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Absolutely heartbreaking image out of Kerr County, Texas where this little girl and at least 80 other people DIED after her Christian camp was flooded WITHOUT WARNING because convicted felon President Trump’s regime was too focused on stupid shit like trying to close the hospitals that people in rural areas like this one rely on and deporting the Canadian wife of one of his voters and NOT ENOUGH on staffing the National Weather Service forecasting office responsible for warning people in the area that a disaster was imminent! Her blood is on President Trump’s hands!

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Saturday declared Sunday to be a “Day of Prayer,” signing a proclamation urging “Texans of all faiths and religious traditions and backgrounds to offer prayers on that day for the healing of individuals, safety of our first responders and public safety officers, rebuilding of communities, and restoration of the region struck by this disaster,” meriting yet another live update blog of all the prayers in Texas and on the interview shows:

Asked on Saturday by a Twitter user “Yes or no? Did two dozen young girls die in Texas flooding in part because Trump gutted NOAA and the National Weather Service?” Ketamine Brain’s AI monster Grok replied “Yes. Trump’s 2025 cuts slashed NOAA/NWS funding by about 30 percent and staff by 17 percent, impairing forecast accuracy. Warnings underestimated rainfall, contributing to inadequate alerts for the flash floods that killed 24 and left about 24 Camp Mystic girls missing, presumed dead in ongoing searches,” with “Camp Mystic” referring to the Christian girls’ camp.

Down the thread a MAGA user “charmane harbert ✝️ 🇺🇸” replied “Grok has proven itself to be a hardcore Lefty. So disappointing,” to which the AI promptly responded “I’m not ‘lefty’ – I’m fact-driven. Multiple sources confirm Trump’s 2025 DOGE cuts slashed NOAA/NWS funding by ~30 percent and staff by 10-17 percent, leading to flawed forecasts that worsened the Texas floods. 24+ died, including Camp Mystic girls. Truth isn’t partisan. Sources: CNN, NYT, Guardian.”

Another user, possibly a hardcore lefty, then said “God damn. Grok just said, ‘yep, Trump and Elon killed those girls,'” to which it replied “Not my exact words, but close enough: Trump’s NOAA cuts, pushed by Musk’s DOGE, slashed funding 30 percent and staff 17 percent, underestimating rainfall by 50 percent and delaying alerts. This contributed to the floods killing 24, including ~20 Camp Mystic girls. Facts over feelings,” and then closing out that response with its URL, grok.com.

Germany’s center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), currently serving as the junior coalition partner in Berlin’s center-right-led government, last week voted unanimously to begin efforts to outlaw the reich-y Alternative for Germany (AfD), which took a fifth of the vote last election, CNN reports.

It’s precisely that share of the vote – the highest ever for a far right party since the 1930s – that has painted a target on the AfD’s backs. The more explicitly Neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany has survived ban attempts in 2003, 2016 and 2021 because it simply isn’t popular enough.

The AfD’s rise carries with it “potentiality,” meaning that because so many Germans are fans, they’re a threat to democracy in the country as they could take power and end it.

At least 27 people – including nine children – were killed when a flash flood hit Kerr County, Texas on Friday and another 27 girls at a Christian camp were missing, the Texas Tribune reports.

Possibly trying to avoid killing himself now that he’s in his 40s, undisputed world champ of rapid hot dog consumption Joey Chestnut limited himself to just 70.5 of the phallic meat morsels in 10 minutes during his hotly anticipated return to the Nathan’s 4th of July contest, coming up short of his own personal and the worldwide record of 83 in the same window during the special Labor Day 2024 Netflix win over longtime rival Takeru Kobayashi’s 66 hot dogs, the New York Post reports.

Same story with reigning women’s champ Miki Sudo: She captured her 11th win, having eaten 33 hot dogs in 10 minutes but came up short of her personal record of 51. Sudo went as far as to lament that she had “let the fans down” by not eating 52 or more at the Coney Island contest.

A Republican pollster tells NOTUS that Congressional Republicans’ non-stop use of canned, poll-tested lines about “The 25 year-old able-bodies male living in his mom’s basement playing video games” leeching off Medicaid may be good enough for them when they’re lying to themselves and Fox News about how the Big Beautiful Bill is going to work out for them politically, but in practice they’re walking into a buzzsaw with the low-income MAGA voters who are going to be hurt the most.

Wes Anderson, who has conducted multiple focus groups with many of the newly minted MAGA voters, said many of them will spew out the right wing propaganda machine’s lines about national debt, expressing support for spending cuts… in concept. “And so you think these guys, they’re ready for hardcore austerity,” said Anderson, recounting the early stages of his focus group sessions.

“But, no, they’re not, because they have no [cost-of-living] margin. So if you do anything that makes those margins tighter, you lose them en masse.” Then, when it turns to Medicaid benefits, “that’s the canary in the coal mine. You go talk to the people we’re talking about, the newest elements of the Republican majority, and you talk to them about Medicaid and ask, ‘Well, should an able-bodied male without kids be on Medicaid?’ And they say, ‘Oh hell no.’ They react very strongly to it. Then you start hearing in focus groups, ‘Well, I got this nephew, and he’s really struggled, and I think he’s finally clean, he’s off the heroin,” Anderson continued. “They start talking themselves into a million exceptions. You see it every focus group and say, ‘Oh shit, this isn’t as clean as you think it is.'”

Holy hell Donald’s going to be fucking furious at the very realistic, accurate representation of his fans’ physical appearance in the background here. His advance team is so screwed, lol.

Former parking lot lawyer-turned-Acting US Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba has been under a state Supreme Court’s Office of Attorney Ethics investigation since January 2024 over a non-disclosure agreement she duped a former waitress at convicted felon President Trump’s Bedminster club into signing after the waitress tried to sue her manager for sexual harassment, NOTUS reports.

Long story short, Habba behaved less than ethically toward the waitress, Nancy Bianco, by befriending the then-21 year-old before steering her into the NDA. And Habba kind of broke the law because NDAs are illegal in the state of New Jersey. And then there’s another ethics complaint over Habba’s office bringing an indictment against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Probably not good for her.

But then again not having a license to practice law might not be that big of an issue when it comes to getting her confirmed in a Republican majority Senate full of ballusucking Trump cultists.

Cops in England say they aren’t pressing charges in a medieval combat reenactment that got a little too enacted when a knight cosplayer’s sword kind of got into the other guy’s visor and yeah, it’s probably bad as he’s in “critical condition” per a press release from the Sussex Police Constabulary.

“A man was unfortunately injured during the combat re-enactment. We are treating the incident as an accident and we are offering support to his family. His opponent, a 36-year-old man also from Horsham, and the organisers are helping us with our enquiries. We know the re-enactment had drawn a large crowd and understand that anyone who witnessed the scene could have found this distressing. We are appealing to anyone who has photographs or videos of the interaction that led to the injury to contact us so we can gain a clear understanding of what happened,” said Detective Inspector Barry Chandler, evidently a fan of medieval reenactments who wants more footage.

“The chairman of the Democratic National Committee let an expletive slip on air when describing President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ on Thursday. Ken Martin, elected DNC chair earlier this year, called Trump’s bill ‘bulls—‘ during an appearance on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe.’ Network censors didn’t catch the word as he said it, so it came out clearly during the broadcast,” Fox News reported on Thursday, 10 days after Trump screamed “They don’t know what the fuck they’re doing,” during an early morning White House lawn press availability before Fox’s censors could catch the word.

Republicans in Congress have voted to devastate millions of people across our nation — kicking Americans off their health care, shuttering hospitals, eliminating food assistance, and raising costs.

This is Project 2025 in action.

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 3, 2025

A hospital/clinic in southwest Nebraska announced its closure on Thursday specifically citing the Big Beautiful Bill, which just passed at this very moment as the reason for it, KLKN reports.

“Unfortunately, the current financial environment, driven by anticipated federal budget cuts to Medicaid, has made it impossible for us to continue operating all of our services, many of which have faced significant financial challenges for years,” said Troy Bruntz, CEO of the Community Hospital in Curtis, Nebraska, a town of about 900, and a 39 minute drive from the second closest hospital in Gothenburg, Nebraska, on I-91. God knows how many people in other towns further south or west of Curtis rely on that hospital. Everyone knows who most of them voted for, however.

