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🧵Jeffrey Epstein was a camper at Interlochen, the Michigan arts school, in 1967. Between 1990 and 2003 he donated over $400,000 and had a lodge named for him. Per a new investigation, two women reported sexual conduct by him, one at that lodge, while they were students. He bought proximity.

Investigation revealed 'devastating' reports of sexual misconduct at school supported by EpsteinAn investigation has turned up allegations of sexual misconduct against nearly 50 people who were formerly affiliated with a prestigious Michigan fine arts school.share.google

🧵A parent heads-up. Cheap imported jewelry, especially children's sets sold online, keeps testing positive for cadmium and lead, toxic if a child mouths or swallows them. One recent sample ran 39 percent cadmium by weight. Federal recalls are ongoing. Check any sets against CPSC listings.

Trump wanted to tariff Canada for the smoke its fires blew into America. Now American fires, on a forest where DOGE held up the $10M grant meant to thin it, have crossed into Canada and choked Toronto. The principle was his. The smoke is now ours. The invoice, by his logic, is coming.

Trump threatened to tariff Canada over smoke from its wildfires drifting south. This month, Minnesota fires, on land where his DOGE delayed a $10M prevention grant, crossed the Canadian border and sent smoke north into Toronto. By his own rule, Canada should send us the bill.

Musk said advertisers who left X should be criminally prosecuted, declared "it is war," and sued. A judge dismissed it in March, finding no harm, noting the brands simply declined to buy from a platform they judged degraded. Today he settled. No money, no jail. The war ended in a handshake.

Roughly 69 million women took their husband's name and now hold a birth certificate that does not match it. The SAVE Act turns that into a wall between them and the ballot. Not a ban, a barrier with the same result. Sen. Murkowski, a Republican woman, counted 155,000 such voters in Alaska alone.

The Senate left for recess early in June when no one objected. Now some of its members are threatening to cancel the August break as if that were a sacrifice, to force the SAVE Act their own leader says cannot pass. A Republican senator called it what it is: theater. The war has no such urgency.

A Minnesota professor and father of two faces six years in prison on a conspiracy charge. Per the indictment, he committed no violent act, directed no protest, and never encountered an ICE agent. The antifa tie the DOJ offered was another defendant's sweatshirt, not a word Davis said.

The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ livesshare.google

David Hearn, an Olympic canoeist, faces a felony for damaging the Reflecting Pool. Per his lawyers' filing, the prosecution's own witness testified it was already leaking a million gallons a week and torn before he touched it. The repairs were needed regardless. He faces 10 years.

As cyclosporiasis cases passed 11,500, the FDA's acting food chief offered the public a thought: "The U.S. food supply is safe." The Health Secretary had already declared the outbreak "under control." Somewhere between those two sentences are 11,500 people who were not.

A trained legal observer says a Border Patrol agent knew her name and warned her not to follow him while she monitored an ICE operation. Three days later her Global Entry was revoked. She is suing, alleging First Amendment retaliation. She now self-censors and fears surveillance when she travels.

Woman who lost Global Entry after Border Patrol encounter sues federal governmentA woman who's a trained legal observer is suing the government after she says she faced retaliation for monitoring agents and had her Global Entry revoked.abc7chicago.com

Hegseth fired the first woman to lead the Navy. Her replacement, Adm. Caudle, had hired Hegseth's own lawyer to clear an inquiry into remarks some read as blaming assault victims. That lawyer had recommended him for the job. Hegseth told Congress the lawyer repped no one. It was not true.

An Admiral’s Rise Reveals the Politics Driving Hegseth’s PentagonBefore he was picked to lead the Navy, Adm. Daryl Caudle found ways to signal his support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s anti-diversity goals.www.nytimes.com

The ICE officer who killed a man in his car in Maine had, per his relatives and the AP, a history of violence and mental illness, and a voicemail wishing a woman's throat cut. He skipped in-person training. Trump's border czar admits he should never have cleared vetting. Ten dead so far.

Taylor Farms donated $2 million to Trump and Republicans, then phoned the White House to slow the recall on lettuce tied to thousands of illnesses. The White House obligingly put the FDA on the line. A former FDA chief called that not standard. The rule that would trace it waits until 2028.

‘Not standard’ for Taylor Farms to ask White House to delay cyclospora recall, ex-FDA head saysScott Gottlieb responds to report that company contacted the White House seeking to delay a recall announcementwww.theguardian.com

The White House says Trump was "totally exonerated" on Epstein. Exonerated means cleared by a proceeding. No court, grand jury, or investigation has cleared him. He was never charged, which is not the same. The DOJ withheld the FBI interviews until it was forced to release them.

The White House keeps saying Trump was "exonerated" on Epstein. The word means cleared by a legal process. None occurred. He was never charged, never tried, never cleared. What did happen: the DOJ quietly withheld FBI interviews with an accuser, then released them under pressure.

White House Rushes to Trump's Defense After Alan Ritchson Torches President Over Epstein FilesThe White House came to Trump's defense after 'Reacher' star Alan Ritchson torched the president over his handling of the Epstein files.share.google

After five months of war, the general running it told the president to stop. Adm. Brad Cooper, the CENTCOM commander, said the Hormuz targets were exhausted and the bombing had reached its limit. The Joint Chiefs warned of dwindling interceptors. Eighteen Americans died to reach that conclusion.

The Atlantic asked Mark Kelly if America is ready for a disabled first lady. His wife, Gabby Giffords, was shot through the head in 2011 and relearned to walk and speak. Kelly's answer: "we have a pretty disabled president right now." One survived a bullet. The other mocks the wounded.

'How Can Anyone Be So Rude?!': Reporter Blindsides Mark Kelly With Question About His Disabled Wife — Kelly Flips the Whole 'Disgusting' Setup Into a Brutal Trump TakedownArizona Sen. Mark Kelly didn’t pull any punches when responding to a reporter’s question about whether the country is ready for a future “disabled firstatlantablackstar.com

A federal appeals court refused to revive Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, leaving in place a ruling that it is an unlawful tax Congress never authorized. He imposed it by proclamation. Employers had paid $2,000 to $5,000. The power to tax belongs to Congress, not the president.

Two days after the Times reported security concerns with Trump's Qatari-donated Air Force One, the Justice Department subpoenaed four reporters and the phone records of their spouses and one reporter's mother. A federal judge cited "profound First Amendment" issues. The DOJ withdrew.

Justice Dept. drops 'New York Times' subpoenas under pressure from judgeThe Justice Department is dropping the subpoenas it filed demanding grand jury testimony and phone records from New York Times journalists after sharp questioning Thursday from a federal judge.www.npr.org