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Folks, it brings us no some pleasure to report, once again, that he did the crimes.
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A redacted version of the affidavit that precipitated the search warrant of former president Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence has been released. New information points to the fact that the search was set in motion after FBI agents reviewed 184 classified documents that were kept at Trump’s Florida property after he left the White House until they were returned in January, and interviewed a “significant number” of witnesses.
- The affidavit suggests that if some of the classified documents returned from Mar-a-Lago in January had fallen into the wrong hands, they could have revealed sensitive details about human intelligence sources, or how spy agencies intercept the electronic communications of foreign targets. Particularly damning, the affidavit states: “There is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found.” But of the 38 pages in the affidavit, nearly half are entirely or mostly redacted.
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Increasingly disturbing developments illustrate just how dangerous it was for highly-classified materials to be housed at Mar-a-Lago.
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As always, Trump and his ilk are still crying “Witch hunt!!” because the evidence against him is piling up to their ears. Interestingly, president Biden, who has been quite circumspect, even rhetorically soft since taking office, seems to have flipped a switch in recent weeks. Perhaps it’s the looming specter of midterm elections, or feeling emboldened by his recent high-profile legislative successes, but the gloves are off and the aviators are on. At a speech in Rockville, MD, last night, Biden went straight for the jugular, saying that MAGA Republicans are “a threat to democracy” but perhaps more importantly, he noted that, “it's not just Trump, it's the entire philosophy that underpins the — I'm going to say something — it's like semi-fascism.” Finally, our boy has dropped the f word. Then on Friday he mocked the Trump-world excuses and false alibis for Trump’s theft of classified information. In a time when mainstream Republicans are hacking voting machines, openly trying to overturn election results, stealing state secrets, and stripping rights from every marginalized group, even the crown prince of reaching-across-the-aisle Joseph R. Biden can see what the Republican Party has become, or more likely has quietly always been.
The escalating evidence mounting against the former president, and all of his allies in some of the highest offices in government who are sparing no effort to help him try to get away with it, show that Trump is the symptom, not the disease.
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Inflation has peaked, prices appear to be going down now, more evidence has emerged that some higher prices really were the result of corporate profiteering, so naturally the Federal reserve is doubling down on courting a recession. Both annual and “core” inflation (i.e. not just gas prices!) were lower in July than in June and consumer prices appear to have actually fallen slightly over the course of that month, according to new Commerce Department data, which the Fed monitors closely. That good news came paired with eye-popping new data showing that profit margins are higher now than at any time since the 1950s, suggesting, as Bloomberg put it, “that the prices charged by businesses are outpacing their increased costs for production and labor.” So much for all the apologists who said corporations weren’t using inflation headlines to price gouge! Anyhow, with all those signs of cooling and non-inflation sources of high prices, you’d think the Fed might ease up on its contractionary efforts to control inflation. But you’d be wrong. Fed Chair Jerome Powell teased yet more steep interest rate increases, sending equity prices tumbling. Count us as thinking that letting inflation fall without costing hundreds of thousands of people their jobs would be better than throttling us into recession. But we’re not real estate tycoons or Wall Street execs.
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The Secret Service said today that it has recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic loans and is in the process of returning the money to the Small Business Administration.
As was bound to happen when corporations were put in charge of vaccine development, Moderna sued Pfizer and BioNTech today for patent infringement.
Luke Bowen, a former political director for Texas Right to Life, one of the state’s most influential anti-abortion groups, was arrested for soliciting a minor.
The ongoing drought punishing Europe has forced the earliest-ever harvest in French wine country.
A school district in southwest Missouri has decided to bring back spanking as a form of discipline for students, as one of 19 states that still allows corporal punishment in schools.
The World Health Organization is holding an open forum to solicit suggestions for an alternative name to Monkeypox, in search of a less-stigmatizing (and, um, vaguely racist?) moniker.
Administrators at a Nebraska public school shuttered its award-winning student newspaper days after the latest edition included articles and editorials on LGBTQ+ issues. Because, you know, Conservatives just love free speech!!
New court documents and interviews show that several Floridians who were arrested last week as part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) “voter fraud crackdown” were notified by official government entities that they were in fact eligible to vote.
Trump-backed Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano posed in a Confederate uniform in a faculty photo at Army War College in 2014. Just “honoring history” I’m sure!
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A new report suggests Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) privately tanked the Biden Administration’s nomination of Vanderbilt Law Professor Ganesh Sitaraman, whom she deemed too progressive to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, an obscure but key position in the enforcement of the president’s agenda. The office facilitates the often-torturous process of writing regulations, which requires input from the public, legal reviews, and inter-agency coordination. It will be crucial in implementing the Inflation Reduction Act, particularly the climate provisions therein. Sinema reportedly told the White House she would oppose Sitaraman last spring, but as with most things related to her, her rationale is unclear. Also as with most things related to Sinema, the answer probably has to do with some very powerful corporate donors.
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