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Melania Trump’s Epstein Interview: The Bizarre Revelations Nobody Saw Coming—What’s She Really Hiding?

Ever get that feeling the world’s spinning faster than your morning cardio session? Well, buckle up — this week’s roundup serves up a cocktail of global political theatrics, unexpected dinosaur footprints, and tech battles hotter than a HIIT workout in July. From J. Divan Vance’s questionable cheerleading for Viktor Orbán in Hungary (spoiler alert: it didn’t exactly boost his odds) to Melania Trump stepping into the Epstein spotlight with all the subtlety of a kettlebell crashing to the floor, there’s no shortage of drama to flex your mental muscles on. Meanwhile, resistance to those gargantuan data centers sucking down energy like a protein shake post-gym rises across America, confronting tech giants with a verdict as relentless as a Spartan race. And hey, did I mention dinosaur tracks from 132 million years ago recently stumbled upon? Talk about prehistoric gains! So, ready to unpack all this chaos and uncover the stories that matter before Monday hits? Let’s jump right in. LEARN MORE

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The Trump brand’s toxicity appears to have gone international. Throughout his two terms as president, El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago has been an unabashed fanboi of Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban. He is everything this president wants to be—and the president is too damn close to achieving that goal. Hungary will be holding an election on Sunday, and it was beginning to look as though Orban’s party might be in for a proper hiding at the polls. So the president dispatched J. Divan Vance to Budapest to campaign for the president’s authoritarian idol. To hear Vance tell it, Orban is some combination of Pope Urban II and Charles Martel, keeping (white) western Europe safe from the foreign hordes. From NBC News:

“Will you stand for sovereignty and democracy, for truth and for the God of our forefathers?” Vance asked the Hungarian voters, cheered on by a standing ovation and whoops reverberating around the city’s MTK Sportpark arena. “Then, my friends, go to the polls this weekend, stand with Viktor Orbán, because he stands for you, and he stands for all these things.”

Deus vult, you Hungarian slackers!

Vance’s brilliant rhetoric has tanked Orban’s chances, at least according to the predictions markets. From the Daily Beast:

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten noted that Vance’s visit had caused prediction markets to change for “What are the prediction markets showing? To me looks like there’s a real chance that Viktor Orbán goes down to defeat. This is the Kalshi prediction market. Look, chance Orbán is Hungary’s prime minister after the 2026 election—you go back to the beginning of the year, it was basically an even split 48 percent chance that, in fact, he would be the prime minister after the election. “Down it goes, down it goes!” Enten declared. “We’re looking now at just a 31 percent chance, about a one in three shot,” he noted.

Any polling result that causes Harry Enten to unlimber his Howard Cosell imitation. (“Down goes Orban! Down goes Orban!” is worthy of note.

In Lady Melania Trump’s bizarre recent press conference, she answered questions about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell that nobody was asking. Every pundit is chasing the line, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” (Queen Gertrude, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2. You’re welcome.) Even assuming that the president launched the big boom-boom in Iran to distract us all from the Epstein Files—which I don’t, entirely—his wife’s sudden appearance on Thursday did nothing more than bring the files back to the top of the news. From The Guardian:

Even normally well-sourced correspondents for rightwing outlets were at a loss to explain why Melania Trump felt the need to issue the seemingly out-of-the-blue statement about her relationship with Epstein, the late sex offender who socialized with her husband for nearly two decades, or his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

The Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich said that she and her team were baffled.“We’ve been trying to understand why she made it today, if there was something that she is reacting to that might already be in the news that has upset her, or if there’s a story that’s yet to come out, that’s about to drop that she wanted to get ahead of,” Heinrich told Fox viewers. “Because it did feel like it came out of left field for us.

“We’re still trying to figure out why she made this statement today,” she added. “I’ve called every contact in my phone, including the president, and not gotten any answers.”The New York Post, which, like Fox, is owned by Rupert Murdoch and often acts like an arm of the Trump White House communications team, was also puzzled. “It’s unclear why the first lady chose to hold the press event at a time when the White House is trying to move on from the Epstein saga that has been a drag on her husband’s second term,” the New York tabloid reported.

The obvious conclusion to draw is that another one of the shoes is about to drop as regards the president’s involvement with his old running buddy, and that his wife is constructing a fallout shelter of her very own. Apparently, there is nobody involved in this administration that is incapable of making this whole thing worse.

Weekly WWOZ Pick To Click: “We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye” (The Boswell Sisters): Yeah, I still pretty much love New Orleans.

Weekly Visit to the Pathé Archives:Here, from 1926, it’s not AI. A woman attaches a new wheel to a crippled biplane in midair. If anyone can identify this woman, because Pathe doesn’t, please do so down in the comments. History is so cool.

