𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏'𝐒 𝐄𝐗𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐔𝐓𝐒 𝟐𝟓 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐘𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝟏𝟗𝟎 𝐌𝐏𝐇 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐎𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐃

The last time Washington, D.C. saw a race down its own streets, it was 1801, America's 24th birthday, and the horsepower was literal. - M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman
This Saturday and Sunday, the 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝟐𝟓𝟎 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐱 brings the National Mall its first-ever NTT INDYCAR SERIES race — a 1.7-mile, 7-turn circuit weaving past the Washington Monument and the Capitol, with cars topping 190 miles per hour. 

It exists because 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 directing the White House Task Force on Celebrating America's 250th Birthday to designate the route, and ordering the Departments of the Interior and Transportation to fast-track every permit. 

• The result is the first motor race ever held in the nation's capital — a historic closing event for America's 250th anniversary...

'Not an oversight': State makes shocking admission about noncitizens voting * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

'Not an oversight': State makes shocking admission about noncitizens voting * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

"Federal law requires every state to maintain records showing how it safeguards the accuracy of its voter rolls and to make those records available to the public. Specifically, the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), 52 U.S.C.  20507, requires each state to retain, for at least two years, and make available for public inspection, records showing how it works to keep its official voter rolls accurate and current. But California just admitted in writing that it keeps no such records regarding the removal of noncitizens from its rolls. That's convenient. But it's also unlawful."

University Makes First Semester Pass/Fail for ‘Mental Health’ Reasons

University Makes First Semester Pass/Fail for ‘Mental Health’ Reasons:

Chris Murphy claims it’s “outrageous” and a “moral stain on this country” that “52 people have died” in “ICE detention” during Trump’s second term.

IN FACT, the age-comparable fatality rate of the general U.S. population is several times higher than people in ICE detention, and deaths related to lax immigration enforcement are at least 90 times greater than deaths in ICE custody.  - Just Facts

Here are the specifics:

• During the second Trump administration, the average annual fatality rate for people in ICE detention has been 70 per 100,000 people at an average age of 45 years old.
• In contrast, the average annual fatality rate for 45-year-olds in the U.S. is about 326 per 100,000 people, or 5 times the ICE custody death rate under Trump.
• An average of 15 people per year have died in ICE detention during the first and second Trump administrations...Read all!

Lunch video----- The Worst One I've Ever Seen - YouTube

(122) The Worst One I've Ever Seen - YouTube

Noon-toon

 

El-Sayed's mom worked for designated terror group that financed bin Laden ahead of 9/11: Report | Blaze Media

El-Sayed's mom worked for designated terror group that financed bin Laden ahead of 9/11: Report | Blaze Media: 

The Treasury Department stated in a release at the time of the terror designation that the international offices of the Islamic African Relief Agency, or IARA, may have "provided direct financial support" to Osama bin Laden and, by extension, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. "IARA is identified as a nongovernmental organization (NGO) formerly affiliated with Maktab Al-Khidamat (MK), which was co-founded and financed by UBL [Osama bin Laden] and is the precursor organization of al Qaida," the department said.

Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf: “An employee of the Michigan secretary of state office notified me that non citizens are automatically registered to vote when they change their address.”

No one in Michigan is surprised to hear this. But will anything be done? - Donnie Detroit@DonnieDetroit19 - @AAGDhillon

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Michigan ranks No. 6 among states for worst record in chronic absenteeism 29% of Michigan students were chronically absent in 2025

The American Enterprise Institute report, "From Attendance Crisis to Chronic Condition?,” defines a chronically absent student as one who misses at least 10% of the days in a school year. - Jamie A. Hope

• Michigan had the sixth-worst rate among 44 states for the number of students who were chronically absent from school in 2025, according to the new report. 

Last year, 29% of students in the Great Lakes State were chronically absent.

• The Flint Community Schools district reported that 49% of its students were chronically absent in 2019 — a number that soared to 81% in 2022. Absenteeism has slightly decreased since then, dropping to 74% in 2025, according to the Return to Learn Tracker.
• Grand Rapids Public Schools reported in 2019 that 27% of its students experienced chronic absenteeism. The absenteeism rate peaked at 54% in 2022, declining to 41% in 2025...

In 2022, he attacked Oklahoma’s effort to keep Sharia out of state courts and compared the forces behind it to historic racial injustice

 

Soviet-style!-----𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐘 𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐅𝐁𝐈 𝐅𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒

Round River — the joint FBI/Foreign Influence Task Force operation whistleblowers say was built to 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 — turns out to have its own phantom classification marking. - M.A. Rothman

At its peak, the FBI was sitting on 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟒𝟎 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 feeding it criminal information on Joe, James, and Hunter Biden. 

• Instead of running down those leads, Grassley's letter says the intelligence community 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 — and drew up a list of supposed ‘disinformation conduits’ that included then-Attorney General William Barr...

31 This day 1959----- The Browns Three Bells - YouTube

(122) The Browns Three Bells - YouTube

𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍'𝐒 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐔𝐏 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍 — 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄 𝐈𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐑 𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒

Fox News is flagging a Financial Times bombshell: Iran has already 𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 if President Trump's pressure campaign escalates the war again. - M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman
The target list isn't vague. 

• Bulgaria drew Tehran's eye after Sofia let American refueling tankers use its Bezmer air base, and Cyprus is in the crosshairs too — home to Britain's RAF Akrotiri. 

One Iranian insider laid out the threat to the FT in plain terms: “𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘳, 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦, 𝘨𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰.”...

Tariffs make sense! Sometimes!

 

“This is the real deal. You people are fantastic.”

@POTUS stands on the new White House helipad - Margo Martin@MargoMartin47
 

Give them raises cuz of this bogus "study"??!!-----Study: Michigan teacher pay has fallen more than any other state.

Teachers in Michigan saw the largest salary decline in the country over the last 30 years when accounting for inflation, a new Michigan State University study found. - Trevor King

The study, conducted by MSU’s Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, found that the average teacher’s salary had dropped by 29% since its peak in 1995, when adjusted for inflation. 

That equates to a decline 

• from $100,064 
• to $71,023 in 2025 dollars...

The study also found that while teacher salaries continue to decline relative to inflation, many residents would support a pay raise...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 20

History for August 20 - On-This-Day.com 

Ron Paul 1935

• 1918 - The British opened its Western Front offensive during World War I.
• 1939 - The National Bowling Association was founded in Detroit, MI. It was the first bowling association in the U.S. for African-Americans.
• 1964 - A $1 billion anti-poverty measure was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
• 1968 - The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization.
• 1997 - Britain began voluntary evacuation of its Caribbean island of Montserrat due to the volcanic activity of the Soufriere Hills.

Abdul El-Sayed to Speak at Conference Calling for Muslim Takeover of U.S. | Frontpage Mag

Abdul El-Sayed to Speak at Conference Calling for Muslim Takeover of U.S. | Frontpage Mag: 

El-Sayed will be one of two Michigan Islamist Democrats, including Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, who had told a Christian to leave the city over his opposition to honoring an Islamic terrorist supporter, to speak at the Islamic Supremacist conference whose speakers have a history of calling for an Islamic takeover of the United States and the imposition of Sharia law.

Dearborn and other Islamic controlled areas in Michigan played a significant role in the nomination of Abdul El-Sayed, who lost the non-Muslim Democrat vote, but secured the Democrat nomination by winning 94% of the Muslim vote, appearing to prove Wahhaj’s thesis of a unified bloc vote allowing Islamists to seize control of the American political system.

he British Empire’s Last Afghan War | A Day-by-Day Military Breakdown

he British Empire’s Last Afghan War | A Day-by-Day Military Breakdown:

Nothing is Normal Anymore... - YouTube

(121) Nothing is Normal Anymore... - YouTube:

Mission High boasts top Berkeley admit rate despite math failures

SF high school where 94% flunk math has California’s highest Berkeley acceptance rate - Titus Wu

A San Francisco high school where students get top grades simply for showing up now has the highest acceptance rate in the state to the prestigious University of California, Berkeley — as critics blame

• rampant grade inflation and 
• rock-bottom standards 

for a surge in ill-prepared college students who end up dropping out.

Mission High School had a 45% acceptance rate into the elite university, with 34 out of its 76 applicants gaining admission last fall, far ahead of the state average of 15%, according to data compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle.
But it’s not because of superior academics, critics say, but rather because of 

• low standards 
• and a lefty policy that eliminated SAT testing requirements in the University of California system, 

sending a flood of students who can barely do fractions into demanding courses like Calculus...

Hacker Admitted to 2020 AZ Voter Data Theft, Destroyed Evidence — Prosecutors Did Nothing

Newly declassified FBI documents released Thursday detail a 2020 breach of Maricopa County’s voter registration system. - Rusty Weiss 

According to the files, a hacker used a vulnerability on the county recorder’s website to extract 633,000 voter records in the days leading up to the election...

The suspect later confessed to federal agents and acknowledged destroying the data by wiping hard drives and deleting Google Cloud copies after realizing investigators were closing in.

• Perhaps the most shocking revelation here is what happened next.
• Nothing. 
• Nothing happened next...

Federal Appeals Court Allows Trump Admin to Subpoena Clinics Accused of Giving Sex Change Drugs to Minors

Federal Appeals Court Allows Trump Admin to Subpoena Clinics Accused of Giving Sex Change Drugs to Minors: 

However, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a 2-1 decision reversing a lower court ruling halting a subpoena against a telemedicine clinic called “QueerDoc” and sending the case back to a lower court for more consideration. 

The panel wrote that the long-term risks of sex change drugs for minors are “uncertain,” and a president of the United States has the authority to direct the DOJ to pursue enforcement of laws in alignment with his policies.