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Leslie 🦃. Brown
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PhD, Curator, Photohistorian, Educator, and Scholar. Believer in wonder & kindness. Lover of art, music, history, science, rocks, weather, & tiny things.
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Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice memo 4 months ago obeying Trump’s order not to investigate or prosecute anyone involved with Jeffrey Epstein.

And Pam Bondi’s announcement today, obeying Trump’s order, that DoJ will investigate his political adversaries friendly with Epstein.
November 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Swoon!
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November 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Trump’s account is now posting a rapid fire flurry of screenshots showing tweets from random people who are criticizing Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene on Twitter.

And then he posted… this
November 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Love 2 go to the doctor and not know what body part they’re analyzing
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Ngl, this whole thread makes me want to visit Boston and get verbally abused by the nicest people. imgur.com/gallery/bost...
Bostonians; kind but not nice.
Discover topics like boston, tumblr, kind but not nice, Storytime, i love people, and the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jo...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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“Unauthorized immigrants, you say?”
Breaking from us:

As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate.

Nisqually Indian Tribe is saying no.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
ICE looks to WA tribes to house detained immigrants
The Nisqually Indian Tribe says it is turning down a request from ICE to house detained immigrants on tribal land.
www.seattletimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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This entire administration is a national security risk
As the FBI’s deputy director, Dan Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Omg “Thomas and (?)”
In a gossipy post, President Trump comments on how quickly Congressman Thomas Massie remarried after his wife passed away.
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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somehow Trump appears in Epstein's emails more than Epstein himself
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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In the official photo provided by Bongino, the faces are blurred out.

That's ... not how any of this works.
'The Bean' artist, Chicago nonprofit respond to Border Patrol photo op: report
www.fox32chicago.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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👇👇
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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In Sept, my colleagues & I published one of the first stories in our series from the trove of 18K emails we obtained from Jeffrey Epstein's private Yahoo acct.

This email Maxwell sent to Epstein on Aug 23, 2007 still piques my interest
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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On Epstein, Trump says he’s allowed to order an investigation into Bill Clinton because he’s the “chief law enforcement agent” of the country
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Trump plans to sue the BBC despite the apology.

Shouldn’t have apologised.
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president told reporters on Air Force One that he will take legal action against the broadcaster and will call Sir Keir Starmer over the weekend.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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The more desperate Trump gets the more we all want to see those Epstein files!
Trump just told reporters on Air Force One that he hasn’t ruled out a pardon for Ghislane Maxwell
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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This is clearly someone who deserves a plum job at Vanity Fair amirite
"They were intimate enough for her to see him flossing his teeth, his dopp kit overflowing with prescriptions.

She writes that despite being 'sober' for decades, Kennedy [RFK Jr.] told her he still uses psychedelics, and smoked dimethyltryptamine, or DMT..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Olivia Nuzzi Did It All for Love
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Trump tells journalists on Airforce One he’s made up his mind on what he plans to do with Venezuela but can’t say anything yet.
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Brace yourselves. He’s going to do everything he can to stop this.
House plans to vote Tuesday on releasing Epstein files
President Donald Trump has made repeated attempts to kill the effort, but a discharge petition has forced Speaker Mike Johnson's hand.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Breaking news: Newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate show that he appeared to be texting a member of Congress during a congressional hearing investigating Donald Trump, and that those texts may have influenced the lawmaker’s questions.
Epstein appeared to text with House member during Cohen hearing, documents show
Newly released documents from the convicted sex offender’s estate include text messages from him that appear to influence the lawmaker’s questions to President Donald Trump’s personal attorney at a 20...
wapo.st
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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But Trump said his tariffs don't raise prices
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM