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Shazbot Vexed
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Phish-loving early retired ex-lawyer living in Portugal
"Outlive" on Phish.net
Been told I am a “one-man woke mob.”
Pinned
My latest blog post on my Substack, “Outliving” is up.

The Epstein Matter Matters, Part 1 (of 3)
The Epstein Matter Matters, Part 1
The Sordid History and the Stomach-Churning Facts
open.substack.com
The GOP is a death cult
Trump is trying to murder the poor!
C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Trump pardoned a violent criminal who called himself an “American Terrorist” and who has been arrested and charged with sexually molesting a child

Dems should make a movie about all these Trump-pardoned criminals committing new crimes

Call it “Justice on Furlough 2: J6 Boogaloo”
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Part 5 of my series on Epstein

Will the MAGA cult collapse?
The Epstein Matter Matters, Part 5
Is the Collapse of the MAGA Cult Imminent?
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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@cnn.com Why isn't all medias showing what Bongino, Kash, and Trump talking/article where they say they would release the Epstein files? From them saying they would release them, to their now "Wizard of Oz" curtain moment, "nothing to see here".
November 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
My latest post on Substack

open.substack.com/pub/shazbotv...
The Epstein Matter Matters, Part 4
Cognitive Dissonance and the Role of MAGA Apologists in Cult Solidarity
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I dream of a day when corporations have to reapply for every tax break, contract, and grant every six months, with a requirement that it is the CEO who must complete the paperwork, and attest under penalty of law that they personally did so.
The shutdown was an excuse, not a reason, to go after SNAP.

SNAP recipients have to re-apply either every 6 months or year. Onerous process, with almost no fraud.

There are no shutdown-related requirement for SNAP renewal. But it would predictably result in low-income families going hungry.
Brooke Rollins says on Newsmax SNAP participants will have to re-apply for the program.

Details are still unclear.

via Grace Yarrow for @politico.com

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
MAGA cultists going all in on “raping children is OK, actually, if they’re teenagers.”
the combo of Derschowitz doing the ephebophilia bit and Chris Cuomo's sex pest musketeer mustache is too much
Dershowitz: The predecessor on your show described Epstein as a convicted pedophile. He pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. That’s not a pedophile.
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
“Populism”
Remember this the next time you have flight delays: the Biden plan would have forced airlines to give passengers “between $200 and nearly $775 for delays ranging from three hours to over nine hours, along with guaranteed meals and lodging”

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
BREAKING: President Trump admits that his tariffs caused the price you pay for beef, coffee, and bananas to skyrocket
November 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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“Make America Affordable Again” is an admission, counter to her boss’ claims, that prices have gone up
LOL ... other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Today on “Republican or Walking Ostomy Bag?”
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.

Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In trying to defend their criminal President and his long-time best friend who procured underage girls for him to consort with, Republicans are now seriously arguing that, while raping 8-year-olds is bad, raping and sex-trafficking 15-year-olds is A-OK!

GOP=Gushing Over Pedophiles
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 9:39 PM
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The content of these emails, at a bare minimum, creates an appearance of corruption that would cause any news outlet to demand accountability if it were an organization they covered. I don’t see why news outlets themselves should not be subject to that same scrutiny. NYT must be transparent here.
I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons
November 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Lots of people talking about this 2019 @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social piece about 3 giant Epstein failures by 3 top media outlets. I think if I had known or remembered these episodes, all the surrenders and settlements in Trump 2.0 would not have been such a surprise. www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
A Dead Cat, A Lawyer's Call And A 5-Figure Donation: How Media Fell Short On Epstein
Why did it take some of the nation's biggest news organizations so long to take seriously the accusations against the late Jeffrey Epstein? Allegations about his behavior go back more than a decade.
www.npr.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Unfortunately I think many do too
Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I’m told this is “populism.”
November 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The fascist Republicans’ ongoing war against “DEI” is not about building a meritocracy; it’s about white male christian supremacy

Here is just one example of many proving this assertion
Exclusive: ‘She was the best man for the job’: A Navy officer was set to be the first woman in a Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy SEALs. That's until Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth likely yanked her promotion because of the officer’s gender.
Exclusive: ‘She was the best man for the job’: Hegseth’s policies are forcing qualified women out of the military | CNN Politics
Active service women and men who spoke to CNN say that goals Hegseth laid out often don’t make sense and will damage the military.
www.cnn.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Make America Great Again my ass. I don’t care how you vote … by now you must see that this chaotic abusive relationship the last 10 months have been are just not good for anyone. If you don’t - then I question if you know what you precious bible is all about. Enough.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/p...
Supreme Court lets Trump pause full SNAP payments for now | CNN Politics
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday temporarily paused a lower court order that required the Trump administration to cover full food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November, s...
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
“The murders will continue until morale improves” seems to be the message that the criminals running the US government are sending
Trump administration announces 17th deadly strike on an alleged drug boat

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday announced another deadly U.S. strike on a boat he said was trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean Sea. The attack Thursday killed three people aboard the vessel,
Trump administration announces 17th deadly strike on an alleged drug boat
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday announced another deadly U.S. strike on a boat he said was trafficking narcotics in the Caribbean Sea. The attack Thursday killed three people aboard the vessel, Hegseth said, bringing the death toll from the Trump administration’s campaign in South American waters up to at least 69 people in at least 17 strikes. Hegseth posted a 20-second video of the strike on social media and wrote, “As we’ve said before, vessel strikes on narco-terrorists will continue until their ... poisoning of the American people stops.” He claimed the vessel was “operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization.” President Donald Trump has justified the strikes by saying the United States is in “armed conflict” with drug cartels and claiming the boats are operated by foreign terror organizations. The administration has not provided evidence or more details. Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefed a small group of congressional leaders Wednesday on the growing military campaign, providing one of the first high-level glimpses into the legal rationale and strategy behind the strikes. Republicans emerged either staying silent or expressing confidence in the campaign. Democrats said Congress needs more information on how the strikes are conducted and the legal justification for actions that critics say violate international and U.S. law by killing alleged drug smugglers on the high seas. On Thursday, Senate Republicans voted to reject legislation that would have put a check on Trump’s ability to launch an attack against Venezuela, as Democrats pressed Congress to take a stronger role in Trump’s high-stakes campaign against President Nicolás Maduro.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Republicans are the pro-murder party

Republicans do not believe in due process or fundamental human rights
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Is this what Altman means by “effective altruism”?

We live in some dark times

ChatGPT is beyond sinister

Maybe let’s all just tap the brakes on this shit?
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It’s absolutely fair to use the word “fascist” to describe fascist acts and the people who commit them
No warrant. Invaded a daycare for somebody with documents. Horrific stuff.
Armed ICE officials chase teacher into Chicago daycare and preschool. @ahylton26.bsky.social has the latest.
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
With Republicans the cruelty is the point

They willfully, deliberately ended health care subsidies while extending tax cuts for billionaires

Now they shut down the government during the holiday season and are illegally refusing to provide food benefits for Americans going hungry
BREAKING: The Justice Department said it would file an appeal after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to pay food stamps in full this month www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM