Popular news site RealRawNews.com, a widely recognized source of reliable reporting on national politics recently published an article titled “U.S. Military Holding White House for Trump’s Return“, detailing the painstaking and mindbogglingly elaborate lengths Pentagon leadership have gone through to in order to perpetuate the illusion of the Biden Administration legitimately governing the United States – while the military also prepares for the 45th president’s imminent return to power.

At first glance, the writings of such a redoubtable institution of journalism ring true to even the most skeptical of readers – much as they have these past 15 months since RealRawNews was founded. However, upon closer examination and rigorous application of scrutiny, it’s quite clear that some of the claims made within the article by author Michael Baxter do not hold up.

In a move that will surely make House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s panties wad tighter, the Democrats have invited Republican Wyoming Congresswoman to give one of the two opening addresses during the first January 6th commission public hearing on Thursday, the Washington Post reports.

McCarthy pulled the five Republicans he appointed to the commission after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi rejected the placements of Jim Jordan (OH) and Jim Banks (IN) to the investigation.  Both Jordan and Banks had stated publicly that they would work to obstruct and obfuscate the commission’s work in efforts to protect Donald Trump.

Tuesday’s hearings will include testimony from four police officers who were on site during the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol, an effort by Trump supporters to undermine the Electoral College votes and prevent Congress from certifying the presidential election, which Joe Biden won. 

https://youtu.be/uNIwaAiG8pg

“Mr. Speaker, is anyone else tired of hearing the Insurrectionist-in-Chief continue to lie about the 2020 election?” Democratic New York Congressman Hakeem Jeffries asked during a Monday speech on the House floor.  “Over the weekend, once again, the former twice-impeached, disgraced so-called President of the United States of America falsely claimed that he had actually won the election and that it was stolen for Joe Biden.

“Something is really wrong with this guy,” Jeffries continues, “and I need some help in trying to figure it out.  Is Donald Trump (a) a pathological liar; (b) a sociopath; (c) a malignant narcissist; or (d) all of the above?  I’ll be around all week.  Look forward to hearing from you.”

The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday became the first federal Cabinet department that will mandate its employees be vaccinated, a requirement it will implement for anyone who is part of the VA’s extensive medical system, the New York Times reports.

The order will apply to 115,000 VA employees providing direct medical care to patients, including doctors, dentists, registered nurses, physician assistant and some specialists. Those impacted will have eight weeks to provide proof that they are fully vaccinated. I am doing this because it’s the best way to keep our veterans safe, full stop,” Denis McDonough, the secretary of veterans affairs, said in a telephone interview on Monday. The VA is the largest single health care provider in the United States, with more than 150 medical centers around the nation and in the territories.

One of Louisiana’s largest hospital announced it will postpone all non-emergency surgeries as coronavirus cases in the state spike and hospital resources are needed to take care of COVID patients, the Associated Press reports.

Our Lady of the Lake hospital system, based in Baton Rouge, said that it will postpone non-urgent surgeries that require patients to take up a hospital bed for at least three weeks as the state has seen a shocking 900% increase in the number of average daily new cases in the past 30 days.  Just five days ago, the state reported more than 5,000 new cases in a single day.

Only 41% of adults in the state are fully or partially vaccinated, ranking it near the bottom in the United States.  Currently, 112 people in intensive care beds are people with coronavirus in its three campuses in the Baton Rouge area, accounting for 40% of ICU patients. 

AP: “An effort to recall a Republican legislator largely over his vote to expel a fellow GOP lawmaker accused of sexually harassing women at the state Capitol is being viewed as a litmus test for party loyalty, the state GOP’s new chairman said. The move to recall Rep. Dwight Kiefert over his vote to oust former Rep. Luke Simons has fanned the flames of an intraparty fight that has a far-right faction seeking to control the party apparatus and replace Republicans they see as too moderate.”

“North Dakota Republicans wield supermajority control in the Legislature and hold every statewide office. The party, however, began splintering in the past decade with the emergence of the loosely organized Bastiat Caucus, fervent supporters of limited government spending, privacy, and gun rights. Simons, who was expelled by the House in March, was one. The caucus has said 30 legislators paid dues in 2019, though the membership has not been publicly disclosed. Mark Jendrysik, chairman of the University of North Dakota’s political science department, said ‘loyalty or purity tests’ aren’t unusual in states where a party has a strong majority. He said the Kiefert recall appears to be such a test. ‘If he is recalled, I really think it’s a warning to other representatives to pay attention to the more conservative’ faction of the party. Simons denied wrongdoing, complaining he wasn’t getting due process and was being targeted for his political ideology. Of 80 House Republicans, 55 voted to expel Simons. A few GOP lawmakers were formally condemned at the district level for backing the expulsion but Kiefert is the only one so far to face recall.”

