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Major Epstein Update: CBS Tried to Kill Epstein Interview—I Share the Truth, New Mexico Takes Trump to Court, Truth Commission Issues Report

Good evening everyone.

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Did Blanche and Trump Quietly Pursue a Quid Pro Quo for Murkowski's Vote?

Now that Todd Blanche has cleared the committee, his nomination depends on a narrowly divided Senate, where a single Republican vote could decide the outcome.

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Wednesday News Updates: Election Night Updates, House GOP Implosion, + More – 8/5/26

Your midday update is here

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Trump Wants To Steal the Midterms – But the Dems Actually Have A Plan To Fight Back

'Start the Steal,' Part 3: Democrats, election officials, and activist groups talk with Zeteo about how they’re planning to defend the midterms from ICE agents at the polls, ballot seizures, and more.

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White House leans into its support for data centers, despite the public backlash

The more Americans of every political stripe turn against data centers, the more Donald Trump and his team sing their praises.

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Opinion | Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan win wasn’t a landslide. But it was still surprising.

His victory in the Democratic Senate primary is a possible sign of what’s to come in the party’s next presidential primary.

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Trump team plots to keep terrorizing people after they’re deported

Customs and Border Patrol is hunting down people who’ve been deported and demanding they pay up.

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How Fascists Subvert Democracy

This chronology of events in Germany is drawn from 1933 Berlin The Path to Dictatorship (2013). In a diary entry dated August 6, 1932, Joseph Goebbels, chief propagandist for the German Nazi Party…

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Tariff Transfer Scam

We are living through 1 of the largest financial scams in American history, if not the world. Walmart, the company that pays its workers so poorly that many, if not most, rely on federal welfare and…

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Blue No Matter Who: After 2024, I Expect Michigan Gets It.

Michigander here. Just thought I’d share my Facebook post of this morning: BLUE, NO MATTER WHO! I said it on Monday and I say it today. It’s that or a generation of fascism. This is not complicated.

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TRUMP HATES AMERICA! He is Now Calling All Blue States and Cities a ‘Threat to the Country’

The animosity that Donald Trump has regularly shown toward anyone who disagrees with him has lately festered into a seething hatred and declared enmity. His innate bitterness and sociopathy has…

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The GOP keeps taking on democracy—and losing big

The GOP’s latest attacks on democracy were soundly rejected at the polls on Tuesday.

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Trump’s cruel immigration crackdown targets military families

President Donald Trump’s racist anti-immigration policies are putting military families directly in the crosshairs and hurting the country’s ability to defend itself, a new report released on…

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Confirmed?

A cartoon by Clay Bennett.

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Melania gets another shot to bore you to tears, thanks to Amazon

Amazon MGM Studios is producing a docuseries about the first lady following her initial film’s flop.

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Florida AG threatens Catholic schools to push anti-vax BS

Religious freedom according to the GOP: Do what we say or lose funding.

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Acting attorney puppet

A cartoon by Pedro Molina.

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How racist are GOP voters? This Michigan primary result says it all.

If you want to understand just how racist Republican voters are, look no further than Tuesday night’s result in Michigan’s 8th Congressional District primary.

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Horror as 'super El Niño' threatens disaster not seen in 1,000 years

Weather scientists watching the Pacific Ocean are witnessing something they've never seen — a "super El Niño" now forecast to blow past every record in the modern era, with one meteorologist claiming ...

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Alarms blare after Max Miller busted 'tampering' with evidence submitted for House probe

Embattled Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) triggered alarms as documents he shared amid an investigation were found to be manipulated.According to reporting by Politico, Miller shared documents related to his b...

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'I'd like to fire them': Trump makes stunning admission during Las Vegas rally

President Donald Trump made a stunning admission during a rally in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Trump traveled to Sin City to speak at Red Rock Casino Resort Spa and once again test his economic messaging ...

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Trump's helicopter passes too close to passenger jet over D.C. in alarming incident

An incident this week saw Marine One, the helicopter carrying President Donald Trump, come within a mile of a passenger jet in Washington, D.C. airspace.The incident occurred at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, ...

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Mike Johnson shirking 'basic duties' as abuse scandals rip through his caucus: analyst

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is avoiding his "basic duties" as he navigates a wave of lawmaker scandals, David Graham wrote for The Atlantic.Nothing demonstrates this more clearly, Graham noted, ...

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Trump's fluffy new coiff sparks wig whispers among spectators

President Donald Trump appeared to have a new look on Wednesday — and onlookers definitely noticed — pointing out a possible new wig.Trump was speaking at an event touting his Trump accounts at Red Ro...

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Onlookers astonished as GOP governor tells Trump crowd to stop booing dead cop

The internet was stunned Wednesday after Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo had to tell a crowd of Trump supporters not to boo a fallen police officer.Lombardo was speaking in Las Vegas touting Trump...

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Tommy Tuberville takes Trump's border wall idea to another level during wild interview

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) doesn't think a wall at the southern border is enough. He thinks a wall might be needed around his own state.Tuberville made the suggestion on Wednesday while speaking on ...

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MAGA revenge campaign against Fauci heats up as red states file subpoenas

Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana are joining forces to hunt for state crimes possibly committed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, Politico reported.Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier fired the opening shot, a...

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