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BREAKING: Sen. Dick Durbin accuses Todd Blanche of lying under oath. He says Blanche told him in his office — with witnesses — that the slush fund was a mistake. In his confirmation hearing, Blanche denied that remark.

The problem: Modern tractors are basically giant computers. If a sensor fails during harvest, a farmer can replace the broken part, but the tractor still won’t run. The manufacturer locks the software. The repair has to be “authorized” w/proprietary software that only an authorized dealer has. 2/4

Schiff: "He waited until he became president. Why did he wait to bring this $10b lawsuit? He waited so he would have the power of the presidency to leverage the IRS and DOJ to make him more money!"

Stop calling them "data centers." Start calling them pollution centers. 🧵👇

💥 Russian munitions stockpile blown up concealed in a house in the border village of Murom in Belgorod region, Russia.

This hasn’t gotten much attention, but it should. While everyone was focused on Schedule F, the administration created something even broader. On July 30, a new OPM rule took effect that creates a second way to fire federal employees outside the normal civil service process.

chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold

The proposition that the president of the United States is an adjudicated rapist isn't an argument. It is a fact.

Trump’s criminal lawyers….

Cool, cool. We’re basically out of ATACMS and PrSM, and we used half our *global* TLAM supply… all for the Strait of Hormuz to still be closed?

Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.

I’m old enough to remember when lying about adultery was worthy of impeachment. Feels quaint at this point.

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

Klobuchar: "More than six months after Renee and Alex's deaths when I asked Acting AG Blanche if the department would finally fully cooperate with state law enforcement in these investigations, he said 'it depends on what full cooperation means'...Minnesotans deserve transparency and accountability"

Ukraine confirms over 20,000 child deportations, 2,400 returned - ombudsman #Ukraine

Ukraine confirms over 20,000 child deportations, 2,400 returned - ombudsman

The Ukrainian side managed to confirm 20,610 cases of deportation and forced displacement, Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets reported.

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Update: We initially thought the Trump IRS settlement had been eliminated. It wasn’t. Part of it was eliminated. The biggest change is that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche formally rescinded the proposed $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” a taxpayer-funded slush fund that was created as

Epstein Doctors I hope medical boards are investigating these doctors and their medical licenses. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’ (Gift Article)

A small stable of doctors gave V.I.P. medical services to the sex offender and the women around him. Some doctors bent or broke the ethical rules of their profession.

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🚨 NEW: $36 million payment from ICE to GEO Group, for-profit prison company, on July 24 for detention services at Mesa Verde and Golden State ICE detention facility in California. ICE is a for-profit scheme paid for by taxpayers, using immigrants as commodities. www.quiverquant.com/news/Governm...

Government Contract Update: $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC | GEO Stock News

We just received data on a $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC. from the Department of Homeland Secur

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So Donald threw his Jan 6 fans under the bus to preserve his right to continue cheating on his taxes. When will his thickheaded followers get the measure that he doesn’t care about them—only himself?

NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...

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“Our government has become the largest human trafficking organization in the world.”

Prisons in the sky: Human trafficking at Hanscom airport fueled by complicity with ICE

Jared & Laurie Berezin, co-organizers of Bearing Witness @ ICE, August 2nd 2026

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The timing is literally impossible to ignore.

Padilla co-wrote a bill that would let the public sue a sitting president to recover money taken through corruption. Yes, a sitting president. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-law...

sp worth getting and also re-reading. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was on the mark in 2020 when this was first published. open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...

Still Hiding in Plain Sight

A free excerpt of my history book about the future.

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The Netanyahu family with uncle Putin, uncle Trump, and uncle Musk.