8/ this is the interview. Start just after 32 minutes in youtu.be/Ihy9MssWEkQ?...
8/ this is the interview. Start just after 32 minutes in youtu.be/Ihy9MssWEkQ?...
So I’m pretty sure I remember this right. But in one of those interviews I believe Michael Wolf said that Epstein suspected Trump of dropping a dime on him to the authorities. They got in a dispute over a real estate deal. That was their falling out. Trump was trying to buy an estate that …
As I have said before, they’re gonna get mad because he’s treating friends same as enemies.
Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."
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Blumenthal: They’ve exhausted the 120 days for Alina Habba, and so they’ve tried to make her acting US Attorney. But the statutes simply don’t authorize that. A judge has concluded she is without authority for any of the actions she’s taken. Everything she’s done could be challenged.
> @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Umm … it’s pretty stupid.
Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…
EPSTEIN FILES -an FBI HIGHLY CREDIBLE WHISLE BLOWER - this is insane news
Alright alright alright. @schumer.senate.gov says he’ll force a vote on tariffs amid today’s ABYSMAL jobs report. This will get senate republicans on the record ahead of the midterms so guys like Platner can say “Susan Collins voted to keep tariffs” when he’s campaigning. 1/
Another miserable jobs report. Only 22,000 jobs added, well below expectations of 75,000. Unemployment rate rises to 4.3%. Hope Trump’s new BLS statistician didn’t get too comfortable.
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
Manufacturing again lost jobs last month. Despite presidential promises of a manufacturing renaissance, we have fewer manufacturing jobs today than we did at the start of the pandemic in 2020.
The executive threatening the Fed that it can only remain independent if it makes the choices it wants, is equivalent to eliminating Fed independence.
CNN: When the jobs report comes out, are you going to believe the numbers? REP. RANDY FINE: Um, I'm going to look at the numbers. Look, the people who put these numbers together are human & fallible and make mistakes C: It wasn't that they make mistakes F: Numbers always tend to benefit the left
In a marathon hearing on Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee, RFK Jr. faced a barrage of questions from senators who were outraged by his recent actions. In some cases, Kennedy appeared to promote flat-out lies.
First Bernie Sanders. Then CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down. Kennedy has fired thousands of HHS workers, boosted unproven treatments for measles while undermining vaccines, backed Medicaid cuts, fired former CDC Director Susan Monarez...
So much greatness.
BRUTAL JOBS REPORT: Just 22,000 jobs added in August. Unemployment rises to 4.3%. Broader jobless rate jumps to 8.1%. Slowest 4-month growth since 2020. Plus, downward revisions for June and July of -21,000. Yikes.
Bought! They are all bought! 😡
Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in
Woman w no criminal history detained by ICE after a routine check-in discovered she was pregnant and had a miscarriage while in custody. Judge ordered her released yesterday, citing apparent due process violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…
President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to let him fire the only remaining Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission
BREAKING: The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to fast track its appeal — skipping the DC Circuit — in a case over Trump's power to fire an FTC commissioner at will, an action directly in conflict with a 90-year-old Supreme Court precedent.
NEWS: A 2-1 panel of the 11th Circuit has stayed the order to shut down “Alligator Alcatraz,” keeping the it operational while appeals proceed.
@hassan.senate.gov: The vaccine works, and it has saved millions of lives. Your own process, on the other hand, has not been transparent. You repeatedly choose to ignore data because it doesn't match your preconceived notions and lies.
Daskalakis: There is a program called Vaccines for Children. It is the safety-net program that gets vaccines to kids. Over 50% of kids in the U.S. get their vaccines through this. If the ACIP says this vaccine should not be given to six-month-olds through 12-year-olds, the VFC won’t buy it
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Jim_Writes; Saw this today, is it correct information? JUST IN: The United States now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021.
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...
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."
Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."
Wyden on RFK Jr: "This committee's unwillingness to swear in this witness is basically a message that it is acceptable to lie to the Senate Finance Committee about hugely important questions like vaccines."
WATCH — Sen. @ossoff.senate.gov : "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes.” He adds that RFK JR. must resign.
Ossoff: Absolutely RFK JR should resign. He should have never been confirmed to begin with. He is utterly unqualified. This is someone who has embraced every piece of quackery and pseudoscience that he’s come across.
Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"
Marjorie Taylor Greene said today that she's willing to take advantage of a constitutional immunity rule to out sex offenders from Epstein's trafficking ring.
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Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
US stocks vs. rest of the world: worst underperformance since 2009. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social @dailychartbook.bsky.social
For the sixth month in a row, U.S. manufacturing activity shrank in August. One manufacturer said they’re just trying to survive. Didn’t the President say his tariffs would bring those jobs back to America and boost manufacturing? finance.yahoo.com/news/us-manu...
RFK JR: It's going to have a it's going to it's going to be the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health care in American history. SANDERS: You know why? Because you're cutting $150 billion for rural hospitals. You're putting $50 billion back. That's not an infusion.
…thus eliminating the need for a malaria vaccine?  Was this his plan all along?
Meanwhile, back in reality…
PULTE: Public officials shouldn't be exempt from scrutiny SORKIN: Speaking of that, Ken Paxton has at least 3 examples of alleged mortgage fraud. Are you looking at that? PULTE: Unless it's been made public, I'm not going to comment on any specific situation S: Why wouldn't you make it public?
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society
BREAKING: A federal judge reverses the Trump administration's cut of billions of dollars to Harvard University.
Weeks after a gunman opened fire on the CDC, House GOP 2026 budget proposes a ban on federally-funded research aimed at developing policies to prevent gun violence. The research resumed in 2020 after a two-decade freeze.
