Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

Kevin Warsh has floated reducing the number of times the Fed meets to set interest rates, a move that would mark a substantial shift in its operations.

Warsh Floats Fewer Fed Meetings

Meeting less than eight times a year would fit Chairman Kevin Warsh’s goal of drawing less attention to the central bank.

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Donald Snook has been in prison for 52 years. He has survived four strokes and has aggressive prostate cancer. And he's not getting anything like the medical care he needs. https://bit.ly/45AzOmI

America’s Crisis of “Death by Incarceration”

The US prison population is aging rapidly, and incarcerated seniors are not getting the care they need.

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block liberally and often was a core part of early bsky culture that thankfully has stuck around.

"But do you feel your bar is* too* safe for women? Without attracting a certain number of rapists, aren't you worried that it will simply be an echo chamber for anti-rape sentiment?"

“The place people went to avoid Nazi bars and billionaire bootlickers” isn’t a terrible reputation imo

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Stop calling the $1.8 billion an “anti-weaponization fund.” Call it what it is: A bribe to proven domestic terrorists to strike again if needed.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d ago

President Trump said on Saturday that he would revive a proposal for a $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund that would compensate his supporters if the Senate fails to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, reigniting a dispute over the settlement.

When it comes to Trump’s money laundering, this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Trump Soho laundered Russian mob money. Trump Panama laundered drug cartel money. Trump Azerbaijan laundered Iranian Revolutionary Guard money. Florida real estate was used to launder Russian oligarch money.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago

🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/

Andy Burnham has said people struggling to take the kids out, to go to the pub, or to go on holiday drive his decisions as he promised more cost of living help is on the way.

PM says more cost of living help on its way as struggling families in his sights

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Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) said that his former son-in-law, Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), is “a danger” and should not serve in Congress in the wake of his daughter Emily Moreno’s domestic abuse allegations against Miller.

Sen. Bernie Moreno says Rep. Max Miller is ‘a danger,’ shouldn’t be in Congress

Miller, Moreno's former son-in-law, has denied allegations that he hurt his ex-wife and 2-year-old daughter. He said Sunday that he would not drop his reelection bid.

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Jon Ossoff is having a moment. But some Democratic insiders are questioning whether he's the real deal — or if a few slickly produced videos are making him look like more of a political juggernaut than he is.

Ossoff: The next thing, or "Great White Hype" for Dems?

He's catapulted into the 2028 conversation by making liberals on social media swoon over his viral clips.

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Featured story: Thousands of children ages 10 to 12 whose lives were upended by around 8,000 arrests or criminal citations made in 168 Texas public school districts from the 2021-22 through 2024-25 school years, an investigation by the Observer has found.

In Texas Schools, a Crisis of Arrests of Kids as Young as 10

A groundbreaking data analysis shows how districts across the state are arresting and citing children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age…

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Try that in a small town www-pbs-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.pbs.... Butt is County Mayor. City Mayor is Democratic congressional candidate Chaz Molder.

CMT pulls Jason Aldean music video that was filmed at a lynching site

In the video, Aldean performs in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee -- the site of the 1946 Columbia race riot and the 1927 mob lynching of an 18-year-old Black teenager named...

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This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

@kairyssdal.bsky.social, naval aviation veteran, is right. -Excellent reporting by @nytimes.com team, @gregjaffe.bsky.social and Kate Kelly. -Appalling portrait of Hegseth era military.

Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · last wk.

Well, this is depressing. But somehow completely expected. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...

I've been around since kindergarten classmates were in "iron lungs" from pre-vaccine polio, since "duck and cover" grade-school nuclear-attack drills, through all of the intervening chaos, earthquakes and floods and all, up through Covid and beyond. 2026 "explosive diarrhea" news is a first for me.

Michael J. Stern@michaeljstern.bsky.social · last wk.

"As cases of explosive diarrhea continue to rise across the US this summer . . . . " - CNN Is America great again? www.cnn.com/2026/07/25/h...

NBC's kristen welker was caught laughing it up with Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller who architected the family separation policy. Stephen Miller who pushed the Muslim travel ban. Stephen Miller who oversaw the killing of Americans by ICE agents. This is why independent media is crucial.

Yeesh. Amazing quote in this story by Kathy Gilsinan: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

MAGA influencer and Trump appointee Nick Adams’ FLAG nonprofit has raised much of its money through a sweepstakes operation that has promised donors a chance to win $1,000,000 — a prize FLAG’s records show no evidence of ever paying.

Anthropic said it proactively conducted a large-scale review of its cybersecurity systems following an incident last week in which OpenAI models accessed parts of Hugging Face's live systems. https://bit.ly/45xKp1O

Anthropic says its models went rogue and hacked 3 companies during testing

Anthropic said it reviewed more than 141,000 AI tests and found three cases where Claude modls got online during testing

businessinsider.com

Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

‼️ Independent journalist @katiephang.bsky.social, through her lawsuit, has forced Todd Blanche's hand on the #Epstein files. Judge Emmett Sullivan will now have unredacted docs for in-camera review. 🦋 bsky.app/profile/meid...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 6d ago

🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ has officially handed over UNREDACTED Epstein-related records directly to federal Judge Emmet Sullivan for private review following a court order in MeidasTouch host Katie Phang’s lawsuit.

The US public is fed up with RFK Jr. To really ‘make America healthy again’, it should look to Europe | Devi Sridhar

The US public is fed up with RFK Jr. To really ‘make America healthy again’, it should look to Europe | Devi Sridhar

Americans are dying younger than Europeans, despite being the wealthiest people on the planet. Wellness fads won’t change that, says public health expert Devi Sridhar

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Trump isn’t done trying to fleece the American taxpayer—this time, for the poorly attended Great American State Fair. trib.al/LsSg9Ln

Trump Asks for Millions More to Cover American State Fair Disaster

Trump isn’t done trying to fleece the American taxpayer—this time, for the poorly attended Great American State Fair.

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It’s a fucking travesty of justice how Trump and the Republican Party are going after Dr. Anthony Fauci, a true American hero and patriot, who helped save millions of lives. Shame the fuck on all of them… especially when they do nothing to prosecute pedophiles

📌That's Dr. Anthony Fauci with his buddy, the great Jimmy Page. Republicans, Rand Paul, and Kid Rock can go sit the fuck down now. -Thanks

NEW: DHS' top number-cruncher just left the department -- and blasted the administration's "war on immigrants" on the way out. He's one of the very few DHS officials to step down and speak out publicly against this White House. Me in @wired.com ... www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...

DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’

The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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