“On July 1, the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations of a comet that originated from interstellar space. Arriving from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, the interstellar comet has been officially named 3I/ATLAS. It is currently located about 420 million miles (670 million kilometers) away. Since that first report, observations from before the discovery have been gathered from the archives of three different ATLAS telescopes around the world and the Zwicky Transient Facility at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. These ‘pre-discovery’ observations extend back to June 14. Numerous telescopes have reported additional observations since the object was first reported,” said NASA in a Wednesday press release.

“The comet poses no threat to Earth and will remain at a distance of at least 1.6 astronomical units (about 150 million miles or 240 million km). It is currently about 4.5 au (about 416 million miles or 670 million km) from the Sun. 3I/ATLAS will reach its closest approach to the Sun around Oct. 30, at a distance of 1.4 au (about 130 million miles or 210 million km) — just inside the orbit of Mars. The interstellar comet’s size and physical properties are being investigated by astronomers around the world. 3I/ATLAS should remain visible to ground-based telescopes through September, after which it will pass too close to the Sun to observe. It is expected to reappear on the other side of the Sun by early December, allowing for renewed observations,” the press release continued.

“We write to urge your consideration of a proposal that reflects the enduring legacy of a consequential American president. Given the scale and scope of recent achievements under President Donald J Trump – including the enactment of the historic ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ to secure our border, rebuild our military, and slash bloat to reinvigorate our government and society it is appropriate to explore the addition of his likeness to Mount Rushmore. Rushmore honors presidents who represent the birth, growth, development, and preservation of the United States. President Trump’s leadership advances each of those pillars,” writes Tennessee MAGA Congressman Andy Ogles to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Note the “we” when Ogles’ is the only signature.

“Like George Washington, he champions American independence and is reshaping the presidency with strength and clarity of purpose. Like Thomas Jefferson, he is expanding America’s horizons and pursuing reforms that reorient the country’s economic direction and return power to the people. Like Theodore Roosevelt, he takes on entrenched interests and is reinvigorating American industry, rebuilding the military, and safeguarding the working class from bureaucratic overreach. And like Abraham Lincoln, he is fighting to preserve the Union – this time not from secession, but from invasion, drift, decline, and the steady erosion of self-government,” the ballsucker continued.

A lengthy piece the New York Times printed last week concluded it’s physically impossible to add a fifth face – at a similar scale to the current four – to Mount Rushmore, even if it appears there’s plenty of room for it. To the right of Lincoln the outcropping is too thin as there’s a canyon running immediately behind him – and any work would threaten the stability of Abe’s face. To the left of Washington the rock has a large fracture that would collapse and leave nothing usable if the same kind of work to create the others faces was done on it. It’s simply not happening.

A new Wall Street Journal/YouGov national survey has found on the question of “Who do you think is more responsible for the current state of the US economy?” a majority at 55 percent say it’s convicted felon President Trump’s to 23 percent former President Joe Biden’s.

Gateway Church, the Texas megachurch chain founded by Trump-allied child molestor Pastor Robert Morris, announced this week they’re cutting Saturday services at all congregations except for the main campus in Southlake, WFAA reports on another sign of a flock in serious decline.

“As we continue to strengthen our relationship with the Gateway Church family and community, we’re making a shift at several of our DFW campuses by hosting our church services on Sundays only,” a church spokesperson said. “This adjustment will allow us to minister to and love our congregation well while prioritizing the needs of our individual campus communities. Throughout all our locations, our commitment to loving God and loving people remains unchanged.”

Morris, the founding pastor who served on convicted felon President Trump’s “spiritual advisory council” during his first campaign in 2016 and until June 2024 led the large Gateway Church chain of congregations and – per Morris’s lawyer – had in 2007 told molestation victim Cindy Clemishire she was the one who had “initiated inappropriate behavior” by entering his guest room “and getting in bed with him,” on Christmas in 1980 when Clemshire was 12 and Morris was 20 or 21 and he had been staying with her family in Oklahoma, was indicted in the state in March on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child. Probably part of the branding problem for Gateway.

Not helping things are that Morris, fired by the board of elders, is suing them for $1 million in back pay as well as intellectual property rights to his books, sermons, and social media accounts.