Exclusive: A Post investigation found that for-profit trade schools defrauded the U.S. government of over $300 million through the GI Bill, exploiting veterans with overpriced, short courses due to lax oversight and loopholes.

How predatory trade schools drained $300 million from the GI Bill and cheated veterans

Trade schools fleeced VA — and taxpayers — of more than $300 million, often by teaching short and easy courses, a Post investigation finds.

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AI dictator kitsch with nonsensical military uniforms is how MAGA loses History Channel dads who self-identify as independents

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16h ago

This is a man who has a hard time looking in the mirror

Send this to your favorite self-impressed contrarian who says both parties are exactly the same

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h ago

Sen. Jim Banks refers to American citizens as "the babies of invaders" and compares them to Nazi spies and terrorists

Only every time I went to wrestling camp in high school

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 17h ago

Surely someone has studied our modern epidemic of conservative men with unwashed asses.

Harrowing stuff here: "'What time is it busiest in the FSU student union,' he asked next." "ChatGPT described specific activities and locations and said the busiest periods included 'weekday lunchtimes, typically between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.'"

Mark Follman@markfollman.bsky.social · 22h ago

My new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

“Tillis and Cornyn caved even though they have literally nothing to lose,” says Chris Hayes. “At the national level, there really are no ‘good’ Republicans under Donald Trump.”

‘Rolled over’: Hayes rips Cornyn, Tillis for caving on Blanche

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Nothing but respect for MY Blanche

Neat. This is a far cry from COIN, which didn’t make it down with any real understanding to the company level. As unlearned from our wars going back decades, this is how you turn a whole civilization against you forever.

Adam Weinstein@adamweinstein.bsky.social · 2d ago

When everything in Centcom J-2 is going great, just great, we're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?

I think "AI" plumpers should be happy I'm focusing mostly on the nonsense it's doing to my field, rather than how it's very clearly designed as a tool for the capture of wealth and capital by a bunch of accelerationist weirdos enthusiastically huffing their own farts from the depth of their K-holes

The Register@theregister.com · 2d ago

Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft

Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right

When everything in Centcom J-2 is going great, just great, we're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?

Ian TB@iantb.bsky.social · 2d ago

Well, crowdsourcing a war plan is certainly a first: www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Jesus fucking christ. This is exacrly why we don’t need these weirdos. Because this is the sanitized nonsense that they are spewing. (A large number of shooters in the Einsatzgruppen were Waffen-SS)

The Crusader Project@crusaderproject.bsky.social · 3d ago

Re-enactors again not beating the allegations. Market Harborough at War today, apparently. @waitmanwbeorn.com @alanallport.bsky.social @garius.bsky.social @andraswf.bsky.social

Last year the NYT reported on how SEAL Team Six stormed into North Korea, accidentally murdered a bunch of fishermen, punctured their lungs so their bodies would sink & then stormed out. Trump is now trying to force one reporter to reveal his sources: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...

Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources (Gift Article)

A previously undisclosed subpoena, involving reporting on a failed SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea, reflects the government’s expanding campaign to investigate leaks of secrets.

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In the past few weeks, a firm has been buying targeted ads on Instagram for a push poll with "flock" in the URL that asks area locals if they'd be okay with "license plate reader cameras" if their use is, uh, more regulated. Ask me how I know!

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3d ago

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

NIH: “Many Intensive Care Units Were Overloaded While Nearby Hospitals Had Excess Capacity During The COVID-19 Pandemic” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37406237/

Many Intensive Care Units Were Overloaded While Nearby Hospitals Had Excess Capacity During The COVID-19 Pandemic - PubMed

Strained hospital capacity is associated with adverse patient outcomes. Anecdotal evidence suggests that during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, some hospitals experienced capacity constraints while o...

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr: Trump wanted to end lockdowns. In Fauci's diary, he talks about how the president was calling him trying to get him to reopen the country BASH: The lockdowns were down by governors K: They cited Fauci B: Govs were hearing from hospitals that their ICUs were overrun K: That's not true

“Sandwich guy case” “Harvard clawed frog embryo smuggling case” “Olympic canoeist reflecting pool vandalism case” “James Comey seashells Instagram post case” New rule: If the case sounds like a Mad Libs story, it’s probably about to implode.

Ex Trump Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews: "Advisors were telling him he lost. I think Trump has always been a broken man, but losing in 2020 fair & square to Biden permanently broke his brain… He's the weakest, most thin-skinned baby of all time."

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

Starting to wonder if peptides, hydroxychloroquine, brain worms, and dips in Rock Creek might be deleterious to one's overall mental and physical wellbeing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking

Oh, you're still bitter about school closures six years ago? Buddy, my generation's arc was formed by 9/11; the Global War on Terror; the Great Recession; countless mass shootings; a decade of open fascism, oligarchy and superstition; a million dead in a REAL pandemic; and now your shitty podcast

Pentagon again conscripting Isaiah 6:8 on social media, which has become a favorite verse for Hegseth & Pentagon to misuse (as I unpacked here: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-co...).

A large majority of Americans want their own states, rather than the Trump administration, to have the final say in how elections are run. (CBS News poll) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260731

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Here's a detail I hadn't heard before. www.ft.com/content/620b...

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...