A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."
De Georgiou: And to be clear, the only motive for opposing this bill would be to conceal wrongdoing. You have a choice: stand with the truth or with the lies that have protected predators for decades.
National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.
military flyovers disrupt the Epstein victim press conference
Unfit.
“Seven hours of commercial-free football starts now!” Not so fast … “NFL RedZone” host Scott Hanson confirmed during an appearance on the “Pat McAfee Show” that RedZone will feature commercials in some capacity. Why now? @richarddeitsch.bsky.social explains ⤵️
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
🚨Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so. This will not only cause outbreaks in Florida, but it will spread to each and every state in our country and internationally. A horror film plot. apple.news/AljZtI59wQ8S...
Verizon expects to pay $2 BILLION less in taxes next year. Lumen Tech has requested a $400 MILLION tax refund. Diamondback Energy is projecting its cash tax rate to drop by 4%. That's billions less for America. And their CEOs and shareholders will keep it all. Great.
Neguse: Facts matter. Under President Trump, Americans are paying more for their electricity than ever before. So spare us lectures about energy costs as Republicans preside over an economy over which everything is getting more expensive.
You can read the letter here: www.savehhs.org The scale of public dissent from federal employees is extraordinary, even as the threats against them are unprecedented. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/your-gover...
Rather than uphold free expression & human rights against tyrants in Russia, China, Pakistan & North Korea, the GOP has called a hearing on free speech to attack our democratic allies in Europe! To the world's dictators & autocrats, have no fear: Trump & House Republicans have got your back.
Epstein survivor Marina Lacerda: "The worst part is that the government is still in possession right now of documents & information that could help me remember and get over all of this maybe, and help me heal. They have documents w/ my name on them that were confiscated from Jeffrey Epstein's house"
McGovern: "You guys think you work for Trump ... Let me repeat -- every single Republican on the Rules Committee voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every single one. We heard last night that all Republicans want full transparency. But that's just not true."
Florida moves to end vaccine mandates to attend school, the first state to do so. So many own goals across America right now. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
DeSantis “also announced the creation of a commission to align Florida with goals laid out by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. .. “.. The commission will be headed by Casey DeSantis, the governor’s wife.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
🚨Governor Pritzker is calling Stephen Miller OUT! 👏🏻The👏🏻Cruelty👏🏻is👏🏻the📌
Sara Eisen, responding to Former NY Fed president Bill Dudley's view on tariffs: "Partisan view...maybe...I would say...on that." (This is not a deepfake.)
"That same calm [Maxwell]voice was there same calm, manipulative coercive voice was the same I heard when she ... [recruited] me. her voice that day, was the same voice that sent me off to a monster. NOTHING can be believed from what she says: #Epstein survivor #EpsteinFiles
“.. Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)” (via @yarotrof.bsky.social)
A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.
Epstein survivor: Epstein surrounded himself with the most powerful leaders of the world. He bragged about his powerful friends, including our current president, Donald Trump. It was his biggest brag, actually.
Host: There are new calls this morning for RFK Jr.'s resignation, and those calls coming from inside HHS itself. More than 1,000 current and former HHS workers are making this demand in a letter released this morning. They say his leadership has "put the health of all Americans at risk"
Guess which network is ignoring the survivors? Fox isn’t news.
Attorney Brad Edwards, who is representing Epstein survivors, has accused Trump of an "about-face" on the release of Epstein case files. And Edwards blasts Trump for referring to the matter as a hoax ===>
Reporter: What is your message to President Trump? Epstein Survivor: Listen, I don't want to send a direct message to him. I'm already scared enough. Just pass the vote. Listen to us. This is not a hoax. It’s not going to go away
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"
BREAKING: President Donald Trump said he will order federal law enforcement intervention in Chicago and Baltimore, despite local opposition.
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, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Why won’t Speaker Mike Johnson release the Epstein files?
REP. MCGOVERN: “What’s going on is Republicans are terrified — And I think we all know why. The president doesn’t want to release all the files.”
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
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Today's ISM survey commentary is fun: "Tariffs continue to wreak havoc" "There is absolutely no activity in the transportation equipment industry. This is 100 percent attributable to current tariff policy. "We are also in stagflation: Prices are up due to material tariffs, but volume is way off.”
Meiselas: Xi Jinping and Modi and Putin and all these world leaders are gathering in China, and they're laughing. You know when Donald Trump says the world was laughing at us — the world was not laughing at us before. The world is quite literally laughing at us right now.
Just in case you forgot. You wanted to go to America right. For what ever reason. So not only booking the trip and accommodation. When you land in America. You have to pay an extra $250US for the privilige. And then. They check your phone.
“.. There was a period of time, briefly, where the middle-income consumer looked like they were being dragged up by all that was going well in the world. .. Then things fell off a cliff.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
it's beginning to feel a lot like 1929 www.axios.com/2025/09/02/a...
#Seaweed farms are a dual solution for climate change & sustainable energy. - don't require freshwater, fertilizer, or arable land to grow, making it one of the most eco-friendly resources - naturally absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis helping 1/...
This is not normal. Japan is continuing its run of astonishing temperature records. The country has just had its hottest summer for the third year in a row, and by a substantial margin. Data: JMA
The White House account on X boasts of “$8 trillion in tariff revenue.” 🤡
Hours after trying to assassinate the EU Commission president, Russia tried to assassinate Germany’s military's inspector general, Carsten Breue, the highest-ranking general in the Bundeswehr. His plane was also jammed once over the Baltic Sea and once over Lithuania.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.