Republicans Against Trumpism

This isn’t Moscow or Beijing. It’s Chicago. Masked federal agents grabbed U.S. citizens protesting ICE and threw them into an unmarked van. “Who are you? Where are you taking them?” people shouted. “You are kidnapping them!” What has America become?

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC, revealed that RFK Jr. has NEVER been briefed by CDC experts on measles, flu, or Covid: “No one from my center has ever briefed him on any of those topics…He’s getting his information from somewhere”

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

NYT: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently blocked the promotions of seven senior Navy officers, most of whom are women or people of color For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are expected to be promoted to admiral this year www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

MAJOR ESCALATION: Trump tells Fox News the U.S. will strike Iran’s civilian infrastructure next week: “We’re gonna knock out all their power plants, we’re gonna knock out all their bridges, unless they get to the table and negotiate.”

Senator Susan Collins: "There's no doubt that ICE needs to improve its performance, but those who are calling for ICE to be abolished are ignoring absolutely vital safety work that ICE does."

BREAKING: ICE has ordered agents nationwide to suspend nearly all vehicle stops during enforcement operations, except when targeting serious criminal suspects, after ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, Texas, and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, last week

Trump welcomes the Prime Minister of Iraq to the White House: "He's young, and he's handsome, which I don't like. I'm not happy about it."

NEW: E. Jean Carroll has collected her $5 million judgment against President Donald Trump, more than three years after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her—NBC News

🚨MAJOR TACO: Trump has backed off his proposed 20% Strait of Hormuz fee, saying it will be replaced with “Trade and Investment Deals” with Gulf states. Beyond parody

31 states are reporting cases of ‘explosive diarrhea’ parasite as outbreak continues to grow The outbreak has resulted in at least 86 hospitalizations, though no deaths have been reported www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Marco Rubio last month on the Strait of Hormuz: “No country is allowed to charge tolls or fees on an international waterway.” Yesterday, Trump announced that the U.S. will start charging a 20% fee on cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Guess the rules changed