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Ernest Hemingway's three words on how bankruptcy occurs also applies to how democracy is lost: "Gradually, then suddenly."
Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterdayBanks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
"[W]ho are the radicals? The people NSPM-7 names as terrorists imagine a world with fewer cages in it, a place where no one can be disappeared from a parking lot or shot while driving with their toddler in the back seat. The government calls that extremism." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans
Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.
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There is nothing even faintly, vaguely, remotely legal about any of this, all of it. No gray area, nothing but illegal, illicit, unlawful, corrupt. And everyone knows it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity (Gift Article)
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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"Let’s be absolutely clear: these documents are not the legal fix they are purported to be, but instead, they are political cover. The move is nothing more than legal sleight of hand to dupe the media and get the remaining “concerned” Republican senators on board." open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Todd Blanche’s Midnight Confirmation Gambit Doesn’t Actually Rewrite Trump’s Deal
And the “concerned” senators and much of the media are falling for it.
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FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
Elon Musk will be spending $100 million to $120 million in at least eight states to help elect Republicans in November, according to The New York Times. But Musk’s money shouldn’t be viewed as a problem. It’s an opportunity. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-stink-of-musk
Blanche's signature on a "revised agreement" of a "settlement" adjudicated to be a fraud on the court, "continues to bar the IRS...from pursuing pending or past tax claims and audits prior to May 18, 2026, for Trump, two of his sons, and the Trump Organization." So there it is: deal, no deal.
And Dr. Anthony Fauci's personal diary (no one's business but his own) was not "leaked," it was extracted from HHS servers and handed over to Rand Paul directly by Junior.
Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d agoI worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
“The transaction patterns identified by Capital One are among the types of activity flagged by federal banking guidance,” the filing said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money-laundering review
Disclosure from 2021 investigation marks first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump
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Happy Birthday to the AMAZING Katie Phang!! Every single day, we’re in awe of your brilliance, integrity, and relentless fight for the truth. Here’s to another year of making a difference. We’re so grateful for you.
A landmark epidemiological study by the Commonwealth Fund calculated that within the first two years of rollout, COVID-19 vaccines prevented 3.25 million deaths and 18.5 million hospitalizations in the United States. Dr. Fauci was a prime mover of that, Rand Paul. shorturl.at/7TaD9
The Failures of the Fauci Hearing
Senator Rand Paul may have approached the matter with theatrics and ill will, but Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision not to testify was a loss.
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"[Jonathan] Butcher, who wrote the Heritage Foundation report, said deleting standards does not forbid teachers to follow them — it just means they don’t have to." That breathtakingly disingenuous comment is foundational for the Heritage Foundation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
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'“It’s one attack after the other on the very core of the program,” the second person said. The proposed rule, then, seems to be a new way of attempting to gut the program. “This is another run at it,” the first person said.' Pointless cruelty IS the point. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A New Trump Rule Would Lower Standards at Head Start and Exclude Immigrants From the Program
The Trump administration is on the verge of releasing a proposed rule that would eliminate crucial quality standards at the nation’s preschool program for low-income children.
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to compel Illinois to provide its complete statewide voter registration database. Another big victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. DOJ is now 0-19 in these cases. ELG remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/illino...
🚨 United States of America v. Matthews
Learn more.
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"Among the [bribes] O’Rourke has recently secured are $50 million from Softbank for Trump’s presidential library, $25 million from Apple for his ballroom project, $10 million from Meta to a Trump-aligned super PAC, $10 million from Microsoft, and $5 million from Amazon." shorturl.at/K4eBz
Trump Is Demanding More Cash From Donors for His Vanity Projects
Donald Trump’s main fundraiser is calling donors and saying, “The boss wants this money.”
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"It’s not a photo, it’s an image of what Earth’s gravitational field looks like, compiled from more than a billion observations from 19 satellites (and exaggerated by a factor of 10,000 for effect)." nautil.us/earth-is-lum...
Earth Is Lumpy as Hell
Earth Is Lumpy as Hell: It’s what’s on the inside that counts
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"There was just one problem: the AI-generated map [of Africa] the State Department used didn’t peg one country on that map anywhere close to its actual location, and apparently no one at the State Department knew enough basic geography to correct the error." open.substack.com/pub/rawstory...
RFK Jr. Ignores Parasite Outbreak to Plug His New Cooking Show
Trump costing taxpayers millions in legal fees, RFK Jr. rolls out new cooking show while ignoring his actual job, Rubio humiliated by error-ridden map
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Talarico: When I get tough questions, I answer them. When Ken Paxton gets tough questions, he runs away, literally runs away from reporters, from voters, from anyone asking hard questions. If you've given an Epstein style sweetheart deal to a child predator, you should have to answer questions.
How is continuing to lie and defame E. Jean Carroll defensible as an "official act" of a sitting president? Yeah, it's not. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn $83.3 million award in E. Jean Carroll defamation case
Lawyers for President Donald Trump argued that he had immunity for statements made while president.
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"The fact that our elected officials don’t really have to prove that they can walk, talk, and think coherently—while we still pay them—is disgraceful. Maybe Beshear should just pay McConnell a visit himself, and bring a camera crew with him." newrepublic.com/post/213614/...
Kentucky Gov Orders McConnell to Give a Real Update or Resign Already
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear wants actual answers from Mitch McConnell about his continued absence.
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1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.
"What’s going on here is more than an effort to merely reduce the war’s death toll: The administration is trying to hide a war and ended up hiding the deaths of American service members along the way." Anyone surprised? This is what lying liars do. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The War That Shall Not Be Named
The Trump administration’s bumbling effort to pretend it’s not fighting a war has pushed it into covering up the deaths of American soldiers.
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Has there ever been a film that received more reviews - and more divergent in their assessments - than this one? www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
The Odyssey Translator Unleashes Scathing Review of Christopher Nolan's Film Adaptation
"It lacks psychological, emotional, political, and ethical depth."
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"Some news executives let journalists do their jobs with little or no interference. Others, like CBS News, owned by the pro-Trump Ellison family, are in the tank for the fascist regime." When the supposed watchdog becomes a lapdog. open.substack.com/pub/stopthep...
When news execs help fascists whitewash murder
Former CBS journalists detail pressure after federal agents killed Good and Pretti
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YES! Way to go @katiephang.bsky.social, and your amazing legal team, too!
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 2w agoJUST IN: Judge Emmet Sullivan (Clinton/DC) orders in camera review of some redacted Epstein documents. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
"Look, nobody was expecting Václav Havel to leap onto a chair, Lech Wałęsa to start organizing the waitstaff, and the Velvet Revolution to break out before coffee was served. But couldn’t they have at least just gotten the fuck up? Couldn’t they have walked the fuck out?" shorturl.at/CCJgT
The Fourth Estate Forgot to Stand the Fuck Up
The Correspondents’ Dinner Was a Black-Tie Surrender
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Oh, look, the mendacious one wants to rewrite American history, including that of his two impeachments, warning visitors of "inaccurate information inside." The stories he wants told are lies. Keep resisting, Smithsonian. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump orders signage warning visitors of ‘inaccurate information’ at Smithsonian
The order comes after the White House released a scathing report against the Smithsonian Institution’s leadership on July 4.
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