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'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'----George Santayana From his work; Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense 1905. William L. Shirer included the quote as an epigraph in his literary work The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in 1959.

E. Jean Carroll was just paid more than $5.6 million by the sitting president of the United States after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing her and a federal judge clarified that what he did was rape. That should be the biggest story in the country today. The president raped a woman. She took him to court. And she won. VIA @theZachBerger

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Donald Trump is the “gravest threat to American democracy” time-magazine.visitlink.me/Hqrmx1

@atrupar Dementia Don, the Pedophile in Chief, can't win an actual war against Iran & just had to pay out on a rape charge, so apparently it's time to squeeze allies for a diversion again...

@atrupar Similar to the way President Obama lives rent free in donald's head, he knows he'll never measure up to the intelligence, grace and gravitas that The Right Honourable Mark Carney possesses. It makes Trump absolutely livid, so much so, he can't control his petty emotions.

Trump posts an image featuring a map showing the United States taking over Canada and Greenland

On Monday, a 26-year-old Colombian national was shot and killed in Biddeford, Maine, after ICE agents attempted to pull him over while he was driving. ICE says the man, Joan Sebastian Guerrero tried to flee and used his vehicle as a weapon, prompting an agent to fire in what ICE says was self-defense to protect the public. Video reviewed by the News Hour does not, on its own, confirm those claims. As questions mount, the administration is also defending ICE's tactics more broadly. Border Czar Tom Homan said the agency has temporarily paused certain vehicle stops while it reviews recent incidents but insisted agents acted appropriately and expects those operations to resume. ICE says Guerrero was not the target of the original investigation. His death comes after another person in Houston was killed by ICE while behind the wheel of a vehicle. And a third man in Florida, who was running away from immigration agents Tuesday, was hit and killed by a tractor-trailer as he tried to cross a busy street. @GeoffRBennett spoke with @SenAngusKing of Maine, who is among a growing number of officials calling for a full investigation into the Maine shooting.

Yingst: "Do you anticipate that the strikes we've seen this week against Iran will expand?" Trump: "I'll save the energy targets for last, but ultimately we'll hit energy targets…Next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges."

Here’s Speaker Mike Johnson saying he’s too busy to know anything about his own government murdering a man in cold blood yesterday in Maine. He sounds annoyed by the question. These are not good people.

Adorable. The Department of War explaining that access to American weapons is "a privilege, not a right" is rather like a landlord lecturing tenants about loyalty while the roof is on fire and the rent has tripled. Let's review the privilege. Iran, a sanctioned economy running on drones and spite, just spent weeks exposing the flagship American arsenal as exquisite, eye-wateringly expensive, and built for a war that ended thirty years ago. Meanwhile the F-35, your crown jewel, requires a maintenance entourage of roughly a hundred people per aircraft, a spare parts pipeline with a mood disorder, and a software licence that can be switched off from Washington whenever the president wakes up cross. Ukraine keeps ageing jets flying from motorway strips with a fraction of that. Turns out the privilege was the overhead all along. And the reliability argument. You cannot threaten to abandon NATO on Monday, tariff your allies on Tuesday, and then present a "strong demand signal" on Wednesday as if nobody kept notes. Europe is not buying less American kit because we're sulking. We're buying less because a weapons system with a political kill switch attached to a four-year mood swing is a subscription service. You say no one can replicate the American defence industrial base. Quite right. Nobody wants to. Why would anyone copy a factory optimised for the last war? Ukraine has shown Europe what the future actually looks like: cheap, fast, and built next door. Short supply lines, fail fast, and weapons that adapt in weeks rather than decades. While you spend twenty years and two trillion dollars perfecting one aircraft, a workshop outside Kyiv redesigns a drone on Tuesday because the jamming changed on Monday. The “middle powers strategy” isn’t a distraction, and it isn’t a strategy either. It’s just what happens when the shopkeeper starts insulting the customers, doubling the prices, and musing openly about annexing one of them. Yes, we noticed the Greenland thing. Allies tend to remember when you threaten to take their territory. It’s an odd sales technique, coveting the customer’s house while lecturing him about loyalty. So do carry on explaining that our engagement with you is a privilege. We’ll be over here, building the cheap fast stuff that actually wins wars, and checking the till twice.

@Phoenix2A_1980s @ejeancarroll #MAGAtsAllShareSameBrainCell

@ejeancarroll 'Round these parts, we call this "ill gotten gains"

The Eagle has landed.

@HQNewsNow Trump thinks it's 1950.

Mike Johnson says that the Pentagon is requesting an additional $350,000,000,000 for things like "fighting Communism on our own shores"

With a commanding 2-0 victory, La Roja dulled the tournament’s most dangerous attack. The defending European champion now awaits the winner of England vs. Argentina on July 19. on.wsj.com/4fgXVLI

#BREAKING: Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi: The Islamabad MOU effectively no longer exists. No country should expect Iran to continue implementing the terms of this memorandum.

New $500M Artillery Shell Plant Failed To Produce Any 155mm Parts A scathing new Pentagon Inspector General report found problems at the plant delayed the Army's 100,000 round-per-month goal. twz.com/land/new-500m-…

@FOXSports @FOXSoccer At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890

@axios It’s TACO Tuesday!