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㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Mar 17

The epigraph to 'Compromised' by Peter Strzok:

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Sep 12

they feel an equal and opposite action must be taken against the Democrats as soon as possible so that they can regain their 'rightful' status.

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Sep 12

And if you have a view of the world in which you must constantly assert dominance over others in order to be respected and masculine, your response to something like this will inevitably involve a call for vengeance, because having 'lost' something fairly significant,

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Sep 12

and the recent shooting is of a big enough figure on the right that at least temporarily, they feel like this ceaseless reinforcement of a hierarchy in which they are at the top and liberals are at the bottom has been totally turned on its head.

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Sep 12

What got me thinking about this is a comment I saw, but I think the real reason the right is performing extreme anger at present (besides political utility, obviously) is that what Trump being in power represents to them is the left suffering massively at their hand, which they delight in,

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Aug 4

“madam maxwell”

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Aug 3

I guess she’d aged out. But still seems to fit a certain pattern.

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

#JoshKushner -- who employed Trump's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for a single month, January 2025 -- was photographed/videotaped going on a sushi date with Zhukova in March 2017.)

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

Russia and invited her to the 2017 inauguration. Furthermore, Zhukova and quite possibly Abramovich met with the Trump and Kushner families in Aspen, Colorado during Trump's first term, and Jared's brother...

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

twice, and Black attended the 2016 U.S. Open together with Jared, Ivanka, and Roman Abramovich's then-wife #DashaZhukova.

(Notably, Jared & Ivanka were so close to Zhukova -- whose husband #RomanAbramovich bought a Tel Aviv apartment for Putin's childhood teacher -- that they visited her in...

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

Manafort in Ukraine) and #JaredKushner, who Leon Black admitted to being personal friends with (as well as Ivanka) during his Senate Intel Committee interview; in addition to this, Black loaned Jared at least $184 million in 2017 after Black's business partner met with Jared at the White House...

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

Trump's campaign chairman #PaulManafort (an #OlegDeripaska guy just like Geovanis, which is fascinating given that Rubio's 2020 report on Russia's 2016 interference explicitly describes Deripaska as funding Russian foreign interference efforts directly on behalf of the Kremlin, including via...

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

first person #DonJr -- who...has been friends with Andrew Tate for a decade, even inviting him to #TrumpTower, and almost certainly visited him in Romania -- called after meeting with a Red Army counter-intel guy who specializes in email hacking at Trump Tower.

Also at this meeting was, of course,

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

"The Art of the Deal" was supposed to lead to a huge real estate deal *across the street from the Kremlin, in partnership with the Soviet government*).

Lorber, meanwhile, has been friends with Trump for decades and was heavily involved with Trump's 2016 campaign.

In June 2016, Lorber was the...

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

Committee that he has known Geovanis and LeBow since they all worked together in late-'80s New York, which happens to be when and where Trump first met #Epstein (1987) as well as the Soviet ambassador (1986, leading directly to his very first trip to #Russia in 1987, which Trump writes in...

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

Trump and the ex-Miss Moscow had a fling that seems to have continued on after the trip, with the two meeting in multiple locations.

Geovanis first moved to Moscow in 1991 as a representative of LeBow, working on joint Russian-American real estate projects; Leon Black told the Senate Intel...

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

Senate Intel Committee report released under chairman Marco Rubio, Geovanis has ties to Russian security services and likely relied upon them for financial assistance.

In Moscow, Trump met a former Miss Moscow at a party hosted by Geovanis (and attended by Black as well, as shown in photos);

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

president & CEO of #VectorGroup, the Miami-based company that owns Elliman, while LeBow founded Vector, and is still its chairman.

In Moscow they met #DavidGeovanis, a Moscow-based real estate guy who became an executive at Oleg Deripaska's Basic Group in the mid-2000s.

According to a 2020...

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

for complicity in their crimes -- was deeply involved in Trump's 1996 trip to Moscow with #EpsteinIsland funder #LeonBlack.

Trump went on this trip with Leon, #BennettLeBow, and likely #HowardLorber.

Lorber was the head of Douglas Elliman until right before the 2024 election, and remains...

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

$1.5 million in late 2016/early 2017; $500,000 of that went into a shell account, allowing Trump to secretly pay off Stormy Daniels.

Douglas Elliman, which employed NY & FL #RealEstate moguls the Alexander Brothers for a long time -- and was being investigated by the DoJ as recently as Dec. 2024...

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

#DouglasElliman.

Columbus Nova is owned by #AndrewIntrater, the US-based cousin of Russian oligarch #ViktorVekselberg, and Vekselberg used Columbus Nova to provide Trump and his personal lawyer/fixer #MichaelCohen (who was emailing the Kremlin about #TrumpTowerMoscow through June 2016) with...

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Aug 4

The person Trump chose to lead the investigation into Jack Smith, Paul Ingrassia, previously worked for #MarcKasowitz of #NewYork, the lawyer for #AndrewTate.

Kasowitz also served as Trump's lawyer during the Russia investigation.

Other clients of Kasowitz include #ColumbusNova (until 2017) and...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 2

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:

— said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
— has neo-Nazi ties
— was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
— 2x Claremont fellow
— wrote for Gateway Pundit
— called for Pence to be hanged
— called for secession after 2020 election

Paul Ingrassia (lawyer) - Wikipedia

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vantazach @vantazach.bsky.social · Aug 2

Timeline cleanse: Insta video of Allen Dershowitz being told by Martha's Vineyard police to stop harassing vendors or be charged with trespassing after three different sellers refused him service. 1/3

www.instagram.com/reel/DMvVG1S...

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · Aug 2

Trump’s tariff wars mean higher prices for you.

Don’t take it from me. Take it from what the companies told their investors:

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Jul 31

#JackPosobiec #SteveBannon #EdMartin #J6 #CPAC #TradCath #RussiaToday #AleksandrDugin #Orbán #AfD #PiS #Belarus #MacronLeaks #Sputnik #dezinformatsiya #law

Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · Jul 31

Clark recommended for disbarment today for trying to help Trump subvert the 2020 elections. electionlawblog.org?p=151271

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Jul 31

Last night, Emil Bove celebrated his confirmation as a federal appeals court judge at Butterworth’s, the MAGA hot spot in D.C.

The Article III Project hosted the party, with guests including Steve Bannon, Jack Posobiec, Judge Jeanine, Todd Blanche, Chad Mizelle, Ed Martin, and Jeffrey Clark.

㊌ / ㊋ @firelands.bsky.social · Jul 31

#HowardLorber #GS #JoshKushner #ThriveCapital #ShalvaChigirinsky

A Power Broker who Once Worked for Trump Gets a New Direction

Louise Sunshine, who started with the Trump Organization as one of its first employees, has started working with another firm that claims to be a trendsetter. The brokerage Compass brought her on as a...