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DJ Junk

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Union elevator mechanic, tax the f#&$ing billionaires, fight disinformation, speak truth to power.

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DJ Junk @joe-crowder.bsky.social · Jun 19

We will need to reform the Supreme Court, break the filibuster, and fire every Democratic member of Congress who refuses to liberate politics from money, reforming the Supreme Court and reversing Citizens United are at the top of the list.

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social’s account has been reinstated.

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Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:19 AM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

“$170 BILLION for ICE. $40 BILLION for Argentina. $1 BILLION for Trump’s Qatari jet. $230 MILLION for Trump’s DOJ “compensation”. $200 MILLION for Noem’s jets… But nothing for health care?

This isn’t a question about what 🇺🇸 can or can’t afford — it’s about priorities.”

November 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM

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Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

So, skeptical of a screen shot from Twitter, I went through and translated his actual speech myself and it goes WAY HARDER THAN THE SCREEN SHOT SUGGESTS

he mixes in the history of Colombia into the drug cartels and Bernie Moreno into Jeffrey Epstein, it's wild, wild stuff

One hundred years of solitude.

The sad story of a lonely country that seems to be killing itself when he is in the midst of life's exuberance,
when it erupts like a volcano, both in the Glimpses of vitality, both in nature and in human beings. And that's why
we dance the way we do and why we can admire this greenery that surrounds us like perhaps no one else in humanity.
So much exuberance that in the midst of solitude we kill each other.

In our loneliness, we kill each other. And it has been this way since the beginning.

I was 25 on November 7, 1985 and I had been tortured and was being tortured in prison and they ask me to apologize.
Why?

Because I wanted a different country and thought differently from those who governed Colombia.

That is why I am president of the Republic.

But why was the Patriotic Union killed? Why were the magistrates killed?

Ah, because Pablo Escobar put up the money to take over the palace. Carlos Leder, third or fourth in Pablo
Escobar's cartel, confessed that they had nothing to do with it. He's not the doorman or driver of the drug trade,
he's one of the kingpins. I shouldn't talk about this, they say. But if it wasn't drug trafficking, why were the
judges killed?

Because they destroyed everything.

Couldn't they speak? Was anyone even trying to speak? What was the reason?

And the reason, in my opinion-I could be wrong, of course, in interpreting Colombian history-was simply that the
Colombian oligarchy didn't want to distribute wealth to the population.

Didn't want to escape that immense social inequality. Losing even a single penny of their wealth seemed terrible to
them.

And I said, why hadn't the Conservative Party apologized? Because today we are facing the same events.

You only have to look at today's newspaper pages to see what's on display. A magazine published a cover featuring
me in an orange jumpsuit, which they claim is the same one worn by prisoners in the United States. In other words,
we emerged from a peace process that created a constituent assembly. They wiped out an entire Left-wing party, the
Patriotic Union, along the way, and those of us who survived won the elections, and now they're telling us again
that they're going to kill us. I'm not saying they're going to kill us, but it's the same thing. They want to
eliminate this popular alternative and prevent it from winning the 2026 elections again, and they want to do it
with violence once more.

And so I ask the Conservative Party, is that why it hasn't apologized?

Because it wants to repeat and repeat and repeat the sad history of the physical and violent elimination of
difference in Colombia, which is not a minority, but a popular majority. And it has always been a popular majority
because Gaitdn was a majority, because Rafael Uribe Uribe was a majority, because La Napo was Because we are the
majority, they always kill the majority to continue governing as a minority. It's called oligarchy.

Is it possible to try to imprison the democratically elected president in the United States, a foreign country? It's not the worst kind of violence, because it's preferable to die fighting on a street corner than to be taken prisoner to a foreign country that has nothing to do with what one believes, but it does have a lot to do with Colombia's history since the beginning of violence. And why am I talking about the Conservative Party? Conservative? Because those who are doing this—and excuse me for not yet properly entering the event, but I have to say it because they are conservative militants who are influencing a gentleman named Bernie Moreno. Moreno. He's the one who says in the magazine that he's giving Trump the way to imprison Petro. Petro is in jail. Do you know why he's doing it? For personal revenge. A vendetta like the mafia. As García Márquez said, "We are killing each other in circles of revenge. We kill each other out of pride, he says in his book.

My first debates in Congress were against Mr. Bernardo Alberto Moreno, who robbed the Banco del Pacífico and later he was president of it.

And my first debates in Congress were against money laundering. They went against the money laundering that was established by turning the property, the use of the land in the Bogotá savanna, from rural use that belonged to the peasants to
to urban use, where they speculated with such harsh real estate interests that they even turned a $300,000 property into the San Simón Hacienda.

A 3 billion settlement with a single signature from the minister of Environment, Mr. Andrés Pastrana

Juan Me, a paramilitary member, said he collaborated with the paramilitaries. The business belonged to a man named Ángel Gaitán Maecha de Chí, founder of paramilitarism in Colombia and emerald mining.

