Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked CDC Director Erica Schwartz to remove two Pennsylvania infant deaths from the agency's online measles tally, Reuters reported Thursday — and Schwartz "agreed with Kennedy's directive and implemented it without objection." A day later the Lancaster County coroner answered him. Dr. Stephen Diamantoni ruled the six-week-old girl "died from measles, not with," the Washington Post reported Friday night — and ruled the second infant death, a ruptured spleen, was not measles. The CDC still counts zero: its page holds a blank deaths cell, and the agency quietly re-anchored the count to death certificates mid-outbreak — the 2025 Texas deaths were counted from state reports — while admitting it is still writing its definition of a measles death. America declared measles eliminated in 2000; it logged 3,134 confirmed cases by September 3. Trump's people believe lies win elections; rather than count a dead child, they changed the rules of counting. The refusal to count is the policy.
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins asked the US Supreme Court to revive Trump's congressional map Friday night — docket-stamped 10:47, a day after Missouri's own Supreme Court blocked it. The state court froze the map because a citizen referendum suspends it until voters decide November 3 — no merits ruling yet. Attorney General Hanaway's office filed the appeal, and Justice Kavanaugh ordered a response by noon Monday — Labor Day. Hoskins wants a decision by September 14: candidates file soon, and every week the old lines stand is a week the new ones elect no one. Trump needs the seats, Missouri Republicans need Trump, and the hurry is the tell.
Inspector General Tammy Hull opened an inquiry into the Postal Service's election-mail portal Friday, the New York Times reported — the same evening Judge Talwani enjoined the plan to toss mail ballots. An anonymous federal official handed Senator Blumenthal a disclosure August 31; Oversight Democrats sent it to Hull September 2. The Postal Service scheduled its own portal for 2027 — and is compiling the voter lists now anyway. The list is the prize, and nobody wants the Postal Service holding it before this election.
Investigators wired about 50 Joint Staff officers to polygraphs in a hunt for Pentagon leakers, the New York Times reported at 10:08 Friday night. Hours earlier, Judge Trevor McFadden let the Pentagon fire Stars and Stripes journalists, Politico reported. Same day, both ends: silence the officers who talk, fire the reporters they talk to. The Pentagon straps officers to machines for telling the truth while it lies to the public.
Veterans filed an emergency court request Friday afternoon to stop Trump's arch from breaking ground without final approval, NPR reported. Trump wants the arch to honor them; they answered with a lawsuit. The men and women the arch salutes are telling a judge the paperwork isn't done.
His economy tanking, Javier Milei pointed at the sea: hand over the Falklands the way Britain handed over Hong Kong, he proposed in Thursday's Economist. Britain fought a war for the islands in 1982. Milei brought it up anyway.
The lies are one lie. They redraw maps and manufacture records to beat elections; this week Kennedy had a dead infant deleted from the count. The same lying builds the world outside: Iran fired on Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan as the Strait of Hormuz fight with the US escalated; Putin escalates in Donetsk as Witkoff and Kushner landed in Moscow Saturday with a peace proposal; Denmark sent conscripts to Greenland for the first time as Trump presses to acquire the island; and the Justice Department paused antitrust cooperation with Canada — it denies the reported email — while Canada's counter-tariffs on 700-plus American products land Tuesday. America the enemy of the world, after 245 years as its friend. Lie this much and reality arrives later — and hits harder. James Comer says Mitch McConnell's staff hope he returns when the Senate reconvenes September 14; McConnell's office won't confirm a date.
Saturday is dark — no shows, and Monday is Labor Day. Fivestack returns Tuesday at 3 PM ET.
Zev gamed out every path to a stolen midterm — then Missouri ran one in real time.
