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This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife. How did I get here?
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This is the Charlie Kirk I heard through my AM radio speakers whenever I tuned in. "Joe Biden is a bumbling dementia filled Alzheimer's corrupt tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against America." www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
Charlie Kirk: Joe Biden should be "put in prison and/or given the death penalty for crimes against America"
www.mediamatters.org
September 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.
September 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts.

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
News conference with Epstein's victims will be 'explosive,' lawmaker predicts
Rep. Ro Khanna said a Sept. 3 news conference with Jeffrey Epstein's victims could force the government to release files about Epstein.
www.usatoday.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Let’s just luxuriate in the visions of Fox News if Kamala Harris had done this. Imagine the New York Post front page photoshop of her as Moses!
JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip
Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Don Bacon: "From my vantage point here in Nebraska, we're seeing a bit of a troubled economic mess. Right now it's a troubled time. In Nebraska the GDP has decreased by 6% over the last year and it's all about trade...so what I hear about weak jobs numbers, we're seeing that in Nebraska right now"
August 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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2. They also assumed that the subsidy Applicable Percentage Table would be based on the Biden-era Premium Adjustment Percentage Index (PAPI) formula.

Instead, the Trump Admin, via RFK Jr. & Dr. Oz, changed the PAPI formula to make the subsidies *even less generous.*

acasignups.net/25/07/30/war...
Warning: 2026 ACA net rate hikes w/out IRA subsidies will be even worse than I thought.
(with apologies to “Weird Al” Yankovic) Last winter, I initiated an ambitious project in which I generated graphics to illustrate just how much net ACA premiums are likely to increase starting on Janu...
acasignups.net
August 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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A single 50-yr old earning $40K/yr would see premiums NEARLY DOUBLE.

A single parent earning $30K/yr would go $0/mo to $99/mo...technically an INFINITE INCREASE.

A family of four earning $70K/yr would see their premiums TRIPLE.

An older couple earning $90K/yr would see their premiums QUADRUPLE.
August 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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4/ "Two current employees ... said inmates are not kept under strict watch and they are given freedoms within the camp because they are considered low-level security risks.

'If they have a history of a sex offense or violent crime, they are not supposed to be there,'" said an employee.
Ghislaine Maxwell moved to federal prison camp in Texas
Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's associate who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in recruiting and trafficking minors for sex, was being held at a facility in Florida.
www.nbcnews.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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"As a convicted sex offender, Maxwell would not normally be eligible for a minimum-security prison. According to a Bureau of Prisons policy," it would require "a waiver from an arm of the bureau that designates inmates."
Ghislaine Maxwell transferred to less restrictive prison after DOJ meeting
Normally, sex offenders like Maxwell are not housed in minimum-security prisons, but she has been moved to one.
www.politico.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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“The reason for the move is listed as a “lesser security transfer” (code 308), which is completely inappropriate for inmates who are in the early stages of serving their sentences. ‘This is such obvious corruption. I have never seen this before.’”

open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas
According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.
open.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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From today's Nir & Rupar: @davidnir.com breaks down how Texas Republicans are trying to engineer a 60 point (!) rightward swing in Al Green's distract as part of their new ultra-gerrymandered congressional map.

Full episode: www.publicnotice.co/p/republican...
August 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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NEW: A newly declassified part of the Durham report shows republicans used a Russian-manufactured email as evidence that Hilary Clinton conspired with Russia. 😂😂😂 gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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NEW: Senior administration officials continue to privately concede that the way Trump talks about the Epstein saga likely arouses more suspicion than it suppresses.
Trump's Sloppy Effort to Distract From Epstein Mess Creates a 'Ticking Time Bomb'
Donald Trump’s advisers worry his effort to turn attention away from the Epstein scandal — his threat to jail Obama — will blow up in their faces.
www.rollingstone.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Okay I am going to need everyone who identifies as a "leftist" of any stripe, whether an anarchist or a communist or a socialist or something else, to STOP TELLING MARGINALIZED PEOPLE THEY DON'T NEED LAWYERS.

No, ignoring an eviction or criminal summons is ABSOLUTELY NOT "boycotting the system."
July 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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BREAKING: New statement from Virginia Giuffre's family.

"It was shocking to hear President Trump invoke our sister and say that he was aware that Virginia had been 'stolen' from Mar-a-Lago. It makes us ask if he was aware of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal actions."
July 31, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Johnson: "The Urban League that came out with their study that said 100k+ people are gonna lose Medicaid bc of the work requirements? That means they're choosing to not work... if somebody drops out of the program bc they're unwilling to do that, they did not deserve to be on that program."
July 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Behold, the leading political philosopher on the right.
July 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Trump on Epstein island: "I never had the privilege of going to his island."
July 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Epstein accuser Maria Farmer on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I’ve never met a more predatory, terrifying human being in my entire life. She’s a very dangerous person. The woman is not a victim, she’s a victimizer.”

via @msnbc.com

(ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social)
July 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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CNN put together a supercut of Pam Bondi being for releasing Epstein files before she suddenly turned against it
July 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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July 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Lutnick on tariffs: "What do you think pays for no taxes on Social Security? ... it's gonna be faaaaantastic."

(No taxes on Social Security did not make it into Trump's bill.)
July 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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The call has always been coming from the inside…
July 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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A British surgeon returned from Gaza says Israeli soldiers were shooting at aid-seekers “almost like a game of target practice".

He also said formula doctors had packed to bring with them was the only item confiscated by Israeli authorities before entry.

Formula.

news.sky.com/story/almost...
July 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM