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After 32 years at the National Institutes of Health, including as director, Dr Francis Collins retired this year. “It became untenable,” he says. “Restrictions were placed on the research we were trying to do… Staff were being fired with no justification… We were also muzzled.”

Republican senators confirm former Trump lawyer to lifetime judgeship over objection of Democrats and whistleblowers. cnn.it/41j7H9T

Today in The Washington Post we published a portion of the known names of 18,500+ Gazan children killed in the war, in Arabic and English. We could only fit 18% of the names on these 2 pages – it would have taken 5 more pages to list them all:

New Texas maps pushed by Trump could go from: 25 GOP seats in House 13 Dem seats To: 30 GOP seats 8 Dem seats All in a midterm with few competitive districts truly at play in battle for majority

Jay Powell today: “I think that having an independent central bank has been an institutional arrangement that has served the public well. And as long as it serves the public well, it should continue and be respected."

My final #FactChecker --> The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning. wapo.st/41kFq2G

As student loan interest restarts for SAVE plan borrowers, some are feeling ‘crushed’ cnn.com/2025/07/31/pol… by Sunlen Serfaty﮷ & Nayeli Jaramillo

“In Israel, there is a sea change in the last couple of weeks” in how people view the war in Gaza, says Nimrod Novik, former adviser to Shimon Peres. Media self-censorship is lifting, he tells me, with a feeling that “you cannot really spare Israelis what’s going on in our name”.

Senate confirms Joe Kent to a top counterterrorism role. Democrats described the retired Army Green Beret as a conspiracy theorist who has associated with White nationalists & other far-right extremists. cnn.com/2025/07/31/pol… by CNN's Michael Williams

Big picture: Significant implications for US government attorneys who risk their bar licenses by engaging in clearly illegal and unethical conduct. D.C. Bar Board of Professional Responsibility recommends DISBARMENT for Jeffrey Clark s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2603… These lines.⤵️

Turns out the first Emil Bove-related whistleblower came forward well before his nomination, but the Justice Department's inspector general did... nothing. Some DoJ vets say the ethics watchdog has gone dark in a time of deep turmoil: nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/…

Officer Didarul Islam was called to New York City by the promise of a better life. He fulfilled that promise through service.   But it was the man beneath the shield — steady in spirit, generous in presence — who left the deeper imprint.   Everything for him was about building

How are things going jobs wise in US? The US economy added just 73K jobs in July. Meanwhile, the monthly totals for May & June were revised down by 258K jobs, to 19K & 14K, respectively, per BLS data. cnn.com/2025/08/01/eco… by Alicia Wallace

Meanwhile, Trump just set new tariffs for every country, solidifying his extreme break w/long-standing US trade policy. For a breakdown of his latest plan, how courts are responding & which countries are getting hit hardest ... cnn.com/2025/07/31/bus… by Elisabeth Buchwald

Mentally exhausted trying to figure out exactly how the US economy is doing given the mazillion mixed signals we've been getting? Here is your very quick read on what is actually happening. cnn.com/2025/08/01/bus… by Alicia Wallace & David Goldman

President Trump “is not really interested in a stable, predictable world order,” says veteran diplomat Richard N. Haass. We’re seeing that world order end, he argues -- but unusually, the country that for decades led it is now the one dismantling it.

This is awful. Reliable economic data is a key strength of the US economy. When Argentina and Greece faked economic data it contributed to major crises. I don't think Trump will be able to fake the data given the procedures. But there is now a risk plus an awful appearance.

More Trump fake-history lying: He just claimed the Bureau of Labor Statistics made the Biden economy look good until post-election, and then in mid-November announced a downward revision of 818K jobs. In reality…that revision was announced months pre-election, in August 2024.

There’s also, obviously, no evidence today’s jobs numbers were rigged to make Trump look bad - just as there’s no evidence the previous BLS numbers he’s touted (see Phil Mattingly’s feed) were rigged to make him look good. But the very specific claim about 2024 is also false.