Dave Thomas

Why the Epstein Investigations Took So Long and Did So Little

For example, the feds didn’t speak to or subpoena Les Wexner, Leon Black or Jes Staley. They don’t appear to have interviewed anyone at JPMorgan about its 15-year relationship. They concluded that Deutsche Bank was not guilty before interviewing key employees. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

Why the Epstein Investigations Took So Long and Did So Little

NEW: Federal investigators repeatedly missed chances to catch Epstein. In 2019 they pursued a limited case against him. And then they hardly looked at his financial and other enablers.

Why the Epstein investigations took so long and did so little. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

Renee Good’s lawyer is fighting ICE. He learned civil rights law litigating against Chicago police. “Litigating against the city of Chicago is probably one of the greatest schools of learning you could go to,” Antonio Romanucci said.

Renee Good’s lawyer is fighting ICE. He learned civil rights law litigating against Chicago police. Here is our profile of Antonio Romanucci, an Italian-American success story who rose from workers comp cases to one of the country’s most prominent lawyers
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Polymarket Iran Bets Hit $529 Million as New Wallets Draw Notice As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in. Almost immediately, blockchain sleuths began hunting for unusual patterns in recent bets.

As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in

Leading Illinois Democrats denounce President Donald Trump’s military strikes in Iran The U.S. military’s strikes on Iran provided added impetus for leading Illinois Democrats to step up their criticism of Republican President Donald Trump’s leadership.

Leading Illinois Democrats denounce President Donald Trump’s military strikes in Iran www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/28/i...

Iran's revolutionary guards tell ships passage through Strait of Hormuz 'not allowed', EU naval mission official says An official from the European Union's naval mission Aspides said on Saturday that vessels have been receiving VHF transmission from Iran's Revolutionary Guards saying "no ship is allowed to pass the Strait of Hormuz".

Iran's revolutionary guards tell ships passage through Strait of Hormuz 'not allowed', EU naval mission official says reut.rs/4l4rJ0G

Top US general, Hegseth monitoring Iran strikes from Trump resort, person familiar says Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine are monitoring the U.S. operation in Iran from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where Trum...

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are monitoring the U.S. operation in Iran from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where Trump is currently located, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

The judges in WV have seen enough.

They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out.

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Exclusive: Ahead of strikes, Trump was told Iran attack is high risk, high reward Ahead of the U.S. attack on Iran, President Donald Trump received briefings that not only delivered blunt assessments about the risk of major U.S. casualties but also touted the prospect of a generati...

Exclusive: Ahead of the US attack on Iran, President Trump received briefings that not only delivered blunt assessments about the risk of major US casualties but also touted the prospect of a generational shift in the Middle East in favor of US interests reut.rs/4aS6Lxi

Live: US and Israel strike Iran as Trump says action give Iranians chance to 'topple their rulers' The U.S.-Israel joint operation plunged the Middle East into a new conflict that Donald Trump said would end a security threat to the U.S. and give Iranians a chance to topple their rulers.

Israel and US attack Iran, Trump confirms 'major combat operations' - www.reuters.com/world/iran-c...

-Zero Congressional consultation or approval.
-Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war.
-Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year.
-Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."

YouTube video by Alex Rodriguez Captain America: The Winter Soldier Clip "Sitwell's Confession"

Thinking about how HYDRA's secret weapon in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) is an algorithm that uses vast amounts of data to predict and target its enemies, who would be killed through automated helicarriers. youtu.be/qGpz8Q4Jq6A?...

This is Trump's former AI adviser

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues.

In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."

Trump directs US agencies to toss Anthropic's AI as Pentagon calls startup a supply risk U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he is directing the government to stop work with Anthropic, and the Pentagon said it would declare the startup a supply-chain risk, dealing a major blow to t...

"The actions mark an extraordinary rebuke by the U.S. against one of the premier companies that has kept it in the lead on national security-critical AI, threatening to give Anthropic a pariah status that Washington until now had reserved for enemy suppliers." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Two federal judges rebuke Minnesota U.S. Attorney after ICE fails to follow court orders A federal judge in St. Paul ordered Minnesota’s U.S. attorney to court over DHS’s failure to return property to unlawfully detained immigrants, as another judge rebuked his office.

MORE: A different federal judge in Minnesota has ordered U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen to personally appear at a contempt hearing next Tuesday over the return of property in 28 cases.

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A senior CBS News staffer expressed sympathy for employees at CNN who are frustrated and upset over the Paramount news. "I need to keep reminding myself it can - and will - always get worse," the staffer told me, adding that CNN staffers "should" be freaking out since "it's hell over here."

Netflix backs away from its offer to buy Warner Bros Netflix on Thursday signaled it was backing away from its offer to buying Warner Bros Discovery's streaming and studio assets, saying the deal was no longer financially attractive after Paramount Skyd...

Netflix on Thursday signaled it was backing away from its offer to buying Warner Bros Discovery's streaming and studio assets, saying the deal was no longer financially attractive after Paramount revised its offer for the coveted Hollywood studio to $31-a-share offer. www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

New round of WGN-TV layoffs includes producer whose rough ICE detention went viral

We're on season 2 and it is fantastic so far. They double down on the melodrama, the weirdness, the supernatural elements...

a bald man with a red bow tie says " it is happening again " ALT: a bald man with a red bow tie says " it is happening again "

Finally began watching Twin Peaks after getting my wife the complete Blu-ray set for her birthday. Just got to this sequence. Absolutely riveting.

Fired US prosecutor Maurene Comey joins New York law firm Maurene Comey, who brought criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs before she was fired as a Manhattan federal prosecutor last year, has m...

NEW from me: I spoke with Maurene Comey about her decision to enter private practice, and what it means for her lawsuit against the Trump administration. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

This entire episode is filled with gems.

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

Works for me. Using Chrome on my Android phone.

A US jury convicted prominent Washington lawyer Thomas Goldstein of tax and financial crimes tied to his side career as a high-stakes poker player, a stunning fall for a man who was one of the top US appellate attorneys and often argued cases at SCOTUS reut.rs/47aa0yW

JUST IN: Prominent Washington lawyer Tom Goldstein convicted at tax trial reut.rs/47aa0yW

The Office transitions from a "your coworkers are weird" show to a "your coworkers are your found family" show, and I find that to be incredibly dark and morbid.

Xbox has new management, but not a lot of options It's too late to change most of the decisions that led Microsoft here. So what now?

"The cascading consequences of over a decade of decision-making — by no means all of it Spencer’s — has locked Microsoft’s gaming business into its current, unwieldy shape." www.polygon.com/phil-spencer...