Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.
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Sunday, 6 September 2026
Lutnick Lies Nearly As Easily As His Boss
Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary and former lunch buddy to Jeffrey Epstein, hit up CNBC on Wednesday to lie about the environmental costs of data centers. He also dismissed questions about government corruption as “minor stuff.”
“One of my favorite things is when people talk about data centers using water,” Lutnick said when asked about the general dislike Americans have for the server warehouses. “The No. 1 product in America that uses water is cattle. I mean, data centers don’t use water. The data centers—this is propaganda by our adversaries to try to slow us down, right?”
Coincidentally (see: not coincidentally at all), Cantor Fitzgerald, which Lutnick used to run, is heavily invested in data center projects. Though Lutnick transferred his ownership stake in the company to his kids right before becoming commerce secretary, Cantor Fitzgerald has been making all kinds of big money since he became part of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet.
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Saturday, 5 September 2026
Trump Claims He Controls MAGA Inc. PAC Money
Never mind those pesky FEC rules. Laws are for suckers, apparently. As we already discussed, Republicans are becoming concerned about Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc., sitting on a pile of money rather than helping candidates.
This Friday, Trump was asked about it at the White House and here was his response:
TRUMP: I'm going to spend whatever amount of money necessary to try and help us. And this is money from MAGA Inc. This is the money that I control.
Now, this is separate from the RNC. It's separate from people having money. And I think it's not even counted in terms of the media. I'm not sure that they ever talk about it. They just found out about it.
But, yeah, we have around a billion dollars that I can spend. I can spend for the next race also. I can spend it for what I want to spend it for, but I'm going to help a lot of the congressmen and senators that need help.
REPORTER: Are you going to use it for 2028?
TRUMP: I could use it for '28. Yes, if I want. Sure. I mean, I expect to have money left over and we can use that for '28.
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Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning
The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."
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'Small Potatoes.': Trump Dismisses 18 American Deaths In Iran War
Donald Trump seems rather annoyed that people are questioning his needless, unpopular, and costly war against Iran. On Friday, he downplayed the seemingly endless war and its costs as “small potatoes for us” and “not a big thing.”
“We did Venezuela, and we did this in Venezuela,” Trump continued. “We lost nobody, and this we lost 18 people. And in Vietnam, you lost 100,000 people, and in other conflicts, you lost tens of thousands of people.”
It seems odd, or maybe telling, that President Draft Dodger would compare his latest war, which people are already calling a “quagmire,” to the quagmire he dodged in Vietnam.
Maybe the Iran war is no biggie for a guy who has used his 19 months in the White House to enrich himself and his family by billions – and whose military-age son still shows no sign of enlisting. But it’s a hell of a biggie for those of us non-billionaires struggling with the soaring costs of gasoline thanks to the war he predicted would end in 4-6 weeks. Instead, the war he has repeatedly claimed to have already won is now in its seventh month.
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Friday, 4 September 2026
Bartiromo’s Lawyer Insists She Wasn’t Fired And Still Has Fox Job
Fox News Media abruptly announced on Thursday that it had parted ways with Maria Bartiromo. The terse statement strongly suggested she had been fired. So did subsequent reporting.
In the wake of Fox’s announcement, two, separate reports said she was likely fired from Fox for tattling to the Trump White House that her higher-ups had barred her from promoting covering President Sore Loser’s 2020 conspiracy theories in his July, 2026 speech.
On Friday, CNN’s Brian Stelter tweeted that Bartiromo has retained a lawyer who insists not only that she was not fired but that she still has her job: Attorney Bryan Freedman blasted as “absolutely and unequivocally false"the “irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox”
“Make no mistake, we have the receipts and witnesses and they will come out whether through the courthouse or otherwise,” Freedman added. “Those reporting her firing or the incredulous facts supporting that fiction have exhibited a complete and utter reckless disregard for the truth."
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Van Orden Tries To Start A Fight But Keeps Getting Beat Up
Rebecca Cooke, Drunken Van Orden's opponent, was doing the usual campaign things over the weekend, such as visiting American veterans at a breakfast event. She posted about it on Xitter and said she comes from a long line of veterans and that, if elected, she will fight to help them get and keep the benefits they deserve.
This was enough to set off DVO, who accused Cooke of using the vets as political props:
It wasn't long before DVO was called out by James Wigderson, a Wisconsin native and a Never Trump type of Republican. Wigderson pointed out that DVO was a traitor, not a hero, because he participated in the insurrection. DVO shot back with a personal insult and a threat because that's what insecure drunks do:
Wigderson has been mocking him ever since. And not to be left out of the action, Rep Mark Pocan got his punches in from the left:
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