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Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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The state said it needs the records to investigate allegations of abuse at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch.
New Mexico Sues Blanche, DOJ For ‘Withholding’ Epstein Files
The state said it needs the records to investigate allegations of abuse at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch.
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It is deeply disconcerting that we have a White House Faith Office at all, let alone one that is so openly advancing a Christian-right agenda. trib.al/ImrDkjI
Todd Blanche Is Claiming That He Can Ban Abortion In Any State
As he fights to be confirmed as attorney general, Blanche is trying to appease Christian-right groups with wild legal theories about restricting abortion.
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Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
In a country with a president who is such a destructive sore loser, politicians who are both helpful and gracious in defeat is a greatly appreciated novelty.
Israel Captured 230 Square Miles of Lebanon, Razed Villages and Built New Bases - National Security & Cyber www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Israel captured 230 square miles of Lebanon, razed villages and built new bases
The IDF has seized 230 square miles of Lebanese territory, where extensive construction is underway – including a base far from the Israeli border. Negotiations with Lebanon resumed today
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Sen. Wyden Report: Banks Systematically Ignored Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes prospect.org/2026/08/05/s...
Sen. Wyden Report: Banks Systematically Ignored Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes - The American Prospect
The report shows how employees at Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan helped to hide Epstein’s activities because he was a load-bearing part of their ‘wall of cash.’
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A Palestinian Doctor's Crime Is Refusing to Abandon His Patients - Opinion www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
Opinion | Otherwise Occupied • A Palestinian doctor's crime is refusing to abandon his patients
A beloved 71-year-old family physician from Ramallah is in his seventh week in an Israeli prison, subjected to the neglect and starvation now standard for Palestinian detainees
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Trump Is Trying to Force Americans to Unlearn What We Know www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Trying to Force Americans to Unlearn What We Know (Gift Article)
This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.
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UPDATE: CBS News reverses course, airs story on 9/11 families supporting Mamdani
Last week, CBS News New York falsely reported that “thousands of 9/11 victims’ families are asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year’s solemn remembrance ceremony.” The articl...
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Republican Senators Pretend to Constrain Trump prospect.org/2026/08/04/r...
Republican Senators Pretend to Constrain Trump - The American Prospect
John Cornyn caves and agrees to vote for Todd Blanche as AG, while Susan Collins orchestrates a loophole-ridden deal on OMB rules politicizing federal grants.
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Israel, Blair, and the Billionaire Strange that they guy who runs the company that would have access to – and control of – everyone's data thinks it's very important that everyone should will...
Israel, Blair, and the Billionaire Strange that they guy who runs the company that would have access to – and control of – everyone's data thinks it's very important that everyone should willingly ha...
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"More needs to be made of this," a senior CBS News staffer tells me about the 60 Minutes story that Sharyn Alfonsi was working on about Epstein and banks that appears to have been scuttled after her firing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
From Stuart Greenberg: GOP Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis are assholes!! If they really wanted to do the right thing, they’d use their new found power to get all the Epstein Files released before voting to advance Todd Blanche. Instead they roll over, sit up and perform on cue.
Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."
China currency debate bursts into the open: A trio of economists insist that appreciation could worsen Chinese deflation and further reduce demand for foreign goods, exacerbating imbalances. Their prescription: Structural reform in China to boost domestic demand.
China currency debate bursts into the open
Economists are sparring over the yuan’s value as China’s trade surplus continues to grow.
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BREAKING: Sen. Dick Durbin accuses Todd Blanche of lying under oath. He says Blanche told him in his office — with witnesses — that the slush fund was a mistake. In his confirmation hearing, Blanche denied that remark.
The proposition that the president of the United States is an adjudicated rapist isn't an argument. It is a fact.
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
A vote to confirm Todd Blanche is a vote against justice for Epstein survivors.
