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The FBI As We Knew It is Gone It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it.

I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...

This is going to be all over the rural areas as a direct replacement for PBS and all it's going to do is continue splitting people into two different realities.

Siskel, Ebert, and the Secret of Criticism The duo’s onscreen sparring, far from being a sideshow, foregrounded the inextricably personal nature of reviewing.

As much as Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert often clashed, there was a key thing they shared: neither was a movie person.

A woman accused of fraud hired the AG's brother as her lawyer. Months later, DOJ dropped charges Prosecutors have moved to dismiss charges against a woman accused of fraud who was being represented in court by the brother of Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Fed’l prosecutors dismissed charges against a Florida woman whose lawyer is Brad Bondi, the AG’s brother. The client is a former GOP lawmaker accused of Covid relief fraud. abcnews.go.com/US/woman-acc...

Vance just out here having the time of his life on the taxpayer dime. Ski trips in VT, Greenland excursion, Disneyland, special boat outing, now he’s off to the Cotswolds. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this.

Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

House Republican Price Hike PRICES ARE UP! Under Republicans, costs have soared and Americans are paying more than ever. Don’t believe us? Select your items below, head to check out, and see for yourself just how much more you'r...

Nobody’s ever seen a website like this before.

There’s never been anything like it.

Many people are saying this website is the best ever.

houserepublicanpricehike.com

Irrationally annoyed that this clever post ended w the "texting in '92" example. Made me think the author is an oblivious gen z who ran out of ideas & lazily asked chatgpt "when was texting invented?"

Anyone conscious through the period knows texting didn't become a cultural norm until ~2003ish.

I love this. We are going to see more heroes stepping up

Almost 90% Of Americans Are Worried About The Cost Of Groceries The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

Tariffs raise the cost of Dominion's wind farm by $500 million President Donald Trump’s tariffs will boost Dominion Energy’s offshore wind project by more than $500 million – with half of that to be passed on to the company’s ratepayers,

Trump’s tariffs will cause a ridiculous increase in energy costs that will hurt your wallet. With their impact on offshore wind projects alone, Virginians will pay between $253 million and $320 million to foot the bill for Trump’s import taxes.

Complete idiocy.

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This is pretty fucking insane. Abbott says he’ll remove any Democrats who don’t show up tomorrow from office.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Ex-CIA Whistleblower: "The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won" Math doesn’t lie—people do. A buried NSA‑authorized audit paved the way for this unelected illegitimate regime.

This should be a Five Alarm Fire on every G'ddamned media outlet in the world.

I very rarely post a link to someone else's newsletter...as I have my own. This, however...is a MUST see.

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Ghislaine Maxwell Moved to Minimum-Security Women’s Prison in Texas

This is why you don't let a serial crime-doer become president and stack DOJ leadership with his personal defense lawyers.

Ghislaine Maxwell Moved to Minimum-Security Women’s Prison in Texas

There it is.

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-...

When the Federal Government Eats Itself After six months of DOGE, vital institutions are in disarray as the civil service braces for new cuts.

In the first half of 2025, the federal civilian workforce shrank by 60,000 people. Thousands more have retired, quit, or been dismissed but remain on payroll for the time being. “The loss of expertise is breathtaking,” a fired financial regulator said.

‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows

NEW: A newly declassified part of the Durham report shows republicans used a Russian-manufactured email as evidence that Hilary Clinton conspired with Russia. 😂😂😂 gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

How long do I have to be on bluesky before the wrestling posts stop littering my feed?

Not yucking anyone's yum, I just dgaf about soap opera pretend fighting.

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

The U.S. invented these technologies. Then China dominated them. China dominates the global market for clean energy technology like electric vehicles, batteries and solar panels, which were all invented in the U.S.

China calls them the "New Three" -- solar panels, EVs, and batteries -- a set of technologies the country dominates.

But once, the US had a headstart.

New from me and @naemas.bsky.social on how the US lost its lead in clean energy -- and how China took over.
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Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

Great reporting from @mollytaft.com on how the DOE's climate science report misuses scientists' work to downplay the negative effects of climate change www.wired.com/story/scient...

Unnoticed Whistle-Blower Document Alarms Justice Department Veterans

Holy shit. The Justice Department's inspector general "received, but did not act upon, a potentially explosive set of allegations" against Emil Bove "for more than two months."

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

graph shows: taxes have become less progressive overtime in the United States (Average effective tax rates as a percentage of pre-tax income by income group, 1962 to 2019) the graph shows that tax rates for the bottom income groups have pretty much stayed the same while tax rates for the wealthy have drastically dropped

Graph shows percentage of 80+ year olds working among their age demographic has increased from 1990 to 2020 source US census Bureau via IPUMS Noah Sheidlower Business Insider

So forty years of trickle-down economics is really working out for all of us, huh?

What We Miss When We Talk About the Racial Wealth Gap Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged it, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting solutions. Have we been focussing on the wrong things?

The racial wealth gap today remains where it was in the 1960s: around six to one. The ratio hasn’t budged. What went wrong?

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

This will have to count as my Supreme Court term review.

I make that point that there's no point in reviewing what the Supreme Court has done because the rule of law is dead in this country anyway.

My latest in @thenation.com

Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dism...

Well-reported & depressing piece about Luke Farritor and DOGE: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

It is time that Democrats not only match what Republicans are doing with gerrymandering, but exceed it. Every Democratic controlled state needs to be looking to redrawing their maps -- not to gain 5 seats like in TX, but cumulatively 15, 20 or 30 seats. We must use every tool available.

The conspiracy to free the world's most notorious sex trafficker QAnon is fake. But Trump's corrupt deal with Ghislaine Maxwell is real.

New in PN: The conspiracy to free the world's most notorious sex trafficker

"Trump has made it clear that the quid for his quo is dirt on prominent Democrats. And so if Maxwell wants out, she better start singing about *blue* birds only."