Lew
@toolew.bsky.social
church goer, lover of truth, justice, art and open minds ❤️
Pro-democracy
Pro-democracy
Because they keep running out of black ink
Blanche said the files “will come in all different forms,” including “photographs.”
DOJ Will Release Epstein Files In Batches, Blanche Says Ahead Of Initial Release Today
Blanche said the files “will come in all different forms,” including “photographs.”
www.forbes.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Because they keep running out of black ink
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Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.
December 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.
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So, Congress passes a law requiring the release of ALL the Trumpstein files. Any redactions to protect ONLY the victims
Trump DOJ releases a highly redacted and incomplete batch after working on them for months, citing various lame excuses for their non-compliance
This is what a coverup looks like
Trump DOJ releases a highly redacted and incomplete batch after working on them for months, citing various lame excuses for their non-compliance
This is what a coverup looks like
December 20, 2025 at 7:33 AM
So, Congress passes a law requiring the release of ALL the Trumpstein files. Any redactions to protect ONLY the victims
Trump DOJ releases a highly redacted and incomplete batch after working on them for months, citing various lame excuses for their non-compliance
This is what a coverup looks like
Trump DOJ releases a highly redacted and incomplete batch after working on them for months, citing various lame excuses for their non-compliance
This is what a coverup looks like
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.
NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.
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When even Mitt Romney wants to tax the rich it’s time for Democrats to break free of the donor class.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
When even Mitt Romney wants to tax the rich it’s time for Democrats to break free of the donor class.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
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DOJ won’t meet Friday deadline to release all the Epstein files. They’ve been redacting Trump’s name all year in 24 hour overtime shifts and it still wasn’t enough time.
December 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
DOJ won’t meet Friday deadline to release all the Epstein files. They’ve been redacting Trump’s name all year in 24 hour overtime shifts and it still wasn’t enough time.
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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Please make sure every military member you know knows this.
Trump’s promise Wednesday to pay troops a “warrior dividend” bonus is actually a military housing stipend already approved by Congress, and not a generous new White House program.
Trump claims credit for military bonus that Congress already approved
The White House’s plans for a “warrior dividend” to reward troops this holiday season are actually housing assistance funds approved this summer.
www.politico.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Please make sure every military member you know knows this.
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Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Just like it’s still the department of defense
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Just like it’s still the department of defense
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An investment firm founded by Jared Kushner wanted to build a $500 million luxury hotel project on the site of a bombed-out Yugoslav military headquarters in Belgrade.
Plans to raze the ruins, however, came to a screeching halt earlier this week.
Plans to raze the ruins, however, came to a screeching halt earlier this week.
Trump hotel project canceled in Serbia after protests, investigation
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has raged against the protests and the prosecutors he blames for halting the project, saying the country was the big loser.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
An investment firm founded by Jared Kushner wanted to build a $500 million luxury hotel project on the site of a bombed-out Yugoslav military headquarters in Belgrade.
Plans to raze the ruins, however, came to a screeching halt earlier this week.
Plans to raze the ruins, however, came to a screeching halt earlier this week.
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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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Notice that the parts of Trump's economic program that help working and middle class Americans — DOGE checks, tariff rebates, and warrior dividends — are popular, progressive, and non-existent. Tax cuts for the rich are unpopular, regressive and very very real.
December 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Notice that the parts of Trump's economic program that help working and middle class Americans — DOGE checks, tariff rebates, and warrior dividends — are popular, progressive, and non-existent. Tax cuts for the rich are unpopular, regressive and very very real.
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It might get me labeled as a Crazy Bluesky Radical, but I don’t think it’s great that our nuclear arsenal is at the disposal of a demented old man who’s just an exposed nerve of grievances and hatreds with absolutely no impulse control.
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It might get me labeled as a Crazy Bluesky Radical, but I don’t think it’s great that our nuclear arsenal is at the disposal of a demented old man who’s just an exposed nerve of grievances and hatreds with absolutely no impulse control.
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I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
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"This explains why the administration refuses to declassify the memo...If the public saw how flimsy the legal footing is, they’d see the president is using wartime powers he does not have to kill civilians he cannot legally target..." open.substack.com/pub/defiance...
NEWS: Leaked memo exposes flimsy legal basis for Trump boat strikes
DOJ's classified, "legal authorization" for the missile attacks is beginning to collapse.
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"This explains why the administration refuses to declassify the memo...If the public saw how flimsy the legal footing is, they’d see the president is using wartime powers he does not have to kill civilians he cannot legally target..." open.substack.com/pub/defiance...
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AIDE: Secretary, you need to consult lawyers
HEGSETH: you know what I called those lawyers back when I was in the service?
AIDE: ...
HEGSETH: Say it
AIDE:you called them JAGo
HEGSETH: JAGoffs, that's right. Because they are. I don't need rules, war has no rules.
AIDE: [clicks "end recording"]
HEGSETH: you know what I called those lawyers back when I was in the service?
AIDE: ...
HEGSETH: Say it
AIDE:you called them JAGo
HEGSETH: JAGoffs, that's right. Because they are. I don't need rules, war has no rules.
AIDE: [clicks "end recording"]
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
AIDE: Secretary, you need to consult lawyers
HEGSETH: you know what I called those lawyers back when I was in the service?
AIDE: ...
HEGSETH: Say it
AIDE:you called them JAGo
HEGSETH: JAGoffs, that's right. Because they are. I don't need rules, war has no rules.
AIDE: [clicks "end recording"]
HEGSETH: you know what I called those lawyers back when I was in the service?
AIDE: ...
HEGSETH: Say it
AIDE:you called them JAGo
HEGSETH: JAGoffs, that's right. Because they are. I don't need rules, war has no rules.
AIDE: [clicks "end recording"]
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🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"
December 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"
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The original White House--like the Capitol--was deliberately NOT garish.They were supposed to reflect republican governance: not monarchies, not aristocracies.They were supposed to show a commitment to We the People.
The current decorations are the precise opposite.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The current decorations are the precise opposite.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
We Asked Interior Designers To Explain Trump's 'Garish' White House Redesign — And They Had THOUGHTS
Experts weigh in on the president's gold-soaked makeover of the Oval Office and more.
www.huffpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The original White House--like the Capitol--was deliberately NOT garish.They were supposed to reflect republican governance: not monarchies, not aristocracies.They were supposed to show a commitment to We the People.
The current decorations are the precise opposite.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The current decorations are the precise opposite.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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"Die Folgen seiner Anweisung „Kill Everybody“ (Tötet alle) setzen sich also mit dieser kleinen Absicherung fort: „Hegseth versucht, sich von den Folgen des Bootsangriffs zu distanzieren“ – The Washington Post"
Charlie Sykes
Charlie Sykes
“This is ‘protect Pete’ bulls---"
Memo to the military:
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"Die Folgen seiner Anweisung „Kill Everybody“ (Tötet alle) setzen sich also mit dieser kleinen Absicherung fort: „Hegseth versucht, sich von den Folgen des Bootsangriffs zu distanzieren“ – The Washington Post"
Charlie Sykes
Charlie Sykes
This is not AI. She’s a sick person. She keeps talking about fentanyl, the consensus among analysts on both sides of the aisle seems to be that boats from Venezuela are much more likely transporting cocaine, not fentanyl.
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is not AI. She’s a sick person. She keeps talking about fentanyl, the consensus among analysts on both sides of the aisle seems to be that boats from Venezuela are much more likely transporting cocaine, not fentanyl.
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A most important question on the Sept. 2 double-tap strike is who had "target engagement authority" (TEA).
Wall Street Journal:
"A Defense Department official ... said Hegseth was the 'target engagement authority,' the key figure who authorized the strike."
www.wsj.com/politics/whi...
Wall Street Journal:
"A Defense Department official ... said Hegseth was the 'target engagement authority,' the key figure who authorized the strike."
www.wsj.com/politics/whi...
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A most important question on the Sept. 2 double-tap strike is who had "target engagement authority" (TEA).
Wall Street Journal:
"A Defense Department official ... said Hegseth was the 'target engagement authority,' the key figure who authorized the strike."
www.wsj.com/politics/whi...
Wall Street Journal:
"A Defense Department official ... said Hegseth was the 'target engagement authority,' the key figure who authorized the strike."
www.wsj.com/politics/whi...
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🔥 AL GORE: “We already have way too many subservient cowards in Congress, the last thing we need is to send another one (Van Epps 🤖) — you can make tomorrow the turning point for our country by getting out and voting for Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social .” #TN7
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December 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
🔥 AL GORE: “We already have way too many subservient cowards in Congress, the last thing we need is to send another one (Van Epps 🤖) — you can make tomorrow the turning point for our country by getting out and voting for Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social .” #TN7
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