“The chair of former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee, Tom Barrack, pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he used his connection to Trump to illegally lobby for the United Arab Emirates. Barrack flew across the country from California, where he was arrested last week, for his arraignment in Brooklyn federal court” – ABC News.

Remember that the ADL is now a joke of an organization that just goes after conservatives.

Repeat after me: the next stage of deplatforming will be denying access to the financial system. https://t.co/rRIuQl0Iot

— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) July 26, 2021

KTSM: “A 40-year-old man arrested for allegedly setting a West Side home on fire is charged with capital murder after his brother was killed in the incident. The El Paso Police Department says Philip Daniel Mills set fire to a residence on Fandango Place on Thursday at 11:30 p.m. He was arrested after police suspected him of causing the blaze. An affidavit written by an EPPD detective says Mills allegedly admitted to setting the house on fire. And, in a recorded statement, claimed to have used gasoline from a weed eater to fuel the fire. Mills poured the gasoline on a sofa in the living room and used a lit cloth to start the fire, according to the document. ‘Once the sofa caught on fire, he walked outside the house and waited to see if his mother or brother would go outside but they didn’t, The defendant advised that he waited outside the residence with large rocks in his hands in the event that both his brother and mother had made it out the burning residence.'”

“A neighbor told KTSM he noticed Mills acting strange earlier in the day and said he was always ‘troublesome.’ ‘He was bad news, all he would do was sit out there and drink and smoke and I noticed he was back to his old routine,’ Roger Torres, a neighbor, said. Torres said Mills was always coming and going from out of town. He said he noticed the house in flames around 11 p.m. The affidavit claims Mills caused the fire because he was upset with his brother and mother because they did not follow the Bible. The document states Mills intentionally broke a television in the living room and threatened to burn the house down. ‘He intentionally broke the television located in the living room because he needed to ‘purge the home from ‘evil,’ Mills allegedly told police.”

There are no pronouns in the Bible.

— Lavern Spicer 🇺🇸 (@lavern_spicer) July 24, 2021

The fifth sentence of the Bible reads:  “And God saw the light, and it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.” (1 Genesis 4)

With the average number of daily new coronavirus cases in the state quadrupling in the last month, the mayor of Savannah, Georgia has reimposed indoor mask mandates for the largest city along Georgia’s Atlantic coast as tourism season continues, the Associated Press reports.

In a Monday news conference, Savannah Mayor Van Johnson noted that the number of new cases in Chatham County have nearly tripled in the last two weeks, a “steep and alarming rise” in the spread of the coronavirus as the highly-transmissible delta variant sweeps across the country.  Statewide, the number of new cases in Georgia are reported at the same rate as last October, just before the state experienced its second peak in coronavirus cases.

Johnson’s order applies to public places where people outside of the same household gather.  It does not apply to school and universities, but Johnson said he hopes those institutions would also implement mask mandates.

“The race for Virginia governor has emerged as the nation’s first prominent test of voter reaction to the debate around critical race theory, with the GOP nominee seeking to tap into visceral pushback, largely among Republican voters, to the idea that America is structurally tilted in favor of white people. Glenn Youngkin, a private-equity executive and political newcomer, is one of many GOP candidates nationwide to call for a ban on teaching the disputed academic framework in schools. The outcome of Mr. Youngkin’s race this November will give clues to the power that the issue holds ahead of the country’s midterm elections next year. Mr. Youngkin is responding to a furor over race in Loudoun County, including how teachers talk about America’s racial history.”

“GOP strategists acknowledge that it is unclear whether opposition to critical race theory appeals to voters they need to win back, particularly those who lean Republican but vote infrequently, independents and softer Biden supporters, including some suburban women. ‘It isn’t really popping up in our districts,’ said Sarah Chamberlain, president of the Republican Main Street Partnership, a centrist GOP group not connected to the Youngkin campaign. More prominent in the group’s polls and focus groups of suburban women around the country, she said, are issues such as controlling the coronavirus, returning children to the classroom, and jobs” – Wall Street Journal.

Politico: “Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said a private business’s decision to not admit unvaccinated patrons was tantamount to ‘segregation,’ her latest use of inflammatory language while spreading anti-vaccine messages. The Republican Georgia congresswoman tweeted Sunday night a screenshot of a recent Instagram post from an Atlanta restaurant that included a door sign that reads ‘NO VAX NO SERVICE.’ In its message, the restaurant said ‘[a]fter a few positive covid cases last week’ it decided the rule was necessary.”

