Claire Denelle Cowart
@clairedenelle.bsky.social
Literature professor specializing in Irish lit, Jane Austen, detective fiction and modern Brits. Twitter refugee (was ccowart1). Live close to NOLA. Married with grown children and grandchildren. Eyeing retirement. she/her
Keep reposting and make this a scandal.
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Keep reposting and make this a scandal.
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My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
OU College of International Studies professor reportedly arrested by ICE
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly arrested an OU professor at Will Rogers International Airport Saturday.
www.oudaily.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
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The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The Treasury Department has its own Epstein file containing thousands of bank records. My investigators reviewed a portion of those records last year. I've demanded the Secretary Bessent produce the file for further investigation. He has refused repeatedly.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I believe this 1000% now and I was a skeptic for a long time.
DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files are reportedly even more damning for Donald Trump than previously indicated—and it was already bad.
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DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump
Details in the files are reportedly even more damning for Donald Trump than previously indicated—and it was already bad.
newrepublic.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I believe this 1000% now and I was a skeptic for a long time.
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Phew. This is the best thing I’ve read this week and is absolutely worth your time.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Phew. This is the best thing I’ve read this week and is absolutely worth your time.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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We know the House GOP was extensively involved in January 6. We know this more because of reporting than the official investigation. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/mark...
November 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We know the House GOP was extensively involved in January 6. We know this more because of reporting than the official investigation. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/mark...
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I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
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60% of Americans have seen a clear deterioration of their quality of life since Trump became president
October 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
60% of Americans have seen a clear deterioration of their quality of life since Trump became president
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Are they in a mass grave?
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Are they in a mass grave?
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Heck, if you really need to link this back to kitchen-table-kitchen-table-kitchen-table, it's easy to do: While Trump is driving costs through the roof with his unhinged tariff spree and other reckless, failed policies, he's looting $230 million from the US Treasury and sticking it in his pocket.
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
October 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Heck, if you really need to link this back to kitchen-table-kitchen-table-kitchen-table, it's easy to do: While Trump is driving costs through the roof with his unhinged tariff spree and other reckless, failed policies, he's looting $230 million from the US Treasury and sticking it in his pocket.
Sickening.
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Sickening.
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Amen
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Amen
Oh my God! This explains some things.
“Private equity billionaire Marc Rowan was revealed last week to be the driving force behind a Trump administration campaign pressuring nine major U.S. universities. Apollo Global Management, which Rowan co-founded in 1990, own[s] the for-profit University of Phoenix.”
Private equity gets its toothhold into firms through economic squeezing, devalues them, then breaks them into parts to sell off. This compact is the squeeze that will simultaneously advantage for-profit ed *and* make it easier to PE-ify non-profit ed. The ideological component is a means to an end.
October 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Oh my God! This explains some things.
“…bucking tradition…”??
You guys.
No
You guys.
No
October 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm
Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his bachelor of electrical engineering degree and his…
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October 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm
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I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
September 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
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Please remember that Mark Zuckerberg was never any kind of super genius. He was just some schmuck kid who made an obscene amount of money by selling your personal data to advertisers.
This is who Mark Zuckerberg is, and always was.
This is who Mark Zuckerberg is, and always was.
August 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Please remember that Mark Zuckerberg was never any kind of super genius. He was just some schmuck kid who made an obscene amount of money by selling your personal data to advertisers.
This is who Mark Zuckerberg is, and always was.
This is who Mark Zuckerberg is, and always was.
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“Both of them.”
August 2, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“Both of them.”
AI is going to destroy the world as we know it.
Two US judges withdraw rulings after attorneys question accuracy reut.rs/4kZ8WlB
Two US judges withdraw rulings after attorneys question accuracy
Federal judges in Mississippi and New Jersey have withdrawn written rulings in a pair of unrelated lawsuits after lawyers in the cases said they contained factual inaccuracies and other serious errors.
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July 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
AI is going to destroy the world as we know it.
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Where the f**k was all this reporting from the Times & the Journal on Trump & the world’s most famous child rapist in 2016, 2020, & 2020? Where were the effing Dems & their oppo research? How on earth has it taken this long for this stuff to come out?
Trump’s Name Is on Contributor List for Epstein Birthday Book
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Where the f**k was all this reporting from the Times & the Journal on Trump & the world’s most famous child rapist in 2016, 2020, & 2020? Where were the effing Dems & their oppo research? How on earth has it taken this long for this stuff to come out?
I love this so much.
Trump: It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion
Powell: I’m not aware of that.
Trump: It just came out
Powell: You just added in a third building
Trump: It’s a building that’s being built
Powell: It was built five years ago.
Powell: I’m not aware of that.
Trump: It just came out
Powell: You just added in a third building
Trump: It’s a building that’s being built
Powell: It was built five years ago.
July 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I love this so much.
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Mainstream journalism continues to fucking embarrass itself at the time when it is most needed.
The Times, Post, CNN, and Politico all ran stories this weekend or this morning about Trump getting his base back behind him on Epstein. The most prominent source cited to justify this claim _in all four publications_ was Steve Bannon. slate.com/news-and-pol...
All These Stories About Trump Making the Epstein Files a Winning Issue Have a Funny Thing in Common
Is Trump really turning the tables on this one?
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July 22, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Mainstream journalism continues to fucking embarrass itself at the time when it is most needed.