💸 The Biden administration has already spent at least $2 billion to halt construction of the southern border wall, despite the ongoing migrant crisis, a report by Republicans on a Senate subcommittee revealed.

Sure! Why not waste more taxpayer money...

☀️ According to scientists, a devastating drought has nearly spread throughout the entirety of the western United States, setting a 122 year record.

It is now estimated that nearly 90 percent of the region is suffering from drought. This is a crisis that NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad said will only get worse, citing this year's June heat wave, which occurs once every 1,000 years, as climate change increases the frequency, duration and severity of droughts

😒 Donald Trump has criticised the decision by the Cleveland Indians to change its name to Cleveland Guardians.

"Such a disgrace, and I guarantee that the people who are most angry about it are the many Indians of our country," he declared. "Wouldn’t it be an honour to have a team named the Cleveland Indians, and wouldn’t it be disrespectful to rip that name and logo off of those jerseys?"

https://twitter.com/Indians/status/1418565355472101378

American gymnastics superstar Simone Biles, who was widely expected to dominate this year's games (she has won 30 Olympic medals in her career) has failed to qualify for the finals in the uneven bars at the Tokyo Olympics.

Joseph Mercola, an osteopathic physician from Florida, has been identified as the “chief spreader of coronavirus misinformation online.”

According to The New York Times, he has "published over 600 articles on Facebook that cast doubt on Covid-19 vaccines." He tops a list coined the "Disinformation Dozen" compiled by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate – it ranks 12 people allegedly responsible for "65 percent of all anti-vaccine messaging on social media.”

🔥A wildfire devastating California, which began on July 14, has scorched over 180,000 acres (73,200 hectares) in the counties of Plumas and Butte. More than 1.4 million acres (553,000 hectares) have reportedly been burned in western states.

Californian Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency amid what he called "conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property."

🔎📄The Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice will not investigate governors in New York and other states for ordering nursing homes to admit elderly patients with coronavirus.

However, according to the DOJ, federal prosecutors will continue probing Cuomo's administration over its handling of the COVID-19 crisis.

Nancy Pelosi has formally appointed Adam Kinzinger, a critic of @real_DonaldJTrump, to serve on the select committee to investigate the events that transpired at the US Capitol on 6 January.

😒 Oh, she finally did it...

Now let's talk about the 'real' issues.

🦋 As you know, moths are quite insidious insects, they eat your carpets and clothes, and they also denude trees. How dangerous is the "gypsy moth"? Well, apparently the problem lies not in the moth itself, but in its name.

Recently, the Entomological Society has launched a project "Improving Common Names" for insects (apparently, these are bosom buddies of those who decided to rename birds). Now, they call the "gypsy moth" an ethnic insult.

🧐 But did they even ask the gypsies themselves whether this name is actually insulting to them?

Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters said on this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that if Democrats win the 2022 midterm elections, then “we lose the country forever.”

🗣 “Everything is at stake here in this 2022 and 2024 election. I really think, if Republicans don’t win these elections, we lose the country forever, because if you look around, the left and the Democrats, they have taken control of almost every major institution in our country.” said Blake Masters.

Are the Democrats in control of everything that much?

🏊‍♂️ A California man was caught on a home surveillance video taking a dip in a family’s pool before breaking into their house while a mother and her two teenage children were upstairs.

Is the burglar's insolence going to the next level?

👮‍♂️ Two men have been shot dead in a shooting that occurred in the northwestern part of Washington, DC on Sunday afternoon.

According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the two men shot were taken to a local hospital before they were pronounced dead

🇺🇸 The newly-appointed US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs Bonnie Jenkins says she is “eager to get to work.” US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will lead the US delegation at nuclear arms control talks with Russia in Geneva on July 28 - the delegation will also include Jenkins.

⛪️ A popular strip club that once beckoned customers off a busy highway leading into Anchorage is now a church.

🗣 "This church came about because I prayed for five years," said Linda Dunegan, who tried to buy the building before.

God works in mysterious ways!

🇺🇸 Pentagon press secretary John Kirby posted a video of a mid-flight refueling of the Boeing E-4B strategic command and control military aircraft.

Kirby’s tweet came right after a source in the military-industrial complex told Sputnik that Russia is developing a new airborne command and control aircraft, to replace the Ilyushin Il-80, which is meant to be used as an airborne command center in the event of a nuclear war.

A shocking case of robbery has happened in NYC: a black mugger knocked a 68-year-old white man off his bike, punched and kicked him multiple times, breaking his wrist and nose. The assailant reportedly stole a cellphone and a silver necklace.

"Defund the police'' they say...