On something called “Brannon Howse Live” on something called “Lindell TV,” chopped foam recycler (who’s a Constitution subverter as a side gig) Mike Lindell debuted to the world the first part of the evidence he had which he claims absolutely, incontrovertibly proves that the November 2020 election was rigged against Donald Trump.

A conservative radio host from Nashville, Tennessee is currently hospitalized “in very serious condition,” according to family members who report he’s suffering from “COVID pneumonia” and is on breathing assistance.

WKRN ABC-2 News in Nashville reports that Phil Valentine, who hosts The Phil Valentine Show on Nashville’s SuperTalk 99.7 WTN during evening drive-time, reported on the air July 11th that he had contracted the virus but said he was over the worst of it.

“I think I’m on the other side of it,” Valentine said of the virus on July 11th, as he described coughing, congestion, and fatigue that “hurts like crap. … I’m certainly moving forward, it appears, but not in a straight line… It’s just one of those things. I don’t want it to linger on.”

Fox News hostess (and harlot who was so low she once went out with Donald Trump) Laura Ingraham’s eyes were so red tonight she either was stoned to the bejesus or she had an long “ugly cry” when the camera wasn’t on her.  Oh, and she hosted a PeeWee Herman cosplayer on her show tonight.

As the nation experiences a sudden peak in coronavirus cases, Florida, Texas and Missouri are home to 40% of the new patients identified, Yahoo News reports, with the Delta variant accounting for nearly seven out of eight new cases.

White House pandemic response coordinator Jeff Zients stated at a press briefing Thursday that 20% of new cases–one in five–come from Florida, where Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has drawn a line in the sand as an anti-public health standard-bearer in the GOP.

Zients added that “virtually all” hospitalizations and deaths — a full 97 percent — are among unvaccinated people. “The threat is now predominantly only to the unvaccinated,” he said.

Republican Texas Congressman, disgraced doctor of osteopathy, alleged drunk driver, sexual harasser and reported illegally prescriber Ronny Jackson went on Hannity to declare Joe Biden should be removed from office, perhaps through the invocation of the 25th Amendment, but offered no actual evidence as to why.

The Department of Justice announced that its agents and agents from the Department of Homeland Security have seized 17 historical Jewish texts that Nazis absconded with from Romania, Hungary, Ukraine and Slovakia during World War II.

Federal law enforcement agents became of the documents–Jewish funeral scrolls, Pinkas Manuscripts and community records–thanks to a Brooklyn auction house, the consigner and a purchaser after the documents were put up for sale, apparently with falsified provenance.

“The Scrolls and Manuscripts that were illegally confiscated during the Holocaust contain priceless historical information that belongs to the descendants of families that lived and flourished in Jewish communities before the Holocaust. This Office hopes that today’s seizure will contribute to the restoration of pre-Holocaust history in Eastern Europe.” stated Jacquelyn Kasulis, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.  “I commend the efforts of this Office’s Civil Division and HSI in recovering these important religious artifacts.”

Just hear what sounded like gun shots on 14th street in NW DC. People fleeing the popular Le Diplomate restaurant which seemed a few blocks away. pic.twitter.com/EuD40teccA

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 23, 2021

By an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 407-16, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would allow Afghan nations who worked with US military and contractors as interpreters or other positions that may make them targets to Taliban or nationalist extremists.

As the New York Times reports, the legislation would increase the number of special visas available from 11,000 to 19,000 as well as provide visas to people from a wider range of people who helped the US military.

The 16 Republicans who voted to dessert our Afghan allies were:  Biggs (AZ), Boebert (CO), Brooks (AL), DesJarlais (TN), Duncan (SC), Good (VA), Gosar (AZ), Greene (GA), Hern (OK), Hice (GA), Massie (KY), Moore (AL), Perry (PA), Posey (FL), Rosendale (MT) and Roy (TX).

A man interviewed by CBS News, sitting in a hospital bed after contracting coronavirus, continues to claim that he would never get the vaccine because the science of the vaccine is sketchy and it’s the goal of the government–local, state and federal–to get people inoculated.

“That’s their agenda.  Their agenda is to get you vaccinated,” the man says.

Reuters: “A Russian court on Thursday fined U.S. social media giant Twitter 5.5 million roubles ($74,409.80) for alleged failure to delete content Moscow deems illegal, TASS reported. The ruling comes amid a wider standoff between Russia and Big Tech, with Moscow seeking to force foreign companies to open offices in Russia and store Russians’ personal data on its territory.”

