In New Mexico, people are furious over Trump stealing precious water supplies and demanding an end to it.
As anger mounts, feds tell border wall contractors to stop drilling for water in New Mexico
Ranchers along the U.S.-Mexico border are outraged that the federal government is drilling unpermitted wells to pump water from the region's drought-stricken aquifers.
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Waymo explains why 'Lone Skum's Teslas are such failures. electrek.co/2026/08/04/w...
Waymo CEO explains why Tesla’s camera-only self-driving falls short
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov explains why camera-only self-driving, the approach Tesla bets on, flattens out before it reaches full autonomy.
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Trump fired Comey at Russia's behest, official says www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...
White House declassifies info on secret FBI probe into whether Trump fired Comey at Russia's behest, official says
The White House has declassified information claiming the FBI probed whether President Trump acted as a Russian asset when he fired James Comey, a theory an administration official said wasn't backed ...
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Ignorance, Bigotry, Violent Extremism Is Providence of the Right, Republicans, Maga and Conservatives. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-rea...
The Real Extremism Problem Is on the Right, Not the Left
We’re constantly told that democratic socialists are too “extreme.” But it’s the Republicans who have gun nuts, self-proclaimed exorcists, and other unsavory characters in their ranks.
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Trump's dangerous dementia: "If something went wrong, the fault must lie with Americans conspiring against him, not with a contractor who did shabby work. And so the boss put out the order: Find the criminals who destroyed my lovely pool" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous
The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.
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"The Fed chair likes to praise financial markets, regardless of what they say; does not offer substantive economic explanations; is not overly concerned about logic and consistency" www.ft.com/content/cbc7...
The Federal Reserve goes Wacko
Warsh’s Awful Communications: Knowingly Opaque. Also in this newsletter, the BoE shows how it’s done
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Why are Wyoming, Montana and Alaska the suicide belt in the US? "Isolation of living in a sparsely populated state and easy access to guns. Suicide attempts are typically more impulsive than the common understanding suggests, and those made with guns are far more likely to be lethal.".
Opinion | The Suicide Crisis in Wyoming
Wyoming has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation.
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DSA isn't a party, Senator. And if the democratic will of the people is to move left, who are you to stand in the way?! "I think that Bill Maher said something very insightful..." We're done here.
These are insane numbers. If El-Sayed wins after being outspent by this much, wow, watch out!
Andrew Duehren: The IRS audits every president. It can audit you. It no longer audits Trump—because he used his control of the government to exempt himself. Immunity no other American has. This is call abuse of power.
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity
The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.
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Tesla is being gleefully screwed by a supplier for Musk's CyberFailure www.autoblog.com/news/tesla-c...
Tesla Cybertruck Production Is Being Held Hostage
Tesla is suing a supplier that wants a quarter of a million dollars each week for Cybertruck tooling.
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"Due to president Trump's feckless leadership, his Iran failure is a complete loss for America" cnn.it/4yZ1UWn
US military has used up nearly 80% of key missile interceptors as commanders warn stockpiles ‘dangerously low,’ sources say | CNN Politics
The US military has exhausted nearly 80% of its interceptors for a key missile defense system as senior US military commanders are warning that the Pentagon’s munitions stockpile is “dangerously low,”...
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Tom Selleck explains why conservative actors earn deserved rebuke for being publicly political cowards www.huffpost.com/entry/tom-se...
Tom Selleck's Comment About Trump Gets People Really Upset
The “Blue Bloods” and “Magnum, P.I.” star chimed in on the president during a CNN interview.
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Landmark Legislation Could Let Americans Sue Trump Family Over Corruption and Claim Massive Cash Rewards www.ibtimes.co.uk/senate-democ...
Landmark Legislation Could Let Americans Sue Trump Family Over Corruption and Claim Massive Cash Rewards
Senate Democrats' latest bill aims to create an independent federal agency to combat executive branch corruption, allowing citizens to sue for recovery of funds obtained through corruption.
ibtimes.co.uk
“Rod Liddle Has Died. Here He Is in His Own Words” The prolific journalist, who passed away on Sunday, urged Muslims to ‘blow themselves up’, joked about ‘trying to shag’ children and mocked an MP who spoke about being a victim of domestic violence.
Rod Liddle Has Died. Here He Is in His Own Words
The prolific journalist, who passed away on Sunday, urged Muslims to ‘blow themselves up’, joked about ‘trying to shag’ children and mocked an MP who spoke about being a victim of domestic violence.
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“.. a loss for the Trump administration in one of its earliest efforts to dismantle President Joe Biden’s campaign to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gases ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/epa-...
Tillis: Yes, Blanche is a hack who is weaponizing the DOJ for political purposes. But I'm just fine with that. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"
File under: Department of Self-Fulfilling Prophesies/Emasculation of the Senate Division
71% of Democrats now identify as liberal, who want to expand abortion access, establish universal healthcare and to tax the rich www.reuters.com/world/us/shi...
Shifting left, Democrats see universal health care, taxing the rich as 'essential,' Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Liberal Democrats now make up a clear majority of their party and view universal healthcare, greater abortion access and higher taxes on the rich as essential political positions, underscoring how De...
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“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
What emerges here is that Tony Dokoupil understands that his role is to present and pitch news in a manner calculated to appeal to a diehard MAGA man, not a typical informed American. Which is Bari Weiss' strategy. Just look at his question list.
CBS Bets Tony Dokoupil’s ‘Big Question’ Segment Makes Sizable Difference in Evening-News Battle
CBS Bets Tony Dokoupil's 'Big Question' Can Make Sizable Difference in Evening-News Battle
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"RAGE RAGE AGAINST THE COMING OF THE LIGHT . . . " "THE GREATEST BLACKMAILER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD AND THE MAD CREEPY OLD FART CLOWN SCION FROM QUEENS . . . " "YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT . . . " FIRST AS TRAGEDY SECOND AS FARCE 2026 // www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Trump's commerce secretary calls Jeffrey Epstein the 'greatest blackmailer'
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told an interviewer he found Jeffrey Epstein, his next-door neighbor, "gross" when they first met in 2005.
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Nice to meet you.@ahuihou.org · yesterdayTrump Is Drowning in Failure as Crises Mount www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-dro...
The lazy webmasters at KTUH.org are now boring the community with not one, but two repeats of the historically significant but dull Democracy Now podcast. Once at 2am and again at 5am. This is unsatisfactory and reflects poor leadership.
KTUH Honolulu | Radio for the People
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Anti-democratic Missouri republicans protect politicians from accountability newrepublic.com/post/213889/...
Republicans Now Trying to Trick Voters Into Limiting Their Own Power
Missouri Republicans are pushing a devious ballot measure this primary election.
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ICE purchasing private concentration camps to avoid oversight and to hide sexual assault, murder and other crimes time.com/article/2026...
Why ICE Is Quietly Buying Up Private Detention Centers
The Trump Administration's efforts to quickly expand how many migrants it can hold at once has cost billions of dollars.
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Puddin' Fingered MeatBall™ Rob DeSantis threatens Catholics unless they harm children. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Florida threatens to defund Catholic schools if students can’t opt out of vaccines
The state’s attorney general claims that at least one diocese has accepted the position that schools cannot offer exemptions on religious grounds
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Russian stooge and US President Donold Dump knows U.S. companies and consumers pay his tariffs. Why he chooses to continually deceive the American people is hard to understand. Why some Americans continue to believe him is even harder to understand. thehill.com/opinion/fina...
Trump’s tariffs are his biggest policy failure
President Trump’s tariff policies have faced criticism for failing to reduce the trade deficit, hurting U.S. businesses, and providing insufficient revenue to offset the federal deficit.
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Cargo ship reports strike in Strait of Hormuz while a mass funeral is held in Gaza apnews.com/article/iran...
Mass funeral held in Gaza and other developments from across the Mideast
A mass funeral was held Tuesday in Gaza City for more than 100 Palestinians whose bodies were recovered nearly three years after Israeli warplanes flattened a residential block.
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