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Joseph Schmitt, Acting Deputy Chief of Office of Enforcement Operations, of the DOJ was caught on a hot mic 🔥🎤 “They’ll redact every Republican or conservative in those files and leave all the liberal, Democrat people in those files.” RELEASE ALL THE FILES—UNREDACTED‼️ The victims deserve justice!
DOJ does damage control as staffer admits Republicans will be redacted from Epstein files www.rawstory.com/doj-epstein-...
This move by the Trump administration is an overtly discriminatory civil rights violation. Trans people have the same legal rights as other Americans — end of story. There are lots of good reasons to keep certain people from owning guns. Being trans isn't one of them. https://cnn.it/4niJnxG
Nobody who voted to confirm RFK is fit to hold public office
Mullin doesn't know nor can he recite the scientific method. He's not a scientist. He's not a physician. He has no scientific background. He has an associate degree in construction technology – and he's the only currently serving senator without at least a bachelor's degree. Completely unqualified.
Has the US ever had as dumb a president? Who does not understand that tariffs are taxes? Who does not understand that trade wars are a form of war? Who does not understand that the undermining of the Federal Reserve boost inflation? Etc.
Soybeans are collapsing because China isn’t buying them. The farm economy is in deep trouble. Because of our needless trade war that we are clearly losing. Maybe farmers will wake up
Baltimore Museum of Art to exhibit Amy Sherald exhibit that she pulled from the National Portrait Gallery, saying that museum officials had tried to censor her work. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Senator Sanders and Warren gave it to him good. He is a straight up liar. Sen Warren said you are stopping people from getting the Covid vax from the pharmacies and he sat there and lied and said we could get it!! LIAR. Not in NV!!!
RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.
I guess he wants another Gilded Age when-in the 19th C-1/10 deaths were from TB. 7.3K from whooping cough. 50K per yr of cholera. 3/10 people who caught smallpox-died. Yellow Fever killed 9% of Philidelphia's population. And who can forget Typhoid epidemics? Guess what-it's making a comeback!
democide intentional killing of ppl by their own government,such as mass murder, genocide, deliberate withholding of aid Example Many experts believe that the number is actually much higher, that Trump & the other members of his regime are guilty of democide. www.dictionary.com/browse/democ...
To say that deranged chaos agent RKF Jr is simply politicizing HHS and public health is a vastly gross understatement, he’s literally bringing back dangerous deadly diseases to deliberately sicken the country and kill off many vulnerable citizens, he’s committing murder.
Musk
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Release The Epstein Autopsy
LA City Attorney: Businesses are empty and shuttered. The city’s law enforcement personnel have received countless 911 calls about what, for all intents and purposes, looks like a kidnapping. That’s what it looks like — individuals who will not identify themselves.
I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter
an @lataco.bsky.social x @msnbc.com crossover is something I've been wanting to make happen for months. so much respect and admiration for what @eltragon.bsky.social and the team have been doing all summer documenting ICE raids in L.A. honored to have him on while I'm filling in for Steph this week.
Nory Sontay Ramos was a thriving high school student in L.A. until she and her mom were deported by the Trump administration in July. For @msnbc.com, we visited her in Guatemala as she tries to graduate remotely while hiding from the same gang they fled years ago. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...
Are you doing a book tour? I really want a signed copy!
FIRESTORM — my new book about covering the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, the extraordinary people I met, and what I learned — is available to *pre-order on sale* from @barnesandnoble.com until Friday here: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/firestorm-...
The dogs, big bro and little bit. Moyan poodles are the best.
The dog.
Florida man appoints himself Chair of the 2028 Olympics! Who does that???
A lawsuit filed by the NAACP Wednesday seeks to stop Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe’s (R) special legislative session, calling his attempt to redraw maps and rewrite the ballot initiative process an unconstitutional power grab that threatens democracy in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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.
"Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know were regularly in the Epstein world. And it will be done by survivors – and for survivors. No one else is involved. ...Because history is watching – and so are the women who will come after us." Epstein survivor
RESIGN. open.substack.com/pub/closerto...
Support for vaccinating kids against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year We are getting dumber as a society
AOC: Millionaires are very overrepresented in congress… If we want a congress that reflects the actual country we seek to represent and fight for, we need to have working class people who work here
Notice ICE recruits aren’t hiding their faces. Disgraceful way to make a living! We’ve got money to hand ICE fat salaries, signing bonuses, even student loan forgiveness (no college degree required). But we can’t afford to pay teachers, fund better healthcare, or keep Social Security alive.
Today I got to pet a corgi puppy so that was good at least
Some happy news! I am the 2025 UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award winner! Can the person who nominated me please identify themselves?? I want to thank you! alumni.ucsc.edu/events-progr...
Google won’t be forced to sell its Chrome browser and can keep paying companies to keep its search engine as the default on smartphones, thanks to a federal ruling. In other words? Google gets to remain a monopoly and keep its harmful, anti-competitive practices. Shameful.
Judge Burroughs to SCOTUS, run through a translator: "Bitch this is my clerks' fifth 80 page decision in the last two weeks trying to clean up the mess you made."
"Nigel Farage, what will you do when you meet in private with Donald Trump? [beat] It's adorable that you think you'll have to open that wide."
Newsmax files an antitrust lawsuit against Fox News.
This might be the stupidest thing Florida has done. Let’s go ahead and put all children at risk. Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Alphabet's stock climbs after judge rules Google won't be forced to sell Chrome
Not a hoax‼️ Why is Trump still blocking the release of the Epstein files? He gave Ghislaine Maxwell a voice before he gave one to the victims she groomed. “Her voice was elevated way before our voice was elevated here today…the same voice that sent me off to a monster.” - survivor Teresa Helm
EXCLUSIVE: Ansel Adams’ series of Stanford photographs was never recorded in his otherwise meticulous photo log and fell into deep obscurity, never-before-seen by the general public and unknown to even his biographers and archivists. Until now. via @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
ICYMI: New public records obtained by BikeLoud PDX reveal that PBOT engineering staff were never comfortable with a plan to remove diverters at NW Everett and 20th. But someone in "executive leadership" decided to ram the plan through anyway. bikeportland.org/2025/09/02/c...
Follow the money on this scam. Miles and miles of prime oceanfront real estate between SD and LA. I’m surprised it took him this long to cook up something on it.
You cannot “rebrand” crap.
The fact that the Epstein survivors had to give a press conference outside – and not in the halls of congress, shows you exactly who is guilty AF and the power they are wielding to try and silence the victims.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ll always see Dr. Fauci as a national treasure as well as an American hero whilst I see deranged chaos agent RFK Jr as an unqualified dirty piece of shit charlatan as well as a disgusting murderer.
Rand Paul: "It might be ironic if in the end the protectionist flavor of the day - the tariffs we're putting on - brought together our enemies & ultimately led to the collapse of the reserve currency of the world... if you put a 50% tariff on Indian goods, India will become closer to China & Russia"
This weekend I left my wallet at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social at a sold-out event, second-largest neighborhood in the city by population, not far from Wrigley Field. It got turned in. No one compromised my cards. This is not a crime-infested hellhole that requires federal assistance.
Rubber souls
This is a private museum. This is a choice by their Board and funders? The textbooks are still pretty weak in truthfully describing Japanese Internment. Now it’s more steps backwards. Publishers like HOLT need to make their products palatable to right wing school boards to sell books/online content.
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
The strike on a Venezuelan vessel was nothing less than extrajudicial mass murder and an act of war, whether or not it was carrying drugs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8uJ...
RFK Jr. will face "hard questions" over CDC shakeup, according to Thune. The Senate majority leader expressed frustration over the firings of recently confirmed officials.
Losers then, losers now.
24 hours on the Hinge that’s gonna open the door to my love life…maybe. Watch now on Kathy Griffin: Talk Your Head Off on YouTube!
After nineteen years, I am living near the ocean once again, and it feels like the cancellation of a debt
IT’S HAPPENING
jesus christ
On this afternoon’s bike ride:
Florida needs to pay
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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...
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.
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."
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.
Joining @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com, Epstein survivor Jena-Lisa Jones reacts to Donald Trump calling the Epstein scandal a "hoax," saying "I voted for him. I voted for Trump ... he's supposed to protect us." youtu.be/lZtsyPBMXGo?...
really appreciate that JB Pritzker's response to Ted Cruz saying 'you're fat' was like 'and you're a sorry excuse for a public servant, so.'
The Russian influence/infiltration runs deep and wide on this planet. The USA is SO compromised. Looks like the UK is on thin ice as well.
Nigel Farage, Andrew Tate, Wikileaks/Stone, Russian puppet
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal
Rathäuser' #FotoVorschlag Rathaus in Brüssel Weihnachtsbeleuchtung #photography
I was reluctant about this separation when it was first seriously discussed over a decade ago. I was wrong. We’ve learned that we need full sovereignty from the US including around our medical education standards — how we design and implement training for physicians. Especially around EDIA.
MASSIVE BREAKING: Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi just revealed that an attorney told them today that an Epstein bodyguard was an intermediary between Epstein and the CIA in 2009. Release the Epstein files now !
The president is using the military to dismantle cities that didn't vote for him The president is using the military to distract from women speaking out against his and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses. We are not living in ordinary times. Extraordinary responses are called for.
The President is begging me to call him to bring in the National Guard. I’m not going to beg him for something we don’t want.
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.
The former general manager of the Dodgers/Expos Kevin Malone is now apparently Trump’s HHS Senior Advisor on Human Trafficking in the Administration for Children and Families (???) and will be throwing out the first pitch at the Nationals game Sept. 16th. Text of email sent to staff/shared with me:
If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency needs to end.
AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.
"For so many years, it felt like Epstein's criminal behavior was an open secret." “We’re not going away. We’re not staying quiet. We’re not going to give up.” Annie Farmer (Epstein survivor)
A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.
Thank goodness three Western states are allying to try to provide scientific guidance about vaccines to their populations. Eight eastern states have formed a similar alliance. If you live elsewhere, demand that your Governor and state reps protect you.
Hey, @govevers.wisconsin.gov @govpritzker.illinois.gov @governorwalz.mn.gov THIS!! 👆
Yo Colorado, @GovernorPolis where you at? You for us or against us? Get off the sidelines.
Pritzker has said he’s trying to coordinate with all blue states but there are reports of New Mexico already moving ahead with their own plan. I’d like to see them all move together but at least most appear to be doing something.
@warren.senate.gov get on it, the commonwealth demands our membership!
Kiss&Collide 