Seven Democratic Senators demanded answers from FBI Director Christopher Wray after the FBI revealed that more than 4,500 tips that had come in via a hotline regarding questionable behavior of then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh went unanswered by the FBI and were instead sent to the White House Counsel’s office.

Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Chris Coons (DE), Dick Durbin (IL), Patrick Leahy (VT), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Mazie Hirono (HI), and Cory Booker (NJ) want to know what the disposition of the calls is and why the FBI took no action when they were collected.  The seven are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that screened Kavanaugh in 2018.

“The admissions in your letter corroborate and explain numerous credible accounts by individuals and firms that they had contacted the FBI with information ‘highly relevant to . . . allegations’ of sexual misconduct by Justice Kavanaugh, only to be ignored,” the senators write in their letter sent today. “If the FBI was not authorized to or did not follow up on any of the tips that it received from the tip line, it is difficult to understand the point of having a tip line at all.”

NPR: “While the delta variant of the coronavirus has quickly become the dominant strain in the United States, it’s not the only variant circulating in the population. The lambda variant, first identified in Peru, is also making headlines as it has started to be identified in several states. Houston Methodist Hospital reported its first case of the variant this week. Scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina recently announced they had found the variant in a virus sample taken in April. According to a database for scientists tracking coronavirus variants, fewer than 700 cases of the lambda variant have been sequenced in the U.S. so far out of more than 34 million cases reported to date. But the U.S. has sequenced only a tiny fraction of its cases, so that number does not reflect the actual number of lambda cases in the country.”

“Fewer than 1% of U.S. cases in the last four weeks have been identified as the lambda variant, according to GISAID, a repository for genome data. So do we need to add lambda to our list of big worries in the U.S.? Not yet, according to public health officials and experts. The delta variant, which is more than two times as transmissible as the original strain of the coronavirus, now accounts for 83% of new coronavirus cases in the United States. Delta continues to be the central concern for public health officials.”

In the upcoming National Football League seasons, teams that cannot field players due to a coronavirus outbreak will not be able to reschedule games and will be forced to forfeit the game, the league told teams in a memo, CNN reports.

The rule encourages teams to push coaches, players and staff to get vaccinated for fear of missing practices, games and paychecks.  It costs millions of dollars for the league to reschedule games, as it did 18 times in the last season.  One game, between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens, was rescheduled to a Wednesday game, the first time in modern history when an NFL game was played midweek.

“If a game cannot be rescheduled within the current 18-week schedule and is cancelled due to a Covid outbreak among non-vaccinated players on one of the competing teams, the club with the outbreak will forfeit the contest and will be deemed to have played 16 games for purposes of draft, waiver priority, etc. For the purposes of playoff seeding, the forfeiting team will be credited with a loss and the other team will be credited with a win,” the NFL memo sent Thursday states.

The Biden Administration has opened applications for $3 billion in grants available for community economic development aimed at helping towns and neighborhoods promote long-term investment and growth opportunities in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.

“This is about real help for communities across the country as they rebuild,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press. “It’s about longer-term investments to help communities build themselves back from the bottom up in the ways that work best for them.”

The grants will be distributed based on the ability of the applicant to provide jobs and make a return on investment in human capital infrastructure, traditional infrastructure, job training and new industry development.  The applicants will be selected based on specified involve job creation and racial and gender equity goals set by the administration.

CNN: “A Capitol rioter who captured Ashli Babbitt’s death on video became the 20th person to plead guilty for his involvement in the deadly January 6 insurrection. Andrew Bennett of Maryland pleaded guilty Thursday in DC District Court to illegally demonstrating inside the US Capitol. He got the same deal as other nonviolent rioters pleading to a single misdemeanor – including paying $500 in restitution for damage to the Capitol building and giving investigators access to his social media data. The charge has a potential maximum of six months in jail, though Bennett may be ordered to serve much less, or even no jail time, when he is sentenced in October. Three rioters have been sentenced so far, two of whom received jail time.”

