What do people have against priests who happen to be good-looking?
Yeah they always choose some Bernie Sanders ungodly lookin' people. We need a jacked Pope.
You enjoy destroying beautiful things huh?
RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs
The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover, people familiar with the matter said.
Kennedy plans to dismiss all 16 panel members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force because he views them as too “woke,” the people said.
The White House has made a priority of targeting initiatives that promote diversity equity and inclusion, or DEI, in everything from artificial intelligence to health research grants.
The task force has advised the federal government on preventive health matters since 1984. The Affordable Care Act in 2010 gave it the power to determine which screenings, counseling and preventive medications most insurers are required to cover at no cost to patients. The group, made up of volunteers with medical expertise who are vetted for conflicts of interest, combs through scientific evidence to determine which interventions are proven to work.
The Supreme Court decided a case in June that originally focused on a task-force recommendation to cover certain HIV-prevention drugs. The employer plaintiffs had successfully argued previously that requiring them to cover such drugs for employees violated their religious rights. The group also argued that the task-force members weren’t properly appointed. The high court ruled that the task- force appointments were constitutional, while highlighting that the Health and Human Services Secretary has the authority to remove the members of the panel at will.
A recent essay in The American Conservative magazine called for the removal of the task-force members, arguing that it had embedded “left-wing ideological orthodoxy” in all of its efforts. The essay pointed to the task force highlighting racial discrimination when discussing risk factors for anxiety in older children and teenagers, as well as the task force’s use of terms such as “pregnant persons.” The task force mentioned the “lasting psychological impact and stigma of enslaved Black women being forced to act as wet nurses” in an April publication on breast-feeding, the essay noted.
HHS didn’t offer details on the secretary’s plans for, or views on, the task force.
“The Secretary looks forward to working with the USPSTF to improve public health,” a spokeswoman for the secretary said, referring to the task force.
The secretary’s office this month abruptly postponed the task force’s July meeting, alarming some Democrats and public health leaders.
“In no world should experts be replaced with unqualified anti-science cronies of RFK Jr. who will make preventive healthcare more expensive and harder to get over baseless conspiracy theories or debunked disinformation,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D., Wash.), who sits on the Senate’s health committee.
Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, in June removed all the members of a separate advisory committee on immunizations. New members appointed by Kennedy pushed forward several of the secretary’s priorities later that month, announcing a new examination of the full schedule of vaccines children receive and recommending flu shots that don’t contain the preservative thimerosal, often used in multi-dose flu-vaccine vials.
Kennedy raised questions on whether Human Immunodeficiency Virus is the sole cause of AIDS in a 2021 book, saying “I take no side in this dispute.” Scientists have for decades considered it a proven fact that HIV causes AIDS.
https://archive.is/Ycfqn#selection-711.0-775.225
Inside socialist Zohran Mamdani’s posh wedding bash at secluded Uganda compound — complete with phone jamming system, armed guards
https://archive.is/VsYhF#selection-1003.3-1003.133
Michigan: Citizens neutralizing mass stabber in Walmart parking lot
https://x.com/newschannel3now/status/1949303035219652895
Tom Cotton
@SenTomCotton
James Comey’s bias against President Trump calls into question everything he did as FBI Director.
I’m working with Kash Patel on a full review of every FBI action Comey carried out during his tenure as director.
https://x.com/SenTomCotton/status/1949132036263817394
German made SIG pistols might be barred for military use (known for random discharge problems)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssNFf_bMjf8
NPR CEO, Katherine Maher, is now begging for propaganda cash after congress strips NPR and PBS of $1 billion yearly corporate welfare
https://x.com/JDunlap1974/status/1949195054322700533
President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, announces partnership with WEF to create a school curriculum
https://x.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1949248676397806065
Sandy 〽️
@RightGlockMom
42 year old Bradford Gilly (sp?) is suspect in Traverse City, Michigan Walmart incident.
Long history of assaults, drug use.
3" fixed blade knife.
Oldest victim was 84 year old woman, youngest was 29 years old.
https://x.com/RightGlockMom/status/1949532466085003467
How Chinese pot gangs have taken over America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP-ObYHbM9k
Trump announces EU trade deal with 15% tariffs
-President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the U.S. has reached a trade deal with the European Union.
-Trump said that the deal imposes a 15% tariff on most European goods to the U.S., including cars.
-The U.S. president had previously threatened 30% tariffs on goods from the European Union.
-The EU also agreed to purchase $750 billion worth of U.S. energy and invest an additional $600 billion worth of investments into the U.S. above current levels.
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. reached a trade deal with the European Union, following pivotal discussions with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen days before the Aug. 1 tariff deadline.
Trump said that the deal imposes a 15% tariff on most European goods to the U.S., including cars.
Some products, including aircrafts and their components, some chemicals and pharmaceuticals, will not be subject to tariffs, von der Leyen said in a briefing after the agreement was announced. She also said that the new 15% tariff rate would not be added to any tariffs already in effect.
The 15% tariff rate is lower than the 30% rate Trump had previously threatened against the United States’ largest trading partner, but higher than the 10% baseline tariffs the EU was hoping for.
Trump said that the 27-member bloc also agreed to purchase $750 billion worth of U.S. energy and invest an additional $600 billion worth of investments into the U.S. above current levels.
He said that the bloc would also be “purchasing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of military equipment,” but did not provide a specific dollar amount.
“It’s a very powerful deal, it’s a very big deal, it’s the biggest of all the deals,” Trump said Sunday alongside von der Leyen.
“It’s a good deal, it’s a huge deal, with tough negotiations,” von der Leyen said after the meeting.
While questions remain about the specific details and timeline of the EU investments, the agreement marks a pivotal moment for Trump, following weeks of uncertainty surrounding the U.S.-EU trade talks.
Trump during a press conference before his meeting with the European leader said that there was a 50-50 chance they would reach a framework of a deal.
Brussels had been preparing for a no-deal scenario if the trade talks devolved ahead of Aug. 1.
Lawmakers had approved a major package of counter-tariffs, which would have targeted a range of U.S. goods. The bloc also considered deploying the EU’s “Anti-Coercion Instrument,” a move seen as the trading bloc’s “trade bazooka.”
''European leaders react''
European leaders were quick to applaud the agreement amid relief that the bloc had seemingly avoided a trade war, but some voiced caution about the terms of the deal.
Ireland’s Prime Minister Micheál Martin said the agreement “brings clarity and predictability to the trading relationship between the EU and the US,” according to a statement.
“It does mean that there will now be higher tariffs than there have been and this will have an impact on trade between the EU and the US, making it more expensive and more challenging,” Ireland’s Department of the Taoiseach said.
Still, the agreement “creates a new era of stability,” the statement continued.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz welcomed the new accord, citing the benefits it would bring to the country’s auto industry.
“With the agreement in the EU-US negotiations on tariffs a trade conflict, which would have hit the export-oriented German economy hard, has been avoided,” he said in a statement.
“This is especially true for the auto industry, for which the current tariffs of 27.5% were almost halved to 15%. Especially here the quick tariff reduction is of great significance,” he added.
Netherlands Prime Minister Dick Schoof said, in a post on X Sunday, that “no tariffs would have been better,” but praised the European Commission for securing the best agreement possible.
He said the deal underway “provides more clarity for our businesses and brings more market stability.”
Italy’s government leaders, including Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, issued a statement saying the deal helps avoid a “direct clash between the two sides of the Atlantic,” and “guarantees stability” between the U.S. and European Union.
The statement also said Italy considered tariffs at 15% to be “sustainable,” if that percentage includes, and is not in addition to, previous tariffs.
The U.S.-EU trade relationship was valued at 1.68 trillion euros ($1.97 trillion) when taking into account both services and goods trading in 2024, according to the European Council.
While the EU recorded a surplus on goods trading, it noted a deficit in the services realm. This left the EU with an overall trade surplus of around 50 billion euros with the U.S. last year.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/27/trump-european-union-eu-trade-tariffs.html
Disgraced former Rep. George Santos reports to prison for seven-year sentence
WASHINGTON — Disgraced former Rep. George Santos reported to prison on Friday, beginning a more than seven-year sentence after pleading guilty to a laundry list of federal charges that included wire fraud, identity theft and money laundering.
He is in custody at the Federal Correctional Institution Fairton in Fairton, New Jersey, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Friday.