“‘This is called segregation,’ Taylor Greene wrote on Twitter. ‘Will you be testing everyone at the door for the flu, strep throat, stomach bugs, colds, meningitis, aids, venereal diseases, Hep A, Hep C, staff [sic] infections, athletes foot, pink eye, croup, bronchitis, ringworm, scabies, or any other contagions?’ Businesses have wide latitude to refuse service to particular individuals, though there are a variety of characteristics such as age or race that cannot be grounds for discrimination. The first-term Republican has repeatedly compared vaccination requirements and mask mandates to the Holocaust and other callbacks to Nazism. In June she apologized for making such comparisons following a visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., after her comments drew outrage from fellow Republicans, though she has done little to tamp down her rhetoric since then.”

Today I'm calling for a forensic audit in Florida's 5 largest counties. Voter confidence in our elections is at an all-time low and its time our elections officials start showing transparency.

Sign the official petition below to ENSURE election integrity! https://t.co/b7FjE2IP4p pic.twitter.com/p4oLAnThUn

— Anthony Sabatini (@AnthonySabatini) July 26, 2021

A group of self-proclaimed “sovereign citizens” occupied a 10,000 square-foot mansion in Baltimore County, Maryland, a widow had put up for sale and unilaterally claimed possession of the property in the latest incident of far-right extremists attempting to undermine the rule of law, the Baltimore Sun reports.

After her husband died in 2020, the woman contracted a real estate agent and put the property–with a stone fireplace, vaulted wood-beam ceilings, six bedrooms and five bathrooms, a deluxe butler’s pantry and indoor pizza oven–on the market earlier this year and moved into a smaller residence.  In June, neighbors told her that a chain had been put up blocking access to the house.  Signs warning against trespassers appeared along the property line.  When she went back to inspect the property, she found someone had changed the locks on all the doors.

Five people were reportedly living in the house without her permission, claiming that they had made a “sovereign acquisition” of the house.  Reportedly “sovereign citizens,” the group shuns US laws and courts, claiming that they exist outside any governmental legal authority. 

“House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told me ‘we’ll see’ when asked if Cheney and Kinzinger will be punished for serving on Jan 6 committee. I asked him the last time he talked to either of them: ‘Couldn’t tell you.’ He called them ‘Pelosi Republicans'” reports the Daily Mail’s Emily Goodin.

Disgraced Q-curious former three star General Michael Flynn was being honored at some MAGAchurch cult gathering in California when a gun company employee gifted him with a rifle, to which Flynn joked “Maybe I’ll find somebody in Washington, DC!” Read more at Huffington Post.

CNN: “Philip Morris International says it will stop selling Marlboro cigarettes in Britain within a decade as it called on the UK government to ban the sale of its tobacco products. The remarks come amid dwindling smoker numbers in the United Kingdom – where cigarettes have been sold in plain packaging since 2016 – and a broader push by the UK government to reduce the prevalence of smoking. Many investors have already stripped tobacco from their portfolios, and a growing number of financial institutions have pledged to implement tobacco-free policies.”

“Philip Morris International CEO Jacek Olczak told the Sunday Telegraph that the UK government should treat cigarettes like gasoline powered cars, the sale of which is due to be banned from 2030. The company added in a statement Monday that it ‘can see a world without cigarettes.’ ‘The sooner it happens, the better it is for everyone,’ said vice president of strategic and scientific communications Moira Gilchrist. ‘With the right measures in place, [Philip Morris] can stop selling cigarettes in the UK in 10 years’ time,’ she added.”

While nearly two-thirds of adults in the city are fully vaccinated, New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio wants to encourage all city employees to get inoculated by forcing any unvaccinated municipal worker to undergo weekly coronavirus testing, the Associated Press reports.

The rule is not a vaccine mandate, but it does make it inconvenient and uncomfortable for unvaccinated employees to not get the shot. “This is about our recovery. This is about what we need to do to bring back New York City,” DeBlasio said. “This is about keeping people safe.” All 340,000 city employees–including police officers and teachers–will be required to show proof of vaccination or undergo weekly testing. At this point, the city is picking up the cost of the testing, which will take place at centralized locations. DeBlasio mandated testing for unvaccinated city hospital employees last week.

Axios and Former Trump campaign pollster Fabrizio (mononymous professional name) surveyed Republican voters to find the favorability ratings of several leading figures in the party, and while this wasn’t necessarily a 2024 straw poll, it shows Don Jr edging out Ron DeSantis by one point:

Don Jr: +55, Gov. Ron DeSantis (Fla.): +54, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy +24, Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) +17, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) +8, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell +2, Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.): -43.

Also pretty telling about GOP voters how the only one of the field who doesn’t actually have a job and has never once won an election in his life comes out on top.