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Trump’s Primetime Speech Has Republicans ‘Scared S***less’ Insiders are terrified that the president will do something crazy on live TV. The prospect of an unpredictable Donald Trump making a live, primetime address to the nation on Thursday night has many Republicans rattled. The 80-year-old president has hyped the speech as the announcement of “really big news,” although it is expected to be little more than Trump rehashing years-old false claims about the 2020 election. One former Trump administration official told Politico that Republicans are not only concerned about the president moaning about Joe Biden’s election victory six years ago while the country is at war and millions of Americans are struggling with a cost-of-living crisis, but also about him deciding to improvise. “The people I talk to are scared s---less,” the official said. “It’s not scared s---less about the text of what he’s going to say, it’s, what does he add to the text?” Trump’s inner circle has been desperate for the president to focus on what they see as his achievements in improving the economy, such as declining inflation. Trump has endured dire approval ratings on the economy during his second term, with policies such as sweeping tariffs and the Iran conflict exacerbating the financial hardships already facing many Americans. While the White House hasn’t previewed Trump’s speech, it will reportedly focus on voting machine security and alleged election interference by foreign countries. Steve Cortes, a former Trump adviser, said that while the president’s base still believes there was a “grave injustice” in the 2020 election, Trump would be wiser to discuss other issues ahead of the crucial midterm elections. “I believe for the persuadable voters, the non-MAGA people, talking about an election from six years ago sounds like sour grapes,” Cortes told Politico. There is also the issue of how many people will even pay attention to Trump’s rant. Major broadcast networks, including CNN, Fox News, and ABC News, have not cleared their schedules to air it, and it is unclear whether the White House even asked the networks to preempt their programming to broadcast it live. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to suggest that the lack of official information surrounding Trump’s address is precisely why people should watch it. “As usual, anonymous sources are speculating about what President Trump will say during his speech on Thursday evening. The truth is, nobody knows yet what President Trump will ultimately say, which is why everyone should tune in,” Leavitt said. Trump teased the speech while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, confirming it would touch on subjects such as “election machines and integrity.” “What we’re going to be talking about Thursday, it doesn’t get bigger because without free and fair elections, you don’t have a country,” Trump said. The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-primetime-speech-has-republicans-scared-sless/? ps:How pathetic! Back to the same bull manure lies!! That was brought to court 60+ times and lost everytime!!! And that even the SCOTUS wanted nothing to do with!!!!!!!!!!

Ukrainians protest Zelenskyy’s ouster of his popular defense minister KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shook up his wartime government, drawing thousands into the streets Thursday across Ukraine to protest the ouster of his youthful defense minister — seen as an innovator of the country’s successful drone technology but who clashed with the traditional military establishment. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-defense-minister-reshuffle-fedorov-88083e4381b1690f5048088d75954d3a?

Musk Faces Legal Nightmare Over $1M Checks Election Stunt The world’s richest man had poured a record $21 million into a normally low-profile and non-partisan race. Billionaire Elon Musk could face prosecution after a bipartisan elections commission found that he likely broke the law by offering $1 million checks to Wisconsin voters in last year’s state Supreme Court election. The Tesla chief and MAGA megadonor poured a record $21 million into a normally low-profile and non-partisan judicial race held in April 2025, only for liberal appellate Judge Susan Crawford to beat his preferred candidate, Brad Schimel, by 10 points. In an effort to shore up support for Schimel, who was also endorsed by President Donald Trump, Musk made a social media post offering $1 million to people who voted in the election, eventually handing out three checks to voters. His America PAC political action committee also offered $100 to voters who signed or referred other signatories to a petition opposing “activist judges.” Now, the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission has found probable cause that Musk violated the state’s election laws by making the social media post “in order to induce them to vote in that election,” the Associated Press reported. The commission, which is made up of three Democrats and three Republicans, voted 5-1 to refer two voter complaints from Milwaukee and Green Bay to the Brown County district attorney’s office, the commission’s spokesperson told the AP. Spokespeople for Musk and Brown County District Attorney David Lasee, who is a Republican, did not immediately respond to the AP’s request for comment. The Daily Beast has also reached out. The government watchdog group Wisconsin Democracy Campaign had previously filed a lawsuit, which is pending in Brown County, seeking to block Musk from offering future cash payments in the state. At the time, the state’s Democratic attorney general sued to try to stop Musk from handing out the $1 million payments, but the state courts allowed the payments to continue. Musk had hyped the Wisconsin election as a race that could “determine the fate of Western civilization” and said it mattered “for the future of the world” because of the state Supreme Court’s role in congressional redistricting. Crawford’s win allowed the liberals to keep their majority on the court, with their advantage growing to 5-2 this year after Democratic-backed candidate Chris Taylor also won an election in April by double digits. After Schimel lost in 2025, Musk said he would spend far less on political campaigns. He also said he had “done enough” political spending right around the time of his explosive break-up with Trump last year. But the world’s richest man has since made nice with the president and resumed pouring tens of millions of dollars into Republican super PACs, The Hill reported in February. https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-faces-legal-nightmare-over-1m-checks-election-stunt-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-race/?

Trump Throws Keystone Kash Under the Bus Over Lindsey Graham Case The president said there is nothing “evil” surrounding the death of the South Carolina senator. Donald Trump has said the FBI is “wasting their time” investigating Lindsey Graham’s death after Kash Patel helped fuel wild conspiracy theories. While speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, the 80-year-old president was asked whether he knew why the FBI was getting involved in the late South Carolina senator’s death, even though it was due to natural causes linked to a cardiovascular condition. Days after Graham’s death, Patel posted that the FBI is “assisting local authorities and has made every necessary resource available,” without explaining how or why. Conspiracy theories have also raged online that Russia may have poisoned the 71-year-old, who had met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv the day before he died. On Monday, FBI agents were spotted at Graham’s home in Washington, D.C., taking photos. No items were removed from Graham’s home. Trump downplayed any suggestion that there was anything suspicious surrounding Graham’s death and reiterated that a medical examiner ruled it was caused by a tear in one of his main arteries—known as an aortic dissection—which is extremely difficult to detect. “If it happens, there’s not much you can do about it. Sounds unfortunate, but there’s not much you can do about it,” Trump said. “His father died of the same thing at about the same age. “So I don’t see a lot of evil there. I know there’s all sorts of conspiracy theories going along, [but] I think the FBI is wasting their time if they’re doing that.” Patel, a former MAGA podcaster with no prior experience in law enforcement, has frequently been accused of being more obsessed with social media clout than doing actual FBI work.Patel announced that the FBI was getting involved in Graham’s death in an X post in which he praised the Republican as “a devoted public servant, a fierce defender of our nation, and a true patriot who dedicated his life to the people of South Carolina and the United States.” A number of MAGA figures spread unsubstantiated claims that Graham, who had been calling for sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow, could have been poisoned by the Kremlin. Others pushed similar claims that Iran could have been involved in Graham’s death, given that he was one of the biggest supporters of Trump’s war against the Middle Eastern country. A full autopsy report on Graham has not been released, pending the results of a toxicology report and other tests. The Daily Beast has contacted the FBI for comment. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-throws-keystone-kash-under-the-bus-over-lindsey-graham-case/? ps:Of course he did, but having said that, there really isn't any reason for Patel to investigate Graham's death!!

The two videos were indeed well worth the time spent to watch them.

I concur, I've been married to one for 30 years @GHansen, often times the truth comes across as inappropriate and in poor taste.

I've spoken with you before and know you are an anti-Trinitarian. Being an anti-Trinitarian what you are saying (and Arius was teaching) makes sense. All I'm saying is that people who boast that they believe in the Trinity and say what you did prove themselves to be anti-Trinitarian. Exactly as was Ellen White, D.M. Canright (while he was in good graces with Ellen the Arian) and the rest of the militant anti-Trinitarians of the SDA movement.

Our fifth most popular piece was Pepe Escobar’s column on the war and the unprecedented size of the funeral services for Iran’s assassinated Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which brought out some 40 million mourners, representing the largest public gathering in all of human history.

I happened upon this old post. My comment was inappropriate and in poor taste. I apologize for making it.

At the bottom of the seventh page of the newly released draft report from the Presidential Religious Liberty Commission, a brief editorial note appears. It states that the… The post The 15-Day Window: Responding to the Religious Liberty Commission’s Draft Report appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Conference attendees at Monticello where they were given a tour by curator and WAU graduate Kevin Gurubatham Prominent professors and scholars gathered at Washington Adventist University’s Honors College… The post Founder’s First Freedom Sponsors Scholarly Conference on the 250th Anniversary of US Declaration of Independence appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Professors Nicholas Miller and Jonathan Scriven at Washington Adventist University Honors College Center for Law and Public Policy have issued their response to the Presidential Religious Liberty Commission… The post Washington Adventist University Honors College Responds to Religious Liberty Commission Report appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

The United Kingdom is currently grappling with the profound ethical, medical, and legal implications of proposed assisted dying legislation, most recently spurred by the Terminally Ill Adults (End… The post The Ongoing Fight Over End-of-Life Laws in the UK Parliament appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

TLDR The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of an employment lawsuit against Atlas Air and Flight Services International. The court found the aviation employees failed… The post Eleventh Circuit Affirms Dismissal in Airline Vaccine Mandate Suit, Sanctions Counsel for AI-Generated Citations appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

Somewhere in the frozen civic imagination of the American progressive there lives a fantasy Scandinavia, a land of free healthcare, free love and free thought, where the state… The post The Padded Cell: What Passes for Freedom in Scandinavia appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

“If your cause is just—you may look with confidence to the Lord and intreat him to plead it as his own. You are all my witnesses, that this… The post Endowed by Their Creator: How Faith Built the Declaration of Independence appeared first on ReligiousLiberty.TV. View the full article

I hope the Trump administration will reduce the leakers and their co-conspirators in the press to a piece of bread. The press has had delusions of grandeur for far too long. People in the administration who leak to the press may as well be leaking to a terrorist group. They should all be punished accordingly.

Generally, people who are respectful and cooperative do not get killed by police. In nearly every case, suspects/ detainees, have tried to flee, resist, grabbed for the officers weapon or in some other way turned a routine situation into a confrontational one. Granted, there are some stupid, incompetent officers, usually DEI hires. Lot of good people in law enforcement. A face full of pepper spray or a beat down is a good treatment for "F the police" syndrome.

I just learned bout this in a private message. Bonney and family members have long contributed to Club Adventist. Our prayers go with them.

Houston ICE shooting A week after a 52-year-old man was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Houston, the FBI filed a warrant application saying the agency has cause to believe there were illegal drugs in the vehicle he was driving. While not unheard of, it is unusual for an FBI search warrant to be publicly available during an active and high-profile investigation of this nature. Read more.

New Brazil tariffs The US plans to impose a 25% tariff on some Brazilian imports, after a yearlong investigation concluded that the country had engaged in “unfair” trade practices that harm Americans. The tariffs are set to go into effect on July 22, but the US says it remains open to negotiating with Brazil to resolve the issues. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said there was “no justification” for the “illegal and arbitrarily imposed tariffs.” Read more.

America already tried permanent daylight saving time. It lasted less than a year. Could it work now? NEW YORK (AP) — It’s an idea whose time, as it were, may have come — again. https://apnews.com/article/daylight-saving-time-change-permanent-6b5adef13d13862933ce400af3572f32?

US expands strikes into northern Iran The United States intensified its strikes on Iran early Thursday, hitting targets further north as American forces also fired on a ship the U.S. accused of trying to break its naval blockade on the Islamic Republic. Iran retaliated with missile and drone fire targeting U.S. allies in the region before dawn and warned its attacks may escalate. Read more. Why this matters: American strikes also reached into areas around Iran’s capital, Tehran, for the first time in this latest round of violence, showing a widening set of targets. Days of back-and-forth strikes by the U.S. and Iran across the Middle East — and renewed threats to the Strait of Hormuz — have shredded the interim deal to end the Iran war and could tip the region back into all-out war. RELATED COVERAGE ➤ More than half of House Democrats vote to cut Israel aid in growing split Human rights groups sue over Trump administration’s sanctions on ICC for investigations into Israel Lebanon and Israel move toward implementing withdrawal agreement, US officials say Iran school strike investigation The investigation into a US strike that hit a school in Iran has sat for months with a military command while leaders have held off on ordering a critical, standard intelligence review to help determine what happened, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Iranian state media said that 168 children and 14 adults died in the attack. Read more.

Hegseth announces new policy to test troops for low testosterone Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that he is rolling out a new screening program for “testosterone deficiency” among troops, calling it necessary to allow them to operate at their “absolute best.” Read more. Why this matters: The move comes as other Trump administration officials have begun to advocate for men to have easier access to testosterone replacement therapies, but the messaging from Hegseth and others blends known science on the hormone with broader, and less substantiated, claims. The Pentagon did not respond to questions about what research or academic studies underpinned the move. Over the past several years, special operations troops — and specifically Navy SEALs — have come under scrutiny for their use of testosterone and similar substances to enhance performance. The death of a SEAL recruit during training in 2022 led to the discovery of substances including testosterone in his possession, and revealed far more rampant drug use among the elite program than was previously acknowledged. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, a Pennsylvania Democrat and Air Force veteran, said it “proves that Secretary Hegseth takes direction from the far corners of the manosphere.” RELATED COVERAGE ➤ Vance says Trump administration ‘screwed up’ communications around Epstein files ICE should keep making traffic stops despite recent shootings, Trump says Report: Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses After six years, Trump brings his election obsession to primetime at the White House CDC nominee says she won’t betray science — while declining to challenge Kennedy’s actions Trump immediately fires the new court-appointed top prosecutor in Seattle Donald Trump endorses ‘Pillow Man’ Mike Lindell for Minnesota governor New York Times files motion to quash subpoenas served on journalists over Air Force One coverage George Santos’ next gig? Reality TV show contestant US Mint produces a $1 coin bearing Trump’s face Drained Reflecting Pool reveals Trump’s ‘American flag blue’ liner is now closer to gray