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@NoDMsPerfavore Imagine believing this horsehit Remember when Trump was in charge of the election he claims was stolen? Then staged a failed coup because he ran a free and fair election. Nero is watching Rome burn and banking on all his paste eating voters to swallow his BS while they go broke.

Imagine being Barack Obama, thinking you got away with murder since 2016, spying, lying, rigging the game, watching Trump get dragged through hell, and thinking it's over. You install your puppet and breathe easy like you're untouchable. But then Trump comes storming back after 34 sham convictions, two arrests, and two assassination attempts and wins in 2024. Now, suddenly, you're not safe. You're staring down treason charges, your entire legacy collapsing, your lies exposed, and the world finally seeing you for what you are: a smooth-talking thug. Karma didn't forget you, it just waited. And the reckoning you thought would never come is now here, and it's glorious to watch!

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world." My Take This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation." I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate. "We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline. Hedgie🤗

Graham said Kushner and Witkoff are "too conflicted" to work with on Middle East diplomacy, per WSJ. Damning.

Donald Trump has earned more money in his first and second year, in his second term as president, than in the previous 60 years of his life, per Bloomberg.

WaPo and NYT both have well-reported deep dives today into the politicization of the U.S. military - at West Point and in the highest ranks of the Navy ⬇️

Nyt with a banger. Trump "discovered limits of his power" In 5 months nearly all of his goals for iran are unaccomplished. Russia and China are rethinking goals for Europe and tiawan because the west barely has any missiles defenses. Netanyahu has led the trumps humiliation.

That’s a pretty strong indictment that our policy is not working. Both Cooper and Caine essentially advising to hold off. Wonder what Hegseth advised? Is Trump tiring of his shtick? That said…Diplomacy is not promising either, as Iran effectively controls the SOH. And that is their red line for any future agreement. So there are no good options in either military (understanding domestic constraints on ground troops) or diplomatic arenas. Wish I had something more positive to say. It’s easy to be a critic, but there’s no silver bullet out of this mess. Perhaps if we had a functioning national security process (and a NSC that works), some creative ideas could come out from the inter agency? Yet also a problem, as so many experts have left the USG (the State Dept is irrelevant, which is crazy to think about).

President Trump has repeatedly asked Americans to “remember” past events that never happened except in his own made-up stories: cnn.com/2026/07/26/pol…

Why the pause? Likely to re-orient the air campaign for weeks of bombing to suppress Iran’s 1000-1500 ballistic missiles These are underground and only doors, tunnels and airshafts can be hit The Escalation Trap is far from over nytimes.com/2026/07/25/us/…

“The Justice Department has effectively conceded it is violating the law Congress passed last November requiring the public release of the vast majority of records relating to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge declared Thursday.” politico.com/news/2026/06/2…

Trump's default setting is to stall unless something forces his hand, and the combination of high-but-not-catastrophic oil prices and zero traffic through the Hormuz southern route (and thus zero attacks) means that, for the moment, there's nothing forcing him nytimes.com/2026/07/25/us/…

The two wars have officially merged. Iran says a Ukrainian drone attack on its ship in the Caspian has killed a sailor. Ukraine earlier said it was targeting vessels ferrying arms between Russia and Iran on the Caspian Sea. reuters.com/world/europe/i…

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. propublica.org/article/rfk-jr…

There it is. RFK Jr’s son, “Finn” Kennedy recently launched his own investment fund focused on AI in healthcare. It should surprise no one that he worked at 8VC—the investment fund launched by Peter Thiel’s Palantir co-founder (Joe Lonsdale)—in 2025. 4/24/26 … 1/

Must Read (gift): Jeffrey Epstein's Organized Crime Network tracked through his flights. Excellent reporting by @Bloomberg showing the global reach of his human trafficking. bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-…

Exclusive with @EllenAMilligan @jeffmason1 In a phone call earlier today Pete Hegseth asked new UK defence secretary Wes Streeting to host a meeting in London next week to discuss the Strait of Hormuz Hegseth pushed for the meeting and indicated he wanted to come, sources say It’s an early instance of the Trump administration putting Andy Burnham’s government under pressure A meeting right now would publicly link Burnham and Streeting to Trump’s escalation of the Iran war, something that would be risky with the public and Labour MPs. But declining may get US relations off to a bad start A source close to Streeting describes the conversation with Hegseth as very warm No final decision on a meeting has been made, sources say Comes after @BarakRavid reported a possible US-UK meeting bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Brazil has denied visas to two senior State Department officials that the Trump administration planned to dispatch on a mission to cast doubt on the fairness and integrity of the country’s electoral system before Brazil’s presidential election this fall. wapo.st/44Ob760

BREAKING: Trump just ordered warning signs and exhibits to be installed outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to alert the public that the museum does not, in his view, accurately reflect American history. For the record: It does. nytimes.com/2026/07/24/art…

The fossil fuel industry is pushing legislation that would ban local governments from working to eliminate greenhouse gas pollution. Today at the ALEC annual meeting, a committee co-chaired by the American Gas Association will push state legislators to prohibit policies that pursue "science-based" and "100% clean energy" targets, among others. Florida has already passed similar legislation and now the fossil fuel industry is trying to replicate these laws across the country. As we feel the impacts of fires, floods, and heatwaves made worse by the climate crisis, we can't let special interests hack our democracy. Be on the lookout for this legislation in your state and speak out against it where these policies are introduced.

Trump’s reckless war has left the United States with no options other than different versions of catastrophic failure. foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/23/ira…