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Senate Democrats are using a 1928 law to pressure Trump to release the Epstein files

Senate Democrats are using a 1928 law to pressure Trump to release the Epstein files

Greg Sargent writes: Desperate times may call for desperate measures, but they also call for creative ones. Faced with a criminal president and a GOP congressional majority that’s wholly devoted to shutting down any and all transparency and accountability for him, Democrats will have to get increasingly resourceful in their efforts to crack through that facade. The very tentative good news is: They actually have options to do just that. This is why you should pay attention to the news…

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The clowns leading the FBI ‘have no idea what they’re doing’

The clowns leading the FBI ‘have no idea what they’re doing’

Quinta Jurecic writes: Michael Feinberg had not been planning to leave the FBI. But on May 31, he received a phone call from his boss asking him about a personal friendship with a former FBI agent who was known for criticizing President Donald Trump. Feinberg, an assistant special agent in charge at the FBI’s field office in Norfolk, Virginia, realized right away that he was in the crosshairs of the bureau’s leadership at an unusually chaotic time. If his 15-year…

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In the AI goldrush, Meta is now using tents to house giant data centers

In the AI goldrush, Meta is now using tents to house giant data centers

Fast Company reports: When Mark Zuckerberg announced on July 14 that his company Meta was embarking on a project to build massively power-hungry data centers to support its ambitions for advancing artificial intelligence, the imagery that accompanied his posts on Facebook and Threads was stark. The data centers he was announcing would have power requirements upwards of five gigawatts and, to show just how big that would be, Zuckerberg’s post included a visual of a gigantic rectilinear block covering a…

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Musk pushes the view that women are ‘anti-white’ because they’re ‘weak’

Musk pushes the view that women are ‘anti-white’ because they’re ‘weak’

Gizmodo reports: Elon Musk has long shared extremist views on X, the social media platform he purchased in late 2022. But every once in a while, his activity on the platform is so extreme that it can still manage to shock even the most jaded Musk observer. That’s what happened Wednesday when the billionaire Tesla CEO retweeted an account that insisted women are “built to be traded” and are “anti-white” because they’re physically weak. The social media exchange started on…

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Peter Beinart: Why do some American Jews believe equality is good for us but not for Israelis and Palestinians?

Peter Beinart: Why do some American Jews believe equality is good for us but not for Israelis and Palestinians?

  Editor-at-large of “Jewish Currents,” who writes “The Beinart Notebook” on Substack, Peter Beinart sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss his book, “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning,” and speaking out against Israel. They talk about learning from Jewish history to be the saviors rather than the oppressors, America and the U.N.’s failure to hold Benjamin Netanyahu accountable, the urgency of engaging in critical discourse with other Jews, and how listening to Palestinian stories can illuminate…

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Gallup: Twice as many Americans oppose Israel’s destruction of Gaza as those who approve of it

Gallup: Twice as many Americans oppose Israel’s destruction of Gaza as those who approve of it

Gallop reports: Americans’ approval of Israel’s military action in Gaza has fallen 10 percentage points since the prior measurement in September, and it is now at 32%, the lowest reading since Gallup first asked the question in November 2023. Disapproval of the military action has now reached 60%. These findings are from a July 7-21, 2025, Gallup poll, as Israel’s campaign against Hamas stretched into its 21st month. Americans supported Israel’s actions in Gaza in its initial reading in 2023,…

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Poll: New York Democrats support Mamdani and want to see Netanyahu arrested

Poll: New York Democrats support Mamdani and want to see Netanyahu arrested

Semafor reports: New York City’s Democratic primary voters overwhelmingly believe that Israel is “committing genocide” in Gaza and that the United States should stop arming the Jewish state, according to new polling from a pro-Palestinian group and shared first with Semafor. Asked if the city should “enforce the arrest warrant” against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani supports, 63% of primary voters said yes. “The dam has broken,” said Margaret DeReus, the executive director of…

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EPA plans to drive ‘a dagger into the heart of the climate change’ regulations

EPA plans to drive ‘a dagger into the heart of the climate change’ regulations

Axios reports: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Tuesday he’s issuing draft plans to overturn the agency’s 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare — a move guaranteed to spark litigation. Why it matters: It’s President Trump’s most direct effort to rip out climate regulations root and branch — and make it harder for a successor to impose new ones. The “endangerment finding” provides a key legal underpinning for regulating heat-trapping gases from cars, power plants and more under the Clean…

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Delusions are getting crafted into legislation that’s designed to obscure the reality of climate change

Delusions are getting crafted into legislation that’s designed to obscure the reality of climate change

NBC News reports: For years, outlandish theories about the U.S. government using airplanes to spray harmful chemicals over U.S. homes or powerful elites controlling the weather were relegated to the fringes of society. Not anymore. As the internet has provided rocket fuel for such claims, Republican lawmakers across the country are introducing, passing and enacting laws to ban “weather modification” and environmental geoengineering and allude to the use of “chemtrails,” a longtime theory that planes are spreading chemical agents on…

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Epstein ‘stole’ young women from Trump

Epstein ‘stole’ young women from Trump

Politico reports: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Jeffrey Epstein “stole” young women from his Mar-a-Lago beach club spa decades ago. “People were taken out of the spa, hired by him. In other words, gone,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “When I heard about it, I told him, I said, listen, we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa … And he was fine. And not too long after he did it again….

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The psychology of belief explains America’s ongoing war against evolution

The psychology of belief explains America’s ongoing war against evolution

By Edward White, Kingston University One hundred years after a Tennessee teacher named John Scopes started a legal battle over what the state’s schools can teach children, Americans are still divided over evolution. Scopes was charged with violating Tennessee law by teaching evolution, in a highly publicised July 1925 trial that led to national debate over evolution and education. The trial tested whether a law introduced that year really could punish teachers over evolution lessons. It could and did: Scopes…

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Israel is committing genocide, says Israeli human rights group

Israel is committing genocide, says Israeli human rights group

B’Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, reports: Since October 2023, Israel has shifted its policy toward the Palestinians. Its military onslaught on Gaza, underway for more than 21 months, has included mass killing, both directly and through creating unlivable conditions, serious bodily or mental harm to an entire population, decimation of basic infrastructure throughout the Strip, and forcible displacement on a huge scale, with ethnic cleansing added to the list of official war objectives….

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Trump’s full-scale war on science

Trump’s full-scale war on science

Micah Altman and Philip N. Cohen write: The Trump administration has unleashed a tsunami of budget cuts to federal science programs. Mass firings have taken place at both the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education, part of a deliberate decimation of research staff across the federal government. Since January, the administration has systematically cut science funding to its lowest level in decades and issued a flood of budget plans and executive orders that are reshaping how the government uses and supports science. Some outcomes have been…

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This construction project was on time and on budget. Then ICE attacked

This construction project was on time and on budget. Then ICE attacked

Reuters reports: Under a broiling Alabama sky a frustrated Robby Robertson, a construction site superintendent, surveys an 84,000 square foot, mostly built recreation center close to the Gulf coast port city of Mobile. The site is eerily quiet. Last month, the $20 million project was on track for on-time completion by November 1. Now Robertson says he is looking at a three-week delay after about half of his workers – scared by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on a…

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