A heavy-lift helicopter helping battle a Utah wildfire crashed Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration said, with no immediate word on the conditions of the two aboard.
A helicopter battling a Utah wildfire crashes with no word on the 2 people aboard
Authorities say a heavy-lift helicopter battling a Utah wildfire has crashed. There is no immediate word on the conditions of the two aboard.
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"It’s especially strange given that Mr. McConnell continues to make votes. Oh, yes! You read that right. As reported this afternoon by Tyler Spence of NOTUS, Sen. McConnell was able to cast tie-breaking votes today in the Senate Agriculture Committee." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-curiou...
The Curious Disappearance of Mitch McConnell
Not seen in public since June 14th.
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Hegseth decapitates another top general. Lt. Gen. Charles Costanza, commander of the Army’s V Corps, was removed from command in recent days. Apparently he makes Hegseth feel insecure. abcnews.com/Politics/top...
A top US general in Europe abruptly removed from command
The circumstances surrounding his removal remain unclear.
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Bill Cassidy's speech where he mentions Bill Barr giving him advice explains why I saw Bill Barr a few times on the Hill the last few months. Unrelated: Bill Barr's dad hired Jeffrey Epstein.
I get that the Trump White House has decided that Congress is a vestigial organ, but I think there should be more coverage of the fact that Brendan Carr just up and said "yes, Congress put a 39% cap on media ownership, but I think I can ignore it for reasons."
Techdirt@techdirt.com · 6h agoBrendan Carr’s FCC Rewrites Media Ownership Law Only Congress Can Actually Change There are many ways to describe the Trump Era, but the executive branch's conviction that it... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/07/brendan-carrs-fcc-rewrites-media-ownership-law-only-congress-can-actually-change/
Stoltenberg: We did too little, too late. There was a long period from 2014 to 2022 when NATO and its allies hardly provided any military support to Ukraine at all, because many NATO allies were afraid that military support to Ukraine could provoke a Russian full-scale invasion.
In this interview with his favorite outlet, Justice Alito confirms what we already knew: that he's not retiring this year. www.wsj.com/opinion/just...
Opinion | Justice Samuel Alito: ‘Practical Originalism’ and Its Facile Critics
He explains his interpretive method and defends it against a hostile biographer—and his high-school English teacher.
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Trump: "I'm liking the chandeliers. I like those Corinthian columns but cutting them out would be not good. But I'm allowed to do it. Every once in a while I'll come here and grab a painting and put it in the Oval Office."
Trump now claims to have obtained OVER $20 TRILLION in foreign investment (the entire GDP of the US is barely $30 trillion, so this is nonsense)
Trump takes a break from fear-mongering about communism to brag about seizing the means of production: "We had a problem with Intel. And we settled the problem. They gave us 10% of the company. That was worth $12 billion."
Reminder that actual people live in DC who rely on the USAO office to prosecute crimes.
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3h agoThis morning in DC Superior Court, before the first hearing started, multiple court observers documented the musings of an ICE prosecutor detailed to USAO-DC. She referred to herself and the other DHS attorneys assigned to USAO-DC as “sacrificial lambs.”
US judge blocks Trump administration's third attempt to cancel VA union contract reut.rs/4wc33Hi
US judge blocks Trump administration's third attempt to cancel VA union contract
A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday ruled for the third time that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs cannot terminate a union contract covering 320,000 employees, in another blow to the Trump administration's efforts to strip federal workers of collective bargaining rights.
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'How to Kill a Federal Judge' author convicted of threatening US judges reut.rs/4z5tpxw
'How to Kill a Federal Judge' author convicted of threatening US judges
A Minnesota man was convicted on Friday on charges that he wrote and distributed a 236-page manuscript titled "How to Kill a Federal Judge" that threatened members of the federal judiciary, including a judge who presided over an earlier, similar case against him.
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Hiroshima marks the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with its mayor criticizing major powers for waging wars and urging them to stop justifying the possession of nuclear weapons as a method of deterrence.
Hiroshima marks 81st atomic bomb anniversary as mayor deplores the pursuit of nuclear weapons
Too many leaders still consider nuclear deterrence a realistic approach, said Mayor Kazumi Matsui, whose Japanese city was bombed by the U.S. in an attack that killed 140,000 people.
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⚡️Fedorov continues talks with Musk on using Starlink to help counter Russian ballistic missiles. "We're in touch with Musk; we last spoke a few days ago. And it's, let's just say, a difficult task right now to achieve the outcome we need through this communication," Fedorov said.
Fedorov continues talks with Musk on using Starlink to help counter Russian ballistic missiles
"We're in touch with Musk; we last spoke a few days ago. And it's, let's just say, a difficult task right now to achieve the outcome we need through this communication," Mykhailo Fedorov said in an in...
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Hearing reports that if you swing by Sen. Cassidy's office this afternoon, he will punch one (1) baby in the face for you.
US senate gets enough votes for Passage of Cal. #454, H.R.5334, legislative vehicle for the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026, voting continues
They’re comparing the “trans industry” to nuclear annihilation.🙄
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 7h agoThe anti-LGBTQ American Principles Project just released a new ad: a deranged AI slop take on LBJ's "Daisy" ad, but scaremongering about "the trans industry" (no such thing) and portrays Talarico as a surgeon.
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
UPDATE — Trump says he will be "immediately" appealing the ruling to the Supreme Court Lengthy Truth Social post also rehashes Trump's arguments for the ballroom — particularly, that presidents need it for security
![Two Obama and Biden Appellate Court Judges just voted against the desperately needed Military Center, required for the National Security of Washington, D.C., and our Country, itself. Highly Respected Judge, Neomi Rao, stated the following key points, among others, in a strongly worded dissent:
“This was a blatant abuse of discretion…To begin with, the district court had no jurisdiction because the Trust has no standing to stop construction at the White House…[T]he balance of equities overwhelmingly favors the government. The district court elevated the aesthetic displeasure of a single passerby over the government’s security interests in the ballroom and the security risks of leaving an open construction site at the President’s home and office…These errors in equitable judgment require vacating the injunction…The district court seized supervision of construction at the White House, and my colleagues affirm this judicial overreach…Because the injunction is beyond the proper province of the federal courts, construction should be allowed to continue.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6wwty6iar2ya7heph6d25cw3/bafkreihx2pvnqrpvseyva7vesjqzqcx4p6n5bypkbe4hi3j2kslhzlnkba)
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 8h agoBREAKING - federal appeals panel orders halt to Trump's ballroom construction “Each President is a temporary tenant, not the owner, of the White House and its Executive Residence,” Judges Millett and Garcia wrote in majority opinion Order is paused for 2 weeks so Trump can appeal to SCOTUS
He may be waging an illegal war nobody wanted that’s getting Americans killed while making things more expensive for you and also send his masked secret police to harass your neighbors for no reason, but at least he’s crashing the economy also for no reason
Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 10h agoThat's a big kick in the guts. Payrolls is much weaker, and the U.S. lost -23k jobs in March, well below expectations of +80k. Huge downward revisions, too: May now +63k (instead of +129k), June now +20k (down from +53k). Very bad news. Revise down your views substantially.
Iran president: 'On this anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki-among greatest crimes against humanity-those who reject that horror must also condemn the same mentality in Washington that today threatens to wipe out nations and destroy civilian infrastructure. Never again'
IRAQI PM SAYS IRAQ WILL NOT ALLOW ITS TERRITORY TO BE USED FOR ACTIONS TARGETING OTHER COUNTRIES -PM OFFICE
National Academy of Sciences has announced a review of the climate chapter of the reference manual for judges that came under heavy fire from the right. Federal Judicial Center already omitted it from its version.
