🚨 Coming Apart at the Seams (Literally) – August 06 2025

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The Lead: “Just a Meeting”: The War in Ukraine, Still Going Nowhere Fast

President Trump says again that he wants to end the war in Ukraine—but Ukrainian President Zelensky seems to think otherwise, insisting that Trump is still fully backing his side in this losing fight.

Zelensky said he and POTUS “coordinated our positions,” “spoke about sanctions against Russia,” and “discussed our bilateral defense cooperation with America.” Translation: Trump’s is still my bruh and willing to keep U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for this bumf””k of a war. (Apologies for the profanity but after three years, is there any better word for it?)

It is worth remembering that the new defense budget had money for Ukraine shoved in there even though the Pentagon never even asked for it!

European taxpayers are on the hook too. NATO head Mark Rutte just announced another $1 billion commitment to Ukraine—framed, of course, as support for “a just & lasting peace.”

Meanwhile, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is in Moscow today to meet with Russian leaders. It’s not being called a peace negotiation anymore—just “a meeting,” with no disclosed agenda.

Couldn’t that have just been an email?

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Epstein’s Political Web: Congress Targets the Usual Suspects, Skips the Untouchables

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Many powerful politicians from both parties have been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to testify about their ties to Jeffrey Epstein—including Bill and Hillary Clinton.

The list includes former Attorney General William Barr, who served under President Trump and is the son of Donald Barr, the former intelligence official who hired Epstein to teach math at the elite Dalton School—despite Epstein having no college degree and no teaching experience.

Also subpoenaed: Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General under George W. Bush, who held the office when Epstein was first offered his sweetheart plea deal; former FBI directors James Comey and Robert Mueller; and former Attorneys General Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, and Merrick Garland. Each of these officials likely had access to Epstein-related intelligence or played a role in the justice system that repeatedly gave him a pass.

Now, newly revealed FBI documents reveal that Epstein’s 2008 plea deal included a provision for him to “provide information to the FBI as agreed upon.” What that “information” was remains classified. It could be anything—from his own bank records to blackmail material.

Some questions:

Do you think any of these people will actually tell Congress the truth—or shed light on why Epstein was treated with such care by the U.S. government, right up until he wasn’t?

And why the Clintons? They weren’t in power during Epstein’s original plea deal, so why subpoena them now? Likely because Bill Clinton flew on Epstein’s private jet at least 26 times, visited Epstein’s island (despite denials), and had ties through the Clinton Foundation. Ghislaine Maxwell even attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. The Clintons were deep in Epstein’s orbit—and for lawmakers looking to imply bipartisan rot, their names deliver maximum narrative impact.

But why stop there? Why not try to speak with these people too?

• Les Wexner – former Victoria’s Secret CEO and Epstein’s chief benefactor
• Ehud Barak – former Israeli Prime Minister (don’t hold your breath for him to show up)
• Leon Black – billionaire Apollo Global Management founder
• Alan Dershowitz – Epstein’s lawyer and architect of the immunity deal
• Prince Andrew – who wouldn’t show up anyway, because royal immunity has its perks

Let’s hope the House has them queued up for round two.

News By The Numbers
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$37 million. That is how much the Obamas reportedly sold their Martha’s Vineyard home for to Les Wexner, the man who gave all of that money and property to Jeffrey Epstein. You can’t make this stuff up.

168 million. That is how many emails were sent in a nightmare Reply All scenario when someone at the National Health Service in England reportedly sent a test email to 840,000 colleagues. It only took one Reply All before the server was barraged and shut down.

7,000. That is how many cases of chikungunya virus have been reported in China, prompting the government to put in place some preventative measures. Chikungunya virus is spread through mosquitos.

From Lab to Lab Rats: HHS Quietly Backs Away from mRNA

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it will stop developing new mRNA vaccines because, according to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, ” mRNA vaccines don’t perform well against viruses that infect the upper respiratory tract” and “paradoxically encourages new mutations and can actually prolong pandemics as the virus constantly mutates to escape the protective effects of the vaccine.”

This doesn’t mean mRNA vaccines are coming off the market. The government says several late-stage candidates will be allowed to “run their course to preserve prior taxpayer investment.” What’s being canceled are 22 new vaccine development projects—all government-funded.

Meanwhile, several mRNA-based cancer vaccines are in late-stage clinical trials, including personalized therapies for melanoma, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, and more.

Private vaccine makers are free to continue developing new mRNA vaccines—but without government funding.

mRNA technology itself is not new. It’s based on a standard lab technique called “transfection,” which involves inserting RNA or DNA into eukaryotic cells. It has long been used in animal studies—especially in mice—and was tested in a limited number of human clinical trials before COVID. But it wasn’t until the COVID vaccine rollout that this technology was deployed at scale, turning us all into lab rats.

But again, mRNA isn’t going away. It’s just going private.

So the question remains:

Are we witnessing a quiet retreat from the mRNA revolution—or the beginning of a new phase, with fewer guardrails and even less public accountability?

OceanGate Lied, People Died—And the Coast Guard Wasn’t Even Checking

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The U.S. Coast Guard has released a damning 300-page report on the 2023 Titan submersible implosion, calling it “a preventable tragedy”—the direct result of reckless and deceptive behavior by OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.

But the report is also damning for the Coast Guard itself, which now admits it needs to track safety tests better and use “group email” with OSHA. Because… they weren’t?

According to the report, the company “leveraged intimidation tactics, allowances for scientific operations, and the company’s favorable reputation to evade regulatory scrutiny.”

One internal document is particularly telling: the Director of Marine Operations inspected Titan ahead of its first mission and submitted 26 safety recommendations. Only nine were addressed. Among the overlooked issues? A note dated January 18, 2018:

“Glue coming away from seams.”

On a submarine!? He was fired five days later.

The report further states that Rush created a “false sense of safety and security… through his misrepresentation of the TITAN’s safety, achieved by falsely claiming substantial safety margins, misleading mission specialists regarding testing procedures, and exaggerating the number of hull test dives for the final TITAN hull.”

So here’s the question:

How was he allowed to get away with this?

How many other experimental crafts are faking safety tests and still taking passengers? The Coast Guard now promises tighter oversight—but that feels like locking the hatch after the sub has already imploded.

What’s Trending?

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Kentucky whiskey is trending because many distilleries have declared bankruptcy.

Legionnaires’ disease is trending because New York City issued a warning about an outbreak affecting at least 67 people and associated with at least three deaths.

Francis Ford Coppola is trending because the Italian director was reportedly taken to the hospital for an emergency heart surgery.

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