NEWS: For nearly 20 years, Epstein moved over $1B through the major banks. The banks looked away. Sen. Wyden’s 3-year probe exposes it all. But most damning? How Trump and the GOP tried to bury it.
Follow the Money: How Wall Street Bankrolled Epstein, and How the Trump Administration and CBS are Blocking The Truth
For nearly two decades, Jeffrey Epstein moved more than a billion dollars through some of the biggest banks in America. He withdrew millions in unexplained
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It’s fitting that Todd Blanche would hoodwink John Cornyn and Thom Tillis with a pair of documents that have no legal value, since this slush fund “settlement” scandal was born of a sham IRS lawsuit that a judge called improper. My USA Today column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Trump and Blanche just played Senate Republicans for fools | Opinion
Anyone familiar with President Trump's time as a business owner or politician knows he can't be trusted about anything involving money.
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Grassley on Blanche: "The Justice Department has thrived under his leadership" 🙃
The most corrupt, unethical AG in the US history will now take office after a sham deal with retiring Republican senators. Now this lawless DOJ will run amok with Trump’s criminal defense attorney carrying out his retribution tour against the innocent while the guilty go free.
If the goal was to destroy a functioning government, divide the people, weaken our public health and educational institutions, elevate opinions over expertise, alienate us from our allies, and enrich the ultra wealthy, then Trumpism has been successful.
WATCH: ProPublica & @drilledmedia.bsky.social found that oil and gas companies have been funding climate research at prestigious US universities for 30+ years. This research fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels: propub.li/3TTgAGp
Rep. Max Miller’s repeated abuse of my daughter and granddaughter makes him unfit for public office. Thank you for your patience as I awaited results from the focus group before releasing this statement. by Sen. Bernie Moreno
GOP Rep. Jim Jordan on alleged spouse and child abuser Max Miller: “This is a family matter. I know Max is a good man. I hope he wins re-election.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
OK, small point here, but it’s almost certain he meant “parameters of a deal,” but he can’t spell and is very dumb, so he used “perimeters of a deal” and news orgs are just running with it like that’s a perfectly normal thing to say, which it absolutely is not. That’s not a thing anybody says.
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 4d agoBREAKING: Trump pauses attacks on Iran, citing “perimeters of a deal” that would end Tehran’s “nuclear threat” and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
I lost my job, my kids have measles, my electric bill has doubled, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now Black kids won't be getting free breakfasts from Head Start anymore.
“Estonians have been able to pay taxes online since 2000. The United States was just getting there last year with IRS Direct File, a Biden-era pilot program that saved users time and money, but Trump killed it after lobbying by tax-prep and software companies.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...
Trump Is Making Government Worse on Purpose
Instead of seeking to simplify and improve citizens’ lives, this administration keeps creating new obstacles and burdens.
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A self-respecting Congress would impeach him over this immediately. Doing an end-run around the Senate's Constitutional "advise and consent" authority to illegally take money from taxpayers, and give it to himself and criminals he likes. Alone, one of the most impeachable offenses in US history.
Howard French@hofrench.bsky.social · 4d ago
What do you even call it when he continues, despite all evidence, to insist on something that doesn’t exist? “Lie” isn’t sufficient. A deception campaign? The sign of a mental disorder? Delusion? Attempted gaslighting? Self-gaslighting? (Does he really believe it?)
a republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.
‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating
The Ohio lawmaker denies the allegations as an Aug. 5 deadline to drop off the ballot approaches.
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So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
On thing to keep in mind about this absurd reflecting pool case is the focus on the momentary whims of the president, his angst over bad news cycles. This whole thing was a travesty. Every lawyer involved knew these charges were factually in addition to legally baseless. But there are many more …
Imagine how desperate they are when they are just reminding us how bad things were under Trump in 2020... bsky.app/profile/ekta...
#VeryAsian Eric@ektaka.bsky.social · 7d agoSince the Republicans want to revisit the pandemic, here's a reminder of how badly Trump handled it. youtu.be/qOYYUkZG6b8?...
Let’s not forget that this illegal Reflecting Pool indictment was also overseen by Todd Blanche. He could have stopped this at any time, but he was a corrupt and willing accomplice to this fraud upon the court. How can any decent person possibly vote for this man as AG?
Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the move: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one. n.pr/4c7L91d
Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky
Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.
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Testing Google Earth's new AI tool, AFP was able to fabricate satellite images of: - A Paris explosion - An Iran nuclear site - A bomb crater in Russia - ISIS training grounds - Floods in Bangladesh - Migrants at the US border - "Proof" of US election fraud The risk for disinformation is alarming
Google launches new satellite image AI tool, alarming researchers
Google announced a new feature allowing Google Earth users to generate AI visualizations on top of the service's satellite imagery, sparking concerns from researchers and open-source intelligence expe...
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UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/
“Modern life is standing at a gas station sink with your hands under a motion-activated faucet waiting for water that doesn’t come.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
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Gen X was right after all.
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When Justice is blind, bad guys take the fifth. When justice is corrupt, good guys take the fifth. Feel free to share.
Mamdani paved 165,000 potholes, returned tens of millions to scammed tenants, and delivered the lowest murder rate in city history, all in six months. He also called ICE cruel to Trump's face and says it should be abolished. Turns out you actually can just do things.
Zohran Mamdani: 'If You Aren't Willing to Fight, You Will Never Win'
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani on six months in office, the future of the Democratic Party, Israel-Palestine, Taylor Swift's wedding and more.
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It's darkly depressing that the entire GOP -- from the White House to Congress to the Supreme Court -- insists that the president and his aides cannot be held accountable for all the very clear crimes that they clearly committed, but they think Dr. Fauci should hang for alleged mishandling of COVID.
JAW-DROPPING PLOT: Trump overruled his own administration to block the release of federal disaster aid to four Democratic-led states that did not vote for him in the 2024 election, according to a report.
Trump’s Jaw-Dropping Plot to Punish Blue States Exposed
The president is seemingly making potentially life-changing decisions based on whether states backed him in 2024.
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Because we glorify wealth above all else and it breaks people's brains to realize that the world's richest man is basically a stormfront poster and is responsible for killing millions of people. They'd rather not think about it at all. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? (Gift Article)
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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stephen miller killed this couple, as surely as if he'd pulled the trigger himself
Matt Ortega@mattortega.com · last wk.Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.