his Telegram channel to avenge your pure blood and the blood of all those martyred in these two wars by bringing the criminal and dishonorable killers to justice.

Read more at Axios.

Kathleen Culliton at Raw Story:

President Donald Trumps promise to stunned a former Obama administration official Saturday morning.

Richard Stengel, former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, shared his alarm over Trumps recent Truth Social threat with MS NOW viewers.

By Miroco Machiko

The fact of an American president threatening genocide against the whole people in case hes assassinated is more than unseemly, Stengel said. Its its incredibly vulgar and undiplomatic language.

Stengel was responding to Trumps own reaction to the  report earlier this week that a new Iranian plan to assassinate him may have been uncovered by Israeli intelligence.

Late Friday night,  responded with a direct threat.

1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of , wrote Trump, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME!

He is such an idiot.

Late yesterday, MSNOW reported that Kash Patel was called on the carpet at the White House to respond to reports of his using his job as FBI director to gain access to luxury travel.

Carol LeonnigJacqueline AlemanyKen DilanianVaughn HillyardJake Traylor at MSNOW:

FBI Director Kash Patel abruptly cancelled a planned flight Friday to see his girlfriend in Chicago this weekend, after top administration officials frustrated with Patel summoned him to the White House, according to two people with knowledge of the change.

The precise reasons that Patels political bosses demanded he cancel his trip and report to the West Wing are unclear, but several people said top Trump deputies were disturbed by a range of actions by Patel. Some found it confounding that the FBI director was leaving town amid the recent revival of the war with Iran and alleged threats against the presidents life, according to a person familiar with efforts to help Patel rebuild trust with the White House. For this article, people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive internal matter.

Others cited two unforced errors by Patel that created bad optics for the Trump administration, the first being  for its coverage of his high-flying lifestyle, they said, in which Patel boasted: my jet ski is gold plateddumbass.

By Shozo Ozaki

The second misstep, the people said, was that extensive reports by MS NOW and other news outlets about taxpayers footing the bill for Patels globe-trotting ultimately spurred formal questions from Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, a critical ally of President Trumps.

On Thursday,  that Grassley had first asked Patel in a May letter about his use of the FBI jet and his decision to  so he could travel more discreetly in the Washington, DC area.  In a separate letter, Congressional Democrats said they had received information that Patel was demanding that FBI staff arrange special perks on his official trips, including a jet ski excursion and a helicopter tour.  The FBI has disputed that, and said Patel had complied with federal rules pertaining to his travel.

White House spokespeople denied the report, but

Patel cancelled his flight to Chicago just as he was preparing to leave on Friday morning, according to three people briefed on his move. But the trip to Chicago was already stirring anger and controversy inside the FBI, multiple current and former law enforcement officials told MS NOW. He was planning to attend his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins performance Saturday at a , the three people said. Patels staff had arranged for the director to make an office visit Friday to the Chicago field office to coincide with his trip, according to two other people with knowledge of the directors schedule.

Several FBI agents complained internally that this office visit was belatedly-added cover to justify Patel flying the directors jet which is estimated to cost tens of thousands of dollars for such domestic trips to enjoy a weekend in Chicago with his girlfriend, the people said.

Patel was coming (to Chicago) today for a fake office visit for his girlfriends country concert this weekend, one of the sources briefed on the trip said.  The source noted Patel cancelled the trip while on the tarmac at Andrews and was summoned to the White House immediately, adding that it was apparent panic and believed to be in response to his morning tweet today.

Read he rest at MSNOW.

We still dont know whether Mitch McConnell is alive or brain dead. Since it was reported that he was found unconscious and given CPR, I think its most likely that he was intubated and is still on life support. The chances of an 84-year-old man recovering after CPR outside a hospital and very slim. Its also odd that his wife would leave for a trip to China if there was any hope of McConnell regaining consciousness anytime soon.

David Smith at The Guardian:

Mystery surrounding Senator  health is deepening as the US Congress prepares to return from recess next week.