“Bennett was wearing a hat with a Proud Boys motto on it during the riot, prosecutors say. However, there is no indication that Bennett marched with the Proud Boys to the Capitol, or was with them when they overpowered the police line, or that he entered the building with any members of the far-right group. As part of the plea, Bennett acknowledged that he tried to contact a Maryland chapter of the Proud Boys about becoming a member. But prosecutors said in a court filing that they ‘did not find evidence that Bennett is a member of or associate of any organized chapter of the Proud Boys.’ Investigators received a tip the day of the riot claiming that Bennett had been livestreaming video on Facebook from inside the Capitol. In the videos, according to court filings, Bennett yells ‘No destruction!’ at other rioters kicking a door inside the building. But later, prosecutors say, Bennett taped himself chanting ‘Break it down!’ near a door located in the Speaker’s Lobby, where Babbitt was shot. A gunshot can be heard on the video.”

“Multiple websites including DraftKings, Airbnb, FedEx, Delta, Barclays and others appear to be experiencing issues” Bloomberg reports.

Politico: “President Joe Biden on Thursday plans to slap targeted individual sanctions on Cuba regime officials, bucking the progressive voices in his own party who called for an end to the embargo Biden’s response to Cuba – which also includes measures to bring increased internet access to the island and calls for more international pressure on the totalitarian government – was outlined Wednesday night in a call with Democratic Cuban-American activists in Miami who had been calling for more action ever since the July 11 uprisings on the island. But it’s the proposal to extend the targeted sanctions of the Magnitsky Act, originally passed in response to Russian government oppression and then extended to other governments such as Venezuela, that has encouraged critics of Cuba’s government. ‘This is huge,’ said Sasha Tirador, a top Miami political operative who was briefed on the plans Wednesday night. ‘No administration has ever announced that they will hold each individual who violates human rights on the island of Cuba accountable.'”

“Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) is pitching fellow Republican senators on a last-ditch gambit to block Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget resolution: Skip town. Mr. Graham believes a united Republican caucus can deny Democrats the 51 votes needed for quorum by leaving the capital en masse, citing the example of Texas Democrats, who fled their state to prevent the GOP-controlled legislature from enacting stricter voting laws. He said he is driven by his opposition to immigration provisions that Democrats might include in their resolution. ‘If they put in amnesty in… that’s an assault on the system as we know it,’ Mr. Graham said. ‘We should use any tool in our box to stop it.’ The Democrats’ plan is expected to set aside $120 billion for establishing a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers – immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children – as well as other groups that could include farmworkers, according to Senate aides.”

“Budget reconciliation may offer Democrats a way to sidestep some partisan gridlock and advance President Biden’s policy objectives. Some GOP senators are open to the quorum-busting idea, but others are skeptical, leaving Mr. Graham with a lot of convincing to do. When senators tried a similar trick decades ago, Capitol Police physically carried one of the fugitive lawmakers back onto the floor. Senate Democrats scoff at the threat. Mr. Graham’s notion, put into play by the current 50-50 split in the Senate, has surfaced as longstanding norms and decorum are eroding on Capitol Hill… Mr. Graham’s plan might not work, even temporarily. Quorum is assumed in the Senate unless someone asks for a quorum call, so Republicans would need at least one GOP senator in the chamber to make the request. That Republican could duck out and hide, but then Democrats could request unanimous consent to end the quorum call, a senior Democratic aide said. With no Republican present to object, quorum would be assumed again, and Democrats would be free to pass any bills they wanted unilaterally, the aide said” – Wall Street Journal.

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Republican Texas Congressman, alleged pill-pusher (and apparent lobotomy home kit test subject) Ronny Jackson took to the microphone to complain that the media is only quizzing Republicans about their vaccinations.  “I think you as a press have a responsibility to ask questions of the Democrats as well. How many of the Democrats are willing to say whether or not they’ve been vaccinated?” Jackson whined.

Perhaps the Member of the House should live up to the responsibility and actually *read* the news outlets, which reported in May that Congressional Democrats have a 100% vaccination rate.

Axios: “Former Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D) announced Thursday that she’ll run in 2022 for the U.S. Senate in Iowa, a seat currently held by seven-term incumbent Sen. Chuck Grassley (R). Finkenauer is the first major Democrat to announce a Senate run in Iowa, which is expected to be a critical swing state next fall as the party looks to retain or add to its slim majority. The 87-year-old Grassley has not yet said whether he will run for re-election, but Republicans are hoping he does. He has won more than 60% of the vote in each of his last six Senate races. Finkenauer, 32, served one term in the House after beating out incumbent Rep. Rod Blum (R) in 2018, but lost her bid for reelection in 2020.”