Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” (Published Oct. 2025 with @newyorker.com)

Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

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Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Most Immigrants Arrested in City Crackdowns Have No Criminal Record www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Trump ordering Bondi to open an investigation into Dems appearing in Epstein files will effectively seal those files again while the investigation continues, leaving Trump free to disingenuously claim that he WANTS the files opened, but that they can't be, because of the investigation. Am I wrong?

All J.J. McCarthy has done is win since the loss to TCU in the CFP semis. H/T @brucefeldmancfb.bsky.social

Bill Pulte ended up getting his own dad busted.

How delightfully selective bodily autonomy applies to vaccines but not wombs. Apparently the Constitution protects your right to spread measles but not to choose motherhood. One can only admire such principled inconsistency. Freedom means infecting babies, tyranny means reproductive choice.

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Everything from military radios to AI can be hacked. At the Defcon hacker conference, researchers showed how they hacked into these systems—not for gain—but to point out vulnerabilities. First, a student who found that vape detectors installed at his high school could be used for surveillance: 🧵

Oh boy. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

In this week’s new #TheWeeklyShow episode, Jon & @mehdirhasan.bsky.social discuss ⬇️: >> Constitutional Fetishizing >> Fox News vs. MSNBC >> Israel & Gaza Fallout >> Merrick Garland’s Timidity >> Wile E. Coyote vs. Road Runner NEW YouTube video out now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IXX...

INBOX: Union for Reform Judaism, Central Conference of American Rabbis & American Conference of Cantors issue a lengthy statement declaring: "Starving Gazan civilians neither will bring Israel the 'total victory' over Hamas it seeks, nor can it be justified by Jewish values or humanitarian law."

The Raw Power of Repentance www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.

District court judges voted today against keeping Alina Habba in her role as interim US attorney. Instead of abiding by that, AG Pan Bondi announces she's firing the woman who would've replaced her. A Watergate-style attack on the rule of law.

What an important point by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social back in February and ever more relevant. "Pam Bondi was Florida's attorney general 2011-2109 ... So questions should be asked about why she didn't take up the [Epstein] case -- or launch a probe -- when she was attorney general in Florida."

The Guardian's investigation into this event is a must-read:

In 1998, this was correctly identified as Nazi speech. (🎥 American History X, © New Line Cinema 1998)

Florida Democrats want Ron DeSantis’ new detention site in the Florida Everglades shut down. State Sen. @shevrinjones.bsky.social, who toured the facility, joins The Weeknight to reveal what he calls a “morally bankrupt” operation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPbv...

"Cruz inserted language into the reconciliation bill that eliminates a $150m fund to 'accelerate advances & improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, and dissemination of info to the public' around weather forecasting."

"Metadata embedded in the Epstein video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro."

Tom Bowman, policy counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology, said disclosing immigrant tax records to DHS for immigration enforcement “sets a dangerous precedent for data privacy abuse in other federal programs.” apnews.com/article/irs-...

Duckworth to Hegseth: "You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily I didn't end up with a questionable tattoo ... you're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe."

Daaaaaaamn

Hegseth warns a US senator not to believe what she reads in any books other than the Bible. Didn't he write a book?

I am Democrat Shawn Harris. I am a husband, father, retired General and farmer. I have announced my candidacy to defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene and I know we will together. Her hate and conspiracies do not belong in Congress. Let’s end the chaos together. Share and join me in this fight:

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

Early post-immigration escalation polling ugly for Trump: Immigration approval 37%-52% (-15) WaPo 43%-54% (-11) Quinnipiac (Q) Deportations 39%-50% (-11) YouGov 40%-56% (-16) Q Overall approval 43%-52% (-9) Econ/YouGov 40%-53% (-13) YouGov 38%-54% (-16) Q Budget Bill 30%-50% (-20) Econ/YG

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A gay man with no known criminal record sought asylum in the U.S. He was sent to a Salvadoran mega-prison. WATCH NOW: youtu.be/_QmW99SqBuw

“In the 50 years I have been immersed in markets and economic policy, I have never before witnessed a signature economic policy initiative that was met with such unalloyed criticism. What’s worse, the damage was entirely self-inflicted,” @steverattner.bsky.social writes.

Seeing is believing. 1st pic is WSJ, 2nd pic is CNN, 3rd pic is WaPo and 4th pic is NYT. Front and center is the market; biggest news worldwide. 5th pic is Fox. You have to scroll down to the 4th page to see ANYTHING about the market. That's how disingenuous Fox is.

The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.