Trump called CHIPS Act “a horrible, horrible thing” & told Congress to kill it. His Commerce Dept used it to grab equity stakes in 7 more private co.’s — $874M worth, announced quietly in a blog post. Young, the Republican who wrote the law: “I don’t know of anyone who thought this was allowed.”
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Профиль Vively“Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” — Things you won’t see trending on X • L.A./N.Y./London/Rome & NOLA. Energy transition, Silicon Valley technofile, aerospace, filmmaker, writer ✍️, former producer, foreign policy and dolphin hugger. #RESIST
9 killed, 27 injured in Kyiv as Russia launches 2nd major attack in 48 hours. Russia struck Kyiv again w/ballistic missiles, the second major assault in just 48 hours. “Civilians in homes were torn apart while families slept. Rescue teams clawed through shattered concrete searching for survivors.”
ICYMI: Trump desperately wants to rig the midterms and suppress votes. Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Order Restricting Mail Voting The Trump administration asks justices to intervene after an appeals court blocked key parts of a mail-in voting executive order. | NY Times archive.ph/odlPw
A notepad in front of Treasury Secretary Bessent reads: "To Do: Buy Japanese Yen $5-10 bil" as he participates in a cabinet meeting. The note, photographed at 11:33 EDT, came after Reuters earlier reported Treasury put banks on alert for possible U.S. intervention in the market for Japan's currency.
On the cyberattacks against local water systems, there’s absolutely zero basis for Trump’s bizarre assertion that MN Gov. Tim Walz was “behind it.” Trump made no mention of the governors of the six other states the FBI says have been targeted this week and consider Iran was behind them.
The Trump administration is rescinding legal protections from 350,000 Haitians who previously benefitted from Temporary Protected Status. Now nursing homes, airports, schools, and other industries are in chaos as workers lose work permits. | Washington Post www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
Trump TACO’ed OUT after his call with Putin: 1. He’s Refusing 300 Patriot missiles to Ukraine 2. Now refusing a License for Patriot protection 3. Refusing to send 400 million 4. Not helping get the use of Starlink inside Russia to stop ballistic missiles (ELON) abcnews.com/Politics/rev...
Google created an AI tool for users to doctor images on Google Earth—the latest instance of the AI industry undercutting its rhetoric about safety by launching products with little or no due diligence | The Atlantic archive.ph/y3O8y
U.S. plan for sharing the waters of the drought-stricken Colorado River would require Arizona, California & Nevada to cut their water use by a fifth in the next two years & to make even deeper reductions later, a senior water official from one of those states said. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Arizona, California and Nevada would share cuts under federal proposal to manage the Colorado River www.counton2.com/news/nationa...
Trump files appeal after judge’s scathing order in his ‘bad faith’ IRS case The president probably thought in May that the litigation had run its course and the case was effectively over. Now he knows better. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
ACLU launches legal claims in 17 states against immigration detention conditions, including #Texas www.texastribune.org/2026/07/30/t...
The Hope Florida Foundation has moved its financial records and documents out of Tallahassee and into the same nondescript Alabama office building as the super PAC backing Sen. Ashley Moody’s re-election campaign, new tax filings show.| Miami Herald gift🎁 article www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...