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Helping organize information about the Jan 6 Capitol attack and those who planned it. They are still with us.
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Ukraine relations get even more chaotic. Two factions - Kushner/Witkoff and Vance/Driscoll - are both freelancing to set US policy: cutting out the State Dept, pushing Ukraine to surrender, then leaking to press to claim they are official. Why? Putin is desperate and has called in his assets. A 🧵 1/
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Ukraine relations get even more chaotic. Two factions - Kushner/Witkoff and Vance/Driscoll - are both freelancing to set US policy: cutting out the State Dept, pushing Ukraine to surrender, then leaking to press to claim they are official. Why? Putin is desperate and has called in his assets. A 🧵 1/
Chaos and lies in US diplomacy & media: Marco Rubio now denies the US had any input into the savage 28-point ultimatum to Ukraine - says it's from Russia. But Axios reporters Barak Ravid and David Lawler, who got the leak, claimed it was written by the US, by Steve Witkoff and... Marco Rubio! 1/
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Chaos and lies in US diplomacy & media: Marco Rubio now denies the US had any input into the savage 28-point ultimatum to Ukraine - says it's from Russia. But Axios reporters Barak Ravid and David Lawler, who got the leak, claimed it was written by the US, by Steve Witkoff and... Marco Rubio! 1/
MTG, smarter than most GOP Congressmen, commits to her strategy: be the first rat off the sinking ship. She predicts the GOP will lose the midterms and Trump will be impeached - and while she's often acting, that seems like a true belief. No one should embrace her but we should respect her savvy.
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
MTG, smarter than most GOP Congressmen, commits to her strategy: be the first rat off the sinking ship. She predicts the GOP will lose the midterms and Trump will be impeached - and while she's often acting, that seems like a true belief. No one should embrace her but we should respect her savvy.
Patrick Byrne, faced with defamation suits for his lies, cannot figure out how to hire a functional lawyer to defend him... but has a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford. (From the same department Peter Thiel graduated from, for those keeping track.) His thesis is as much a mess as his legal team. 1/
I have never heard of a default under circumstances remotely like this—the defendant fired his entire defense team, and new lawyers showed up on the first day of trial, and weren’t admitted in the district and one was literally an accused felon out of bail
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Patrick Byrne, faced with defamation suits for his lies, cannot figure out how to hire a functional lawyer to defend him... but has a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford. (From the same department Peter Thiel graduated from, for those keeping track.) His thesis is as much a mess as his legal team. 1/
Trump, weakly, is leaning on the same crew who helped him for Jan 6. He's found two pastors to publicly approve his plan for ICE to raid churches over Christmas: Paula White & Mark Burns. Burns was a rally speaker on Jan 5. White opened the Ellipse rally on Jan 6. 1/
(h/t @sarahposner.bsky.social)
(h/t @sarahposner.bsky.social)
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Trump, weakly, is leaning on the same crew who helped him for Jan 6. He's found two pastors to publicly approve his plan for ICE to raid churches over Christmas: Paula White & Mark Burns. Burns was a rally speaker on Jan 5. White opened the Ellipse rally on Jan 6. 1/
(h/t @sarahposner.bsky.social)
(h/t @sarahposner.bsky.social)
Listen to Mike Johnson lie here and her and ask yourself why media asked no follow-up questions when Johnson smoothly told them he'd "adopted" an underage boy, even though Johnson kept changing the dates and details of his story.
Q: Do you acknowledge that by voting for this discharge petition today, that's a reversal for you? You could've put this on the floor months ago
MIKE JOHNSON: It's not a reversal
MIKE JOHNSON: It's not a reversal
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Listen to Mike Johnson lie here and her and ask yourself why media asked no follow-up questions when Johnson smoothly told them he'd "adopted" an underage boy, even though Johnson kept changing the dates and details of his story.
MTG wants to be president, she knows the dirt, and she's not afraid to wield power. White House journalists: are you going to let this woman beat you to the story of foreign influence in the GOP? Years and years of Russian efforts right in your face. MTG's going to scoop you if you don't hurry up.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for 6 years for. I gave him my loyalty for free. I've never owed him anything. Let me tell you what a traitor is -- a traitor is an American that serves foreign countries."
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
MTG wants to be president, she knows the dirt, and she's not afraid to wield power. White House journalists: are you going to let this woman beat you to the story of foreign influence in the GOP? Years and years of Russian efforts right in your face. MTG's going to scoop you if you don't hurry up.
Bluesky hasn't noticed the contrast yet! Yesterday White House journalists sat meekly while Trump humiliated one of them ("Quiet Piggy"). A week ago the Miss Universe beauty queens, tougher and savvier, responded to a similar humiliation by walking out in solidarity - and got the official fired. 1/
Miss Universe Contestants Stage Mass Walkout After Beauty Queen Humiliated by Boss
Beauty queens stood in solidarity with Miss Mexico after she was called “dumb” by organizers during a livestream.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Bluesky hasn't noticed the contrast yet! Yesterday White House journalists sat meekly while Trump humiliated one of them ("Quiet Piggy"). A week ago the Miss Universe beauty queens, tougher and savvier, responded to a similar humiliation by walking out in solidarity - and got the official fired. 1/
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good summary thread for the insane epstein/sulzberger/michael wolff connection
Why the NYT didn't report on their Epstein info is tangled up with another question: was Epstein a friend of the Sulzberger family? Epstein claims he first befriended NYT publisher "Punch" Sulzberger in the 1970s, when Sulzberger's daughter (age ~12) was at the prep school where Epstein taught. 1/
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
good summary thread for the insane epstein/sulzberger/michael wolff connection
Why the NYT didn't report on their Epstein info is tangled up with another question: was Epstein a friend of the Sulzberger family? Epstein claims he first befriended NYT publisher "Punch" Sulzberger in the 1970s, when Sulzberger's daughter (age ~12) was at the prep school where Epstein taught. 1/
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Why the NYT didn't report on their Epstein info is tangled up with another question: was Epstein a friend of the Sulzberger family? Epstein claims he first befriended NYT publisher "Punch" Sulzberger in the 1970s, when Sulzberger's daughter (age ~12) was at the prep school where Epstein taught. 1/
Each Epstein email has so many layers of slime people miss some. This email is Ken Starr, fired for covering up sexual assault, offering to help his former client Jeffrey Epstein's friend's sexual harassment charges by introducing him to Jed Rubenfeld, later put on leave for sexual misconduct. 1/
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Each Epstein email has so many layers of slime people miss some. This email is Ken Starr, fired for covering up sexual assault, offering to help his former client Jeffrey Epstein's friend's sexual harassment charges by introducing him to Jed Rubenfeld, later put on leave for sexual misconduct. 1/
One fascinating thing in the Epstein email drop is an exchange around Trump's election in 2016. It suggests a tense, ongoing relationship - and Epstein's dark contacts.
Part 1: On Sept 23, Linda Stone jokes with Epstein that he'll get a cabinet position if Trump wins. Like Trump owes him one. 1/
Part 1: On Sept 23, Linda Stone jokes with Epstein that he'll get a cabinet position if Trump wins. Like Trump owes him one. 1/
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
One fascinating thing in the Epstein email drop is an exchange around Trump's election in 2016. It suggests a tense, ongoing relationship - and Epstein's dark contacts.
Part 1: On Sept 23, Linda Stone jokes with Epstein that he'll get a cabinet position if Trump wins. Like Trump owes him one. 1/
Part 1: On Sept 23, Linda Stone jokes with Epstein that he'll get a cabinet position if Trump wins. Like Trump owes him one. 1/
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Let the implications sink in: during Trump's 2015 campaign, Michael Wolff advised Epstein on strategy given that both men knew dirty secrets about each other: "if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt". "Save him" meaning, don't tell about Trump and the girls. 4/
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Let the implications sink in: during Trump's 2015 campaign, Michael Wolff advised Epstein on strategy given that both men knew dirty secrets about each other: "if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt". "Save him" meaning, don't tell about Trump and the girls. 4/
This week in Trump-Epstein: first @jsweetli.bsky.social
IDs the 14-year-old girl Epstein brought to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump in 1994. Then the House Dems release an email where Epstein says Trump hung out at his house with underaged girls: "[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him" 1/
IDs the 14-year-old girl Epstein brought to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump in 1994. Then the House Dems release an email where Epstein says Trump hung out at his house with underaged girls: "[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him" 1/
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This week in Trump-Epstein: first @jsweetli.bsky.social
IDs the 14-year-old girl Epstein brought to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump in 1994. Then the House Dems release an email where Epstein says Trump hung out at his house with underaged girls: "[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him" 1/
IDs the 14-year-old girl Epstein brought to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump in 1994. Then the House Dems release an email where Epstein says Trump hung out at his house with underaged girls: "[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him" 1/
Please realize: when Ed Martin drafted the pardon for the fake electors he was pardoning himself. He made it pre-emptive and general, so it covers "all United States citizens for conduct relating to ... efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 presidential election." 1/
Ed Martin: "What this pardon does is help rescue the people who were hunted. The Biden administration hunted the alternate electors who were participating in our constitutional process in 2020 ... they were Trump supporters who believed in the Constitution."
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Please realize: when Ed Martin drafted the pardon for the fake electors he was pardoning himself. He made it pre-emptive and general, so it covers "all United States citizens for conduct relating to ... efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 presidential election." 1/
A word of caution about the new Axios report that Dem Senators are caving. Remember the NYT ran articles for months claiming that Harvard was caving, which.. never happened. Turns out their anonymous sources were Trump staffers. Axios may be similar.
But, it never hurts to call your Senator.
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But, it never hurts to call your Senator.
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
A word of caution about the new Axios report that Dem Senators are caving. Remember the NYT ran articles for months claiming that Harvard was caving, which.. never happened. Turns out their anonymous sources were Trump staffers. Axios may be similar.
But, it never hurts to call your Senator.
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But, it never hurts to call your Senator.
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A milestone: the court order in Chicago today potentially checks America's slide to a secret police state. For the first time, ICE and CBP agents are ordered to wear clear identification: badge numbers or names. Either they comply or this becomes THE issue in which the battle for democracy.
Ellis says agents must have identifiers "conspicuously displayed in two separate places."
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A milestone: the court order in Chicago today potentially checks America's slide to a secret police state. For the first time, ICE and CBP agents are ordered to wear clear identification: badge numbers or names. Either they comply or this becomes THE issue in which the battle for democracy.
Can someone please explain the rationale behind NYT pieces like this, which repulse most of its subscribers? Is it hoping the NYT can cater to multiple groups without losing revenue? Bargaining for access to gossip from the far right? Or is Sulzberger using the NYT to spread his personal beliefs? 1/
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Can someone please explain the rationale behind NYT pieces like this, which repulse most of its subscribers? Is it hoping the NYT can cater to multiple groups without losing revenue? Bargaining for access to gossip from the far right? Or is Sulzberger using the NYT to spread his personal beliefs? 1/
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We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants
The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
Here it is, the Constitutional crisis people feared, Trump openly and flagrantly defying a court order. And it's over... denying Americans food. We are literally facing a Constitutional breakdown over SNAP funds.
This administration is making mistake after mistake. They can be beaten.
This administration is making mistake after mistake. They can be beaten.
Trump says the SNAP money that he’s been ordered by a court to release won’t be released until the government shutdown ends.
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Here it is, the Constitutional crisis people feared, Trump openly and flagrantly defying a court order. And it's over... denying Americans food. We are literally facing a Constitutional breakdown over SNAP funds.
This administration is making mistake after mistake. They can be beaten.
This administration is making mistake after mistake. They can be beaten.
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They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs.
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs.
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
Can we all agree that when a president pardons a guy who was convicted for financing terrorists, and then says he didn't know the guy but "I was told" to pardon him, the follow question MUST be "Who told you to pardon him?" But CBS never asked: who is making decisions in the White House? 1/
November 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Can we all agree that when a president pardons a guy who was convicted for financing terrorists, and then says he didn't know the guy but "I was told" to pardon him, the follow question MUST be "Who told you to pardon him?" But CBS never asked: who is making decisions in the White House? 1/
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You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
People who want to help democracy, no worries if you can't go out and get tear-gassed (kids, job, disability). There's indoor work too! You can be the record-keeper of all that Mike Johnson says he doesn't know. (Today: Trump's pardon of a crypto billionaire). Even a Google sheet is a fine start. 1/
RAJU: Last week you were very critical of Biden's use of the autopen. But Trump admitted on 60 Minutes to not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire who pleaded guilty to money laundering. Does that also concern you?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know anything about that. I didn't see it. I'm not sure.
November 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
People who want to help democracy, no worries if you can't go out and get tear-gassed (kids, job, disability). There's indoor work too! You can be the record-keeper of all that Mike Johnson says he doesn't know. (Today: Trump's pardon of a crypto billionaire). Even a Google sheet is a fine start. 1/
What do Trump, Netanyahu, and Putin have in common? When your political power is shaky, when you fear you are losing your grip, start a war. 1/
(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime
The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...
www.miamiherald.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
What do Trump, Netanyahu, and Putin have in common? When your political power is shaky, when you fear you are losing your grip, start a war. 1/