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bellaciao007.bsky.social @bellaciao007.bsky.social · Jun 4
These days I don’t have much time to engage here. I really enjoyed this. Thanks.
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theonion.com
Pentagon Blames Venezuela For Flow Of Drugs Into Kash Patel https://theonion.com/pentagon-blames-venezuela-for-flow-of-drugs-into-kash-patel/
Pentagon Blames Venezuela For Flow Of Drugs Into Kash Patel
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
One of the people said Feds United is subcontracting for SOSi, a big gov contractor that just got a contract for these sorts of services. “I do not comment on current projects where I am not the prime vendor,” Brown told me www.404media.co/contractor-p...
One of the people briefed on the Virginia and DC pilot said Feds United was subcontracting under SOS International LLC, or SOSi, which is a large government contractor. In October the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) signed a $7 million contract with SOSi for skip tracing services, The Lever reported. “I do not comment on current projects where I am not the prime vendor,” Brown from Feds United told 404 Media. SOSi did not respond to a request for comment. When asked specifically if SOSi would be able to comment on the pilot, Brown said “after my years of federal training, my response is ‘I cannot confirm nor deny who my client is.’”
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
The post doesn't mention ICE, but two people briefed on the plans told me the job is to verify information for ICE. Would be split into teams, given vehicles, addresses. $300 for each verified address up to $30,000. www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Brown said that ICE does not have good addresses for some of its targets, one person briefed on the plans recalled. Feds United would give recruited individuals a list of addresses based on things like utility bills, the person said. Feds United would split the people into teams to perform the surveillance, and after verifying the target lived at the address each person on the team would be paid $300, they added. This would go up to a maximum of $30,000, they said. “Do not talk to the neighbors,” the person said, recalling the plans. “This was strictly supposed to be observe and report,” referring to a tactic where they are not supposed to directly interact with anyone.
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. Spoke to people briefed on plans. This isn't licensed PIs/bounty hunters. These are just former police/military; members of public

"Something doesn't sound right"

www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
If you haven't yet, definitely read @chrisgeidner.bsky.social's post on EB White and fascism. As I said, I think this name will totally backfire. But still read Chris' post.

www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
Cloudflare's down. Look at Capybaras.
A baby capybara walking in the grass.
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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natepentz.bsky.social
Says something about the DC Press that People Magazine has done more about this story than any of their rags.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h
…and then the rest of the White House press corps pushed back against the president’s gratuitous insult aimed at one of their colleagues?

Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened!

Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week.

people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
…and then the rest of the White House press corps pushed back against the president’s gratuitous insult aimed at one of their colleagues?

Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened!

Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week.

people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Also… Trump’s “piggy” insult to the reporter was tweeted out Friday night by a CBS (former Bloomberg) reporter … but it seems to have gone largely under the radar til the People story.

x.com/JenniferJJac...
Highlights from NEWSY gaggle on AF1 on our flight to Florida on Friday night: Trump told us on EPSTEIN: -"I know nothing about that," he said when asked what Epstein meant when he said Trump knew about the girls. "Jeffrey Epstein and I had a very bad relationship for many years." -"Quiet, quiet, piggy," he told a Bloomberg reporter who asked why, if there's nothing incriminating in the files, he's acting like there is. -Asked if he's ruled out a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex offender connected to Epstein, "I haven't even thought about it," he said. "I don't rule it in or out. I don't even think about it." -"They can have whatever they want," he said when asked about MTG's interview with CBS saying release all the files. "I was never on his island. Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times." -If they had anything, they would've used it before the election, he said. I asked why, then, his team encouraged Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert to not pursue this. "Because it's bad to talk about it" when Rs should talk about "how well we've done." -He said he heard Pam Bondi picked U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, "a real legal talent," to look into ties between Epstein and prominent Dems.
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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themorrancave.bsky.social
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.

By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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nytimes.com
For the first time in 30 years, the UN conference on climate change is taking place without top U.S. government representation. China has emerged as the top dog at the summit and is poised to become the world’s supplier of green energy technology.

Listen to "The Daily."
The Future of Energy Has Arrived — Just Not in the U.S.
While China is selling clean energy to the world, America is pushing oil and gas.
nyti.ms
November 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
bellaciao007.bsky.social
Totally avoidable situation here. #Eagles
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
bellaciao007.bsky.social
Wut were you thinking Jalen?
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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doughenwood.bsky.social
My interview with Émile Torres on the appalling philosophies of the tech elite—transhumanism, longermism, and the rest, transcribed by Jacobin.

jacobin.com/2025/11/musk...
Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally.
It’s not just a figure of speech to say tech titans are indifferent to humanity. From Peter Thiel to Elon Musk, many are adherents of a worldview that envisions humans being replaced by digital post-h...
jacobin.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Look what @dandrezner.bsky.social started over at the hellsite?
A thread from Xitter. It starts with a Dan Drezner RT of Pete Hegseth tweeting: OPERATION ROUGH RIDER = Freedom of Navigation for U.S. ships OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER = Obliteration of Iranian nuclear sites OPERATION SOUTHERN SPEAR = Destroy Narco-Terrorists killing Americans Drezner tweets: Coming soon: OPERATION HUSKY FARMBOY OPERATION THROBBING MEMBER OPERATION STRAPPING MANSERVANT OPERATION MORNING WOOD Someone responds: OPERATION DEEP PENETRATION = Destruction of Venezuelan assets located in-country. OPERATION KNEELING GRASP = Protection of paralyzed asset in territory under threat of invasion. OPERATION ONE PUMP = Surprise aerial release of payload while diplomatic negotiations ensue. Another person responds: Operation Bareback Mountain Operation Folsom Street Fair Operation Palm Springs Operation White Party Operation Fire Island Nights Still another: OPERATION MORNING MOUTHFUL OPERATION GREASED VIBRATION OPERATION BEGUILING FLAIR PECTORAL HAIR OPERATION MEAT PACK
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
The Megan Kelly Goalpost Removal Company always gets the job done. Call 1 (800) GASLIGHT for your estimate today
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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suryamattu.com
A cache of 18,000 emails offers another window into Epstein’s mind. Bloomberg parsed Amazon receipts from that inbox—filtering, verifying, and cataloging book orders—to build this timeline.
jasonleopold.bsky.social Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 4d
NEW: In Oct 2016, when a new book about Jeffrey Epstein came out, he bought 17 copies. In 2019, in Epstein’s last weeks of freedom, he made his final purchases: a guide to raising children, The Annotated Lolita & Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy
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🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Epstein’s Emails Reveal Book Purchases About Trump, Sex, Money and Power
TThe disgraced financier purchased books about making money, treating narcissism, negotiating with anyone, achieving ecstasy and understanding life
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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propublica.org
NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign.

We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.
Kristi Noem-Tied Firm Secretly Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Campaign
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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jeisinger.bsky.social
NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration.

We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.

@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:

www.propublica.org/article/kris...
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Trump is demanding that GOP side with him over Epstein's victims, Rep Ansari tells me. She had a harrowing exchange with one victim who recounts how her mom had cancer and he exploited that.

Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:

newrepublic.com/article/2031...
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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josh-kaplan.bsky.social
First, let's back up.

Noem has starred in a sprawling ad campaign she’s said is a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration—so crucial that DHS bypassed the normal competitive bidding process, designed to prevent waste & corruption in federal contracts www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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jamellebouie.net
my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
joefore.bsky.social Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 4d
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
Jim Ryan's letter is not just surreal and troubling; it provides a series of deeply sobering lessons—about the perils facing public universities today; about what it means to "work with" this Department of Justice; & about what leadership does (and doesn't) entail at this especially fraught moment.
joefore.bsky.social Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 4d
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM