Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

The same is true about the “stolen” election

A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List

A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.

open.substack.com

We really should have gone to greater lengths to be loudly disgusted by anyone who acted like getting a shot or wearing a mask to prevent the spread of a pandemic virus was worse than being conscripted into the First World War

Rand Paul--who doesn't believe in evolution--holding a hearing of Dr. Fauci--a retired, life-long public servant-- while we are *actively* in the midst of SEVERAL disease outbreaks due to unnecessary public health cuts and corporate lobbying shows exactly how unserious Republicans are.

a statement from Fauci's lawyers says Rand Paul has "an intense & seemingly pathological course of retribution, revenge, & obsession with Dr. Fauci ... The accusations that Chairman Paul continues to propagate are false and disgraceful, and we will examine all options to hold him accountable."

In old-time anthropology, this used to be called "culture shock." I experienced it, returning to California (Leisure World, of all places) from 5 months in an impoverished Taiwan coal-mining village.

kottke.org@kottke.org · last wk.

Astronauts returning from long missions report a “jet lag of the self”: “a sense of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame”. [spacedaily.com]

uh...yes?

gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Texas Republicans doing recruitment for us.

This is crazy and wrong. Darkness is important to the health of many species, including ours. Do not allow this, people! #ALAN #darksky @danidarkskies.bsky.social @darkskyintl.bsky.social

F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry

A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.

nytimes.com

No.

Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)

The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.

nytimes.com

Newsday.com/matt

While I'm at it, here's an update re our back lawn #restoration. Started in 2024 by adding a few shrubs that deer tend to ignore. Let native wild strawberries invade, then removed sod bit by bit. #LawnRemoval #HabitatRestoration #NativePlants #PNW Photos Jun 23, Feb 25, Jul 26, Jul 26.

Update. A few species have been shaded/competed out, but our back slope #restoration now has 73 species, including a new Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia) and a new patch of California oatgrass (Danthonia californica) (native in #PacificNorthwest, not just California). #habitat 1) Jun 2025 2) Apr 2026

Barbara B. Harrell@bbharrell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here's a little series from our back slope habitat restoration, begun Aug 2017 (71 native plant species): 1) Jun 2018 blackberries cleared; deer candy anchor plants caged; 6' deer fence 2) Apr 2019 8' fence + rabbit mesh; gate; huckleberry shades 3) Jun 2022 fence & shades gone 4) Oct 2024

More from Samish Hill today. Just me and @steveharrell.bsky.social. We saw two other humans and one smiling dog during 3 miles on trail. #Bellingham #PNW #nativeplants

Just a little hike up Samish Hill, one of our favorites here in #Bellingham.

ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?

Summer color for bloomscrollers 🌺 Nodding onion, Cascade penstemon, deer-fenced cape fuchsia and crocosmia—all of intense interest to our local rufous and Anna's hummingbirds. English lavender occupies bees and other pollinators, seems to please the neighbors ;-) #PNW #Bellingham #garden #habitat

I assume in keeping with their methods, before Trump puts on the "largest fireworks display in history" (or whatever he's hyping) he has fired the fire department.

Me for the last two decades: That dead tree sure would be a great place to see a hawk perched. Me tonight: See, I knew it! #birds #nature #photography #Wisconsin

Some hungry Northern flicker chicks and their hard-working dad. Colorado. 🪶

This real life “make way for ducklings” happened today in Newport right in front of me

So does the Supreme Court.

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · last mo.

What the tech oligarchs have going for them is politicians understand money so much better than they understand technology.

💯% this

The Lincoln Project@lincolnproject.us · last mo.

We have a new message for Democrats: attack attack attack. Trump is corrupt, he’s butchered the economy, and his DOJ operates like mob lawyers. And every voter knows it. So stop looking backward. Stop with the endless focus groups. This isn't complicated. He’s weak. Finish him.

Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.

I don't know exactly what these Pacific Great Blue Heron nestlings were doing but I thought it was interesting...?! #birds #photography #ECK @everyheron.bsky.social

The hottest new lifestyle trend is cooking and eating the food you have at home. It’s called fridgemaxxing

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

BREAKING: we are NOT accepting media reports as proof that the $1.8B slush fund & "settlements" associated with it are dead That's why we @democracydefendersfund.org have just filed a new lawsuit to make sure this ENDS --on behalf of former J6 prosecutors with Platkin LLP, WLG & Heaphy Smith