“I just want to say that the idea that Stephen Colbert‘s show was losing $40 million a year is beyond nonsensical. These alleged insiders who supposedly analyze the budgets of the shows — I don’t know who they are, but I do know they don’t know what they’re talking about. They seem to only be focused on advertising revenue and …

“Pirro can now prosecute people, something she was born to do, something she dreams about, and those aren’t nightmares, those are nightmares for the people she’s prosecuting. And she’s not prosecuting Republican grandfathers who trespass and put their feet up on Pelosi’s desk. Hardcore criminals, that’s who’s getting the boot. And the fact that Trump is cleaning up graffiti, bad …

The Texas Tribune reports: A federal appeals court Monday blocked West Texas A&M University President Walter Wendler from enforcing a campus drag show ban, ruling that the performances are likely protected under the First Amendment. The 2-1 ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a lower court’s decision upholding Wendler’s 2023 cancellation of a drag show, which …

“I had a very good meeting with distinguished guests, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, of Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron, of France, President Alexander Stubb, of Finland, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, of Italy, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, of the United Kingdom, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Friedrich Merz, President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and Secretary General of …

NOTUS reports: A blog post attributed to the person listed as the Department of Homeland Security’s speechwriter celebrated the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and likened the resulting political fallout for conservatives to slavery and the Holocaust. “American conservatives are, right now, on a course for being every bit as ostracized and alienated from broader society as Jews were in the …

Wired reports: In the months leading up to the January 6 Capitol riot, a now-deleted Twitter account bearing the full name of E.J. Antoni, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), betrayed a seeming obsession with promoting election denial conspiracy theories while talking about violent threats to those who stood in Trump’s way. A WIRED …

Via press release from the USPS: The U.S. Postal Service invites the public to celebrate the unveiling of new stamps that will usher in the holiday season. The first-day-of-issue event for the Holiday Cheer Forever stamps is free and open to the public. News of the stamps is being shared with the hashtag #HolidayCheerStamps. Michael J. Elston, U.S. Postal Service …

“If somebody like Kim [Davis], who actually gets an accommodation, can be forced into bankruptcy and persecuted for 10 years, then anybody can. So the religious liberty issue goes far beyond this issue or this case to everybody. And finally, Obergefell was wrong.It damaged the Constitution, it damaged marriage, it damaged the family, it has damaged the country. And the …

The Guardian reports: California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, has filed a request for information from the Trump administration over border patrol agents’ appearance at a news conference he hosted on Thursday. In a statement, Newsom said the presence of federal agents at his press briefing in Los Angeles was “intended to intimidate those defending a fair electoral process”. Dozens of armed …

The Hill reports: California Democrats on Monday unveiled legislation to move forward with their plan to counter a Republican redistricting proposal in Texas with new congressional maps in the Golden State. “We decided as a delegation that we could not just stand there and allow Trump to distort the next election, and continue to harm the people who we represent. …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump seems to have privately boasted to a fellow world leader that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a deal with him, “as crazy as that sounds.” A hot microphone picked up Trump’s comments just before a meeting with European leaders at the White House began on Monday afternoon, following a Friday summit Trump …

The Washington Post reports: The chairman of a key House committee said Monday that the Justice Department told him it would begin sharing records related to the investigation of deceased sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein by the end of the week. Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky) said in a statement that the department “will begin to provide Epstein-related records” that …

Gallup Polling reports: A new low of 53% of Americans express confidence in the federal government’s regulation of food safety. The latest findings are from Gallup’s July 7-21 Consumption Habits poll. Roughly eight in 10 Americans expressed at least a fair amount of faith in the government to ensure food safety in measures from 1999 to 2006. Confidence fell amid …

“It’s my expectation that Kristi Noem will be one of the first people hauled up to Congress shortly after the gavels change hands to get a real understanding for the American people as to this conduct that has taken place: the lack of respect for due process, for the rule of law, the unleashing of masked agents on law-abiding immigrant …

Hate group leader Tony Perkins writes:   President Trump has once again drawn the ire of the Left and the legacy media for exercising his statutory authority to federalize the Metropolitan Police Department in response to Washington, D.C.’s dangerously high crime rate. By any objective measure, our nation’s capital remains one of the riskiest cities in America. President Trump’s move …

Las Vegas’s CBS affiliate reports: Eight accused child sex offenders, including a pastor, are now off Las Vegas streets after a major undercover operation. Over the past two weeks, the Nevada Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, along with the FBI and several southern Nevada police departments, worked together to make these arrests. Undercover officers and federal agents posed online …

The Washington Post reports: As D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and Attorney General Brian Schwalb exited federal court Friday, saying the police chief remained in command of her force, on the ground the reality was murkier: Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was entering D.C. police headquarters — surveying the department President Trump had declared to be under …

The Texas Tribune reports: The Texas House on Monday gaveled in with a quorum for the first time in two weeks as Democratic lawmakers returned to Austin, ending a walkout over a GOP mid-decade redistricting plan and paving the way for the map’s passage. “We killed the corrupt special session, withstood unprecedented surveillance and intimidation and rallied Democrats nationwide to …

The Associated Press reports: As Zelenskyy answered a question about the difficulty of holding an election during Ukraine’s war with Russia, Trump appeared to jokingly hypothesize how a similar circumstance could allow him to stay in power in the U.S. past the expiration of his current tern. “So let me just say three and a half years from now — …

The Hill reports: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday criticized President Trump’s broadside against mail-in voting, saying that right-wing claims of widespread voter fraud are inaccurate and “not based in fact or reality.” Trump earlier in the day announced that he plans to “lead a movement” to end the use of mail-in ballots in elections. “Two facts: Donald …