Great reporting from @sethklamann.bsky.social at the Denver Post, on the pressures that federal immigration judges are under to deny due process to detainees. It profiles one of the judges who was fired after she challenged the system. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

The Denver Post@denverpost.com · 6h ago

Brea C. Burgie was the second Colorado immigration judge fired under the Trump administration in his second term, and she joins roughly 120 judges nationwide who have lost their jobs in the past 18 months, said Jeremiah Johnson, vice president of the National Association of Immigration Judges

HUGE: @hcrichardson.bsky.social points to Rump’s systematic scheme to protect his illegal financial activities 7/4 Letter Here are Some Key Steps since 1/25: www.wsj.com/finance/regu... www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus... insightcrime.org/news/how-tru... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 1/2

Trump Administration Retreats From White-Collar Criminal Enforcement

The Justice Department is backing away from some cases involving foreign bribery, money laundering and crypto markets. Defense lawyers are bracing for a slowdown.

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My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

Whenever you read a hot take from Politico that casts Dems in an unflattering light, remind yourself that the owner asked the executives to pray for Donald Trump’s reelection. It’s propaganda.

The decisive failure of GOP referenda in Kansas Amendment 1 and Missouri Amendment 4 yesterday is yet another reminder of something I've been saying for a while: Voters, even Republican voters, now regularly despise and repudiate GOP attempts to use them to destroy democracy.

Look at Trump's serial failures, his obvious decline, the disastrous poll numbers for the GOP, the abysmal quality of their candidates, their complete absence of accomplishments, their betrayal of their base, the absence of post-Trump leaders emerging...and tell me the Dems are the ones w/problems.

North Korean missile unit deploys in Russia for Ukraine war, Kyiv says. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Politics feels corrupt because it is. Billionaire mega-donors aren’t just buying yachts and jets — they’re buying power, and they’re using that power to rig our political system. jamestalarico.com/issue/corrup...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds.

New in PN: Jeanine Pirro crashes into the limit of Trump's lies "Did Pirro genuinely believe the scales would fall from Trump’s eyes if she showed him some pictures from the Park Service proving his contractor was at fault for the wrecked pool? This is Donald Trump we’re talking about!"

Jeanine Pirro crashes into the limit of Trump's lies

It's one thing to bullshit on Fox. It's another to lie in court.

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And I'm sure it is no surprise that Sharyn Alfonsi’s 60 Minutes story that investigated the Epstein money trail somehow disappeared after Alfonsi was fired. Wake up America we are witnessing a massive cover-up

Suddenly, the House Ethics Committee is in the middle of the midterm elections, as the normally secretive panel announced Tuesday that it was looking into allegations of domestic abuse and illegal drug use by GOP Rep. Max Miller (Ohio). Full story: punchbowl.news/article/hous...

Ethics is now a key player in the midterms

Suddenly the House Ethics Committee is in the middle of the midterm elections.

punchbowl.news

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

This is the guy in charge of overhauling the Pentagon's security clearance program. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Oh look, another far-right extremist at the Pentagon

He oversees defense intelligence and security agencies and helps shape military operations.

motherjones.com

Coming to YOUR city/town in 2027, via GOP & Trump Administration: SLASHING of SNAP by BILLIONS. SLASHING of Medicaid By 1 TRILLION. LISTEN to Rep. Jim McGovern: They're turning America into "A Tale Of Two Cities". UNCONSCIONABLE! (Please REPOST for AWARENESS!)

Tom Vilsack is the former Secretary of Agriculture, former governor of Iowa, and CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation. Vilsack profiles Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born scientist whose Green Revolution transformed global agriculture and saved more than a billion lives from famine. #WeAreAmerica250

Fellow Scientist please consider signing the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice here forms.gle/BAfifGWesmoY... @hcrichardson.bsky.social #ScienceSky #TechSky #EngieeringSky #MedSky #MathSky #GreenSky #PhysicsSky #AstronomySky #ChemistrySky #BiologySky #VirologySky #VaccineSky 🧪🦠

We are living in dangerous times. #GreenSky #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuelsNow www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...

It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now

The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is

scientificamerican.com

Good riddance. If he had any honor he would leave now, but Mike Johnson needs his vote so Republican sexual harassers need to stay around. Probably want to keep young female staffers away from him though.

The U.S. economy is increasingly becoming a highly leveraged bet on the promise of AI. What if China wins? Read Graham Allison’s analysis for free: foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/04/u...

America’s Cosmic Bet on AI

The winner takes it all. What happens if the United States loses?

foreignpolicy.com

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani Is Shunning New York Business Leaders Who Are Used to Calling the Shots

The mayor fired corporate leaders from a city fund’s advisory board in the latest sign that he is changing the way such power brokers access City Hall.

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RFK Jr is NOT a scientist. RFK Jr is NOT a doctor. RFK Jr is NOT a researcher. RFK Jr is NOT qualified to discuss vaccines.

I spoke with 10 CNNers about David Ellison's essay in The NYT, in which he tried to convince the public he'll be a good steward of CNN. Suffice to say, no one at the network is buying what he's selling. “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS." www.status.news/p/david-elli...

The Ellison Credibility Crisis

The Paramount boss tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his Times essay in brutal comments to Status, pointing to his disastrous record at C...

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Sure, Democrats are not perfect and we have some bad apples. But sexual harassment and abuse of women has become an absolute epidemic among elected Republicans because it is the culture of the party under lifetime serial sexual harasser Donald Trump.

Republican voters in western NC gave us Madison Cawthorn and then replaced him with Chuck Edwards. Obviously character and decency isn’t something that matters very much to them.

I can’t even find many Republicans who are still backing Max Miller after yesterday. Except the moral paragons Donald Trump, Mike Johnson and the Republican leadership of the House.

Former challenger Mallory McMorrow: “Congratulations to Abdul El-Sayed for winning the Democratic primary to become our nominee to be Michigan’s next US Senator. I’m proud to give Abdul my full endorsement and support as we head to November together as a unified party”

Let's not lose sight of how abnormal this is. Trump is demanding prosecutions over Reflecting Pool fiasco even though his own DOJ has shown conclusively it isn't supported by facts or law. On the pod, @barbmcquade.bsky.social is brilliant on the bigger stakes here: newrepublic.com/article/2139...

Trump’s Fury at Reflecting Pool Mess Darkens as Damning New Leaks Hit

As Trump’s effort to jail people over his failed renovation starts looking even worse, a former federal prosecutor explains why this corruption of DOJ is so dangerous—and how to fight back.

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NEWS: Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) just dropped out of his re-election race at 3:32 a.m.m. He said he’s done running but will finish out his term. This after the House Ethics Committee found “substantial reason to believe [he] violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces.”

Big tax results out of Missouri tonight: Voters statewide rejected by an huge margin a GOP ballot measure to phase out the income tax. They also renewed a sales tax to keep state parks free. And Kansas City approved a package of $1.7 billion of bonds for infrastracture.