President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.

Holyfknmoly. Is this for real?

Tiffany Morris@tiffmorris.bsky.social · 14h ago

So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?

BREAKING: The Justice Department. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee just moved Trump lackey Todd Blanche's nomination to a full Senate vote. If confirmed Blanche will be corrupt, toadying, & focused on the defense of Trump. The Senate must reject Blanche for AG.

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 ... "

Blanche’s focus on immigration enforcement has been a fool’s errand. Going after quantity over quality of targets is all for show. Protecting public safety requires investigating people who pose a real danger over trolling the parking lots of Home Depot stores to catch day laborers.

NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @wyden.senate.gov 🎁 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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@jasonleopold.bsky.social gets a sneak preview of @wyden.senate.gov's report on how banks ignored Jeffrey Epstein's suspicious transactions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

@glennkirschner.bsky.social: "Donald Trump sued Donald Trump, and then Donald Trump settled with Donald Trump, and then Donald Trump dismissed the case against Donald Trump, and Donald Trump gave himself everything Donald Trump wanted."

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...

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.

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Todd Blanche’s nomination to formally lead the Department of Justice appears to be back on track after two Republican holdouts signed off on a deal giving President Donald Trump and his family immunity from Internal Revenue Service audits. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

GOP senators sign off on corrupt immunity deal from IRS audits for Trump and sons

Todd Blanche appears to be on track to lead the DOJ after Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) agreed to the plan.

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An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May)

[taps microphone] [takes a deep breath]

Space Force Commander Bone Spurs@sfcaptbonespurs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

OBAMA’S DEAL WITH IRAN WAS AN ACTUAL DEAL AND DIDN’T COST ANYTHING

We didn’t ask you to release Fauci’s diary. We demanded you release the Epstein files.

Damn The Evil Bastards Who Released Fauci’s Diary But Still Hide The Epstein Files

Dear Humans,

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Full steam ahead for the slush fund.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2d ago

FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

So Tillis and Cornyn thought the 1.8. Billion dollar slush fun was so bad, that they will be willing to confirm the guy who came up with it. Huh

by @theunpopulist.net 1/2 “None of these reforms eliminates judicial review entirely. None eliminates judicial independence. None engages in partisan power plays. None threatens the ability of individuals to vindicate their rights in court. None requires a constitutional amendment..

Congress Must Rein In the Anti-Democratic Roberts Court Enabling Trump's Power Grabs

A mutually enforcing court-presidency doom loop is eroding the rule of law and making each branch less accountable

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OMG

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 2d ago

George Santos has been fined $35,000 for attempting to place bets on his own attendance at the State of the Union in February. He’s also been banned from the prediction-market platform Kalshi for 3 years.

Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

🚨NEW: Todd Blanche’s new order rescinds the May 18 Anti-Weaponization Fund—but quietly leaves the May 19 IRS immunity settlement intact. Instead of rescinding it, the accompanying memo reaffirms DOJ’s interpretation, arguing the immunity applies only retroactively and only to the parties involved.1/

NEW: Iran Denies It’s in Talks with US--Hours After Trump Teased ‘Imminent’ Deal. Trump lost the war on all fronts. The reason Trump can't make a deal is because he believes the lies of Pete Hegseth who tell him he won. As a result he won't compromise to make a deal www.mediaite.com/media/news/i...

Iran Denies It’s in Talks with US — Hours After Trump Teased ‘Imminent’ Deal

The statement came hours after Trump said negotiations would start Monday "afternoon" and focus on reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

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The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut down in 2021.

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns

The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut down in 2021.

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And now, they can more effectively hide the realities and costs of war. And evade accountability. None of this is normal in America. And none of it is acceptable.🚨🇺🇸

More than a quarter of Seattle’s adults live alone, the fifth-highest rate of any city in the U.S. And about half of the men living in Seattle have never been married. It’s part of a national trend that some are calling a “relationship recession.”

Can Seattle’s booming matchmaking industry solve the ‘relationship recession’?

Matchmakers see Seattle as a market with a lot of opportunity. It has a high concentration of well-paid professionals, and a reputation for being full of chilly introverts. It’s also, increasingly, a city of singles.

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This got me to finally read the entire New Yorker article on the Tates and... yeah. I don't see how what they're doing is any different than what everyone has accused Jeffrey Epstein of doing. Except they're *more public* about admitting to what they're doing AND getting young men to join in.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4d ago

However horrible you think the Tate brothers are, I promise, it's worse than that. It's insane that Dems aren't making a bigger deal of the GOP embracing these grotesque monsters.

U.S. wildfire season exceeds 10-year average as 99 large fires burn www.axios.com/2026/08/03/u...

U.S. wildfire season exceeds 10-year average as 99 large fires burn

Thousands have been forced to flee fast-moving wildfires in Washington and Oregon.

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