The full brief is remarkable. While the U.S. Attorney attempts to downplay the misconduct, he admits to discussing the incident with Main Justice as early as Sept. 27 and having the Oct. 9 grand jury transcript as early Oct. 14. The brief shows that the office repeatedly misled the Court.

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 10h ago

New overnight: Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros’ office says the “Broadview Six” prosecutors have self-reported the events of the tainted prosecution to the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility as it argues against a special counsel. Full filing: cst.brightspotcdn.com/98/58/82c837...

Mainstream media is tossing “socialist” around left and right - Dems need to get a jump on defining that word and taking it back tout de suite. “Socialism just means that the government uses your tax dollars to provide you services, instead of giving it to the billionaire class.” Or something.

“America’s Voice analyzed 12 months of federal price data ending in June and found costs are rising fastest for foods whose production relies heavily on immigrant labor.” www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/t...

Trump's deportation agenda raised prices, contracted local economies, immigration group says

A report released Wednesday by the immigration advocacy group America's Voice argues President Trump's immigration policy is hurting the economy.

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“Michigan set primary records in mail voting and early voting, Aghogho Edevbie, the deputy secretary of state, said in a press conference after polls closed. Over 1.3 million people had voted by mail — 226,000 more than in the August 2022… More than 139,000 people voted early at the polls”

Update from Mack Liederman

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A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.

Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers

The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”

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Well, the FCC Commissioner has made the decision, first announced in an op-ed in Breitbart, stating that a regulatory body does not have to observe laws made by Congress if they don't feel like it. Every month is new and unprecedented territory. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

Detail of the boulder breccia (basal layer of Cambrian) transitioning into overlying Sauk Sea sandstone at East Bluff, Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin. ⚒️

Callan Bentley@callanbentley.bsky.social · 3d ago

A BILLION YEARS OF MISSING TIME The Great Unconformity at East Bluff, Devil's Lake, Wisconsin: 1.63 Ga Baraboo Quartzite overlain by a boulder breccia at the base of the sandstones of the Cambrian Sauk Sea (600-505 Ma). ⚒️

Last weekend drove across Memorial Bridge for first time in months. Numbers suggest what a gargantuan waste this is. But until you see it in person, hard to grasp how completely amateurish, cheesy, lower-tier-casino it looks. Sort of like that notorious redo of 'Ecce Homo' in Spain in 2012.

BrooklynDad_Defiant!@mmpadellan.bsky.social · yesterday

If this obscenely gaudy gold shit doesn't piss you off, you're not even paying attention.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is zero for 20 in its lawsuits seeking to obtain state voter rolls, after a federal judge dismissed its case against Colorado Monday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump DOJ now 0 for 20 after judge dismisses Colorado voter roll lawsuit ‘with prejudice’

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is zero for 20 in its lawsuits seeking to obtain state voter rolls, after a federal judge dismissed its case against Colorado Monday.

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Wasting money and abusing the local populace.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · yesterday

The Pentagon’s deployment of National Guard troops to D.C. is set to cost an additional $1.4 billion through the end of the Trump administration, according to information reviewed by The Post. The estimate encompasses October 2026 through January 2029.

"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."

A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing

Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.

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Russia is knowingly and intentionally targeting the elderly with weaponized drones in Ukraine - a pattern that’s leapt out at me in the course of the last two weeks of data validation for my database of drone attacks on civilians. Read more here:

My Map of Small Drone Attacks on Civilians, and Russia's Drone Assault on the Elderly

Over the last two weeks, I've made many improvements to my map of targeted small drone attacks on civilians from across the world. You should go look at them. These improvements include: * Somethi...

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Excellent, chilling summary of what we are doing in concentration camps in the United States of America. Shame. Shame Shame. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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Solar output in the UK recorded an all-time high in July, reaching 3.2 TWh. 33% higher than July last year. Accelerating solar deployment coincided with a historically sunny month to produce this record. Solar power is delivering when heatwaves are at their worst.

