A newly unveiled statue of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk was vandalized at the Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.

The statue was found with red spray-paint. A nearby poster memorial in front of the statue was vandalized with red paint as well.

Her petition, which came before the massive Epstein-related document dump by the federal government, also raised the 2007 non-prosecution agreement between federal prosecutors in Miami and Epstein, which she claimed protected her from prosecution. Maxwell was not named in that agreement.

D'oh! Part 1 of 3.

In the decision denying the petition, Engelmayer wrote that the “vast majority” of grounds on which Maxwell made her appeal “are procedurally barred – either because Maxwell made and lost the same arguments on direct appeal, or because she could have made such arguments on appeal but elected not to do so”.

D'oh! Part 2 of 3.

The judge also rejected that new evidence had come through the Trump administration-led US justice department’s multimillion page release of documents. Those, Engelmayer said, “incriminates her or reinforces the correctness of the legal rulings Maxwell challenges”.

D'oh! Part 3 of 3.

Maybe try living a life free of sex trafficking endeavors and other crimes.

With AIPAC taking an outsized role in funding a number of centrist primary campaigns this election cycle, the results Tuesday night are expected to reveal whether the lobby group can continue to influence elections and US policy regarding Israel, while a growing number of Americans view Israel negatively following nearly three years of its US-backed assault on Gaza.

Dan Pfeiffer, a former Obama administration staffer who co-hosts the podcast “Pod Save America,” said that with the Democratic establishment particularly throwing its weight behind pro-Israel US Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in the race between her and progressive former public health official Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s US Senate race, Tuesday will be “the culmination of one of the most heated and expensive Democratic Senate primaries in history.”

“The Democratic establishment threw everything it had at Abdul El-Sayed,” said Pfeiffer. “If he wins, the reverberations will be felt far outside of Michigan.”

This is our chance!

Other key elections today - though this list is incomplete:

• State Rep. Donavan McKinney, a former labor organizer, is running to unseat Thanedar in the state’s 13th District, and recently notched endorsements from the Democratic Socialists of America and Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.). Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) have also thrown their support behind McKinney.

• Lawrence has also been endorsed by Sanders, Tlaib, and a number of progressive groups in his race in the state’s 7th District, where he and the two moderate candidates seek to oust US Rep. Tom Barrett.

• Former US Rep. Cori Bush vs. Rep. Wesley Bell. In Missouri’s 1st District in St. Louis, former US Rep. Cori Bush is running for a second time against Rep. Wesley Bell, who defeated her in the 2024 primary after nearly two-thirds of his campaign funding came from the United Democracy Project (UDP), a super political action committee affiliated with AIPAC. The group allocated more than $100 million toward defeating candidates that supported Palestinian rights and opposed US military funding for Israel that year.

Yet another death at a US concentration camp:

A man from El Salvador has died at an immigration jail in New Jersey that has been the target of months of protests over living conditions for people detained there, federal officials said Monday.

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, had been held at Delaney Hall in Newark after being arrested June 18, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Lopez-Cornejo, whom the government accused of entering the U.S. illegally, died Saturday, the agency said. His official cause of death will be released following further medical examination, according to ICE.

This is on ICE, Geo Group, and the pedophile administration.

He finally apologized yesterday.

Goodness, this is an incredible article. Here's the first paragraph - which I've purposely split into three to facilitate reading.

We give thanks this Sunday for a nifty little reminder that it only apparently takes thousands upon thousands of Americans screaming at a member of Congress for weeks at a time to make that congressman–a senator, in fact–publicly acknowledge the headlines about his own daughter’s (and granddaughter’s) claimed abuse at the hands of her former husband, who is naturally another Republican congressman.

We’re talking of course about junior Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, recently vying for the title of the most pathetic man in Congress, given that he spent several years pretending not to know anything about the fact that his daughter Emily Moreno had accused her congressman ex-husband, Ohio Rep. Max Miller, of repeated emotional and physical abuse of her and their two-year-old daughter.

Despite knowing all about this for at least the last two years by his own admission, Bernie Moreno intentionally went out of his way not to say a bad word about the fellow GOP congressman who was his former son-in-law, instead tacitly supporting his reelection in the upcoming November midterm elections, in a race that was until recently seen as a very safe one for Republicans. Not so much, now.

Haitian residents receive letters, ankle monitors

Dorsainvil said many residents have received letters calling them to the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations field office in Blue Ash on Sunday.

He said some residents have gone to the field office in the past week and returned with ankle monitors after being told to return to the office in one month.

The article closes with:

Protest planned outside Cincinnati ICE office

Ignite Peace, a Cincinnati-based organization that advocates for peace and justice, has organized a protest of the immigration enforcement at 7 a.m. Aug. 2.

Organizers encouraged protesters to meet at the corner of Kenwood and Malsbary roads on Facebook.

Title:

Graham and Netanyahu Worked Together to Denounce International Criminal Court

Subtitle:

Senator Lindsey Graham helped to coordinate a group of lawmakers to rebuke the I.C.C., which was investigating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

It begins with the following - though the entire article is a worthwhile - if depressing - read:

Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died this month at 71, worked privately with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to coordinate a bipartisan group of lawmakers to denounce the International Criminal Court investigation into Mr. Netanyahu just before the 2024 election, footage of their discussions shows.

The conversations were among roughly 400 hours recorded by the British filmmaker Alex Holder, who trailed Mr. Graham for roughly four years for a planned documentary project titled “Lindsey’s Game.” The footage of two discussions with Mr. Netanyahu about rebuking the I.C.C. was reviewed by The New York Times.

The calls took place just days before the 2024 election, on Oct. 29, as Mr. Graham was in Ohio, where he was campaigning with Donald Trump Jr. for Bernie Moreno in a Senate race, according to Mr. Holder.

The discussions underscore the significance of the relationship between Mr. Graham and Mr. Netanyahu and its impact, including with the senator’s colleagues. The two men were days away from an election that would return Donald J. Trump to the White House. Mr. Graham was a valuable interlocutor for Mr. Netanyahu even before that, but the call took place as the prime minister was prepared to discuss with Mr. Trump waging an increasingly expansive war against Iran.

Arizona recorded the largest drop in enrollment after the bill became law. The legislation tightened eligibility rules for food assistance and increased state screening requirements. State data through May shows that more than 450,000 Arizonans have come off Snap, cutting overall participation within the state in half.

According to the CBPP analysis, children make up a significant portion of those losing benefits, with more than 1 million children across the 19 states studied no longer receiving Snap assistance.

In Louisiana, nearly one in four children receiving Snap benefits lost assistance. Massachusetts and Texas each saw close to one-fifth of children enrolled in the program removed from Snap.

And further below, the cause for the suffering of children:

The report says the steep decline in participation is likely tied in large part to the 2025 Republican reconciliation law, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which shifted a substantial share of Snap benefit costs to states based on their payment error rates.

An Israeli soldier’s photo of a Palestinian man from Gaza stripped to his underwear, blindfolded and bound face-down to an iron rod corroborates extensive reporting on Israeli torture of Palestinians in detention and itself may constitute a war crime, rights groups have said.

The image was shared on a now-deleted personal social media account, with the Hebrew-language caption “good morning”. It was brought to wider public attention by a Palestinian writer and activist who goes by Tamer.

Yes, torturing human beings and then bidding the world a good morning with a revealing photograph.

“Both abusive treatment of detainees and the public sharing of humiliating or degrading images of them can constitute war crimes,” said Oneg Ben Dror from the prisoner and detainees department at Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI).