Alex Bean
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Academic admin. Husband & dad. One-time applicant for Chicago Alderman. Love books, history, movies, & architecture. Trying to ween myself off of being Too Online.
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NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
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Note active voice in thread when victim "upends" Gaetz career but passive voice in image when discussing her exploitation.
"Gaetz sexually exploited a homeless child and destroyed his career in the process" would assign a man and a republican agency. And we can't have that.
"Gaetz sexually exploited a homeless child and destroyed his career in the process" would assign a man and a republican agency. And we can't have that.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Note active voice in thread when victim "upends" Gaetz career but passive voice in image when discussing her exploitation.
"Gaetz sexually exploited a homeless child and destroyed his career in the process" would assign a man and a republican agency. And we can't have that.
"Gaetz sexually exploited a homeless child and destroyed his career in the process" would assign a man and a republican agency. And we can't have that.
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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HOLY COW. Basically, as folks note in the comments. Halligan allowed the court reporter to believe they were done for the day but then called the Grand Jury back. There is no judge, etc at these. So very likely she reconvened with no court reporter.
I can't see how charges stand if that's true.
I can't see how charges stand if that's true.
Today, the judge deciding the legality of Lindsey Halligan's appointment said the court reporter stopped transcribing grand jury proceedings in the Comey case at 4:28 PM. That's over TWO HOURS that's missing.
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
HOLY COW. Basically, as folks note in the comments. Halligan allowed the court reporter to believe they were done for the day but then called the Grand Jury back. There is no judge, etc at these. So very likely she reconvened with no court reporter.
I can't see how charges stand if that's true.
I can't see how charges stand if that's true.
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I don't think it gets mentioned enough that Bovino is a member of the civil service. He is not a political appointee. Yet he still engages in constant open partisanship while in uniform and with a DHS flag behind him.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I don't think it gets mentioned enough that Bovino is a member of the civil service. He is not a political appointee. Yet he still engages in constant open partisanship while in uniform and with a DHS flag behind him.
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A day care teacher was released from federal immigration custody just hours after a federal judge ruled her arrest last week “unlawful."
Day care teacher released from federal immigration custody after judge rules arrest 'unlawful'
chicago.suntimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
A day care teacher was released from federal immigration custody just hours after a federal judge ruled her arrest last week “unlawful."
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John Fetterman was taken to the hospital after suffering from a “ventricular fibrillation flare-up” and falling near his home
John Fetterman Hospitalized After Fall
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
John Fetterman was taken to the hospital after suffering from a “ventricular fibrillation flare-up” and falling near his home
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I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons
Anyone interested in buying my old e-bike?
It needs a tune-up and I think a new spoke, but it's still in really good shape.
Original specs here: electra.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bik...
It needs a tune-up and I think a new spoke, but it's still in really good shape.
Original specs here: electra.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bik...
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Anyone interested in buying my old e-bike?
It needs a tune-up and I think a new spoke, but it's still in really good shape.
Original specs here: electra.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bik...
It needs a tune-up and I think a new spoke, but it's still in really good shape.
Original specs here: electra.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bik...
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Amu Chua is also supposedly the person who pushed the Vances together while they were at Yale.
So, uh, the Jed Rubenfeld referenced here was disciplined by Yale Law for sexually harassing students. He's married to Amy Chua who among other things took to the pages of the NYT to defend Kavanaugh when he was under fire for sexually harassment. Ken Starr, well we know. This is just incredible.
Ken Starr signed an email to Jeffery Epstein with "hugs"
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Amu Chua is also supposedly the person who pushed the Vances together while they were at Yale.
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Obviously corrupt on its face but even worse when you remember that Congress refuses to create a damages remedy for people abused by federal law enforcement, including ICE, and SCOTUS has narrowed the court-created remedy to almost nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Obviously corrupt on its face but even worse when you remember that Congress refuses to create a damages remedy for people abused by federal law enforcement, including ICE, and SCOTUS has narrowed the court-created remedy to almost nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...
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How many of the people who wrote variants of 'Has MeToo gone too far' editorials for our remaining major newspapers sent or received email from mr epstein
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
How many of the people who wrote variants of 'Has MeToo gone too far' editorials for our remaining major newspapers sent or received email from mr epstein
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
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One horrific thing to me is that the president- a man who has gotten away with everything including literal murder up to this point- seems extremely nervous about anything regarding Epstein coming out. Like how bad does it have to be
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
One horrific thing to me is that the president- a man who has gotten away with everything including literal murder up to this point- seems extremely nervous about anything regarding Epstein coming out. Like how bad does it have to be
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The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
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Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
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honestly i really don't like that there really is a cabal of elite wealthy pedophiles. i would very much prefer if that wasn't true.
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
honestly i really don't like that there really is a cabal of elite wealthy pedophiles. i would very much prefer if that wasn't true.
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Thanks to SCOTUS, they couldn't touch Obama even if he did the worst stuff in Trump's imagination. But also thanks to SCOTUS, no one can stop them from trying -- and running DOJ into the ground in the process. Consequently, we have entire agencies whose mission right now is to salve a sad man's ego.
BREAKING: Justice Department prosecutors are resigning because they have refused to work on politically motivated investigations designed to indict and arrest President Obama.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YkX2...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YkX2...
'Everyone is on pins and needles': DOJ subpoenas texts and emails related to 2016 probe
YouTube video by MSNBC
m.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Thanks to SCOTUS, they couldn't touch Obama even if he did the worst stuff in Trump's imagination. But also thanks to SCOTUS, no one can stop them from trying -- and running DOJ into the ground in the process. Consequently, we have entire agencies whose mission right now is to salve a sad man's ego.
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I think that guy was probably involved in child sex trafficking, and he's self-evidently been bending over backwards to corruptly cover it up, but also he can continue to be president for another three years, is not a coherent position and the incoherence of it is obvious.
November 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I think that guy was probably involved in child sex trafficking, and he's self-evidently been bending over backwards to corruptly cover it up, but also he can continue to be president for another three years, is not a coherent position and the incoherence of it is obvious.
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Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
So...why did the NYT never run this?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
So...why did the NYT never run this?
This article was fascinating and also made me hyper-aware of the act of reading while I was reading it.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This article was fascinating and also made me hyper-aware of the act of reading while I was reading it.
Hell is not hot enough.
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Hell is not hot enough.