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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.www.nytimes.comAs senators delayed a crucial vote on Blanche’s AG nomination over concerns about the weaponization fund, a million-dollar DOJ payment to an anti-abortion activist underscored how taxpayer $$ could be funneled to people claiming to be victims of government persecution www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
With Blanche Nomination at Stake, Payouts to Trump Allies ContinueA seven-figure settlement was announced hours before senators skeptical about the so-called weaponization fund delayed a crucial vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general.www.nytimes.com
New CNN poll: 73%, a new high, say Trump is not paying enough attention to the country's most important problems. Views on the war in Iran worsen, as economic issues remain deeply negative. @aedwardslevy.bsky.social has all the details here. www.cnn.com/2026/07/29/p...
CNN Poll: Americans doubt Trump is paying enough attention to the country’s most important problems | CNN PoliticsA record-high 73% of US adults say that President Donald Trump hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with just 27% saying he’s ...www.cnn.com
Epstein victims claim AG nominee Todd Blanche told them to ‘get to the point’ during face-to-face
Epstein victims claim Todd Blanche told them to ‘get to the point’ during meetingBlanche met with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse earlier this month after a Republican senator called for ittrib.al
A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation ListA program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.open.substack.com
Here is a full list of every state that DOJ had sued and lost for access to their voter file: Arizona California Connecticut Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
The indispensable @jamellebouie.net: Musk's efforts to spread hate are more important than his cars and rockets. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? (Gift Article)Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?www.nytimes.comAnd here we go again. “US military launches strikes on Iranian targets a day after it foiled missile attack on US forces.” apnews.com/article/iran...
US military launches strikes on Iranian targets a day after it foiled missile attack on US forcesThe renewed hostilities sent oil prices spiking. Brent crude, the international standard, jumped 3.1% to $84.58 a barrel.apnews.com“Sally.” New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlash. apnews.com/article/new-...
New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlashA school district in a rural corner of upstate New York is hitting pause on plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom.apnews.comFauci’s diary entries show the former government science adviser’s disillusionment with Trump during the Covid-19 pandemic, branding him “rambling”, “crazy”, “bumbling”, “incompetent”, “an idiot”, “a true embarrassment”, and “truly an obnoxious adolescent”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Fauci expressed disillusionment with ‘rambling, crazy’ Trump in journalFormer top US health official wrote about challenging interactions with publicity-fixated Trump during Covidwww.theguardian.com
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources sayThe plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.www.cbsnews.comWhen the new Pentagon data is combined with updated totals for Operation Epic Fury, 18 troops have died and another 624 have been wounded since the US launched its war against Iran on Feb. 28. www.cnn.com/2026/07/26/p...
Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accounting | CNN PoliticsThe Pentagon updated its war casualty database Saturday, recording more than 140 new wounded and restoring the four soldiers killed due to Iranian strikes last weekend.www.cnn.com
“After months of insisting the dinner was worth reviving in the name of the First Amendment … the organization instead handed Trump a nationally televised platform to demean the very journalists it exists to represent,” @passantino.bsky.social writes. www.status.news/p/the-white-...
The White House Correspondents’ DisgraceThe WHCA sought to reconvene its annual dinner in celebration of press freedom. Instead, it handed Donald Trump a platform to attack the very journalists the organization exists to represent.www.status.news
NUCLEAR CASH President Trump, his family and his circle of advisers have monetized crypto, the predictions markets, the data center boom & rare-earths mining. Now they are seeing there's money to be made in a new vector: The nuclear industry. The NYT takes a look www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
Trump Is Pushing Nuclear Energy, Including Saudi Deal. His Family and Supporters Could Benefit. (Gift Article)In some cases, no direct line can be drawn from the president’s domestic nuclear agenda to his family or close allies. But they have overlapping business ties that could position them for gains.www.nytimes.com
Key thing to understand about "remigration" is that it doesn't mean "send immigrants home." He's an immigrant, Peter Thiel is an immigrant, etc. It's not even a white nationalism project, it's a trans-Atlantic white continentalism project, nations themselves aren't important, only race matters.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
