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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 5h

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy and powerful men, and how everyone knew what was going on

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 5h

A federal judge in Oregon on Wednesday extended two temporary restraining orders that block the Trump administration from federalizing and deploying national guard troops to Portland.

Oregon judge extends order preventing Trump from deploying national guard

Extension maintains status quo on ground and extends orders which had been set to expire this week

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 5h

Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in his administration’s pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro’s government.

Trump says he authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela

Move marks escalation in Maduro pressure campaign as president says US mulling strikes on Venezuelan territory

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 5h

Sources tell MeidasTouch the White House will shut down portions of the I-5 for Vice President JD Vance’s Marine Corps spectacle during No Kings Protests, triggering chaos, gridlock, and outrage.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump May Launch Missiles from Warships into California this Friday and Saturday as Part of “Vanity Parade”

Sources tell MeidasTouch the White House will shut down portions of the I-5 for Vice President JD Vance’s Marine Corps spectacle during No Kings Protests, triggering chaos, gridlock, and outrage.

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 5h

Day 1730: "It’s getting really ugly."

Political News for Normal People.

Your essential guide to the shock and awe in national politics. A sane, once-a-day newsletter helping normal people make sense of the news.

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 5h

Trump’s reckless leap into “Phase Two” of his peace plan ignores the blood on Gaza’s streets and the empty promises behind every handshake in Cairo’s spotlight

Peace Without Teeth

Trump’s reckless leap into “Phase Two” of his peace plan ignores the blood on Gaza’s streets and the empty promises behind every handshake in Cairo’s spotlight

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 5h

The propaganda spewing from Trump’s departments and agencies is illegal.

The Trump Regime is Wildly Violating the Hatch Act

The propaganda spewing from Trump’s departments and agencies is illegal

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 5h

Preznit Fuckwit’s corroded cortex is having the time of its life right now. it’s traipsing through the tall weeds, out where the buses don’t run, without a single care in the world.

double shocker! Donny’s brain is pudding and young Republicans are racist

scenes from a batshit Tuesday

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 6h

In the past, Fox has essentially reported our hosts to the DOJ for accurately reporting on ICE. As you know from my prior reporting, Fox has also gone after several of our hosts on air.

Fox Declared War on Us…

By Ben Meiselas

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 6h

#Satire

Qataris Reject Trump’s Idaho Offer and Demand Airbase at Mar-a-Lago

“We gave you a 400-million-dollar 747. You’re not sticking us in some Idaho shithole.”

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h

Governor Newsom has issued a response on social media:

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 7h

Anyone who wants to understand the Shutdown need only follow "Deep Throat's" old advice: “Follow the money.”

In this case, the trail leads from the millions of Americans whom Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” would strip of health-security to give more to the already fabulously rich.

Here's What I'm Telling Trump Country the Shutdown is Really About

This piece is running this week in newspapers in the very red congressional district — rural, Republican, fundamentalist — in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012....

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 7h

Organizers expect millions of participants across more than 2,500 events nationwide. If projections hold, turnout could rival or surpass the historic June 14 protests, which drew over 5 million people. Either way, this weekend will be one of the largest single-day mobilizations in U.S. history.

Turn that frown upside down; we got this.

Yes, there is tension in the air. But there is also anticipation, energy, and a sense of history in the making. Again! This weekend will be remembered not for conflict, but for the sheer scale of civi...

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 7h

The U.S. bailout of Argentina's failing economy doubled on Wednesday, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying that American taxpayers are now giving roughly $40 billion in aid, all while the federal government slashes funding for programs in the United States.

Trump swaps ‘America First’ for ‘Argentina First’

The U.S. bailout of Argentina's failing economy doubled on Wednesday, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying that American taxpayers are now giving roughly $40 billion in aid, all while the ...

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 7h

I can do those things on my own. I will, however, be a mayor who is ready to speak at any time to lower the cost of living. That's the way that I am going to lead the city.”

Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 7h

“I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams, who will call you to figure out how to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo, who will call you to ask how to win this election.

Watch Mamdani brave Fox News to deliver biting message to Trump

New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani appeared on Fox News Wednesday as part of his campaign against disgraced—and clearly compromised —former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.� Mamdani ...

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 7h

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta removed a Facebook group intended to locate ICE agents in Chicago amid massive immigration raids.

Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated the coordinated effort, claiming that the Facebook group was being used to “dox and target” ICE agents.

Another Big Tech player melts over ICE

The Department of Justice has been targeting groups intended to protect people against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ violent attacks, and now another tech giant has joined in.� Mark ...

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 7h

Cartoon: Now do the Epstein files

A cartoon by Tim Campbell. Related |� Whiny Trump makes Israel-Hamas ceasefire ceremony all about ...

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 7h

And, as Trump campaigned relentlessly for the Nobel Peace Prize, that peace, Tharoor says, remains elusive, if at all.

Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 7h

“All you need is a Hamas provocation and a disproportionate Israeli reaction, and you can have a spiral," Nimrod Novik, a distinguished fellow at the Israel Policy Forum, told the Washington Post.

Trump's 'oversold' Middle East victory lap is a 'false' one: analysis

President Donald Trump's victory lap in the Middle East was a short one, and his declaration of a "new dawn" there may be a false one, according to a Washington Post column by Ishaan Tharoor. "The jo...

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 8h

$20 billion, however, may not be all the money Argentina receives from the U.S. According to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Argentina may receive as much as $40 billion from the U.S. when all is said and done.

Even MAGA is fuming after Trump official ups pledge to 'total of $40 billion for Argentina'

On Tuesday afternoon, October 14, U.S. President Donald Trump met with visiting Argentina President Javier Milei at the White House. Trump is offering the South American country, which has suffered ma...

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 8h

The Trump administration is moving to reconfigure the U.S. refugee system in a way that offers special relief to supporters of far‑right European parties while drastically restricting access for most other asylum seekers, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

This Trump plan would overhaul US refugee system to 'prioritize Europeans' and German far-right

The Trump administration is moving to reconfigure the U.S. refugee system in a way that offers special relief to supporters of far‑right European parties while drastically restricting access for most ...

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Glenna Prowant 🚫👑 🌮 @brewitchin.bsky.social · 8h

"Trump says lawyers challenging his power to impose tariffs are 'aligned with foreign nations' and adds that he plans to go to the Supreme Court to watch the arguments of the tariffs case."

Trump ripped for thinly veiled effort to 'intimidate' Supreme Court Justices

President Donald Trump, during a Wednesday afternoon, October 15 press conference, discussed the U.S. Supreme Court's tariffs case with reporters and said he may go to the High Court to watch the case...

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