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Husband, Father, Editor - movie lover & political junkie - lifelong 49er fan
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ICE detainees did not sext with RFK Jr but still deserve your attention
1. An abrupt decision by the Trump administration on October 3 left thousands of ICE detainees without access to vital medical care — a crisis that is ongoing — according to previously unreported ICE documents obtained by Popular Information.

Follow this thread for details.

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EXCLUSIVE: How the Trump administration sparked a health crisis for ICE detainees
An abrupt decision on October 3 left thousands of ICE detainees without access to vital medical care — a crisis that is ongoing.
popular.info
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Garcia: Trump has the power to release the files today. He does not even need a vote. He continues to defy the subpoena of the oversight committee to release all the files. What is Donald Trump hiding?
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Right-wing activist Mark Meckler calls for Pam Bondi to be fired for her handling of the Epstein files: "I think we need somebody who is a lot more professional—I'm just going to say it—a lot smarter and a lot more aggressive in handling these cases and that won't make, frankly, stupid mistakes."
November 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Last night, Donald Trump, the adjudicated rapist sexual abuser who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, called a female reporter “piggy” for asking a question about the Epstein files.

Party of family values, amirite.
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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"I am traumatized. I am not stupid" -- one of the Epstein survivors sends a message directly to Trump
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Greene: I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for six years for. And I gave him my loyalty for free. Fe called me a traitor for standing with these women and refusing to take my name off the discharge petition. Let me tell you what a traitor is….
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Massie: "We fought the president, the AG, the FBI director, the Speaker of the House, and the VP to get this win."
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I heard this in the moment and frankly thought Trump said "Peggy" and assumed there was a reporter there with that name. A completely shocking comment.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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From 2021 through 2024, Jacksonville, Florida, had a larger share of its homicides classified as justifiable killings by civilians than any U.S. city or county with a population greater than 500,000, the @wsj.com found.
The Self-Defense Cases That Made Jacksonville No. 1 in Legal Homicides
In one case, authorities concluded the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old was self-defense—with no one claiming they killed in self-defense.
www.wsj.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.

Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”

He will continue teaching.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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BLOOMBERG REPORTER: “If there’s nothing incriminating in the Epstein files why not…?”

TRUMP: “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.” 😕
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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A knock-on effect of Trump suddenly looking weak is people feel emboldened to push back against his flunkies too. Turns out the media knows exactly how to do this when they want to
KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?

HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--

KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.

November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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A vote to sharply lower rent hikes for 1.5 million Los Angeles tenants caps years of wins for local activists and comes amid a national focus on affordability punctuated by Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Los Angeles limits rent hikes in historic vote
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to cap rent increases for most apartments, a decision that continues a wave of tenant victories in the city and across the country.
www.politico.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?

HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--

KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.

November 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Andrew Johnson claimed to an alleged child molestation victim that Trump's pardon entitled him to multi-million dollar reparations.
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.
interc.pt
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Good morning. •sigh•
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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"They don't care about Trump's past sins, they care about his current failures" is quite a GOP message.
Rep. Jason Smith: "Epstein had been dead for years. It's not something I hear from people when I travel back home in Missouri. They care about the affordability crisis."
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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One of the nation's largest and most prestigious bar associations censures DAG Todd Blanche over advocacy of violence against judges. When this happens, a bar disciplinary proceeding is usually already underway.
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Unemployment for an entire generation isn’t ‘quiet time.’ It’s a failing labor market and a warning sign for the economy.
Kevin Hassett: "I think there could be a little bit of an almost quiet time in the labor market, because firms are finding that AI is making their workers so productive that they don't necessarily have to hire the new kids out of college and so on."
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Trump retreats on Epstein files. Three lessons:

1. It can be easier to fracture the MAGA coalition than get "responsible" Republicans to step up.

2. Democrats should fight rather than find reasons not to fight.

3. Dems need to be anti-elitist not just anti-GOP.

www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...
Trump’s Epstein Humiliation Grows
The president saw defeat and ran. But that doesn’t mean the fight over releasing the files is over.
www.thebulwark.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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not only does this tell me trump has entered his lame duck era, it tells me vance is not considered the heir apparent
LMAO -- Ted Cruz is on Fox News talking about running for president in 2028
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Trump: "What I just don't want Epstein to do is detract from the great success of the Republican Party ... don't talk about it too much, because honestly I don't want it taking away from us. It's really a Democrat problem. The whole thing is a hoax."
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Everyone's missing potentially the most interesting thing about this order, which is the judge's finding that Halligan may have returned an indictment that was never presented to the jury
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM