The Trump administration’s oil operation in Venezuela is valued at $13 billion, yet Marco Rubio has refused to say where the money is.
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As temperatures regularly exceed 110 degrees, an algorithm decides who gets a shot at landing a "cool bed" in prisons where AC is lacking. This isn't an episode of Black Mirror. It's reality in Texas prisons.
Heat is killing Texas prisoners, and state leaders won't shell out for AC
The system for choosing who gets a "cool bed" is arbitrary, inadequate, and ineffective,” a judge ruled.
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The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding
The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding
All over the United States, ordinary people are risking their freedom to take a stand against data centers in their communities.
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Donald Trump is racing to stop the BBC from getting his financial records. After the network demanded access to his records to determine whether he actually suffered the billions in damages he claims, Trump’s lawyers are now trying to block that evidence from being turned over.
Today, The Steady State published an article titled, "The 51 Were Warning. Trump Calls It a Lie." Here, Executive Director of The Steady State, Steven Cash talks about why this article is so important. Read the full essay below: zurl.co/wZmiz
Ken Paxton -- who is desperately grasping for anything that could possibly fend off James Talarico -- launched an investigation into the American Academy of Pediatrics (“AAP”) over concerns that the organization may be promoting and recommending childhood vaccines for financial gain.
The Texas Signal @texassignal.bsky.social · 4h agoAttorney General Ken Paxton, who is also running for Senate in Texas, announces his office is investigating the American Academy of Pediatrics for promoting and recommending vaccines for children
SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏
CEOs are raking in $17 million a year, 300 times what their own workers make, and John Husted’s answer is “learn to budget.” Sherrod Brown wrote the law that got over 100,000 Ohioans their stolen pensions back. Vote for who fights for you, not who lectures you. #BlueWaveIn90Days
“Did Mitch win his primary?” “No, sir. He’s still dead.” “How about Lindsey?” “He’s still dead too, sir.” “At least Amir Hassan won, right?” “No, sir. He lost to the guy who dropped out last month.” “The Mexicans only gave us one good word, and that’s siesta. Very few people know that.”
Hakeem Jeffries: "Republicans have adopted voter suppression as an electoral strategy because they have failed to actually deliver on making life more affordable for the American people. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
BREAKING: We now have a 57% chance to beat the DC establishment and take back Alaska.
Photographer Who Drugged, Sexually Assaulted Models as Young as 15, Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison www.aol.com/articles/pho...
Photographer Who Drugged, Sexually Assaulted Models as Young as 15, Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison - AOL
Robert Koester, 59, was already serving two concurrent sentences for related offenses in California and Oregon
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Dead Internet: our entire system-culture, economy, politics is a pyramid of lies. from aipac to grokipedia, bibi/putin to murdoch. fewer humans read or grasp the centuries-long fight against authoritarian rule built on religion. we’re not in the 1930s..we are back in the 1780s🇺🇸 Hart28.com
Something real is happening in rural Iowa. Voters who backed Ernst, Grassley, & Trump are turning out for Josh Turek because they’ve finally had enough. That’s not a fluke; it’s a movement building right in front of us, and we’ve got 90 days for it to keep growing! #BlueWaveIn90Days
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
Todd Blanche ain’t ish and ain’t never gonna be ish. My column: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/05/o...
Todd Blanche is unfit to head the Justice Department - The Boston Globe
His record shows a willingness to bend the agency to Trump’s political agenda and inch the nation closer to autocracy.
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🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
In a world with TikTok and X, somehow Meta remains the absolute worst social media company.
WIRED@wired.com · 7h agoOver the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.
JUST IN: Trump is scrambling to stop the BBC from digging into the finances of his business empire after a judge ordered him to hand over records in his $10B defamation lawsuit against the network.
Those arrested need to start filing some big lawsuits. ground.news/article/what...
Lawyers in Reflecting Pool case say Justice Department knew case was flawed
The Justice Department knew or should have known for weeks that its case against a former Olympian charged with intentionally damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was flawed, and that he bore...
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Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
He’s is racing to stop the BBC! What an idiot. #Pinks #USDemocracy
A new Senate investigation says JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America processed massive sums tied to Jeffrey Epstein despite glaring red flags. Powerful institutions helped keep his operation running and every one of them must be held accountable. Follow the money, release everything.
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
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