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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A civilian medevac plane crashed into a New Mexico mountain after losing GPS during a U.S. military jamming exercise, killing all four onboard. WIRED reveals that during May's NAVFEST exercise at White Sands, the Air Force tested GPS disruption. The FAA warned signals could fail up to 400 miles away
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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
Holy shit Luis Garcia just bopped a go ahead home run in his first game with the Yankees.
This week might be my last week ever coaching summer travel baseball. What I've learned from it is that summer vacations should be outlawed. Not just for baseball players. All children. In fact, all children should be required to play summer baseball and should be denied any trips out of town.
"Underlying health issues". Oh phew, it was just two people who didn't deserve to live anyway.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
with every 20 minutes that go by without an interesting Yankees Trade Deadline deal, I'm just gonna memberberry on some fun ones
Bobby Abreu drives in seven runs in blowout victory
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Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Not a fan of trading for a bat. The Yankees should win games 2-1 like Brian Cashman intended. www.mlb.com/news/luis-ga...
Yanks land lefty slugger García from Nationals for 4 pitchers
CHICAGO -- The Yankees acquired infielder Luis García Jr. from the Nationals on Sunday in exchange for four pitchers, adding a much-needed left-handed bat as they continue to search for more offense.
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Some great new reaction images to use when people are obtuse on BlueSky.
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
I have a memory of my dad washing our hair with soap and, even as a young boy, knowing it was Wrong.
Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 3d agoBen McDonald admits he has NEVER used shampoo in his life during today's Orioles game on MASN 🥴 "For me it's just a bar of soap"
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
The thing about white supremacy is that instead of getting the infallible master Aryan race you get a bunch of bumbling idiots whose only skill is telling you that you're better than a black man.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
A single interest group whose primary mission is to represent the interests of another country has spent $30 million on a *primary race* www.ap.org/news-highlig....
AIPAC has spent a record amount on Michigan's Senate primary, the biggest test of its influence yet | The Associated Press
Senate candidate Haley Stevens talks often about manufacturing, taking on President Donald Trump and why she’s the Democrat best positioned to
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I know it’s just the story of his hyper pampered existence but Donald trump did this then immediately got away with it
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 6d agoIf you’re obsessed with the lab leak theory you’re gonna absolutely go wild about this theory that the sitting US president in 2020 helped Xi cover up what was going on with Covid in China and then willingly pumped out propaganda on the internet running cover for the Chinese leader
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
