Breaking: Someone appears to have hacked the Republican National Convention website and it now redirects to the Epstein Files website.
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NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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turns out the guy who looked, talked and dressed like he didn’t give a shit about the job…doesn’t give a shit about the job
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 20h agoBehind closed doors, John Fetterman dodges constituents, alienates fellow Democrats and shows little interest in the work of a senator.
"The press shouldn’t be Trump Media’s unpaid sales force." www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/the-... "Every story that opens 'the president wrote on Truth Social...' delivers an unpaid brand impression for a Nasdaq-listed company whose controlling shareholder is the subject of the story."
The press shouldn’t be Trump Media’s unpaid sales force - Editor and Publisher
Is the press unintentionally providing free promotion every time it names President Trump’s social media platform? In his latest “Democracy Desk” op-ed column, Stuart N. Brotman argues that the launch...
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Good morning from the Moakley Courthouse, outside Courtroom 9, where we'll have the 9am preliminary injunction hearing in League of Women Voters v. Trump and California v. USPS. It's pretty rainy in Boston today and I think I biked through the worst of it.
Using weapon remnants, satellite images, witness accounts, here's our report on the U.S. airstrike on a wedding gathering in Kuhestak, southern Iran, that killed 5 and wounded 67. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/v...
In Small Iranian Town, a U.S. Attack Turns a Wedding Into a Tragedy (Gift Article)
The bomb that hit the residential area was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said.
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Predictable and predicted: "revenue from audits plunged 35% in fiscal year 2025, meaning billions of dollars in taxes went un-collected. The drop coincides with a 27% cut in enforcement and collection staffing at the IRS, as part of Elon Musk's campaign to boost government efficiency."
NPR@npr.org · 2d agoThe IRS slashed its auditing staff last year — but the move may have backfired as tax collections from enforcement efforts plummeted, an Inspector General report shows. n.pr/4yc7bbS
Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, called it “beneath the office” of the secretary of defense. When you have the mental capacity of 4th grader, there isn’t much beneath you.
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2d agoA social media post by Hegseth body-shaming female members of a Canadian youth development program sparked furious backlash on both sides of the border
It's a scandal that Republican members of Congress keep disappearing for months at a time. The GOP is telling us it owes nothing to the voters, not even an explanation.
I recently had my mail forwarded from NY to Utah for a few months, and then back to NY, and it took multiple emails, and 7 phone calls (w/ hold times of up to an hour), til the USPS finally got it straight. The odds that this ballot scheme would actually work are somewhere between zero and nil.
DeWine has hardly been a bystander to this. But for a politician's statement this has a great eloquence and power.
Jim Swift@jimswift.bsky.social · 3d agoStatement from Gov. Mike DeWine: "I think we have to ask ourselves: is this really good? Is it what we want done to people like this being picked up and facing deportation? Do we want that being done in our name?"
Incredible. The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-hug... The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought www.platformer.news/openai-huggi... I try to save "holy shit" moments for when you really need them. "This is not new Jay" will be discarded.
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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Canadian military face paint vs US military face paint
Markwayne Mullin: "We're not targeting children. We target the parents."
Don Rumsfeld was forced out after the 2006 midterms because of how much of an anchor the Iraq war became for Republicans. I do wonder if Hegseth might be vulnerable. Objectively he has been a terrible leader of the Pentagon, and Trump will want to blame someone.
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El-Sayed: JD Vance couch joke Vance : How dare you talk about my wife
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
The thing is Marx and Jefferson weren’t reasons, they were the product.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrey Gowdy is working hard to do the most pathetic interview of Trump of all time. It's a stiff competition, but man, this is some pathetic stuff.
It’s worse than that: Hegseth’s preferred replacement picks for these positions are unlike to survive a Senate confirmation process.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d agoPete Hegseth makes George McClellan look like George Patton: "With Driscoll’s departure, the Army will lack any Senate-confirmed civilian or military leaders." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
The Trump administration has filed 36 emergency applications since last February, which have generated 31 conclusive rulings. In those 31 rulings, the Court has voted *for* Trump in whole or in part 27 times (87.1%), and against him four times (12.9%). Here's a chart covering all of these rulings:
not only does this sound incredibly petulant, it also sounds like he rehearsed it for four hours in front of a mirror and still couldn't nail the delivery. what a dork.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoJD Vance: "Keep my wife's name the hell out of your mouth, Abdul, because she's way out of your league"