Source: SFGate
“NASA and India paired up to launch an Earth-mapping satellite on Wednesday capable of tracking even the slightest shifts in land and ice. The $1.3 billion mission will help forecasters and first responders stay one step ahead of floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions and other disasters, according to scientists. Rocketing to orbit from India, the satellite will survey virtually all of Earth’s terrain multiple times. Its two radars — one from the U.S. and the other from India — will operate day and night, peering through clouds, rain and foliage to collect troves of data in extraordinary detail.” (07/30/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/radar-satellite-launched-by-india-and-nasa-will-20793501.php
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Scott brings journalist Aaron Maté back on the show to review some of the new information we learned about the origins of Russiagate and why, almost a decade later, this story remains so important.” (07/29/25)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/7-25-25-aaron-mate-on-why-russiagate-matters/
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Steven Kritz
“For many years, large segments of the American public were perfectly willing to go on Jerry Springer and admit to the world that they abused their spouses, molested their children, tortured their pets, and consumed every illicit drug they could get their hands on. Beginning with Alcoholics Anonymous, a plethora of Anonymous organizations has come on the scene to deal with these issues, along with an ever-increasing number of other social and psychological maladies. However, there is not one Anonymous chapter where a person can get in front of a supportive group and state: ‘Good evening. My name is Steve, and I’m stupid!’ Don’t believe me? Google it!” (07/29/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/needed-stupid-anonymous/
Source: The American Prospect
by Russell Lemle & Jasper Craven
“Long before becoming secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Doug Collins’s intention to steer veterans and their health care dollars away from VA medical facilities and into private hands was well established. During his tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives, Collins was a staunch ally of the Koch-backed Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), a group whose ideological North Star is privatizing VA services. He embraced three key bills the organization championed that laid the groundwork for outsourcing care for large numbers of VA patients and weakening protections for VA employees. … He has continued to spread these unconvincing assertions as VA secretary in interviews, press releases, Twitter videos, and congressional hearings, while, at the same time, swiftly advancing proposals to deeply cut VA resources and personnel and redirect the so-called ‘savings’ toward expanded outsourcing to private-sector care.” (07/30/25)
https://prospect.org/health/2025-07-30-privatizing-veterans-health-care-will-be-disaster/
Source: Greenville Chronicle
“[T]he Forney Police Department responded to a shooting …. According to the preliminary investigation, the suspect became intoxicated earlier in the day and approached a neighbor’s residence in an agitated state. Despite efforts by family members and bystanders to restrain him, the suspect forced entry into the home through a glass door and began assaulting the homeowner. The homeowner, who was armed, shot the suspect twice …. The suspect was airlifted to a hospital for treatment and will be transported to jail upon release.” (07/29/25)
https://www.greenvillechronicle.com/s/4243/Homeowner-Shoots-Intruder-After-Neighbor-Dispute-Turns-Violent-in-Forney.php
Source: Roll Call
“Off to the redistricting races.” (07/29/25)
https://chrt.fm/track/D3F8DG/traffic.megaphone.fm/FISCAL6106771085.mp3?updated=1753823196
Source: The Nation
by Joan Walsh
“Trump gave a long, sometimes incoherent press conference alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday. They were ostensibly meeting to discuss tariffs, but questions veered toward Epstein. Instead of slapping them down or ignoring them, as he sometimes does, Trump answered them. At length. And very strangely. Trump has maintained that he had a falling out with Epstein years ago. In 2004, they competed for the same gaudy Palm Beach property, and Trump outbid his friend and got it. (In some accounts, Epstein was the one who broke off the friendship over it.) Sounds plausible, for two scummy rich guys. Some of Trump’s communications people say Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago ‘for being a creep,’ in the words of henchman Stephen Cheung. But at Monday’s press conference, Trump gave a different explanation. And a hauntingly creepy one.” (07/29/25)
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/keep-digging-donald-keeping-epstein-scandal/#
Source: Sky News [UK]
“An 8.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest ever recorded, has hit off the far east of Russia, causing a tsunami — with warnings issued for Japan, China, the Philippines and parts of the US, including Hawaii, California and Alaska. … The first tsunami waves are starting to reach California. The local branch of the US National Weather Service said tide gauges off the state’s northern coast recorded the waves. NWS Eureka warned people to stay away from beaches as waves would ‘continue to build through the night’ as high tide approached. … Russia has been hit by waves as large as four metres.” (07/30/25)
https://news.sky.com/story/tsunami-warnings-latest-japan-hawaii-and-alaska-on-alert-after-powerful-8-8-magnitude-earthquake-off-russias-far-east-coast-13403800
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“We should no more draw congressional districts based on the proportion of Republicans to Democrats or the proportion of whites to blacks to Latinos, etc., than we should draw them on the proportion of plumbers to sous chefs or the proportion of Led Zeppelin fans to Swifties. Gerrymandering isn’t about representing the interests of voters, whether as individuals or members of groups. Gerrymandering is about the desires of the country’s two main political parties to maximize their power at the expense of each other’s.” (07/29/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19822
Source: Serious Trouble
“Ghislaine Looks for a Deal.” (07/29/25)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/ghislaine-looks-for-a-deal
