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(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: FBI Admits in Court Filing That It Is Aware of Epstein “Client Lists”—Months After the Personal Lawyer for Longtime Epstein Wingman Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, Told America No Such Lists Existed

Take from this the obvious conclusion.
FOIA Files
Come behind the scenes as Bloomberg's FOIA expert uncovers interesting documents never seen before.
www.bloomberg.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Must watch from Yellow Dot!
POV: Big Oil explains the weather they caused.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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If it doesn't get inside you, it can't make you sick.

Respirators are designed by experts to help protect you from aerosol hazards, including COVID, the flu and other airborne diseases, and tested to make sure they are effective - and they are.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is a quack.
Does wearing a face mask stop you catching flu? Experts give verdict
Wearing a mask is inconvenient, but not as inconvenient as lockdowns
www.independent.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Seth nails it:
This supposedly high-level convo gets stupid *immediately*.

After Emily explains that presidents ALREADY have the power to fire commissioners FOR CAUSE, David says Humphrey's Executor must be overruled so they can fire for corruption or incompetence—i.e. FOR CAUSE. And Emily says, good point!

WTF?
Opinion | We’re Trying to Find a Line the Supreme Court Won’t Cross
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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In 2018, the Trump FBI designated the Proud Boys as an extremist organization.

Per the Trump 2.0 FBI, they no longer have that designation.

So what did they do to earn this exoneration?

Why, they STORMED THE CAPITOL FOR TRUMP in a VIOLENT INSURRECTION.
FBI official calls antifa biggest US threat but provides few details
A top FBI official called the anti-fascist movement antifa the biggest domestic terrorism threat to the U.S. during a congressional hearing on Thursday, but struggled to answer detailed questions abou...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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When we steal oil on the high seas, how is it not piracy?
December 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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In January, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services will roll out a pilot program that will use AI to review Medicare patients' requests for care.

Insurers will get rewarded when they deny care.

What could go wrong?
December 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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THE NEW AXIS OF EVIL

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Now that America has endorsed the Russian invasion of Europe, declared tariff wars against all democratic nations, begun committing war crimes daily, and taken to the high seas in acts of contemptible piracy, we deserve this new status.
December 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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When entire infrastructures are built around cruelty and sadism – it rationalizes and justifies their existence. Resist.
December 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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(🚨) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: The Timeline of Pro-Trump January 6 Pipe Bomber’s 21 Bomb-Component Purchases Reveals An Unmistakable Pattern

You are going to need a drink for this. Trust me.
PROOF EXCLUSIVE: The Timeline of Pro-Trump January 6 Pipe Bomber’s 21 Bomb-Component Purchases Reveals An Unmistakable Pattern
A former federal criminal investigator reveals details about Brian Cole you haven’t heard, including how his bomb-component purchases reveal a motive—one that the FBI falsely claims remains unclear.
sethabramson.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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This is contemptible. Not only do we now have confirmation Hegseth has been lying from the jump, but it seems neither he nor his team understand that killing everyone on a target list *becomes* an illegal No Quarter Order if targets try to surrender or are neutralized. Their semantic games are vile.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling ve...
www.nbcnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Trump here makes clear that he executed an official act—a pardon—with an expectation of "LOYALTY" from the recipient of the act, with his definition of LOYALTY as he executed the act being that the recipient of it would either never run for Congress again or not run as a Democrat.
December 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump Confesses to Impeachable Offense on Social Media, Revealing That He Pardoned a Democratic Congressman to Try to Illicitly Gain a GOP House Seat, Retain His GOP Majority in Congress, and Stave Off a 2027 House Impeachment
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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As Trump pardons a real estate developer who’d been charged with corruption by his own Justice Department, an unsettling fact appears obvious:

Trump made a right-turn at *abiding* corruption and is now, though his pardon abuses, effectively *encouraging* corruption. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
With yet another controversial pardon, Trump derails his own DOJ’s corruption case
There’s a fine line between a president using pardons to abide corruption and using them to encourage corruption.
www.ms.now
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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What sort of parallel universe are we living in in which extremely powerful people are worried about a wholly transparent ploy? If the Trump administration tries to scapegoat an innocent man, how about we just fucking ignore what they say and go after the real perpetrator? What's this vacillation?
Breaking news: Government officials said they are increasingly concerned that the Trump administration intends to scapegoat the military officer who directed U.S. forces to kill survivors of a targeted strike on suspected drug smugglers in Latin America.
Hegseth, with White House help, tries to distance himself from boat strike fallout
As Congress vows accountability, the Trump administration emphasized it was a top military commander — not the defense secretary — who directed the engagement.
wapo.st
December 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The House and Senate are both investigating Pete’s war crimes
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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(🚨) BREAKING: Hegseth Actually Committed *Multiple* War Crimes on *Multiple* Dates, As Did the Soldiers Who Followed His Criminal Orders
US military carried out second strike killing survivors on a suspected drug boat that had already been attacked, sources say | CNN Politics
The US military carried out a follow-up strike on a suspected drug vessel operating in the Caribbean on September 2 after an initial attack did not kill everyone on board, sources familiar with the ma...
www.cnn.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Wow, this is so good!
I know everything is terrible, but at least the weirdest-ever Hounds album is coming

Preview track below
Hounds, “Once Upon a Time”
YouTube video by Seth Abramson
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I stand with Sen. Mark Kelly.

To all active and retired US Military members: Defy illegal orders. Defy Unconstitutional orders. When you swore an oath, you were not reciting a poem – you were making a commitment.
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Climate change is going to push global food inflation to extreme highs over the coming decade.

Most people don’t realise how precarious most of agriculture globally is right now.
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Pete Hegseth must be immediately called before both Houses of Congress and be told to his face in front of the nation and the world, that if he gives illegal or Unconstitutional orders, he will face prison for the rest of his natural life.
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM