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Blanche-led DoJ likely to derail Epstein survivors’ pursuit of justice, experts say

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Lawyers predict ‘more suppression and no active investigations’ but victims’ groups determined to continue fightAs Donald Trump’s former defense lawyer Todd Blanche appears poised for confirmation as attorney general, numerous Jeffrey Epstein survivors have sounded the alarm that a US justice department helmed by him would derail their pursuit of justice.In a letter urging Republican senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn to reject his nomination, these survivors said that Blanche’s handling of the Epstein case as acting attorney general was characterized by misstep after misstep. Continue reading...

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'Inside the house': Morning Joe says Trump's worst press is leaking from his own team

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'Inside the house': Morning Joe says Trump's worst press is leaking from his own team

President Donald Trump’s complaints about coverage of his second term from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last Friday were dismantled on Monday morning.On MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Joe Scarborough laid reports about the White House chaos at the feet of Trump, who insisted on Friday that those reports are all “fake news.”“The Iran war, it keeps grinding on and on and on, a war of choice, and as it grinds on, Americans' approval of it collapses by the day,” he stated. “So Friday night, at an event that should have never been held, the president tells a room of reporters not to believe, quote, ‘fake news’ about how that war is going.”“Well, that fake news actually comes from calls inside the house, from the administration, from people who know it was a mistake to go in and there's no good way to get out. So you be the judge of that,“ he added.“But you don't have to judge higher costs, affordability, the president mocking affordability, like with your grocery bill, food prices are now rising at their sharpest pace in 50 years,” he elaborated. “You can read that in the Associated Press. You can read that in a variety of news reports this weekend — but you don't have to. All you have to do is look at your bill. Food at home costs up 33 percent since 2019, against just 6.4 percent growth in the seven years before that. And ground beef is now $6.82 a pound, up 79 percent. Gas prices? They just keep spiraling up, the price of oil spiraling up and war, it drives up fuel and fertilizer prices, and those prices drive up food.”“And it is food that's eating more of your paycheck than at any time since Gerald Ford was president of the United States,” he continued. “So against this backdrop, how did the president spend that same Friday night, not reassuring Americans on the war, not reassuring Americans on the cost of beef or on the cost of gas? No, he spent an hour on the physical appearance of the press corps confronting him, even telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on camera that she's attractive but never smiles and seemed to compare her to a trans influencer.” - YouTube youtu.be

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Trump Says He Believes in Giving People a 'Second Chance.' For 6,000 People, the Answer Was No.

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Trump Says He Believes in Giving People a 'Second Chance.' For 6,000 People, the Answer Was No.

The administration this month denied thousands of clemency applications.

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GOP Louisiana Sen John Kennedy Says Bailing on Iran War Would Be A ‘Huge, Huge Mistake’

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GOP Louisiana Sen John Kennedy Says Bailing on Iran War Would Be A ‘Huge, Huge Mistake’

‘I support the president in Iran. We all need to do a better job messaging’

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Can a Progressive Win in a Purple State? Abdul El-Sayed Wants to Find Out.

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Can a Progressive Win in a Purple State? Abdul El-Sayed Wants to Find Out.

Michigan’s Aug. 4 primary is a critical front in the fight between Democrats’ progressive and moderate flanks and a preview of the 2028 presidential primary.

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Fox News host spills which men make Jesse Watters 'scared': 'Feels like a threat'

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Fox News host spills which men make Jesse Watters 'scared': 'Feels like a threat'

A Fox News pundit took a swing at her right-wing colleague Sunday when she revealed the men who make Jesse Watters "scared.""The Five" co-host Jessica Tarlov, a Democratic strategist, dished the dirt during an interview with progressive Gen Z commentator Jack Cocchiarella during an interview."You just want to know what Jesse says to me in the break?" quipped Tarlov.Cocchiarella raised his eyebrows and admitted, "I do."Tarlov was game — and promptly explained why Watters fears Georgia state Sen. Jon Ossoff, the Democrat currently running for reelection to the U.S. Senate."Ossoff feels like a threat," she said. Another Dem Watters fears? Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, a former U.S. Army officer currently running for reelection in Maryland."It was NFL playoffs, and he was out tailgating," Tarlov said. "They were like, “Oh, okay... that’s a bro."Tarlov then took a step back to explain what common trait Ossoff and Moore share that earns Watters' fearful respect."Everything is viewed through the frame of 'masculinity,' or, you know, whatever Jesse’s drinking-through-the-straw, eating-the-ice-cream-cones masculinity is."Cocchiarella erupted in laughter."What was that?" he asked.As a reminder, Watters was morally outraged when former President Joe Biden ate ice cream on television.“You know my rule about men eating soup in public," Watters said. "I think the same thing for ice cream. You should save that for vacation."

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Republicans have ‘nothing to run on’ in midterms after Trump failures, Jeffries says

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Republicans have ‘nothing to run on’ in midterms after Trump failures, Jeffries says

Top House Democrat says US president ‘failed to deliver’ on campaign promises to lower costs and avoid overseas warsDonald Trump’s Republican party has “nothing to run on” for the congressional midterm elections after the president broke promises to lower costs and avoid starting war overseas, Hakeem Jeffries has said.The House minority leader, a New York congressman, made those comments on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, exactly 100 days from the 3 November midterms, when Jeffries and his fellow Democrats are aiming to take control of the US House and Senate from their Republican opponents. Continue reading...

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Pulte says he completed fourth round of layoffs as acting DNI

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Pulte says he completed fourth round of layoffs as acting DNI

Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Bill Pulte said Sunday his office completed a fourth round of layoffs since he took over on June 19. “Since becoming Acting Director of National Intelligence, our team has been smartly, and carefully, reducing the size of [the office of the director of national intelligence (ODNI)], re-focusing ODNI on…

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Plot Thickens – New Jersey Data Contractor Says Noncitizens Registering to Vote Not Our Error

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Plot Thickens – New Jersey Data Contractor Says Noncitizens Registering to Vote Not Our Error

The contractor responsible for the software used by the New Jersey Dept of Motor Vehicles to uplink voter registration to the state elections office is now saying their software did not cause 6,600 illegal aliens to be registered voters. Someone in New Jersey government had to create that link to register the voters. The USA […] The post Plot Thickens – New Jersey Data Contractor Says Noncitizens Registering to Vote Not Our Error appeared first on The Last Refuge.

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