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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, a former colleague of Harvard President Alan Garber, refused a directive from Trump on Friday to cut Harvard’s federal research grants, Politico reported Saturday. @HugoChiassonn and @EliseSpenner report. thecrimson.com/article/2026/…

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

Oh and by the way, regarding another online *discourse* of the last few days that was fairly rancid, here you go. Rest in peace, not power, Gloria Steinem, intersectional feminist anticommunist par excellence: patreon.com/posts/168891387

Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.

CBS News: Grand jury finds Ron DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida A state grand jury found the DeSantis administration "misappropriated" taxpayer money when it diverted $10 million from a Medicaid settlement into the Hope Florida Foundation, arguing the transfer was "part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities," according to a copy of the sealed grand jury report obtained by CBS News Miami. Link to article: cbsnews.com/miami/news/grand…

NBC News: Trump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations nbcnews.com/politics/trump-a…

Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the U.S. that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months nytimes.com/2026/08/14/us/po…

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No headline can fully portray what is in this report. Two people escaped a Phoenix "traffic stop" so violent and unbelievable that another police department thought it had to have been done by fake cops. abc15.com/news/local-news/in…

.@NatlParkService should be embarrassed putting up this bullshit at the reflecting pool

Friends & followers - please consider signing this petition demanding the release of a beloved member of his community in NJ & father to a colleague and comrade of mine. He's being detained by ICE. "Free Iemad Saifo from ICE Detention!" To sign: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…

If you can, please also consider donating to their legal defence fund: chuffed.org/project/193509-f…

Epstein ran a horrific child trafficking ring that the President and his friends participated in. Fauci asked you to stand six feet apart so your grandparents wouldn’t die alone in a nursing home. Let’s be for real here. We get midterms are coming, but attacking Fauci is over.

Networks do not have broadcast licenses. Local stations, some of which are network-owned and some of which are network affiliated, obtain broadcast licenses. To shut down the networks, the FCC would have to revoke all of the network's owned and affiliated stations.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that approved this change that upended delivery of prescription drugs for these seniors is actually one office. It’s run by Memet Oz and this change was his. kffhealthnews.org/medicare/m…

He wasn’t found liable for allegedly assaulting her, he was found liable for actually assaulting her.

Today is the hottest day ever recorded in France.

A bit of history. The Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechers’k Lavra was once blown up on Moscow’s orders before — in 1941, when retreating NKVD officers booby-trapped much of central Kyiv and killed thousands of civilians to assassinate a few Germans. Then, just as with the Katyn massacre of Polish officers in 1939, the Soviet Union blamed the destruction of the Lavra on the Nazis. The Dormition Cathedral was only fully rebuilt after Ukraine became independent.