Source: Reuters
“President Donald Trump’s coming nomination of a new member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors will focus attention on the plans of three others appointed by his predecessor, as well as Fed Chair Jerome Powell himself, who combined could offer a powerful counterweight against any efforts to overhaul monetary policy or the central bank’s operations. Fed Governor Adriana Kugler’s surprise resignation last week gives Trump a seat to fill months earlier than expected with someone who could serve as a Fed chief-in-waiting until Powell’s term as head of the central bank ends in May, or, should the president elevate Governor Christopher Waller to the job, add another supportive voice to the board.” (08/06/25)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-era-appointees-could-stymie-trumps-effort-reshape-fed-2025-08-06/
Source: The Corbett Report
“How to Set Up An Email Alias.” (08/06/25)
https://corbettreport.com/how-to-set-up-an-email-alias-solutionswatch/
Source: Liberal Currents
by Henry Sargent
“One of Bertrand Russell’s great insights, now a popular liberal refrain, is that movements always go too far. Even the best ideas must be adaptable to events or risk consequences that run counter to the intentions of the original theorists. Theories often fall victim to their own success; once fluid solutions to contemporary problems become solidified over time, leading to dogmatism. Nowhere is theoretical overreach more dangerous than in the field of international relations. So often in the past, the very theories designed to minimize the likelihood of war have themselves become part of justifications for war.” (08/06/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/there-are-no-simple-answers-to-international-relations/
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“A number of employees with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were informed via email late on Tuesday that they have been reassigned, effective immediately, to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The workers had seven days to accept the reassignment, under threat of being removed from the civil service. … Like at many federal agencies, these employees had been on paid administrative leave for months …. now, these probationary FEMA employees on leave are apparently being shifted as a stopgap maneuver to bolster the ranks of ICE, which received tens of billions of dollars in the GOP mega-bill but faces the daunting task of hiring thousands of new agents to an unpopular agency with plummeting morale.” (08/06/25)
https://prospect.org/labor/2025-08-06-fema-employees-reassigned-to-ice/
Source: US News & World Report
“Pope Leo on Wednesday criticised the ‘illusory security’ of the global nuclear deterrence system, in an appeal on the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War. Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, said in his weekly audience that the destruction in Hiroshima, which killed about 78,000 people instantly, should serve ‘as a universal warning against the devastation caused … by nuclear weapons.’ … While the Catholic Church for decades gave tacit acceptance to the system of nuclear deterrence that developed in the Cold War, Leo’s predecessor Pope Francis changed the Church’s teaching to condemn the possession of nuclear arms.” (08/06/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-06/pope-leo-criticises-nuclear-deterrence-on-80th-anniversary-of-hiroshima-bombing
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Says Occupying Gaza Is ‘Up to Israel,’ 80th Anniversary of US Bombing Hiroshima, and More.” (08/06/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQZ8GT9-gWU
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Censors are on the march … seemingly everywhere. Strike them down one place, they pop up three others. Or, in the U.S., two: the House and the Senate. ‘Earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren introduced a new pirate site blocking bill, titled the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act,’ we read at Torrent Freak, which goes on to tell us that, in late July, ‘a similar proposal was introduced by Senators Tillis, Coons, Blackburn, and Schiff. The bipartisan bill, titled Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors (Block BEARD), aims to introduce a legal mechanism for rightsholders to request site blocking orders.’ Ostensibly, the Block BEARD Act targets websites accused of harboring pirated materials. But Reclaim the Net observes that the legislation would establish ‘a formal, court-approved process that could be used to make entire websites vanish from the American internet.'” (08/06/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/08/06/website-suppression/
Source: SFGate
“The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that it is removing age limits for new hires at the agency responsible for immigration enforcement, as it aims to expand hiring after a massive infusion of cash from Congress. The department said in a news release that it would waive age limits for new applicants so ‘even more patriots will qualify to join ICE,’ the agency responsible for finding, arresting, detaining and removing people who are in the U.S. illegally. The agency is at the center of the Trump administration’s efforts to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Earlier this summer Congress passed a spending bill that gives ICE money to hire 10,000 more staff. Currently, ICE applicants must be 21 years old and no older than 37 or 40, depending on what position they are applying for. In an interview with Fox & Friends, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said applicants could be as young as 18.” (08/06/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/homeland-security-removes-age-limits-for-ice-20804934.php
Source: Antiwar.com
by David Swanson
“It’s oddly encouraging that the New York Post had to bring up its kookiest rightwing propagandist on Friday to argue that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved lives. It’s almost as if the New York Times’[s] kookiest rightwing propagandist’s claiming that killing Palestinians is not genocide had to be one-upped by the Post. It’s even more encouraging that the Post felt obliged to expand the usual definition of ‘lives’ to include the lives of Japanese people, claiming that nuking people saved not only U.S. lives but also Japanese lives — an argument it would have been very hard to find even being attempted during the early decades of this myth.” (08/06/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/david_swanson/2025/08/05/no-nuking-cities-did-not-save-lives/
Source: Politico
“A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a California law restricting AI-generated, deepfake content during elections — among the strictest such measures in the country — notching a win for Elon Musk and his X platform, which challenged the rules. But Judge John Mendez also declined to give an opinion on the free speech arguments that were central to the plaintiffs’ case, instead citing federal rules for online platforms for his decision. Mendez also said he intended to overrule a second law, which would require labels on digitally altered campaign materials and ads, for violating the First Amendment.” (08/05/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/05/elon-musk-x-court-win-california-deepfake-law-00494936
