Justice Thomas raked in staggering $2.4 million in gifts, watchdog says (www.independent.co.uk)
Fix the Court, the group that released the findings, calculated the total in gifts from January 2004 to December 2023 and said the nine current justices received 344 gifts totaling nearly $3million....
Ex-Trump Official Makes Stunning Revelation: Trump Talked About Executing People At Several WH Meetings (www.mediaite.com)
In Snap Election, French Left Forms Alliance To Counter Far Right and Neoliberals (www.commondreams.org)
‘Anti-Woke’ Water Makes a Splash at Conservative Conference (www.thedailybeast.com)
The AI bill that has Big Tech panicked (www.vox.com)
Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports (www.cnbc.com)
Gaza aid pier removed, satellite images show | REUTERS (yt.artemislena.eu)
Bannon vows Trump’s opponents will be prosecuted in a second term | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, vowed investigations and prosecutions of those who have probed the former president and his political allies, declaring at a conservative gathering Saturday that Inauguration Day in 2025 will be “accountability day.”...
Georgia's ruling party proposes LGBTQ+ "propaganda" law that compares homosexuality to incest (www.lgbtqnation.com)
FAA investigating Southwest flight that came within 400 feet of crashing into the ocean | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
A federal investigation is underway after a Southwest Airlines flight plunged toward the ocean off the coast of a Hawaiian island....
CDC warns of disruptions to ADHD meds after $100M fraud arrest (thehill.com)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning those who take medication for ADHD, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, could face a disruption in accessing care after two executives were arrested for a $100 million fraud scheme....
Kremlin bots spam internet with fake celebrity quotes against Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
Russian bots with a Kremlin disinformation network published 120,000 fake anti-Ukraine quotes falsely attributed to celebrities, including Jennifer Aniston and Scarlett Johansson, in one day, the independent Russian media outlet Agentsvo reported June 15....
‘This will not be 1968.’ Chicago police prepare for DNC as whole world watches once again. (www.chicagotribune.com)
Paywall removed: archive.is/6QoOI
Up to ten people including children shot at public splash pad in Michigan (www.theguardian.com)
Trump gets name of his doctor wrong as he challenges Biden to cognitive test (www.theguardian.com)
H5N1 Bird Flu Isn’t a Human Pandemic—Yet. American Contrariness Could Turn It into One (www.scientificamerican.com)
When H5N1 avian influenza started spreading among dairy cattle across the U.S. this year, regulators warned against consuming unpasteurized milk. What happened? Raw milk sales went up....
Catholic Bishops finally apologize for church’s role in harming kids at Indigenous boarding schools (www.motherjones.com)
More wisdom from Supply Side Jesus (sopuli.xyz)
Missouri woman's murder conviction tossed after 43 years. Her lawyers say a police officer did it (apnews.com)
A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing that her attorneys argue was actually committed by a now-discredited police officer....
Trump to visit Detroit church as part of Black voter push (www.reuters.com)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will venture to Detroit on Saturday to attend a roundtable discussion at a Black church, the latest in an effort to peel away Black voters from President Joe Biden ahead of November’s election....
Huawei Is Now Reportedly Selling Beef Products That It Received As Sanctions-Evading Payment For Argentina's 5G Equipment (wccftech.com)
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