The flashy New York Republican, who stormed onto the national stage when he unexpectedly won a congressional seat in 2022 and was expelled by his colleagues the very next year, didn’t go quietly this week. He appeared on an hourlong podcast, engaged with his followers on X Spaces and posted a series of farewell tweets on X. He also continued to post videos for supporters on the Cameo platform through Friday morning, charging a minimum of $300 per video, according to the site.
“Well, darlings… The curtain falls, the spotlight dims, and the rhinestones are packed. From the halls of Congress to the chaos of cable news what a ride it’s been! Was it messy? Always. Glamorous? Occasionally. Honest? I tried… most days,” Santos wrote on X.
“I may be leaving the stage (for now), but trust me legends never truly exit,” he continued.
In his hour-and-a-half Spaces live broadcast, Santos, a Donald Trump ally in Congress, said he had been asked by many people whether he would get a presidential pardon or commutation that could cut short his 87-month sentence.
“The answer to that is, I don’t know. You’re asking the wrong person,” he said on Thursday. “The only person that can answer that question is, you know, whoever the president of the United States is — in this case, President Donald Trump.”
The White House has not commented on the matter.
Santos’ political career was one of the shortest and most tumultuous in recent memory. Even before he was sworn in to office, The New York Times and other outlets revealed that he had fabricated parts of his resume, and the personal narrative that he shared with donors and voters on the campaign trail began to fall apart.
The House Ethics Committee issued a scathing investigative report about Santos, finding he’d likely committed multiple federal crimes, and the Justice Department indicted him on 23 counts, including embezzling contributions from supporters, illegally obtaining unemployment benefits and lying on House financial disclosures.
In the 2022 midterm elections, Santos had been one of four Republicans who had flipped Democratic-held seats in New York. But after the indictment and Ethics report, it was those same New York GOP colleagues who led the charge to oust him from Congress.
On Dec. 1, 2023, the House voted 311-114 to expel Santos, making him just the sixth person in U.S. history to be expelled from the House of Representatives.
After his guilty plea, Santos was sentenced to 87 months behind bars this past April and ordered to pay almost $374,000 in restitution and over $200,000 in forfeiture.
During his appearances this week, Santos repeatedly expressed remorse for his lies and actions, even as he tried to settle political scores with those who ousted him from Congress.
“I think we can all attest that I’ve made a string of s— choices in my life, and for that, I’m sorry to those I’ve disappointed, to those I’ve let down, to those that I have caused irreparable damage. I’m sorry. I mean it. I’m not — I’m not placating. This isn’t for show,” Santos said on Spaces.
“It’s just, life sucks sometimes and life-ing is hard,” he said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/disgraced-former-rep-george-santos-161044578.html
How to spot a Commie 101:
Wants to ban guns for citizens, but has armed guards for himself.
North Korea holds the record for largest car theft in history
Sweden's historical business transactions with North Korea, particularly a 1974 order for 1,000 Volvo 144 models and equipment worth $73 million, continue to intrigue. North Korea has failed to pay for this order for 52 years, leading to a total debt of approximately $330 million due to accumulating interest.
In a world where the West continues to have a complicated relationship with North Korea, Sweden's "business dealings" with Pyongyang over 50 years ago continues to spark people's interest. This strange transaction - order for 1,000 Volvo 144 models and other mechanical equipment worth $73 million - involves debt that has been unpaid for 52 years and continues to grow with interest.
The "huge trade contracts" took place in 1974, when the North Korean regime placed an order for 1,000 Volvo 144 models and other mechanical equipment worth $73 million with Swedish companies. Back then Swedish businesses considered North Korea as a promising new market as the country was rebuilding its economy after the Korean war.
Pyongyang, however, never paid for the order. In the past 5 decades, the total with interest has increased to approximately $330 million.
The incident, which was reported in 2016, keeps appearing up on the internet, along with images of the cars, sparking people's interest in this strange transaction.
Here is a tweet from the Swedish Embassy that was posted in 2016.
According to reports, North Korea still uses these cars, and most of the time for special purposes.
"In another country it would be a suicide ride, but in North Korea so few cars ply the highways that each can often have the road to itself."
https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/how-north-korea-ordered-1000-volvo-cars-from-sweden-and-never-paid-throwback-viral-story-article-152348517