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Dawn Westlake
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Filmmaker since 2000 with Ron de Caña Productions. 24 films, over 100 awards. Fluent in English & Spanish; proficient in Italian & Portuguese. Read/understand Catalán.
Cue the Katie Johnson depo. That's the trump she described in detail.
Just disgusting. Morally broken. Repugnant.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Nazis never win.
Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Pretty ironic that the Trump administration having just blown up its 21st boat and brought the total number of civilians killed since September to 83 has the nerve to label anyone a terrorist. Only terrorist I see is pedogrifter in the Oval Office kissing dictator ass everyday.
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Dear God.

“Why are you guys so obsessed with the President of the United States being part of a massive child rape ring?”
Margaret Brennan to Tom Suozzi: "Can you explain the focus this past week in the House by Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files? Is this a tactic to distract from the failure to extract healthcare changes?"
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Large crowds of protesters have begun gathering outside the White House demanding Trump’s resignation because of the ongoing Epstein scandal.
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Ditto. Wtf? This is basically what I tell audiences at festivals in Q&As about why I make films. (Maybe I'm still not Catholic, though...it's just that the Pope and I are both originally from Chicago. 😀)
Am I a Catholic now???
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Who is Bubba? (Very sure it's not WJC.)
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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It's actually stunning how the tech bros squandered an almost limitless amount of goodwill from, say, twenty years ago when we were all delighted to have laptops and phones that did useful things for us and you could watch TV on demand and get directions and plan trips and send an email, to.... now
November 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Jennifer Schulze's latest newsletter highlights how some of the biggest names in Chicago TV journalism over recent decades are stepping up to denounce the Trump regime's assault on Chicago. These trusted voices can make a difference. @newsjennifer.bsky.social
Retired journalists raise the alarm about state sponsored terror in Chicago
"It is without precedent that the biggest names in Chicago journalism have come together to condemn a public action"
jenniferschulze.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Imagine a world where revelations about a cabinet member’s drug use isn’t buried under stories about the president’s rapist party pal.
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Where we're at. (#trumpsasociopathicpedo)
Sooooo dementia sleepy Joe Biden is actually a mastermind who framed Trump by adding evidence to the Epstein Files. Which are a hoax, but are being investigated. After trump closed the investigation in July, and said there was no client list.
November 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Way to put out that fire, sir.
Trump just told reporters on Air Force One that he hasn’t ruled out a pardon for Ghislane Maxwell
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
No duh.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that Epstein was somehow playing for the CIA, Israeli intelligence, and Russia at the same time. Robert Maxwell was allegedly playing for all three teams.
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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A reminder that in 2022, President Biden signed the “Eliminating Limits to Justice for Child Sex Abuse Victims Act,” eliminating the statute of limitations to file civil action for federal sex offenses. Seems relevant.
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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In my 44 years as a journalist, I'm pretty sure I never advised a "source" on how to blackmail the president of the United States
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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The president being a child trafficking pedophile will go down in history as the biggest scandal of all time.
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Just found out from clickforfestivals that "Fear Not Fear Itself" was the sole rep of the #US in Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmów Niezależnych "Publicystyka" in #Poland on October 25th! That makes 66 festivals now!
November 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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This week’s ‘Noel’s Notes: Flirtin’ with Disaster’ is out now, all content is available free but paid supporters make is possible. Thanks for reading & sharing. Link: open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"Fear Not Fear Itself", my 2024 film #defendingdemocracy and calling out authoritarian cruelty and hypocrisy, plays XX Muestra de Cine Social La Imagen del Sur in Córdoba, #Spain on November 20th.
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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From street marches to court battles to the ballot box - we’ve challenged the power of this exceptionally unpopular president.

The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Shame on you, @durbin.senate.gov . What the hell happened to you? My parents worked so hard for you. What a disappointment you are.
Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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And this whole thing is about a documentary which aired a year ago, with zero outage. But when someone leaked a memo from a cozy-to-the-right-wing internal watchdog, Mitch Prescott, it becomes a massive scandal.
Remember: The Tories want to destroy the BBC.
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM