A spy balloon the size of three buses(with a technology bay)from China has been surveilling the United States

The U.S. government has discussed shooting it out of the sky

It was spotted over Billings, Montana, on Wednesday. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a visit to China that had been expected to start on Friday

China says alleged spy balloon spotted over US is "civilian airship" used mainly for weather monitoring, which went off-course.

@LeaderMcConnell in 2019, “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea.”

In the United States, reparations to SLAVE OWNERS were paid at height of the Civil War. On April 16, 1862, Lincoln signed “Act for Release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor within the District of Columbia” into law.

It gave former slave owners $300 per enslaved person set free

It incentive former enslaved to leave U.S. for $100.

June 28th Brittney Griner’s detention in Russia extended for six months pending her trial, which was July 1st.

The @StateDept has been saying BG is being wrongfully detained.

The customs agent said they found 0.7 gram of THC. According to Russian law, she should only be facing a FINE she has been in jail for over 4 months

She’s facing 10 years

Today Brittney Griner pleaded guilty in a Russian court but denied she had intentionally broken the law.

In Fayetteville NC According to Rick and Maria Iwanski, their granddaughter, Jada Johnson, 22, was in the midst of a severe mental crisis when she was shot seven times by the police

AFTER they called an ambulance to help & police arrived first. Her boyfriend had people driving by their house harassing her but police said they were called for a break in

They wanted to arrest her for making a false police report.

She became agitated, but agreed to go to the hospital but didn't trust the cops to escort her.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce his resignation Today

After more than 50 members of his government resigned in 48 hours.

He will push to stay on as prime minister until autumn. #MorningJoe Boris Johnson broke the law. The police punished him, now Parliament must do the same.

I support referring him to the Privileges Committee. Tory MPs must do the right thing and back Labour's motion.-@DawnButlerBrent

Trump supporter #RayRoseberry is threatening to blow up his truck on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court. Capitol Police are negotiating. He was livestreaming it on Facebook till his profile was taken down The last post Ray Roseberry shared on his Facebook page before he started live streaming his #libraryofcongress bomb threat, was a video post from @DonaldJTrumpJr stirring up his supporters against Biden.

A white neighbor Michael Frederick Jr. who shot at a Black family’s Michigan home, slashed tires on a vehicle and wrote racist graffiti on a truck, told a judge Monday that he did it because of a Black Lives Matter sign in the window. #MorningJoe Frederick said during his sentencing in Macomb County Circuit Court “I targeted these people because I didn’t like their political sign that they had in the window,” he said. “I think you guys are some great people and didn’t deserve this at all.”

Stephen Miller: “🇺🇸 never ever made a promise... to people of Afghanistan that if after 20 years, they were unable to secure their country we would take them to ours.

Is it really our responsibility to welcome 1,000’s of refugees from Afghanistan?-@IngrahamAngle #MorningJoe Hannity: “There is a stampede, not only out of Afghanistan, but a stampede away from high prices, overpriced service from the big carriers like Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile. The average family making the switch to PureTalk.” #MorningJoe