In Texas, Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare cleared the meeting room, silencing public opposition to the GOP plan to eliminate half of the battleground county’s Election Day voting locations before the midterms.
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Did you see how Apple, Amazon Walmart and other big companies are refunding the billions of dollars they got back from the federal tariff settlement to their customers, who ultimately bore the cost of higher prices? Yea, me neither.
There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions
Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause
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Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · 2d agoBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
can we please just maintain a living world instead of an alternative one? web.archive.org/web/20260721...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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My mom and grandma told me about this. It happened in Los Angeles. The last streetcar ran in 1963.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
🚨 NEW: $36 million payment from ICE to GEO Group, for-profit prison company, on July 24 for detention services at Mesa Verde and Golden State ICE detention facility in California. ICE is a for-profit scheme paid for by taxpayers, using immigrants as commodities. www.quiverquant.com/news/Governm...
Government Contract Update: $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC | GEO Stock News
We just received data on a $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC. from the Department of Homeland Secur
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These signs should be on every hiking trail in Oregon and across the US .
Almost two dozen Democratic-led states asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to uphold a block on President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting, saying it poses “extraordinary threats to our democracy.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Blue states urge Supreme Court to uphold block on Trump’s anti-mail voting order
The states and D.C. said Trump's order poses “extraordinary threats to our democracy.”
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BREAKING: The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.
why is this not surprising theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i...
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows
Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.
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I don’t have a dog in this fight, but I have friends and family in Texas that I wish had access to affordable healthcare, clean water and had opportunities to afford their day to day lives — @ginafortexas.bsky.social is giving Texans hope. LET’S GO! Break Rank!
I agree with @drsandman11.medsky.social: If you didn't look like this & doing everything you can to prevent people from dying during the pandemic, maybe think twice before judging Dr. Fauci.
Russian, Kira Dikhtyar 💯 Co-conspirator is making millions off blackmailing people with Epstein evidence. Just one Epstein email says she's offering 30 girls if Epstein can get her an autograph of Warren Buffett for her Russian oligarch pimp. He was owner of the Brooklyn Nets. Mikhail Prokhorov.
Lavonne 🇺🇦@loveon9.bsky.social · 5d ago1/ Katie: Redaction log states this person, that is a co-conspirator, is claiming to be a victim. She explained earlier how Blanche has expanded the definition of victim. I did a thread on Russian girl with a website claiming to be Epstein victim and raising millions in Epstein blackmail. Kira 📌
Service members that survived an Iranian attack claim the Trump admin IGNORED their asks for advanced medical aid and failed to protect them from strikes. Our troops deserve better. Rep. Pat Ryan and I led Democrats in opening an investigation into whether Pete Hegseth left them behind.
Lawmakers will investigate Iranian attack that killed 6 U.S. troops
Citing reporting by The Post, lawmakers told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the probe is necessary because they are not confident in the Pentagon’s ability to examine the incident objectivity.
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Several things make it clear that Juicebox Jeanine's MTD is much covering of ass. 1) They're asking ONLY for dismissal w/o prejudice. 2) They tried to keep earlier details of Trump's failure hidden. 3) This filing. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ is moving to dismiss the indictment against David Hearn in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool case and is admitting the damage was the result of a flawed, botched installation job, not vandalism.
DOJ Seeks to Dismiss Charges Against Olympian It Indicted for "Vandalizing" the Lincoln Memorial.
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Minnesota has the safest, freest, and fairest elections in the nation. Vote early by mail or in person for Minnesota’s primary elections by August 11!
Remember when DOGE cut CISA last year? I do...https://apnews.com/article/cyberattack-minnesota-water-systems-5bb1dcbaab8e3231889700c38a21e8ea
Parnas: Are you at all concerned about the USPS mail-in ballot rule they’re floating… Fontes: A lot of people don’t know that the USPS has an obligation. Once a piece of mail gets into their hands, they’re mandated by law to move it through their system and get it where it needs to go.