Author and Actual Journalist David Maraniss called attention to this evidence of the corruption of the Washington Bezos on his Zuckbook account, butit’s worthy of a vast amount of condemnation. The topic of this editorial is the growing resistance around the country to hosting the giant, resource-sucking data centers beloved of people like, oh, I dunno, the guy who owns their newspaper. Some loon shot up a politician’s house in Indianapolis because he favored a data center there and What’s Left of the Post decided to smear everyone opposed to our techno-oligarchs’ playtoy.

No one was injured, but the incident illustrates how opposition to artificial intelligence can metastasize into an irrational frenzy. It wouldn’t be the first time in history that deranged Luddites turn to violence to fight the advancement of frontier technology.

Whenever people who can make a buck talk about “frontier technology,” please secure your wallets.

Activists see this as a blueprint for opposing developments across America. In Ohio, an effort is gaining steam to place a statewide ban on the ballot this fall to halt new construction.Each of these fights carries similar themes. Data-center opponents wildly exaggerate claims about water usage. They spread fears that these facilities will drive up utility bills, even though many projects include plans to fulfill their own energy needs. Others simply tap into general anxiety about what AI will mean for the future of work.

The links go to a website dedicated to the “transformative impact of AI,” and to another website that assures us that the data centers will result in a boom for the manufacturers of major engines to provide power to the centers. But what comes next makes a lie out of the above.

All of this is akin to standing on a shoreline, yelling at the rising ocean tides. More than 700 data centers are under construction in the U.S., and thousands more are planned. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent on these developments by big tech firms such as Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon, which was founded by Post owner Jeff Bezos.

Our owner wants what he wants and there is nothing you silly activists can do about it. Tell me this isn’t an attitude that eventually will grab all the water and electricity it wants from some unfortunate municipality.

Oh, and don’t shoot up people’s houses. That’s bad.

Discovery Corner: Hey, look what we found. From Channel 12 in Richmond.

A team of archaeologists has unearthed a brick kiln from the 1700s at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello home. The structure was used to make bricks for the third president’s residence and was discovered just feet from the house. Crystal O’Connor, archaeological field research manager, said the team came to the area about a month and a half ago and started excavating before construction for a project at the historic property begins. “We immediately started hitting brick,” O’Connor said.

(She said “hitting” brick, you animals.)

“What we actually have here on Monticello’s east lawn is a brick kiln, which is an oven where brick makers would have burned bricks for the house,” O’Connor said. Original inscriptions from the brick makers are still engraved on the blocks…More than two centuries later, the structure is providing new insight into history.“I think it helps us, again, remember that we’re not done learning about the past and reinterpreting the past and understanding it,” O’Connor said. “I think there’s stories that are still out there waiting to be told, and hopefully we can get this out there to guests and visitors and incorporate it into the interpretation here of Monticello.”

I am assuming that some, if not all, of the work was done here by enslaved people. That’s part of the interpretation, too.

Hey, SciTechDaily, is it a good day for dinosaur news? It’s always a good day for dinosaur news!

Our work as a team of ichnologists (studying fossil tracks and traces) often takes us to the Knysna area of the Western Cape coast, where we investigate tracks in coastal aeolianites (cemented sand dunes) in the age range of 50,000 to 400,000 years old. During one of these visits, early in 2025, we decided to visit a small patch of rock that formed during the early Cretaceous Period. It’s the only place in the vicinity where rock of this age is exposed, and much of it is underwater at high tide. We thought we might be lucky enough to find a theropod (dinosaur) tooth like the one discovered in those rocks by a 13-year-old boy in 2017.

We were pleasantly surprised when, instead, Linda Helm, a member of our party, told us in a state of excitement that she had found dinosaur tracks. Further examination of the deposits revealed more than two dozen probable tracks…In our study, we estimate that these tracks are 132 million years old, making them the youngest known dinosaur tracks in southern Africa (50 million years younger than the youngest tracks reported from the Karoo Basin). They form the second record of dinosaur tracks from the South African Cretaceous, and the second record from the Western Cape province. Some of them occur on rock surfaces, while others occur in the cliffs in profile.

Dinos were everywhere, all the better to live then and make us happy now.

I’ll be back on Monday for whatever fresh hell awaits. Be well and play nice, ya bastids. Stay above the snake-line and wear the damn masks, and take the damn shots, especially the boosters and any New One. In your spare time, spare a thought for the Iranian people, and the Lebanese people and all the other people downrange in our newest war, and all the people in ICE detention, and the Epstein victims, whose trauma is back in the news again, and the victims and their families in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada, and for the shooting victims in Austin, and in Michigan, and in Virginia and for the brilliant journalists of the Washington Post, and for the citizens of the occupied city of Minneapolis and South Burlington, Vermont,, and for all he people suffering from the severe cold brought by the current polar vortex. and the people in the flooded areas of southern Africa, and in the flooded areas in Ireland, and in the flooded areas of Brazil, and for people suffering from the outbreaks of measles, a particularly brutal flu, and Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in Harlem, and for our LGBTQ+ citizens, who deserve so much more from this country than they’re getting.