Former whistleblower from TX; resigned as part of a mediated settlement agreement; posted resume which got me a consulting job in DC. Intended to retire back to TX but I ended up buying a lovely rowhouse in 2008 which has allowed me to stay out here.❤️
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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."
variety.com/2025/tv/news... OMG! I can’t wait to see this one!!!
The guy that ordered 8 fighter jets to perform a low altitude fly-over in an effort to drown out Epstein survivors is the same guy who wants you to believe he's innocent.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... “This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition. We all deserve better.” I’ve been saying this for months!!!
Because he lied. And he’s been a habitual liar his entire life. Pretty easy to find lots of evidence of that in about 15 minutes.
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.
Fox refuses to cover what the Epstein victims are saying publicly for the first time, but they are covering military jets flying over them during their press conference.
It sure didn’t take long for Jeanine Pirro to turn the DC US Attorney’s Office into the most incompetent, feckless, and ridiculous prosecutor’s office in the United States.
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.
Rep. Jim McGovern: "Republicans are terrified because the president doesn't want to release all the Epstein files after promising that he would release them during the campaign ... What are they trying to hide?"
Rep. Robert Garcia: "The Attorney General herself has said that President Trump is in the Epstein files."
Why are federal agents covering their face? What are they hiding? Public servants should face the public! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social has a mobile billboard driving around D.C. demanding that federal agents take their masks off. Check it out!
SPOTTED: Mobile billboards driving around D.C. demanding federal agents take their masks off — because public servants should face the public. Go follow @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social!
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) flipped out during an interview with Eric Bolling of Real America's Voice on Wednesday over the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
An appointee of President Donald Trump helped give him ammo to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook based on possibly flimsy mortgage fraud accusations, and Republican senators are expressing reluctance to pursue her removal or appoint a replacement.
"Pentagon officials were still working Wednesday on what legal authority they would tell the public was used to back up the extraordinary strike in international waters." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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jesus christ
You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Retired Green Beret Anthony Aguilar was escorted from the U.S. Senate while yelling that the country was complicit in genocide.
Bless these brave women!
A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.
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"
NEW: @bcfinucane.bsky.social explains the Trump admin’s extraordinary lethal attack on purported Tren de Aragua drug smuggling vessel in international waters off the Venezuela coast–and its vow that it is the start of a campaign–raise significant legal issues. www.justsecurity.org/119982/legal...
It's always a busy news day, but the military attack on an alleged drug smuggling vessel is a very big deal. @bcfinucane.bsky.social breaks down domestic and international law questions here: www.justsecurity.org/119982/legal...
'Eating their own': Lawsuit against Fox News likened to warring 'cannibal tribes'
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⤵️
'Go for it, bug guy': Mockery abounds over Trump's 'audacious' move to tilt election
A Republican measure to censure a Democratic lawmaker targeted with criminal charges by the Trump administration went down in flames after a handful of GOP members of Congress crossed over to vote against it, reported NBC News on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump has shifted his focus from Texas to Missouri in the fight to control the 2026 midterm elections and the House with a new redistricting map targeting the seat of Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) accused President Donald Trump of having dementia because he keeps repeating the same lie over and over again.
The right-wing Newsmax network has filed an antitrust lawsuit against competitor Fox News alleging the media outlet maintained its dominance through an unlawful scheme.
A military flyover arranged by President Donald Trump interrupted a press conference with survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Haley Robson was visibly shaking as she told the story of being one of the many survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy financier arrested for molesting girls and trafficking them.
Jeffrey Epstein's victims have proposed compiling their own list of the late sex offender's associates and alleged co-conspirators.
'Inaccurate': GOP lawmaker calls out Speaker Mike Johnson over Epstein falsehood
A Democratic lawmaker accused House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) of carrying out a coverup of the Jeffrey Epstein case to protect President Donald Trump from accountability.
Republicans face a major test of MAGA's loyalty as they return to Congress with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal remaining in the news cycle.
President Donald Trump's family has invested heavily in crypto ventures during Trump's second term, a move that has alarmed two analysts.
GOP senator’s speech sparks alarm over ‘white nationalist’ overtones: 'Sign of the times'
Comer scolds colleague for demanding Maxwell probe: 'You're mad she exonerated Trump!'
President Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared to suggest in a new interview with Lara Trump on Fox News that the massive tariffs imposed by the administration, far from shrinking the economy, will actually grow it.
Breaking: Peaceful activists, many with disabilities, are being arrested at the Capitol right now. These individuals are putting themselves on the line to do all they can to save healthcare for millions of Americans.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against the anti-immigration group VDARE, saying that the couple who ran the group used donations to fund a medieval-style castle in West Virginia and then moved into it.
I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
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
Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…
The media's basic assumption that crimes only count if they happen in secret has been Trump's saving grace throughout his two terms. He keeps blabbing about them -- here, he's posting a video of a targeted assassination of civilians -- but because he's so brazen they assume it's no big deal.
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.
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
“I refuse to accept this is normal.” - JB Pritzker. Amen, governor. Amen.
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.
Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."
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?"
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
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
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
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."
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Pritzker: "We've gathered information from unauthorized, patriotic officials inside the government and from-sourced reporters about Donald Trump's plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
Bankasy art
‘fingers crossed and icing the old special occasion champagne’😆 “Once I saw he was upright, I quit paying attention”🤣 “…shitty people live forever” I agree that if Trump dies, there are going to be even MORE conspiracy theories! And more than likely MAGAts will blame Democrats like they always do!😡
BREAKING: Judge Breyer rules that President Trump's deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act, says Trump is using military as a "national police force with the president as its chief." Injunction granted. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
That’s because former Fox host Jeanine Pirro was unable to get the grand jury to indict her, which is conveniently left out here.
Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
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BREAKING: The Pentagon has authorized up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. This is a blatant expansion of military power into a civilian judicial process, a dangerous erosion of the separation between the two. Every day, we inch closer to fascism.
President Donald Trump teased a major announcement on Tuesday afternoon, but the Pentagon accidentally spoiled the surprise by posting the news ahead of him—then quickly deleting it.
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
🚨BREAKING: Federal court STRIKES DOWN down new South Dakota law imposing a nine-month deadline to file ballot measures declaring it unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Congrats to Dakotans for Health and their legal team! www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...
MAGA sheriff shakes with rage in rant over 'irritatingly high' ICE care standards
Socialism is alive and well, and it is growing, though maybe not in the way you expect.
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.
The Department of Justice vowed that the U.S. military would "remain in Los Angeles" after a federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump had illegally deployed troops to the city.
NEW: judge box of wine’s office fails to secure yet another indictment from a grand jury. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
A federal judge's order on Tuesday invalidating President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard to keep order in Los Angeles amid protests against his deportation policy has triggered a flurry of legal analysis.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
'Came at a cost': Amy Coney Barrett complains that overturning Roe v Wade spoiled vacation
Lori Chavez-DeRemer: "I was elected as the Labor Secretary for all Americans" (She was not elected)
CARTOON OF THE DAY
New York does not miss. The bleach did it for me. 😭
something something two weeks tremendous never seen anything like it huge many people saying
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
'Not gone away like the speaker hoped': Rogue Republican already has Johnson in corner
The internet burst into speculation late Monday over a White House communication teasing an "announcement" from President Donald Trump to come Tuesday afternoon.
President Donald Trump was dealt another legal loss when a federal judge ruled against his deployment of military troops to Los Angeles.
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
"'You need to say, ‘This is what we think we know, but this may change tomorrow,’ and just be really clear about risk communication,' Daskalakis said. 'You need to approach everything with less confidence and hubris.'" That wasn't enough.