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Catherine Schmidt
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Crone raised in Alaska proud liberal because I care about something other than money and myself. Lover of nature and with respect for all life. Married 41 years. Love books, archaeology, history, gardening and walking, liberty for all, resistance.
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#EpsteinFiles
aaronparnas.bsky.social Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 17h
This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe.

Share it widely.
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Zelensky: We are preparing to strengthen our aviation capabilities. A strong “historic” agreement with France is in the works. We will finalise it soon.
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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gottalaff.bsky.social
They're doing everything they can to predetermine election outcomes.
democracydocket.com Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d
NEW: After the Supreme Court agreed to hear a major GOP-backed case challenging mail-in ballot grace periods, Republicans are now turning to their next target: in-person, early voting. A successful challenge to early voting could have a far broader impact, affecting voters in 47 states.
The GOP Attack on Mail-Ballot Grace Periods Is Also an Attack on Early Voting
Read more here.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#CECOT #trump #Rubio #StephanMiller#Cruelty #torture #Rape #Fascism #ElSalvador #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 11/13/25
RAPE AND TORTURE AT CECOT TO JUSTIFY TOUGHNESS
Heather Cox Richardson 11/13/25 RAPE AND TORTURE AT CECOT TO JUSTIFY TOUGHNESS Yesterday, Robert Tait of The Guardian noted that Human Rights Watch and Cristasal, a group that monitors human rights in Latin American, report that the Veneuzelans the Trump administration sent to the infamous CECOT terrorist prison in El Salvador endured systematic torture, including beatings and sexual violence. Only 3% of those the U.S. rendered to El Salvador had been convicted of a violent crime in the U.S. As immigration advocate Aaron Reichlin- Melnick wrote: “We paid El Salvador to torture, abuse, and rape completely innocent Venezuelans so that [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio, [White House deputy chief of staff] Stephen Miller, and Donald Trump could claim they were tough on immigrants.”
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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#trump #KatieJohnson #Epstein #Rape #Girls #Video

Borowitz Report NO SATIRE 11/13/25
She Says Trump Raped Her When She Was a Child
(This episode contains upsetting content)

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She Says Trump Raped Her When She Was a Child
The Andy Borowitz Show
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November 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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#Trump #Epstein #KatyJohnson #rape #pedophiles #Video

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Katie Johnson's full testimony of 2 11 16
YouTube video by British Culture
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November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Reposted by Catherine Schmidt
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Starbucks baristas are on strike and the No Kings Alliance stands with them. Don’t shop at Starbucks while workers fight for fair pay, better staffing, and an end to union-busting. Power belongs to the people who make this country run: nocontractnocoffee.org/#pledge #NoContractNoCoffee #NoKings
(next to an images of striking Starbucks employees) NO CONTRACT NO COFFEE BREW CHANGE NoContractNoCoffee.org (No Kings logo)
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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#Epstein #Trump #MichaelWolff files #alt
EMAL From: Michael Wolf Date; 10/29/16 12:21:03 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] Subject: Now could be the time There's an opportunity to come forward this week and talk about Trump in stich a way that could garner you great sympathy and help finish him. Interested?
November 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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#Humor #Trump #FoundingFatthers #video

FOUNDING FATHERS COMMENT ON TRUMP

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This is BRILLIANT. Watch the whole thing. 🔥
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November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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#Trump #Library #Corruption #Miami #History #Video

HUGE MIAMI PUBLUC LAND GIVE AWAY TO TRUMP LIBRARY WITH LITTLE TO NO PUBLIC INPUT

LEGAL DIVA

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Trump Land Grab Backfires as He Begs Court for Bailout
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November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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#Humor #Satire #VeteransDay #trump #alt

Borowitz Report 11/11/25 SATIRE

Trump Honors Those Who Helped Others Avoid Service at Tomb of the Unknown Podiatrist
Borowitz Report 11/11/25 SATIRE Trump Honors Those Who Helped Others Avoid Service at Tomb of the Unknown Podiatrist QUEENS, NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—In what has become a Veterans Day tradition for him, on Tuesday Donald J. Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Podiatrist. Trump made his annual pilgrimage to pay homage to the heroic doctors who issued bogus diagnoses to ensure that their privileged patients never answered the call of duty. In an emotional tribute, Trump thanked the fallen foot specialists who bravely risked their medical licenses so that others facing military service could be free. Choking back tears, he said, “They gave everything so people like me could give nothing."
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Trump #Epstein #Evidence #Lettler #Video

Aaron Parnas 11/13/25
MULTIPLE LETTERS REVEAL HOW EPSTEIN AND WOLF AMONG OTHERS CONSIDERED TRUMP THE WORST OF THE WORST AND CONSIDERED TORPEDOING TRUMP IN 2016

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NEWS: White House Effectively Frozen as More Bombshell Epstein Documents Come to Light
The White House is frozen as more bombshell Epstein documents come to light. I spent hours going through them all and will continue to do so throughout the day.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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#Israel #Gaza #Cruelty #Genocide

Israel arrests dozens in West Bank raids as settlers torch mosque

Dropsite Daily
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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#trump #Epstein #Petition #Pedophiles # Representatives #Endings #Polls #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 11/12/25
“BEGINNING OF THE END”
Heather Cox Richardson 11/12/25 “BEGINNING OF THE END" Now, though, a significant portion of MAGA has broken with him, his popularity is low—a new Associated Press—NORC poll has his approval rating at 33%— and last week's elections showed his coalition is abandoning him. It is not clear that Republican senators will defend him, especially since his erratic behavior—like bulldozing the East Wing of the White House—appears to be increasing. As Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY), who backed the House discharge petition, told CNN: “This vote is going to be on your record for longer than Trump is going to be president. And what are you going to do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate...and they say, "How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025." Midday today, as new revelations from the Epstein documents were hitting social media every few minutes, Representative Swalwell posted: “This is the beginning of the end.”
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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#trump #Epstein #Petition # Representatives #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 11/12/25
HOW THE DISCHARGE TO RELEASE EPSTEIN FILES PROCEEDS
Heather Cox Richardson 11/12/25 HOW THE DISCHARGE TO RELEASE EPSTEIN FILES PROCEEDS Trump's efforts to get someone to take their name off the discharge petition failed. Johnson swore in Grijalva at 4:00, as scheduled, and she immediately signed it. Now the petition needs to “ripen” for seven legislative days. Then Johnson has two legislative days to schedule a vote on a measure to require the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files it holds. Faith Wardwell and Meredith Lee Hill of Politico reported this evening that senior Republicans believe as many as 100 Republicans will support the bill when it comes to the floor. Many of them are facing constituents who voted for Trump in the belief that he would release the Epstein files as he promised and who are angry that the administration appears to be covering them up in the service of rich elites. Others likely recognize that they do not want to be seen as participating in that coverup, especially with the threat of even worse material waiting to drop. If the House passes the bill, it will go to the Senate and, if the Senate passes it, to Trump for his signature. If he vetoes it, Congress has the option to override his veto.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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#Epstein #Trump #Letters

“i know how dirty Donald is.”

Jeffrey Epstein is reference to Smokey Daniel’s hush money.
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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#Epstein #trump #Ghislane #NYT #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 11/12/25
YES TRUMP KNEW AND WAS, THERE NYT CULPABLE
Heather Cox Richardson 11/12/25 YES TRUMP KNEW AND WAS, THERE NYT CULPABLE In a 2015 email, Epstein gave tips on stories about Trump and girls to then- New York Times financial reporter Landon Thomas Jr. When others asked Thomas for stories, Epstein wrote: “Have them ask my houseman about donad [sic] almost walking through the door leaving his nose print on the glass as young women were swimming in the pool and he was so focused he walked straight into the door.” In another email, Epstein offered “photso [sic] of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen,” and Thomas urged: “l am serious man—for the good of the nation why not try to get some of this out there." But a story revealing this information did not appear in the New York Times before the 2016 presidential election or afterward. In one 2018 email referring to Trump's payment of hush money to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, Epstein wrote: “i know how dirty donald is.”
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #catstodon #CatsOMastodon #catsoffediverse #alt #caturday #Humor#

THIS WEEKS CENTER FOLD
JOSIE
Grey and white 8 mos. old kitten in a scalloped wicker cat tree basket. On her side, head turned to the right, let let extended out of the basket, looking demure. THIS WEEKS CENTER FOLD JOSIE
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #catstodon #CatsOMastodon #catsoffediverse #alt #caturday #Humor#

1/2 twist, one foot curl, nose up….a 10
Grey and white tuxedo 8 mos.old kitten on her back in a round cat stand basket. Right back leg with foot curled, front legs up, face up, body in a 1/2 twist. 1/2 twist, one foot curl, nose up….a 10
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #catstodon #CatsOMastodon #catsoffediverse #alt #caturday #Humor#

Not my pictures. Unknown
We just spent a hour looking for her. Not my photographs. Top picture of a rectangular Klee x box Bottom picture of a very young kitten, ears still flat pulling herself out of the Kleenex box
November 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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#Shutdown #Corruption #Resistance #Resist #Video #Arizona #NorthCaroline

REPRESENTIVE JASMINE ANSAIRI ROASTS REP. VIRGINIA FOXX

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Rep. Yassamin Ansari ROASTS GOP Rep Virginia Foxx to her face.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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#VeteransDay #Veterans #Obama #Video

OBAMA SHOWS HOW A PRESIDENT SHOULD ACT

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WATCH: Barack Obama just surprised an entire aircraft full of veterans on Veterans Day.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Reposted by Catherine Schmidt
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Newly released emails show Jeffrey Epstein writing that Donald Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims, among other messages suggesting that the convicted sex offender believed Trump knew far more about his abuse than he has publicly acknowledged.
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reposted by Catherine Schmidt
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Apparently now Epstein is the distraction.
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by Catherine Schmidt
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Trump admits that the redacted victim is Giuffre
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM