Trump llama "bocazas" a Medvdev y defiende la movilizacin de dos submarinos nucleares hacia Rusia El presidente estadounidense orden el viernes el despliegue por las "provocadoras declaraciones" del expresidente ruso, quien critic el ultimtum de EEUU.
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Der Angriff auf Kyjiw zeigt, die Ukraine braucht dringend Verstrkung fr die Flugabwehr. Deutschland will nun zwei weitere Patriot-Systeme liefern. US-Prsident Trump droht Russland mit weiteren Sanktionen.
Laut US-Prsident Trump soll in Zukunft ein Zollsatz von 15 Prozent fr Waren-Importe aus der EU in die USA gelten. EU-Kommissionsprsidentin Ursula von der Leyen spricht von Planungssicherheit.
Details zum Deal wurden zunchst nicht bekannt. Schon vorab war allerdings klar, dass Einfuhren aus der EU in die USA knftig mit deutlich hheren Zllen belastet werden als noch vor dem Beginn der zweiten Amtszeit von Trump.
Federal agency opens inquiry into ex-special counsel Jack Smith over Trump investigations
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The truncated headline actually says, "Stock investors might want to heed the warning."
Donald "The Hoax" Trump knows less than nothing about the economy.
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The problem is that every republican member of congress has capitulation to for their 30 pieces of silver.
Look, if we cant manipulate the markets, make millions in corrupt deals, what the point of going into politics .
Kamala Harris tells Stephen Colbert that U.S. democracy is broken The Washington Post
Vice President Kamala Harris attends a farewell ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall on Jan. 16 in Arlington, Virginia. (Evan Vucci / AP)Kamala Harris tells Stephen Colbert that U.S. democracy is broken
The former vice president said in an interview on The Late Show that those who should be acting as the guardians of our system had capitulated to Trump.
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Former vice president Kamala Harris expressed deep concern about U.S. democracy, describing it as a broken system on CBSs The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Thursday evening, in her first interview since the .
She denounced Congress for sitting on their hands and for failing to stand in the way of some of President Donald Trumps policies. Harris did not address a question from host Stephen Colbert about the possibility of her in 2028.
Here are four key highlights from her appearance.
Harris painted a dire picture of U.S. democracy
Harris explained her for California governor after Colbert asked whether that meantshe was planning to run for a different office. She said the system was broken, despite so many good people who are public servants teachers and firefighters and police officers and nurses and scientists.
I always believed that as fragile as our democracy is, our systems would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles, and I think right now that theyre not as strong as they need to be, she added.
Harris said she plans to travel the country and talk to individual voters without the burden of asking for their votes. I want to talk with people, and I dont want it to be transactional, she said.
Harris warned against trying to ride out Trumps presidency
When Colbert asked if Harris believed people think they can just ride out Trumps presidency, Harris said it is completely naive to think that way. There are a lot of people who think theyre riding out the storm as an excuse to be feckless, she added. Moments earlier, Harris had said that those who shouldconsider themselves to be guardians of our system and our democracy had capitulated to Trump.
Look, we designed our democracy with three independent, coequal branches of government, Harris continued, before denouncing Congress for not doing enough to challenge Trumps aim to the Department of Education.
I mean, when you see that the president of the United States is trying to get rid of the Department of Education, and Congress has the role and responsibility to stand in the way of that, and theyre just sitting on their hands, and then they go to recess, she said.
She also criticized last years Supreme Court decision to former presidents for official acts taken in office.
God thank those members of the court who write brilliant dissents and remind us of what the democracy and the rule of law is supposed to be, she added, referring to Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan, who the ruling.
Harris said she wanted to thank Mike Pence
Harris said she was very happy to compliment fellow former vice president Mike Pence as often as I can for having the courage to stand up to Trump in January 2021, when Trump Pence to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in his favor.
Harris made the remarks as she was answering a question about how she felt in January 2025, when she had to certify the electoral votes of the 2024 presidential race, which she lost to Trump.
Harris praised former president Joe Biden
When Colbert asked Harris about her thoughts on in a presidential debate with Trump in June 2024, Harris neither affirmed nor rejected that characterization.
Let me say something about Joe Biden, she said. I have an incredible amount of respect for him, and I think that the way that we should be thinking about where we are right now is to remember that we had a president of the United States who believed in the rule of law, who believed in the importance of aspiring to have integrity and to do the work on behalf of the people, and thats where Ill leave that.
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Trumps immigration crackdown has led to abandoned pets, crowded shelters The Washington Post
Pets are being abandoned, surrendered amid Trumps immigration crackdown
The heightened need is colliding with a shelter system already stretched thin by post-pandemic overcrowding, chronic staffing shortages and plummeting adoptions.
By , Yesterday at 7:00 a.m. EDT, 6 min
Daymi Blain, founder of Adopt and Save a Life Rescue Mission in Miami, on Friday pets two of the dogs she rescued. (Bryan Cereijo / For The Washington Post)Daymi Blain dreads the sound of her phone.
It rings at all hours now and every time, she braces for the voice on the other end. A person calling because their relative was taken in an immigration raid, leaving several cats behind. A neighbor reporting dogs wandering the street after their family vanished overnight. A trembling voice begging her to take in a pet because its owner is leaving the country and cant bring it.
This is all were getting now: pets with deported and detained owners. Nobody calls for anything else, said Blain, who runs the South Florida-based Adopt and Save a Life Rescue Mission. I dont know whats going to happen with all this, but I can tell you that the animals are the ones paying the price.
From California to Tennessee, the effects of the Trump administrations immigration crackdown have reached a place most wouldnt think to look: the kennels of overcrowded animal shelters.
Animal welfare groups across the country say theyre fielding a surge of calls about pets left behind when their owners are detained or deported, or self-deport in fear. That heightened need is colliding with a shelter system already stretched thin by post-pandemic overcrowding, chronic staffing shortages and plummeting adoptions leading to longer stays for animals, difficult choices about space and growing fears that more pets could be euthanized simply because theres nowhere for them to go.
Editors Note: So sad, and the reality of homeless people, and these ICE kidnappings without cause, and their pets. They are love, loved, and sometimes all these people have in the world.
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Trumps impeachments have been removed from a Smithsonian exhibit, for now NPR
Children look at the Star Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the lyrics of the American national anthem, at the Smithsonians National Museum of American History in June in Washington, D.C. Mark Schiefelbein / APBy , August 1, 20251:15 PM ET
The Smithsonians National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. has removed references to President Trumps two first-term impeachments from an exhibit following a review. The Smithsonian said the references will be restored once the exhibit is updated, but did not provide a timeline.
The exhibit, titled The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden includes reference to the impeachments of Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton and the Watergate scandal that engulfed President Richard Nixon, who resigned rather than face certain impeachment. A temporary label was added in 2021 to include President Trumps impeachments in 2019 and again in 2021, just days before the end of his first term.
But the reference to Trumps impeachments was removed last month. The Smithsonian said in a statement to NPR that after a recent review of the museums legacy content, it was decided to pull the reference to Trumps impeachments which were placed on the exhibit in September 2021 pending a more substantial overhaul of the exhibit.
Because the other topics in this section had not been updated since 2008, the decision was made to restore the Impeachment case back to its 2008 appearance, the statement said. The label on Trumps impeachments was intended to be a short-term measure to address current events at the time, however, the label remained in place until July 2025, the Smithsonian said.
A large permanent gallery like The American Presidency that opened in 2000,requires a significant amount of time and funding to update and renew. A future and updated exhibit will include all impeachments, the statement said, without providing a timetable for the exhibits update.
Last months removal of the label follows a confrontation between the White House and Kim Sajet, director of the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery. Trump Sajet in late May, calling her a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI. In response, Smithsonian released a reaffirming its status as an independent entity that operates free from political or partisan influence.
The Smithsonians Board of Regents said that, moving forward, museum directors and staff would be given specific expectations for content, along with reasonable time to implement any necessary changes to ensure content remains unbiased. Sajet later resigned.
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Nin Trumpin ja Medvedevin poskensoitto krjistyi ydinuhkailuksi Kuollut ksi oli Trumpille liikaa
Venjn entinen presidentti Dmitri Medvedev suututti Yhdysvaltain johdon lausunnoillaan. Tnn lauantaina Kreml on pysynyt vaiti.
Bill Gates reveals the 3 things you should do if youre interested in AI Hola
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Bill Gates reveals the 3 things you should do if youre interested in AI
Gates has been monitoring the rise of Artificial Intelligence and understands why the topic is stressful for some
By , Senior Writer, JULY 30, 2025 2:19 PM EDT
Bill Gates is pretty involved in the world of Artificial Intelligence. As one of the leading figures in technology over the past decades, Gates has been involved in various initiatives like OpenAI and Windows, trying to shape the way in which AI grows and is developed. In an appearance on CNN, he shared three bits of knowledge that everyone whos interested in AI should embrace.
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In a chat with Fareed Zakaria, discussed AI and its future, including some advice he has for young people whod like to learn more about the technology thats primed to determine our future.
Embracing this and tracking it will be very important, said Gates. That doesnt guarantee that were not gonna have a lot of dislocation, but I really havent changed my Be curious, read and use the latest tools, recommendation, he said.
There are multiple AI services that can be used by everyone, no matter their skill setprovided an example of how he used AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude in his everyday life, emphasizing how fun the process can be.
In this transition period, the ability to use these tools is both fun and empowering, he said. I used to have an advantage that I had very smart people that I could call up when I got confused about physics, but now I use deep research and then Ill send that answer to my smart friends and ask Hey, did it get it right and most times theyre like Yeah, you didnt need me. You can really learn so much.
Gates also shared his thoughts on whether or not AI will remove job opportunitiesGates and Zakaria also discussed the topic of AI and the , whether its white or blue collar. While Gates didnt paint a fatalistic outlook of the future, he did make it clear that the rate at which AI is growing is a concern and will likely have an impact on the workforce and on job stability.
When you improve productivity, you can make more, he said. If you get less productive, thats bad if you get more productive, thats good. It means you can free up these people to have smaller class sizes, have longer vacations. To help do more.
Its not a bad thing. The question is if it comes so fast, then you dont have time to adjust to it.
is one of the fastest-growing markets in the world, with the Trump administration recently announcing a plan to make America the world leader in AI by scaling down the regulations that are currently imposed.
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Le prsident amricain a ordonn vendredi le dploiement de deux sous-marins nuclaires en raction des commentaires incendiaires du prdcesseur de Vladimir Poutine, parmi les dignitaires russes les plus vhments contre loccident. La consquence dune srie de propos venimeux entre les deux hommes.America will learn that Trump is a child rapist, child trafficker, and a money launderer for Russia. Can't wait!
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down following funding cuts The Washington Post
NPR headquarters in Washington. (Tom Brenner / For The Washington Post)The Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down following funding cuts
Trumps successful campaign to strip federal money to NPR and PBS effectively ended the public media middleman.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting following Congresss decision to strip its current funding and foreclose on future appropriations.
CPB, established by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, is a set up to dole out to NPR, PBS, and public radio and TV stations around the United States. President Donald Trump launched a successful campaign to claw back the $1.1 billion allocated for the organization for the next two years, a measure he signed into law last month.
At the heart of the campaign was a critique that public media produce news that is biased and and should not be funded by taxpayer dollars. That argument, long held among many conservatives, finally prevailed thanks to unified Republican government during Trumps second term.
Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations, CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison said in a statement. CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.
CPB not only served as a funding middleman between Congress and public media stations but also negotiated and procured technical infrastructure on behalf of the stations. That leaves an open question as to what entity, if any, will fill that gap.
The closure was announced one day after the Senate Appropriations Committee released a bill that funding for CPB.
In a press release, CPB said it told its employees that most positions would be cut on Sept. 30, the final day of the fiscal year, and a small team will stay on to shut down the agency through January, in part because the music licenses they have negotiated expire at the end of December.
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Nothing says is on Epstein's client list more than the FBI reacting his name from the list.
Library Advocates August 2025 Congressional Recess Engagement Guide EveryLibrary
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Good Day!!
Michael Cox, in the style of Amadeo Modigliani
The top stories today focus on Trumps failing economy and his firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer after she released weak job numbers yesterday. Dakinikat provided a into the economy yesterday and addressed the firing in the comments to her post, so I hope youll forgive me if I dont spend much time on economic issues, which are not my area of expertise, to put it mildly.
Im still laser focused on the Epstein/Maxwell story. Im currently reading Julie Browns book on the case,
Im also concerned about the news that Trump has moved nuclear submarines closer to Russia, perhaps as a threat to Putin and as another attempt at distraction from Epstein/Maxwell news.
Another important story breaking today is about Trumps plans to further involve the military in his deportation efforts and build more concentration camps to detain migrants.
Two economic stories of possible interest
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board:
President Trump has now imposed his new tariff regime on the world, and the triumphalism is palpable in MAGA land. But maybe hold the euphoria, as this weeks reports on jobs and the economy suggest the new golden age may take a while to appear.
Fridays labor report arrived with a particular jolt, with a mere 73,000 net new jobs in July. Even more bearish were the downward revisions of 258,000 jobs in May and June. Job gains over the last three months are barely more than 100,000.
The details in the report provide little solace. The jobless rate ticked up only to 4.25% from 4.1%, but that was in part because the labor force continued to shrink. The labor participation rate fell again to 62.2% and is now down half a percentage point in a year.
Employers arent laying off workers, but they have all but stopped new hiring. Notably, most of the new jobs are in healthcare and social assistance, which rely heavily on government spending. This continues the Biden-era trend that Trumponomics was supposed to change. Not so far.
The much-advertised rebirth of U.S. manufacturing also hasnt arrived. The economy shed 11,000 manufacturing jobs in July, following a loss of 26,000 in May and June. The ISM Manufacturing Index fell again in July to 48, the fifth straight month below 50.
A bit more:
One labor market problem may be the crackdown on migrant workers. The foreign-born workforce has fallen by about a million since Mr. Trump took office. The National Foundation for American Policy, a nonpartisan think tank, says immigrants accounted for over half of the labor force increase in each of the last three decades. Fewer workers means fewer new jobs as employers conclude they cant fill them.
How much of this jobs and growth slowdown owes to Mr. Trumps tariffs Its hard to say for sure. But it has occurred in the wake of Mr. Trumps April 2 tariff shock, his rapid backtrack from the highest rates, and then his willy-nilly threats and deal-making with the world. The policy uncertainty has surely affected business hiring and investment. How can you hire or invest if you dont know what your cost of goods will be, or from which supplier you will be able to buy at a competitive price
On that score, Mr. Trumps latest tariff blast this week hasnt put an end to the uncertainty. Much of the world will now pay 15%, if Mr. Trump sticks to his deals. But some of the biggest U.S. trading partnersMexico, Canada, China and Indiaremain in tariff limbo. Brazil will pay 50%, though it has a trade surplus with the U.S. And what did Switzerland ever do to Mr. Trump to deserve 39% Charge too much for a watch
Don Moynihan at Can We Still Govern:
One basic character of the politicization necessary to create an authoritarian regime is that public employees are reluctant to share information that displeases their political bosses. When those bosses can fire them, the incentives to suppress uncongenial information, or provide false information, become overwhelming.
Modiglianis Cat by Eve Riser Roberts
Over time, life in these countries become bifurcated. Statistics become propaganda. There is an official reality, which many proclaim but few believe, and actual reality. And at some point actual reality catches up with the fantasy.
We have seen examples of this dynamic already play out in the Trump administration. Career civil servants have been reluctant to contradict, for example, Musks false claims about fraud in government, or Kennedys nonsensical claims about , knowing that doing so would probably cost them their jobs. In certain areas, such as , the people that produce factual information that the administration dislikes are being fired.
Trump just took his attack on reality to a different level, by firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Why Because he did not like the job numbers her agency produced.
In related news, we just saw the last credible BLS data for the rest of the Trump administration.
Trumps claim is that the head of the BLS is somehow rigged the data to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad. We need accurate Jobs Numbers that reflect Trumps opinion that The Economy is BOOMING.
As Trump fires an official because he does not like the job numbers, he proclaims that says that such numbers cant be manipulated for political purposes. But revisions to job numbers are routine, and there is no reason to assume that an official would willingly publish false data knowing the ire that would follow from the White House.
Trump has no evidence for what he claims. He simply does not like reality, and will do what he can to deny it. And as tariffs kick in, and Trumps layoffs of public employees becomes incorporated into jobs data, that reality will look worse and worse.
Read the rest at the Substack link.
Epstein/Maxwell News
Anna Betts at The Guardian:
, the associate of who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking crimes, has been transferred from a federal prison in Florida, to a lower-security facility in Texas, the US Bureau of Prisons said on Friday.
We can confirm, is in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.
Maxwells attorney, David Oscar Markus, also confirmed the transfer but declined further comment. FPC Bryan is as a minimum security federal prison camp that houses 635 female inmates.
According to the Bureau of Prisons inmate locator, the Texas facility is also home to , the disgraced former CEO of the California-based blood-testing company , who is serving a lengthy for fraud. Real Housewives of Salt Lake City TV star Jen Shah is also serving time there .
Oh good. Maybe they can all hang out.
Maxwells move from FCI Tallahassee, a , to the federal prison camp in Bryan comes roughly a week after she was interviewed in Florida about the Epstein case by the deputy US attorney general, Todd Blanche, who is also one of Donald Trumps former lawyers.
Amadeo Modigliani, by Nancy Alari
Blanche had said that he wanted to speak with Maxwell who was sentenced in 2022 to see if she might have information about anyone who has committed crimes against victims.
Details of that meeting have not been made public but Maxwells lawyer described it as , adding that the questions honestly, truthfully, to the best of her ability.
The interview took place amid growing political and public pressure on the Trump administration to release additional federal documents related to the Epstein case a case which has, for years, been the subject of countless conspiracy theories.
Earlier in July, the justice department drew bipartisan criticism and backlash after announcing that it any more documents from the investigation into the late Epstein, who in New York in 2019 while awaiting federal trial. This was despite to release more files, by the US president and the US attorney general, Pam Bondi.
Allison Gill notes that this transfer was highly irregular:
The reason for the move is listed as a lesser security transfer (code 308) according to a transfer document I reviewed, which is completely inappropriate of for inmates who are in the early stages of serving their sentences, according to another source. This is such obvious corruption. I have never seen this before, said another person at BOP familiar with the situation.
The unit that approves waivers for sex offenders to be moved to minimum security camps is the Designation and Sentence Computation Center near Dallas. Currently, the senior deputy assistant director is Rick Stover, a career BOP employee who speaks frequently with White House officials.
I cant help but wonder whether this is part of a deal struck between Maxwell and Blanche in exchange for her testimony.
It sure looks like it.
CNBC:
Two sexual abuse victims of and the family of late Epstein victim on Friday blasted President after learning that Epsteins accomplice had been transferred to a less restrictive prison in Texas from Florida.
President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter, the statement said, noting that the two women and Giuffres family had not been notified of Maxwells transfer before media reports of it.
It is with horror and outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has received, the statement said.
Ghislaine Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown any leniency, the statement said.
Yet, without any notification to the Maxwell victims, the government overnight has moved Maxwell to a minimum security luxury prison in Texas, the statement said.
This is the justice system failing victims right before our eyes. The American public should be enraged by the preferential treatment being given to a pedophile and a criminally charged child sex offender. The Trump administration should not credit a word Maxwell says, as the government itself sought charges against Maxwell for being a serial liar, the statement said.
This move smacks of a cover up. The victims deserve better, the statement said.
No kidding. And as we all know, the coverup is usually worse than the crime.
This is interesting, from Alison Detzel at MSNBC:
Before Maxwells arrival in Texas was reported, MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin was asked about the interactions between Maxwell and the Trump administration on Thursdays and called the timeline curious.
Rubin recounted that before that late July meeting between Blanche and Maxwell, the Trump administration, through Solicitor General D. John Sauer, to the Supreme Court arguing Maxwells conviction should stand. (Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 after being convicted of sex-trafficking-related crimes.) In that July 14 filing, Sauer shot down Maxwells claim that she was protected from prosecution due to Epsteins 2007 plea agreement in Florida.
But the following day, Rubin recalled, on July 15, Trump was from about an alleged birthday card he had written to Epstein in 2003. Trump has denied the Journals reporting, but the president was inundated with questions about the details of his relationship with Epstein.
One week later, Blanche that the Justice Department would reach out to Maxwell for an interview, and later that week, he met with her in Florida.
Rubin noted that the government had two days of conversations with her, not in the federal prison where shes serving time, but in a U.S. Attorneys Office, so she theoretically could be more comfortable during those conversations.
While we know that the meeting took place, Rubin stressed that many of the details are still unknown: We still dont know who else from the Department of Justice was there. We dont know how that conversation was recorded, if at all. And yet, we still dont know what the resolution is.
So what changed Was it just about the birthday note/drawing Or did Trump learn something else about how he was portrayed in the FBI files
Cat in a Hat, inspired by Amadeo Modigliani painting, by Olga Koval
One more Epstein story from Newsweek:
The redacted s name, along with the names of other prominent public figures, from references in the files, three people familiar with the matter told s Jason Leopold.
Internal directives instructed about 1,000 FBI agents to flag during a March review of roughly 100,000 pages of records, people familiar with the process told Bloomberg.
The Justice Department said the review turned up no client list or evidence linking Trump to criminal activity, despite his name appearing in Epsteins contact book and flight logs.
The president and senior White House officials have repeatedly said in recent weeks that there was no reason to , and they have despite to release all documents as promised.
The Bloomberg report said that earlier this year, FBI agents were directed to search for all documents associated with the Epstein case and determine which could be released, totaling tens of thousands of pages, following Attorney General s request for them.
During the review, in March, FBI personnel were said to have identified numerous references to Trump and other high-profile people, with the names then redacted by FOIA officers because they were private citizens at the timea common practice under FOIA case law.
Trump Moves Nuclear Submarines
Brad Lendon at CNN:
US President Donald Trump said Friday he was to appropriate regions, in response to remarks by Dmitry Medvedev, Russias former president and current deputy chairman of its Security Council.
In what he called an effort to be prepared, Trump said in a that he had ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that.
The president did not specify what type of submarines were being moved or where to, and the Pentagon usually reveals little about any of its subs movements.
The US Navy has three types of submarines, all of which are nuclear-powered, but only one of which carries nuclear weapons.
Ballistic Missile Submarines
The US Navy has 14 Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarines (SSBNs), often referred to as boomers.
SSBNs are designed specifically for stealth and the precise delivery of nuclear warheads, a Navy fact sheet on them says.
Each can carry 20 Trident ballistic missiles with multiple nuclear warheads. Tridents have a range of up to 4,600 miles (7,400 kilometers), meaning they wouldnt need to move closer to Russia to hit it in fact, they could do so from the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian or Arctic oceans.
Olga Koval, Cat is on the chair, inspired by Amadeo Modigliani painting
Guided missile submarines
In the 1990s, the Pentagon determined the Navy didnt need as many Ohio-class SSBNs in the nuclear deterrent role, converting four of them into (SSGNs).
Retaining the same overall specs as the boomers, the SSGNs carry Tomahawk cruise missiles instead of the Trident ballistic missiles.
Each can carry 154 Tomahawks with a high-explosive warhead of up to 1,000 pounds, and a range of about 1,000 miles.
Fast-attack submarines
These form the bulk of the US Navys submarine fleet and are designed to hunt and destroy enemy subs and surface ships with torpedoes. They can also strike land-based targets with Tomahawk missiles, though they carry the Tomahawks in much smaller numbers than the SSGNs.
Read more details at CNN.
Tom Nichols at The Atlantic (gift link):
Donald Trump, beset by a week of bad news, has decided to rattle the most dangerous saber of all. In a post today on his Truth Social site, the president claimed that in response to recent remarks by former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, he has ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions. (All American submarines are nuclear-powered Trump may mean submarines armed with ballistic nuclear weapons.) Words are very important, Trump added, and can often lead to unintended consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances.
And then, of course: Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Trumps words may mean nothing. The submarines that carry Americas sea-based nuclear deterrent routinely move around the worlds oceans. Each carries up to 20 nuclear warheads, on missiles with a range of more than 4,000 miles, and so almost anywhere can be an appropriate region. And Trump may not even have issued such orders normally, the Pentagon and the White House do not discuss the movements of Americas ballistic-missile submarines.
Medvedev is a man with little actual power in Russia, but he has become Russias top internet troll, regularly threatening America and its allies. No one takes him seriously, even in his own country. He and Trump have been trading public insults on social media for months, with Trump telling Medvedev to watch his words and Medvedevnicknamed in Russia due to his diminutive staturewarning Trump to remember Russias Dead Hand, a supposed system that could launch all of Russias nuclear weapons even if Moscow were destroyed and the Kremlin leadership killed.
The problem is not that Trump is going to spark a nuclear crisis with a post about two submarinesat least not this time. The much more worrisome issue is that the president of the United States thinks it is acceptable to use ballistic-missile submarines like toys, objects to be waved around when he wants to distract the public or deflect from bad news, or merely because some Russian official has annoyed him.
Unfortunately, Trump has never understood nuclear, as he calls it. In a 2015 Republican primary , Trump said: We have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game. When the moderator Hugh Hewitt pressed Trump and asked which part of the U.S. triad (land-based missiles, bombers, and submarines) would be his priority, Trump answered: For me, nuclear, the power, the devastation, is very important to me.
That power and devastation, however, is apparently not enough to stop the president from making irresponsible statements in response to a Kremlin troll. One would hope that after nearly five years in officewhich must have included multiple briefings on nuclear weapons and how to order their useTrump might be a bit more hesitant to throw such threats around. But he appears to have no sense of the past or the future he lives in the now, and winning the moment is always the most important thing.
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Greg Sargent at The New Republic:
President Donald Trump has already enmeshed the United States military in domestic law enforcement operations involving immigration to an unprecedented degree. He has authorized a at the border. He has the use of military planes for deportations, complete with the White House pumping out of migrants getting frog-marched onto souped-up military aircraft. He sent the National Guard into Los Angeles amid large-scale protests thereand then the Marines.
But an internal memo circulated inside the Department of Homeland Security suggests that Trumps use of the military for domestic law enforcement on immigration could soon get worse. The obtained by The New Republicprovides a glimpse into the thinking of top officials as they seek to involve the Defense Department more deeply in these domestic operations, and it has unnerved experts who believe it portends a frightening escalation.
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The memo lays out the need to persuade top Pentagon officials to get much more serious about using the military to combat illegal immigrationand not just at the border. It suggests that DHS is anticipating many more uses of the military in urban centers, noting that L.A.-style operations may be needed for years to come. And it likens the threat posed by transnational gangs and cartels to having Al Qaeda or ISIS cells and fighters operating freely inside America, hinting at a ramped-up militarized posture inside the interior.
The memo is alarming, because it speaks to the intent to use the military within the United States at a level not seen since Japanese internment, Carrie Lee, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, told me. The military is the most powerful, coercive tool our country has. We dont want the military doing law enforcement. It absolutely undermines the rule of law.
The memo was authored by Philip Hegseththe younger brother of Defense Secretary Pete Hegsethwho is a to Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem and DHS liaison officer to the Defense Department. As such it also sheds light on Hegseth the Youngers role, which has been the subject of labeling him an obscure but influential figure in his brothers MAGA orbit.
The memo outlines the itinerary for a July 21 meeting between senior DHS and Pentagon officials, with the goal of better coordinating the agencies activities in defense of the homeland. It details goals that Philip Hegseth hopes to accomplish in the meeting and outlines points he wants DHS officials to impress on Pentagon attendees.
Participants listed comprise the very top levels of both agencies, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and several of his top advisers, Joint Chiefs chairman Dan Caine, and NORTHCOM Commander Gregory Guillot. Staff include Phil Hegseth and acting ICE commissioner Todd Lyons.
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Samantha Michaels at Mother Jones:
Customs Enforcement (ICE), now the best-funded federal lawenforcement agency in the United States, is embarking on a plan to drastically expand its detention infrastructure. But considering the its been given for the job, the agencys vision for its new facilities seems startlingly low-tech.
In July, the Wall Street Journal got its hands on internal government documents revealing that ICE wants to incarcerate more immigrants in tents, or hardened soft-sided facilities. The administration hopes to erect thousands of these tents as quickly as possible to expand detention capacityat US military bases and adjoining bricks-and-mortar ICE jails, the Journal . Officials say they like this approach, at least for now, because they can quickly set up tons of beds in a few new locations rather than finding space at existing facilities here and there.
But tents raise serious humanitarian and safety issues. Theres a reason no one wants to live in a tent, says Eunice Cho, an attorney who challenges unconstitutional conditions in immigrant detention centers with the ACLUs National Prison Project. There are many, many logistical problemswith sanitation, getting food. They certainly are not weatherproof. They do not have the setup to make sure peoples medical concerns are addressed.
Prior to 2025, ICE did not use tents for long-term detention, but soft-sided facilities are not completely new in the incarceration realm. Here are some recent examples, each highlighting problems that are almost sure to repeat themselves as the Trump administration rolls out its plan.
Michaels provides a detailed history of tent cities in the U.S. The article is well worth reading in full.
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Letters from an American July 31, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson
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On Monday, at a meeting with U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer in Scotland, President Donald Trump boasted that he was solving all the worlds problems: Ive stopped six wars in the lastIm averaging about a war a month. But the last three were very close together. India and Pakistan, and a lot of them. Congo was just and Rwanda was just done, but you probably know I wont go into it very much, because I dont know the final numbers yet. I dont know. Numerous people were killed, and I was dealing with two countries that we get along with very well, very different countries from certain standpoints. Theyve been fighting for 500 years, intermittently, and we solved that war. You probably saw it just came out over the wire, so we solved it.
Yesterday, as Jeff Tiedrich noted, he promised he would fix the United States as well. I think were gonna have the richest economy youve ever seen. We have money coming in that weve never even thought about, at numbers that nobodys ever seen before. We have a deal with Japan where theyre going to pay us $550 billion. We have a deal with Europe where theyre doing 750 billion plus 400 billion, plus 300 billion, and many other countries.
Today the administration announced that Trump is adding a 90,000-square-foot event space to the White House. The White House itself, excluding the East Wing and the West Wing, is about 55,000 square feet. Groundbreaking for the new ballroom, which will replace the East Wing, is supposed to start in September, although it is not clear who picked the architects or the design. The administration says Trump and private donors will fund the building, which is estimated to cost around $200 million.
The announcement says that for 150 years, Presidents, Administrations, and White House Staff have longed for a large event space on the White House complex that can hold substantially more guests than currently allowed. Traditionally, the White House has been called The Peoples House because it symbolizes that the government belongs not to the temporary inhabitant of the building but to the American people.
And yet it seems as if rather than representing the peoples government, Trump is trying to turn that historic building into the kind of property in which he is comfortable, something like Mar-a-Lago, where he can host parties in a big gold room.
It certainly doesnt seem as if much governance is going on in Trumps White House. As Josh Marshall pointed out today in Talking Points Memo, when the head of the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy resigned today, it turned out that the White House had never formally appointed him in the first place. Marshall added: Were six months into this administration and it wasnt even clear whether this guy was ever in the position at all. And now hes gone from the positionthat he may or may not have held. This is the state of things from the very top to the very bottom of this administration. And the impact of that is bleeding out into every aspect of the society and economy.
Trumps claim that he has ended six wars is pure fantasy, and as for his boasts that Europe and Japan are going to pay huge sums of money to the U.S.which is not actually how trade deals workthe European Union and the U.S. have already published different versions of what was in the agreement between them, although that agreement itself was only preliminary.
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The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery. Museum resists Trumps Big Beautiful Bill plan to move space shuttle to Houston Space
Thirty years after its first launch, the space shuttle Discovery is now the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution / Dane Penland)The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery. Museum resists Trumps Big Beautiful Bill plan to move space shuttle to Houston
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This is not a transfer its a heist.
