Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
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A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
mediaite.com
Judge Mehta's J6 Requiem "That book is now closed. Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and ... officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy ... to buckle."
Judge Mehta warned that this dismissal "excuses criminal acts" that threatened our democracy. Do you believe this decision permanently damages the peaceful transfer of power?
Judge carves up DOJ for moving to dismiss Oath Keeper charges
Judge Mehta warned that this dismissal "excuses criminal acts" that threatened our democracy. Do you believe this decision permanently damages the peaceful transfer of power?
alternet.org
Indiana farmers on data centers: Our livelihood is at stake. It's going to devalue all the property around. They're going to deplete the water. They're going to deplete our ability to grow food for everybody. It’s way bigger than everybody thinks.
Chipotle has removed jalapeños from restaurants as officials investigate 110 cases of salmonella potentially tied to the restaurant. This comes after the Trump administration disbanded the DOJ office in charge of food safety enforcement.
Somehow, open tabs have become a to-do list.. 🫤
Seriously, WTAF 😱 Military GPS jamming test at White Sands blinded a civilian medevac plane’s navigation mid-flight. Low visibility, overwhelmed ATC, a mountain they never saw. 4 dead — pilots, flight nurses, a patient never reached. GPS jamming incidents in the US: 4 in 2020, 40+ in 2025.
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
futurism.com
Who else remembers this story?
Boing Boing@boingboing.net · yesterdayRay Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today, August 4, 2026, in Allendale, California. A voice-clock chirps the time, the stove makes breakfast for eight, and the house keeps running for a family that's no longer there.
New Cisco Talos research: attackers aren’t hacking AI guardrails with clever code, they’re just lying to them. Claiming “it’s my own server” or “this is a CTF exercise” is often enough to get models to help with cyberattacks. Which raises the real question: how does AI verify anything you tell it? 🤔
Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it
Claiming 'it's my server' was often enough to persuade models to help
theregister.com
Good news if you’re a fainting goat like me 🐐: scientists just mapped the human vagus nerve down to individual fibers, brainstem to every organ. The nerve behind the drama, now charted — could help refine future treatments for syncope, epilepsy, stroke & inflammation. 🧠 Awesome 😎
Major highway of the human nervous system gets a complete road map
First comprehensive map of the vagus nerve may point to more precise stimulation therapies
science.org
It has been 3 months since Sean Duffy announced his Great American Road Trip reality show, funded by companies he regulates. Not a single episode has aired.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3mo agoSean Duffy reveals he spent 7 months making a reality TV show while serving as Transportation Secretary
You know the people who stay at their job and absolutely hate it, but stay regardless and play yes man because they literally cannot get another job no matter how hard they try? Well, that’s our Congress.
I’m going to watch the most excellent moving camera Odyssey again today at IMAX Indy
Who thinks we are more stupid, NYT or Ellison? Or both?
Cool, cool. We’re basically out of ATACMS and PrSM, and we used half our *global* TLAM supply… all for the Strait of Hormuz to still be closed?
Taylor Farms, the company linked to the cyclosporiasis outbreak, has used prison laborers paid just $4.75/hour.
So…Blanche goes to senate. Confirming him will prove what losers they are for confirming someone who blocked their very own Epstein files release. He broke the law. Anyone who votes for him is a traitor to the United States. Period.
In other words, going from a constitutional right (Roe) to a constitutional state by state decision (Dobbs) to a constitutional rule of no abortions. What is the DOJ/legal underpinning for that? There isn't one. Ladies & Gentlemen, your lawless soon-to-be AG. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’
The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.
politico.com
When President Trump sharply reduced the size of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah by more than 1.2 million acres, he claimed it was necessary because recreation was virtually impossible within the site’s boundaries. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show officials knew otherwise.
Documents Undercut Trump’s Claims About Bears Ears National Monument
President Trump said recreation in Bears Ears National Monument was virtually impossible. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show officials knew otherwise.
nyti.ms
Indiana cut 343K people from Medicaid in a year. Only 7% were actually ineligible — the rest lost coverage over paperwork glitches. A GOP official’s quote: “health care is not a right. It is earned.” ER visits at the state’s biggest safety-net hospital are up 73%. This is cruelty by design.
More than numbers: Inside Indiana's Medicaid enrollment decline • Indiana Capital Chronicle
An Indiana Capital Chronicle investigation examines why Medicaid coverage is disappearing, what it means for Hoosiers and what's coming next.
indianacapitalchronicle.com
It’s never been about the children with republicans, they were just pawns
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Trump administration is planning to gut Head Start, a program that offers free preschool to over half a million children.
Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, quick question cause I know you’re mentally challenged …. Even if Blanche gets confirmed, couldn’t he just draft a new memo under different wording that still hands Trump the same slush fund and immunity?