Kim Masters
@kimmasters.bsky.social
Puck partner Host, KCRW’s The Business
NEWS: US military accidentally takes down civilian medevac plane, killing everyone on board. Republicans admit there is nothing they can do to "rein Trump in." Congress has fallen. Bari Weiss killed a bombshell Epstein interview. I'm sitting down with the Senator tomorrow.
NEWS: Military 'Accidentally' Kills Civilians on Medevac Plane, Republicans Admit they Cannot 'Rein' Trump in, More White House Construction
Good evening everyone.
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RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
Trump: "Everybody saw the vandalism. All you have to do is look at the tape." (There is no tape. Trump is nuts.)
“If we reduce the complaints, we reduce the discrimination”
Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterdayArmy ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2
Oh, cut it out. www.washingtonpost.com/elections/20...
Senate primary in Michigan is a fight for the Democratic Party’s future
The latest results in the showdown between Rep. Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, one of the most closely watched races pitting the establishment against the party’s left wing.
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This is the reality inside ICE detention centers. Children are being forced into jail-like conditions while this Administration strips away their basic human rights. We cannot allow this stand. We must hold this inhumane Administration accountable!
maga will accept as leaders rapists, pedophiles, white supremasicsts, wife beaters, con artists, conspiracy theorists, absolute morons, paid foreign agents, & people who are *all* of those things but you can't be even slightly pro-immigration, that's the line newrepublic.com/article/2138...
MAGA Erupts at Trump DHS Chief—and Accidentally Exposes Big MAGA Scam
Markwayne Mullin just said the unsayable: that immigration can sometimes help the economy and the country. Now MAGA wants his head.
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A lot of people who died of COVID despite ivermectin would like to have a word but they’re a little too dead.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 20h agoRon Johnson: "Aaron Rodgers was smart enough to take ivermectin when he got covid ... unfortunately, more people didn't follow him. We wouldn't have had as many of athletes falling unconscious, sometimes dead on the field of play. You've seen the video reels of this happening in 2021."
Musk is replying to a post about dogs but as the world's wealthiest racist everyone knows what he's doing here
Veterinary students at the University of Georgia learned to care for honeybees, which are vital pollinators for U.S. agriculture. Between 2024 and 2025 more than half of the managed colonies in the U.S. have been lost. nyti.ms/45Knh00
Epstein made millions in direct payments to women and young girls out of just one JPMorgan account. Many of these payments were to women in high-risk countries like Belarus, Lithuania, and Russia.
David Ellison: “The critics are wrong about my politics.” So, to be crystal clear:
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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The Blanche statement that likely now secures his confirmation does nothing to abrogate Trump’s rights in the slush fund and perpetuates the outrageous tax amnesty for Trump and family, which the American people are paying for without getting anything in return. It’s all lip service and a travesty.
Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, a Salvadoran immigrant who was being held at a troubled federal detention center in Newark died during the weekend, according to the city’s mayor and Senator Andy Kim. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...
Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say
The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo. The New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees.
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From the @newyorker.com: “America’s international approval ranking is tanking, and, in some polls, China’s has now surpassed that of the U.S. A recent paper produced by a think tank in Beijing was titled `Thank Trump,’ and praised the American President for accelerating the “twilight of an empire.”
This is pretty amazing -- Trump has apparently learned that umbrellas are supposed to fold up?
Donald Trump Struggles with Umbrella Boarding Air Force One
ALT: Donald Trump Struggles with Umbrella Boarding Air Force One
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Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 2d agoPresident Trump says US Attorney Jeanine Pirro ‘folded like an umbrella’ in bid to drop Reflecting Pool vandalism charges
“The congressman gave the two women matching handguns, one pink and the other blue.” wtaf www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
House Ethics Panel Finds Rep. Chuck Edwards Likely Violated Sexual Harassment Rules
The Ethics Committee called for the censure of Representative Chuck Edwards, Republican of North Carolina, who showered two female staffers with lavish gifts and affection.
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. @josephcox.bsky.social talked with a former Flock government affairs manager who said the company lied about its pilot programs sharing data with federal agencies like ICE: www.404media.co/why-a-flock-...
Why a Flock Worker Quit: ‘They Lied’
Jonathan Paz’s job was to convince cities to buy Flock cameras. After initially being enthusiastic about the company, he started to get disillusioned.
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Columbia Journalism School is pleased to announce the appointment of award-winning journalists Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley as Journalists in Residence for the 2026–27 academic year.
“.. Data center construction spending rose again in June, bringing the y/y pace up to +45.8%.” - Schwab
NEW: ICE is collecting unprecedented quantities of DNA from detainees, including children. Those samples sit, indefinitely, in an FBI database built for criminal investigations. "People are very confused about why their DNA is being tested. I do not think they’re being told what the purpose is."
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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They are voting to confirm a guy who’s very likely to be sanctioned and disbarred. Shocking and seditious cowardice.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d agoJohn Cornyn & Thom Tillis issue a joint statement announcing they will support Todd Blanche for AG. He's now in good position to clear the Judiciary Committee tomorrow and head to the full Senate.