Thirty years after its first launch, the space shuttle Discovery is now the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution/Dane Penland)
A provision in President Trumps Big Beautiful Bill orders the Air and Space Museum to transfer ownership of Space Shuttle Discovery back to NASA for relocation near the space center in Houston. However, the Smithsonian Institution is not backing down on its stance that Congress has no legal authority to mandate Discoverys removal, and theyre bringing the receipts.
It all started with the Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act. by Texas Senators John Cornyn (R) and Ted Cruz (R) in April, was an attempt to force the transfer of Space Shuttle Discovery from the s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center just outside Washington D.C. to NASAs in Houston. The act stalled in committee and would have been dead in the water, but was rebranded and folded into the more than 1,100 pages of President Trumps in an attempt to force the issue.
While the language of the legislation was altered to comply with Senate reconciliation rules, such as refraining to name Discovery directly, the goal remained the same. The new wording instead refers to the transfer of a space vehicle to be specified by the within one month of the bills signing to a NASA facility involved in the administration of the Commercial Crew Program by January 2027. The Smithsonian has rejected the attempt outright, saying it has the paperwork to prove the Institutions ownership of Discovery and that its critical the space shuttle remains in its care.
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The Columbia and Brown deals with Trump are just the beginning Vox
A student wears a graduation cap with a verse from the Koran written on it at Columbia University in New York on May 21, 2025. Jeenah Moon / AFP via Getty ImagesThe Columbia deal with Trump is a blueprint. All of higher ed should fear what comes next.
The Ivy League agreements with Trump are a danger to all of higher ed.
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One by one, elite universities are signing away some of their autonomy to the Trump administration after it has accused them of civil rights violations and withheld federal funding.
The University of Pennsylvania as part of an agreement with the Trump administration earlier this month.
Columbia University in penalties and fulfill a laundry list of other demands, from slashing diversity, equity, and inclusion programs to reviewing the curricula and personnel of its Middle Eastern studies department.
Brown University agreed to to support Rhode Island state workforce initiatives, to abide by the Trump administrations policies on trans athletes, and to apply what it refers to as merit-based university admissions.
Harvard University, despite , is also reportedly in talks to as part of an agreement similar to the one signed by Columbia.
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These Ivy League schools have large endowments, billions of dollars in reserve funds that should put them in the best financial position among institutions of higher education to resist the administrations allegations and attempts to hold their federal funding ransom. But so far, they have chosen to settle with Trump instead and in so doing, campus free speech advocates say they are compromising academic freedom and dialogue throughout higher education.
Other schools, especially those less resourced, are likely to follow. The Trump administration has announced investigations into related to their policies on DEI, transgender students, students with disabilities, disclosure of foreign gifts and contracts, and alleged antisemitism following student protests against Israels war in Gaza.
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Why Dems are suddenly confident about 2026 Axios
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Why Dems are suddenly confident about 2026
By Alex Thompson
Democrats have a rare bright spot in their : 2026, at least to them, looks pretty good.
Why it matters: The party is full of angst over how to retake the White House and win back the voters they lost to President Trump over the past decade. But they feel increasingly sanguine about taking back the House next year.
Heres the five-part theory of the case for why Dems are optimistic about 2026, as laid out bymore than a dozen of their top campaign staffers.
- The big, beautiful bill is .
- Cuts and the Affordable Care Act are expected to make the big, beautiful bill even more unpopular.
- Prices are still high despite Trump promising to bring them down. Economic approval had long been one of Trumps consistent political strengths
- Trumps deportations are getting blowback after going well beyond violent criminals and gang members. Polls show on one of their key issues in the 2024 election.
- Democratic enthusiasm. found that 72% Democrats and Democratic-aligned voters are extremely motivated to vote in the midterm elections compared to just 50% of Republicans and Republican-aligned voters.
Between the lines: Some Democrats are worried that victories in 2026 will stop the party from reckoning with its deeper issues and unpopularity.
- The party needs to change and victories will give party leaders excuses not to, they argue.
Zoom in: In 2026,Democrats only need to win a handful of seats to take back the House majority. They also just successfully recruited former Gov. to run for Senate in North Carolina, as Axios first reported.
- Democrats believe theyre getting the right kinds of candidates in the House: people with little connection to D.C. who can run against both parties.
- Midterms often favor the party out of power and Democrats have increasingly done better with college-educated voters who also tend to vote more often in non-presidential elections.
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Donald Trumps youth support is collapsing. But theyre not returning to Democrats.
As Donald Trumps presidency shoulders on, a curious thing is happening with the youngest cohort of American voters:
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