@vakell21.bsky.social
Northern Virginia; fan of all things Pittsburgh…Pirates, Pens, Stillers; member of the resistance; 💙🌊
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I believe this is what ICE is calling "a beard being ripped from an officer’s face" by a Chicago protestor x.com/ICEgov/statu...
October 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I believe this is what ICE is calling "a beard being ripped from an officer’s face" by a Chicago protestor x.com/ICEgov/statu...
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Oh. Here's the "beard" being ripped off someone's face.
I believe this is what ICE is calling "a beard being ripped from an officer’s face" by a Chicago protestor x.com/ICEgov/statu...
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Oh. Here's the "beard" being ripped off someone's face.
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BREAKING: new emails CONFIRM my reporting that there are TRAINING VIDEOS instructing FBI personnel on how to review the Epstein Files. Plus, a lot more…
The emails reveal the special training given to FBI personnel working on what it called the “Epstein Transparency Project.” In some instances they referred to it as the “Special Redaction Project.” The training entailed PowerPoint slide presentations and video instruction on how to review the files.
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
BREAKING: new emails CONFIRM my reporting that there are TRAINING VIDEOS instructing FBI personnel on how to review the Epstein Files. Plus, a lot more…
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Oh wow
The emails reveal the special training given to FBI personnel working on what it called the “Epstein Transparency Project.” In some instances they referred to it as the “Special Redaction Project.” The training entailed PowerPoint slide presentations and video instruction on how to review the files.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Oh wow
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Who could have predicted? We'd only had one term to judge him by, numerous felony convictions and indictments for fomenting insurrection and stealing classified documents and storing them in the toilet.
“Electing and voting for Donald Trump made things worse.”
Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman who was detained by ICE agents this past summer discussed how Muslims were wrong to vote for Trump thinking he was the lesser evil.
zeteo.com/p/trump-ice-...
Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman who was detained by ICE agents this past summer discussed how Muslims were wrong to vote for Trump thinking he was the lesser evil.
zeteo.com/p/trump-ice-...
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Who could have predicted? We'd only had one term to judge him by, numerous felony convictions and indictments for fomenting insurrection and stealing classified documents and storing them in the toilet.
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Massie was crucial to forging the Epstein bill coalition. What he's saying here -- that Epstein had CIA and Mossad ties -- is supported by reporting, notably the excellent series at Drop Site on Epstein's as an international power broker. The mainstream media has almost entirely ignored this topic.
Rep. Thomas Massie: Epstein had close ties to our own intelligence agency and Israel's intelligence agencies. That’s why they’re trying to stop this.
(Learn about those ties in Drop Site News - link below)
(Learn about those ties in Drop Site News - link below)
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Massie was crucial to forging the Epstein bill coalition. What he's saying here -- that Epstein had CIA and Mossad ties -- is supported by reporting, notably the excellent series at Drop Site on Epstein's as an international power broker. The mainstream media has almost entirely ignored this topic.
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Republican Rep. Don Bacon calls for Witkoff to be fired. May it be the first call of many. Witkoff needs to go, now.
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Republican Rep. Don Bacon calls for Witkoff to be fired. May it be the first call of many. Witkoff needs to go, now.
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Witkoff advised the Russians on how to pitch their Ukraine plan to Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Witkoff advised the Russians on how to pitch their Ukraine plan to Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Witkoff is a Russian agent and he’s telling the Russians (and now the world) how easily manipulated Trump is
Witkoff advised the Russians on how to pitch their Ukraine plan to Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Witkoff is a Russian agent and he’s telling the Russians (and now the world) how easily manipulated Trump is
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pretty much every long-time Labour volunteer I know is seriously considering whether to vote Green or Lib Dem.
It is amazingly horrifying in how little Labour leaders have zero, even negative faith in the values that their party's supposed to stand for. I have the deepest sympathies for the party ground floor workers and supporters who're disgusted by this grotesque betrayal of their values. It's despairing.
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
pretty much every long-time Labour volunteer I know is seriously considering whether to vote Green or Lib Dem.
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There is no coherent justification for keeping this decision secret... although, once it becomes public, its author is likely to face bar disciplinary proceedings.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
There is no coherent justification for keeping this decision secret... although, once it becomes public, its author is likely to face bar disciplinary proceedings.
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I’m sorry, but if Democrats were in power, would this not be in the headlines every single day?
Average electricity cost increase since Jan:
Missouri ⬆️ 37%
Iowa ⬆️ 30%
North Dakota ⬆️ 30%
Oklahoma ⬆️ 30%
New Jersey ⬆️ 27%
Nebraska ⬆️ 25%
Montana ⬆️ 25%
Wyoming ⬆️ 23%
NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11%
Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.
Missouri ⬆️ 37%
Iowa ⬆️ 30%
North Dakota ⬆️ 30%
Oklahoma ⬆️ 30%
New Jersey ⬆️ 27%
Nebraska ⬆️ 25%
Montana ⬆️ 25%
Wyoming ⬆️ 23%
NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11%
Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I’m sorry, but if Democrats were in power, would this not be in the headlines every single day?
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Last month I wrote about how charging Jim Comey only made it more likely that Trump could charge Kash or Pam Bondi, meaning they were both slaves to his and Stephen Miller's whims. I mentioned Andrew Bailey, waiting in the wings.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Last month I wrote about how charging Jim Comey only made it more likely that Trump could charge Kash or Pam Bondi, meaning they were both slaves to his and Stephen Miller's whims. I mentioned Andrew Bailey, waiting in the wings.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...
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Holy shit this is all Trump
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Holy shit this is all Trump
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This is psychotic
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This is psychotic
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So the blaze called in the tip to ODNI, which wrote a memo about it which then was cited as “multiple intelligence sources say”. They are learning from their Russian friends.
Instead of “be the change you want to see in the world” it’s “be the source for the story you want to see in the world”
Instead of “be the change you want to see in the world” it’s “be the source for the story you want to see in the world”
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
So the blaze called in the tip to ODNI, which wrote a memo about it which then was cited as “multiple intelligence sources say”. They are learning from their Russian friends.
Instead of “be the change you want to see in the world” it’s “be the source for the story you want to see in the world”
Instead of “be the change you want to see in the world” it’s “be the source for the story you want to see in the world”
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This should be a major scandal. The Blaze falsely reported that a former U.S. Capitol Police officer was the Jan. 6th pipe bomber. But it wasn’t just another miss by conservative media promoting conspiracies.
Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This should be a major scandal. The Blaze falsely reported that a former U.S. Capitol Police officer was the Jan. 6th pipe bomber. But it wasn’t just another miss by conservative media promoting conspiracies.
Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
Someone in US intel - at ODNI - was promoting it:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
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🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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lol “we are only contemplating ineffective measures.”
WHITE HOUSE: TRUMP IS NOT CONSIDERING A DIRECT TWO-YEAR SUBSIDY EXTENSION AND WILL SOON MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HEALTHCARE POLICY IMPROVEMENTS
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
lol “we are only contemplating ineffective measures.”
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The worst is this poor little toy can't tell the difference between a US AG, a US Supreme Court Justice, which is quite literally the but-for difference, and a Brazilian judge w/investigatory powers.
It's like gravity doesn't exist with these snot nosed Roberts-freaks.
It's like gravity doesn't exist with these snot nosed Roberts-freaks.
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The worst is this poor little toy can't tell the difference between a US AG, a US Supreme Court Justice, which is quite literally the but-for difference, and a Brazilian judge w/investigatory powers.
It's like gravity doesn't exist with these snot nosed Roberts-freaks.
It's like gravity doesn't exist with these snot nosed Roberts-freaks.
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This little toy is very upset I pointed out that Brazil, after decades of coups and dictators, has a constitution better suited to dealing with one than the US.
I didn't even school the poor little flunky that you can explain the temporal difference of six months entirely to COVID and privilege.
I didn't even school the poor little flunky that you can explain the temporal difference of six months entirely to COVID and privilege.
This is a bot, right? No actual human responds as quickly to the slightest criticism from random accounts. @emptywheel.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This little toy is very upset I pointed out that Brazil, after decades of coups and dictators, has a constitution better suited to dealing with one than the US.
I didn't even school the poor little flunky that you can explain the temporal difference of six months entirely to COVID and privilege.
I didn't even school the poor little flunky that you can explain the temporal difference of six months entirely to COVID and privilege.
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Alexis Wilkins has suddenly found fame as FBI Director Kash Patel’s boo, but the aspiring country singer was working in Washington as recently as January.
Keystone Kash’s Girlfriend’s Closest Held Secret Revealed
Her country “career” has taken her to Nashville but it turns out Alexis Wilkins is really a Swamp Creature, our must-read newsletter reveals.
trib.al
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Alexis Wilkins has suddenly found fame as FBI Director Kash Patel’s boo, but the aspiring country singer was working in Washington as recently as January.
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We’re still gathering information about what happened in St. Paul, but what we do know is that once again, federal authorities provided no notice to local leaders or law enforcement.
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
We’re still gathering information about what happened in St. Paul, but what we do know is that once again, federal authorities provided no notice to local leaders or law enforcement.
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This is their playbook: No warning, no transparency, no coordination. Their goal here isn’t safety, it’s to sow chaos, fear, and intimidation.
We’re still gathering information about what happened in St. Paul, but what we do know is that once again, federal authorities provided no notice to local leaders or law enforcement.
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This is their playbook: No warning, no transparency, no coordination. Their goal here isn’t safety, it’s to sow chaos, fear, and intimidation.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM