That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...

The only witness that Jeanine Pirro produced before the DC grand jury admitted that the feds' case against an Olympic canoeist was bogus because the damage he is charged with was there before he arrived on the scene. But Pirro secured her indictment just the same. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Witness in Reflecting Pool case conceded damage before canoeist touched water

David “Davey” Hearn was indicted this month and accused of damaging the pool. He has pleaded not guilty.

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Mitch McConnell being absent and safe-R seat being empty is a GOOD thing I feel like I’m losing my mind here with people furious at Andy Beshear

For a very long time there was an international taboo on assassinating foreign leaders even of countries you were at war with, and the Trump administration thought it was because people were pussies not because "now they're gonna try to kill YOU"

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2w ago

I’m sorry, but like, did they think that the enemy in a war would not actually try to kill them?

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/w...

Why I Sought Out a Taliban Commander I Had Fought (Gift Article)

First as a Marine and then as a journalist, I spent years tied to Afghanistan. I returned one last time to speak to a former enemy in search of answers, and perhaps closure.

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So the next day, during their lunch break at school, the students lawyered up. Find out what happened next here: www.wired.com/story/epstei...

A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out

An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.

wired.com

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

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I have an idea how we could have saved $37 billion in government spending in the last 5 months! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps (Gift Article)

Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.

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New from 404 Media: a company is selling tons of old books specifically to AI companies and says they have a strong NDA to never reveal which AI company bought all of the books. They don't want headlines of 'we scanned and destroyed millions of books for AI' www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

404media.co

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

There were 11 people working at the CDC lab that responds to outbreaks of the parasite cyclospora. Now there are 3 thanks to DOGE

The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

wired.com

Paxton was born in modest circumstances and has spent his entire career in public service with a modest salary. During this time he has amassed spectacular wealth, largely through murky real estate dealings with people who have business with the state. The corruption meter is flashing red.

Ken Paxton Bought 3 Utah Condos, Adding to a $9 Million Real Estate Portfolio

The Texas attorney general and his trusts now hold at least 15 properties worth about $9 million.

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The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3w ago

It took DHS 12 hours to come up with this statement, And the best they could come up with is that ICE shot and killed an unarmed man who didn’t present a threat to the agents. They know they fucked this one up. And it’ll be up to state and local prosecutors—not the feds—to make the case

once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Reuters@reuters.com · 3w ago

Security camera footage obtained from local businesses showed individuals who are believed to be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounding a car and pulling the driver onto the street, in events connected to the fatal shooting of a man in a coastal town in Maine on July 13.

The slush fund administration

Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4w ago

Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

If they are cooking the books about this, hard to imagine any government statistic we can trust from these buffoons.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4w ago

When USDA released its beef export numbers, industry experts said the claimed numbers were "obviously false." Now USDA has been forced to acknowledge its error and revise its numbers downward by 90%. www.reuters.com/business/usd...

"Ronaldo Salgado, the eldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, said he recognized his dad's voice as he bled out after being shot by an immigration officer in Houston."

There is no floor to the depravity and disgrace that is this administration.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4w ago

Reuters confirms. 11 more people captured by ICE have been sent to a maximum security prison in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a country where they have no ties and committed no crimes. reut.rs/4wpbIGU

Vance owns this. Blood on his hands.

Lynn Tramonte@lynntramonte.bsky.social · 4w ago

Springfield, OH hate crime. Haitian father shot driving his kids to church. "They said he was going to give someone a ride and 'they just shot him. I don’t know why.'" Consequences of hate from our gov't. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/crime/... @gregsargent.bsky.social @jimswift.bsky.social

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Border officials scroll through traveler's phone at Atlanta airport on arriving from international flight, find evidence of international fraud scheme. CA7: This is a routine border search, no cause or warrant was needed. media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/Opin... #N

The telling part about this change is that the university initially simply offered the courses. But then no one signed up for them. Which means that they actually believed their rhetoric that there’s this unmet demand for conservative thought on campus that was being artificially tamped down.

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · last mo.

After decades of screeching that universities are indoctrinating the youth, Republicans are proud to roll out the new course, Mandatory Youth Indoctrination 1001

Hustlebros are LARPing on TikTok by buying software that fakes sell notifications and revenue dashboards from Shopify, Stripe, and OnlyFans. So I emulated them: www.404media.co/how-i-bought...

How I Bought a Private Jet By Selling $10 Subscriptions to 404 Media

My journey inside the world of LARPing, where hustlebros pretend to be rich for TikTok.

404media.co

If the Democrats ever hold power again, it better be fun employment for every forensic accountant. A goddamn Manhattan project to recover all the money this corrupt administration has stolen.

The corruption is so profound and constant, it's crazy-making.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · last mo.

Since the start of President Trump’s second term, The New York Times has been documenting examples of moves by members of Mr. Trump’s family or the families of top aides to profit off of Trump administration policy actions. Today we take another look.

Let's burn this mother down.

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · last mo.

good grief

Really hoping someone files a FOIA into this and gets some investigatory material, because there is not a single shred of doubt that her post is protected free speech under the First Amendment and agents SHOULD know that. She literally identified the source of her information as a newspaper!

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

"The punishment for the protesters exceeds the lengthiest prison sentences given out for the attack on the Capitol on January 6. Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys who was convicted of seditious conspiracy, was sentenced to 22 years in prison."

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · last mo.

These sentences are obscene. Pure authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

⚠️ Assuming this patient IS Trump—and the descriptor, circumstances, and official non-denial point in that direction—the important news is that Trump has severe and potentially life-threatening pulmonary hypertension that is being covered up by the White House. No-paywall: archive.is/202606230851...

Lizzy Lawrence@lizzylawrence.bsky.social · last mo.

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...