RivertonPaul
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In December 2018, Epstein wrote about Trump: “I am the one able to take him down.”
Eight months later, Epstein was found dead in a prison run by the Trump administration.
Weird coincidence.
Eight months later, Epstein was found dead in a prison run by the Trump administration.
Weird coincidence.
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In December 2018, Epstein wrote about Trump: “I am the one able to take him down.”
Eight months later, Epstein was found dead in a prison run by the Trump administration.
Weird coincidence.
Eight months later, Epstein was found dead in a prison run by the Trump administration.
Weird coincidence.
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It is a truism that presidents cannot do much to affect the economy. But we always assumed (1) presidents want to help the economy and (2) they’ll abide by the Constitution.
Trump single-handedly drove a booming economy into recession.
Idiot POTUS + destructive policies + unlimited power = ruin.
Trump single-handedly drove a booming economy into recession.
Idiot POTUS + destructive policies + unlimited power = ruin.
November 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
It is a truism that presidents cannot do much to affect the economy. But we always assumed (1) presidents want to help the economy and (2) they’ll abide by the Constitution.
Trump single-handedly drove a booming economy into recession.
Idiot POTUS + destructive policies + unlimited power = ruin.
Trump single-handedly drove a booming economy into recession.
Idiot POTUS + destructive policies + unlimited power = ruin.
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Utah’s lickspittle legislature
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Utah’s lickspittle legislature
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If only deliberately starving people were a tax, then maybe the extremist SCOTUS majority might object.
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
If only deliberately starving people were a tax, then maybe the extremist SCOTUS majority might object.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
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Here’s a different angle of the video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground shared with the Tribune from a different source
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Here’s a different angle of the video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground shared with the Tribune from a different source
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ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
October 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
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here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
October 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
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Genuinely incredible how unprofessional these guys are. One dude yelling in your face and you immediately assault them on camera?
October 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Genuinely incredible how unprofessional these guys are. One dude yelling in your face and you immediately assault them on camera?
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Judge SLAMS the masking of federal agents in ruling finding Trump admin violated pro-Palestine protesters' rights:
"To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![And there’s the issue of masks. ... ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks. Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it. “We can not escape history,” Lincoln rightly said. “[It] will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:353gzbhcjbznfxegvayffqek/bafkreia5wf5rzcvhhglwhbtnvcwom6sa6d4fli6qfbig6qdoe7myb62dt4@jpeg)
September 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Judge SLAMS the masking of federal agents in ruling finding Trump admin violated pro-Palestine protesters' rights:
"To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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As of today, more than 383,000 people are estimated to have died as a result cancelling USAID. That’s 127 9/11’s. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
www.bu.edu
September 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
As of today, more than 383,000 people are estimated to have died as a result cancelling USAID. That’s 127 9/11’s. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Disney+, Hulu, ESPN cancelled.
September 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Disney+, Hulu, ESPN cancelled.
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
September 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Our problem isn't a lack of resources.
Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
Enightening to watch 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa discuss that what happened in Phillipines is happening here. youtu.be/Tsb1I7hqaJ4
Maria Ressa - Fighting Back Against Trump’s Authoritarian Algorithm With Truth | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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September 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Enightening to watch 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa discuss that what happened in Phillipines is happening here. youtu.be/Tsb1I7hqaJ4
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It's often noted that this vile raid will undoubtedly cut off large amounts of foreign investment in the U.S. and reverse any progress toward reshoring manufacturing. Let's just stress that, with Trump, cruelty is the point. Successful policy in his administration's eyes is punitive, not productive.
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
September 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It's often noted that this vile raid will undoubtedly cut off large amounts of foreign investment in the U.S. and reverse any progress toward reshoring manufacturing. Let's just stress that, with Trump, cruelty is the point. Successful policy in his administration's eyes is punitive, not productive.
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Economists have extensively studied the effects of mass deportation on labor market opportunities for US natives.
Mass deportation under the Obama Administration *reduced* job opportunities for natives on net, by reducing overall business activity.
I review the research here—>
Mass deportation under the Obama Administration *reduced* job opportunities for natives on net, by reducing overall business activity.
I review the research here—>
August 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Economists have extensively studied the effects of mass deportation on labor market opportunities for US natives.
Mass deportation under the Obama Administration *reduced* job opportunities for natives on net, by reducing overall business activity.
I review the research here—>
Mass deportation under the Obama Administration *reduced* job opportunities for natives on net, by reducing overall business activity.
I review the research here—>
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Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insufficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an
unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative
task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And,
indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is
imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia
of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that—
and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand
the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to
achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing
judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and
not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources
of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insufficiently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s
its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexible enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreih3qdtlloz3yhggypbtwiveqdgzzfgapsnetvq7qsni7wfmyuovoi@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I've seen more people at Pokémon GO raids
June 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I've seen more people at Pokémon GO raids