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The Epstein files released Friday because of my & Rep. Thomas Massie's Epstein Transparency Act, and House cancels session that day.
Coincidence?
Coincidence?
December 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The Epstein files released Friday because of my & Rep. Thomas Massie's Epstein Transparency Act, and House cancels session that day.
Coincidence?
Coincidence?
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Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.
Read the whole thread
Wash Post, CBS News, next CNN?, etc are not money makers. The owners give the Trumpists what they want and get favorable treatment for their other businesses in exchange. Owners make money that way. The regime wants quiescence. No one in this exchange cares if the outlets have audience or profits.
December 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Read the whole thread
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NEW revelations on EXORD (execute order) for boat strikes.
DoD allows killing members of 24 'designated terrorist organizations' AND affiliates:
“When you define DTO and affiliate so loosely and you’re attacking boats, [the guidelines are] basically meaningless,” former official said.
1/
DoD allows killing members of 24 'designated terrorist organizations' AND affiliates:
“When you define DTO and affiliate so loosely and you’re attacking boats, [the guidelines are] basically meaningless,” former official said.
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Stephen Miller’s hard-line Mexico strategy morphed into deadly boat strikes
President Donald Trump’s homeland security adviser, Stephen Miller, had a plan to target Mexican drug cartels. That strategy morphed into lethal boat strikes.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
NEW revelations on EXORD (execute order) for boat strikes.
DoD allows killing members of 24 'designated terrorist organizations' AND affiliates:
“When you define DTO and affiliate so loosely and you’re attacking boats, [the guidelines are] basically meaningless,” former official said.
1/
DoD allows killing members of 24 'designated terrorist organizations' AND affiliates:
“When you define DTO and affiliate so loosely and you’re attacking boats, [the guidelines are] basically meaningless,” former official said.
1/
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Grift and corruption. This just begins to dig into it all. Gift link:
The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It.
A second-term boom in crypto and other areas has created billions in new wealth for the first family.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Grift and corruption. This just begins to dig into it all. Gift link:
The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
The Trump Family Business Empire Is Growing. We Mapped Out 268 Pieces of It.
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
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Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!”
The Economist, one year ago:
The Economist, one year ago:
December 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!”
The Economist, one year ago:
The Economist, one year ago:
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REP. @crockett.house.gov: “Speaker Johnson loves to run when things get tough. That's not leadership, that’s cowardice. We are supposed to be in till Friday. He has decided that our last day is going to be tomorrow.” (Epstein files deadline is Friday)
December 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
REP. @crockett.house.gov: “Speaker Johnson loves to run when things get tough. That's not leadership, that’s cowardice. We are supposed to be in till Friday. He has decided that our last day is going to be tomorrow.” (Epstein files deadline is Friday)
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Trump got high on his own supply & never figured out the only reason his 1st term wasn’t even more of a disaster was that he inherited & coasted on a good economy. He’s learning the hard way now. Nuts senile person having nuke codes when you also can’t find a job is tough scenes
December 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Trump got high on his own supply & never figured out the only reason his 1st term wasn’t even more of a disaster was that he inherited & coasted on a good economy. He’s learning the hard way now. Nuts senile person having nuke codes when you also can’t find a job is tough scenes
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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Dan Bongino is out at the FBI after less than a year
Dan Bongino is out at the FBI after less than a year
The deputy director announced his departure after Trump confirmed it to reporters.
dlvr.it
December 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dan Bongino is out at the FBI after less than a year
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The Trump Admin wants to turn the clock back to 2008 and let Wall Street run wild.
We all know how that ended – with taxpayers bailing out Wall Street while millions lost their homes and got fired from their jobs.
Donald Trump could be setting the stage for the next crash.
We all know how that ended – with taxpayers bailing out Wall Street while millions lost their homes and got fired from their jobs.
Donald Trump could be setting the stage for the next crash.
Bessent: "These 2008, 2009, 2010 financial rules were too tight. They hamstrung the American financial system. It was time for a change ... we have to take the financial system out of this straitjacket ... the regulated system is too constrained."
December 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The Trump Admin wants to turn the clock back to 2008 and let Wall Street run wild.
We all know how that ended – with taxpayers bailing out Wall Street while millions lost their homes and got fired from their jobs.
Donald Trump could be setting the stage for the next crash.
We all know how that ended – with taxpayers bailing out Wall Street while millions lost their homes and got fired from their jobs.
Donald Trump could be setting the stage for the next crash.
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Trump’s new low on the economy (36% approval) will get worse as his corrupt attack on clean energy keeps raising families’ electric bills and home insurance costs. And wait til people understand this is ON PURPOSE to pay back his Big Oil political donors.
December 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump’s new low on the economy (36% approval) will get worse as his corrupt attack on clean energy keeps raising families’ electric bills and home insurance costs. And wait til people understand this is ON PURPOSE to pay back his Big Oil political donors.
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COMMISSIONER GOMEZ: “.. No edit to a website can erase the long-standing congressional intent to create a multiparty, independent regulatory agency like the FCC that is accountable to Congress and the American people, not the whims of the White House.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
December 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
COMMISSIONER GOMEZ: “.. No edit to a website can erase the long-standing congressional intent to create a multiparty, independent regulatory agency like the FCC that is accountable to Congress and the American people, not the whims of the White House.”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Brendan Carr uncomfortable chuckles as Markey accuses him of being the chair of the "Federal Censorship Commission"
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Brendan Carr uncomfortable chuckles as Markey accuses him of being the chair of the "Federal Censorship Commission"
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I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.
Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center
Russell Vought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget, announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, citing concerns about “clima...
wapo.st
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I know many of you who follow me don't work in climate science, but this is the biggest story in climate right now. Breaking up NCAR makes us all less safe and is another act of self-harm that will take decades to recover from.
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In the briefing yesterday, the Admin didn't even pretend the strikes were designed to stop the fentanyl trade to the U.S.. Of course - because Venezuela produces no fentanyl.
They transport cocaine - bound for...wait for it...Europe.
So this is The War On European Cocaine.
They transport cocaine - bound for...wait for it...Europe.
So this is The War On European Cocaine.
December 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In the briefing yesterday, the Admin didn't even pretend the strikes were designed to stop the fentanyl trade to the U.S.. Of course - because Venezuela produces no fentanyl.
They transport cocaine - bound for...wait for it...Europe.
So this is The War On European Cocaine.
They transport cocaine - bound for...wait for it...Europe.
So this is The War On European Cocaine.
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In comments to NYT, Susie Wiles was asked about her quote that Elon Musk was using drugs. "That's ridiculous," she said. "I wouldn't have said it."
But Peter Baker notes: Chris "Whipple played a tape for The Times in which she could be heard saying it."
nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
But Peter Baker notes: Chris "Whipple played a tape for The Times in which she could be heard saying it."
nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
In comments to NYT, Susie Wiles was asked about her quote that Elon Musk was using drugs. "That's ridiculous," she said. "I wouldn't have said it."
But Peter Baker notes: Chris "Whipple played a tape for The Times in which she could be heard saying it."
nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
But Peter Baker notes: Chris "Whipple played a tape for The Times in which she could be heard saying it."
nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...
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Best Twitter riposte of the day. Leavitt really is a junior high school level Goebbels.
December 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Best Twitter riposte of the day. Leavitt really is a junior high school level Goebbels.
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🚨BREAKING: Right-wing figures are escalating their calls for violence to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her role in a voting system data breach. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Far Right Escalates Calls For Violence to Free Tina Peters After Trump’s ‘Pardon’
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
🚨BREAKING: Right-wing figures are escalating their calls for violence to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election denier serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her role in a voting system data breach. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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After the first canceled monthly jobs report in decades, we finally got updated numbers about Trump's economy – and they don’t look good for the American people.
Donald Trump’s chaotic tariffs and failed economic policies are hammering the labor market and harming workers.
Donald Trump’s chaotic tariffs and failed economic policies are hammering the labor market and harming workers.
December 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
After the first canceled monthly jobs report in decades, we finally got updated numbers about Trump's economy – and they don’t look good for the American people.
Donald Trump’s chaotic tariffs and failed economic policies are hammering the labor market and harming workers.
Donald Trump’s chaotic tariffs and failed economic policies are hammering the labor market and harming workers.
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Also, Nigerian immigrants are among the best educated in the U.S. So the usual bullshit excuses about public assistance, crime, etc. don't apply. It really is just racism.
December 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Also, Nigerian immigrants are among the best educated in the U.S. So the usual bullshit excuses about public assistance, crime, etc. don't apply. It really is just racism.
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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“.. The US unemployment rate is now up by 1.2 percentage points from its trough 30 months ago. We have never seen that kind of increase without the economy already being in a recession.”
- Schwab #NFP
- Schwab #NFP
December 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“.. The US unemployment rate is now up by 1.2 percentage points from its trough 30 months ago. We have never seen that kind of increase without the economy already being in a recession.”
- Schwab #NFP
- Schwab #NFP
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Walz: "To watch people word salad - there's too damn many guns & wrong types of guns on the street. I don't want to hear 'how do you define assault weapon?' I damn sure can tell you what it does & unfortunately we have a bunch of parents now who know a lot more about what these weapons do"
December 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Walz: "To watch people word salad - there's too damn many guns & wrong types of guns on the street. I don't want to hear 'how do you define assault weapon?' I damn sure can tell you what it does & unfortunately we have a bunch of parents now who know a lot more about what these weapons do"