Russia commits war crimes as a matter of practice.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 2d ago

The strike is part of a relentless pattern in Kherson, where Russian troops have for months used FPV drones to deliberately target civilians in what terrified locals describe as a "human safari." Law enforcement is documenting the strike as a Russian war crime.

I look forward to watching this take down of crypto from former O.C. And Gotham alum Ben McKenzie. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Ben McKenzie Says Major Streamers Were Scared to License His Anti-Crypto Documentary, So He Found a Different Way to Reach Audiences

Ben McKenzie, "The O.C." star turned documentarian, is releasing his film about cryptocurrency in a unique way.

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This settlement is like the Brazilian military dictatorship passing a law in 1979 to protect themselves - and a court upholding it decades later.

R Subramanian (he/him)@rsubramanian.com · 2d ago

On Trump's payouts & immunity from future audits: "The DOJ still has access to Congress’ Judgment Fund, created by taxpayer money that typically pays for legal settlements... payments were made to Trump allies Michael Flynn and Carter Page well before the Anti-Weaponization Fund was even floated." 🎁

How is it that this story still hasn't appeared in the New York Times?

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns

The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...

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"This is not normal. This is not sane. This is not something that we should just shrug and accept. This should be enough evidence that this man has abandoned the rule of law, our system of justice that depends on facts—and should be removed from office." www.americaamerica.news/p/lost-in-fa...

Lost in Fantasy Land

Iran retaliates by attacking Minnesota water? Trump blames Minnesota. Evidence proving a botched reflecting pool redo? Trump keeps blaming vandals. He should be removed.

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The claim was a lie. Trump had no evidence of vandals. He makes shit up all the time. That's the big story, the never-ending story, the story that needs to be reported over and over.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 5d ago

“Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool case, blaming damage on ‘botched’ installation.” A major concession from President Trump’s team after he repeatedly claimed the problem was caused by vandals. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

ICE set out to get the worst of the worst.

Pacific Antifascist Research Collective@pacantifa.is · 5d ago

Here is our full list of all 145 sex pests and sexual predators from ICE and Customs & Border Protection in a single image. The entries outlined in red indicate entries involving alleged sex crimes against children.

Amazing that Iran is successfully attacking the drinking water in the American Midwest, and this is pretty directly the Trump administration's fault, yet this is not a huge scandal among his voters who live there

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d ago

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz responds to Trump: “DOGE took an axe to CISA and left the U.S. exposed to cyber attacks."

“Hearn…told me that the case was hurting his ability to sleep at night. He had once carried the Olympic torch for his country, and he was now worried about being the center of a political firestorm. “It’s unsettling,” Hearn told me, “to feel like I’m being targeted by my government.” 😳😳😳

Kristin Wilson@kristin-wilson.bsky.social · 5d ago

Gift link, because you’ll want to read this whole thing: In a 19-page filing, [Pirro’s] office undermined everything Trump has been saying about damage to the Reflecting Pool. “The damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism,” her office wrote in a motion to dismiss the case.

Protecting US civilian infrastructure from foreign cyberattack is the job of the federal government. I don't think the US should accept a foreign adversary damaging US national security just because the president dislikes the US state they targeted. Sorry to get so partisan, but that's how I feel.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

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."

404media.co

“Kenneth Ngure, the president-elect of the International AIDS Society, called the use of the map at the conference “disheartening.” “African countries must be taken seriously,” he said in a statement… “our focus must now return to advancing the H.I.V. response.”

U.S. Government Mislabels Map of African Countries at AIDS Conference

Nigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been “hastily altered.”

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This is a five alarm fire: The Trump Administration is withholding Congressionally-approved funding and trying to cancel legal representation for 20,000 unaccompanied children—leaving them to face mass deportation alone. It’s wrong under every moral code.

Thousands of immigrant children risk losing lawyers after Trump aid cuts

More than 20,000 unaccompanied children risk going to US immigration court alone after federal funding cuts

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Growing abuse for protesting the regime... www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Her arrest by the National Guard went viral. Now she’s taking legal action.

Attorneys for Army veteran Anna King say she was assaulted for exercising free speech. Authorities say she threw an unknown liquid at troops in D.C. days earlier.

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I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community

While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.

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