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Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
California stepping up.
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they won’t.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
CHICAGO…
“ILLEGALS” MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. He’s a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
If only there was an American legislative body that could facilitate collaboration with European countries to stop the killing in Ukraine. And imagine what else we could do if that same American legislative body crawled out of Bibi's backside long enough to stop the killing in Gaza, too.
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When Miller says "public health" he really means eugenics.
He has confused the court decision with RFK Jr. Bobby Kennedy is who will destroy the US.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
Angus: I’m saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. I’ll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about what’s happening in a practical way. They give facts.
Yeah, you should.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)
Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.
You're not going to believe this but Susan Collins is "extremely alarmed"
Q: “I've seen a lot of calls for action…One that I've seen on the right actually calls for the FBI to institute a new class of domestic terrorism that involves trans ideology. Is that something that the administration would support?” Leavitt: “I would have to check on that.”
The fallout from the Wired article reinforces the MAGA refrain that liberals are pearl clutching snowflakes. It has turned into an influencer purity pissing contest ignited by those who don't make bank on the apps. We don't have time for this nonsense.
Let’s talk about the misinformation campaign in a recent Wired article. Let me know if you have any questions!
It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
Firing RFK Jr would unburden a lot of overworked mitochondria in this country
BREAKING: The California Supreme Court rejects Republicans’ bid to block state officials from putting a redistricting measure aimed at countering Texas’ gerrymander on the November ballot. This marks the second GOP challenge to the state’s redistricting to be thrown out in one week.
NEW: A federal grand jury has REFUSED to indict sandwich guy! I imagine the DoJ will keep trying. They have two weeks, at which point they’ll have to drop the charges or reduce it to a misdemeanor. 🥪 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
As HRC National Press Secretary @brandonwolf.bsky.social said, there is nothing “political” about our community — period. Anti-LGBTQ+ politicians want to erase our existence, our history, and our pain — but we’re never going to stop fighting for equality. We’re not going anywhere. 🎥: @cnn.com
My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Trump’s lawsuit against Maryland judges was ridiculous from the start. Now a Trump-appointed judge is shutting it down — and rightfully calling his attacks on our independent judiciary ‘potentially calamitous.’ A win for the rule of law.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is trying to illegally fire her. Your words shape reality — get it right.
JUST IN: A federal appeals court concludes that discarding mail ballots in misdated or undated envelopes violates the Constitution.
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
This is 100% correct.
I want this to be true but I don't think it is. Please fact check.
In addition to creating a joyous event, Zohran Mamdani just showed the stupidity of Fox News's "Crime is so bad in New York City, people are afraid to go out in the street or take the subway!!!"
F*ck‼️ Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
Has the @wsj.com admitted its source for the Epstein stories was Gislaine Maxwell yet? The leaks stopped after she got her sex offender status waived and she was moved to club fed after meeting with Trump’s fixer Todd Blanche.
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The Republican Party is just one big child sex trafficking and sexual abuse ring at this point
Nichols: Even though these guys come across as clowns, they're clowns with flamethrowers.. They have the machinery of government behind them. These are people that normally would be struggling to hold on to middle management jobs in a department store somewhere
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
The most impressive thing about this campaign is how *creative* they are. They’re trying new stuff! Multiple times during the last few months I’ve thought “wow, I’ve never seen a campaign do that.” Much more of that needed everywhere.
By continuing to provide weapons to Israel — and bolstering the profits of America's military contractors — the U.S. is complicit in the genocide unfolding in Gaza. There is no moral justification in wreaking vengeance on innocent women, men, and children. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
WATCH: Ghislaine Maxwell says Trump was "never inappropriate with anybody in the times I was with him." In the same interview, she says she never saw Jeffrey Epstein engage in "unconsensual" behavior.
Despite Trump's efforts to defy our Constitution, the courts are upholding Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s due process rights. Following their ruling I’m glad he’s finally returning to MD. He must be allowed to continue to assert his rights because when one person’s rights are denied, EVERYONE’S are at risk.
The Blanche/Maxwell transcript is a red herring. A desperate, scripted dialogue.
ICE, DC Police, Park Police, DHS, and HSI brutally arrested a man who refused to provide identification after being stopped for eating in public. Goons attempted to stop community members from recording his injuries during the incident.
Let us not forget that Maxwell is guilty of trafficking and criminally sexually assaulting children. She has also been convicted of lying under oath. NOTHING she says should be believed. Nothing.
Taking the old white cracker out of the logo really has them shook.
I read somewhere, if marriage benefited women, it would have been taken away from us by now.
You *know* if everything that happened with Texas, FEMA, and federal disaster relief had happened under Obama instead of Trump and Noem, people would be saying *Obama killed those Texan girls.* Yet under this administration, the story vanished.
Continuing from the last post, Judge Berman pointed out that the Trump administration already hold the complete Epstein files and could release them whenever they choose.
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That's probably part of the plan.
I was managing a bookstore when The Satanic Verses was published. Stevens endorsed Khomeini's fatwa against the book's author, prompting zealots to threaten 19 yr old me (and the store employees) with death for selling the book. He isn't the man of peace he claims to be.
Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's Dana Perino melting down over his tweets:
Punks not dead.
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
On #NationalAviationDay, just a reminder that Trump appears in the Epstein flight logs multiple times.
“The White House: Come for the lack of diplomacy, stay for the crass old man droning about nonsense while hawking cheap ball caps that say stupid things.”
It's more than that. Putin surely told Trump to do away with paper ballots as a means to manipulate elections. Trump can't, but he still has to go through the motions to placate Putin.
Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.
IMO, we shouldn't stop at the top 30. Can we oust all of Congress and just start fresh?
Bill Barr's father hired Epstein as a math teacher for teens even though Epstein was not qualified. Epstein was fired for inappropriate behavior.
WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
Can’t wait for @jaketapper.bsky.social’s book about this
Donald doesn't care about the lives of Ukrainians or their kidnapped children. It is clear that he only cares about being seen as an incompetent negotiator in Alaska. Good. Because he *was* an incompetent negotiator in Alaska (and everywhere else). I'm glad this is bothering him so much.
The war will be against "the enemy from within," and it will be waged with his 10,000 new ICE gestapo brownshirts. We have GOT to flip congress in 2026 and stop him.
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege. www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...
Doocy: "Are you prepared to keep sending Ukrainian troops to their death for another couple years, or are you going to agree to redraw the map?" Zelensky: "We live under each day attacks...We need to stop this war to stop Russia. We need the support of American and European partners."
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Why does he keep saying he’s ended six wars? What the hell is he talking about?
NEWS: Far-right MAGA network Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 MILLION to settle a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over 2020 election lies LINK: meidasnews.com/news/newsmax...
Brian Glenn: President Zelenskyy, you look fabulous in that suit Zelenskyy: You are in the same suit. I changed, you did not.
No one can convince me these masked “federal agents” aren’t white supremacists having a field day.
Trump is willing to cut Medicaid but not his golf trips
I am all for more women in leadership roles but don't look away from the women who are Epstein-complicit. Ghislaine Maxwell is the most notorious living sexual abuser of children. There are more women who know the depravity of the men who paid to abuse little girls but remain silent.
Life comes at you fast
Folks keep talking about the parallels between real life and The Handmaid’s Tale. Here’s another one: they seized Washington, DC, and the seat of American power collapsed overnight into authoritarian rule.
This wasn’t just a security breach, documents obtained by NPR from a hotel guest who found them on a printer revealed something even more disturbing: a planned luncheon in honor of Vladimir Putin. The menu literally read, “In honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.”
Oh my God
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Wake the fuck up to what's going on in this country... We're going to put everything on the damn line... People haven't given up yet. We're going to do this. We can win this November. We can win next November, and then we can get this country back on track."
Welker plays Rubio a clip of him saying in 2022 that "you can't cut deals with guys" like Putin 😬
Angele 