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this should be obvious but the reason Trump is working desperately against Epstein transparency is because he's guilty
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
this should be obvious but the reason Trump is working desperately against Epstein transparency is because he's guilty
I figured he'd try to flip any republicans considering voting for to release the #EpsteinFiles. It may not matter with the drip, drip, drip we're starting to see.
The fact that Trump is calling Mace and Boebert today pleading with them to remove their names from the Epstein petition at the last minute tells you everything you need to know about how incriminating the info in the files is to him and his cronies.
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I figured he'd try to flip any republicans considering voting for to release the #EpsteinFiles. It may not matter with the drip, drip, drip we're starting to see.
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Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
November 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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That's debatable. The orders are likely illegal.
Exclusive: U.S. troops are not liable in the deadly strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in Latin America, a new classified Justice Department memo announced.
U.S. troops not liable in boat strikes, classified Justice Dept. memo says
In a classified memo, the Trump administration’s Office of Legal Counsel said that U.S. troops would not be liable for participating in boat strikes on alleged narco-traffickers.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
That's debatable. The orders are likely illegal.
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YES: Democrats have this horrible habit of not asking for things they can't get. Which means there is no opportunity to ever build expectation that those things should happen.
But Trump is now implicitly implicated in child sex trafficking, either as a client or a trafficker. He should be removed.
But Trump is now implicitly implicated in child sex trafficking, either as a client or a trafficker. He should be removed.
Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
YES: Democrats have this horrible habit of not asking for things they can't get. Which means there is no opportunity to ever build expectation that those things should happen.
But Trump is now implicitly implicated in child sex trafficking, either as a client or a trafficker. He should be removed.
But Trump is now implicitly implicated in child sex trafficking, either as a client or a trafficker. He should be removed.
trump's "wonderful secret" is out of the closet... our FBI and DOJ are in on the coverup. Need to burn this admin to the ground. 🔥🔥🔥 #EpsteinFlies #PedoPresident #whitehouse #MAGA #Republicans www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
See the alleged Trump birthday note to Epstein, released by House Democrats
The House Oversight Committee has obtained the “infamous ‘Birthday Book’ that contains a note from President Trump that he has said does not exist,” the committee’s top Democrat said Monday.
www.pbs.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
trump's "wonderful secret" is out of the closet... our FBI and DOJ are in on the coverup. Need to burn this admin to the ground. 🔥🔥🔥 #EpsteinFlies #PedoPresident #whitehouse #MAGA #Republicans www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Using this post to once again hype my feed of independent and nonprofit journalism.
Read and share their work, and if you can, financially support those who are important to you. Journalism is expensive. Accountability journalism even more so.
Read and share their work, and if you can, financially support those who are important to you. Journalism is expensive. Accountability journalism even more so.
Other folks have said it, but let me just note that:
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Using this post to once again hype my feed of independent and nonprofit journalism.
Read and share their work, and if you can, financially support those who are important to you. Journalism is expensive. Accountability journalism even more so.
Read and share their work, and if you can, financially support those who are important to you. Journalism is expensive. Accountability journalism even more so.
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The top issue of the 2016 campaign was email server management and information security.
That ushered in an admin that quickly compromised information security in much worse ways. It got much less attention. And Americans re-empowered them in 2024.
Signal leak alone was orders of magnitude worse.
That ushered in an admin that quickly compromised information security in much worse ways. It got much less attention. And Americans re-empowered them in 2024.
Signal leak alone was orders of magnitude worse.
Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The top issue of the 2016 campaign was email server management and information security.
That ushered in an admin that quickly compromised information security in much worse ways. It got much less attention. And Americans re-empowered them in 2024.
Signal leak alone was orders of magnitude worse.
That ushered in an admin that quickly compromised information security in much worse ways. It got much less attention. And Americans re-empowered them in 2024.
Signal leak alone was orders of magnitude worse.
The MAGA cult is about to go through some things. #EpsteinFiles
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The MAGA cult is about to go through some things. #EpsteinFiles
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The Uninhabitable United States
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Uninhabitable United States
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CNBC Anchor Confronts Trump Econ Chief Over Inflation ‘Increasing for 5 Straight Months’ Mediaite
www.mediaite.com
CNBC Anchor Confronts Trump Econ Chief Over Inflation ‘Increasing for 5 Straight Months’
twp.ai
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
CNBC Anchor Confronts Trump Econ Chief Over Inflation ‘Increasing for 5 Straight Months’ Mediaite
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If the GOP wins, then we'll lose any chance to ever see anything of the Epstein files. Matt van Epps is a maga endorsed by trumpf, in deep red 7th congressional district in Tennessee.
We need this democratic lady to win. Her opponent says she's like Mandani. Nice.
www.newsweek.com/democrat-aft...
We need this democratic lady to win. Her opponent says she's like Mandani. Nice.
www.newsweek.com/democrat-aft...
Democrat Aftyn Behn's chances of winning GOP Tennessee House seat—Polls
Democrats are eyeing the seat as a sleeper flip following a string of overperformances in special elections this year.
www.newsweek.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
If the GOP wins, then we'll lose any chance to ever see anything of the Epstein files. Matt van Epps is a maga endorsed by trumpf, in deep red 7th congressional district in Tennessee.
We need this democratic lady to win. Her opponent says she's like Mandani. Nice.
www.newsweek.com/democrat-aft...
We need this democratic lady to win. Her opponent says she's like Mandani. Nice.
www.newsweek.com/democrat-aft...
I love that the MAGA talking heads are out there lying about food prices. The most obvious expense everyone has. It makes the most die hard republicans question what else they are. lying about. Hint: EVERYTHING! 🙃
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I love that the MAGA talking heads are out there lying about food prices. The most obvious expense everyone has. It makes the most die hard republicans question what else they are. lying about. Hint: EVERYTHING! 🙃
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A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent briefly held at gunpoint a woman whom he claimed was following him, prompting a Southern California police officer to intervene, authorities said.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
California police intervene as ICE agent in plain clothes points gun at woman
Agent said woman was following and filming him, but officer said he couldn’t assist if no crime was committed
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent briefly held at gunpoint a woman whom he claimed was following him, prompting a Southern California police officer to intervene, authorities said.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Newsom's latest troll 😆
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Newsom's latest troll 😆
The corruption across the trump admin is staggering. (Or whatever the word a hundreds times worse than staggering is)
New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director
In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The corruption across the trump admin is staggering. (Or whatever the word a hundreds times worse than staggering is)
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Folks have been telling me they’ve noticed I’ve gotten “a lot more political” on social media this year.
Of course I have.
The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.
Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”
Of course I have.
The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.
Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Folks have been telling me they’ve noticed I’ve gotten “a lot more political” on social media this year.
Of course I have.
The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.
Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”
Of course I have.
The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.
Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”
Elites (rich, powerful, assholes) are shit. Not to be confused with experts (scholarly, bureaucratic, knowledgeable) in their field, who functioning societies need. Just finished “Goliath’s Curse” by Luke Kemp and he has the historic analysis to dismantle the autocratic, great man myth.
Fear, Greed, Civic Virtue and the Fall of the Elites talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fear-...
Fear, Greed, Civic Virtue and the Fall of the Elites
Members of America’s founding generation had an ambivalent and evolving understanding of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Elites (rich, powerful, assholes) are shit. Not to be confused with experts (scholarly, bureaucratic, knowledgeable) in their field, who functioning societies need. Just finished “Goliath’s Curse” by Luke Kemp and he has the historic analysis to dismantle the autocratic, great man myth.
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"There's an expectation from everybody that the Dems are always going to swoop in and be the adults in the room and save the Republicans from the disastrous policies that they themselves put forward... It's so outside the realm of possibility to EVER imagine Republicans might do the right thing."
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
"There's an expectation from everybody that the Dems are always going to swoop in and be the adults in the room and save the Republicans from the disastrous policies that they themselves put forward... It's so outside the realm of possibility to EVER imagine Republicans might do the right thing."
Fetterman is such a ghoul. So many politicians are just assholes when you look under the hood.
Jesus Fucking Christ. The only reason they were "designed to expire" is because JOE FUCKING MANCHIN REFUSED TO AGREE TO MAKE THEM PERMANENT.
You know...the guy who is no longer a Democrat?
You know...the guy who is no longer a Democrat?
tfw you're being quoted by Dear Leader's propaganda megaphone.
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Fetterman is such a ghoul. So many politicians are just assholes when you look under the hood.
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The Dem-controlled house passed a bill to make them permanent several times before 2021, and a permanent version was included in the original Build Back Better bill.
Manchin said he’d only agree to a 3-year extension so they had to cut it to that to get his vote.
Manchin said he’d only agree to a 3-year extension so they had to cut it to that to get his vote.
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The Dem-controlled house passed a bill to make them permanent several times before 2021, and a permanent version was included in the original Build Back Better bill.
Manchin said he’d only agree to a 3-year extension so they had to cut it to that to get his vote.
Manchin said he’d only agree to a 3-year extension so they had to cut it to that to get his vote.
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Jesus Fucking Christ. The only reason they were "designed to expire" is because JOE FUCKING MANCHIN REFUSED TO AGREE TO MAKE THEM PERMANENT.
You know...the guy who is no longer a Democrat?
You know...the guy who is no longer a Democrat?
tfw you're being quoted by Dear Leader's propaganda megaphone.
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Jesus Fucking Christ. The only reason they were "designed to expire" is because JOE FUCKING MANCHIN REFUSED TO AGREE TO MAKE THEM PERMANENT.
You know...the guy who is no longer a Democrat?
You know...the guy who is no longer a Democrat?
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Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.