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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 8h

Important story here by @[email protected] on the Army’s struggle to catch up to drone warfare. Will its innovators be able to bring along establishment ground pounders, who’ve always been slow to grasp new battlefield realities, from WW2 thru Vietnam, Afghanistan & Iraq?

Greg Jaffe @gregjaffe.bsky.social · 19h

The Army’s Race to Catch Up in a World of Deadly Drones. Terrific photos and video from Meridith Kohut.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

The Army’s Race to Catch Up in a World of Deadly Drones

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 9h

The MAGA flunkie—a past beauty queen contestant with zero prosecutorial experience—imported to get an indictment of Comey couldn’t get anyone in her office to indict Letitia James, either.

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 6d

More turmoil in the US attorney's office that brought the Comey indictment at Trump's explicit demand. Two longtime prosecutors who had risen to leadership positions in the Virginia office were fired in recent days, Salvador Rizzo reports. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Firings and resignations roil U.S. attorney’s office prosecuting Comey

Four people have been forced out of leadership roles in the U.S. attorney’s Eastern District of Virginia office that secured an indictment against James B. Comey.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 6d

More turmoil in the US attorney's office that brought the Comey indictment at Trump's explicit demand. Two longtime prosecutors who had risen to leadership positions in the Virginia office were fired in recent days, Salvador Rizzo reports. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Firings and resignations roil U.S. attorney’s office prosecuting Comey

Four people have been forced out of leadership roles in the U.S. attorney’s Eastern District of Virginia office that secured an indictment against James B. Comey.

www.washingtonpost.com

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 10h

With the Letitia James indictment, the US is officially a banana republic now

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop by Dave Levinthal, NOTUS: www.notus.org/congress/rep...

Republican Congresswoman Failed to Properly Disclose 170 Trades Worth Up to $13.6M

Dozens of those trades came in the form of stock sales made on March 18, when key details of Trump’s tariff policies were disclosed.

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 1d

Can there be any doubt left now that Trump aims to quash all dissent? Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 2d

Updated: CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis appoints himself the agency's general counsel. www.spytalk.co/p/new-spyfac...

New: SpyFaces in the Crowd: Michael Ellis

The CIA deputy director's partisan background breaks tradition at the agency

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 2d

Bondi says she doesn't know what's happened to the alleged tapes of border czar Tom Homan accepting a bribe, much less the $50,000 that undercover FBI agents gave him in a paper bag.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

WELCH: There's a tape, right, with Mr Homan. Is there a tape with audio and video of the transfer of $50k?

BONDI: You would have to talk to Director Patel about that

WELCH: I'm talking to you

BONDI: I don't know the answer

WELCH: You do know

BONDI: Don't call me a liar!

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 2d

Simple question that AG Pam Bondi refuses to answer: "What happened to the $50,000 that the FBI delivered to Mr. Holman in a paper bag?"

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 2d

Pam Bondi is incapable of answering simple questions.

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 2d

Germany 1933-34.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 2d

Criminal investigation launched after feds fire pepper ball at CBS Chicago reporter's truck www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Criminal investigation launched after feds fire pepper ball at CBS Chicago reporter's truck

CBS News Chicago reporter Asal Rezaei said she was turning away from the facility's fence when a masked agent shot a pepper ball at her truck.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 7d

"Arrested while covering a protest. Shot in the face with a pepper ball. Shoved to the ground and taken away on a stretcher.

Journalists have repeatedly been injured & impeded while reporting on action by masked ICE officials" view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175... by @brianstelter.bsky.social

Welcome to October. Here's the latest on Sora, Jane Fonda, Jimmy Kimmel, Amazon, Bari Weiss, YouTube TV, "SNL," Hunter S. Thompson, and much more...

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 2d

Today's Reliable Sources lead: Portland is not burning. Trump's rhetoric is totally divorced from reality. One way to prove it is by pairing Trump's words with the pictures... cnn.it/4q0hlJs

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 3d

Tax agency chaos: Trump appoints a seventh #IRS chief in 10 months: The head of Social Security

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 3d

Epstein-Trump: Trump refused to rule out a pardon for Maxwell and said he would “have to take a look at” doing do and that he will “speak to the DOJ.”

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 3d

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New: SpyFaces in the Crowd: Michael Ellis

The CIA deputy director's partisan background breaks tradition at the agency

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 3d

www.spytalk.co/p/new-spyfac...

New: SpyFaces in the Crowd: Michael Ellis

The CIA deputy director's partisan background breaks tradition at the agency

www.spytalk.co

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 4d

Can there be any question now that Trump & co are determined to impose military rule on majority Democratic states and cities? www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

Pentagon says it is deploying California National Guard to Portland

The U.S. military said it is reassigning about 200 federalized members of the California National Guard from the Los Angeles area to Portland.

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SpyTalker @spytalker.bsky.social · 5d

Ka$h Patel "summarily dismissed" a new agent trainee at the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia, who displayed a pride flag at his previous work area. abcnews.go.com/US/kash-pate...