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Excellent reporting. Acosta is a dirty (alleged) liar though.
Last month, Acosta told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that he didn't recall any discussion of "potential financial crimes" as part of his office's Epstein investigation. Yet the emails and documents from Epstein's Yahoo account show that prosecutors in his office discussed the financial-crimes component of the investigation with Acosta and copied him on correspondence about it. Records
October 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Absolute creep.
After dropping off a passenger in the neighborhood, Rinderknecht parked his car, walked up a nearby trail and listened to a rap song with a music video which "included objects being lit on fire," Essayli said. He allegedly listened to the song repeatedly in the days leading up to the fire. Authorities said that Rinderknecht then called 911. While the fire burned, he walked up the same trail to watch the blaze and firefighters and used his phone to take videos of the scene, Essayli said.
October 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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He's from Florida. Of course!
Essayli said among the evidence that was collected from Rinderknecht's digital devices was an image he allegedly generated on ChatGPT a few months before the fires depicting a burning city.
October 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Behavioral symptoms Specific behaviors and experiences often linked to this syndrome can include: • aggressive or impulsive behavior • trouble sleeping • a tendency to judge, blame, or criticize yourself harshly • frustration with treatment, which may lead you to skip meetings or counseling sessions, or give up on them entirely • frequent daydreaming or fantasizing, often about alcohol use • dishonesty • using other behaviors, like TV or gambling, to cope with abstinence
September 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Where's the evidence the CK stuff was done by someone on the left? Who are these 14 assailants and why are you saying they're also on the left?
On July 4, for example, law-enforcement officials say that an assailant shot and wounded a police officer who was responding to reports of a disturbance at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas; meanwhile, another alleged assailant fired at ICE correctional officers. Authorities apprehended 14 suspects, who now face federal charges including attempted murder of federal officers and firearm-related offenses. Details about Kirk's alleged killer are still emerging, but preliminary evidence indicates that he had left-wing motivations, and could add to this year's tally.
September 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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No matter how hard ideologues try to exclusively blame their political foes for acts of political violence, the truth is that violent extremists today emerge from across the political spectrum. We have studied this problem and believe that our data can help illuminate an issue too often defined by partisan finger-pointing. As part of a study to be published this week by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, we compiled and analyzed a data set of 750 attacks and plots in the United States from January 1, 1994, to July 4, 2025. Our research focuses only on incidents of terrorism, which we define as attacks or plots by a nonstate actor attempting to achieve a political end and exert a psychological influence on a broad population. Among other details, the data set includes the types of weapons used, the intended targets, the number of fatalities, and the ideology of the perpetrators.
September 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Not that I know of. He was asked to elaborate and said this:
Cox made it a point to tell NBC that "friends that have confirmed that there was kind of that deep, dark internet ... culture and these other dark places of the internet" where Robinson "was going deep". . The governor did not elaborate - though on Saturday, citing the work of law enforcement, he told the Wall Street Journal that "it's very clear to us and to investigators that this was a person who was deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology." On Sunday, in a separate interview, CNN's Dana Bash asked Cox to elaborate on his comments to the Journal. "That information comes from the people around him, from his family members and his friends - that's how we got that information," Cox told CNN. "There's so much more that we're learning, and so much more that we will learn." Bash also asked Cox whether the roommate's status was relevant to the investigation and a potential motive. The governor replied, "That is what we are trying to figure out right now."
September 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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This is from the guardian article.
Cox said that what investigators had gathered showed Robinson "does come from a conservative family - but his ideology was very different than his family". Citing the content of investigators' interviews with people close to Robinson, Cox said "we do know that the [suspect's] roommate... is a [partner] who is transitioning from male to female. "I will say that that person has been very cooperative with authorities," Cox remarked to Meet the Press host Kristen Welker, referring to the roommate. "And ….. the why behind this ... we're all drawing lots of conclusions on how someone like this could be radicalized. And I think that those are important questions for us to ask and important questions for us to answer." The governor did not elaborate on the evidence that investigators were relying on to establish Robinson's relationship to his roommate with whom he shared an apartment in Washington county, Utah, about 260 miles from where Kirk was killed.
September 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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What's the context here, Sally?
Charlie Kirk: Jewish donors have been the No. 1 funding mechanism of radical open-border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions and nonprofits. This is a beast created by secular Jews and now they're coming for Jews, and they're like, "What on Earth happened?" And it's not just the colleges. It's the nonprofits, it's the movies, it's Hollywood, it's all of it.
September 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Is this inaccurate, Sally? What's the context here?
Quote from Charlie Kirk: If we would have said three weeks ago [...] that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative-action picks, we would have been called racist. But now they're coming out and they're saying it for us! They're coming out and they're saying, "I'm only here because of affirmative action." Yeah, we know. You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person's slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.
September 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Just to make things worse, this was the Mississippi state tag for about a year. Our governor at the time decided he didn't need a designer, so a bunch of untalented buffoons created this little beauty. It was so hated they changed it ASAP.
Hideous Mississippi state car tag, the color of dirt, with an off center emblem.
September 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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The 2019 operation has never been publicly acknowledged, or even hinted at, by the United States or North Korea. The details remain classified and are being reported here for the first time. The Trump administration did not notify key members of Congress who oversee intelligence operations, before or after the mission. The lack of notification may have violated the law. The White House declined to comment.
September 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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I bet they declined to comment. 👀
The 2019 operation has never been publicly acknowledged, or even hinted at, by the United States or North Korea. The details remain classified and are being reported here for the first time. The Trump administration did not notify key members of Congress who oversee intelligence operations, before or after the mission. The lack of notification may have violated the law. The White House declined to comment.
September 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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The Supreme Court ruled in the 1989 case Texas v. Johnson that burning the American flag is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment, as it constitutes symbolic and political expression. This decision invalidated laws prohibiting flag desecration in most states, affirming that such acts cannot be punished by the government.
August 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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They believe in the Great Replacement Theory, admire a community of white people in South Africa, and think eugenics determines intelligence. They're Nazis.
Mr. Orwoll recently gave The New York Times a limited tour, allowing entry to the property through a gate that had a lock. He sat on a folding chair in his office, housed in an insulated shed with air-conditioning and fiber internet, two pianos and shelves full of philosophy texts. Before a photographer could snap pictures, he pulled a copy of "Mein Kampf" from a bookshelf and turned it around to hide its spine.
August 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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She read the label. She chose to ignore the "research" because an employee waved it off. That was an active choice. She also didn't drink the milk herself, probably because she's pregnant, but thought giving it to her toddler was fine? That makes NO sense.
The lawsuit - which also names the market where Maddox allegedly bought the milk — was filed Wednesday in Seminole County and claims Keely Farms shipped milk that contained Campylobacter and E. coll. Maddox was allegedly unaware of any potential dangers while purchasing the milk in June from an organic, natural food store, according to the lawsuit. When she inquired about a label on the package that "said something to the effect (of) 'for consumption by animals,"' she was allegedly told "that was a technical requirement to sell 'farm milk," the lawsuit claims.
August 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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This is outrageous. So you read the label and the store says "eh, that's just a requirement" and you go on to give it to your toddler anyway?She almost killed her born son, too, as well as herself.
The lawsuit - which also names the market where Maddox allegedly bought the milk — was filed Wednesday in Seminole County and claims Keely Farms shipped milk that contained Campylobacter and E. coll. Maddox was allegedly unaware of any potential dangers while purchasing the milk in June from an organic, natural food store, according to the lawsuit. When she inquired about a label on the package that "said something to the effect (of) 'for consumption by animals,"' she was allegedly told "that was a technical requirement to sell 'farm milk," the lawsuit claims.
August 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Huh, this was an exchange that user had in a thread asking people to post a pic of their desk in that moment:
Under a deleted post someone asks "Are you signed in as Zuck in that last photo?" The owner of the deleted photo says "Ayyy I should delete that post huh" "Good eye" OP replies "Damnit I thought it was a troll Sounds like a cool job."
August 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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This man should be in prison.
But even if Maduro didn't know of the plot beforehand, tweets and videos announcing the raid to the world as it was underway surely would ve tipped him off. Those tweets and videos were posted by one of the men behind the attempted invasion: US Army veteran Jordan Goudreau, a three-time Bronze Star recipient and founder of Silvercorp USA, a small Florida-based private security company.
August 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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From the PBS report above: This deal that Acosta gave to Epstein years ago is completely indefensible. It's unusual and unprecedented in several respects, in how short a term of prison Epstein faced, 13 months he ended up serving, and most of it on work release. The fact that Acosta didn't notify the victims violates federal law, and is something even a first-year prosecutor would know better than to do. So I have to think Acosta knew that and intentionally disregarded that obligation. And the fact that Acosta signed a deal that immunized the co-conspirators, the people around Epstein, is very strange. Why would he want to do that unless he was protecting powerful people who he was afraid of?
August 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Report from PBS NEWS HOUR in July of 2019 entitled The 'completely unprecedented' plea deal Jeffrey Epstein made with Alex Acosta Newsmax Names Paula Dobriansky, Alex Acosta to Board of Directors Wednesday, 11 June 2025 10:29 PM EDT
August 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Yep. This was a common thing we heard from legacy media outlets. They said she was "overprepared" while Donald stalked her on stage and spouted nonsense and hate.
Screenshot from The Advocate of Hillary Clinton on a 2016 debate stage. The caption reads: Several anchors and commentators have accused Hillary Clinton of actually preparing too much for Monday's presidential debate.
July 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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This is pretty sinister.
It isn't clear how the letter with Trump's signature was prepared. Inside the outline of the naked woman was a typewritten note styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein, written in the third person. "Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything," the note began. Donald: Yes, there is, but I won't tell you what it is. Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is. Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it. Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that? Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you. Trump: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday - and may every day be another wonderful secret.
July 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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It isn't clear how the letter with Trump's signature was prepared. Inside the outline of the naked woman was a typewritten note styled as an imaginary conversation between Trump and Epstein, written in the third person. "Voice Over: There must be more to life than having everything," the note began. Donald: Yes, there is, but I won't tell you what it is. Jeffrey: Nor will I, since I also know what it is. Donald: We have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey: Yes, we do, come to think of it. Donald: Enigmas never age, have you noticed that? Jeffrey: As a matter of fact, it was clear to me the last time I saw you. Trump: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday - and may every day be another wonderful secret.
July 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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A Columbia official said "initial indications" show that data was stolen, though the school hasn't yet determined the scope of the theft. Doing so could take weeks to months, the official said, adding that the university will then determine who needs to be notified. The university recovered most of its systems quickly and engaged the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., the official said. Initial indications are that the perpetrator is a hacktivist, meaning the person is trying to make a statement rather than seek financial gain. The university's investigation, which includes CrowdStrike, determined the attacker was "highly sophisticated" and "very targeted" in the theft of documents - breaking in and stealing student data with the apparent goal of "furthering their political agenda," the official said.
July 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM