NYT: Virginia Giuffre’s Family Responds to Trump’s Claim That Epstein ‘Stole’ Her www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

WSJ: Justice Department told Trump in May that his name appears in the Epstein files www.wsj.com/politics/jus...

RIP Ozzy www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/a...

Despite the Trump admin's pledge to make more COVID origins intelligence transparent & a federal law passed 2 years ago instructing U.S. intel agencies to declassify & share with the public as much info as possible, we're still getting records from the FBI that look like this:

"It will be remembered as one of the most shameful capitulations by the press to a president in history." @freedom.press's statement on CBS/Paramount's settlement with Trump freedom.press/issues/param...

NEW Posted at usrtk.org: 6.5K+ pages of docs obtained from the University of California-Davis related to PREDICT -- the USAID-funded virus hunting project (which drew scrutiny during the COVID pandemic) that collected 10k samples from bats & discovered ~120 new coronaviruses from 2009-2020 (1/2)

One of the greats. RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...

While Elon Musk became one of Donald Trump’s closest allies last year, he was consuming so much Ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms, Adderall and ketamine that it was adversely affecting his bladder, per @NYTimes www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

White House Health Report Included Fake Citations www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

Yesterday, we filed an appellate brief with the North Carolina Court of Appeals in our NC Public Records Act case against the University of North Carolina for roughly 50,000 pages of documents, mostly of Ralph Baric, possibly containing clues about the origins of COVID-19. usrtk.org/wp-content/u...

Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner, via @kenvogel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

ICE agents last week began showing up in immigration courts across the US to detain certain migrants who are appearing for scheduled hearings, targeting them shortly after their cases were dismissed by judges www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/n...

Justice Department reaches deal to allow Boeing to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes apnews.com/article/boei...

U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar; Trump Administration asks Air Force has been asked to figure out a way to upgrade it so it can be put into use as a new Air Force One for the president, per NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

For two years, New Orleans police secretly used facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, per @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs www.propublica.org/article/pam-...

For sale: Portland’s NBA franchise

Trump Is Poised to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One. The plan raises substantial ethical issues, given the immense value of the lavishly appointed plane and that Trump intends to take ownership of it after he leaves office, via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...

As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/s...

The Nat’l Archives and Records Administration just released another big batch of records on the assassination of RFK archives.gov/rfk

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing new ventures involving billions of dollars that directly benefit their father, the president, via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

Congress’s Fight Over Trump’s Agenda Runs Through Alaska, via @nytimes www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

A day before Trump ousted him as national security adviser, Michael Waltz checked his phone during a White House cabinet meeting. A Reuters photographer captured his phone screen with a list of his chats on what appears to be the messaging app Signal. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/u...

CNN Poll: Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.cnn....

A day after making an Easter Sunday appearance to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis died today at age 88. The NYT’s sweeping obituary: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/w...

The White House has posted a statement announcing “the true origins of COVID” as a lab leak but has provided no new supporting evidence or documentation to back it up www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

Source: Another roughly 60 positions at the CDC were cut today — this time targeting the team devoted to preventing malaria in developing African nations

Always nice to see State Department staffers discuss how the documents we’ve #FOIA’d have been “redacted into oblivion…”

Scoop: Via a #FOIA lawsuit, we obtained the US Defense Intelligence Agency’s classified analysis from 2020 about how the COVID pandemic started. The scientific assessment breaks down how the virus could have been engineered at the Wuhan’s Institute of Virology usrtk.org/covid-19-ori...

Tesla sales tumble 13% as Musk backlash, competition and aging lineup turn off buyers, via @apnews.com apnews.com/article/tesl...

Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/m...

The Trump administration deported a man to El Salvador due to an administrative error & now can't bring him back, per court filings ICE arrested Abrego Garcia, alleging he was an MS-13 gang member. He's now being held in a notorious prison but hasn't been charged, via @wsj.com on.wsj.com/3QURl1T

Booker just broke the record for longest speech in the US Senate — Dixiecrat Storm Thurmond’s 24 hour 18 minute filibuster against the Civil Rights Act in 1957

CDC source: “it’s a bloodbath.” Firsthand perspective of today’s wide-scale cuts at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention

Cory Booker’s marathon anti-Trump speech has lasted more than 20 hours — and counting apnews.com/article/cory...

RFK Jr forced out the FDA’s top vaccine scientist www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

U.S. officials went door-to-door in Greenland to find anyone who wanted to be visited by the Vances. They found no one. via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Here are the war plans that Trump’s advisers shared on Signal, via @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Kennedy wants to let bird flu spread on farms www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...

Musk’s Role in Dismantling Aid Agency Likely Violated Constitution, Judge Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...

NYT analyis: The counter-measures imposed by Canada, China and other nations in retaliation to Trump’s tariffs will hit the counties that voted for him the hardest www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Los Angeles’ mayor wasn’t saving her text messages during the critical days of decision-making surrounding the devastating LA wildfires, per LA Times. Sound familiar, Seattle? www.latimes.com/california/s...

Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting, Via @wired.com www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @RadioFreeTom. Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

NYT: Over the last five years, more than 1,200 people have died after being skipped while near the top of the waiting lists for donated organs www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A federal judge in Seattle just temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s stoppage of the country’s refugee resettlement program that froze funding for agencies that support refugees, via @seattletimes.com www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

After CNN made a FOIA request to the Office of Personnel Management for records detailing security clearances for Elon Musk his DOGE staff, an OPM email responded, 'Good luck with that.' The staff responsible for responding to FOIA requests at OPM had been fired. www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

AI-generated rendering of Beavis and Butthead. Notice anything odd?

Loved ones of victims of Boeing's 737 MAX crashes 6 years ago are questioning Trump's nominee for DoT dep sec, contending he obstructed a Congressional probe into the crashes & caused delays for safety reforms "(S)uch behavior should be unacceptable," per letter to Senate trans comm chair Ted Cruz

Update, per NYT: A core group of the CDC’s “disease detectives” who track outbreaks around the world has apparently been spared, “perhaps because of an uproar among alumni after a majority of its members were told on Friday that they would be let go.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...