And who was the political leader?

Andrés Pastrana, president who also enriched himself with some lots in San Simón.

And on what list does Mr. Andrés appear? On the list. No, no, I'm not saying he appears on the list, he appears as a friend of Epstein on the list and now he's sealing the deal.

A clan of pedophiles wants to end democracy in Colombia. It's tough, yes, but that's the reality. And to prevent the list from being published, they send battleships to kill fishermen in this city. And they threaten our neighbor, asking
whether he's a dictator or not, how can the people of Colombia applaud the invasion of their brother, who isn't the president, but the people of Venezuela?

When would we ever be so treacherous and sellouts that we betray our own blood? Are the people of Ecuador, Panama, or Venezuela not our own people?

And then they want the president to do what Duque, the coward, wanted to do: lend Colombian lands so that a brother country with the same history as us could be invaded from there, because Bolívar was born there and came to die here in
this city. No, President of Colombia, you cannot do that, President cursed by future generations, because you will never be forgotten as...

And I do not belong to those who wanted to kill Bolívar. The Venezuelan government has made many criticisms, I'm critical, but I'm not making fun of the people of
Venezuela, nor did I build a trap for the people of Venezuela to fall into.

an invasion that is only after their oil, what they want is more greed and violence to make this beautiful corner of the South American continent a Syria, an Iraq, a Libya full of slaves, selling black slaves again, right?

list of Epstein's friends that he doesn't want to appear in the United States. They want to use us here with the violence so that the people of the United States do not think about their own government, but rather xenophobia, racism, and the ideas of the superior race and other false ideas, and they use us to avoid discussing their own problems

The president of Colombia has denounced drug traffickers for decades. And the drug traffickers he has denounced were always in political power.

They were always in political power in Colombia, in the state. And now they accuse us of being drug traffickers.

Hypocrites.

any of the Colombian senators and Colombian politicians who went to Miami to try to build the road by which they could forcibly remove the elected president of Colombia It is popularly known as being full of relatives and businesses of drug traffickers. Drug traffickers' business. And Marco Rubio doesn't want to believe it, well, believe it. even though he also has a relative who is a drug trafficker. They're all coated in it at their core.

I believe, and I hope I'm not wrong, to that insult that conservatives of Andrés Pastrana, a friend of Epstein, its business partners, through the brother, Senator Bernie Moreno, in the United States

And how do we Colombians respond to such a massive anti-democratic insult? Such treason against the homeland by those who already sold Panama for 13 million dollars and they stole the money.

How do you respond to that? And I can't say more while remaining coherent.

And I ask the people who are here, who are listening to me and beyond, because we have to go from village to village, from municipality to municipality, that not only are there elections coming in which I cannot participate, but there is a defense of dignity, of national sovereignty, that when they come here to threaten us, I do not accept threats, we are going to rise up by the millions because the prophecy is true.

And we are jaguars, males and females, we are jaguars.

We will be jaguars dancing for the dignity of Colombia. We will be jaguars dancing to revive Bolívar, who is still anchored there, in that fascist monument they erected in his honor at the Quinta de Bolívar. We will be jaguars to end the 100 years of solitude. Millions will rise up here, unarmed. against the threat of those linked to the list of pedophiles we will not allow to operate. We will build democracy, we will build dignity. And I'm not talking about Trump, who shouldn't be mistaken, I'm talking about Andrés Pastrana, who orchestrated this slander against the President of Colombia through his friend Bernie Moreno and his brothers, who are the thieves who were in his government, involved in the Banco del Pacífico scandal and the land grabs in the Bogotá Savannah, denounced by the current President of the Republic.

I ask for forgiveness on behalf of the State so that they may revive their dead through it. It is a way of reviving. All of it. It's a way to revive. We all know it. We don't die; the energy continues. The second law of thermodynamics in physics states: Nothing is created or destroyed, it is transformed. And the energy of these thousands of people who, as members of the Patriotic Union and having dreams from 1982 to 2000, that energy is here again, multiplied thousands of times over. Now we are millions.

Now they can't kill us. Now we are the heart, the hope of We are the heart, the hope of the people of Colombia.

Now we are a flag raised high and we will not let them insult it. We will not allow them to spit on her in blood. We will rise up in dignity with the the hands of millions and millions will stop the pedophiles. Thank you very much for listening to me.

November 14, 2025 at 3:41 AM

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social

Excommunicate Vance.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

November 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM

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Evan Hurst

@evanhurst.substack.com

HUH JOE

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

ROGAN: “Trump is saying they stole the f*ckin’ election. And I feel like if you say that, you've got to have some really good evidence — 4 years later, no one has an answer... and now a Republican bought the Dominion voting machine company.”

Joe is finally starting to get it.

November 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM

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Rebecca Solnit

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Maybe it's time to make more noise about this? Last spring a thousand agents frantically redacted all mentions of Trump's name in the Epstein files. How does that square with what can and will be released?

FBI agents were told to 'flag' any Epstein records that mentioned Trump, Sen. Durbin says

President Donald Trump, bowing to days of pressure, asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to get grand jury testimony about Jeffrey Epstein unsealed.

www.cnbc.com

November 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

👇🏽

November 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM

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Asha Rangappa

@asharangappa.bsky.social

Do we know if Trump is melting down? He can’t get revenge on Epstein, he’s dead. He can’t get revenge on Maxwell, she’ll talk. He must be jumping out of his skin

several bottles of ketchup are lined up on a table

ALT: several bottles of ketchup are lined up on a table

media.tenor.com

November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM

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Joyce White Vance

@joycewhitevance.bsky.social

Is Trump’s McCarthy moment finally coming? A moment like the one where Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose red scare tactics held the country hostage & came close to destroying the 1st Amendment was asked by a fed-up lawyer, “Have you no decency?” joycevance.substack.com/p/but-his-em...

But His Emails...

Before he was elected in 2016, Donald Trump bragged about grabbing women by the pu**y and barging into rooms of partially dressed young pageant contestants.

joycevance.substack.com

November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM

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Joyce White Vance

@joycewhitevance.bsky.social

If Donald Trump is taken down by emails and a child sex ring...

November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group.

Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street.

None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier.

“I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”

November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM

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Cas Mudde

@casmudde.bsky.social

Can you blame them?

As young women are more inclusive/progressive, politics is more exclusive/reactionary, undermining and weakening the rights of every "minority" (including women).

Even many Democrats care more about reactionary young men than about progressive young women (e.g Newson).

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.

The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

news.gallup.com

November 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM

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Garrett M. Graff

@vermontgmg.bsky.social

A recent spate of reporting indicates that Kash Patel’s time as director is going about as well as could be expected — which is to say, it’s an organization-soul-crushing and morale-killing disaster that imperils national security. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/kash-patel...

Kash Patel, the FBI's Agent of Chaos

The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director

www.doomsdayscenario.co

November 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

AOC: How can we, as members of congress, Republican or Democrat, vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people? That is what this legislation does. In fact, Senator Graham said he was going to seek well over $1 million from the American people, from this.

November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM

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Khashoggi's Ghost

@urocklive1.bsky.social

Wow.

Jeffrey Epstein writing about Trump in 2018:

"He feels alone and is nuts!!! I told everyone from day one. Evil beyond belief. Mad, and most thought I was speaking metaphorically. It's obvious he could crack. Stormy Daniels? Lies after lies after lies."

November 13, 2025 at 1:56 AM

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Shannon

@rhlobbyist.bsky.social

It’s even WORSE than that. Jamie Raskin was on Chris Hayes explaining the $500,000 can be STACKED. It’s for every subpoenaed phone record - they like have at least 3 each - business, personal, campaign.

November 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM

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Clara Jeffery

@clarajeffery.bsky.social

If Bill Clinton is guilty of any Epstein related crimes he should go down too.

November 13, 2025 at 3:49 AM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

Stephanie MIller uses her appearance on Hannity to say Trump is all over the Epstein Files to the Fox audience..

November 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM

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Acyn

@acyn.bsky.social

Hannity: When did you notice Biden’s cognitive decline?

Miller: I think it was through all of the times that Trump has fallen asleep in public and talked about magnets getting wet.

November 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

Whatever you do, don’t show him this text from Assange to Don Jr in 2016.

November 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM

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David Rothkopf

@djrothkopf.bsky.social

Every single GOP official has had to ask themselves if it mattered to them that their leader was a serial sex abuser pedophile pathological liar racist fraudster who was uncomfortably supportive of our enemies. And all concluded, “nah!” Until now. Before they thought he helped them win. Now what?

November 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM

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Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social

Meanwhile:

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

“Israeli President Isaac Herzog has received a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump urging him to consider granting a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…”

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

November 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

HAYES: “The filibuster is part of how Congress has neutered itself.”

On the @thebulwark.com pod @chrislhayes.bsky.social tells @timmiller.bsky.social why the filibuster should be ABOLISHED 🎯

( @gallego.senate.gov recently said it already has been since Republicans ignore it when convenient)

November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM

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Adam Parkhomenko

@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social

Isn’t this all evidence they’re trying to cover it up??

November 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM

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Andrea Junker

@strandjunker.com

If you still support Trump, I don’t judge you for your choice of political party.

I judge you for your lack of morals, ethics, compassion & humanity.

I judge you for your support of racism, misogyny, pedophilia, homophobia, treason & fascism.

So will others. So will history.

November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM

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