Irene Adler
@ireneadlercal.bsky.social
Dog and cat loving tree hugging liberal feminist. Go Kings Go. Bolt Up. Long suffering Angels fan.
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As Trump focuses on hunting down undocumented immigrants, DHS agents have been diverted from investigating sex crimes against children, human smuggling and Iranian black market oil sales used to fund terrorism, @nytimes.com investigation finds. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
The Department of Deportation
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
As Trump focuses on hunting down undocumented immigrants, DHS agents have been diverted from investigating sex crimes against children, human smuggling and Iranian black market oil sales used to fund terrorism, @nytimes.com investigation finds. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
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Quality Community Note on Troy Nehls.
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Quality Community Note on Troy Nehls.
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As someone who lived through the ACA’s passage, all I have to say is bahahahahshahaha *drives car directly into river*
Bessent on tariffs: "This is one of President Trump's signature policies, and traditionally the Supreme Court does not interfere with a president's signature policy."
November 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
As someone who lived through the ACA’s passage, all I have to say is bahahahahshahaha *drives car directly into river*
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They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
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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
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.
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If nothing else, this second term has irrefutably confirmed that he will ask his DOJ to persecute his enemies and he believes he has the absolute right to order extrajudicial killings. This is a case where I think it's reasonable to categorize some "conspiracy theories" as "distinct possibilities."
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If nothing else, this second term has irrefutably confirmed that he will ask his DOJ to persecute his enemies and he believes he has the absolute right to order extrajudicial killings. This is a case where I think it's reasonable to categorize some "conspiracy theories" as "distinct possibilities."
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MAGA gets to line up at the MAGA Bondi lunchline for big handouts of taxpayer money, as “settlements.” What a racket.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
MAGA gets to line up at the MAGA Bondi lunchline for big handouts of taxpayer money, as “settlements.” What a racket.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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He’s more Fredo bragging about how he’s great friends with Johnny Ola hours after telling Michael he never met Johnny Ola, only way dumber.
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
He’s more Fredo bragging about how he’s great friends with Johnny Ola hours after telling Michael he never met Johnny Ola, only way dumber.
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The DOJ is suing to stop California’s redistricting map. Apparently vote approved maps are a problem, but partisan gerrymanders done without public input are just democracy working as intended?
November 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The DOJ is suing to stop California’s redistricting map. Apparently vote approved maps are a problem, but partisan gerrymanders done without public input are just democracy working as intended?
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This is such a vital - and rare - observation.
Whether it's garbage NYT left-bait or right wing flood-the-zone nonsense that we all pile on to, we are letting the wrong people set our overall information agenda in a very deep and fundamental way. And it's a very serious mistake.
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is such a vital - and rare - observation.
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The UK is one of the only countries in the world that went out of their way to give Trump a fake trade deal to give him an exit ramp from his tariff mess, but he didn’t take it. Hasn’t anyone told Homan that the U.S. is now a pariah country with a pariah president?
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The UK is one of the only countries in the world that went out of their way to give Trump a fake trade deal to give him an exit ramp from his tariff mess, but he didn’t take it. Hasn’t anyone told Homan that the U.S. is now a pariah country with a pariah president?
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Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Reporter Julie Brown who has been covering the Epstein story for years responds to @stephenasmith’s performative outrage about why Dems (and some Republicans) have made releasing the files an issue
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Reporter Julie Brown who has been covering the Epstein story for years responds to @stephenasmith’s performative outrage about why Dems (and some Republicans) have made releasing the files an issue
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Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
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Dieticians wont tell u this but french fries you eat in the car on your way home don’t count as part of the meal
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Dieticians wont tell u this but french fries you eat in the car on your way home don’t count as part of the meal
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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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At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.
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We seriously have Republicans talking about going back to the “good old days” of high-risk pools, which just meant that people with preexisting conditions like cancer couldn’t get health insurance.
Tom Emmer: "You're gonna have to create high risk pools again. Just go back where Minnesota was before the ACA."
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We seriously have Republicans talking about going back to the “good old days” of high-risk pools, which just meant that people with preexisting conditions like cancer couldn’t get health insurance.
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Welp, hear that? Nothing to see here, folks. Former NYT journalist said so. Glad that's wrapped up.
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Welp, hear that? Nothing to see here, folks. Former NYT journalist said so. Glad that's wrapped up.
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This post starts from the assumptions that 1. the NYT didn’t know the full depth of the relationship between its reporter and Epstein; and 2. that national political coverage at the NYT is generally carried out with honesty and integrity.
1. might be true, but we don’t know.
2. is simply false.
1. might be true, but we don’t know.
2. is simply false.
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
This post starts from the assumptions that 1. the NYT didn’t know the full depth of the relationship between its reporter and Epstein; and 2. that national political coverage at the NYT is generally carried out with honesty and integrity.
1. might be true, but we don’t know.
2. is simply false.
1. might be true, but we don’t know.
2. is simply false.
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The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
The ladies of the NYTimes working overtime to defend its honor today.
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The ladies of the NYTimes working overtime to defend its honor today.
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Weird how people who kept Epstein's activities in Florida from being prosecuted keep getting cabinet-level appointments from Trump. Someone should ask Pam Bondi about this puzzling phenomenon.
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Weird how people who kept Epstein's activities in Florida from being prosecuted keep getting cabinet-level appointments from Trump. Someone should ask Pam Bondi about this puzzling phenomenon.