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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me
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Iowa - 3rd House Polling:
🔵 Garriott: 53%
🔴 Nunn: 40%*
Change Research / Oct 27, 2025
(Garriott internal)
🔵 Garriott: 53%
🔴 Nunn: 40%*
Change Research / Oct 27, 2025
(Garriott internal)
November 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Iowa - 3rd House Polling:
🔵 Garriott: 53%
🔴 Nunn: 40%*
Change Research / Oct 27, 2025
(Garriott internal)
🔵 Garriott: 53%
🔴 Nunn: 40%*
Change Research / Oct 27, 2025
(Garriott internal)
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Our new analysis shows which states would see the largest and smallest increases caused by the loss of enhanced tax credits for what enrollees pay annually for the benchmark silver plan.
Explore the data: https://on.kff.org/4p8ztiP
Explore the data: https://on.kff.org/4p8ztiP
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Our new analysis shows which states would see the largest and smallest increases caused by the loss of enhanced tax credits for what enrollees pay annually for the benchmark silver plan.
Explore the data: https://on.kff.org/4p8ztiP
Explore the data: https://on.kff.org/4p8ztiP
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SCOOP: In text messages sent in 2017, Jeffrey Epstein appears to position himself as a middleman between president Donald Trump’s administration and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. He seemingly represents himself as passing on information directly from Trump to Gates through an intermediary.
Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Intimate Knowledge of Donald Trump’s Views in Texts With Bill Gates Adviser
In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary.
www.wired.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
SCOOP: In text messages sent in 2017, Jeffrey Epstein appears to position himself as a middleman between president Donald Trump’s administration and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. He seemingly represents himself as passing on information directly from Trump to Gates through an intermediary.
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The longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history is over. But with little to show for it, the mostly Democratic politicians who ended the standoff now face intense backlash:
Angus King broke ranks to help end the government shutdown. The backlash has been withering
The longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history is over. But with little to show for it, the mostly Democratic politicians who ended the standoff now face intense backlash.
www.mainepublic.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history is over. But with little to show for it, the mostly Democratic politicians who ended the standoff now face intense backlash:
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NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Trump Approval Polling:
Disapprove: 53%
Approve: 46%
Rasmussen / Nov 4, 2025
(Republican Pollster)
Disapprove: 53%
Approve: 46%
Rasmussen / Nov 4, 2025
(Republican Pollster)
November 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Trump Approval Polling:
Disapprove: 53%
Approve: 46%
Rasmussen / Nov 4, 2025
(Republican Pollster)
Disapprove: 53%
Approve: 46%
Rasmussen / Nov 4, 2025
(Republican Pollster)
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NEW: Far-right Colorado podcaster Joe Oltmann is suing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a onetime ally in the national election conspiracy theory movement, alleging Lindell breached the terms of $3 million loan agreement.
By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social
By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Far-right Colorado podcaster sues Mike Lindell, MyPillow over unpaid $3 million loan | Colorado Newsline
The suit alleges that Lindell secured a loan of $3 million from the plaintiffs in 2023 and has failed to make any payments since then.
coloradonewsline.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
NEW: Far-right Colorado podcaster Joe Oltmann is suing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a onetime ally in the national election conspiracy theory movement, alleging Lindell breached the terms of $3 million loan agreement.
By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social
By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social
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I think we will start seeing defections and increased accountability of Trump as Republicans in vulnerable districts distance from Trump. Time will tell, but we may have turned a corner yesterday.
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I think we will start seeing defections and increased accountability of Trump as Republicans in vulnerable districts distance from Trump. Time will tell, but we may have turned a corner yesterday.
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Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
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Turns out BlueSky is much closer to reality than X.
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Turns out BlueSky is much closer to reality than X.
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Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.
November 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.
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The Trump administration is a fascist administration, but the United States is not yet a fascist state.
Total state capture takes time. Every obstacle we can present as individuals, groups, communities, and institutions helps slow that process.
Everything we do to resist matters. It ALL matters.
Total state capture takes time. Every obstacle we can present as individuals, groups, communities, and institutions helps slow that process.
Everything we do to resist matters. It ALL matters.
October 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The Trump administration is a fascist administration, but the United States is not yet a fascist state.
Total state capture takes time. Every obstacle we can present as individuals, groups, communities, and institutions helps slow that process.
Everything we do to resist matters. It ALL matters.
Total state capture takes time. Every obstacle we can present as individuals, groups, communities, and institutions helps slow that process.
Everything we do to resist matters. It ALL matters.
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I'll be teaching criminal law again next semester, and I've been thinking about the complicated sociology of crime in the US. OT1H, voters cite crime as a preeminent issue. OTOH, true crime is popular entertainment. OT1H we stigmatize people who commit crimes. OTOH, the President is a felon.
October 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I'll be teaching criminal law again next semester, and I've been thinking about the complicated sociology of crime in the US. OT1H, voters cite crime as a preeminent issue. OTOH, true crime is popular entertainment. OT1H we stigmatize people who commit crimes. OTOH, the President is a felon.
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We wanted to understand what a Zohran Mamdani administration would mean for New York. So we talked to a Kentucky woman who once tied for 5th place in a swim race with a transgender woman and got really mad that she didn't get to hold the trophy.
October 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
We wanted to understand what a Zohran Mamdani administration would mean for New York. So we talked to a Kentucky woman who once tied for 5th place in a swim race with a transgender woman and got really mad that she didn't get to hold the trophy.
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Here's a link to AG Weiser's filing challenging Trump's decision to move Space Command HQ from Colorado to Alabama. msqcje7ab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001...
October 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Here's a link to AG Weiser's filing challenging Trump's decision to move Space Command HQ from Colorado to Alabama. msqcje7ab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001...
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Quote from Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million to the U.S. military, so you know who we’re dealing with:
“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations”.
“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations”.
October 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Quote from Timothy Mellon, who donated $130 million to the U.S. military, so you know who we’re dealing with:
“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations”.
“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the "Establishment" to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations”.
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Cato put out this brief statement from me critical of U.S. military strikes on suspected drug running boats, strikes that kill those aboard "without trial, legal process, or public accountability." These extrajudicial killings would be unlawful, I observe, even if all the smuggling claims were true.
Cato Legal Fellow Available to Discuss Unlawful U.S. Strikes at Sea
A senior legal scholar at the Cato Institute is raising concerns about U.S. military strikes on boats suspected of smuggling — strikes that kill those aboard without trial, legal process, or public ac...
www.cato.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Cato put out this brief statement from me critical of U.S. military strikes on suspected drug running boats, strikes that kill those aboard "without trial, legal process, or public accountability." These extrajudicial killings would be unlawful, I observe, even if all the smuggling claims were true.
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After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
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The flooding disaster in Alaska ties directly back to the Trump administration. First, Trump's EPA rescinded a $20 million grant to fortify against such storms. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The flooding disaster in Alaska ties directly back to the Trump administration. First, Trump's EPA rescinded a $20 million grant to fortify against such storms. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
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Politicians whose campaigns still owe large sums, according to October FEC filings:
- Newt Gingrich: $4.6 million
- Al Sharpton: $925,000
- Rick Santorum: $983,000
- Mehmet Oz: $25.5 million
- Mike Pence: $127,000
via @davelevinthal.com & @taylorgiorno.bsky.social
www.notus.org/money/politi...
- Newt Gingrich: $4.6 million
- Al Sharpton: $925,000
- Rick Santorum: $983,000
- Mehmet Oz: $25.5 million
- Mike Pence: $127,000
via @davelevinthal.com & @taylorgiorno.bsky.social
www.notus.org/money/politi...
Deadbeat Political Campaigns Still Owe Creditors Millions
Old campaigns of also-ran politicians remain hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in debt. Will they ever pay?
www.notus.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Politicians whose campaigns still owe large sums, according to October FEC filings:
- Newt Gingrich: $4.6 million
- Al Sharpton: $925,000
- Rick Santorum: $983,000
- Mehmet Oz: $25.5 million
- Mike Pence: $127,000
via @davelevinthal.com & @taylorgiorno.bsky.social
www.notus.org/money/politi...
- Newt Gingrich: $4.6 million
- Al Sharpton: $925,000
- Rick Santorum: $983,000
- Mehmet Oz: $25.5 million
- Mike Pence: $127,000
via @davelevinthal.com & @taylorgiorno.bsky.social
www.notus.org/money/politi...
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Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died. n.pr/4qjVMDS
NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died
Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.
n.pr
October 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died. n.pr/4qjVMDS
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Trump just pissed away $40 BILLION of your money to prop up a South American clown’s clown car economy
For context, the US has given $140B total to Ukraine, most of which stayed in our country to buy weapons from US manufacturers
$40B. Pissed away. Gone. For nothing
Btw, release Epstein files
For context, the US has given $140B total to Ukraine, most of which stayed in our country to buy weapons from US manufacturers
$40B. Pissed away. Gone. For nothing
Btw, release Epstein files
October 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Trump just pissed away $40 BILLION of your money to prop up a South American clown’s clown car economy
For context, the US has given $140B total to Ukraine, most of which stayed in our country to buy weapons from US manufacturers
$40B. Pissed away. Gone. For nothing
Btw, release Epstein files
For context, the US has given $140B total to Ukraine, most of which stayed in our country to buy weapons from US manufacturers
$40B. Pissed away. Gone. For nothing
Btw, release Epstein files