Meli ✨
@wayofthelotus.bsky.social
Backyard Gardener, Botanist, Native Planter in Zone 8b/9a, Collector of Tarot, Witch, Amateur Artist, Mother of Teens, Surviving in the Southeastern US 🌈
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A federal judge ORDERS the disclosure of James Comey's grand jury minutes to the defense, citing a "disturbing pattern pattern of profound investigative missteps" and casting doubt on Lindsey Halligan's declaration about the gap in the record.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A federal judge ORDERS the disclosure of James Comey's grand jury minutes to the defense, citing a "disturbing pattern pattern of profound investigative missteps" and casting doubt on Lindsey Halligan's declaration about the gap in the record.
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
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Jeff Bezos received a quarter of a million from his parents in 1995 to start his online bookstore idea.
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Jeff Bezos received a quarter of a million from his parents in 1995 to start his online bookstore idea.
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Idahoans with questions for U.S. Rep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, may have the chance to ask them at a telephone town hall on Nov. 18.
via @idahocapitalsun.com
via @idahocapitalsun.com
Idaho Congressman Russ Fulcher to hold telephone town hall Nov. 18
Idahoans with questions for U.S. Rep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, may have the chance to ask them at a telephone town hall on Nov. 18. The telephonic question-and-answer session will take place at 6 p.m.…
www.newsfromthestates.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Idahoans with questions for U.S. Rep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, may have the chance to ask them at a telephone town hall on Nov. 18.
via @idahocapitalsun.com
via @idahocapitalsun.com
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) lashed out at FBI Director Kash Patel for refusing to protect Democratic lawmakers facing death threats — while using agents to protect his girlfriend.
'Wants us dead': Kash Patel slammed for death threat shrug — as girlfriend gets SWAT team
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) lashed out at FBI Director Kash Patel for refusing to protect Democratic lawmakers facing death threats — while using agents to protect his girlfriend.According to MS NOW, Patel assigned elite SWAT agents to protect his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins. The F...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) lashed out at FBI Director Kash Patel for refusing to protect Democratic lawmakers facing death threats — while using agents to protect his girlfriend.
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The only two sentences that matter:
“The president could order the release of the entire Epstein document trove at any time, vote or no vote. So far, he’s declined to do so.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
“The president could order the release of the entire Epstein document trove at any time, vote or no vote. So far, he’s declined to do so.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
‘He got tired of me winning’: How Thomas Massie outmaneuvered Trump on Epstein
The president’s Sunday capitulation handed his biggest GOP foe in Congress a major victory.
www.politico.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The only two sentences that matter:
“The president could order the release of the entire Epstein document trove at any time, vote or no vote. So far, he’s declined to do so.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
“The president could order the release of the entire Epstein document trove at any time, vote or no vote. So far, he’s declined to do so.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Chris Murphy: "The fact of the matter is if you don't put constraints on Donald Trump's illegality, this democracy isn't going to be here next November. It isn't going to be here in 2028. So Democrats, yes, have to draw firm moral lines in the sand right now."
November 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Chris Murphy: "The fact of the matter is if you don't put constraints on Donald Trump's illegality, this democracy isn't going to be here next November. It isn't going to be here in 2028. So Democrats, yes, have to draw firm moral lines in the sand right now."
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THAT'S LITERALLY HOW THE SUBSIDIES & ACA EXCHANGES WORK ALREADY.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
Cassidy: "The president is proposing that we take the $26b that would be going to insurance companies if we just do an extension and give it directly to the American people in which 100% of the money is used for them to purchase healthcare on their own terms. That makes them an informed consumer."
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
THAT'S LITERALLY HOW THE SUBSIDIES & ACA EXCHANGES WORK ALREADY.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
CONSUMERS ARE INFORMED BY COMPARING POLICIES ON THE ACA EXCHANGES, THEN THEY PURCHASE ONE AND THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SOME OR ALL OF THE COST OF THAT POLICY.
I'M TEARING THE LITTLE HAIR I HAVE ON MY HEAD OUT.
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Look, I think it’s folly to monitor NYT coverage at this point but it just has to be said that the NYT covered those damn university president hearings BREATHLESSLY but the Epstein emails???? Crumbs. Even though I’m used to them being bootlickers, it’s still appalling to see.
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Look, I think it’s folly to monitor NYT coverage at this point but it just has to be said that the NYT covered those damn university president hearings BREATHLESSLY but the Epstein emails???? Crumbs. Even though I’m used to them being bootlickers, it’s still appalling to see.
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KARL: Tariffs have been removed from some food items. How soon do we expect prices on those goods will go down?
HASSETT: The prices for those goods weren't necessarily going up just because of tariffs
KARL: So they might not go down?
HASSETT: The prices for those goods weren't necessarily going up just because of tariffs
KARL: So they might not go down?
November 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
KARL: Tariffs have been removed from some food items. How soon do we expect prices on those goods will go down?
HASSETT: The prices for those goods weren't necessarily going up just because of tariffs
KARL: So they might not go down?
HASSETT: The prices for those goods weren't necessarily going up just because of tariffs
KARL: So they might not go down?
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New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
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Y'all, its like I have been saying. This isn't a redemption arc, it's an attempted coup. She is setting herself up for when time, age or scandal takes him down.
Marjorie Taylor Greene to Dana Bash: "You should have Nick Fuentes on your show"
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Y'all, its like I have been saying. This isn't a redemption arc, it's an attempted coup. She is setting herself up for when time, age or scandal takes him down.
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a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
veritenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
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listen, who among us hasn't supported their friends through peccadillos like the sexual exploitation of children? everyone has their bad habits, smoking, eating too much, the systematic abuse of vulnerable children in a way that wounds them for life.
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
listen, who among us hasn't supported their friends through peccadillos like the sexual exploitation of children? everyone has their bad habits, smoking, eating too much, the systematic abuse of vulnerable children in a way that wounds them for life.
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and literally every woman in astronomy is having flashbacks to
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azee...
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azee...
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
and literally every woman in astronomy is having flashbacks to
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azee...
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azee...
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The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
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SOMEONE: Fuck you!
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
Bovino is taking part in CBP detentions in Charlotte. dickfc_w_l on TikTok.
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
SOMEONE: Fuck you!
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
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Vital advice.
I can’t tell you how many times people patted me on the head in 2002 about Jxn Free Press reporting honestly in Mississippi about racism “won’t work”
Or in 2020 that nonprofit @mississippifreepress.org interrogating systems “won’t work”
Or last year: adding nat’l news “won’t work”
I can’t tell you how many times people patted me on the head in 2002 about Jxn Free Press reporting honestly in Mississippi about racism “won’t work”
Or in 2020 that nonprofit @mississippifreepress.org interrogating systems “won’t work”
Or last year: adding nat’l news “won’t work”
Stop listening to people who can only tell you what “will never work”, and the only suggestions they have maintain the status quo in a different flavor. A new world is possible. It will not just require us to vote, protest, campaign, fundraise, and fight, it will require rediscovering imagination.
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Vital advice.
I can’t tell you how many times people patted me on the head in 2002 about Jxn Free Press reporting honestly in Mississippi about racism “won’t work”
Or in 2020 that nonprofit @mississippifreepress.org interrogating systems “won’t work”
Or last year: adding nat’l news “won’t work”
I can’t tell you how many times people patted me on the head in 2002 about Jxn Free Press reporting honestly in Mississippi about racism “won’t work”
Or in 2020 that nonprofit @mississippifreepress.org interrogating systems “won’t work”
Or last year: adding nat’l news “won’t work”
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Analysis: The Post found that documents recounting President Ronald Reagan’s relations with the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, have been removed.
The State Department had deleted history.
The State Department had deleted history.
Analysis | State Department deleted records about risk of inadvertent nuclear war
Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Analysis: The Post found that documents recounting President Ronald Reagan’s relations with the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, have been removed.
The State Department had deleted history.
The State Department had deleted history.
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I’m familiar, by the way, with the argument that we just aren’t appreciating the NYT’s subtlety here; that it’s actually a searing indictment of this group of elites, just in a “show me, don’t tell me” kind of way. That take relies on ignoring that it’s in the New York Times.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I’m familiar, by the way, with the argument that we just aren’t appreciating the NYT’s subtlety here; that it’s actually a searing indictment of this group of elites, just in a “show me, don’t tell me” kind of way. That take relies on ignoring that it’s in the New York Times.
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The sense I am getting through all of this is that Larry Summers used his position to get a substantially junior colleague to listen to him whine about his marriage, then tried to get her to “have a drink with him” and stormed off when she was like no thanks I have a presentation tomorrow.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The sense I am getting through all of this is that Larry Summers used his position to get a substantially junior colleague to listen to him whine about his marriage, then tried to get her to “have a drink with him” and stormed off when she was like no thanks I have a presentation tomorrow.
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KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
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Bovino’s rant fits the authoritarian indicators in our assessment: empowered security forces acting with impunity, militarized immigration raids, executive overreach through federalized enforcement, and loyalty-driven ops unmoored from oversight. His tone isn’t an outlier but a symptom.
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Bovino’s rant fits the authoritarian indicators in our assessment: empowered security forces acting with impunity, militarized immigration raids, executive overreach through federalized enforcement, and loyalty-driven ops unmoored from oversight. His tone isn’t an outlier but a symptom.
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USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins plans to make all SNAP recipients reapply and prove "that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.”
The 'genuinely disabled'
The 'literally vulnerable'
They keep moving the goalposts.
They were never going to fund SNAP. It's eugenics:
The 'genuinely disabled'
The 'literally vulnerable'
They keep moving the goalposts.
They were never going to fund SNAP. It's eugenics:
Trump administration will require SNAP participants to reapply for benefits
Food aid recipients are already required to recertify their information regularly. But the move is part of USDA chief Brooke Rollins’ effort to overhaul the program.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins plans to make all SNAP recipients reapply and prove "that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.”
The 'genuinely disabled'
The 'literally vulnerable'
They keep moving the goalposts.
They were never going to fund SNAP. It's eugenics:
The 'genuinely disabled'
The 'literally vulnerable'
They keep moving the goalposts.
They were never going to fund SNAP. It's eugenics:
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made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup
It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.
www.offmessage.net
November 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow