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"It’s a story about an administration that let a federal agency’s no-bid contractor mess up a paid renovation job on a national monument, then let a former Olympic athlete get criminally charged for it, rather than get to the bottom of what actually happened before pursuing an indictment."

"...the shift to concierge medicine is something of a warning signal.'When a physician converts to one of these models, there are fewer physicians available to treat the general population,' says Jordan Weiss, an assistant professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine who studies health & aging."

"For an attorney general to bring even one of these cases would have been an impeachable transgression in any other administration (arguably including even Trump 1.0).Today, such abuses have become normalized—so much so that they have gotten nary a mention in the ongoing Blanche confirmation fight."

"All told, the second-term president has raised more than $800 million since returning to office, according to an updated Wall Street Journal analysis." - WSJ

"If a company encounters an issue with the federal government that comes to Trump’s attention, he will want to know how much money the company gave, according to a person familiar with the matter. At times he’ll rib the corporate leaders who haven’t met the goals he set, the person said." - WSJ

www.wsj.com/politics/pol... "'...very important to the president. He’s asked me to call you and ask you for this donation,' O’Rourke has relayed on phone calls with companies, persistently following up w/them. In some calls, she has referred to Trump as the boss, saying 'the boss wants this money.'"

Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising OperationMeredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.www.wsj.com

"One parent reported that guards who are perceived as 'too nice' are scolded by supervisors and told to be harsher. A guard told the parent: 'You only have three rights here: drink, sleep, eat.' the report said." - Hunter Walker

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o... "...pointed out that Mr. Blanche has targeted Mr. Trump’s political adversaries with bogus criminal cases and overseen an exodus of some of the Justice Department’s most experienced lawyers. "Less noted but as important: He is also embarrassingly bad at lawyering."

Opinion | There Are So Many Reasons to Reject Todd Blanche. Here’s Another One. (Gift Article)Don’t forget this key reason the Senate should reject him.www.nytimes.com

www.wsj.com/world/middle... "'We didn’t say disarmament, we didn’t say handing over the weapons, and we didn’t agree on any Israeli involvement,' Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas’s negotiating team, told The Wall Street Journal."

Latest Gaza Peace Plan Runs Up Against RealityA day after President Trump heralded a breakthrough in Gaza that would lead to disarmament of Hamas, the militant group and Israel are at odds over what was actually agreed to.www.wsj.com

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u... "'We’re talking about a growing confluence of conduct,' Mr. Ebert added, 'which ultimately, Your Honor, I think goes to the fact that the presumption of regularity has eroded, if not evaporated.'" ⚖️

Missteps Mount in Justice Dept.’s Case Against Minnesota Anti-ICE Protesters (Gift Article)The problems plaguing the case have not only hurt the government’s chances, lawyers say, but have also undermined the bonds of trust that prosecutors have traditionally enjoyed in court.www.nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o... "'Right now, I feel the hyper-partisanship growing in this country in dangerous ways,' Mr. Kim said. 'People calling our public servants criminals,' he lamented, is 'undermining the very nature of the work of governance.'"

Opinion | What We Really Learned From the Fauci Hearing (Gift Article)Show trials are bad for democracy.www.nytimes.com

"Tina Peters...and her lawyer Peter Ticktin. The two of them met with Trump in the White House on June 30, when, according to Peters, she told the president to issue an executive order banning voting machines. Tickin has reportedly been involved in drafting a proposed executive order..."

www.ourtownny.com/news/amazon-... "Words were exchanged. 'I yelled something like 'hey watch where you’re going’ Saslow told Our Town. At that point, he said Garvajal 'did a U-turn and ran me over and knocked me down.'"

Amazon Crime: E-bike Driver Hits Pedestrian, Charged with AssaultA 25-year-old driver of an Amazon electric cargo bike was charged with two counts of felony assault after cops said he deliberately drove the vehicle into a 79-...www.ourtownny.com

Gas in NY today was $4.34 a gallon. ⛽️

"...pulling Blanche’s nomination, even temporarily, would represent an extraordinary demonstration of his willingness to place survival of a deal to preserve a personal windfall over his desire to secure a Senate-confirmed nominee to head the Justice Dept." - Glenn Thrush | NYT "personal windfall"

"NOTUS compared pages before and after the redactions, and found that many of the suddenly redacted passages concerned the Millers’ relationship with Fauci, with the original documents mentioning Katie 56 times, while the redacted version mentioned her just 37 times."

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@errollouis.bsky.social Great conversation on Brian Lehrer's show just now, Errol Louis, re: NYC specialized schools. Thank you! nymag.com/intelligence...

It’s Time to End the Test That’s Grotesquely Segregating NYC SchoolsThe SHSAT is a wildly unfair method of evaluating students disguised as a merit-based system.nymag.com

@thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social @errollouis.bsky.social "It's painfully obvious that the test does not measure what it should be measuring." - Errol Louis Thank you, Errol Louis, for discussing the test to get into the city's specialized schools on Brian Lehrer's show this morning.

@lastwordmsnow.bsky.social Thank you, Lawrence O'Donnell. "'I love you, Tony'" ⚖️