Eric Lee
@saintgimp.bsky.social
Software engineer, science enthusiast, long-distance hiker trash. Reluctantly monitoring the attempted destruction of democracy.
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Sen. John Kennedy on Epstein: "I just don't think this issue is gonna go away until it's addressed and answered to the American people's satisfaction. And I may end up with a Sombrero on my head for saying that, but that's the way I see it."
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Sen. John Kennedy on Epstein: "I just don't think this issue is gonna go away until it's addressed and answered to the American people's satisfaction. And I may end up with a Sombrero on my head for saying that, but that's the way I see it."
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A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions.
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪
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Hmmmm wouldn’t he need jobs data to know this?
Hassett: "The Council of Economic Advisers informs me that they think we're probably gonna see something like 60,000 job losses because of the shutdown, and it'll take a while to get that back."
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Hmmmm wouldn’t he need jobs data to know this?
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I read this three times, and I'm pretty sure it makes no sense.
Trump: "Christians and more, think of this, more than twice as likely foster care they'll adopt the general population. They adopt to it so easily. When they get out, they adopt to it like it's become second nature. It's amazing."
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I read this three times, and I'm pretty sure it makes no sense.
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The panic is so bad that direct bribery is on the table.
The president has promised to send $2,000 to Americans amid legal challenges to his controversial trade policy.
$2,000 Tariff Dividend Checks Highly Unlikely This Year, Betting Odds Suggest
The president has promised to send $2,000 to Americans amid legal challenges to his controversial trade policy.
www.forbes.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The panic is so bad that direct bribery is on the table.
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More impunity for the elite, courtesy of the Trump regime.
There's a law on the books to make corporations pay taxes on the huge profits they report to shareholders.
The Trump admin has quietly decided not to enforce it.
This de facto corporate tax break will add hundreds of billions to the deficit.
Why is no one talking about this?
The Trump admin has quietly decided not to enforce it.
This de facto corporate tax break will add hundreds of billions to the deficit.
Why is no one talking about this?
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
More impunity for the elite, courtesy of the Trump regime.
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Ask him these same questions, every day, for the rest of his miserable life.
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Ask him these same questions, every day, for the rest of his miserable life.
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Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit
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No seriously I am trying to imagine Nora Manella’s face if I told her I reconvened the grand jury without a reporter present. She would tell me she liked me and I was a nice young man but I had 10 minutes to get out of the building alive.
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
No seriously I am trying to imagine Nora Manella’s face if I told her I reconvened the grand jury without a reporter present. She would tell me she liked me and I was a nice young man but I had 10 minutes to get out of the building alive.
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I can't believe this literally happened
November 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I can't believe this literally happened
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Trump has inadvertently created the exact scenario that benefited him in 2016: a slow release of emails that creates a news cycle each time.
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Trump has inadvertently created the exact scenario that benefited him in 2016: a slow release of emails that creates a news cycle each time.
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In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In Bovino's upside down world, there is no difference between an armed gang member preying on others in his community and a guy working 12 hours a day washing cars, flipping burgers, or installing sheetrock to feed his family — and he wants you to hate and fear both men equally.
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Say what you will about news media in the 80s with a story like this they would just open with five minutes every night for months at a time and never - not once - mention political ramifications.
Fucking Children: It’s Unpopular. But Just How Unpopular, And What Does That Mean For The Midterms? We Made An Ugly-Ass Infographic To Explain.
We’re CNN.
We’re CNN.
Harry Enten: "Nobody is buying what Trump is selling on Epstein. His net approval on it is an absolutely dreadful -39 pts... Far worse than any other major issue.
It isn't improving over time.
Even among the GOP, just 45% (!) approve of the job the Trump admin is doing on the Epstein case."
It isn't improving over time.
Even among the GOP, just 45% (!) approve of the job the Trump admin is doing on the Epstein case."
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Say what you will about news media in the 80s with a story like this they would just open with five minutes every night for months at a time and never - not once - mention political ramifications.
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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The polls are shifting. The shutdown bit. Trump’s grip is slipping — and the GOP knows it.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Trump’s Momentum Is Gone — And the GOP Is Paying the Price
Republicans are waking up to the reality that Trump is dragging them toward electoral disaster.
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The polls are shifting. The shutdown bit. Trump’s grip is slipping — and the GOP knows it.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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One of the things that's very difficult to really take to heart about MAGA conservatives is that you can't get them on hypocrisy about their children because they really don't give a fuck about their kids
Everyone who posts this should note that Megyn Kelly has a 14-year-old daughter. Do not let her off the hook on this.
This was always where this was headed.
November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
One of the things that's very difficult to really take to heart about MAGA conservatives is that you can't get them on hypocrisy about their children because they really don't give a fuck about their kids
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Holy shit: Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer has FAR MORE than an 18-minute gap.
That grand jury came back late--after 6 or something.
abcnews.go.com/US/attorneys...
That grand jury came back late--after 6 or something.
abcnews.go.com/US/attorneys...
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Holy shit: Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer has FAR MORE than an 18-minute gap.
That grand jury came back late--after 6 or something.
abcnews.go.com/US/attorneys...
That grand jury came back late--after 6 or something.
abcnews.go.com/US/attorneys...
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"don't worry, he's just into 15-year-olds" perhaps not as exculpatory as you think
Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.
Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"don't worry, he's just into 15-year-olds" perhaps not as exculpatory as you think
Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.
Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.
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The fundamental problem in society we keep dealing with is that powerful men never actually face accountability. This poor girl was homeless and in deep poverty while Gaetz is running around in the top circles of Washington.
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The fundamental problem in society we keep dealing with is that powerful men never actually face accountability. This poor girl was homeless and in deep poverty while Gaetz is running around in the top circles of Washington.
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Matt Gaetz was almost attorney general. Given how Pam Bondi has run cover for pedophiles, not a surprise why Trump wanted Gaetz in there!
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Matt Gaetz was almost attorney general. Given how Pam Bondi has run cover for pedophiles, not a surprise why Trump wanted Gaetz in there!
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All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days
August 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days
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There sure is a lot of missing evidence when it comes to DHS.
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
There sure is a lot of missing evidence when it comes to DHS.