Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.
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Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, a Salvadoran immigrant who was being held at a troubled federal detention center in Newark died during the weekend, according to the city’s mayor and Senator Andy Kim. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...
Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say
The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo. The New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees.
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Almost 65,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in Spokane County, Washington, as crews battle three major wildfires. www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/u...
Live updates: Almost 65,000 people evacuated as Spokane County wildfires cause ‘heartbreaking’ devastation | CNN
Hundreds of structures have been destroyed and at least 60,000 people evacuated as crews battle three major wildfires in Spokane County. Follow for live news updates.
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Trump says banks closed his accounts after the Jan. 6 insurrection for political reasons. Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing that it closed them after an internal review by the bank’s anti-money laundering team raised red flags. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Capital One Cites Money Laundering Review in Trump-Related Suit
Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an inter...
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A freelance reporter has been fighting a subpoena from the Trump administration seeking to force him to reveal his sources for a New York Times article about a failed top secret mission in North Korea. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources
A previously undisclosed subpoena, involving reporting on a failed SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea, reflects the government’s expanding campaign to investigate leaks of secrets.
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Wildfires in Europe Can Create "Fire Clouds" That May Trigger Lightning, Fierce Winds, and Even More Flames
Wildfires in Europe Can Create "Fire Clouds" That May Trigger Lightning, Fierce Winds, and Even More Flames
Learn more about pyrocumulonimbus, or “fire clouds,” which occur when rising wildfire smoke transforms into dangerous thunderstorms.
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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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As senators delayed a crucial vote on Blanche’s AG nomination over concerns about the weaponization fund, a million-dollar DOJ payment to an anti-abortion activist underscored how taxpayer $$ could be funneled to people claiming to be victims of government persecution www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
With Blanche Nomination at Stake, Payouts to Trump Allies Continue
A seven-figure settlement was announced hours before senators skeptical about the so-called weaponization fund delayed a crucial vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general.
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New CNN poll: 73%, a new high, say Trump is not paying enough attention to the country's most important problems. Views on the war in Iran worsen, as economic issues remain deeply negative. @aedwardslevy.bsky.social has all the details here. www.cnn.com/2026/07/29/p...
CNN Poll: Americans doubt Trump is paying enough attention to the country’s most important problems | CNN Politics
A record-high 73% of US adults say that President Donald Trump hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with just 27% saying he’s ...
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Epstein victims claim AG nominee Todd Blanche told them to ‘get to the point’ during face-to-face
Epstein victims claim Todd Blanche told them to ‘get to the point’ during meeting
Blanche met with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse earlier this month after a Republican senator called for it
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Today is another one of those uncomfortable times where I find myself looking wistfully back at the Bush Administration.
A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List
A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.
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There it is. Todd Blanche's Senate committee vote is postponed.
Here is a full list of every state that DOJ had sued and lost for access to their voter file: Arizona California Connecticut Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
The indispensable @jamellebouie.net: Musk's efforts to spread hate are more important than his cars and rockets. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? (Gift Article)
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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And here we go again. “US military launches strikes on Iranian targets a day after it foiled missile attack on US forces.” apnews.com/article/iran...
US military launches strikes on Iranian targets a day after it foiled missile attack on US forces
The renewed hostilities sent oil prices spiking. Brent crude, the international standard, jumped 3.1% to $84.58 a barrel.
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“Sally.” New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlash. apnews.com/article/new-...
New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlash
A school district in a rural corner of upstate New York is hitting pause on plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom.
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Fauci’s diary entries show the former government science adviser’s disillusionment with Trump during the Covid-19 pandemic, branding him “rambling”, “crazy”, “bumbling”, “incompetent”, “an idiot”, “a true embarrassment”, and “truly an obnoxious adolescent”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Fauci expressed disillusionment with ‘rambling, crazy’ Trump in journal
Former top US health official wrote about challenging interactions with publicity-fixated Trump during Covid
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TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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When the new Pentagon data is combined with updated totals for Operation Epic Fury, 18 troops have died and another 624 have been wounded since the US launched its war against Iran on Feb. 28. www.cnn.com/2026/07/26/p...
Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accounting | CNN Politics
The Pentagon updated its war casualty database Saturday, recording more than 140 new wounded and restoring the four soldiers killed due to Iranian strikes last weekend.
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“After months of insisting the dinner was worth reviving in the name of the First Amendment … the organization instead handed Trump a nationally televised platform to demean the very journalists it exists to represent,” @passantino.bsky.social writes. www.status.news/p/the-white-...
The White House Correspondents’ Disgrace
The WHCA sought to reconvene its annual dinner in celebration of press freedom. Instead, it handed Donald Trump a platform to attack the very journalists the organization exists to represent.
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NUCLEAR CASH President Trump, his family and his circle of advisers have monetized crypto, the predictions markets, the data center boom & rare-earths mining. Now they are seeing there's money to be made in a new vector: The nuclear industry. The NYT takes a look www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
Trump Is Pushing Nuclear Energy, Including Saudi Deal. His Family and Supporters Could Benefit. (Gift Article)
In some cases, no direct line can be drawn from the president’s domestic nuclear agenda to his family or close allies. But they have overlapping business ties that could position them for gains.
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Key thing to understand about "remigration" is that it doesn't mean "send immigrants home." He's an immigrant, Peter Thiel is an immigrant, etc. It's not even a white nationalism project, it's a trans-Atlantic white continentalism project, nations themselves aren't important, only race matters.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
Chinese poster for the new Spider-Man film makes me want to start buying film posters again.
My time lapse of the Gironde #fire near Bordeaux, viewed on Friday afternoon from about 20 km distance. One minute compressed into 5 seconds. #GlobalHeating
"He has also removed from promotion lists about 40 senior officers who had been selected by boards made up of their peers.” Politicization of the military produces politicking admirals and generals. Not good.
An Admiral’s Rise Reveals the Politics Driving Hegseth’s Pentagon (Gift Article)
Before he was picked to lead the Navy, Adm. Daryl Caudle found ways to signal his support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s anti-diversity goals.
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A Bloomberg News analysis of Skype messages, flight records and other documents released by DOJ show that from the time of his release from jail in 2009, through to his arrest in July 2019, Epstein ran a trafficking network that spanned the globe. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The Flight Network Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s Trafficking Operation
Thousands of flights booked by the pedophile financier’s staff connected associates and victims to a global network of properties
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