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Not sure what’s most alarming fact, that the administration doesn’t appear to know what the boat it blew up was carrying or where it was headed, that they haven’t identified a legal authority for the action, or that it’s the first in a series of planned attacks. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Lord, won't you buy me a {M̶e̶r̶c̶e̶d̶e̶s̶-̶B̶e̶n̶z̶} Canadian passport
1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️
Because nothing says I need a BIGGER distraction than blowing up another country's boat in international waters #Piracy #Epstein #Venezuela
Trump and Rubio celebrating blowing up a tiny Venezuelan boat that barely had enough cocaine for a bachelor party (if it had drugs at all!) is psychotic terrorist shit. Trump sent 7 warships and 4,500 troops to Venezuela to steal the oil and let war criminal Erik Prince occupy and plunder it.
WATCH: “Whatever pretext this administration may claim, this looks for all the world like a flagrant violation of U.S. and international law,” says Chris Hayes on Trump boasting about the U.S. military’s deadly strike on a boat he says was carrying drugs from Venezuela.
Trump just struck a Venezuelan ship in the Caribbean? He’s calling it a drug boat. Trump is waiting for escalation to invade Venezuela tomorrow. This is diversion from Epstein at a cost to human lives. America’s Gangster president.
We’re to believe that little speed boat was going to travel 1,300 miles from Venezuela to the mainland U.S.? 🤔
How did US strike on Venezuelan boat come about? What it means aje.io/eaudxe
Great speech by Raskin. Also, nice of Farage to show up dressed like a 60s Batman villain.
The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them. Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.
How much did that flyover today cost the taxpayers?
Every day has so many JCs in it
i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this
REPORTER: Why were the 11 men on the boat killed instead of taken into custody? TRUMP: On the boat you have massive amounts of drugs. Everybody fully understands that.
Trump says the Epstein victims are pushing a hoax and what they have to say is irrelevant. Proud day to be a Republican! bsky.app/profile/acyn...
BREAKING: Epstein survivors are speaking out, demanding the release of the files and blasting the White House for hiding them. I was at the press conference today. It was one of the most powerful moments I have witnessed. We cannot stop sharing their stories. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Watching Republicans join EPSTEIN survivors was powerful and deserves the response they are asking for. Watching Dump just refer to them as part of a Democratic hoax was expected because he is a habitual liar. What happens next is up to the enablers. Will this move them? RELEASE THE FILES!
Ds should insist on a floor vote in both houses with no D assistance, on Rs’ CR. When it fails, voter'll know who to blame if the govt shuts down. That should also help focus everyone: What do Ds want in exchange for bailing out Rs’ from their utter incompetence? open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.
Venezuela says the US and Erik Prince have plans to stage an attack on an ExxonMobil off-shore platform as a pretext to invade it…and normally that would be an insane claim but… www.latintimes.com/venezuela-sa...
NEW: An unspecified senior security source told a UK-based website, Oil Price, on September 1 that Russia and North Korea have sent nuclear scientists and missile experts, respectively, to Iran since June 2024. Iran Update, September 2, 2025: isw.pub/IranUpdate09...
Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.
The White House has made it clear that any Republicans considering joining Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) in his bipartisan push to force a vote on the full release of the Epstein files will be treated as committing a “very hostile act to the administration,”
And yet Nancy supports and voted for a pedophile/rapist to be President. And yet Nancy mocked E. Jean Carroll. #SheShed
Probably nothing to worry about
Read about how Francis J. Allman, Chief Judge of Florida’s Second Judicial District, is an un-American censorial fascist thug worthy of contempt.
NOW: Big protest going on outside the White House. Protestors are demanding release of Epstein files and the end of the National Guard deployment in D.C. This is some visual. (📸 Status Coup News)
Fucking Idaho. I’m officially filing them in the same category as Florida and Texas: “EXTRA ASSHOLEY”
Pritzker says the press should be asking this question, too, and he's right.
To be a political reporter in 2025, you have to be gullible enough to believe that a convicted felon who launched a violent coup attempt is worried about crime. Or you just have to be willing to pretend you’re that gullible. Either way, we deserve better.
In Russia's coastal resort of Anapa, an explosion lit up the sky. It would seem, but unconfirmed that Ukraine may have hit a Russian air defence system.
. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social will be Jen Psaki’s guest tonight on The Briefing! 9pmET on MSNBC
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This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
In just the past week or so, Russia has bombed a US factory in Ukraine, bombed an EU office in Ukraine, and jammed the navigation system on a plane carrying the EU president, forcing the pilots to land using paper maps. Putin does not want peace. He will keep pushing until we fight back.
All airliners around von der Leyen's assumed jet in this screenshot (save one) also reported good position values. This strengthens the suspicion that the jamming was directed specifically at von der Leyen.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
This is terrifying.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Media outlets have staged a front page protest to highlight the killings of more than 200 journalists in 22 months.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
⚡️ Update: EU confirms von der Leyen’s plane hit by GPS jamming, Russian involvement suspected. "We can confirm there was GPS jamming," European Commission spokesperson Arianna Podesta told the media, adding that Bulgaria suspects Russia to be behind the “blatant interference.”
Trump’s meeting with Putin guarantees the war will expand and continue. Anyone selling a different story is attempting to impose intention on the Russians that simply does not exist. www.greatpower.us/p/half-baked...
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
Interesting that there’s so much chatter of a serious health decline just a few days before a press conference is scheduled on the Capitol steps with Epstein’s victims. Things that make you go hmmmm…..and he’s guilty af
DOL is trying to take away minimum wage and overtime from millions of workers. Just thought I’d mention that.
1/ The elimination of de minimis is emblematic of the worst kind of reactionary, knee-jerk policymaking that's sadly not confined to the US. For those who don't know: The US has largely eliminated a rule that let packages of lower value (<$800) to skip most customs formalities and tariff duties.
6/ There's an infantile tendency to measure proposed solutions based on how bold and decisive they look, rather than by how sustainable effective they'll be, how well they use limited resources, and how they mitigate the harm or externalities they entail.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GvjPcr/ How in the HELL does any government lawfully deport 600 unaccompanied minors? Who does that? Who the fuck are we? What are we? What have we become?
If all the documents were released, all the records, all the interviews, if every shred of paper written on the Epstein sex trafficking operation were released tomorrow, there would still be horrific things we’ll never know. Think about that.
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."
Judge Sooknanan: I am trying to do the best I can to fulfill my obligation as an Article III judge. I appreciate you all showing up today, and I particularly appreciate the government's representation. But I'm going to put it on the record again, just so there's absolutely no ambiguity...
Judge Sooknanan: And again, I'm not going to force you to respond sooner, but if you need five days, my order is going to stay in place. I have done all I can to try to make a decision based on what's in front of me. The government hasn't put anything in front of me to counter plaintiff's narrative
Judge Sooknanan to Ensign: And even now that the government has appeared, you're telling me that even though you think you have the authority to do this, and that what you're trying to do here is unify families, not violate the law, you need five days to respond.
Judge Sooknanan continues her monologue: And so, absent action and intervention by the court, all of those children would have been returned to Guatemala, potentially to extremely dangerous situations.
Judge Sooknanan: As I said at the start of this hearing, I got a call at 2:36 am [last night] because the government chose the wee hours of the morning on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend to execute a plan to move these children. That's why we're here.
Judge Sooknanan: And I tried to reach the government. I have been up since then..and didn't reach anyone from the government until later this morning. And the imminence that the plaintiff claimed proved true, because, in fact, those planes *were* loaded. One actually took off and was returned.
Video shows a blanket knitted by Irish activists as a tribute to Palestinian children killed in Gaza. Each square of the blanket represents 10 of the nearly 19,000 children killed by Israeli forces in the besieged enclave.
REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social: “People want to give thoughts and prayers after a shooting, but it’s a form of theological malpractice when you pray for something you have the power to change.”
I applaud whoever decided (probably Miller himself) to have Stephen Miller act increasingly as “spokesman” for this Administration’s policies. He is so fundamentally repellent that I suspect even loyal MAGA adherents get the heebie-jeebies when they listen to him,& ask themselves, “Am I w/this guy?”
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
Jones: I would say to my colleagues who serve in government—keep your thoughts and prayers, keep your tweets. If you want to address gun violence, you don't need to tweet. What you need is a mirror. You have the power to change things.
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
If prayer really worked, I would have woken up to an enormous headline this morning.
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
Welch: Am American president talks to other American citizens like that, and propagandists come on TV and normalize this behavior. And nothing about this is normal. Nothing
“After reporting internally to management and externally to regulators serious data security and integrity concerns impacting our citizens' most sensitive personal data, I have suffered exclusion, isolation, internal strife, and a culture of fear"
⚡️ Update: Ex-parliament speaker’s murder ‘carefully prepared,’ Zelensky says. President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had instructed security services to present verified information about the investigation of Andrii Parubii's murder as soon as possible.
“It does not matter if you’re a citizen, here on a green card, or visiting Las Vegas for the weekend — you shouldn’t have to fear retaliation because the government doesn’t like what you have to say.”
ANGRY @jvl.bsky.social took to @thebulwark.com today: "Trump is waging war against the American government. When he’s done, he’ll use his government to wage war against Americans." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cdc-th...
Hello, everyone. Today, thanks to @sbg1.bsky.social and @newyorker.com, I learned a new word. The word is: "butt-snorkeler."
« ‹ Si cela ne se produit pas d’ici lundi, la date limite établie par le président Trump, cela signifie qu’une fois de plus, le président Poutine a joué le président Trump ›, a déclaré Macron …. » www.observatoiredeleurope.com/macron-pouti...
Russian Navy tug ALEKSANDR FROLOV directed jamming towards a Danish helicopter and a patrol ship a few days ago. This was reported by NATO command Brunssum on X. The post was quickly deleted and NATO is now tight lipped. A FROLOV stayed around Fehmarn Belt for 9 days.
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
Republicans aren't running for office...their polls are dropping...their own base is mocking them and yelling at them at town halls... And yet they seem very comfortable and unbothered. Ask yourselves why?
We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬
May I add: 1. …when your leadership have stolen all the *allocated funds* 2. Thank God.
See also the powerful example of this: Russia
Yes. The question remains: If the plan was to destroy American Democracy, what would all of Trump/Putin’s minions be doing differently?
“When I call Kennedy a ‘dangerous crank,’ I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
@chrislhayes.bsky.social channeling the same level of anger I too feel about this absolute insanity, as well as every other case of the death of expertise on display in this regime. By platforming this crap, it seems Trump and the GOP are wilfully destroying our country.
If you honestly believe the Russians hit the EU delegation in Kyiv by accident, I don't think you should be allowed to operate heavy machinery and I frankly question if letting you dress and bathe yourself is a violation of our collective duty of care.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
1/EXCLUSIVE: Was Jeffrey Epstein part of Russia's broader war on the West? In our new multi-part investigation into Epstein's influence activities, we examine new evidence that suggests his work in Santa Fe was likely more strategic than previously known. america2.news/part-one-jus...
Curious what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My first thought it that it was a Putin request
