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PREEMPT's stated aim is "targeting viruses in animals before they emerge in humans." Its projects include bat sampling across four countries and a transmissible Lassa vaccine "with internal off switch," listed for potential deployment in Sierra Leone, Guineaโ€ฆ
The truth is valuable even when it doesnโ€™t produce the ending your side wanted.

Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment on nearly every substantive question at Wednesdayโ€™s hearing. But in his own opening statement, he called it exactly what it was: Sen. Rand Paul had released โ€œmy unredacted personal diary.โ€ Not โ€œa document.โ€ Not โ€œalleged notes.โ€ His diary. Thereโ€™s no real doubt left about whose words are on those pages โ€” and once you accept that, the only honest conclusion left is that we need answers.

So why does one side of the aisle seem so determined not to ask whatโ€™s actually in it?

Unpopular opinion: I donโ€™t particularly care whether Fauci ever sees the inside of a prison cell. Heโ€™s 85. What does the country actually gain from watching an old man die in custody a few years from now?

What I want is the truth โ€” ALL OF IT โ€” so this never happens again, because there will be another something.

Millions died. Trust was eroded, and it still hasnโ€™t recovered.

Democrats keep asking themselves how to rebuild their credibility with voters whoโ€™ve drifted away. Demanding real answers here, instead of protecting a man who wonโ€™t even deny the pages are his, would be a damn good place to start.

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The WSJ reports that Trump is asking RFK Jr. to speed up efforts to reduce the number of childhood vaccines on the federal schedule and investigate the causes of autism.

Even though White House political advisors asked RFK to tone down his vaccine efforts ahead of the midterms, Trump is urging him to make it a priority.
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Last night, Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store because a single user had planted illegal pornographic content in a public group chat.

โฌ…๏ธ Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened โ€” to warn other app developers and help protect online communities from similar attacks.

๐ŸงนBecause Telegram quickly removes illegal content from public groups using all kinds of moderation tools, the attacker had to resort to a technical trick. He inserted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in an active group chat. As a result, the content was effectively hidden from the groupโ€™s members, preventing them from seeing and promptly reporting it.

๐Ÿ’ฐ The attacker was a takedown extortionist: someone who demands ransom from group owners in exchange for not targeting their communities. These extortionists use automated accounts to plant illegal content in public groups and then report it directly to Apple, attempting to trigger the removal of legitimate communities whose owners refused to pay them.

๐Ÿค From a practical standpoint, illegal pornographic content in Telegramโ€™s public groups is not a systemic problem. Our moderation is efefctive. The fact that attackers must resort to backdated, effectively invisible content and other technical tricks proves this.

โš ๏ธ However, there are two important lessons here for app developers and online communities:

โ€” Extortionists have found a way to manipulate Apple into overreacting. Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us. This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without prior warning, any app can be.

โ€” The tactics used by takedown extortionists are evolving, putting communities across social platforms at risk. Telegram has extensive experience identifying the tricks used by coordinated reporting gangs and protecting legitimate communities (even when doing so risks our own app being temporarily removed from the App Store). Other platforms may not be equally prepared.

Stay vigilant! โ˜๏ธ
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๐ŸŒฟ The roots were asked tae hold a wall.
They built a road.

Sorcha would like a word wi' whoever decided that counted as help.

Chapter Twenty-Four โ€” The Wrong Shore.

READ CHAPTER 24:


https://open.substack.com/pub/sorchasjournals/p/chapter-twenty-four?r=87kb68&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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๐ŸฐIf this drew you in, Sorchaโ€™s world is still movingโ€”step into Soul Castle: The Guardian & The Keeper, a series on Amazon: HERE
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The Oxferd Comma Memos: The FBI Investigated Trump as a Russian Asset, But Only For One Day.

Just days after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, Acting FBI Director Andy McCabe opened a full investigation into the President.

That investigation was titled 'Oxferd Comma,' the misspelling perhaps intentional so as to avoid FOIA searches should the name ever leak. This investigation sought to develop evidence that Trump was colluding with, who else, Russia and Vladimir Putin and also examine whether Trump or anyone associated with him had interfered in Crossfire Hurricane or any other RussiaGate investigation.

The very next day, it was taken away from him when Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as Special Counsel and moved ALL Russia-related investigations to him.

Weโ€™ve long known these events took place; a redacted copy of the opening memo was released years ago, but we now know the name of the investigation and have memos with fewer redactions.

Read the memos
https://www.clintonfoundationtimeline.com/august-5-2026-the-white-house-government-transparency-task-force-releases-newly-declassified-documents-exposing-an-fbi-criminal-investigation-code-named-oxferd-comma/

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Everyday life as a true American ๐Ÿค”
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The Senate left DC without a budget resolution to include funding for the SAVE America Act.
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NEW - Kellogg says it's removing artificial dyes from cereals by the end of this year
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JUST IN - Netanyahu rejects a 15-point plan for Gaza by Trump's Board of Peace, says his military will not make "any withdrawal" from Palestinian territory until Hamas fully disarms, and warns as long as he is PM there will be no Palestinian state in Gaza or the West Bank.

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ICYMIโ€ผ๏ธ: Hunter Biden tells BBC Newsnight that his fatherโ€™s prostate cancer has โ€œmetastasized into his bones and further,โ€ describing it as painful and debilitating. Joe Biden, 83, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer in May 2025, which his office said at the time appeared hormone-sensitive and manageable.

The former president, Hunter says, is still making public appearances.

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๐ŸฐWhen youโ€™re done doomscrolling, come escape with me. Soul Castle is my original Scottish time-travel fantasy series โ€” where old powers wake, timelines collide, and every choice echoes across centuries.
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Every morning in the little harbour of Vueltas, an old fisherman named Toรฑo sits on the stone steps and waits.
And every morning, without fail, a stingray glides out of the blue to meet him.
They've shared this quiet ritual for years - a wild ray and a man who never stopped showing kindness.
It brushes against his legs, circles like an old friend, and lifts its wings as if saying "You're here. I remember you." It's not a pet. It's not trained.
It's just trust - built slowly, patiently, one small act of care at a time.
A reminder that the world softens when we do.
NEW๐Ÿ†•โ—๏ธ: Flock Safety has put 120,000+ cameras across 49 states.

One of its biggest investors also backs Toka, a cyber intelligence company that advertises systems access, data exfiltration and covert entry โ€” and whose technology has reportedly been capable of altering camera footage.

Same investor. Very different mission.

And somehow, that was only the beginning of this story.

I followed the thread through Las Vegas police, exposed Flock cameras, federal access nobody at Flock apparently knew was happening, a plan to turn 350,000 rideshare dashcams into roaming plate readers, hacked dashcam footage, cops abusing the database and innocent people facing guns because stale alerts were never cleared.

The documented version is plenty weird enough.

FULL STORY ๐Ÿ‘‡

https://thedailydots.substack.com/p/one-of-flock-safetys-biggest-investors?r=5pecuy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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๐ŸฐTodayโ€™s partial solar eclipse has a rather extraordinary connection to Soul Castle.

While writing Book Two, What the Royal Wren Kens, I set one chapter on August 12, 2026โ€”the day an eclipse passes over the Scottish Highlands. In the story, Rowan knows precisely when it will happen. Callum, born more than three centuries before her, is still getting accustomed to a world that can map the sky to the minute.

So, in honor of the real eclipse, I wanted to share part of that scene.

No major spoilersโ€”just Rowan, Callum, Sorcha, and a Highland sky doing something ancient and beautiful.

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๐ŸฐTodayโ€™s partial solar eclipse has a rather extraordinary connection to Soul Castle. While writing Book Two, What the Royal Wren Kens, I set one chapter on August 12, 2026โ€”the day an eclipse passes over the Scottish Highlands. In the story, Rowan knows preciselyโ€ฆ
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From Soul Castle: What the Royal Wren Kens
Chapter Thirty-Six
Soul Castle, August 12, 2026

Iโ€™d had the eclipse in my phone calendar since Februaryโ€”not because I needed reminding, but because putting things in calendars was what you did when you were an editor, and old habits died harder than curses.

Callum found the reminder that morning and studied the screen over my shoulder.

โ€œTae the minute,โ€ he said.

โ€œ6:47 p.m. Eighty-seven percent coverage, specifically for Loch Arkaig.โ€

โ€œIn mโ€™time, ye kent it was coming from records. From men whoโ€™d watched the sky their whole lives.โ€ He handed the phone back and glanced at the ordinary August morning beyond the window. โ€œBut nae like this. The whole world mapped, for every place at once.โ€

โ€œThatโ€™s about right.โ€

โ€œAnd people drive hundreds of miles tae watch it.โ€

โ€œThey do.โ€

He considered that.

