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AppleInsider @appleinsider.com · 9h

Digital evidence stored in iCloud played a key role in exposing a multistate poker-rigging scheme tied to organized crime and NBA players. Here's how, and what evidence was uncovered.

How iCloud backups helped expose a mob-and NBA-linked poker cheating scandal

Digital evidence stored in iCloud played a key role in exposing a multistate poker-rigging scheme tied to organized crime and NBA players. Here's how, and what evidence was uncovered.

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Silence Is Not an Option @sino-charleston.bsky.social · 14h

Don’t kid yourself! #silenceisnotanoption #sino_charleston

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 15h

Not lowering costs for the American people?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15h

A great lede can be less than 10 words:

"The East Wing of the White House is gone."

Via @ddiamond.bsky.social @jonathanreports.bsky.social
@oliviacgeorge.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The East Wing is gone, and Trump turns to damage control

Demolition crews appeared to finish taking down the bulk of the White House wing Thursday, while President Donald Trump defended the project.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Evan Poe @evanpoe.bsky.social · 17h

@sportingkc.com Please bring back Thommy. He’s the heart and soul of the team.

Sporting Kansas City @sportingkc.com · 17h

Sporting Kansas City has announced roster decisions ahead of the 2026 season.

📰: https://skcsoccer.co/4qud15u

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18h

The Chinese crypto tycoon who was in jail for money laundering helped Trump get rich, and then Trump pardoned him. Literally buying his way out of justice by directly paying the president

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Evan Poe @evanpoe.bsky.social · 1d

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meliss-AAAAAHHH! @mel.bzky.team · 1d

cover for the west wing altered to say the remaining wing

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

Johnson sure has time to do lots of media interviews.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson says he's open to meeting with Adelita Grijalva but he's "been a little busy"

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Evan Poe @evanpoe.bsky.social · 1d

ESPN destroys everything it touches CNN es these days.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Trump HATED the White House when he arrived in 2017. Just hated it.

Jen A. Miller @byjenamiller.bsky.social · 1d

A thing stuck in my brain: someone is going to claim, true or not, that this demolition was done in a way that it compromised the structure of the whole building, and they're going to tear it all down.

It's not like anyone's stopped them so far.

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 1d

John Roberts' decisions gave the president total control over the executive branch. Trump is now using that power to pay himself $230m.

Roberts claims he was promoting democratic accountability. Is this how someone who feels accountable to the public would act?
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As Trump plans to steal $230 million from taxpayers, we can thank John Roberts

Shall we call it a "Roberts reward"?

www.motherjones.com

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

In Oval, yammering about the ballroom, Trump says it will cost $300 million. Quite a cost overrun already. (Why do I think it will “cost” whatever he’s able to raise in contributions?)

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 1d

There is no difference between Trump destroying the East Wing and using a wrecking ball on the Washington Monument or Smithsonian. Just because he (temporarily) lives there doesn't give him the right to demolish the White House without Congressional approval.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

In the long run, Biden keeping that wall between himself and DOJ - leading to the conviction and humiliation of his son - achieved absolutely nothing. The standard is gone. The incentive for future presidents is to punish your enemies and say "your mom, lol" when reporters ask about it.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

there are good & worthwhile historical & legal arguments for why the unitary executive is nonsense but to my mind the most straightforward argument is that it makes no logical sense that the president has absolute removal power over the people whose job it is to keep the executive branch accountable

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

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Evan Poe @evanpoe.bsky.social · 1d

Ask and ye shall receive

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Dec 21

Every photo of the speaker of the house makes him look like a muppet that escaped containment and made it to the real world

Speaker Mike Johnson at a microphone, looking muppet-ish

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 2d

Lankford was in the Senate when the Intelligence Committee wrote its giant report concluding that Russiagate was not a hoax, and it's criminal negligence by CNN to let him say this on air with no pushback.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Lankford: "I think now history has proven that Russiagate was a hoax. It was actually formed by James Coney and Brennan and others that were behind the scenes to push a narrative they knew at the time was false." (This is a lie -- would've been nice for Kasie Hunt to point that out.)

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Evan Poe @evanpoe.bsky.social · 2d

LOL

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 2d

The NBA on NBC is back, check out the new intro with Roundball Rock

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d

It sounds like the Republicans should stop protecting Bill Clinton and release the Epstein files.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Comer: The evidence we gathered does not implicate President Trump in any way. Public reporting, survivor testimony, and official documents show that Bill Clinton had far closer ties to Epstein

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

it's dizzying to me that stories like this -- a corrupt grift built on democracy-wrecking lies that culminated in a coup attempt -- barely breakthrough anymore. they're just daily background noise now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

COLLINS: The NYT is reporting your legal team is seeking $230 million from your own DOJ now in response to the investigations into you. Is that something you want?

TRUMP: It could be, yeah. I don't even talk to them about it. All I know is they would owe me a lot of money. They rigged the election.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 2d

He did the crimes, Senate and SCOTUS Republicans let him get away with them, he got reelected, Senate Republicans let him appoint his personal lawyers to run DOJ, and now he’s ordering his personal lawyers who run DOJ to give him $230 million of your money.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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Taco @tacos4eva.bsky.social · 2d

If there isn’t a group currently working on a project 2025 counter plan to protect America from this shit after this it will happen again.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

It's wrong to call this "the Justice Department." He wants $230 million from the US taxpayer. Federal dollars. DOJ isn't some private company or NGO.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 2d

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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