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I mean, they should be.

Ghislaine Maxwell moved to lower-security prison in Texas Her attorney did not explain why she was moved from a detention facility in Florida, where she is serving 20 years for sex trafficking.

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned associate, has been moved to a lower-security prison, her attorney said.

Maxwell, who was convicted in 2021 on sex-trafficking charges, had been serving her 20-year sentence at a low security prison.

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

Mr. Digre's company has long manufactured speakers in Minnesota for export, including to a major customer in Canada. His firm relies on certain materials from China, the only place to get many small components needed for speakers. But Mr. Digre must now pay a 55 percent tariff on those Chinese imports. As a result, manufacturing for that customer from the United States no longer makes sense. So Mr. Digre has shifted speaker production to a factory in China, where he will export directly to Canada and bypass the United States entirely.

Read this paragraph, please.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted.

These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had brought lawsuits accusing Louisiana of confining prisoners longer than they should and South Carolina of keeping mentally ill people in unreasonably restrictive gro...

“Since January, President Donald Trump’s DOJ has dropped racial discrimination lawsuits, abandoned investigations of police misconduct and canceled oversight of troubled law enforcement agencies.”
Now this.
Excellent reporting from @coreygjohnson.bsky.social :
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW FROM @reuters.com: Top U.S. law firms have sharply scaled back their efforts to challenge the federal government in court, especially on behalf of pro bono clients, in the face of threats from President Trump.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Whew! Say all of that.

Another fallacy. It’s much easier to close big gaps than smaller ones. Are we to be shocked that the wealth gap closed by leaps and bounds between the time when Black people held no wealth because they were property and emancipation when they were finally able to keep the fruits of their labor?

Checks out.

So, that points to marriage not being the cause of the RACIAL wealth gap, which is what that entire essay is about.

In general, married people hold more wealth than unmarried women. Thst is true for Black people when you compare them to other Black people, but not married Black people when you compare them to unmarried white women. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

So, if education and marriage were the significant factors in closing the racial wealth gap, then the wealth gap should not exist or be narrower when comparing Black married people and white married people, Black college-educated people with white college-educated people. But it’s not.

But what I show in “What Is Owed,” unmarried white people hold more wealth than married Black people. College-educated Black people have less wealth and are more likely to be unemployed than white Americans with no college. And in fact, the wealth gap increases the more educated a Black person is.

The argument is about the cause of the wealth gap between Black and white people, not the wealth gap between married and unmarried Black people. If marriage rates are largely or significantly responsible for the racial wealth gap, we’d need to compared unmarried groups with married groups.

I so want to debate this essay, point by point. But let me just point to an easy error. In arguing the worn theory that Black wealth disparity’s due to unmarried mothers, why would the control group be married Black people, not white people of similar circumstance? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

Powell: "Increased tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods. Near-term measures of inflation expectations have moved up on balance over the course of this year on news about tariffs."

The fact that literally zero outlets ever cover crime decline as a story is a huge reason. (And before you yell at me, we do!)

Brown University Makes a Deal With the White House to Restore Funding

The capitulation and abandonment of civil rights continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

Just read the Brown University agreement and this really jumped out.

"The University will not perform gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child's appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex."

NASA workforce cuts raise fears about safety for space missions The exodus at NASA has shaken the officials at the space agency and stoked concerns about its ability to fly astronauts safely.

NASA and SpaceX plan to launch astronauts to the International Space Station Thursday amid NASA’s workforce turmoil. Concerns about safety have risen as NASA lacks a permanent leader and 4,000 employees having left.

A photo of labor activist Chris Smalls, talking into a mic

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me:

“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

How is a majority white country where white people still run almost all of our institutions anti-white?

This is endorsement of open white supremacy by Trump’s former right hand man and the richest man in the world.

When democratic backsliding and corruption get really bad is usually in term 2.

When first in power, would-be authoritarians often don’t know how things work, and worry that they’ll alienate too many people.

But if they show their true colors then get electoral validation anyway, all bets are off.

“It really is something,” a former senior administration official tells Rolling Stone.

“They are just bragging about doing now what we all were told to downplay or lie about in his first term. … Incredible.”

More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.

Russell Vought claimed on CNN this weekend that NIH funding is corrupt.

As @juliametraux.bsky.social reported this February, his family has directly benefited from the NIH.

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....

When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.

Yes, America Is an Oligarchy Over the past dozen or so years, about half the concentration of wealth in the U.S. has benefited just 19 families.

Ultimately, over the past dozen or so years, about half the concentration of wealth in the U.S. has benefited just 19 families.

19.
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