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  • Jeffrey Epstein used SEO to bury news about his crimes

  • Summers Steps Away from Public Commitments

    Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will step back from all public commitments in an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” he wrote in a statement Monday evening. The announcement comes less than one week after seven years of correspondence between Summers and the disgraced financier Jeffrey E. Epstein were released by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee. The documents showed Summers and Epstein continued to exchange messages until July 5, 2019 — just one day before Epstein was arrested on new sex-trafficking charges. “I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein,” Summers wrote to The Crimson. He is currently a senior fellow at the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress, a paid columnist at Bloomberg News, and serves on the board of directors at Open AI. A spokesperson for Bloomberg declined to comment on Summers’ future with the outlet on Monday.

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

  • From Soros Grants to Selective Coverage: The Drop Site Model – PJ Media

    Identifying yourself as independent doesn't guarantee accuracy. According to multiple reports, the Open Society Foundations provided a $250,000 grant that flowed through a fiscal sponsor to help establish Drop Site's Middle East desk, making it easier to advertise reader-funded purity while keeping donors in the shadows. If any newsroom accepts money from the most influential progressive force on the planet, it can't claim the freedom it advertises; it becomes a project aligned with an agenda, even if the staff never admits it in public.

Musk

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

  • Alabama man returns 'forbidden' antique Bible to Indiana church

    After decades spent on a coffee table in Huntsville, a German Bible, estimated to be between 154 to 162 years old, has been returned to its home church in Aurora, Ind. Dau told Smith that the church had held both German and English services until World War II broke out in Europe in 1939. St. John’s, along with the majority of churches in Aurora, discontinued its German services and forbade reading from the old Bible, Bonds writes. More than 20 years later, after serving in the Army during the Korean War, Smith, now living in Huntsville, returned to visit Aurora with Joyce. While he and his family were attending a service at St. John’s, Dau told him that the schoolhouse and the parsonage were being torn down, and their contents discarded. He told Smith to take “anything he wanted.” And Smith didn’t have to think about his ask for very long. “I...asked if I could have the old German Bible I’d loved as a boy,” Smith told Bonds.

  • What Happened to Effective Altruism?

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Crypto con games

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

Trump

  • In Surprise Reversal, Trump Now Supports GOP Release Of Epstein Files | ZeroHedge

  • Treasury Secretary Bessent reveals plan to tackle soaring $38T debt

  • FBI, Secret Service butchered the Thomas Crooks case and invited conspiracies – we deserve the truth

    Thanks to an enterprising source who uncovered Crooks’ hidden digital footprint, we can see that Abbate misled Congress by omission, because he left out an entire section of Crooks’ online interactions from January to August 2020 when he did an ideological backflip and went from rabidly pro-Trump to rabidly anti-Trump and then went dark, never seeming to post again. Among the 17 accounts uncovered by our source were ones on YouTube, Snapchat, Venmo, Zelle, GroupMe, Discord, Google Play, Quizlet, Chess.com and Quora. The online interactions from when Crooks was ages 15 to 17 give us a better understanding of his evolution into an assassin, and invite more questions about what — or who — reversed his ideology. “The danger Crooks posed was visible for years in public online spaces,” says the source. “His radicalization, violent rhetoric and obsession with political violence were all documented under his real name. The threat wasn’t hidden.”

    The official narrative claimed he acted alone and without a clear motive, ideology or digital footprint. Yet the source found reams of information that shows Crooks “was not simply some unknowable lone actor … He left a digital trail of violent threats, extremist ideology and admiration for mass violence. He spoke openly of political assassination, posted under his real name and was even flagged by other users who mentioned law enforcement in their replies. Despite this, his account remained active for more than five years — and was only removed the day after the shooting. “None of this online activity was referenced in the final congressional report released in December 2024, making this even more troubling,” the source said.

    “MURDER THE DEMOCRATS,” he wrote in all caps on Dec. 12, 2019. But in early 2020, Crooks’ online behavior flipped 180 degrees and he became very critical of Trump, Fox News and Republican complaints about mail-in voting. The first time he criticized Trump was on Jan. 23, 2020, when he commented on a video of law professor Jonathan Turley talking about Trump’s first impeachment. “Keep in mind the only reason we may know about any of this is because of Trump’s stupidity,” Crooks wrote. He started describing Trump supporters as a cult: “How can you people call others sheep, but you are do [too] brainwashed to realize how dumb you are,” he wrote on Feb. 26, 2020. “I mean literally you guys sound like a cult at times.”

Left Angst

  • Republican push to make U.S. census surveys voluntary alarms statisticians

  • John Gray: The Reality of Populism

  • Can Trump (or anyone) stop the momentum of the EV revolution?

  • Lies, Damn Lies, and USAID Lies

    if you’re in the market for catastrophic child death projections, USAID’s latest impact paper serves up the apocalypse—14 million deaths, including 4.5 million child deaths on the global menu, coming right up if the U.S. aid tap is turned off. When you read past the dazzling numbers, the methods creak like an overworked slide rule. The analysts ran a model on panel data from 133 countries, adjusting for so many variables you’d think reality was a multivariate fever dream: GDP per capita, Gini index, literacy, sanitation, beds per capita—throw in enough controls and voilà, causality by kitchen sink. Then, for the pièce de résistance, they project forward with “dynamic microsimulation models”, conjuring up 14 million additional deaths (including 4.5 million children under five) if the Trump administration’s 2025 funding cuts persist.

  • FCC Chairman backs Donald Trump's demand that NBC fire Seth Meyers 'immediately'

    Although Carr did not directly address his stance on Meyers, his public co-sign of the president's demand for NBC to fire the late-night host comes just months after he threatened to take action against ABC over remarks by Jimmy Kimmel following the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September. Kimmel's show was subsequently pulled off the air for a week.

  • Illegal Immigrants Didn’t Break the Housing Market; Bad Policy Did

    In an interview, JD Vance claimed:

    [H]ousing is way too expensive….because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens.

    I noted on Twitter that this framing reeks of socialist thinking, national socialist to be precise. A demand for the state to designate a privileged class that get special rights to scarce goods. Treating housing as a fixed stock to be allocated to a favored in-group while blaming an out-group for shortages is collectivist politics driven by grievance, not market reasoning. In short, grievance and entitlement, zero-sum thinking and central planning wrapped into one ugly bundle.

    Block illegal immigrants from buying homes and you will get a pause in price growth, but once demand from natives keeps rising against a capped supply, prices will climb back to where they were. That gets to the deeper problem with Vance’s style of thinking. If “fixing” housing scarcity means blaming whichever group is politically convenient, you end up cycling through targets: illegal immigrants first, then legal immigrants (as Canada has done), then the children of immigrants, then wealthy buyers, then racial or religious minorities. Indeed, one wonders if the blame is the goal.

    If you actually want to solve the problem of housing scarcity, stop the scapegoating and start supporting the disliked people who are actually working to reduce scarcity: the developers. Loosen zoning and cut the rules that choke what can be built. Redirect political energy away from trying to demolish imagined enemies and instead build, baby, build.

    • When a Republican says "build" the Left "decodes" his words and explains how they really meant something else, tho... As demonstrated here.

  • I've Gone to Look for America: Conversations and Revelations Along Interstate 95

    In every conversation, and the silences in between, I listened for the shape of an answer to my question: Are we breaking apart, or is there enough left to bind us? During my five years living and reporting in Moscow, mostly during the Gorbachev era, the Russians I knew had a rule: No discussing politics except very late at night, in cramped, smoky kitchens, after a few rounds of vodka. But that kind of reticence seemed only to deepen communal resignation and embolden political leaders. So in Trump’s America I wanted to talk, even to people who might disagree with me. At the same time, I was scared—that I’d ask the wrong questions, trigger tripwires I couldn’t see. “It’s not going to be like that out there,” Cheney kept telling me.

  • App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country

  • What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century

  • EPA Rule Would Drastically Curb Protections for Wetlands

  • Federal Judges Frees 300 Chicago-Area Detainees. ICE Violated a Consent Decree

  • UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Trump's university attacks

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

  • Cities Panic over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings

    The reach is stunning in breadth. Flock captures everything it sees. Everything. Not just vehicles. People. Everything. Think that’s a problem? So does a Washington state judge, who ruled that the sweep is so great that its data is a public record. Public means open to all. That freaked out so many towns that the company is starting to lose contracts.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

  • Haditha: Two US marines implicated in killing family in notorious Iraq war shooting, expert tells BBC

    Now, 20 years on, a BBC Eye investigation has uncovered evidence that implicates two marines, who were never brought to trial, in the killing of Safa's family, according to a forensic expert. The evidence - mainly statements and testimony given in the aftermath of the killings - raises doubts about the American investigation into what happened that day, and poses significant questions over how US armed forces are held to account.

World

Israel

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

  • Bags of cash and a gold toilet: the corruption crisis engulfing Zelenskyy’s government

    Law enforcement searches inside opulent Kyiv apartments, one with a golden toilet. Pictures of duffel bags filled with cash. Audio recordings of officials discussing money laundering strategies. These are among the details that have shocked Ukrainians over the past week as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s administration was engulfed in the biggest corruption scandal since he took office, destabilising Kyiv’s leadership at a critical moment in the war. The revelations prompted a wave of public anger — “how the president’s friends robbed the country in wartime” read a typical headline on the news website Ukrainska Pravda — and forced a change of tack. Zelenskyy finally turned on the suspects in an attempt to protect his presidency. On Wednesday, the Ukrainian president demanded the resignations of justice minister German Galushchenko and energy minister Svitlana Hrynchuk, both of whom were subsequently removed from the national security council.

  • Zelenskiy says Ukraine will obtain 100 Rafale warplanes from France

  • Russia's Kinzhal Missiles Are Too Fast to Shoot, So Ukraine Jams Them with Music

China

Health / Medicine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

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