Facts matter.

White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge President Donald Trump has said he wants a “baby boom,” but critics say his administration has yet to make significant family policy changes — and that Medicaid cuts will hurt.

All those Trump surrogates who touted this, and news orgs that reported it credulously, owe Americans a big fat apology www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Something really sick is happening on Twitter and there’s no indication that the ownership or any of the elite or institutional users care

DOJ Seeking Voter And Election Information From At Least 19 States The move's alarmed states, which have the constitutional authority to run elections and are protected from sharing individual data with the government.

In an alarming move, the Department of Justice has demanded voter and election information from at least 19 states

BREAKING: China has officially banned cryptocurrency trading, mining, and related services

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Phone numbers

DOJ
202-514-2000
Press 4

DHS
202‑282‑8495

DHS OIG
1‑800‑323‑8603

Ice
1‑866‑347‑2423

Congressial switch board
202-224-3121
Demand an immediate shutdown of the facility in Florida

They have been on a hunger strike for 10 days

We need an immediate independent investigation NOW

A 10-day hunger
strike persists at
Florida's Alligator Alcatraz detention facility for undocumented immigrants, according to NBC. Stories of Multiple detainees are refusing food, following Governor Ron DeSantis' disclosure inhumane living
conditions

The story of how Trump sells access to the White House - to benefit himself and his family financially and to benefit his political operation - is shocking and sordid.

No President has ever monetized access like Trump has.

1/ It's a story you need to know.

'DOGE lied': Expert floored as blistering report finds Musk team blew billions The Department of Government Efficiency wasn't so efficient after all. In fact, was extraordinarily wasteful, according to a Thursday report by the U.S. Senate's investigations subcommittee.When Elon ...

DOGE alone should get Trump impeached & convicted.

A report released by the office of Sen Blumenthal, ranking Dem on Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, found that in just six months of operation, DOGE wasted more than $21 billion.

the price of stupidity.

Authoritarians are attacking universities. Here's how it's going at one public school. I'm publicly documenting an event timeline to help bring order to the chaotic nature of events and help other schools plan the responses they are likely going to need.

I made an event timeline to try to make sense of all the federal overreach at @georgemasonu.bsky.social and whoo boy. When you lay it out like this, the executive over reach comes into focus. open.substack.com/pub/misofact...

House Speaker Mike Johnson says Congress’s $174,000 salary isn’t enough to make ends meet.

OVER $1 TRILLION ERASED FROM U.S. STOCK MARKET AMID TRUMP TARIFF TURMOIL, WEAK JOBS DATA

NBC's Ken Delanian confirming my reporting.

EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

They have downgraded her sex offender status to move her to a minimum security facility. The next logical step is a commutation or a pardon. If you have any information on that, my Signal is in my bio. I'll keep you anonymous as always. Please share widely 🙏 www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

Maybe a theorized conspiracy isn’t the reason for job-number revisions This morning's monthly jobs report estimated that the country didn't add as many new workers in July as had been expected. More strikingly, it also showed that the number of jobs estimated to have bee...

Wrote (and charted) about the BLS revisions and firing. www.pbump.net/o/maybe-a-th...

We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans.

Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.

EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

In any case, every day the company more closely resembles the social products that they have so vocally disdained. They built a network; they grow it through engagement-based algorithms and push notifications; they apologize when they inadvertently amplify hate speech. And when it comes to content moderation, on Substack as on any other social network, your rights come down to the whims of the co-founders and a handful of their employees. It turns out that most venture-backed consumer internet companies ultimately take similar shapes. I'm under no illusion the Substack founders will take this moment to re-think their policies on Nazis. But it would be nice if it taught them some humility.

The Substack founders bragged that they were building a different kind of platform. But when they promoted a Nazi this week, they revealed that they have become a social network like any other www.platformer.news/substack-naz...

"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

This keeps happening.

$805,000,000 LIQUIDATED FROM THE CRYPTOCURRENCY MARKET IN THE PAST 24 HOURS

The view from our GOES East satellite at sunrise revealed widespread wildfire smoke that is resulting in large areas of unhealthy air quality, and Air Quality Alerts for at least portions of eight U.S. states. Take precautions. Learn how at weather.gov/safety/airquality

Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Forgotten AI Summit Long before ChatGPT, a group of AI luminaries gathered on an island to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. Their funder ultimately cast a shadow on all who attended.

Well @stevenlevy.bsky.social’s newsletter this week is a banger.

www.wired.com/story/epstei...

Just 73,000 jobs added in July, while May and June were revised down. It's the weakest 3-month period of job growth since COVID. If you throw out 2020, it's the weakest 3-month period since 2010 and the aftermath of the Great Recession.

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

"The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in July removed references to President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit display. "

CBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies A CBS News investigation found discrepancies between the government's description of the Jeffrey Epstein jail video and what the video shows.

Waiter there is a cursor in my ‘raw’ video www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...

Let them eat cake.