GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna deletes social media posts featuring Russian fighter jets

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The office of Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) deleted two of the congresswoman’s social media posts after Raw Story reported that the airplane silhouettes used in her happy birthday message to the U.S. Air Force were actually Russian fighter jets.

“Happy Birthday United States Air Force! As an Air Force Veteran myself, I’m especially thankful for everything I learned while serving in this incredible branch of our Armed Forces,” Luna, an influencer on Instagram before being elected to Congress last year, wrote on her posts.

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Rob Young, historian for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, and a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, said the jets were a model developed in the old Soviet Union that evolved over the years and are still in use.

An image of a Sept. 18, 2023, Instagram post — now deleted — from Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL). Instagram

“As I examine them, the silhouettes look most like MiG-29s,” Young said.

Multiple messages from Raw Story to Luna’s office before publication were not returned.

Late Tuesday night, Edie Heipel, Luna’s communications director, sent a response via email.

“This post was published without approval from me as the comms director, via a junior staffer,” Heipel wrote. “Rep. Luna is a US Air Force veteran who worked in airfield management and her husband is a Bronze Star/Purple Heart Combat Controller. To suggest she doesn’t know the difference between American and Russian fighter jets is asinine.”

The posts had been online since Sept. 18.

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Trump's massive 4th of July firework show damaged the Reflecting Pool

President Donald Trump's Fourth of July fireworks display by his nonprofit Freedom 250 launched nearly 850,000 fireworks shells from 10 National Mall sites, including directly above the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The firework show created significant environmental and health consequences.

"Best fireworks show, EVER!" Trump posted on Truth Social afterwards.

The morning after, workers waded waist-deep through murky green water, removing burned debris and scorched casings.

Washington temporarily became the city with the worst air quality on Earth, prompting officials to issue a Code Red alert warning of unhealthy conditions for seniors, children, and those with medical conditions.

D.C. based photojournalist Joe Flood documented the Reflecting Pool on July 6th, sharing his findings and thoughts on X.

Emergency responders documented 96 patient contacts and 40 hospital transports from the National Mall during the 40-minute show, according to CNN.

The newly renovated Reflecting Pool, which underwent a $16 million renovation through a no-bid contractor tied to Trump, now requires repairs.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum confirmed the same contractor will handle restoration work on CNN, according to PBS News.

Watch the video below.

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Fetterman sparks firestorm over Fox News interview claims: 'Look in the mirror'

The internet was livid Monday after Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) slammed Democrats for boosting Maine Senate candidate and Democrat Graham Platner — taking swipes at his own party and prominent leaders.

Fetterman appeared on Fox News in an interview with anchor Laura Ingraham, as calls were mounting for the candidate to step down from the competitive Senate race after he was accused of sexual assault.

"I would really call Bernie Sanders to apologize for pushing this kind of predator more than anyone he helped him elect," Fetterman said. "Maybe he should stop pushing these communists."

Social media users called Fetterman out for his comments.

"Says the guy also pushed on us by Bernie," Rachel Murphy Azzara, founder and executive director of Democrats Work for America, wrote on X.

"This guy is more of a FOX maga anchor than a congressman," liberal political commentator Rodger Williams wrote on X.

"Has Laura Ingraham or Fetterman for that matter ever pushed for Trump to resign?" Political writer Zaid Jilani wrote on X.

"Democrat who trashes Democrats and appears on Fox every chance he gets wants everyone else to look in the mirror," political commentator Hemant Mehta wrote on X.

"Have long disliked Platner, but Fetterman owes his Senate seat in large part to Bernie. And millions of Democrats are jusifiability [SIC] angry at Sanders pushing fake progressive Fetterman. 'While serving as Pennsylvania's Lieutenant Governor, he was a vocal progressive Democrat who aligned with the Bernie Sanders wing of the party," frequent progressive commentator Janice Hough wrote on X.



MS NOW host tears down Trump's latest defense of his crypto racket

President Donald Trump's newest defense of his family's self-enriching cryptocurrency deals didn't go over well with MS NOW's "The Weeknight" gang on Monday evening.

"Tonight, folks, we're on the corruption watch as Donald Trump prepares to leave for Turkey aboard his brand-new Qatari-gifted jet to attend this year's NATO summit," said anchor and former GOP chairman Michael Steele, who added that Trump "continues to remake every aspect of the presidency to serve his interests."

Just hours before, for example, he said, Trump "rang the stock market's opening bell from the Oval Office, just days after his financial disclosures revealed more than 20,000 stock trades made on his behalf last year. That's a busy broker, indeed."

At this point, co-host Luke Russert chimed in.

"The disclosures also show earnings of $1.4 billion just from crypto alone," said Russert, although, he noted, the president "tried to downplay that all this morning."

In the clip Russert played, Trump said he is "very much for crypto" and that "I let my kids do whatever the hell they do, they can do. I don't talk to them, ever talk to them about it. I'm allowed to. I think I'm allowed to, but I don't bother because this is a much higher. This office is a much higher calling." He went on to add that "I waive my salary."

Unfortunately, said Russert, "Trump's not the saint he makes himself out to be. Go figure."

The simple math, he continued, is that as president he earns "about $400,000 a year" in salary to waive, whereas he "raked in $2.2 billion, with a B, according to his financial disclosures. And yet the White House insists, quote, 'there are no conflicts of interest.'"

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