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OK, I listened to the last 20 minutes of the episode (the whole section about the tattoo).
Here's what i heard: 1/
Here's what i heard: 1/
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
OK, I listened to the last 20 minutes of the episode (the whole section about the tattoo).
Here's what i heard: 1/
Here's what i heard: 1/
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NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two newly hired senior FBI staff, exempting them from polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information, officials said.
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two newly hired senior FBI staff, exempting them from polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information, officials said.
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“President Donald Trump’s directive to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War could cost as much as $2 billion, according to six people with knowledge of the potential cost.”
Trump's Pentagon name change could cost up to $2 billion
Officially changing the Department of Defense to the Department of War can only be done by Congress and would require updating thousands of signs, rewriting digital code and creating new letterheads,...
www.nbcnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“President Donald Trump’s directive to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War could cost as much as $2 billion, according to six people with knowledge of the potential cost.”
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Tear gas, car crashes, chokeholds: Risky tactics drive Trump’s #Chicago deportation blitz. Law enforcement experts say federal agents show a lack of training and restraint. “They’re out of control,” ex-CPD Supt. Garry McCarthy sez. @chicago.suntimes.com @wbez.org chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Tear gas, car crashes, rubber bullets: Risky tactics have driven Trump’s Chicago deportation ‘blitz’
Law enforcement experts say federal agents have displayed a lack of training and restraint. “They’re out of control,” ex-police Supt. Garry McCarthy says.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Tear gas, car crashes, chokeholds: Risky tactics drive Trump’s #Chicago deportation blitz. Law enforcement experts say federal agents show a lack of training and restraint. “They’re out of control,” ex-CPD Supt. Garry McCarthy sez. @chicago.suntimes.com @wbez.org chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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Ukrainian drones struck Russian-occupied Donetsk for hours Thursday, hitting the metallurgical plant and causing power outages
The operation targeted a key rear area and industrial base supporting Russian forces since 2014
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/14/u...
The operation targeted a key rear area and industrial base supporting Russian forces since 2014
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/14/u...
Ukrainian drone swarm strikes occupied Donetsk, triggering fires and power outages (VIDEOS)
Residents reported intense anti-aircraft fire as drones circled the city for hours.
euromaidanpress.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Ukrainian drones struck Russian-occupied Donetsk for hours Thursday, hitting the metallurgical plant and causing power outages
The operation targeted a key rear area and industrial base supporting Russian forces since 2014
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/14/u...
The operation targeted a key rear area and industrial base supporting Russian forces since 2014
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/14/u...
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Whether it’s putting up new signs at the Pentagon, doing pushups and pull ups, adorning the halls with photos of his wife, renaming bases, talking rides in jets, firing female commanders, or blowing up boats, Hegseth is always working hard for you with hair and makeup on point.
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Whether it’s putting up new signs at the Pentagon, doing pushups and pull ups, adorning the halls with photos of his wife, renaming bases, talking rides in jets, firing female commanders, or blowing up boats, Hegseth is always working hard for you with hair and makeup on point.
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Hegseth hates DEI (just removed a monument to black soldiers in the Netherlands) every bit as much as Nazis did. Those Nazis refused to believe the remarkable bomber production at the US Willow Run plant in Detroit, because so many workers were black/female.
Hegseth & Nazis: birds of a feather.
Hegseth & Nazis: birds of a feather.
November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Hegseth hates DEI (just removed a monument to black soldiers in the Netherlands) every bit as much as Nazis did. Those Nazis refused to believe the remarkable bomber production at the US Willow Run plant in Detroit, because so many workers were black/female.
Hegseth & Nazis: birds of a feather.
Hegseth & Nazis: birds of a feather.
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It's ONLY been 65 years since six year old Ruby Bridges walked through the halls of William Frantz Elementary as the first Black child to attend an all white school. Met with mobs and hate, her bravery and courage helped change the course of history for this nation.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It's ONLY been 65 years since six year old Ruby Bridges walked through the halls of William Frantz Elementary as the first Black child to attend an all white school. Met with mobs and hate, her bravery and courage helped change the course of history for this nation.
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I do tremendously honor Ruby's courage -- but, as a mother and grandmother, I have to honor the courage of her parents, who knew, even better than that brave little girl, what she was risking. It's horrifying that all the gains made, at such cost, are being clawed back by the worst people on earth.
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I do tremendously honor Ruby's courage -- but, as a mother and grandmother, I have to honor the courage of her parents, who knew, even better than that brave little girl, what she was risking. It's horrifying that all the gains made, at such cost, are being clawed back by the worst people on earth.
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Little Ruby in her pretty dress.
Close your eyes, imagine the shrill voices screaming filth at a child.
So little. So pretty in her new school clothes.
The thought has always made me cry.
It always will.
Close your eyes, imagine the shrill voices screaming filth at a child.
So little. So pretty in her new school clothes.
The thought has always made me cry.
It always will.
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Little Ruby in her pretty dress.
Close your eyes, imagine the shrill voices screaming filth at a child.
So little. So pretty in her new school clothes.
The thought has always made me cry.
It always will.
Close your eyes, imagine the shrill voices screaming filth at a child.
So little. So pretty in her new school clothes.
The thought has always made me cry.
It always will.
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Ruby Bridges as a child (and continues as an adult) had MORE strength and moral courage than the ENTIRE republican party combined, from the time she made that historic moment till now.
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Ruby Bridges as a child (and continues as an adult) had MORE strength and moral courage than the ENTIRE republican party combined, from the time she made that historic moment till now.
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This solar program is a political anomaly in Pennsylvania. Can solar advocates build on it, or is it a one-off?
In Rooftop Solar, Advocates See a ‘Missed Opportunity’ for Clean Energy in Pennsylvania - Inside Climate News
Pennsylvania lawmakers have been at an impasse on clean energy legislation for years. The lone exception—a $25 million bill to put rooftop solar on schools—strikes some as a blueprint for breaking thr...
insideclimatenews.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This solar program is a political anomaly in Pennsylvania. Can solar advocates build on it, or is it a one-off?
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Kind of feel like it's the responsibility of news organizations to frame this in the blind panic mode it's obviously coming from. And yet, might as well be a Q drop.
President Donald Trump says he's asking the Department of Justice to investigate Democrats linked to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including former President Bill Clinton, who he says "spent large portions of their life" with the disgraced financier. bit.ly/3LDd3Ih
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Kind of feel like it's the responsibility of news organizations to frame this in the blind panic mode it's obviously coming from. And yet, might as well be a Q drop.
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Democrats should get comfortable saying at every opportunity they can: Donald Trump, long time best friend of child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, is implicated in Epsteins crimes & is using the presidency & his hold over the GOP to try and hide evidence of that.
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Democrats should get comfortable saying at every opportunity they can: Donald Trump, long time best friend of child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, is implicated in Epsteins crimes & is using the presidency & his hold over the GOP to try and hide evidence of that.
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Just a simple reminder that there would be no Black Lives Matter if there hadn't been four centuries of black lives don't matter.
a woman in a judge 's robe is sitting in front of an american flag and saying `` well duh '' .
ALT: a woman in a judge 's robe is sitting in front of an american flag and saying `` well duh '' .
media.tenor.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Just a simple reminder that there would be no Black Lives Matter if there hadn't been four centuries of black lives don't matter.
'which is it, JD? R the undocumented overwhelming the system because they’re on the public dole or are they doing so amazingly well that they’re making $3,000 mo. mortgage payments? because both can’t be true.'
fuckwits, racists, and kiddie-fiddler apologists
www.jefftiedrich.com/p/fuckwits-r...
fuckwits, racists, and kiddie-fiddler apologists
www.jefftiedrich.com/p/fuckwits-r...
fuckwits, racists, and kiddie-fiddler apologists: your Republican roundup
it's a trifecta of terrible
www.jefftiedrich.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
'which is it, JD? R the undocumented overwhelming the system because they’re on the public dole or are they doing so amazingly well that they’re making $3,000 mo. mortgage payments? because both can’t be true.'
fuckwits, racists, and kiddie-fiddler apologists
www.jefftiedrich.com/p/fuckwits-r...
fuckwits, racists, and kiddie-fiddler apologists
www.jefftiedrich.com/p/fuckwits-r...
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THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...
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A small, oily fish at the heart of B.C.’s coastal food web will likely disappear without an immediate moratorium on commercial herring fishing, say Saanich First Nations Hereditary Chiefs and conservation groups.
Judith Lavoie reports. #bcpoli
Judith Lavoie reports. #bcpoli
‘We Are Going to Fight to Save the Herring’ | The Tyee
The DFO proposes to expand the fishery. Environmental groups and the W̱SÁNEĆ fear disaster.
thetyee.ca
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A small, oily fish at the heart of B.C.’s coastal food web will likely disappear without an immediate moratorium on commercial herring fishing, say Saanich First Nations Hereditary Chiefs and conservation groups.
Judith Lavoie reports. #bcpoli
Judith Lavoie reports. #bcpoli
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Mafia governance in action
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Mafia governance in action
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."
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POTUS has fired several competent national security leaders at the behest of Loomer.
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
POTUS has fired several competent national security leaders at the behest of Loomer.
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for the love of God please say sike
Mark Epstein asked his brother Jeffrey Epstein whether Steve Bannon could confirm if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba. Jeffrey Epstein: "I thought I had tsuris,” using the Yiddish term for troubles. #OpDeathEaters
![From:
Mark L. Epstein
Sent:
3/21/2018 2:54:13 PM
To:
'jeffrey E.' [jeevacation@gmail.com]
RE: hey
Subject:
High
I'd rather be in Donni Dee's shoes.
Importance:
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 10:43 AM
To: Mark L. Epstein
Subject: Re: hey
you mean DONNI TEE
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Mark L. Epstein
wrote:
You and your boy Donnie can make a remake of the movie Get Hard.
Sent via tin can and string.
On Mar 21, 2018, at 09:37, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>
wrote:
and i thought- I had tsuris
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:32 AM, Mark L. Epstein
Ask him if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba?
wrote:
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 2:15 PM
To:
Subject: Re: hey
All good. Bannon with me
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:49 PM Mark L. Epstein
wrote:
How are you doing?
A while back you mentioned that you were prediabetic. Has anything changed with that?
What is your boy Donald up to now?
please note
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November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
for the love of God please say sike
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Tech and the people who have made preposterous wealth from it must be smashed and brought to heel.
Google has moved from moral cowardice (removing ICE tracking apps) to direct complicity in the violent, unconstitutional abuse of vulnerable people.
As a civil liberties lawyer who worked at Google for ten years, this one hits me in the gut.
As a civil liberties lawyer who worked at Google for ten years, this one hits me in the gut.
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Tech and the people who have made preposterous wealth from it must be smashed and brought to heel.