There have been 1,267 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. this year, almost 4.5 times the total for all of last year and on track to pass the highest annual count since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Why it matters: While the disease isn’t consistently spreading due to immunization campaigns, there have been outbreaks well beyond West Texas, where low immunization rates and high school exemptions stoked spread of the highly contagious virus early this year.

Driving the news: There have been 27 outbreaks reported in the U.S. so far this year, accounting for 88% percent of the cases. In comparison, there were 16 outbreaks across the entire year in 2024 and 69% of cases were associated with those outbreaks.

• There have been three confirmed deaths.
• Measles cases have been confirmed in 38 states.
• Of the 1,267 cases, 360 (28%) were in kids younger than 5 and 464 (37%) were in kids between the ages of 5 and 19 years old.
• In 92% of the confirmed measles cases, the individuals were unvaccinated or their vaccination status was unknown.

For the record, any 8th grade English teacher would give Trump an “F” on his grammar assignment. We are led by an idiot who has a lower grasp of our language than grade schoolers.

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Trump can’t even get the gender right.

 

 

Pam Bondi in February: The Epstein client list is sitting on my desk right now to review.

Pam Bondi today: There is no Epstein client list and no "further disclosure" of Epstein-related material "would be appropriate or warranted." pic.twitter.com/ClD7a7C8GT

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) July 7, 2025

 

 

A New York Times investigation based on internal Trump Organization documents suggests that Donald Trump was a lot shorter on cash before he returned to the White House than commonly understood. It illuminates once more how Trump has exaggerated his supposed business acumen — and what may be motivating his dogged pursuit of new business ventures as president.

The Times reports that last year Trump’s office building in lower Manhattan “generated too little cash to cover its mortgage,” many of his golf courses had too few customers to cover costs, and the money that used to come in from his work in television had “dried up.”

Long before entering politics, Trump had a well-established track record of failed businesses and financial mismanagement. But it’s possible that his first term in office made things worse. The Times reported that a 2021 appraisal of Trump’s highest revenue resort, the Trump National Doral, found that he had spent $379 million renovating it — but that it was worth only $297 million. The appraisal, conducted by the firm Newmark, found that while “Doral, like several of Mr. Trump’s properties, was known to benefit from people looking to buy proximity to a president during Mr. Trump’s first term, his managers believed even more potential customers stayed away because of him.”

Regardless of the cause, the Times’ investigation found that Trump had little cash on hand in recent years given the size of his business empire — and then came the tremendous costs of legal fees during both his trials and hundreds of millions from penalties from civil lawsuits.

The data shows us that as Trump entered office the second time, he was desperate for cash, which might explain at least some the tenacity with which he has hung onto his shares of Truth Social. It also likely explains why he and his family have pursued so many new ventures and licensing deals for the Trump Organization, ranging from watches to cryptocurrency to a mobile phone service. With the power of the presidency once again linked to the Trump name, the president and his family have fresh sources of money coming in to help his longtime businesses and expand his fortune. Trump’s most recently launched businesses have increased his fortune by billions.

To be clear, Trump wasn’t on the brink of becoming a pauper if he didn’t start finding new ways to generate cash — he could’ve sold parts of his business off to become more liquid. But as far as the story of Trump is concerned, the new information highlights the gap between his incessant boasts about being a brilliant businessman and the less glamorous reality of how his businesses were functioning. And it sheds light on the urgency with which Trump launched new ventures which have generated appalling financial conflicts of interest that are even worse in his second term than his first. All in all, it’s less “art of the deal” and more “art of the steal and the flim-flam.”

 

Greene to introduce ‘weather modification’ bill

Source: The Hill

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Saturday she plans to introduce a bill aimed at tackling “weather modification.”

“I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity. It will be a felony offense,” she wrote in a Saturday post on X.

“I have been researching weather modification and working with the legislative counsel for months writing this bill,” Greene added.

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been stripped down so much it can barely respond to emergencies, yet it’s funding detention centers such as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades.

The National Weather Service’s San Angelo office, responsible for some of the areas hardest hit by Friday’s flooding, is missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster, and meteorologist.

The Weather Service’s nearby San Antonio office, which covers other areas hit by the floods, is missing a warning coordination meteorologist and science officer who are supposed to work with local emergency managers to plan for floods, including when and how to warn local residents and help them evacuate.

The office’s warning coordination meteorologist left on April 30, after taking the early retirement package offered by Musk’s DOGE to reduce the number of federal employees.

At both offices, the vacancy rate is roughly double what it was when Trump returned to the White House in January.

It’s the same across much of the federal government. Callers can’t get through to Social Security offices. Hazardous waste sites and drinking water facilities aren’t being inspected. National Park services have been scaled back. There aren’t enough air-traffic controllers to safely guide takeoffs and landings at the nation’s major airports.

Trump’s newly-enacted Big Ugly Bill will take funds out of Medicaid and food stamps. For what? To finance another giant tax cut for the rich, along with 10,000 more ICE agents and a gulag of detention camps.

Ex-weather bosses sent haunting letter warning Trump cuts could lead to deaths weeks before flood

In the weeks leading up to the devastating floods in Texas, five former directors of the National Weather Service sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump warning that continued cuts to the budget would result in the deaths of people.

The five former directors wrote the letter in May. “The proposed budget for fiscal year 2026, just released by the White House, cuts the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) by close to 30%” they wrote.

“While details aren’t yet available if earlier indications hold true, this budget would essentially eliminate NOAA’s research functions for weather, slash funding for next-generation satellite procurement, wrote the letter in May observations,” it added. “Even if the National Weather Service remains level funded, given the interconnectedness of all of the parts of NOAA, weather forecasting will also have impacts. We cannot let this happen.”

“NOAA’s satellites provide vital information about the formation and pathways of storms. NOAA research on severe storms has paved the way for tools we now use every day, such as Doppler radar and storm modeling advancements,” it continued. “NOAA Corps pilots fly into hurricanes to bring us real-time information on these increasingly severe storms. And data from ocean buoys adds breadth and depth to our understanding of the interaction between the atmosphere and the sea.”

“These proposed cuts come just days after approximately 300 National Weather Service (NWS)employees left the public service to which they had devoted their lives and careers,” continued the statement. “That’s on top of the approximately 250 NWS employees who were fired due to their probationary status in new, often higher-level positions, or took the initial buyout offered by the Trump Administration in early February.”

Continues…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/ex-weather-bosses-sent-haunting-letter-warning-trump-cuts-could-lead-to-deaths-weeks-before-flood/ar-AA1I32Pu?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=8f5f547cb1b24a329c277e8e5dbed907&ei=24

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Then, there’s this:

NWS’s San Angelo, TX office was missing a senior hydrologist, staff forecaster and meteorologist in charge