Docs show James Comey associated leaked classified info to NYT: Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVHNSJ9MXjE
Trump nominates Right-wing Lesbian, Tammy Bruce, as US deputy representative to UN
President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was nominating State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce as the next U.S. deputy representative to the United Nations.
Bruce has been the State Department spokesperson since Trump took office in January.
In a post on social media in which Trump announced her nomination, the president said she did a “fantastic job” as State Department spokesperson.
She has defended the Trump administration’s foreign policy decisions ranging from immigration crackdown and visa revocations to U.S. responses to Russia’s war in Ukraine and Israel’s war in Gaza, including defending a widely condemned armed private aid operation in the Palestinian enclave.
Bruce was a political contributor and commentator on Fox News for over 20 years.
She has also authored books like “Fear Itself: Exposing the Left’s Mind-Killing Agenda” that offer criticism of liberals and left-leaning viewpoints.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/09/us-news/trump-nominates-tammy-bruce-as-us-deputy-representative-to-un/
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
UNREAL: In 2024, Armond Langford was sentenced to 14 years for robbing 22 people at ATMs
He was then RELEASED from prison by Democrat-appointed Judge Jessica Green after serving ONLY 6 months.
A few days ago, Langford allegedly kidnapped two kids and their mother, whom he also stabbed. He then forced her to drive to a bank and demanded $20,000 from the bank teller
He was arrested after a six-hour manhunt and now has a $1 million bond.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1954948122234290281
He smirked while Judge reads him his crime of stabbing a mother in front of her kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q87Du8sAfHo
Louisville mother abducted with children shares harrowing bank robbery survival story
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Louisville woman was abducted from her home near The Oxmoor Center, along with her two children before being forced to withdraw $20,000 from a local bank at knifepoint Friday morning, police said.
The suspect, Armond Langford, 32, was arrested later that day and faces multiple charges including robbery, kidnapping, and assault.
Friday morning, Jennifer Strong was making breakfast for her children when she heard her back door open twice.
A man, later identified as Langford, entered her home armed with a knife.
“He had a knife …. And he started to yell 'how many people are in this house,'" Strong said. "I put my hands up. I told him not to hurt us."
Langford ordered Strong, her 11-year-old son, and her 7-year-old son into a car. Strong sat in the driver’s seat with her older son beside her, and Langford sat in the back with her younger son.
With a knife pressed to Strong’s throat, Langford demanded she drive to the PNC Bank on Shelbyville Road near Oxmoor Center.
“My oldest son he had his arms around my neck, and he was begging the guy in the backseat not to kill me," Strong said. "I asked him if I could reach around and hold my youngest son’s hand, and he said yes."
Langford instructed Strong to drive faster, but she refused, saying there were many police in the neighborhood.
Strong, a true crime enthusiast, said she tried to gain Langford’s trust by sharing personal information.
“I told the guy my oldest son was autistic, to please not hurt us, that my youngest son was very scared,” she said. “If this is gonna happen fighting him isn't the right way to do it – he has a knife, and I have nothing."
At the bank, Strong knocked on the window as Langford threatened the teller.
“I need $20,000, or I will kill her now,” Strong recounted Langford’s threat.
Langford then ordered the children out of the car. Strong feared she might never see them again.
“I yelled out to the car that I loved them, and I said a prayer and I grabbed my hand and I grabbed my chest and I said to myself this is it this is what it feels like to die – I told the bank 'he’s killing me now, he’s stabbing me again' and then they came out,” Strong said.
The bank tellers spread $20,000 on the ground. Langford grabbed the cash and fled.
Strong was taken to the hospital with stab wounds that came within centimeters of her lung. She was released Friday and reunited with her family.
“It was the best moment of life, it will stay the best moment of my life,” she said.
Langford was arrested just after 4:30 p.m. Friday near Best Buy, about a mile from the bank.
Police said Langford broke into Strong’s home, then abducted her and the children before the robbery. The children were not physically harmed but were traumatized by the ordeal.
The family said this never would have happened if Langford had served his full sentence.
In 2024, Langford was sentenced to 14 years in prison for burglary and robbery charges but was released early on shock probation.
“I want to know how they’re sleeping at night right now,” Strong said.
Her husband Brandon Strong agreed, adding, "You caused this."
The physical wounds from the attack will heal faster than the emotional scars.
Another child was in the home at the time, but was asleep upstairs during the attack.
“My little brother has autism and it breaks my heart for him that he’ll never be able to express what he has seen the way we all can, and that’s heartbreaking,” she said.
Strong’s husband, Brandon, was not home during the incident.
“That’s what I’m kinda losing sleep about — me not being here,” Brandon Strong said.
The family has already gotten rid of the car used in the crime because it is too traumatic to be around it.
The day after the attack, Strong’s youngest son turned eight. The family celebrated, grateful everyone was alive to blow out the candles.
“Everyday is a blessing, take nothing for granted,” Strong said.
Langford is being held on a $1 million bond and faces multiple charges, including five counts of robbery, one count of kidnapping an adult, two counts of kidnapping a minor, and one count of assault.
“He deserves the same terror that he inflicted on us,” Strong said.
