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The Tampa Bay Times reports: The DeSantis administration is making arrangements to hold immigrant detainees at a North Florida prison as a federal judge weighs whether to temporarily shut down Alligator Alcatraz, the makeshift immigration detention camp in the Everglades. “We are calling this the Deportation Depot,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference on Thursday. “This will be …

Bloomberg News reports: US wholesale inflation accelerated in July by the most in three years, suggesting companies are passing along higher import costs related to tariffs. The producer price index increased 0.9% from a month earlier, the largest advance since consumer inflation peaked in June 2022, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report out Thursday. The PPI rose 3.3% …

Pink News reports: Trump’s decision to choose Gloria Gaynor as an honoree comes amid increased criticism of his attack on the LGBTQ+ community and their rights in the US. Although there is no public record of Gaynor endorsing or supporting Trump, unfortunately, her past comments about the LGBTQ+ community have been problematic. The Christian singer has refused to confirm if …

Axios reports: The Israeli government is courting popular MAGA influencers in an effort to address Republican divisions over the war in Gaza, where scenes of violence and starvation have fueled global outrage. U.S. support for Israel’s military actions has fallen to record lows. Even within the traditionally pro-Israel GOP, younger Republicans are increasingly skeptical — questioning both the alliance and …

Stateline reports: Each month, nearly 42 million people receive SNAP benefits to help supplement their grocery budgets. Able-bodied SNAP recipients who are between 18 and 54 and don’t have children have always been required to work. Veterans, however, have been exempt from those rules — but that’s about to change. The giant domestic policy measure that President Donald Trump signed …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics has a giant picture of Adolf Hitler’s favorite battleship in his office—and he isn’t afraid to show it. E.J. Antoni has come under fire for his comments about data collection and social security after Trump tapped him to lead the bureau tasked with gathering and disseminating …

The Hill reports: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said during a Wednesday podcast episode with Joe Rogan that lawmakers have seen evidence of “interdimensional beings.” “I think that they can actually operate through the time spaces that we currently have,” Luna said during the podcast. “That’s not something that I came up with on my own. That’s based on stuff …

Erie’s Fox affiliate reports: On Tuesday, August 12, the McKean County District Attorney’s Office announced that Daniel Merrick, a pastor in Smethport, was sentenced for possessing nearly 700 images and videos of child porn after attempting to withdraw a plea agreement. Merrick claimed he was in possession of the content “as part of an investigation he had undertaken for law …

Politico reports: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is calling for a ban on single-stock trading by members of Congress, a push that could supercharge legislative efforts to ban the practice that have gained momentum in recent months. The Treasury secretary is far from the first big name in Washington to advocate for an end to congressional stock trading in recent months. …

“It starts locally. First off, in these schools, these schools have to start back disciplining kids. They took the paddle out of the school, and everything collapsed. We gotta get the paddle back, Rachel. Corporal punishment is the only way when you have a knucklehead kid that’s willing to rob you or me at gunpoint with a car full of …