John Adams
@libertariandiary.com
Lawyer • Blogger • Bleeding-Heart Libertarian • Cat Guy • Web: https://libertariandiary.com & https://freewhitewater.com • Alum: Penn, William & Mary, Cornell Law • Never Trump Before Never Trump • Liberty's Future Beats with a Bleeding Heart
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John Adams
@libertariandiary.com
· Sep 27
Individual rights, freedom from interference, free markets, limited government, property rights, a spontaneous and dynamic social order, and advancement of social justice. Each tenet presumptively held, within a liberal democratic society recognizing all persons of equal moral worth. #libertarian
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Bone-sawed body parts don't just "happen."
Disgusting.
Disgusting.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Bone-sawed body parts don't just "happen."
Disgusting.
Disgusting.
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Career DOJ attorneys describe a system where verdicts and investigations depend on loyalty to the President. A justice system that serves one leader instead of the law isn’t a justice system, and our assessment warns where that road leads.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Career DOJ attorneys describe a system where verdicts and investigations depend on loyalty to the President. A justice system that serves one leader instead of the law isn’t a justice system, and our assessment warns where that road leads.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Sex pest : i am retiring from public life
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Sex pest : i am retiring from public life
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
David Kurtz: "Knowing he’s going to lose the vote — and knowing that the vote itself won’t be enough to pry the files loose unless the Senate agrees and he doesn’t veto it — Trump tried to redefine the setback by withdrawing his opposition to the vote, but not actually releasing the Epstein files."
Trump’s New Sham: The House Should Vote to Force Me to Release the Epstein Files That I Won’t Release
INSIDE: Pam Bondi ... Lindsey Halligan ... MTG
morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
David Kurtz: "Knowing he’s going to lose the vote — and knowing that the vote itself won’t be enough to pry the files loose unless the Senate agrees and he doesn’t veto it — Trump tried to redefine the setback by withdrawing his opposition to the vote, but not actually releasing the Epstein files."
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Protesters demonstrate outside new ICE detention building in Milwaukee. Via @isiahholmes.bsky.social.
Protesters demonstrate outside new ICE detention building in Milwaukee • Wisconsin Examiner
Protesters gathered to denounce construction of new ICE facility in Milwaukee on Saturday on the Northwest side.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Protesters demonstrate outside new ICE detention building in Milwaukee. Via @isiahholmes.bsky.social.
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US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
Thus far: "We estimate the cumulative cost of deploying the National Guard to all five cities through November 15 is approximately $473,265,435. The majority of this figure comes from the deployments in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C." #Trump #NationalGuard #Waste
FACT SHEET: What Do Trump's National Guard Deployments Cost? - Institute for Policy Studies
FACT SHEET: What Do Trump's National Guard Deployments Cost?
ips-dc.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Thus far: "We estimate the cumulative cost of deploying the National Guard to all five cities through November 15 is approximately $473,265,435. The majority of this figure comes from the deployments in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C." #Trump #NationalGuard #Waste
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If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
Trump now says House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide”
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
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‘Worst of the Worst’? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record
'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record | Common Dreams
Of 614 people on list who may have been unlawfully arrested and detained by federal officials, only 16 had a criminal record of any kind.
www.commondreams.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
‘Worst of the Worst’? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record
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More than 20 million Americans are discovering their health insurance is going to be a lot more expensive next year. They disproportionately live in places like Florida, Arizona, and Kansas that voted for Trump in the last election.
Here Is How an Obamacare Deal Might Actually Work
A compromise on subsidies is possible—but not if Republicans are determined to resurrect their repeal agenda.
www.thebulwark.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
More than 20 million Americans are discovering their health insurance is going to be a lot more expensive next year. They disproportionately live in places like Florida, Arizona, and Kansas that voted for Trump in the last election.
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This from @status.news is all true. But an even wider campaign is to punish and intimidate those who would theaten his *freedom from fact.*
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This from @status.news is all true. But an even wider campaign is to punish and intimidate those who would theaten his *freedom from fact.*
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
Here we have to learn to group the news media with the research universities, vax confusion created by RFK, Jr., the Bureau of Labor Statistics mess, etc.
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"don't worry, he's just into 15-year-olds" perhaps not as exculpatory as you think
Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.
Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"don't worry, he's just into 15-year-olds" perhaps not as exculpatory as you think
Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.
Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.
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gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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She's confusing inflation with Trump's approval rating.
Kelly Loeffler lies shamelessly on CNBC: "Our inflation has continued to fall"
November 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
She's confusing inflation with Trump's approval rating.
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"Trump seems to believe there are more damaging revelations to come. He wouldn’t have cranked up the pressure yesterday if he thought the stuff we’d already seen was the worst of it. Whatever the high-water mark of this scandal is, we likely haven’t hit it yet."
www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-acting...
www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-acting...
He’s Acting Pretty Damn Guilty
Trump usually acts like a guy with something to hide. But his Epstein behavior is on another level.
www.thebulwark.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"Trump seems to believe there are more damaging revelations to come. He wouldn’t have cranked up the pressure yesterday if he thought the stuff we’d already seen was the worst of it. Whatever the high-water mark of this scandal is, we likely haven’t hit it yet."
www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-acting...
www.thebulwark.com/p/hes-acting...
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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Raskin: "The DOJ hasn't released any of these emails that mention Trump's name & identify his role in all these activities. Those came from the Epstein estate. So this is a demonstration the govt is deliberately withholding the info everybody is actually looking for & could be damaging to Trump"
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Raskin: "The DOJ hasn't released any of these emails that mention Trump's name & identify his role in all these activities. Those came from the Epstein estate. So this is a demonstration the govt is deliberately withholding the info everybody is actually looking for & could be damaging to Trump"
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It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
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what planet do these people live on? now ibuprofen? are we also against bandaids? Vitamin C?
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
what planet do these people live on? now ibuprofen? are we also against bandaids? Vitamin C?
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NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland.
How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president.
www.propublica.org/article/port...
How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president.
www.propublica.org/article/port...
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland.
How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president.
www.propublica.org/article/port...
How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president.
www.propublica.org/article/port...
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BREAKING: (Gift) New Epstein emails reveal that Epstein claimed he had kompromat on President Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
New Epstein emails claim Trump ‘spent hours’ with victim
Democrats on the House Oversight say the emails provide evidence of a cover-up by the White House
www.miamiherald.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
BREAKING: (Gift) New Epstein emails reveal that Epstein claimed he had kompromat on President Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Wow! A new low for Ken Paxton. His deranged press release claims that there cannot be any legitimate purpose for legal defense for people facing deportation — effectively saying that removal defense is not legitimate and only “radicals” would want people to have lawyers.
Horrid stuff from him.
Horrid stuff from him.
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Wow! A new low for Ken Paxton. His deranged press release claims that there cannot be any legitimate purpose for legal defense for people facing deportation — effectively saying that removal defense is not legitimate and only “radicals” would want people to have lawyers.
Horrid stuff from him.
Horrid stuff from him.
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Voters are open to the argument that “authoritarianism” describes the Trump project. But we shouldn’t get so hung up on the label that we forget to prosecute the deeply unpopular facts of each individual case. www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...
Pardon the Corruption
Trump’s blanket pardons for stop-the-steal illegality aren’t only about settling scores from past elections. They’re about laying the groundwork to subvert future ones.
www.thebulwark.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Voters are open to the argument that “authoritarianism” describes the Trump project. But we shouldn’t get so hung up on the label that we forget to prosecute the deeply unpopular facts of each individual case. www.thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the...
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Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
kansasreflector.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
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“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history.
That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.
That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.
NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including:
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
-Rudy Giuliani
-John Eastman
-Mark Meadows
-Sidney Powell
-Ken Chesebro
-Christina Bobb
-Kelli Ward
-Jenna Ellis
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history.
That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.
That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.