Langford is scheduled to be back in court on Aug. 19.
https://www.wdrb.com/news/crime-reports/louisville-mother-abducted-with-children-shares-harrowing-bank-robbery-survival-story/article_e4e8d93d-8bfc-40ce-ba2b-61666d1c95a1.html
U.S. Department of Labor
@USDOL
MAKE AMERICA SKILLED AGAIN! ⬇️
On average, recent graduates of Registered Apprenticeships make roughly $11,000 MORE than recent college graduates🔥
https://x.com/USDOL/status/1954981733394227631
Meet the shadow campaign quietly preparing to make a second Trump term ungovernable: One Million Rising
https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/leaked-training-catches-anti-trump
Plus they saved all that money living at home the whole time since finding a local trade school isn't hard.
Right-wing AfD party takes lead in Germany, says bombshell new survey
Between Alternative for Germany and France’s National Rally, populists continue to rise in Europe’s most powerful countries.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the most popular party in the country, according to a striking new poll published Tuesday.
If a national election were now held, 26 percent of Germans would vote for the AfD, according to a poll carried out by the Forsa Institute for Social Research and Statistical Analysis. That result puts the far-right party ahead of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s mainstream conservative bloc, which slid to second with 24 percent support in the poll.
With the far-right National Rally already leading clearly in France, the bombshell German survey is likely to fuel unease among mainstream leaders across Europe. Right-wing populist parties have performed strongly in elections in recent years from Poland to Romania, and Portugal to the Netherlands.
In Britain, Nigel Farage’s hard-right Reform UK is also topping polls amid broad public dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government.
While POLITICO’s Poll of Polls shows that Germany’s conservative Christian Democrats maintain a slight lead over the AfD in an aggregation of voter surveys, the far-right party has climbed since snagging almost 21 percent of the vote in February’s federal election, its best-ever result. The AfD is now the largest opposition party in Germany’s Bundestag.
The AfD was initially founded as a single-issue party more than a decade ago by a group of economics professors who, in the midst of Europe’s debt crisis, opposed the euro and financial help for debt-ridden countries. It regularly scored single-digit results in federal and state elections in its early years.
Now led by the openly radical Alice Weidel, a former economist, the AfD currently pushes a hard-line anti-migrant and right-wing populist positions. Some mainstream politicians argue the party is so extreme that it ought to be banned under provisions of the German constitution designed to prevent a repeat of the country’s Nazi past.
Forsa’s poll also indicated that, as Merz focuses on foreign policy issues like the war in Ukraine and Europe’s relationship with the U.S. under President Donald Trump, he’s in growing political trouble at home. A majority of Germans are dissatisfied with Merz’s chancellorship, with 67 percent saying they are “not happy” with his performance after 100 days in office, according to the survey.
The next German federal election will be held in 2029.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-far-right-afd-lead-survey/
John Oliver: Chuck Schumer has been lying for decades about a couple who doesn’t exist
Blue Georgia
@BlueATLGeorgia
This is insane.
Apparently, Chuck Schumer has based his entire political strategy on an entirely fictional Long Island couple named Joe and Eileen Bailey.
https://x.com/BlueATLGeorgia/status/1954792057723105433
'Joe Biden talking about how bad crime in DC is back in 1992
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1955361182883385378
S&P 500, Nasdaq both notch record close as inflation report gives Fed green light to cut rates
Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite closed at fresh record highs on Tuesday after a tamer-than-expected inflation report raised the possibility that the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates next month.
The broad-based S&P ended the day up 1.13% at 6,445.76, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq finished up 1.39% at 21,681.90. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 483.52 points, or 1.10%, to close at 44,458.61.
Tuesday's fresh inflation data release reassured investors, who have feared that President Donald Trump's broad tariff policies could spike prices in the U.S. economy.
The consumer price index rose 2.7% on an annualized basis in July, while a Dow Jones estimate had called for a 2.8% rise. So-called core CPI, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, increased by 3.1% year on year — slightly more than the expected 3%.
Expectations for lower rates soared following the report. Traders are now pricing in a 94% chance of a rate cut next month, per trading data from the CME's FedWatch Tool. That's up from a 85% chance before the data release. Traders also increased their bets on rate cuts in October and December.
"It looks like a bit of Goldilocks right now for the stock market," said Tom Hainlin, national investment strategist at U.S. Bank Asset Management Group. "More and more people are expecting a rate cut in September. So, rates kind of on a downward bias, earnings on an upward bias — that's a pretty good environment for the broad stock market."
Small caps, seen as a big beneficiary of lower short-term borrowing rates, led the rally with the Russell 2000 up nearly triple the gain in the S&P 500.
Tuesday's moves come as traders weigh the latest developments on the tariff front. Trump said Monday he'd extend a 90-day pause on higher levies on Chinese goods.
Wall Street will also parse Thursday's producer price index report for a reading on wholesale inflation. Both reports come ahead of the Fed's Jackson Hole gathering at the end of August and the central bank's September policy meeting.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/stock-market-today-live-updates-.html
🚨 Several “tough on China” GOP Congressmen are quietly backing a program that brings MORE Chinese nationals into America without going through normal visa checks.
@Jim_Jordan @BrianMastFL @RepTroyNehls — care to explain?
🧵🧵🧵
The EVS-TAP program lets Chinese nationals — even Chinese Communist Party members — get U.S. entry through the Northern Mariana Islands with virtually zero oversight.
These islands are U.S. territory.
Once in, they can buy American IDs and some have already tried to infiltrate Guam’s military bases, just 60 miles away.
King-Hinds names @Jim_Jordan as one of the biggest backers of the Chinese EVS-TAP visa scheme.
He even called her privately to celebrate. Why no mention of this to your base?
@RepTroyNehls even lobbied DHS @SecNoem in writing to support the program.
And King-Hinds admits he was “advised” (by the Chinese?) to cozy up to @BrianMastFL because of his influence with President Trump.
In 2023, then-Sen. Marco Rubio and 30 other members of Congress pushed Sec. Mayorkas to shut down this obvious national security threat.
So why are these so-called “pro-Trump” China hawks now pushing it?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1955385705854820828.html
Texas Senate approves new congressional lines as House Democrats remain out of state
Democrats' absence has halted work in the Texas House, which must also approve the new boundaries, for more than a week.
The Texas Senate approved new congressional lines on Tuesday in a rare mid-decade redistricting effort that could aid Republicans in their effort to keep control of the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2026 election.
The vote was 19-2, with nine Democrats absent after exiting the Senate floor moments after the maps were taken up, a show of protest against what they framed as a "corrupt process."
"This mid-decade redistricting isn’t about fair representation—it’s about politicians picking their voters instead of voters choosing their leaders," the Senate Democratic Caucus said in a statement. "And it doesn’t stop here. If they can gerrymander now, they can and will do it before every election."
Denying a quorum, as House Democrats have done in the lower chamber, would have required all 11 Senate Democrats to walk out. But two Democrats, Sens. Judith Zaffirini of Laredo and Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa of McAllen stayed in the chamber to vote against the map.
Both lawmakers had spent 45 days in New Mexico in 2003 in protest of the GOP's mid-decade redistricting effort then.
“We learned that quorum breaks can delay but not defeat this effort,” Zaffirini and Hinojosa said in a joint statement. “Legislators cannot stay away forever, and the Governor will call as many special sessions as needed to prevail. Our greatest hope is at the courthouse, and the sooner we get there, the better.”
Dozens of Democrats in the lower chamber have decamped to Illinois and other parts of the country, bringing work in the House to a halt for a second week as the chamber continued to lack the minimum headcount needed to conduct business.
“We stand in solidarity with our House Democrat brothers and sisters,” said Houston Sen. Carol Alvarado, the Senate Democratic leader. “Our options here to push back and fight in the Senate are pretty limited, so we’re using every tool that we have.”
The Senate-approved map now heads to the House, which must approve the lines. So far, the Democrats' absence has stalled the effort. On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dustin Burrows said they would adjourn for the session if the lower chamber continued to lack a quorum on Friday. Gov. Greg Abbott said he would immediately call a second special session with the same agenda, while teasing the possibility of adding more items.
Texas Republicans began to push for new political boundaries after President Donald Trump’s team insisted state lawmakers, who were initially wary, take up an opportunity to gain more GOP seats in Congress.
The Senate-approved map is identical to the initial draft introduced in the House. After that proposal was approved by a House committee, Democrats in the lower chamber left the state, depriving the chamber of the required number of lawmakers to pass legislation. The so-called quorum break stalled the map from passing the full House.
In a statement, Patrick said the Senate "will continue passing this map each legislative session to accurately reflect our state until House Democrats return from their ‘vacation’ and get back to work for the people of Texas.”
While the Senate Democrats who walked out Tuesday labeled the map "unconstitutional," the Republican leading the chamber's redistricting push argued otherwise.
"No one has presented data, or frankly any compelling case that this map violates any applicable laws," said Sen. Phil King, R-Weatherford.
Democrats in other states, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, have also promised their own retaliatory redistricting if Texas passes the new map.
Republicans in Texas have taken an offensive stance on the quorum break, with Burrows signing civil arrest warrants for the missing Democrats. Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton have also requested that some members be expelled from their seats by the state Supreme Court. Missing members are also facing $500-a-day fines for their absence.
In crafting new districts that would likely elect Republican representatives, the proposed map could also pit incumbent Democratic representatives against one another in some districts, or risk them losing their seats in others. Under the new map, areas represented by progressive Reps. Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett would both be under the new District 37, currently held by Doggett.
Doggett has expressed interest in running again for the seat and pushed back in a post on X against claims he was “declaring war” on Casar in doing so. The new map would redraw Casar’s District 35 so that less than 10% of his current constituency would remain as it would no longer cover the Austin area.
“Abandoning winnable majority Hispanic #TX35 to challenge me in #TX37 helps Trump, divides progressives,” Doggett wrote in the post on Monday.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/11/texas-redistricting-map-vote-senate/
You can put people in prison for life calmly.
The difference between living at home during college and not is night and day. After first year living with a roommate from hell, I went back to live with my parents from hell but at least I didn't have to pay rent.