Pete Hegseth’s spiritual leader wants an America dominated by “biblical masculinity.” Our @kieraevebutler.bsky.social started untangling Doug Wilson’s web of influence way before she sat down for brunch with him in his Idaho home. THREAD ⬇️🧵
Pete Hegseth dreams of holy war. Meet his spiritual adviser.
Doug Wilson preaches iron discipline and male dominance. One of his disciples runs the Pentagon.
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Josh Kushner & Bob Iger purchased the Lakers from Mark Walter, whose insurance companies happen to be under investigation by the DOJ Ossoff: “The Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights — American politics is coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out”
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DOJ legal office says Trump's outside advisers can be shielded by executive privilege
Trump's outside advisers may now be protected from future congressional and legal investigations, according to a new opinion from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.
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Not every Charlottesville Nazi has found a way to stop suffering. Here are a few stories still ongoing. Brandon Higgs never made it to Charlottesville. He shouted racist slurs at some Black construction workers and shot and injured one. This is how he looked when he was booked. He’s serving 25y.
Extreme heat threatens Italy's Parmigiano-backed loans
Extreme heat threatens Italy's Parmigiano-backed loans
Extreme heat is squeezing Italy's "cheese banks", the climate-controlled vaults in Emilia-Romagna where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano Reggiano wheels sit as collateral for farm loans, pushing up energy bills and thinning the milk supply that fills them.
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July overview: IFM warns that these trends represent an unprecedented escalation of immigration enforcement with serious human rights implications.
A racist film starring Armie Hammer is fueling online calls for violence against immigrants after being amplified by Elon Musk and far-right influencers. Citizen Vigilante has been embraced by extremist groups across social media, underscoring the growing risks of online hate incitement. Read more:
New Racist Film “Citizen Vigilante” Sparks Online Calls for Violence Against Immigrants
A new racist film, "Citizen Vigilante", is driving online calls for violence against immigrants after being amplified by Elon Musk and far-right influencers. The film has been embraced by extremist ne...
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The U.S. has AGAIN sent people to a foreign country where they get imprisoned. This time, it’s to get around laws barring the deportation of people who face persecution/torture in their home countries. The U.S. gets paper-thin assurances that the below won't happen, which it knows will be ignored.
Emily Bregel@emilybregel.bsky.social · 2d agoImmigrants confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, after the U.S. deported them there without notice/due process, report worsening, dangerous conditions: "We’re living a nightmare." tucson.com/news/local/s...
NEW: Internal National Park Service records obtained by MeidasTouch’s Scott MacFarlane reveal more than $400 MILLION has been steered toward Trump’s White House and D.C. projects, while funding for major national parks is being slashed.
Trump Turns National Parks into Piggybank
Cutbacks and Setbacks Hammer America's National Parks in the Shadow of Trump's Vanity Projects
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Records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital. (Published June)
Before SpaceX IPO, Investors in China Secretly Acquired Stakes
One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors. The information was revealed only after ProPublica went to court to obtain it.
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SEC Exempts Data-Center Bonds From Key Securitization Rules
The Securities and Exchange Commission has made it easier for data center owners to sell asset-backed securities, potentially opening the door for more debt sales as tech firms scour Wall Street for w...
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"When you take a broader view of the relationship between the role of the press, the government, and the military and science, I think there are many lessons to learn from looking at this early nuclear-era history, and how it was reported." —Ben Loeterman
The Manhattan Project first created the Bomb. Then came its story—as revealed in the documentary “Bombshell”
There was more to the Manhattan Project than just creating an atomic bomb. There was also the effort to spin the story afterward, by co-opting the press and presenting a benevolent picture of atomic…
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After decades apart, Silicon Valley and the Pentagon have reunited. Bernice Yeung, managing editor at UC Berkeley Journalism, traces the history of their relationship in her latest story for the Bulletin.
Attorney General Todd Blanche: I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?
"Antonio" share this pic from Outlook WA where he's thinning apple trees at a non-union company earning WA minimum wage. He holds his phone to show the air quality index is 160. He tells us "We are not provided masks to protect ourselves from the smoke." #WeFeedYou
81 years ago today, on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped upon the city of Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States. This was 3 days after the first atomic attack on Hiroshima.
So many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...
Hundreds rally at site were Haitians required to check-in, get monitors after end of TPS
Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal immigration office Sunday morning to show support for Haitian immigrants from Springfield who were called to report for immigration check-ins.
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This week: How the Trump administration weakened domestic counterterrorism as far-right extremism grows; anti-migrant violence fueled by "remigration" in Spain; Samuel Samson's ties to Europe's far right; Dusty Deevers' Christian nationalist agenda; and Orbán's network finds a new home in MAGA.
GPAHE Brings You the Latest News in Far-Right Hate and Extremism
This week: Trump revives his election denial playbook ahead of the midterms, the administration resurrects McCarthy-era tactics to attack First Amendment rights, new profiles examine the architects of...
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“The new gas-burning plant, if built to specifications, would be permitted to release more planet-warming gases than any other power plant in the country.”
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.
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Most states outsource prison healthcare to for-profit contractors, meaning profit shapes every level of care. Since the federal Affordable Care Act protections do not apply to prisons, incarcerated people are not guaranteed regular checkups, prescriptions, or access to doctors.
‘We Are Such a Punitive Country’: America’s ‘Death by Incarceration’ Machine
America’s prison population is aging into disability and disease. Understaffed clinics and delayed treatments turn serving life into a death sentence: as the system breaks down, the logic behind…
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On August 1, 2026, Arkansas State Police Trooper Moisses Arellano took 18-year-old Alisa N. Hackett to the ground and punched her in the face during a traffic stop near Manila, Arkansas. After being struck, she said: "You can't punch me in my face." Trooper Arellano responded: "Says who?"
“I had a million doses of Joker venom that my henchmen and I were prepared to pour into Gotham’s water supply. And the Bat-Man got Commissioner Gordon to stop me from doing that.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoPeter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."
“Roman philosopher Lucretius wrote that humans have a particular blind spot: we are unable to prepare for a crisis greater than anything we have dealt with before. When trying to anticipate a worst-case scenario, we rely on what we already know.”
Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.social · 5d agoWe are on the verge of a climatic upheaval greater than any of us can imagine. Global leaders and media aren't paying attention. They are focused on a series of self-inflicted crises that have left us dangerously vulnerable and totally unprepared. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/what-keeps...
If tech giant Google has its way, residents of Fort Wayne, Indiana, may have to say goodbye to over 4 acres of federally protected wetland as part of the third phase of “Project Zodiac,” a $2 billion hyperscale data center project. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Google Data Center Announces Plans to Pave Over Protected Wetlands
Google is requesting authorization to fill in a chunk of precious wetlands to build three data center buildings in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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A federal judge has sided with the Virginia NAACP in its lawsuit against a county school board's reinstatement of Confederate military names to two schools, saying the decision discriminated against Black students & ordering the board to change the schools' monikers again. https://to.pbs.org/4hQ3uDO
Judge orders Virginia county to replace Confederate names it restored to schools in 2024
A federal judge has sided with the Virginia NAACP in its lawsuit against a county school board's reinstatement of Confederate military names to two schools, saying the decision discriminated against B...
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This is one of the most catastrophic developments imaginable for US media and the country. I don’t even have the words for it.
Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership
The move sets the stage for more corporate consolidation in the media industry.
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Rahawa Haile@rahawahaile.bsky.social · 3y agoA fun fact about me is that I have a degree in telecommunication and will die on the hill that media—all of it—has never recovered from the deregulation and consolidation made possible by the Telecom Act of 1996. Don’t get me started on what it did to minority-owned radio and TV stations.
Tasia Fortune, 29, was found hanging from a tree in the backyard of a vacant home in Jackson on Monday night. Police have not said whether they suspect foul play. Her body has been transported to the Mississippi Medical Examiner for an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death.
Tasia Fortune Identified as Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Jackson Home
The woman whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson, Mississippi, home is 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, the Hinds County Coroner’s Office said.
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Federal officials have threatened Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt that failure to provide immigration agents access to inmates eligible for deportation could result in criminal charges.
ICE warns of criminal charges against Hennepin County sheriff over jail’s immigration policy
The office said Sheriff Dawanna Witt received immigration subpoenas over a failure to give access to inmates for deportation.
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