Where there’s smoke…

There is something so bizarre about this Epstein situation.

We're being misdirected and gaslit. There's a reason that Teflon Don can't just make this one go away, like he has everything else. 

Why is this the one thing that maga seems to not want to let go?

To my totally untrained eye I see one of three options. 

1. there's something they're trying to pull behind the scenes so they leave this as the media focus.  Of course the problem here is that they don't usually try and hide things. Look at all the shnizzle that's going down and no one tries to misdirect on any of it. And besides, they keep tossing more garbage to try and bury *this* story for some reason.

2. this is a sort of coup. Donald was the means to the end to getting people into power and executing on the project 2025 scam. Remember that there is a story about the battle between Vance and his tech guys vs Trump and his nonsense? 

It's at least possible that Trump has outlived his usefulness to everyone, and maybe they'll use this as a means to unload Trump and then pin things on him … and get Vance, who they actually would prefer.

I have heard Europe is doing more reporting on how they always knew Trump was a pedophile and Russia is leaking new info on it … but the US media isn't biting.

And the undertone is that Trump is being setup.

I don't know if this is true, but I can read European articles and translate as needed. I leave this as a pending *possibility*

Of course 3. is that it's all just plain stupidity. And maybe pedophilia is a line too far for many people. And this is where we are at. 

Stay tuned. Eventually we'll know more. 

Well. That sucks. Media just became less “free”

A while ago, skydance media made a bid to buy paramount, which would include all of its holdings, movie library, CBS, and all other streaming. 

The FCC under Biden said "no thanks," because this would create a huge problem in terms of freedom of the press and create a sort of monopoly. 

But, David Ellison - ceo of skydance - is a huuuge supporter of Trumps, and shortly after Trump got elected, Ellison managed to convince CBS to apologize to Trump for whatever they said that aggrieved him, and got Colbert fired, essentially for insubordination. 

And then Trumps FCC approved the merger, making Ellison the biggest media mogul. And now he can control what paramount delivers. Which is bad for all of us. 

At least for now, we can take solace in the fact that over the air media, streaming "news" and such are less important to most people, as options pop up on the Internet all the time. 

*for now is noted because the Feds want very badly to restrict what we can access on the internet, and to track us if we're seeing things they don't approve of. And don't sleep on the fact that "oracle wants to buy TikTok" because David's father, Larry, was the ceo of oracle and still has a lot of pull there. So expect that platform to change somewhat quietly, too. 

https://slate.com/technology/2025/07/larry-ellison-donald-trump-paramount-skydance-merger.html

Trump is Wrecking our Travel Industry

Trump's impact on attendance at the men's World Cup in 2026 (cohosted with Mexico and Canada) and the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles will likely be devastating. Earlier this month, 90 civil society groups implored FIFA to use its influence with Trump "to push the Trump administration to guarantee the rights of millions of football fans looking to attend the World Cup next summer." (Even if he does, why would anybody trust a Trump "guarantee"?)

If foreigners run the risk of being barred entry, hassled, detained, or deported (including to third countries where they have no attachment) hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of fans may stay away. Trump's travel bans (which by then may be expanded to more countries) could be used to prevent fans, players, team officials, and others from entering the games.

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-is-wrecking-our-travel-industry?open=false

drinking water out of thin air

It may seem obvious, but there is a lot of water vapor in the air, and until this point it was only theoretically possible to collect it in a simple and cost effective way. 

But now, a group of engineers have developed a graphene-calcium composite that can absorb clean water from the atmosphere, which can be consumed. 

And the great part is that it is cheap and reusable. Meaning that many more people could have access to clean water. 

New nanomaterial pulls drinking water straight out of thin air


https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/water-from-air-graphene-calcium-aerogel

Meet the sargassum belt, a 5,000-mile-long snake of seaweed circling Florida

While visiting the island of St Kitts, I was talking with some locals about the sargassum that was collecting along the shore on the Atlantic side. There was quite a lot of it, and it smelled. 

The questions were: why is so much of it collecting? And does it have anything to do with pollution?

And the answer is that it is likely the result of human habits. Here's an article from 2023 that sums it up pretty well. 

What is sargassum? Here's why seaweed is piling up along Florida beaches : NPR


https://www.npr.org/2023/03/15/1163385168/sargassum-seaweed-florida-mexico-beaches

A possible replacement for plastic: Spinning bacteria create improved cellulose

Here's a look at bacterial cellulose - a sustainable material that breaks down easily - being used to shape containers. 

And these containers could replaces plastics. I do love scientific advances. 

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-plastic-bacteria-cellulose.html

Reducing pesticide

Engineers at MIT observed there has been a large increase in the amount of pesticide in use around the world. So they set out to try and see if they could reduce the impact. 

The developed a method of mixing water and soybean oil with the pesticide, so it would stick to the leaves of plants. 

The net result is better coverage, with less pesticide used. It's better for the environment. Better for farmers. Better for the plants (and planet). And the kicker is that it actually saves the agricultural industry billions of dollars because they have to buy lest pesticide. 

Technology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leaves | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology


https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineers-develop-pesticides-stick-on-plant-leaves-0325