โ€œAye,โ€ he said. โ€œRight enough.โ€

* * *

I noticed when the daylight through the War Room windows went wrong.

Not darkโ€”dimmed. The sky remained blue, but less so, as though someone had turned a dial above the atmosphere.

โ€œItโ€™s starting,โ€ I said.

The meeting stopped.

โ€œThe eclipse. Come on.โ€

We went outside.

Loch Arkaig had become a painting of itself. Strange golden light grazed the hills at an angle August had never produced, beneath a blue too deep for that hour. The moon had taken a slow, deliberate bite from the sun, leaving it a brilliant crescent.

Callum looked up and forgot to speak.

โ€œOch,โ€ he said at last.

One quiet word, and everything behind it revising itself.

โ€œTold you.โ€

The loch held the altered sky. Shadows stretched in directions they had no business going. One bird fell silent, then another, until the entire hillside stilledโ€”not before weather, but before something older and more precise.

Ancient. Mechanical. Beautiful.

Sorcha stood apart from us, her face lifted. Something had genuinely surprised herโ€”not enough to crack the composure, only enough to command her full attention.

โ€œYon Bonnie Tyler lass,โ€ she said to nobody in particular. โ€œHad it right enough.โ€

Frog swallowed a laugh.

Callum looked at me.

I gave him nothing.

This was not the moment to explain Bonnie Tyler.

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The chapter becomes considerably less peaceful after thisโ€”but that part can remain behind the Veil for now.

If youโ€™re watching the eclipse today, I hope you get your own brief moment of impossible light. And if the birds suddenly go quiet and a Scottish loch freezes solid in Augustโ€ฆperhaps donโ€™t knock on any ancient doors.

๐ŸฐSoul Castle: What the Royal Wren Kens is Book Two of the Soul Castle series ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://a.co/d/07AdVF20
๐Ÿฐ๐ŸšจSlightly weird request for my readers:

Would any of you be interested in being an early reader/proofreader of sorts for my fiction?

I don't even know if "beta reader" is the right term for what I'm looking for. I really just need one or two additional sets of human eyes who genuinely enjoy my work and wouldn't mind reading it rough โ€” sometimes *very* rough โ€” and pointing out mistakes as I go.

I'm not looking for someone to rewrite it, and I'm definitely not asking anyone to do professional editing work for free. I need the person who enjoys getting chapters early and doesn't mind saying, "Hey dumbass, you used the same word four times in this paragraph," or "Wait, this doesn't make sense," or "Didn't Callum already know this?" ๐Ÿ˜‚

Ideally, I'd love someone who enjoys Scottish history/Highlands, time travel, fae/fantasy, etc., since that's obviously the world I've decided to live in.

The biggest thing is that you'd need to be okay seeing the sausage being made. These wouldn't necessarily be polished chapters. You'd be seeing things before everybody else, mistakes and all.

I unfortunately can't afford to pay anyone right now, which is why I've hesitated to even ask. But I also know I've reached the point where I really need at least one other human brain looking at this stuff besides mine.

So... if that sounds less like work and more like something you'd actually have fun doing, DM me. โค๏ธ -
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๐ŸŒฟ The path tae the Thornwife ended at a branch nae thicker than mโ€™wrist.

A boundary neednae be strong enough tae stop ye.

Only clear enough tae make crossing a choice.

Chapter Twenty-Five โ€” What the Water Carries ๐Ÿ‘‡

https://sorchasjournals.substack.com/p/chapter-twenty-five?r=87kb68&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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๐ŸฐIf this drew you in, Sorchaโ€™s world is still movingโ€”step into Soul Castle: The Guardian & The Keeper, a series on Amazon:
HERE
I didn't expect a headline about an eagle to make me cry this week.

But Jackie wasn't the first eagle I loved, and I suspect she won't be the last.

For years, I've kept nest cams playing beside me while I worked, slept, wrote, reported, and lived. Somewhere along the way, those little windows into wild families became part of the rhythm of my own life.

I finally tried to put into words why they matter so damn much.

A Window Into an Unedited Life: https://thedailydots.substack.com/p/a-window-into-an-unedited-life?r=5pecuy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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๐ŸฐWhen youโ€™re done doomscrolling, come escape with me. Soul Castle is my original Scottish time-travel fantasy series โ€” where old powers wake, timelines collide, and every choice echoes across centuries.