FOX: What's your big message on the economy? TRUMP: Tariffs have been incredible
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Missouri voters cannot weigh in on whether to keep congressional district boundaries that were redrawn to benefit Republicans, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins said on Tuesday, even though opponents of the new map had gathered thousands of signatures seeking a statewide vote.
Missouri Says Voters Cannot Decide on Redrawn Congressional Districts
Opponents of the new map, which was redrawn to benefit Republicans, had gathered signatures seeking a statewide vote. The issue could now move to the courts.
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TRUMP: I watch your show all the time. Sometimes I tape it and watch it. It's okay. I don't know what they call it today. They used to call it TiVo. Maybe they still do. But I love TiVo or its equivalent GALLAGHER: DVR
MAGA fans on Truth Social were apparently pissed at Trump's endorsement because they (wrongly) believed that Hassan is Muslim newrepublic.com/post/213678/...
Surprise! Trump Endorsement Derailed by MAGA Racism
Donald Trump’s fans are not happy he backed Amir Hassan.
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Trump: "Everybody saw the vandalism. All you have to do is look at the tape." (There is no tape. Trump is nuts.)
A debate is brewing among tax practitioners regarding whether using AI to prepare tax returns should require a disclosure to clients.
Can your tax preparer use AI without telling you? Some experts say IRS rules aren't clear
A debate is brewing among tax practitioners regarding whether using AI to prepare tax returns should require a disclosure to clients.
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Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle are spending so much on developing AI and delivering it to customers that they’re expected to bleed cash in the coming year, according to a Post analysis of data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence.
One chart shows the incredible reversal at American tech companies
The AI bet by the country’s leading firms is torching their cash.
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President Trump phoned Rep. Max Miller Monday and expressed doubts about the Ohio Republican's candidacy amid reports he assaulted his ex-wife and their child, 3 sources familiar with the call said.
"Things aren't looking good": Trump tells Max Miller his candidacy is in trouble
The president's comments to Miller were different than what he has said publicly.
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@glennkirschner.bsky.social: "Donald Trump sued Donald Trump, and then Donald Trump settled with Donald Trump, and then Donald Trump dismissed the case against Donald Trump, and Donald Trump gave himself everything Donald Trump wanted."
“.. The president is ‘furious’ with Pirro, one of the sources said, telling CNN that he fumed about her all weekend.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
HUGE: Under Mayor Mamdani, New York City just recorded its safest first 7 months of a year in history—and its safest July ever. In July: Major crime dropped 13% Murder dropped 32% Robberies dropped 15% Vehicle thefts dropped 25% Democratic mayors are putting public safety first.
Scoop: New "60 Minutes" boss Nick Bilton sent a memo to staff about leaks, which naturally leaked to @status.news. Details here: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
Bilton’s Leak Battle
The new “60 Minutes” executive producer welcomed staff back from their July vacations with a weekend memo in which he delivered a stern message about leaks, a missive that naturally leaked to Status.
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RFK Jr. says Fauci lied about everything, but then, seconds later, uses Fauci’s own diary to make his case. @saletan.bsky.social catches Kennedy blowing up his own argument in real time.
An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May)
This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million.
Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was...
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We know posturing when we see it. Acting AG Todd Blanche won’t make the assurances in court that President Trump’s slush fund is gone for good — even though he can post about it on X. CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social joined @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social to talk about our latest demand for answers.
NEWS — Pete Buttigieg says in an interview that he is leaning toward running for president in 2028.
The cyclosporiasis outbreak just turned deadly. And analysis by The New Republic found at least 18,517 cases across the nine states listed by the CDC. trib.al/DKGhdYs
Na-na-na-na Hey-hey-hey Trump met with Jeanine Pirro at the White House on Monday, hours after saying that she had “choked” when she concluded that the damage to the Reflecting Pool was not the work of vandals, as Trump continues to insist. He is an utter madman. substack.com/@harrylitman...
Harry Litman (@harrylitman)
This essay marks my 250th dispatch on the Talking Feds Substack. I have to say, it took me by surprise. When I resigned from the Los Angeles Times in protest of the paper’s currying favor with the Tru...
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“A few minutes of embarrassing CSPAN coverage, while the staffers themselves had to endure over two years of sexual harassment, is not comparable” Leaders of Democratic Women’s Caucus urge resignation - not censure - of Rep Chuck Edwards (R-NC) after ethics committee report
More than 170,000 federal student loan borrowers who said they were defrauded by their schools are set to have $11 billion in debt erased, after an appellate court sided with the borrowers and rejected a request from the Education Department for more time to review their claims.
Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers
The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.
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"It seems to me that either someone from the Department of the Interior should go to jail, or someone from the Department of Justice should be disbarred. (Or both?) We’re going to talk about why that is and who it might be in a moment."
Behold the TRUMP Act: I Know How to Fix American Politics
How to save the republic with one weird trick.
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Irony doesn't begin to capture the situation if Jeanine Pirro winds up losing her job for towing Trump's barge through 100% false and corrupt waters all the way to the very edge of the waterfall she was about to plunge over. substack.com/@harrylitman...
Harry Litman (@harrylitman)
This essay marks my 250th dispatch on the Talking Feds Substack. I have to say, it took me by surprise. When I resigned from the Los Angeles Times in protest of the paper’s currying favor with the Tru...
substack.com
SCOOP by @politico.com's Alfred Ng: More trouble brewing for the Federal Trade Commission as Republicans on House Energy and Commerce seek ideas on overhauling the agency, little more than a month after the Supreme Court erased its independence from Trump: www.politico.com/news/2026/08... #FTC
House Energy and Commerce seeks input on FTC overhaul
A Republican-led information request asks how Congress should change the consumer protection agency after a series of adverse Supreme Court rulings.
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“Tillis and Cornyn caved even though they have literally nothing to lose,” says Chris Hayes. “At the national level, there really are no ‘good’ Republicans under Donald Trump.”
‘Rolled over’: Hayes rips Cornyn, Tillis for caving on Blanche
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Tillis said Blanche had to meet with Epstein survivors. The survivors said he was condescending, rude & constantly interrupted them. They said he was just checking a box. Tillis wants slush fund order modified & IRS settlement gone. Blanche creates a sham order. Tillis wants performative nonsense.
James Talarico is quite obviously a superior human being to Ken Paxton and MAGA psychos like Stephen Miller making puerile attacks against him because that's all they have. this election will tell us a lot about Texas voters.