Ale
@aliasvaughn.bsky.social
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Ale
@aliasvaughn.bsky.social
· Nov 16
For anyone I followed on Twitter, please let me know and I’ll follow you on here too. And for those who followed me on Twitter, I hope you’ll do the same here! ❤️
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Pam Bondi has undercut Trump’s claim that the Jeffrey Epstein files are a hoax, admitting there is “abundant public interest” in providing Americans with details of the crimes.
Bondi Blows Up Trump Claim Epstein Files Are a ‘Hoax’
The Attorney General also admits the firestorm had escalated since the administration tried to shut down the issue.
trib.al
July 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Pam Bondi has undercut Trump’s claim that the Jeffrey Epstein files are a hoax, admitting there is “abundant public interest” in providing Americans with details of the crimes.
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Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding the Office of Special Counsel investigate potential Hatch Act violations committed by senior Trump political appointees at the White House and DOJ over partisan redistricting efforts in Texas and other Republican states. tinyurl.com/phcsarrh
tinyurl.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding the Office of Special Counsel investigate potential Hatch Act violations committed by senior Trump political appointees at the White House and DOJ over partisan redistricting efforts in Texas and other Republican states. tinyurl.com/phcsarrh
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So yesterday I learned about Ava Cordero, a transgender woman who, in 2007, sued Jeffrey Epstein alleging he sexually abused her when she was 16. Her lawsuit was filed in 2007 while Epstein was negotiating a plea deal in Florida for abusing other girls, but her claims were mocked and dismissed
July 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
So yesterday I learned about Ava Cordero, a transgender woman who, in 2007, sued Jeffrey Epstein alleging he sexually abused her when she was 16. Her lawsuit was filed in 2007 while Epstein was negotiating a plea deal in Florida for abusing other girls, but her claims were mocked and dismissed
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Rupert vs. Donald: Let Them Fight
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
Rupert vs. Donald: Let Them Fight
Trump's lawsuit is taking the throw-pillow to a gunfight.
open.substack.com
July 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Rupert vs. Donald: Let Them Fight
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
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pedocon theory hits the mainstream; voters believe Trump was involved in the crimes allegedly committed by Epstein by a 14-point margin, 46-32
July 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
pedocon theory hits the mainstream; voters believe Trump was involved in the crimes allegedly committed by Epstein by a 14-point margin, 46-32
Just in time to block Vance who doesn’t belong here at all. Hopefully he never gets interactions or attention.
June 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Just in time to block Vance who doesn’t belong here at all. Hopefully he never gets interactions or attention.
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The fact that he chose Juneteenth to rant about federal holidays tells you everything you need to know about what really bothers him, and it’s not the closed businesses.
June 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The fact that he chose Juneteenth to rant about federal holidays tells you everything you need to know about what really bothers him, and it’s not the closed businesses.
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Trump suggests he wants to eliminate Juneteenth as a federal holiday:
“It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
“It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
June 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Trump suggests he wants to eliminate Juneteenth as a federal holiday:
“It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
“It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
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I think you are lying
I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids. What do you think?
June 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I think you are lying
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Absolutely correct
Let’s be blunt. China and Russia are already racing to dominate AI while we still debate if it’s even worth it. Hesitation is no option, we need to lead smart, and strong. My latest (in reply)
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/we-cant-af...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/we-cant-af...
We Can’t Afford to Flinch: Why America Needs to Lead on AI—Before China or Russia Do
Note: I have included at the bottom, an audio embed of me reading this article.
adamkinzinger.substack.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Absolutely correct
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Step 1. Announce arbitrary tariffs for each country
Step 2. When markets crash, pause those tariffs and say they're just leverage for deals
Step 3. Promise deals
Step 4. Fail to make deals
Step 5. Announce arbitrary tariffs for each country
...and yes, I find it hard to keep my cool, sometimes.
Step 2. When markets crash, pause those tariffs and say they're just leverage for deals
Step 3. Promise deals
Step 4. Fail to make deals
Step 5. Announce arbitrary tariffs for each country
...and yes, I find it hard to keep my cool, sometimes.
May 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Step 1. Announce arbitrary tariffs for each country
Step 2. When markets crash, pause those tariffs and say they're just leverage for deals
Step 3. Promise deals
Step 4. Fail to make deals
Step 5. Announce arbitrary tariffs for each country
...and yes, I find it hard to keep my cool, sometimes.
Step 2. When markets crash, pause those tariffs and say they're just leverage for deals
Step 3. Promise deals
Step 4. Fail to make deals
Step 5. Announce arbitrary tariffs for each country
...and yes, I find it hard to keep my cool, sometimes.
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Nothing creepy at all about a serial-raping septuagenarian commenting on the hotness of a woman a third his age
May 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Nothing creepy at all about a serial-raping septuagenarian commenting on the hotness of a woman a third his age
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This would be an obvious act of ethnic cleansing under international law.
BREAKING: The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.
Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya
Details are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.
nbcnews.to
May 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This would be an obvious act of ethnic cleansing under international law.
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It was, like the previous 16 weeks, an awful week.
But 1) a slave plantation burned to the ground and 2) the university Trump is trying to destroy announced it has an original version of the magna carta.
But 1) a slave plantation burned to the ground and 2) the university Trump is trying to destroy announced it has an original version of the magna carta.
May 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It was, like the previous 16 weeks, an awful week.
But 1) a slave plantation burned to the ground and 2) the university Trump is trying to destroy announced it has an original version of the magna carta.
But 1) a slave plantation burned to the ground and 2) the university Trump is trying to destroy announced it has an original version of the magna carta.
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Pres, Gagliardi, of the 🇺🇸 Federation of Musicians:
“We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍”
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
“We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍”
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
May 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Pres, Gagliardi, of the 🇺🇸 Federation of Musicians:
“We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍”
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
“We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍”
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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President Trump's mood about the Qatari jet scandal is darkening:
He snapped at a reporter who questioned him about it, and erupted on Truth Social. Now, The Atlantic reports Trump is privately telling his advisers it’s “humiliating” for a president to fly around in an outdated jet ...
He snapped at a reporter who questioned him about it, and erupted on Truth Social. Now, The Atlantic reports Trump is privately telling his advisers it’s “humiliating” for a president to fly around in an outdated jet ...
Trump Rages Over Qatar Jet Fiasco as GOP Angst Worsens: “Humiliating”
As Trump seethes over criticism of his acceptance of a luxury jet from Qatar, a journalist who’s closely tracking GOP reactions explains why this is a growing problem for him—and what may come next.
newrepublic.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
President Trump's mood about the Qatari jet scandal is darkening:
He snapped at a reporter who questioned him about it, and erupted on Truth Social. Now, The Atlantic reports Trump is privately telling his advisers it’s “humiliating” for a president to fly around in an outdated jet ...
He snapped at a reporter who questioned him about it, and erupted on Truth Social. Now, The Atlantic reports Trump is privately telling his advisers it’s “humiliating” for a president to fly around in an outdated jet ...
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BREAKING: Moody’s has DOWNGRADED the United States’ credit rating from Aaa to Aa1 — the first-ever U.S. credit downgrade in the agency’s history.
“We do not believe that material multi-year reductions in mandatory spending and deficits will result from current fiscal proposals under consideration.”
“We do not believe that material multi-year reductions in mandatory spending and deficits will result from current fiscal proposals under consideration.”
May 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
BREAKING: Moody’s has DOWNGRADED the United States’ credit rating from Aaa to Aa1 — the first-ever U.S. credit downgrade in the agency’s history.
“We do not believe that material multi-year reductions in mandatory spending and deficits will result from current fiscal proposals under consideration.”
“We do not believe that material multi-year reductions in mandatory spending and deficits will result from current fiscal proposals under consideration.”
Im waiting for the Trump spin on this because it’s going to be fabulous 😂
Breaking News: Moody’s has downgraded the credit rating of the U.S., becoming the third major credit rating agency to downgrade the country since 2011.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Supreme Court Extends Freeze on Use of Alien Enemies Act for Deportations
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Im waiting for the Trump spin on this because it’s going to be fabulous 😂
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DAN GREENHAUS, on the Moody’s downgrade:
“.. The U.S. is running gigantic, peacetime deficits unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes. As a result, .. in ten years’ time we’ll have $20 trillion more debt and that’s assuming nothing goes ‘wrong’ between now and then.”
“.. The U.S. is running gigantic, peacetime deficits unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes. As a result, .. in ten years’ time we’ll have $20 trillion more debt and that’s assuming nothing goes ‘wrong’ between now and then.”
May 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
DAN GREENHAUS, on the Moody’s downgrade:
“.. The U.S. is running gigantic, peacetime deficits unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes. As a result, .. in ten years’ time we’ll have $20 trillion more debt and that’s assuming nothing goes ‘wrong’ between now and then.”
“.. The U.S. is running gigantic, peacetime deficits unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes. As a result, .. in ten years’ time we’ll have $20 trillion more debt and that’s assuming nothing goes ‘wrong’ between now and then.”
I hope they feel all of it. I’m sorry but that’s the only way they understand. They are impermeable to facts.
"The most devastating effects of Trump 2.0 policies will be felt by rural folks who depend upon Medicaid support to subsidize their health treatments and keep rural hospitals from financial ruin."
The white rural reckoning
Trump is betraying the very voters who put him back in power.
www.publicnotice.co
May 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I hope they feel all of it. I’m sorry but that’s the only way they understand. They are impermeable to facts.
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Duckworth: "He's accepting a bribe, which is unconstitutional and illegal. And he's gonna accept an aircraft that then is gonna cost taxpayers another billion dollars at a time when he wants to cut funding for Medicaid. It's simple unacceptable."
May 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Duckworth: "He's accepting a bribe, which is unconstitutional and illegal. And he's gonna accept an aircraft that then is gonna cost taxpayers another billion dollars at a time when he wants to cut funding for Medicaid. It's simple unacceptable."
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Walmart announces they are raising prices due to Trump's tarrifs. This might actually hit the red hat toothless rally-going MAGA morons. Price gouging occurred with Trump's pandemic and will again. He likes corruption!
May 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Walmart announces they are raising prices due to Trump's tarrifs. This might actually hit the red hat toothless rally-going MAGA morons. Price gouging occurred with Trump's pandemic and will again. He likes corruption!
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Don't look away. Trump's memecoin dinner, where the top 220 buyers of $TRUMP memecoin will get dinner with the president, is one of the most clear and outrageous examples of buying access yet.
Buyers of $TRUMP meme coin pay millions to win dinner with President Trump
Buyers of U.S. President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP meme coin are expected to learn Monday if they’ve won an opportunity to dine with the president at his country club outside of Washington, D.C. on May 22.
www.reuters.com
May 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Don't look away. Trump's memecoin dinner, where the top 220 buyers of $TRUMP memecoin will get dinner with the president, is one of the most clear and outrageous examples of buying access yet.