OK, WHO DID THIS???🤣🤣🤣

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=detu94bkmss

Gutfeld: Men can't list names of masculine Dems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCzFPDIpcbA

Peter Thiel | All-In Summit 2024

Peter Thiel is literally a genius. It's why Russia hates him and Palantir so much that they constantly put out hitpieces on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRunzR9fbk

US Rep. Danny Davis won't seek reelection after 29 years in Congress

Davis, 83, had hinted at his retirement for weeks. On Thursday, he plans to make it official outside his West Side office.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Danny Davis on Thursday plans to announce his retirement after serving 15 terms in Congress and is expected to hand a hefty endorsement to State Rep. La Shawn Ford, sources said.

Davis, 83, had hinted at his retirement for weeks. On Thursday morning, he plans to make it official outside his West Side office. The veteran congressman approached Ford about his plans several weeks ago.

With Davis’s exodus, there are now four open congressional seats in Illinois — a shuffle that began when Sen. Dick Durbin announced he wouldn’t be seeking another term and after longtime U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who represents the 9th Congressional District, announced her retirement.

U.S. Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi, who represents the 8th Congressional District, and Robin Kelly, who represents the 2nd Congressional District, join Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton in vying for Durbin’s seat.

Davis has represented the 7th Congressional District since 1996. The district encompasses Chicago’s West Side, and stretches from west suburban Hillside into the Loop and down to the South Side.

Born in Arkansas, Davis moved to Chicago in 1961 and worked as a teacher. He became executive director of the Greater Lawndale Conservation Commission and was elected alderperson of the 29th Ward in 1979, which he served for 11 years. He was elected to the Cook County Board of Commissioners in 1990 and served eight years.

Davis ran unsuccessfully in the primary for the 7th Congressional District in 1984 and 1986. He has run for Chicago mayor three times — in the 1989 special election to replace the late Mayor Harold Washington, which he later withdrew from; in 1991, which he lost to Mayor Richard M. Daley in the primary; and in 2011, after Daley retired. Davis withdrew and ultimately endorsed former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun in the race that Rahm Emanuel ultimately won.

Davis currently serves on the Committee on Ways and Means and is chairman of the Worker and Family Support Subcommittee. He is known for his work on civil rights, voting rights, women’s rights, health care and criminal justice reform, among other key issues.

After he won in a crowded Democratic primary last year, a defiant Davis called out critics who’d said he was “getting scared” in his five-way race, claiming the incumbent had to call the “big guns” of the state Democratic Party to help him across the finish line.

He also challenged those who were focused on his age: “Don’t ever write off the senior citizens.”

Davis’s exit highlights a key issue in Congress: age. According to the New York Times, there are nearly 120 members who are 70 or older — 86 in the House and 33 in the Senate. There are also a record number of octogenarians serving in Congress, including five in the Senate. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, is 91.

Ford, 53, is likely to see a boost from Davis’ endorsement, but there are several others vying for the seat.

Ford announced a bid for Davis’ seat in May. He was born in the Cabrini Green housing project, adopted by his grandmother and was raised in the West Side’s Austin community. He’s a former Chicago Public Schools teacher and is currently a licensed real estate broker. He also ran for mayor in 2019.

The West Side native joked to the Sun-Times that he didn’t believe Davis would ever retire. Ford said the person who replaces Davis has big shoes to fill, but he believes the two share the same values, including his passion for criminal justice reform and access to healthcare. Ford said healthcare and reintegrating people into the workforce are among his top priorities.

“I think that there’s got to be someone that shares those same values, because those are very pressing issues in the seventh congressional district. People suffering from substance use disorder, people suffering from the impact of the criminal justice system, people needing health care in the areas where the life expectancy is lower than other parts of in certain parts of the district,” Ford said. “And Congressman Davis dealt with those types of issues head on. Those are issues that actually have both state and federal applications.”

https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/07/30/danny-davis-wont-seek-reelection-congress

Breaking911

@Breaking911

The historic Coney Island Beach in NYC looks like a third-world country. It has turned into a total shi*hole.

Just wait until Mamdani becomes Mayor. You've seen nothing yet.

https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1939530847352246282

Hawley responds to PDJT's Truth calling him "second-tier"

The Missouri Republican senator said he has “love” for the president and would seek to make changes to the legislation to win Trump’s support.

In wake of searing criticism from President Donald Trump, Sen. Josh Hawley defended his legislation that would ban stock trading among lawmakers, the president and vice president.

In a Truth Social post Wednesday afternoon, Trump called the Missouri Republican a “second-tier Senator” and criticized his bill as a win for the Democrats and “so bad for our Country.”

Hawley’s bill was advanced by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday morning in a 8-7 vote, with Hawley the lone Republican voting with Democrats.

“Listen, I want the President to sign the bill, so I’m happy to do whatever it would take to get him to say, ‘Yes, this is good,’” Hawley told reporters following his excoriation by Trump on social media. “I want results.”

Hawley, who reiterated his “love” for the president, emphasized that Trump is not covered by the bill. Indeed, while the stock trading ban would go into effect for the executive and legislative branch elected officials immediately, Trump would not be required to divest his holdings for the remainder of his term.

He also said he was open to making changes to get Trump on board with the measure so that it could be signed into law.

“He’s not covered by the PELOSI Act, but Nancy Pelosi is,” Hawley said. The name of the bil was previously the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act, named for former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose family trading has come under scrutiny. The California Democrat has said she supports Hawley’s bill.

The bill was renamed during the Homeland Security markup to the HONEST Act.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/30/congress/trump-comes-for-hawley-00485868

astorgirl

@astorgirl

Suspect charged in Councilman attack

Danville Police report 29-year old Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes of Danville has been formally charged with attempted first degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding in this morning's attack on City Councilman Lee Vogler.

Hayes is a citizen of the UK, but is a legal US resident with a green card, due to his marriage to an American citizen. According to online court records, his wife filed for divorce on July 14.

https://x.com/astorgirl/status/1950653926723956807

Senate votes down Israel arms sales ban, despite growing Democrat support

The latest resolution underscored increasing anger among Democrats about Israel’s conduct in its war against Hamas.

The Senate on Wednesday voted down a resolution to bar U.S. arms sales to Israel, exposing new divisions among Democrats and highlighting rising frustration with the country’s conduct in Gaza.

The first of two votes pushed by progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders — which came to 27-70 — renewed efforts to halt American weapons transfers in protest of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and a deepening humanitarian crisis. Democrats split on the vote, with 12 new supporters who previously backed arms sales to Israel.

“This resolution is absolutely necessary because the United States will have no credibility in the international community if we don’t stand up against this,” said Sanders, an Independent.

The effort coincided with growing international outrage, including rare criticism of Israel from President Donald Trump, who this week publicly contradicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s denial that Gaza is facing a hunger crisis. Britain, France and several other nations warned they would recognize Palestine as a state unless Israel takes steps to improve conditions in Gaza and commits to a long-term peace process.

This marks the third time Sanders has forced a Senate vote on halting Israeli arms sales since late 2024, each time citing the toll on Palestinian civilians.

New supporters included Maine Independent Sen. Angus King, who said this week he would no longer support Netanyahu’s government because Israel appears to be using starvation as a weapon of war.

“I had just had it,” King said in an interview. “I kept expecting that Israel would wake up and realize what an awful thing they were perpetuating, and that surely they would at least open up humanitarian aid. They just continued to not do it, and I just reached the point where enough was enough.”

Other new supporters since April included Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s ranking member Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Senate Armed Services ranking member Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Senate Appropriations ranking member Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.).

The Senate in April rejected two resolutions from Sanders aimed at blocking billions of dollars in arms sales to Israel. That time, it followed the collapse of a ceasefire in Gaza and was backed by just 15 senators. That was fewer than in November when 19 senators backed an Israel resolution.

One of Wednesday’s resolutions would have blocked the $676 million sale of 5,000 heavy duty bombs and 5,000 guidance kits for bombs. The other would have prohibited the sale of tens of thousands of fully automatic assault rifles.

Sanders argued the arms transfers would “clearly violate” U.S. legal requirements for foreign military sales because Israel has used weapons provided by Washington to kill thousands of Palestinian civilians.

Senate Foreign Relations Chair Jim Risch (R-Idaho) defended the sales, arguing that Hamas, and not Israel, is perpetuating the war.

“These are misguided resolutions, and if adopted, would … abandon America’s closest ally in the Middle East,” he said in a floor speech.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/30/congress/sanders-israel-arms-sale-ban-vote-00484866