FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
Emily Flitter
@emilyflitter.bsky.social
Bloomberg News reporter writing about inequality in finance, housing and corporate America. Author: THE WHITE WALL, ‘22. Bird-noticer, Floridian, Rangers hockey fan forever.
How is this scene so hot? It’s so short and simple, but the steam factor gets to eleven. I think it’s the way Dorothy Malone opens and closes her mouth before speaking some of her lines
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Emily Flitter@emilyflitter.bsky.social · 3d ago“The pursuit of Wall Street business in service of higher profits per partner… was at odds with its social justice principles. When Trump took aim…the firm’s long-simmering identity crisis became an existential crisis” Great one by M Schmidt & @jsgatnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
“The pursuit of Wall Street business in service of higher profits per partner… was at odds with its social justice principles. When Trump took aim…the firm’s long-simmering identity crisis became an existential crisis” Great one by M Schmidt & @jsgatnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
We asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientist
NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science.
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"It's insane. I can say for myself and 200 of my friends in finance, we're not getting anywhere near this. In another administration, this would be considered criminal.”
Trump’s media company today began selling early access to the president’s posts on Truth Social for up to $100k a month to financial institutions. I talked to former SEC lawyers, who see the service as a violation of insider trading laws. And a Wall Street executive, who told me:
A freelance reporter has been fighting a subpoena from the Trump administration seeking to force him to reveal his sources for a New York Times article about a failed top secret mission in North Korea, according to people familiar with the matter.
Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources
A previously undisclosed subpoena, involving reporting on a failed SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea, reflects the government’s expanding campaign to investigate leaks of secrets.
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Former Congressman George Santos agreed to pay more than $35,000 to settle allegations he manipulated a wager on prediction market platform Kalshi about whether he’d attend the 2026 State of the Union
George Santos Must Pay $35,000 Over ‘Manipulative’ Kalshi Trade
Former Congressman George Santos agreed to pay more than $35,000 to settle allegations he manipulated a wager on prediction market platform Kalshi about whether he’d attend the 2026 State of the Union.
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Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
On Monday evening, Haitian workers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport burst into tears as they were asked to turn in their badges. Marlene, 47, a single mother who has worked as an airport janitor for 12 years, said she has been sick to her stomach.
Airports, nursing homes and schools brace for disruption without Haitian workers
The Trump administration and courts are at odds over whether about 350,000 Haitians have officially lost humanitarian protections, but employers are already letting workers go.
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3. It is, however, interesting that Leo wanted to do this interview at all, and perhaps telling that he made a point — as he has elsewhere — to note the importance of welcoming immigrants. The incredibly short nature of this interview notwithstanding, that's part of a consistent effort there.
NEW: after our coverage of this company's little scheme to use printed books to train AI, it calls it a "test of the market" and walked the entire thing back: www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
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"A new analysis of Black voters in the South indicates that Republican attempts to dilute their political power is driving them to the polls in larger numbers and shifting their counties further left."
Republican disenfranchisement bid drives Black voters to polls, study finds
Black voters in south motivated to turn out by Republican push to redraw maps after supreme court ruling
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New York sues Kalshi, says prediction market is running 'illegal gambling operation'
New York sues Kalshi, says prediction market is running 'illegal gambling operation'
It comes after a federal judge earlier this month denied Kalshi's attempts to intervene against the state's Gaming Commission.
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A lot of bad news for Trump this week: *Record low approval *Mortgage rates spike to 6.66% *30-year bond rates hit 19-year high *GDP growth in second qtr anemic 1.5% annualized rate *No deals on Trump priorities like crypto, Save Act or war $ *No Iran deal *$4 gas *Blanche trouble
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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Lots going on around me on this train. Seatmate eating cherries (she kindly offered me one), Woman nearby humming, folks behind me having a potato-chip-crunching party, a man declaring confidently that “Staten Island belongs to New Jersey” and another man on the phone shouting “I miss your face!”
The $ 1 million settlement for Paul Vaughn, who was convicted by a Tennessee jury in 2024 of conspiring to prevent access to a women's healthcare clinic, shows how the goal of the $1.8 billion fund announced in May can continue, despite a public retreat by Todd Blanche.
With Blanche Nomination at Stake, Payouts to Trump Allies Continue (Gift Article)
A seven-figure settlement is announced two days before a scheduled Senate committee vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general.
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The share of young American adults living with their parents is back near Covid-lockdown highs, though there’s no single crisis driving the trend, reports Jeff Green @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How to Protect Your Money When Your Adult Child Moves Back Home
Multigenerational living in the US is rising. Household and retirement savings are taking the hit.
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Mitch McConnell told me his biggest disappointment was not being successful in convincing Barack Obama to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, which he blamed entirely for soaring deficits on his watch. (He contended tax cuts he passed would reduce the deficit.) news.yahoo.com/mcconnell-bl...
McConnell Blames Entitlements, Not GOP, for Rising Deficits
(Bloomberg) -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blamed rising federal deficits and debt on a bipartisan unwillingness to contain spending on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, and said he s...
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Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last wk.Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.
Someone just described this noise to me in the same way today, coming from a crypto mining operation in DeWitt, Arkansas.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”
I just ate iceberg lettuce at a national sandwich chain in downtown Little Rock AMA
“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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The changes separated the casualty numbers into two separate web pages, potentially making it more difficult to tally the war’s full toll www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
Pentagon Changes How It Reports Casualties in Iran War (Gift Article)
The changes separated the casualty numbers into two separate web pages, potentially making it more difficult to tally the war’s full toll.
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Pack it up folks. We’ve got the greatest talk title of all time, courtesy of @kristencovino.bsky.social.
It's been hard to do my job this year. Being back reporting — and in print again — means more than I can say. Please spend some time with my story about a Trump administration crackdown on faculty speech at West Point, and one professor's lonely rebellion. wapo.st/4fo0lts
