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Much easier for the media to lock in on faux Cheesecake Factory outrage than a House Dem report indicating Todd Blanche basically told Ghislaine Maxwell "stop talking" when she was about to discuss a girl that could more closely tie Trump to Epstein

Report: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Katie Johnson, 13, reported Epstein and Trump argued over who would take her virginity, and Epstein became angry and violently raped her when he learned that Donald Trump had done so. As shown by official FBI interview notes, Johnson, through her attorney, reported these alleged crimes to the FBI.

So much about the essay encapsulates what's wrong with our time: emotion over knowledge, a refusal to do the work, a dismissal of expertise. A nation of armchair quarterbacks, yelling about how they would have thrown the pass. Everything should be simple, so if someone didn't fix it they are evil.

Nobels: Literature - Naguib Mahfouz, Abdulrazak Gurnah Chemistry - Ahmed Zewail*, Omar Yaghi*, Elias James Corey*, Moungi Bawendi (*=also Wolf) Medicine: Peter Medawar Peace - Anwar Sadat, Yasser Arafat, Mohamed ElBaradei, Tawakkol Karman Fields: Michael Atiyah Booker: Jokha Alharthi

Real screencaps from Don Jr's "hunting trip" in Mongolia with his new Kremlin handler, Umar Kremlev. Taxpayers paid $18,715 to put up his Secret Service details for 14 days, but if they were in hotel rooms, I guess they didn't get to hunt? www.ft.com/content/f41f...

“Shadow docket” is the sort of name you’d come up with if you were writing an authoritarian dystopia.

What in the ever loving racist incorrect mouth dropping is this??? The Arab world “produces” plenty of “science”… which is all the more impressive since the West periodically bombs all their shit.

"...the Trump administration has awarded countless contracts to companies ostensibly doing immigration enforcement, but have shockingly minimal experience or no experience in the field."

Bears repeating: the house philosopher for half of Silicon Valley and JD Vance is a racist who hates democracy

TRUMP DOJ BRINGS NEW ESPIONAGE ACT CHARGES AGAINST FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY Mercado Media

First Obama, now El-Sayed. Funny how Elon Musk never got this treatment.

I’m losing it over here

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

Just a reminder: “Committed” isn’t the same as “invested.”⁣ ⁣ Otherwise, I’d have already accomplished everything on my calendar. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-spot-a-fake-trillion

I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

Fox & Friends' substitute co-host is married to a Trump cabinet official and it shows www.mediamatters.org/rachel-campo...

Hard to believe “look at the crazy low prices in this old timey newspaper” is now from the Obama era.

I had some thoughts on Katie Zacharia's brief tenure as press secretary, and the role of Fox News in pushing her off the stage.

Whether it's Republicans not being allowed within 200 feet of a Chuck E. Cheese or Democrats making jokes about a Cheesecake Factory, both side have a fraught relationship with chain restaurants.

If you’re just catching up, an appeals court heard arguments on Sunday in the Trump administration’s case against California. It did not go (and should not have gone) well for DOJ. That and more at Law Dork:

If she wins a full term in November, Fire Thunder would join a growing number of Indigenous women successfully seeking higher office across the country. In Montana, the success of these candidates is a result of decades of women-led organizing on the ground.

Gotta get rid of the humans to pay for the data centers.

"In a series of interviews with Democratic staff on the House Judiciary Committee, Beatrice Keul said Trump raped her that year in 'brutal' fashion in a hotel room at Trump’s Plaza Hotel in Atlantic City after the pair spent time with Jeffrey Epstein ..."

This week’s installment of my Stop the Presses newsletter recalls the Republicans’ history of cheating in elections. They’ve often gotten away with it. Let’s make sure cheaters don’t prosper this time.

📉 What we're tracking today: 1. Anthropic S-1 is public 2. Ebola case flown out of Nigeria 3. Court doubts DOJ ballot demand 4. Musk film still in theaters 5. MEPs urge Black Sea naval mission 6. Russia blamed for sabotage 7. No evidence of Dem coup plot trackers.america2.news?r=h-6b59a6

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Why isn't this being reported as Anthropic agents seek intrusion into global financial markets?

📊 A new poll reveals voters overwhelmingly reject Trump’s election-meddling tactics. Voters were given potential scenarios outlining how federal or state officials might respond to the 2026 election process. Overwhelming majorities disapproved of every tactic: https://demdock.com/4yIGP19

Sit & Talk - time grows short for Trump to lose Bigly, and for us to recover some control over a government under Trump going Fascist - a few examples. youtu.be/wUIUcO_ZZMc?...

Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk: “A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”

SUCK IT, FASCISTS!🎉🥳🍾 “Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has staged a dramatic election fightback, defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, to claim a historic 4th term. With nearly 99% of votes counted the 80-year-old received 51.75% of the vote to his rival’s 48.25%.”

Serbia to Trump: Drop Dead.

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

Like many others I assumed this was funny hyperbole -- "call in the national guard!" type of thing -- but no it's a description of events.

“The Ellison family & Musk already have a few ties between them & they seem to be enjoying passing money back & forth. Musk previously put Larry Ellison on Tesla’s board, & Ellison repaid the favor later by helping fund Musk’s takeover of Twitter. Now Musk [is] passing some cash on to Larry’s kid.”

They are genre writers who only work in one genre: Magic Ruralism. driftglass.blogspot.com/2018/07/magi...

Political media is the only topic other than “small dogs with names inspired by Superman” that I feel like I can honestly refer to myself as an “expert,” and I implore you to stop watching cable news. It doesn’t inform you. TV news is one of the worst ways possible to get the news.

Illegal alien admits to sabotaging U.S. ally fighting former Soviet communists. #RadioFreeAmerica #politics www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

A letter sent to Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles by several House members, incl. Ro Khanna, demanded “an immediate, govt-wide investigation into the decision to restrict SpaceX's Starshield satellite-based intelligence & military support services in Ukraine.” www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...

The GOP's latest plot to take away women's reproductive rights? Transphobia.