McConnell, 84, has not been seen in public since he was admitted to hospital in the Washington area on 14 June. Nearly a month later, the Kentucky Republicans office has released only sparse updates, saying he is continuing to improve and remains engaged with Senate business, while refusing to disclose the nature of his illness or explain why he remains hospitalised.

Emergency dispatch audio obtained by media outlets indicates that first responders were sent to his home following reports of an unconscious person and that CPR was under way. On Friday, CNN  that showed a person on a stretcher being wheeled towards an ambulance, though their face was not visible.

The senators office has neither confirmed nor denied the reports, leaving a vacuum that has been filled with fevered speculation, based on circumstantial evidence, about McConnells condition.

I think hes dead, opined , a career counter-terrorism intelligence officer, in an interview with Amy McGrath, who lost to McConnell in the 2020 election, on the . Its very clear. I heard that 911 tape and I was an EMT when I was in the military at one point and you know we used to do CPR a lot. One of the things that teach you about CPR is the probability of coming back from CPR is very, very, very small.

By Maki

McGrath, a former marine fighter pilot, replied: Well, its an interesting take. Well see what happens there as well.

The Senate returns on Monday for a four-week legislative session dominated by defence spending, national security and government funding bills. McConnells continued absence threatens to complicate Republican efforts to advance those measures with only a narrow 53-47 majority.

McConnell chairs the Senate rules committee and a defence appropriations panel, which is crucial in shaping Pentagon funding and where  hold only a one-seat advantage.

Without him, partisan disputes over annual appropriations could become even harder to resolve ahead of the 1 October deadline for new federal spending. Congressional leaders are already signalling that another temporary spending measure may be needed to avert a government shutdown.

Read more at the Guardian link.

Have you heard about that horrible stomach virus that is going around It comes from a parasite called cyclospora that the CDC used to closely monitor.

at HuffPo:

The country is in the midst of a nationwide outbreak of explosive diarrhea caused by a parasite the CDC stopped surveilling at the federal level in July 2025.

Thats around the same time the Trump administration began haphazardly attacking and defunding federal health and science agencies  government efficiency, with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  critical federal scientists and researchers.

Prior to that date, a collaborative CDC program called FoodNet helped federal and state regulators track eight foodborne pathogens.

Among them was cyclospora, a heat-loving spherical parasite thats  in an ongoing outbreak in Michigan (the states worst), with similar illnesses cropping up in 28 other states.

In addition to cyclospora, surveillance of campylobacter, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia was cut. FoodNet now only regularly monitors two diseases: Salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli.

A list of CDC talking points  last summer clearly blamed funding for the programs drastic cutback.

Funding has not kept pace with the resources required to maintain the continuation of FoodNet surveillance for all eight pathogens, the talking point read.

More at the link.

Those are the stories that caught my attention today. Whats on your mind

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SPECIAL REPORT: Europe Is Running Out of Room for Error

By Cliff Potts, Chief Strategy Officer, Editor-in-Chief, WPS News

BAYBAY CITY, LEYTE, Philippines Saturday, July 11, 2026 2250 PHT

The world is not waking up to World War III tonight. That is the reassuring part. The disturbing part is that Europe is now operating in the kind of environment where a major war could begin without any leader consciously deciding to start one.

Russia is escalating its assault on Ukraine. NATO is strengthening its eastern defenses. Ukraine is striking deeper into Russian territory. European governments are rearming. The United States remains officially committed to NATO but is led by a president whose positions can change with alarming speed.

The result is not peace. It is an armed standoff with too many moving parts and too few reliable guardrails.

A War That Keeps Widening

On July 11, Russia launched six ballistic missiles, six cruise missiles and 121 drones against Ukraine, killing civilians and striking Kyiv, Odesa and Kharkiv. The attack followed repeated bombardments that exposed Ukraines shortage of Patriot interceptors and vulnerability to ballistic missiles (Reuters, 2026a).

Ukraine is also striking Russian refineries, ports, ships and military logistics networks. Those attacks are acts of self-defense, but they widen the battlefield.

Vladimir Putin appears unwilling to accept a ceasefire that leaves his territorial ambitions unfinished. NATO cannot allow Russia to prove that military aggression works. Neither side believes it can afford to back down.

NATO Is Hardening

At its July 78 summit in Ankara, NATO reaffirmed Article 5 and pledged 70 billion in military equipment, assistance and training for Ukraine during 2026, with comparable support intended for 2027. European members and Canada now finance most of that assistance, showing that Europe is preparing to continue even if Washington becomes unreliable (NATO, 2026).

NATO also upgraded its Baltic air-policing mission into an air-defense operation, giving pilots wider authority to destroy objects judged to be threats. Days earlier, British F-35s intercepted a Russian patrol aircraft after it repeatedly approached HMS Prince of Wales at low altitude in the Norwegian Sea and dropped sonobuoys nearby (Reuters, 2026b Reuters, 2026c).

These moves do not mean NATO plans to attack Russia. They mean it expects more provocations and wants to respond faster. That may strengthen deterrence, but it also increases the consequences of a mistaken identification or unauthorized shot.

The Trump Variable

Donald Trump told NATO leaders that he wants the United States to remain in the alliance and reaffirmed the American commitment to Article 5. His administration also reached an agreement with senators to advance additional sanctions against Russia, while Trump supported licensing Ukraine to manufacture Patriot interceptors (Reuters, 2026d Reuters, 2026e).

That is stronger support than many expected. It is not dependable leadership.

Trump has repeatedly treated alliances as personal transactions. European leaders cannot know whether an American promise made on Wednesday will survive a political grievance on Friday. Deterrence works only when adversaries believe commitments before a crisis begins.

The 2026 midterm elections cannot directly remove Trump. They could change control of Congress, strengthen oversight and make impeachment proceedings politically possible. The House has the sole power to impeach, while conviction and removal require a two-thirds Senate vote. That is a high constitutional barrier, not an automatic election result (U.S. Senate, n.d. Constitution Annotated, n.d.).

Trump can be removed constitutionally. Europe cannot build its defense strategy around the hope that he will be.

How Wars Begin

The likeliest route to a NATORussia war is not a formal declaration. It is an incident: a missile kills people in Poland an aircraft is shot down sabotage sinks a ship a cyberattack causes mass casualties or commanders mistake electronic interference for the opening stage of an attack.

Article 5 is not an automatic declaration of nuclear war. Each NATO member must assist an attacked ally, but the treaty allows each government to take such action as it deems necessary, including armed force (NATO, 2025).

That flexibility creates room for restraint. It also creates uncertainty at the worst possible moment.

Not World War IIIYet

Europe is not at war with Russia today. NATO has not mobilized for an invasion, and Russia has not launched a deliberate attack on NATO territory.

But the margin for error is shrinking.

Governments are preparing for a war they insist they are trying to prevent. The danger is not that everyone wants World War III. The danger is that enough leaders believe they can keep escalating without being the one who finally pushes the situation over the edge.

History suggests that is precisely when people should pay attention.

References

Constitution Annotated. (n.d.). Overview of impeachment clauses. Congress.gov.

NATO. (2025). Collective defence and Article 5.

NATO. (2026, July 8). The Ankara Summit Declaration.

Reuters. (2026a, July 11). Two dead, 19 wounded as Russia strikes Ukraine with missiles, drones.

Reuters. (2026b, July 8). NATO upgrades Baltic Air Policing mission to air defence.

Reuters. (2026c, July 6). UK says aircraft carrier approached by Russian plane in Norwegian Sea.

Reuters. (2026d, July 9). NATO weathers another Trump storm but braces for more after Ankara summit.

Reuters. (2026e, July 10). U.S. senators say agreement reached with Trump on Russia sanctions bill.

U.S. Senate. (n.d.). About impeachment.

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