The Fourth Amendment's specific requirements for magistrates to issue search warrants are a reaction to one of the Declaration of Independence's indictments of King George III. British soldiers went house to house in the colonies searching for evidence of crime.

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 3h ago

BREAKING: Judge Carlton Reeves (Obama/SDMS) rules that tower dumps, which provide police with time and location data on many or all phones connected to a cell tower, are "per se unconstitutional general warrants," violating the 4th Amendment. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Release ALL Trump-Epstein files. WSJ earned WHCD Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability for its reporting on Trump’s birthday book letter to Epstein: “Trump quickly filed a $20 BILLION lawsuit against WSJ, revealing reporter Khadeeja Safdar’s home address…” Archive: archive.is/zvWgY

Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.

The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

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Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.

"Donald Trump appears to put a great deal of stock in the power of his endorsement and his professed ability to choose election winners single-handedly, especially in Republican primaries." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Trump-endorsed candidate loses congressional primary to a rival who had quit the race

For the third time in two months, Republican primary voters simply ignored the president’s advice, despite weird boasts about his intraparty powers.

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We’ve depleted our missiles. Trump was unaware. Hegseth thought his deputy told Trump. It’s partly why Trump had to call of his escalation against Iran. Other than that, everything’s fine: wapo.st/4hQVTF0

Trump, Hegseth clashed at Camp David over Iran missile depletion concerns

At a Camp David summit this weekend, President Trump demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over extreme munitions shortages.

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Twenty-three percent of Americans think he's handling the price of groceries well. Twenty-three. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-trump-...

Suggested Grokipedia edits haven’t been addressed since April, according to a report. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months

You can still suggest articles and edits, but nothing seems to be changing.

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Last night's political earthquake in Michigan should make one thing very clear: it's time for Democrats to grow a spine and stop bending the knee to corporate donors.

The Failures of “Centrism”

By moving to the so-called “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening ine

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We proved it in Wisconsin. We proved it in New York City. We proved it in dozens of special elections over the past year. People power over money!

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 9h ago

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.

@nmdoj.bsky.social’s complaint alleges that "the federal government has refused, without adequate legal justification, to share records that could help investigators identify witnesses, corroborate evidence, and determine the full scope of crimes that occurred in New Mexico."

🇷🇺💀 Russians don't like math. Too bad for them.😈 “1,429 Russian occupiers killed or wounded for every square kilometer of Ukrainian territory captured in July.” — Ukrainian political strategist Borys Tiesenhausen

“The fact that it’s taking France and England and other foreign countries to be able to launch investigations — and yet our American DOJ is sitting on #TrumpEpsteinFiles, doing absolutely nothing, including not cooperating with those foreign nations — is such a big red flag…” @katiephang.bsky.social

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d ago

Phang: "The fact that it's taking France and England and other foreign countries to be able to launch investigations, and yet our American DOJ is sitting on it doing absolutely nothing, including not cooperating with those foreign nations, is such a big red flag."

Senate Democrats are taking aim at the presidential pardon process with a new bill they say would clamp down on abuse of executive clemency by President Donald Trump. Full story below 🔽

I’m sorry, but there’s just no affirmative case for this company to exist. I get it, groups have used and still use Facebook to organize, etc, but the inherent terribleness of this organization necessitates closing it down completely.

WIRED@wired.com · 9h ago

Over 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.

Reup: Bc journalists simply are NOT reading the court filings closely enough to understand how bad the misconduct in the Davey Hearn case may be. What Did Jeanine Pirro Know and When Did She Know It? emptywheel.net/2026/08/05/w...

What Did Jeanine Pirro Know and When Did She Know It? - emptywheel

In a bid to get the indictment against him dismissed with prejudice, Davey Hearn reveals that DOJ misrepresented the circumstances of a "before" picture proving he didn't damage the reflecting pool.

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The block is pure politics over ethics. Democrats demand enforceable limits on federal officials (and their families) profiting from digital assets while in office. They sent bipartisan language with Sen. Thom Tillis. White House went silent.

I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 24h ago

Only a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

If ICE can send subpoenas to deanonymize social media accounts, couldn't they have done it for the anonymous and overtly racist account we found is run by one of their own employees who is still working there?

steven monacelli@stevanzetti.bsky.social · last yr.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

At creating it?

Johnny 🫧 Cowlick@jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 10h ago

“I'm the king of debt. I'm great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me.” -- Donald Trump to Norah O'Donnell in a 2016 interview on CBS

NEWS: Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) just dropped out of his re-election race at 3:32 a.m.m. He said he’s done running but will finish out his term. This after the House Ethics Committee found “substantial reason to believe [he] violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces.”

Via Kelcie Moseley-Morris: In a conference call hosted by the White House Faith Office on July 30, acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said he was committed to working to ensure that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision “becomes permanent in every single state.” https://ow.ly/5oes50ZwAkz

The “wealth‑defense industry” (shell‑company networks) is identified as a driver of rapid growth in income and wealth inequality, which in turn erodes social spending on health and education.

Studies of tax evasion show the top 0.1 % increase their wealth by a third when they hide assets offshore,shrinking the fiscal space for public services.

Important thread explaining offshore banking and the use of shell companies by the ultra wealthy. “Bottom line: trillions of dollars of hidden wealth exists, and it is overwhelmingly concentrated among the world’s elite.”

Cascadia(PNW)@cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 9mo ago

For those who asked for a breakdown of what it all means: Panama Papers (2016) – A huge set of leaked documents (about 11 million files) from the law firm Mossack Fonseca in Panama.

Ouch. Check out the third post in this short thread. “On Tuesday, the Charlotte Observer editorial board called for Edwards to resign from Congress, saying that he, like Cawthorn, ‘has become an embattled and embarrassing distraction.’” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Rep. Edwards drops competitive reelection bid after House censure recommendation

An Ethics Committee report detailed “persistent unprofessional and inappropriate conduct” by the North Carolina Republican toward two young female staffers.

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Here it is, after over a year, I finally edited the a red quarter Moon rising over Lake Superior, shot from Michigan, last July 18th at 1am. This was a rough one! 🗺️

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 23h ago

Since we're talking about Michigan tonight, here's my 2nd favorite shot when I rolled on through last year.

GIFT ARTICLE: "Many Americans—and much of the rest of the world—have become inured to Donald Trump’s strange rants." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous

The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.

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"When President Donald Trump strode into the Rose Garden in April 2025 brandishing a poster board of tariff hikes, the world leaped as if a fire alarm had gone off. " www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Trump keeps making threats. The world has stopped flinching.

The president’s bombast has ceased to rattle world leaders, who have seen him fenced in by courts, rebuffed by Congress and strung along by Iran.

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Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

Natural warming filter courtesy of wildfire smoke in the air today. I took this around 1:00 in the afternoon, and it looks more like golden hour. 📷🌿🪶