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Kel
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“When the truth isn’t hopeful, the telling of it is.” -Andrea Gibson
🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 Release the Epstein Files. T.A.L.K. Lifelong Chicago Cubs fan. LGBTQ+. Libraries are life. Get involved, stay focused. Never give up, rest as needed, you matter. Be Persistent.
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NEW: Here is the link to the DOJ's website where it has posted some of the Epstein Files so far.

www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-...
DOJ Disclosures
www.justice.gov
December 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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DoJ will NOT release all the Epstein files today. So predictable. They say they’ll release some today, and more later on a “rolling basis.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Justice department will release ‘several hundred thousand’ Epstein files today, says deputy attorney general – live
Todd Blanche suggests some documents may be held back temporarily, citing need to protect victims
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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"Stephen, if you could slip into the body of a person for 24 hrs who would it be?" @jdickerson.bsky.social asks Stephen Colbert at the Political Gabfest 20th anniversary live show in New York City this past week.

Watch now for more at slate.com/ColbertPlus.
December 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.

He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Oh for FFS, now the despicable FElon is changing the name of the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy center.

apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump's handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center
The White House says President Donald Trump’s handpicked board has voted to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center.
apnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Zoe Weissman survived the Parkland shooting. Now she’s at Brown, and it happened again.

“Honestly, I'm really angry that this is happening to me all over again, and I'm just in shock.”

We’re failing our kids. A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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U.S. pals:
Do. Not. Donate. To. Salvation. Army.

There are better charities out there. Much better.
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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If you’re looking for something to do, start working on overturning citizens united in your state. States control the power corporations have. Take their political power away with a ballot initiative. Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It’s even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
December 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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BREAKING: In a powerful reproach to Trump, the Indiana Senate votes against advancing the state’s GOP-led congressional gerrymander that would have handed Republicans both of Indiana’s blue districts.
In Blow to Trump, Indiana Rejects GOP Gerrymander
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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DOJ has a new plan to attack the 1st Amendment. Indivisible isn’t backing down.
open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...
DOJ has a new plan to attack the 1st Amendment. Indivisible isn’t backing down.
Indivisible's weekly newsletter with analysis and action
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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lol. Calling their bluff. These aren’t part of the 300G of data the justice department has (and could have released anytime.) the deadline is 12/19. Tick tock, Pamela Jo.
Breaking:

NEW YORK (AP) - Federal judge grants Justice Department's request to unseal records from Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 sex trafficking case.
December 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Between Thursday and next Monday, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Everyone needs to do this:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Interesting. Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers says she will plead the fifth if forced to testify to Congress. But she willingly sat down with Todd Blanche? What a load of horseshit. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Ghislaine Maxwell will plead Fifth in House Epstein probe, Comer says
The late sex offender's convicted co-conspirator has been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee.
www.politico.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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More of this. Party shouldn’t matter when it comes to protecting kids from predators.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/t...
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
#CUBS #SHOTA YES!!!!
Cubs lefty Shota Imanaga has accepted the one-year Qualifying Offer ($22.025M) to remain in Chicago for 2026, per multiple sources.
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM