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THEY WERE investigating.
www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
From CBS news article "The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York was running an active investigation into Epstein and Maxwell's co-conspirators until January 2025, when prosecutors were directed to transfer the Epstein case files to the Justice Department's headquarters, in what Raskin said was "a sudden and dramatic shift in the posture of the investigation." Since then, "the investigation into co-conspirators has inexplicably ceased," he said, citing information provided to the Judiciary Committee by attorneys who represent Epstein survivors. "
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
tyoder.bsky.social
OK yes
Nyt headline, top of page, MAMDANI IS ELECTED MAYOR, CAPPING ASCENT
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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This bears repeating ALL THE TIME.

1688 y'all. *stares in Quaker & Mennonite*

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1688_Ge...
The German-Dutch settlers were unaccustomed to owning slaves, although from the shortage of labor they understood why slavery was required to ensure the economic prosperity of the colony. Slaves and indentured servants were a valuable asset for a farmer because they were not paid. Yet the German-Dutch settlers refused to buy slaves themselves and quickly saw the contradiction in the slave trade and in farmers who forced people to work. Although in their native Germany and Holland the Krefelders had been persecuted because of their beliefs, only people who had been convicted of a crime could be forced to work in servitude. In what turned out to be a revolutionary leap of insight, (my emphasis begins here) the Germantowners saw a fundamental similarity between the right to be free from persecution on account of their beliefs and the right to be free from being forced to work against their will.
October 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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I question this assertion.
Either the content is E2EE or it's not.
October 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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just took this screenshot
October 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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I had never heard the term until maga started spouting about it in 2017.

completely re-animated term as a lever with which to label and dismiss opposition.

then came CRT
then came BLM
then came Woke

all expertly propagandized.

Google trends for "antifa"
Google trends for "antifa" from 2019 to-date shows spikes in 2017, 2020, and the start of one now.
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I agree it's completely untenable as a strategy but he did post this
screenshot of a tweet from Gavin Newsom: "Californians pay the bills for the federal government. We pay over $80 BILLION more in taxes than we get back. Maybe it’s time to cut that off, @realDonaldTrump" in response to Trump threatening cancellation of federal funding for CA, per CNN
October 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Proud Boys are bored too (the ones that haven't been deputized into ICE)

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The bigger reason that these far-right groups remain underground is that the Trump administration’s aggressive agenda has left them with little to do. One of the motivating issues for the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and other extremist groups is strong opposition to undocumented immigrants. After the presidential election, a leader of the Texas chapter of the Three Percenters, a militia group, reportedly wrote to Trump to offer manpower in enacting mass deportations. But ICE and other federal agencies are engaging in forceful action against immigrants backed by the state in a way that surpasses what the Oath Keepers or the Proud Boys could ever do. ICE agents, not far-right militias, are the ones who have smashed through car windows, thrown people into unmarked vans, and detained them indefinitely.
October 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The primary discussion of what would become the Second Amendment is in Federalist No. 29 by Alexander Hamilton, which explains the necessity and function of state militias for national defense and as a check against potential tyranny from a federal standing army. Madison, in Federalist No. 46, echoes this idea, arguing that an armed populace, through state militias, provides a significant barrier against governmental overreach.
September 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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did you see this part?
www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-j...
Quote from CBS News article: "The one that says it's a failure to concur in an indictment, it doesn't say with respect to one count," Vaala said. "It looks like they failed to concur across all three counts, so I'm a little confused as to why I was handed two things with the same case number that are inconsistent."
September 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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This part.
Thanks for articulating what's been bothering me, Josh.
September 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
tyoder.bsky.social
and, scene.
quote from NYT article: 'Another said: “I truly cannot distinguish if this is for real.”'
September 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Side note on the Pee Tape:

No reporter (that I'm aware of) has EVER followed up on Trump's comment in this video (2017)

"In WHAT room and for WHAT period of time?"

vid: youtu.be/GbandPlKsJI?... right at 1 minute mark
"It's made up. Never existed. Never happened," Trump continued, speaking specifically about the unverified report regarding the prostitutes. "And the reason I say that so strongly because nothing is ever going to show up. . There's never going to be anything that shows up. Now, I would be very embarrassed if a tape actually showed up, saying something like that. It would be double embarrassed because I'm saying there is no tape. *There is no event. I was never even in that room for that period of time*."
August 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I'm thinking more of the .dot com bubble bursting circa 2000. No actual bailouts (that I recall).
Just the Nasdaq doing this:
August 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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July 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
tyoder.bsky.social
she on the right should be arresting him on the left
June 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Well there you have it folks:
June 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
tyoder.bsky.social
Propaganda is stronger than truth.

Dems have forever thought "well the truth is on our side, so we have a tailwind & don't have to message as hard"

The electorate loves being gaslit as long as it give them someone to punch down on.

meanwhile
Wikipedia screenshot that states "Since World War II, according to many economic metrics including job creation, GDP growth, stock market returns, personal income growth, and corporate profits, the United States economy has performed significantly better on average under the administrations of Democratic presidents than Republican presidents."
June 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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This will be us under trump

"We're doing well!"
Castro "Vamos Bien" sign translates to "we're doing well"
May 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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So we're back to this
May 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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i mean
May 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
tyoder.bsky.social
...and, scene. (for now, lol)
April 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
tyoder.bsky.social
trump gonna go all Andrew Jackson on this... Judiciary needs its own Article 3 Marshals

oh, those don't exist, you say?

They can be appointed
April 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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trial balloon already:
April 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
tyoder.bsky.social
sorry Will you misspelled this:
April 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM