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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

YouTube video by Fed-Up America Keeper of the Flame - Americanism

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Interesting to note that the coal industry in the U.S. employs just a tad over 40,000 people, according to the BLS. The same source tells us that 64,000 people work at wineries.

Rachel Cockerell’s non-fiction book The Melting Point is a gem in substance and presentation. A family history deeply entwined in the Zionist movement and Jewish emigration is effectively recounted solely by the direct quotation of primary sources.

Rachel Kushner’s novel Creation Lake takes the reader into the mind of an amoral agent provocateur as she schemes to set up activists for a fall. She’s not laudable, but there is something about her.

Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read From Instagram poetry to Greek classics, the works of fiction that have caused uproar through history – and into the present

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These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency. Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards,…

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, voted for cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but he’s also routed more than 800 of his constituents’ complaints to the agency — the most of any current lawmaker from either party, ProPublica found.

By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

Karl: The transformation has been gradual and unmistakable.

By February, some golden urns on the mantle.

April, gold adornments appear on the walls.

By July, it's gold everywhere.

Just this week more scaffolding popped up, even more new gold trim appeared.

“We Want to Save This Investment”: Advocates Race to Secure Maternal Health Funding Before It Runs Out Over the last five years, nearly $90 million has gone to state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes. Advocates say cuts to the program would be “devastating.”

At least five states rely entirely on federal dollars to pay for their maternal mortality reviews. Committee members expressed alarm that this money may evaporate.

“If we get defunded, I suspect it would be devastating,” one said.

By @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social

Transcript: Former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Aug. 10, 2025 The following is the transcript of an interview with Dr. Jerome Adams, the surgeon general in President Trump's first term, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Aug. 10, 2025.

Adams also denounces RFK Jr. for cutting off research on mRNA.

"If we did not have mRNA vaccines" during Covid, "it would have taken at least 18 to 24 additional months to get a vaccine."

"At least 2 million lives were saved," and maybe "up to 20 million lives were saved, because of the vaccines."

Just putting this here for no particular reason.

He sold vaccine cards and injected kids with saline so they thought they were vaccinated. There are no rules anymore

I have wondered for a long time which mattered more: reality, or the online perception of reality. If people whose children die still don't believe in vaccines, then we have the answer.

We are in this fix because Congress is controlled by spineless MAGA lackeys, and an unhinged MAGA majority on SCt has shielded Trump (and by extension his minions) from criminal liability, given him enough wiggle room to evade lower court orders, and facilitated a huge expansion of executive power.

“James” seems like a good follow up to “Master Slave Husband Wife”. So far, so good!

Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered WASHINGTON—After being confronted about social media posts that blamed the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers on the far left, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) stressed Tuesday that he would have said the same thing if his own family had been savagely murdered. “Democrats can say what they want about me, but I would have absolutely called […]

“Democrats can say what they want about me, but I would have absolutely called the shooter a Marxist and made tasteless digs at Gov. Walz had my loved ones recently been killed in cold blood,” said Mike Lee theonion.com/mike-le...

Mike Lee confronted by Minnesota colleague over shooting comments "Honestly, he seemed a little surprised to be confronted," Sen. Tina Smith said.

Tina Smith confronted her Senate colleague Mike Lee over his social media post that blamed the Minnesota lawmaker shootings on “Marxists.”

Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change? Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.

Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.

Melissa Hortman obituary: Remembering her determination, humor Melissa Hortman reshaped education, environment and health care through years in Minnesota House leadership.

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Protest signs held high at a rally today. The central one is hand-letterd, saying "Melissa Hortman Loved Democracy, and So Do I"

This is heartbreaking.
(via someone at the St. Paul rally)

I am currently reading Master Slave Husband Wife, the biography of an enslaved married couple who escaped from GA to the UK in 1848. An incredible and dangerous feat, deeply researched and well told by author Woo.

Abrego Garcia indictment led top federal prosecutor in Tennessee to resign: Sources

Wow. What a sign that criminal case against Abrego Garcia may be politically cooked up.

"Schrader’s resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons"

Schrader spent 15 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville and was chief of the criminal division

Trump Escalates Musk Feud By Nuking Mars WASHINGTON—After days of listening to the tech billionaire criticize his ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ President Donald Trump escalated his feud with Elon Musk Friday by nuking Mars. “Elon was ‘wearing thin,’...

Trump Escalates Musk Feud By Nuking Mars

RFK Jr. is shrinking the agency that works on mental illness and addiction The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration has seen its staff cut by more than a third, and it's facing deep budget cuts. Progress on overdose deaths could be lost, experts warn.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration has seen its staff cut by more than a third, and it's facing deep budget cuts. Progress on overdose deaths could be lost, experts warn.

I don't frequently find myself in full agreement with Justice Gorsuch, but his dissent from SCOTUS' decision not to hear a case involving the destruction of a site that is sacred to Western Apaches seems to me not only legally correct, but beautifully written. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

“Everyone has to make everything in the United States, or else!” he yells… as his family signs deal after deal for golf courses in other countries… and he accepts hundreds of millions in crypto bribes from unidentified foreign actors…

Boy by Nicole Galland is set in London in 1601. A teenage boy and girl are the protagonists. He is a famous actor who plays female roles. She is a student of the natural sciences who pretends to be a boy. The Earl of Essex and Francis Bacon play critical roles in their lives. A good read.

Finally finished Zone One, Colson Whitehead’s 2009 zombie apocalypse saga. The writing style and structure he adopted reflects the swirl of events in the story. It was challenging to read, but worth the work. This book is more literary than genre.