Overreaction proves the truth to the allegation.
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Overreaction proves the truth to the allegation.
Kudos to the reporter. Trump is incensed the reporter says there's been no action, but then talks about FUTURE action thus confirming there's been nothing so far but talk and hope. No new sanctions, no new/additional weapons, no confiscated frozen assets, nothing.
NEWS: Sen. Steve Daines asked RFK Jr. if he will get rid of the Covid-established rule eliminating the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone. Saying that he will get back to him within a week, RFK Jr. says, “I don’t know if the White House has yet taken a position on that.”
The tractor maker said that sales were down and that higher metal tariffs would cost it $600 million, while American farmers face dwindling overseas demand for some crops. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/b...
It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes for farmers and ranchers to start bellowing about rising costs and dropping profits. Personally, I don’t expect much.
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein held a press conference in front of Congress to demand lawmakers release all government files related to the Epstein investigation.
RFK Jr. said the CDC director’s firing is just a start. The health secretary came out swinging at his first appearance on Capitol Hill since he pushed out his top aide at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented attack on wind and solar power as he seeks to reshape the US energy landscape and reverse the green agenda put forward by his predecessor. Here's what to know.
We continue to diminish our country’s importance through the whims and prejudices of a sociopath.
For decades, US Open women's champs got a smaller replica trophy. Now they're equal
I guess they thought that a woman’s puny little hands couldn’t hold a nice big trophy. 🙄
As a sexual abuse survivor, I need to talk about my anger. I'm so angry about the government not stopping Epstein when they had the opportunity, causing hundreds more girls to fall prey to him because of inaction. I'm enraged about the cover up. And I'm furious about lack of care for young girls.
Their “frustration” is irrelevant. Who cares? They know RFK Jr is dangerous, unfit, & is going to hurt a lot of people. But their fear of retribution from Trump is the deciding factor in all their inaction. They put their political survival over the lives and health of Americans.
From Judge Breyer in California (on the National Guard) to Judge Burroughs in Massachusetts (Harvard), some district judges are rising to the occasion. How can we strengthen their hand? What legal arguments and political efforts might induce or pressure the Roberts Court to let their rulings stand?
He favors hurting small businesses in order to protect small businesses, which is pretty much indistinguishable from a protection racket.
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
There it is
He is not a skeptic. Skeptics care about knowledge and the truth of things. Kennedy only cares about deceit.
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11. If we were still living in 1800, before there was a widely available shot for measles, mumps and other communicable diseases, half of all children would be dead. In 1900, one in five kids died before the age of 5. apnews.com/article/vacc...
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, about Stephen Miran's nomination to the Fed and the central bank's independence.
Oren Cass is not worth any attention. Ignore this article, and shame on you NYT.
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
The same organization that gave us Edward R Murrow, William Shirer, Douglas Edwards, Bob Schieffer, Walter Cronkite, Lesley Stahl, Roger Mudd, Dan Rather, Katie Couric, and Scott Pelley is now giving us… Bari fucking Weiss. This is what’s known as the law of diminishing returns.
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
In fewer than five years, Bari Weiss managed to parlay her resignation as an NYT columnist into a massive platform on Substack and then into editorial control of CBS News--making a vast fortune along the way--all off the absurd claim she's being silenced. First ballot hall-of-fame grifter.
oh no
Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials & we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial."
It's Time to Release the Epstein Files. People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Seems that way. They said they know, so why haven't they identified who was on it? Out of respect for their privacy? More likely, they had no clue who or what was on it or where it was headed. All we know is they saw a civilian boat and blew it up and bragged about it. That's just murder.
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Q: On the Venezuela vessel strike, what legal authority were you guys working under? JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
In other words; none.
Love these lines in ruling by federal Judge Burroughs, waving away pretext of fighting antisemitism as reason to cut funding to Harvard. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... H/t @klasfeldreports.com Reminder: Nonstop NYT unsourced stories that Harvard was about to cave.
You beat me to it..
Yes!
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
I wish somebody would ask him to specifically list the "seven" or however many wars he claims to have ended and then hand him a map and ask him to show us on it where the wars were.
More of this.
Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
Vaccines don’t just prevent deadly and dangerous diseases like measles, polio and COVID-19. A new study found that people who got the shingles vaccine had a 20% lower risk of developing dementia. buff.ly/7t67Ceg
Marge has joined the press conference here at the Capitol with massie and Ro Khana The crowd is letting Marge have it. Chants of shame and "this won't save you"
Florida road crews in St. Pete were out at 3 a.m. just to do this
they’re all this guy
😫😭😭
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.
Sing it.
This was, once again, not written by the FF, imho. Very tame. Love to know who is writing.
About to go to bed but the man who ran on "NO NEW WARS" just ordered a lethal military strike on a ship in the Caribbean, alleging it is a "narco terrorist vessel," but of course no regard for Congressional due process, no evidence, & no care for potential civilians. Nothing autocratic about this.😐
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
"But that’s not how MAGA operates. Maybe they want to be hostile to LGBTQ Americans. Or maybe they simply want to not be seen as friendly...Somebody is trying to commandeer the Pulse crosswalk to make a political point. And it’s not the people holding the chalk." www.thebulwark.com/p/desantis-d...
"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex. We spend too much money on defense. Why does it matter which rich people get richer off it?" There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one. (thread)
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
The same group of people and organizations who previously organized #NoKings has scheduled another #NoKings peaceful protest for October 18, 2025!! We are expecting protests in every state and territory!! Mark your calendars now and get ready to protest by the millions!! October 18, 2025!
Trump could’ve intercepted the boat, seized the drugs and imprisoned everyone Instead he approved this Venezuela strike and killed all persons aboard The extrajudicial killing of 11 men and potentially provoking a war with President Maduro is an odd way to campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize
🚨🚨🚨”What we heard today is a cover up. And it is a cover up of epic proportions. A cover up involving the US government, the justice system, rich and powerful individuals… and yes, a cover up by republicans in this chamber.”
The axis of evil ascendant. Thank you, President Trump.
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Historians say it's good to highlight America's founders, but the project takes too narrow a view of history. n.pr/4m0dsAN
(FT) - Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/b86b...
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oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
I seem to remember that there were thriving indigenous communities already here when this white invasion began. Irrelevant, I guess.
Exactly
Well, we all know how intelligent she is…
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
So they re-released most of the same shit they gave the GOP binder crew in February? Color me shocked. Never thought I’d say this, but I’m with Massie. Release the rest of the damn Epstein files, not this cherry-picked bullshit.
I love it when they show they are mental giants
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It’s odd that the president would need to give an Oval Office address about something as arbitrary (albeit idiotic) as moving Space Force or renaming the DoD. I have to assume he’s doing it because he knows the world thinks he’s hiding.
Wow, House Republicans are going to a lot of trouble not to force the release of the real Epstein files. The real files, the ones that we know Donald Trump features in, since FBI agents working at the direction of Bondi and Patel spent a lot of time redacting his name.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
This near-total absence is reason to believe something else: that reporters don’t need to go out looking for attention because Trump already provides it. As long as he does, the public may never know what shape he’s really in, perhaps not until the day he dies. And even then, we may never know.
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The coverup continues. politi.co/45LVjlF
This is how you do it folks: gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...
This is the most important news of the day. Sending Texas guardsmen to Illinois is an intentional, unprecedented provocation. It should be immediately challenged in court. Follow @democracydocket.com for breaking news and updates on this developing story. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I question both the quantity and the quality of these people who supposedly “expressed interest.”
Wasn’t this test aimed at applicants coming from blue states, in particular, California?
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
The asymmetry between the parties is reflected perfectly in these bad-faith dust-ups over TV news editing. CBS edited Harris down for time; here, by contrast, edited out a bunch of defamatory nonsense from Noem. Fox edits down Trump to make him sound sane. Etc. newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Now, the U.S. Space Command will not be fully operational for years because the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama lacks the existing infrastructure already available in Colorado. But Alabama is a GOP-dominant state. So, Trump is catering to his base over national security. Yet again.
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (who’s “ripping apart” CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
Would love to know who is writing the posts like this. Obviously not the FF.
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
OH MY GOD!
Trump on moving Space Command to Alabama from Colorado: They went to all mail-in voting. So they have automatically crooked elections. When a state is for mail-in voting, that means they want dishonest elections. That played a big factor also
You would think, if reporters like Tapper really believed there was a cover up of Biden's infirmities, that they would never ever make that mistake again. And here we are, with the near-total absence of reporting on Trump's infirmities. Always like they don't really believe Biden's were cover up.
And I share it!
NYT found DC arrests were up only 13% over the previous two weeks and that the biggest change has been more arrests for minor infractions like smoking weed in a public place. (This does not include immigration abductions.) (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
“I’m the problem, it’s me.”
The bigger the crosses, the smaller the grasp of reality.