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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)
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
www.propublica.org
January 12, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:55 PM
wapo.st/4q4TlEM - It's important to know and share your family history
Opinion | Every family has a history. Here’s how to make sure it’s handed down.
What happens when the children are the historians.
wapo.st
December 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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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...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Most Immigrants Arrested in City Crackdowns Have No Criminal Record www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record
In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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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?
November 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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All J.J. McCarthy has done is win since the loss to TCU in the CFP semis.

H/T @brucefeldmancfb.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Bill Pulte ended up getting his own dad busted.
September 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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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.
September 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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August 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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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: 🧵
It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug
A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.
www.wired.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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July 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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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...
Mehdi Hasan on the Media, Democrats & The Crisis In Gaza | The Weekly Show
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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July 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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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."
July 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The Raw Power of Repentance www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
Opinion | The Raw Power of Repentance
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.
Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files
Bondi told president at the meeting that Justice also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victims.
on.wsj.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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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.
July 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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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."
July 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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The Guardian's investigation into this event is a must-read:
Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year
In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it
www.theguardian.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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In 1998, this was correctly identified as Nazi speech.

(🎥 American History X, © New Line Cinema 1998)
July 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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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...
'Shackled' & 'in a cage': FL state senator’s firsthand account of detention center
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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"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."
Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding
Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics say
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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"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."
Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified
There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein's death.
www.wired.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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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-...
IRS acting commissioner is resigning over deal to send immigrants' tax data to ICE, AP sources say
The Internal Revenue Service’s acting commissioner is resigning over a deal to share immigrants’ tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people i...
apnews.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM