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Julie Zebrak
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Former DOJ and FinCEN attorney
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💥The Emerson poll showed yet again - @aftynbehn.bsky.social has the best shot in decades to #FlipTN07!
It will take all of us to help her get to DC to make TN & the rest of 🇺🇸 a better place for working families.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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What Pam Bondi and Lindsey Halligan did was not incompetence--It was intentional misconduct. They both must be disbarred. My latest Daily Dean:
youtu.be/ZOjiYdHKpXg?...
Pam Bondi & Lindsey Halligan should be disbarred for their misconduct in Tish James & Comey cases
YouTube video by The Dean Obeidallah Show
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Only 1% of consumers said business conditions were good in the U.S., according to the Conference Board’s report.
Consumer Confidence Falls Sharply In November—Hitting Lowest Level Since April
Only 1% of consumers said business conditions were good in the U.S., according to the Conference Board’s report.
www.forbes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Quotes on the economy, last few days:

* WSJ: “Life felt more doable a year and a half ago.”

* CBS: “Paying for the house, the car — I just couldn’t do it anymore.”

* FT: “scraping for crumbs.”

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Ugly #Retail sales **volumes** show consumer struggling to push trough #tariffs

🔻Total -0.1%
🔻Core -0.4%

⚕️Health +0.6%
👩‍🍳Rest/bar 0.6%
🏠Build mat 0.5%
🛋️Furn 0.1%
🛒Groc -0.1%
🚗Auto -0.6%
💻Online -1.0%
🎮Elec -1.3%
👗Cloth -1.5%
🏬Merch -1.9%
⛽️Gas -2.1%
⚽️Sport -2.5%
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Page One in Cincinnati:

“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”

#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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New from me in @theatlantic.com : Trump is learning that although it's easy to convict someone in a social media rant, when you get into the courtroom things are a bit more complicated.

The criminal justice system is standing up to Trump.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The One Place Trump’s Power Remains Constrained
In the criminal-justice system, when the president’s bluster collides with facts and evidence, he keeps losing.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Tensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics, and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Why Republicans Are Fighting About the Nazis
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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This is very insightful and also gross
"What the Epstein class understands is that the more accessible information becomes, the more precious nonpublic information is."

If you have the time and patience this is recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... By@anandwrites.bsky.social [gift link]
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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"Enlisted personnel obey lawful orders; officers ensure the orders that reach them are lawful. The real constitutional failsafe...is the officer corps, obligated to the Constitution alone."

@markhertling.bsky.social on the military and illegal orders: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-ameri...
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is very insightful and also gross
"What the Epstein class understands is that the more accessible information becomes, the more precious nonpublic information is."

If you have the time and patience this is recommended. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o... By@anandwrites.bsky.social [gift link]
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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X rolled out a new feature that accidentally exposed a massive covert foreign influence operation — more than one, actually — that is currently live on the platform. It’s a huge story and I wrote about it — and what it means for America — here:

open.substack.com/pub/weaponiz...
X Just Accidentally Exposed A Vast Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans
How a new X feature led to the most sweeping public exposure of covert foreign activity on a major platform since 2016.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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MAHA
This one is for the “I don’t like/follow politics” crowd or the “Politics doesn’t affect me” crowd. Your GOP government endorses more chemicals on your produce now. Congratulations PFAS!! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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This one is for the “I don’t like/follow politics” crowd or the “Politics doesn’t affect me” crowd. Your GOP government endorses more chemicals on your produce now. Congratulations PFAS!! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Tensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics, and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Why Republicans Are Fighting About the Nazis
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This one is for the “I don’t like/follow politics” crowd or the “Politics doesn’t affect me” crowd. Your GOP government endorses more chemicals on your produce now. Congratulations PFAS!! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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#TN07 Republicans are sweating a deep-red Tennessee special election — and they should be. The ground is shifting, and Aftyn Behn is the reason why. Let’s push this all the way over the line, y’all.
Join the fight: AftynForCongress.com
LFG!
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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“The ‘conflictedly connected’ American Jews ought to have far greater political representation than they currently do. Drowned out by bellicosity on the right and ostracized by some would-be allies among progressives, a large plurality of American Jews have effectively been rendered invisible.”
The ultra-hawkish right and anti-Zionist left have drowned the American Jewish majority
Every U.S. Political Pathology – on the Left and Right – Is Reproduced in American Jewish Politics, Effectively Rendering Invisible the Plurality of U.S. Jews. That's Bad for U.S. Jews, for a Democrat...
www.haaretz.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Tragically, Tom Friedman is right. This is utter appeasement to a monstrous Vladimir Putin. Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Dan Driscoll, selling out America and Ukraine to Russia. Disgusting and disgraceful.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Neville Chamberlain Prize
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Trump said today that "Zelenskyy could fight his little heart out" about Trump's Ukraine surrender plan, and just a few hours later Rubio is saying it's not a U.S. plan at all. Clownish does not even begin to describe this regime. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Trump says Zelensky can agree to peace plan or ‘fight his little heart out’
President Trump on Saturday heaped pressure on Volodymyr Zelensky, as he pushed Ukraine’s leaders to agree to a 28-point plan to help bring an end to the war.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Unprecedented nepotism & corruption at the highest levels of American government
Reuters has confirmed that President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his special envoy Steve Witkoff held a private meeting in Miami with a sanctioned Kremlin proxy to help shape the new "peace plan" for Ukraine. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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The special election for TN-07 is on December 2nd.
Want to join me for a special GOTV Zoom Rally with Aftyn Behn and the campaign team?
Sun., December 1st. | Virtual Event

Sign up here to get the Zoom details: mobilize.us/s/hUJydt/n

Let's help Aftyn flip this seat blue!
GOTV ZOOM Rally · Aftyn for Congress
Join us for our GOTV Zoom Rally with Rep. Aftyn Behn — your last chance to hear from Aftyn before Election Day! 📅 Monday, December 1 ⏰ 7:00 PM CT 📍 [Register Here](https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/reg...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM