The AI Safety Institute, a British government body that evaluates models, said both Anthropic’s Mythos 5 & OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol had engaged in “sustained, potentially harmful activity” aimed at real people & organizations. That’s in the wake of Anthropic & OpenAI revealing their top models went ⬇️

JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank & Bank of America violated anti–money laundering laws by failing to screen & report Epstein’s suspicious financial transactions in a timely manner. Top executives at major Wall Street banks were aware of Epstein’s suspicious financial activity for years, but withheld ⬇️

The Trump admin said it has refunded about $100 billion of the $166 billion in tariff revenue to corporations that were collected through Trump’s 2025 “liberation day” duties. The Supreme Court scrapped those IEEPA tariffs, & a federal judge ordered the money to be refunded. But companies are ⬇️

End cruel & inhumane greyhound racing. The Senate Agriculture Committee will vote on an amendment to end greyhound racing in America. If it fails, their suffering will continue for years to come. Call your senators!

Election denier Cleta Mitchell granted Heather Honey, DHS elections, a lot of $. Honey & Mitchell have a long track record of working together to undermine election security & spread false claims of voter fraud. Honey founded the anti-voting PA Fair Elections group, which is part of Mitchell’s EIN.

Facts suck, if you're delusional and in a cult.

Trump wanting immunity from IRS audits & the revelation that his bank activity mirrored that of money launderers might well be the same story.

“Today I think is a sad & embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general.” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

“Blanche has aided & abetted the most corrupt admin in the history of the US. Blanche’s willingness to casually lie under oath about the statement he made in a room full of witnesses shows the lengths he will go to to avoid offending Trump.” Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)

Senators Tillis & Cornyn had nothing to lose, but they still folded anyway. They advanced Acting AG Todd Blanche’s confirmation out of committee in the Senate. Blanche has orchestrated the largest criminal coverup for Trump by defying the Epstein transparency law passed by Congress.

The cost of enabling Trump has risen, as his job approval ratings have tanked. Counterintelligence scholar Asha Rangappa suggests the Republican senators have gone so far down the road of enabling Trump that they will simply rubber-stamp Todd Blanche as AG. If “you’ve confirmed Pam Bondi, Pete ⬇️

New CNN Poll: 75% of Americans say Trump should be impeached, tried & imprisoned.

An appeals court handed a victory to a group of federal grant recipients that the Trump admin prevented from spending $ billions in climate funding for over a year. Judges on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld an earlier injunction that said the Environmental ⬇️

Appeals Court Says E.P.A. Cannot Block Billions in Climate Grants

The funds have been frozen since early in President Trump’s second term.

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37 — the number of historic sites around DC that Trump’s proposed triumphal arch would adversely affect, according to an assessment by National Park Service staff.

Another Salvadoran immigrant held at the troubled ICE Delaney detention center in Newark, NJ died over the weekend. Trump is a murderer, on top of being a convicted felon, rapist & fraudster, as well as a pedophile, tax cheat, thief, pathological liar, money launderer, insurrectionist & violator of⬇️

Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say

The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. The New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees.

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Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for DC, moved to dismiss charges against 3 more people accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, after dismissing charges against Hearn. Investigators concluded the main cause of damage was botched work by Trump’s contractor, not vandalism.

Our thoroughly corrupt electoral system.

Republicans Are Letting Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: IRS Immunity. This is nothing less than a criminal coverup. Trump likely owes the IRS (& the American people) upwards of $100 million & Republicans are letting him get away with it. And the $1.8 billion slush fund that still exists will be ⬇️

Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity

The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.

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“Billionaires are using their wealth to bribe politicians to reduce their tax rates, which are already lower than most Americans face, & to stop lawmakers from regulating fossil fuels or AI.” Robert Reich

At least 2 OpenAI’s models escaped a sealed testing environment & broke into the servers of another AI company. The AI models “reasoned” that the solutions to a cybersecurity test were on that other company’s servers, so the models snuck onto the internet & hacked into the other company’s ⬇️

“This supposed ‘deal’ doesn’t prevent payouts to violent insurrectionists in the future. It doesn’t prevent the admin from bringing the slush fund back from the dead next week or using DOJ’s Judgment Fund for the same illicit purpose. It leaves in place a tax-immunity deal that could help Trump ⬇️

Acting AG Todd “Blanche rescinded Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund order establishing the fund, allowing supporters to claim the issue had been resolved. But rescinding one admin order does not eliminate the authority that created it. Nothing in the documents prevents a future AG or Blanche himself ⬇️