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🚨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/
Also the Republicans were screaming that Fauci helped authorize vaccines for children, which is something every goddamn parent I know was praying for every day for more than a year and have been thankful for ever since. These people are all self-centered idiotic sociopaths, nothing more.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d agoif you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid
Impressive win by Wiebers today. She is clearly the strongest sprinter in the race by some margin. #TDFF
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
Good morning to readers. Oil prices are at $87.25 per barrel (+19.7% compared to pre-war). Jordan isn't at war. But Hamza, a travel agent in Petra, is watching tourists cancel their trips and witnessing how Iran's war is bankrupting Jordan.
The travel agent fighting for Jordan’s survival
In Petra, a veteran tour guide says fear and headlines have devastated business long before missiles reached Jordan. Since Iranian strikes on U.S. bases, his business has only gotten worse.
iranwar.news
Too many games between the favorites and they let a sprinter win on a climb as the result. #tdff
What’s with all the random crashes in #TDFF? Is it riders not used to riding in big groups?
Russia commits war crimes every single day
Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 5d agoIt was a massive attack involving dozens of ballistic missiles. Russia killed nine people and injured 28 more, including four children, in Kyiv overnight. Civilian infrastructure was heavily damaged across multiple districts of the city.
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
digitaldigging.org
The parents - 47-year-old Artem and 41-year-old Olena - and their three children - Mark (17), Azarii-Ilai (11), and Emiliia (6) - were killed. Another five minors - Dominika (15), Viorika (14), Zakharii (12), Federika (10), and 1.5-year-old Artem - remain missing...
Chrystia Freeland telling it like it is about Trump in NYT. non-paywalled link www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...
Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)
Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?
nytimes.com
book 1 of 'dungeon crawler carl' finished. ignore the fun police, it's a delightfully off-the-wall read.
This is horrible. My sister is a lungcancer survivor. These subsidies help her pay for her meds.
Miss Aja@brat2381.bsky.social · 6d ago
"Most notably, a book [David Barton] published in 2012 about Thomas Jefferson was pulled from the shelves by its publisher after a group of historians from Christian universities accused him of including distortions and false information." @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social
The fake historian advising Trump's anti-Smithsonian crusade
Last Friday, President Trump released an executive order directing officials to install signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) informing visitors that the museum pr...
open.substack.com
Every person this administration wrongly deported should be granted asylum and a path to citizenship. Won’t even begin to right wrongs like this. But it’s a place to start.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last wk.People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.
Donald Trump still has absolutely no idea what he was trying to do, how he was going to do it, why he wasn't able to do it, or what he's going to do next to try to fix what he has no idea he broke. He's a delusional, crackbrained, and deranged moron. It's just that simple.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoBreaking News: President Trump has set aside, at least for now, plans to sharply escalate the American military assault against Iran.
I hope you’ll read the story here: www.propublica.org/article/alic...
The Wrong Man: The Bestselling Author, the Exoneration and the Rape Crisis the Police Ignored
Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for y...
propublica.org
