Her petition, which came before the massive Epstein-related document dump by the federal government, also raised the 2007 non-prosecution agreement between federal prosecutors in Miami and Epstein, which she claimed protected her from prosecution. Maxwell was not named in that agreement.

D'oh! Part 1 of 3.

In the decision denying the petition, Engelmayer wrote that the “vast majority” of grounds on which Maxwell made her appeal “are procedurally barred – either because Maxwell made and lost the same arguments on direct appeal, or because she could have made such arguments on appeal but elected not to do so”.

D'oh! Part 2 of 3.

The judge also rejected that new evidence had come through the Trump administration-led US justice department’s multimillion page release of documents. Those, Engelmayer said, “incriminates her or reinforces the correctness of the legal rulings Maxwell challenges”.

D'oh! Part 3 of 3.

Maybe try living a life free of sex trafficking endeavors and other crimes.

Signorile, referred to below is the journalist, Michelangelo Signorile, who has been following this dramatic case.

The bold emphasis below is mine.

Signorile noted that Moreno’s “cowardly” lack of public support for his own daughter’s claims might be to avoid hurting Miller’s re-election chances, especially as recent polling has seen Miller’s district trend from Republican-leaning to Democratic since the president’s 2024 re-election.

However, Signorile then pointed out that court filings related to Miller’s ex-wife seeking of a restraining order against him included a text message threat that Miller made to Bernie Moreno.

“I’m sick of this, you know I never hurt our daughter. Take this however you want, everyone is going to get to know you better than your wife does,” Miller wrote to Bernie Moreno in the text. “Enjoy the ride brother, I wouldn’t have to do this if you could keep your lying daughter under control.”

The article goes on to describe Republican Senator Bernie Moreno's gay sex profile, despite the senator's MAGA stance against LGBTQ, and the attempt by a purported "former intern" to provide cover for the senator.

The vindictiveness and hypocrisy demonstrated by the subjects of this article is incredible.

With AIPAC taking an outsized role in funding a number of centrist primary campaigns this election cycle, the results Tuesday night are expected to reveal whether the lobby group can continue to influence elections and US policy regarding Israel, while a growing number of Americans view Israel negatively following nearly three years of its US-backed assault on Gaza.

Dan Pfeiffer, a former Obama administration staffer who co-hosts the podcast “Pod Save America,” said that with the Democratic establishment particularly throwing its weight behind pro-Israel US Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in the race between her and progressive former public health official Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s US Senate race, Tuesday will be “the culmination of one of the most heated and expensive Democratic Senate primaries in history.”

“The Democratic establishment threw everything it had at Abdul El-Sayed,” said Pfeiffer. “If he wins, the reverberations will be felt far outside of Michigan.”

This is our chance!

Other key elections today - though this list is incomplete:

• State Rep. Donavan McKinney, a former labor organizer, is running to unseat Thanedar in the state’s 13th District, and recently notched endorsements from the Democratic Socialists of America and Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.). Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) have also thrown their support behind McKinney.

• Lawrence has also been endorsed by Sanders, Tlaib, and a number of progressive groups in his race in the state’s 7th District, where he and the two moderate candidates seek to oust US Rep. Tom Barrett.

• Former US Rep. Cori Bush vs. Rep. Wesley Bell. In Missouri’s 1st District in St. Louis, former US Rep. Cori Bush is running for a second time against Rep. Wesley Bell, who defeated her in the 2024 primary after nearly two-thirds of his campaign funding came from the United Democracy Project (UDP), a super political action committee affiliated with AIPAC. The group allocated more than $100 million toward defeating candidates that supported Palestinian rights and opposed US military funding for Israel that year.

Yet another death at a US concentration camp:

A man from El Salvador has died at an immigration jail in New Jersey that has been the target of months of protests over living conditions for people detained there, federal officials said Monday.

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, had been held at Delaney Hall in Newark after being arrested June 18, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Lopez-Cornejo, whom the government accused of entering the U.S. illegally, died Saturday, the agency said. His official cause of death will be released following further medical examination, according to ICE.

This is on ICE, Geo Group, and the pedophile administration.

He finally apologized yesterday.

Goodness, this is an incredible article. Here's the first paragraph - which I've purposely split into three to facilitate reading.

We give thanks this Sunday for a nifty little reminder that it only apparently takes thousands upon thousands of Americans screaming at a member of Congress for weeks at a time to make that congressman–a senator, in fact–publicly acknowledge the headlines about his own daughter’s (and granddaughter’s) claimed abuse at the hands of her former husband, who is naturally another Republican congressman.

We’re talking of course about junior Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, recently vying for the title of the most pathetic man in Congress, given that he spent several years pretending not to know anything about the fact that his daughter Emily Moreno had accused her congressman ex-husband, Ohio Rep. Max Miller, of repeated emotional and physical abuse of her and their two-year-old daughter.

Despite knowing all about this for at least the last two years by his own admission, Bernie Moreno intentionally went out of his way not to say a bad word about the fellow GOP congressman who was his former son-in-law, instead tacitly supporting his reelection in the upcoming November midterm elections, in a race that was until recently seen as a very safe one for Republicans. Not so much, now.

Haitian residents receive letters, ankle monitors

Dorsainvil said many residents have received letters calling them to the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations field office in Blue Ash on Sunday.

He said some residents have gone to the field office in the past week and returned with ankle monitors after being told to return to the office in one month.

The article closes with:

Protest planned outside Cincinnati ICE office

Ignite Peace, a Cincinnati-based organization that advocates for peace and justice, has organized a protest of the immigration enforcement at 7 a.m. Aug. 2.

Organizers encouraged protesters to meet at the corner of Kenwood and Malsbary roads on Facebook.

Title:

Graham and Netanyahu Worked Together to Denounce International Criminal Court

Subtitle:

Senator Lindsey Graham helped to coordinate a group of lawmakers to rebuke the I.C.C., which was investigating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

It begins with the following - though the entire article is a worthwhile - if depressing - read:

Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died this month at 71, worked privately with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to coordinate a bipartisan group of lawmakers to denounce the International Criminal Court investigation into Mr. Netanyahu just before the 2024 election, footage of their discussions shows.

The conversations were among roughly 400 hours recorded by the British filmmaker Alex Holder, who trailed Mr. Graham for roughly four years for a planned documentary project titled “Lindsey’s Game.” The footage of two discussions with Mr. Netanyahu about rebuking the I.C.C. was reviewed by The New York Times.

The calls took place just days before the 2024 election, on Oct. 29, as Mr. Graham was in Ohio, where he was campaigning with Donald Trump Jr. for Bernie Moreno in a Senate race, according to Mr. Holder.

The discussions underscore the significance of the relationship between Mr. Graham and Mr. Netanyahu and its impact, including with the senator’s colleagues. The two men were days away from an election that would return Donald J. Trump to the White House. Mr. Graham was a valuable interlocutor for Mr. Netanyahu even before that, but the call took place as the prime minister was prepared to discuss with Mr. Trump waging an increasingly expansive war against Iran.

Arizona recorded the largest drop in enrollment after the bill became law. The legislation tightened eligibility rules for food assistance and increased state screening requirements. State data through May shows that more than 450,000 Arizonans have come off Snap, cutting overall participation within the state in half.

According to the CBPP analysis, children make up a significant portion of those losing benefits, with more than 1 million children across the 19 states studied no longer receiving Snap assistance.

In Louisiana, nearly one in four children receiving Snap benefits lost assistance. Massachusetts and Texas each saw close to one-fifth of children enrolled in the program removed from Snap.

And further below, the cause for the suffering of children:

The report says the steep decline in participation is likely tied in large part to the 2025 Republican reconciliation law, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which shifted a substantial share of Snap benefit costs to states based on their payment error rates.

Nato leaders have informally agreed not to mention the football World Cup to Donald Trump for fear of irritating the US president at a crucial time for the military alliance.

Further below...

In the first open acknowledgment of the strategy, the Belgian prime minister, Bart De Wever, told reporters in Ankara he would not be discussing his country’s 4-1 win over the US earlier this week.

Look, can everyone please do their best not to annoy the bumbling pedophile? Thank you - your cooperation is appreciated.

The democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseated the long-serving US representative Diana DeGette in Colorado’s primary elections held on Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile victories for the party’s insurgent left.

The Associated Press reported that Kiros had defeated DeGette for the Democratic nomination in the deep-blue first congressional district centered on Denver. Kiros’s triumph came a week after New York voters unseated two Democratic congressional incumbents and replaced a third who was retiring with candidates who had campaigned on standing up to Israel amid accusations that it was carrying out a genocide in Gaza.

CBC News analysis finds IDF blasts caused damage deep underground

Families of Canadian servicemen buried in Gaza say they want the government to do more to protect their loved ones' remains. Some say they would like to see their relatives — the last Canadian soldiers to be buried overseas — removed from a cemetery that has been repeatedly damaged by the Israel Defense Forces and brought home.

Twenty-two Canadians are buried at the Gaza War Cemetery in the Tuffah district of Gaza City, all of whom lost their lives during the UN's first major peacekeeping operation that began following the Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956.

Aerial images reviewed by CBC's visual investigations team show that the IDF has progressively destroyed headstones, dug berms with heavy earthmoving equipment, parked tanks and other armoured vehicles around the site and triggered explosions that saw a section of the Canadian peacekeeper plot blown into the air.

WASHINGTON—Saying they saw no reason to limit any potential agricultural use of the flammable combination of gelling agents and gasoline, officials at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved napalm as a pesticide Friday.

The daughter of Colombian and Dominican immigrants, Mejia ran on an adamantly anti–Donald Trump message and secured a whopping 70 percent of the vote as a result. The Associated Press called her victory shortly after the votes started rolling in.

70 percent.... wow!

The progressive Democrat’s positions echo several of the policies that made Sanders a national phenomenon, including support for universal health care coverage, tuition-free college, student loan forgiveness programs, and strengthening unions and expanding labor protections in order to bolster America’s middle class.

She sounds like a Democrat who wants to win and is against genocide.

Mejia has also been vocal in her criticism of Israel, publicly denouncing the state’s war on Palestine as a genocide. That caught the attention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which funneled money into the race to bolster her opponents. In the end, the pro-Israel lobby’s efforts may have been one of the reasons that voters in New Jersey sent Mejia to Congress.

Awesome!

Why did Iran close the Strait to begin with? Well, because Trump declared war against Iran just over a month ago, assassinating that country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, for an opening salvo. Why did Trump start bombing Iran without provocation? Well, because according to the New York Times, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Trump that winning a war against Iran would be a cakewalk. Why did Trump believe Netanyahu’s pitch when even Secretary of State and human footstool Marco Rubio — Marco Rubio! — called the plan “bulls—t”? Because Donald Trump is the stupidest asshole to ever live, a fact that Iran has now exploited to cow America just as swiftly as Trump thought he might cow them.

Every war is, at its core, a self-inflicted wound. This wound just happens to be so wide, the Artemis II astronauts could still see it from the dark side of the moon. It’s a decisive loss for the United States and one that, hopefully, portends many great electoral losses to come for the people who orchestrated it.

Despite its relatively brief duration, the War on Iran has been nearly half a century in the making. That country officially became a theocracy back in 1979, under the rule of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In the midst of Khomeini’s revolution, Iranians stormed the U.S. embassy and took 66 Americans hostage, including diplomats, triggering a crisis that lasted well over a year and left deep enmity between our two countries in its aftermath. There are active government officials in America who have, quite literally, wanted to destroy Iran my whole life.

But because Iran is the 17th-largest country in the world, because it has a population of nearly 100 million, and because it controls a good portion of the world’s fuel needs, previous presidents never succumbed to the idea. Until now. Rampant Islamophobia within the United States, especially after the 9/11 attacks — which, it must be noted, Iran had no involvement in — has allowed our most hawkish politicians to keep the specter of the Iran bogeyman alive in the public consciousness. All they needed was a useful idiot in the Oval Office to make the war happen.

Enter Donald Trump.

Once Trump assumed office for a second time, hawks saw their best, and perhaps last, chance to make war with Iran a reality. Among those war pigs was Netanyahu, who orchestrated the ongoing genocide in Palestine and has used America’s entry into Iran as permission to go ahead and bomb other countries in the Middle East, Lebanon in particular. According to that Times report from Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, Netanyahu told Trump that Iran’s regime would fold like Duke in the Elite Eight, that Iranian leadership would be so crippled by American shelling that they wouldn’t be able to seize control of the vitally important Strait of Hormuz, and that Iranian citizens would greet the U.S. as liberators.

None of those things came to pass. Here’s what happened instead: Iran immediately installed Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Ali, as its new supreme leader and took control of the strait. Gas prices soared and global markets went haywire as a result. Then Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps got the shrewd idea to begin charging other nations to use the strait, a passage that had been free to all until the war began.

Then Trump threw a hissy fit online and screamed, “Open the F—kin’ Strait, you crazy bastards,” promising to destroy every bridge and power plant in Iran, a threat that the Iranians openly laughed at. Then Russia and China decided to back Iran, because those guys know a winner when they see one. Then the U.S. military, spending about $500 million a day on the war, ran low on munitions, something Trump was explicitly warned about in the lead-up to the war. Then “Secretary of War” and national disgrace Pete Hegseth did a bunch of evil, embarrassing Pete Hegseth stuff. Then Trump posted his “an entire civilization will die tonight” warning, a truly repulsive act even by his standards. Then, instead of rising up against its own government, as Trump lazily assumed, the citizens of Iran called Trump’s weakass bluff Tuesday night by gathering, by the tens of thousands, around the very bridges and power facilities that Trump had promised to annihilate. They dared the old man to blink.

To the surprise of no one, Trump did. The war is on pause (for now), and Iran not only won the PR campaign, but they’ve also decided to continue charging tolls, in perpetuity, to ships looking to cross the Strait of Hormuz. As of this writing, the country has re-closed the Strait, which White House spokesgoblin Karoline Leavitt denied while, in the same breath, demanding that Iran open it back up again. Oh, and Iran gets to keep its nuclear weapons development program, something that Barack Obama negotiated an end to in 2015 before Trump came along and flushed that agreement down the toilet. As part of the ceasefire agreement, Iran might even receive punitive damages from the U.S. for all the bombing. Given Trump’s negotiating acumen, they probably could have also gotten Alaska thrown into the deal if they had wanted it.

Recent reporting from the Financial Times reveals it was President Trump, not the Iranian government, who was begging for a ceasefire.

FT reports that the Trump administration had been privately pushing for a ceasefire for weeks to alleviate the economic strain caused by Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, and depending on Pakistan for mediation. Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir was communicating with Iranian officials, special envoy Steve Witkoff, Vice President JD Vance, and Trump himself even after the president threatened to wipe out Iranian civilization on Tuesday.

According to the five people familiar with the diplomatic back channel, Trump had been asking for a ceasefire since as early as March 21, when he first threatened to bomb Iran’s power plants.

This contradicts virtually everything the Trump administration has claimed about Iran—that Trump’s constant bombings and threats of extinction caused a wounded, demoralized Iranian regime to limp to the negotiating table, desperate for a deal with the U.S.

A page on the company’s website, since removed, stated it was working “closely” with ICE’s deportation operations to reduce expulsion delays and costs. Observatoire des Multinationales published a screenshot in which Capgemini boasts of its role in “enforcement and removal operations” for ICE.

It reads: “Capgemini leveraged supply chain best practices to help ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations) become more efficient … the team from Capgemini is working closely with ERO to help it minimize the time required and the cost incurred to remove all removable illegal aliens from the US.”

The CGT union at Capgemini has called for an immediate halt of all collaboration with ICE. “These partnerships are not only contrary to the values espoused by Capgemini but they make our group an active accomplice in serious human rights violations,” a union spokesperson said.

Notably, the link to the screenshot in which Capgemini boasts of its role in removing "illegal aliens" is found here:

https://multinationales.org/IMG/pdf/ice_leverages_supply_chain_best_practices_to_improve_operational_efficiencies_-_capgemini_spain.pdf

At present, the following page - which the article provides to show other contracts between Capgemini and ICE - suggests that it's down for maintenance:

https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?q=Capgemini+CONTRACTING_AGENCY_NAME%3A%22U.S.+IMMIGRATION+AND+CUSTOMS+ENFORCEMENT%22++SIGNED_DATE%3A%5B2025%2F01%2F01%2C2025%2F12%2F31%5D+PIID%3A%2270CDCR26FR0000024%22&s=FPDS.GOV&templateName=1.5.3&indexName=awardfull&x=25&y=12

Lastly, here follows a link that is not included in this article but which was purported by another Lemmy user to show questionable IT contracts - particularly related to the management of concentration camps:

https://sam.gov/search/?index=opp&page=1&pageSize=25&sort=-modifiedDate&sfm%5Bstatus%5D%5Bis_active%5D=true&sfm%5Bstatus%5D%5Bis_inactive%5D=true&sfm%5BsimpleSearch%5D%5BkeywordRadio%5D=ALL&sfm%5BsimpleSearch%5D%5BkeywordTags%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D=Dhs

TJ Sabula is said to have called the president a “pedophile protector” as he toured the automotive giant’s River Rouge complex on Tuesday.

Trump then appeared to give Sabula the middle finger, according to a video published by celebrity news and gossip site TMZ, which claimed that Trump also yelled obscenities prior to making the gesture.

Words to live by:

“I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity,” Sabula added in the interview. “And today I think I did that.”

The article features an image of him smiling the kind of smile that rightfully suggests he made the history books for his stand against fascism against a pedophile protector.

The gofundme page to support this inspiring hero:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/tj-sabula-is-a-patriot