Acosta was reportedly told that Epstein "belongs to intelligence" and to stand down. Was he really told that? By whom? That's what we need to find out today. Very interesting that this is a closed-door hearing... gift link: wapo.st/3Vpo41r
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Acosta was reportedly told that Epstein "belongs to intelligence" and to stand down. Was he really told that? By whom? That's what we need to find out today. Very interesting that this is a closed-door hearing... gift link: wapo.st/3Vpo41r
He would be crazy to go back to ABC!! I say, sue them. Lawyers, please line up to offer your pro-bono services to Kimmel as you will actually be representing each and every one of us. It is the bellwether.
Thanks, John Roberts.
Donald Trump’s attacks on our First Amendment rights do not stop. Now, he would “have no problem” removing Pride flags from PRIVATE property in occupied D.C. We are undeterred by his threats. Our LGBTQ+ community will not bow to a wannabe king. https://bit.ly/42EiDQ5
Pa.'s 2 senators, including alleged Dem Fetterman, picked the wrong week to tell Americans not to talk about fascism, Hitler The shredding of the 1st Amendment that led to gov't coercion to silence Jimmy Kimmel is fast becoming our own Reichstag fire My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jimm...
It’s long past time for Donald Trump to release the Epstein files. Now, there’s another layer that you may not know about Epstein. And if Republicans weren’t scared, Congress could do something about it. Here’s how: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDrM...
BREAKING: Judge Kelly (Trump appointee) bars the Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan kids in HHS custody, finding the claim they were “reunifying” kids with their parents “crumbled like a house of cards” upon review. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
Trump: "The Russia situation -- I hope we're gonna have some good news for you coming up. But again, it doesn't affect the United States."
If Biden made a gaffe this egregious and embarrassing it would be front page news in the New York Times. But now it's just Trump being Trump!
📌 Thank You ♥️ Adam Schiff Grateful for these words ⬇️ #AdamSchiff #Democray 🐥
John White, a Florida Trump supporter who accused Biden voters of being pedophiles, has been arrested for molesting a 5-year-old child. Trump clearly attracts only the best people. 😢
I've known Disney chairman Bob Iger since 1979. He's now made it official: he's a whore
Notably, a current FBI website — with a document from the first Trump admin — highlights the limitations on what is done as to “domestic terrorism.” The focus, it says, is on “‘violent extremism,’ because the underlying ideology itself and the advocacy of such beliefs is not prohibited by US law.”
From the Man Show to being banned by weak sauce bros too afraid of rubbing daddy Trump the wrong way. A remarkable arc of a career in media
What Kimmel said wasn't about Charlie Kirk, it was about MAGA and Donald Trump. He was taken off the air because Donald's FCC chair, Brendan Carr, threatened ABC after Kimmel criticized the fragile, petty tyrant in the White House.
MAGA has now shifted into a full cancel culture movement. ABC announced it is pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s show indefinitely after backlash over his comments on the motives of the man who shot Charlie Kirk.
Tragedy struck York County, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday afternoon when a gunman opened fire on police serving a warrant, killing three officers and critically injuring two others before turning the gun on himself.Officials called it one of the darkest days for law enforcement in the region’s history.
Erase history. Erase facts. Erase people. That is what this administration is about. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
The Treasury Secretary has come under scrutiny over home-loan filings.
It’s crucial to remember-Susan Monarez was appointed CDC Director by Trump She’s not a Democrat they can claim has some agenda She’s MAGA And she’s saying that RFK, Jr is ignoring science about vaccines Which will cause more epidemics like the measles outbreak in Texas So more children will die
"I thought it was a gun but it happened to be a flag and he just set it on that fence and started yelling out some words and just took off," according to a witness. www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
WOW: Trump's Secty of Treasury Scott Bessent made mortgage claims similar to ones Trump cited to try to fire Fed’s Cook. He will be charged and prosecuted, right? Nah Trump's DOJ ONLY Prosecutes Democrats. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/b...
REPUBLICAN REP. MASSIE: "If you were willing to meet with social media influencers who stood to benefit from the sensational and sad stories of these victims, will you meet with the victims as well?" PATEL: “….” (From @bluegeorgia.bsky.social )
It’s now crystal clear that Kash Patel is part of the Epstein files cover-up.
While more and more Americans are going hungry, grocery store executives are celebrating their sales. Trump’s policies have left millions without enough food and made it dangerous for many to ask for help. From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social: trib.al/SKxVomn
Every appointed member of the Trump administration lacks transparency. This is absolutely disgraceful.
Come on, we won't have to keep it out of an appropriations package because PFOTUS will SQUEEZE them to "donate" a gold carriage to the USA for him - if they want a tariff deal.
This one just cuts deep. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Kash Patel trying to manage the Epstein story.
Two Trump allies are among the investors reportedly nearing a deal to acquire TikTok.
The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 230+ Venezuelan immigrants it sent to El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S. before it labeled them as terrorists and deported them, according to Homeland Security data. (Published May)
What kind of country are we when the VP threatens retribution on citizens of the opposing political party?
We haven’t forgotten about the Epstein files. This isn’t going away, Donald. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TdD8bmSU-g
did it explode like actual spacex?
FOR THE RECORD: It was the Bush administration that gave Epstein that soft deal in 2008. Obama wasn't president until January 2009.
We have the Epstein list > The list is on my desk > The list does not exist > Obama made the list > Trump was an FBI informant > The list is irrelevant > There is no Epstein list
Under Donald Trump’s economy: Coffee is up 26% Beef is up 14% Oranges are up 17% Bananas are up 6% Chicken is up 6% Chocolate Chip Cookies are up 5% Potato Chips are up 4% Milk is up 4% But average worker pay is only up 2% Trumpflation is eating up your paycheck.
NPR wants to hear from listeners whose lives have changed due to an increase in ICE operations, throughout the country.
OMB head Russ Vought, the lead author of Project 2025, is trying to hide how the government spends your taxes so that the agency can steal billions. Congresswoman @delauro.house.gov demands transparency: trib.al/S2luepM
Ever since Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 election, I have warned that he would use every tool and level of government to target his political opponents. Now it is happening. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...
RFK Jr.'s hand-picked panel of vaccine advisors is expected to vote to delay the hepatitis B shot for newborns. Doctors warn that could fuel a return of a disease virtually eradicated in U.S. kids.
A ‘Broken’ Trust: F.B.I. Agents Fired by Patel Speak Out www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...
#magadidthis www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
NEW: Chutkan called the Trump administration 'cavalier' about the fact that it may have sent five men to be persecuted and killed and said it may have been the Trump administration's goal. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
North America’s first battery-grade cobalt refinery is proposed—in Canada [via @climatedesk.org]
Today is #NationalVoterRegistrationDay, a great reminder to check your registration status or register to vote if you haven't yet. It's quick, easy & essential for participating in our democracy. Your vote is YOUR VOICE! Visit vote.pa.gov for more info on participating in our upcoming election!
This is political violence
One can only hope they are allowed to unfurl it where he and Melania can view it, well, and the world...
I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
He’s Trump’s Goebbles.
A Black student from Grenada, Trey Reed, was found dead hanging from a tree AG Delta State University in Mississippi. Authorities say "no foul play suspected" but that seems highly doubtful. www.wapt.com/article/delt...
They had kids, too.
SPECIAL REPORT: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity necessary to stop the spread of viruses that had once receded into the past, a six-month NBC News investigation in collaboration with scientists at Stanford University finds.
The Department of Health and Human Services has kept dozens of officials on administrative leave since the winter or spring, without explanation or a sense of when or how their status might change. Katherine J. Wu reports:
JUST IN: Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook can continue to serve as President Trump's attempt to fire her is litigated, an appeals court ruled.
Reuters: U.S. APPEALS COURT DECLINES TO ALLOW TRUMP TO REMOVE FEDERAL RESERVE GOVERNOR LISA COOK
“We can model what healing and reconciliation looks because unfortunately, violence does happen, and when it does happen, we have a choice to perpetuate violence … or to actually focus on healing and reconciliation.” -- Leon Ford, shot 5x by police at traffic stop triblive.com/local/new-st...
Oct. 19 to 25, Stand For All hosting #Pittsburgh 's first “United Against Hate Week,” which will have a range of programs across the community, educational programs, celebrations of our diversity, ways to better understand hate and bias, and ways to learn how to respond. triblive.com/local/new-st...
Just for some context, it looks like this was a speech that was already on the Governor's calendar for several weeks. It's a keynote address at the Eradicate Hate Global Summit, an annual event that was established after the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue.
Anti-hate prevention alliance, Stand for All Pittsburgh, announces its launch at the Eradicate Hate Summit
Israeli Army Raids Home of Oscar-Winning Filmmaker Basel Adra
The Hortmans weren't even important enough to Trump for him to bother making a condolence phone call about, and now he's forgotten all about them. Or he's lying, as usual.🤷♀️
SICK.
truth is now “corrosive ideology”
(Reuters) - The property tax authority in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook hasn’t broken rules for tax breaks on a home there that Cook declared her primary residence. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...
“She had her own point of view, her own sense of style, her own way of being. She didn't wait for permission,” “And she really taught us to show up exactly as you are.” Harper Moyski, 10, was remembered as a fierce, curious, and funny child who “didn't water herself down." ❤️➡️ msft.it/6189slIUW?ut...
As are we, his constituents.
Fetterman will not run next time. If he does, he will not run as a Democrat. That's just my feel for it.
I would love to hear Bernie comment on this.
I can imagine how the "old" or the "real" or the "fake" Fetterman would have felt if the National Guard were sent into Braddock when he was mayor or even when he was Lt. Governor....
I've been wondering if the former Fetterman (pre stroke) was actually a personality caused by a formenting brain/mental disorder. Now that he is medicated for.. whatever... his brain has normalized into this, his real personality.
Bravo Ms. Comey!!! Her firing was totally unjust and illegal. And -- certainly the underhanded reason of the PFOTUS is that she prosecuted the pedophiles Epstein and Maxwell. Let's make sure we keep that in the news too!! Fired the person who put them away... hhmm.
This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.
California is devising a plan to create their own National Institutes of Health to counter federal cuts to science research.
A nonprofit dedicated to preserving European artworks and cultural treasures that were looted during World War II said it had stopped the public sale of two 17th century paintings that were stolen from a Jewish family by the Nazis.
Reachs down. Pulls a ridiculous number out of his arse.
Tell Congress to stop being accomplices to Jeffrey Epstein
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Right?????
Billion dollar bailouts ahead.
The Republican Party may regret some of the efforts it undertook to install Trump-aligned officials, according to a new editorial.
💰 Trump’s $200M “dream ballroom” at the White House is already ballooning in size — from 90,000 to potentially 125,000 sq. ft. Critics say it’s Mar-a-Lago meets Washington. 🏛️✨
Why won't any of the sports teams honoring Charlie Kirk play some clips of him? Please show us what you are celebrating. Don't be shy about it. Show us what made him so great. Play his greatest hits.
I’m wondering whether Charlie Kirk made any public statement about the assassination of Democratic legislator Melissa Hortman and her husband. I can’t find any evidence that he condemned her killing. If someone is aware that Kirk made such a statement, please let me know.
The blast radius of that Georgia raid has already reached Tennessee
Oh you don’t say
Buttigieg: "We are not getting the leadership we need to bring this country together from the White House ... in order to deprive political violence of its power, we have to reject anyone who would try to exploit political violence. The response to this cannot be for the government to crack down."
American soybean farmers don’t have a single order from China as they head into harvest season. China usually buys 25% of the entire crop. Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.
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Last week a teenager radicalized by white supremacists online shot people at school--but media has chosen to ignore the cause. By doing that they are not only engaging in journalistic malpractice—they are making us less safe as a nation. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/a-teenager...
I both can and cannot believe that of all the things we sent them in a lengthy comment request, this is what he/they latch on to
Oh my God, take a look at him! Of course he's scared off foreign companies, and foreign visitors, and foreign students - all who spent money previously.... economy in the ditch.
'He becomes enraged': Trump insiders spill about Stephen Miller 'making them cry at work'... a mentally unstable person is running the country instead of the mentally unstable person voters elected... www.rawstory.com/trump-stephe...