why the fuck is nobody talking about gary indiana having no power, gas or food for over a week?! these poor people. it literally started around the eclipse. 😭
It’s extremely fucked up the fact the way I found out a whole town has been without power for a week (Gary, Indiana) via TikTok videos and not news coverage
Gary, Indiana and surrounding areas have been without power for a week. Over 100,000 people without power. According to some reports, Data centers cut the power to the tornado warning system that would have alerted residents of the storm. Some areas have no power AND their water has been cut off. They are going on 8 days with no power. Violence is starting to escalate as people are reporting that their cars and homes are being broken into because people are looking for food and supplies.
Social media is being suppressed and national media isn’t reporting this.
As of Monday afternoon, more than 100,000 Indiana residents were without electricity, according to utility company NIPSCO, after over 300,000 people lost power because of the storms. https://t.co/qgMUImYnKq
Apparently there’s been a blackout in Gary, Indiana that’s been going on for a week???? And folks are getting robbed and b34ten. Why is there nothing in the news or online trending about this?
How many people outside of Gary, Indiana are aware they haven't had electricity for a week? These videos on IG ny this young lady are the first reports I'm seeing that they have no power, fuel, or food (no refrigeration), and people are being robbed for generators and supplies.
A federal judge just ruled that Ghislaine Maxwell’s Epstein grand jury records must be made public, rejecting every objection she raised. Congress’s Epstein Files Transparency Act overrides grand jury secrecy rules. #OpDeathEaters
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Federal grand jury material from the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell must be released to the public, a New York judge ruled on 11 August, rejecting every objection Maxwell raised to keeping it sealed.
U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska found that the Epstein Files Transparency Act overrides the secrecy orders that have covered the material since Maxwell's 2021 conviction, and that the statute establishes the compelling need federal courts require before grand jury material is opened.
Maxwell's filings against disclosure amounted to "a veritable kitchen sink of objections," Preska wrote, running through procedural, statutory and constitutional grounds, all of which she found meritless. Release will carry the victim-protecting redactions the Act authorises.
What comes out
Grand jury subpoenas and material gathered by the government during the federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein fall within the order, together with depositions taken from Maxwell in April and July 2016 in the civil defamation case Virginia Giuffre brought against her.
Prosecutors built two perjury counts in Maxwell's federal indictment on those 2016 depositions, charging her with lying under oath when she denied knowing about Epstein's recruitment and abuse of girls. The counts were later dismissed.
Records held by the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, which represented Giuffre, are covered by the ruling.
Giuffre died in April 2025. Her allegations against Prince Andrew, which he has denied, cost him his royal titles and, on 18 February 2026, brought his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office over the alleged sharing of confidential documents with Epstein.
The statute against Rule 6(e)
Grand jury secrecy in the federal system runs on Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which permits disclosure only in narrow circumstances and has historically defeated attempts to open Epstein-related material. Two federal judges refused Justice Department applications to unseal Epstein and Maxwell grand jury records in 2025 on exactly that ground.
Public Law 119-38 changed the calculation. Signed on 19 November 2025, it directs the Attorney General to publish all unclassified Justice Department records on Epstein and Maxwell, permits withholding only for victim identity, child sexual abuse material, active investigations, images of death or injury and classified national security material, and expressly bars withholding for embarrassment, reputational harm or political sensitivity.
Preska's reading treats the Act as a congressional finding of public need that displaces the earlier secrecy orders rather than as a request the court may weigh against them.
Maxwell's position
Maxwell is serving 20 years, imposed in June 2022 after a jury convicted her in December 2021 on rape trafficking and conspiracy counts for recruiting and grooming girls for Epstein.
She was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a minimum security federal prison camp in Texas in the summer of 2025, after two days of interviews with Todd Blanche, then Deputy Attorney General and now Attorney General. A Bureau of Prisons whistleblower has since given House Judiciary Democrats evidence of preferential treatment at the camp.
Maxwell filed an application for commutation with the Trump administration in November 2025. Her Supreme Court appeal was rejected in 2025.
Appearing under subpoena at a House Oversight Committee deposition on 9 February 2026, Maxwell invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer.
Her lawyer David Oscar Markus said afterwards: "Maxwell is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump." Her legal team has said she could explain why Trump and Bill Clinton are innocent of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.
The Senate vote
The Senate adopted a resolution opposing any pardon or commutation for Maxwell on 29 July 2026, by unanimous consent, with no senator objecting. Senator Jacky Rosen brought it.
"Sexual predators should not be afforded preferential treatment," Senator Jack Reed said of the administration's handling of Maxwell.
Unanimous consent means no Republican senator objected, six days before the Judiciary Committee advanced Blanche's nomination on 4 August and 10 days before he won a floor vote 50 to 49.
Senate resolutions of this kind carry no legal force. Presidential clemency is not reviewable by the courts, and Trump could commute Maxwell's sentence at any point, including after the grand jury material becomes public.
Hey @RepFine why are you looking through someone’s mailbox while you’re out canvassing? Not only is it wrong, it’s creepy AF.
Randy Fine is a menace to basic human decency.
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Minnesota to provide access to its statewide voter registration data. Another victory for my firm and our clients.
DOJ is now 0-23. ELG is undefeated. https://t.co/T4NWD3D1yH
Katie Phang: Well, the FBI handwritten notes implicate Donald Trump. And I don't think it's a secret why they're doing this dance at the DOJ, to not release them
🚨Meet Confederate flag-waving Trump supporter Paul Bradley, 66, of Ozark, Alabama who’s now facing 13 felony child s*x crime counts.
Ozark police executed a search and arrest warrant Thursday on Houston Street after receiving reports of someone possessing “illegal electronic material.” Investigators found multiple devices containing images and videos depicting s*xually explicit content involving minors. Bradley was arrested on 13 counts of possession of child s*xual abuse material and booked into Dale County Jail.
Bradley’s Facebook history reads like a MAGA fever dream: he defiantly declared he’d “keep flying” his Confederate “battle flag” rather than accept a “rainbow rag,” insisted marriage is only “a covenant between man, woman and God,” and posted a meme claiming “Elon Musk is more African than Kamala Harris.” He called Biden a corrupt, demented liar while praising Trump as “the best, most unappreciated President in U.S. history” — inviting people to “copy and paste” his rant. He also framed the 2024 election as a choice between “Freedom vs Communism.”
Family values, Bible verses, anti-gay, Confederate pride, and child sexual abuse material on his devices. No one is shocked.
For the record: He’s not trans, not a drag queen, not Muslim, and not an immigrant.
Bill Cassidy had the deciding vote for Todd Blanche.
One vote to say, "Enough. The country comes first."
He chose Trump instead.
Remember that the next time Cassidy talks about principle, the Constitution, or doing what's right.
He had his moment.
He damn well blew it.