jesse jastram
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Yeah this is just what his communications team wants right now
Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Yeah this is just what his communications team wants right now
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“Bari Weiss” sounds like a failed Leinenkugel's seasonal
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
“Bari Weiss” sounds like a failed Leinenkugel's seasonal
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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A House panel is holding a hearing on a proposed ban on Congressional stock trading.
This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?
This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A House panel is holding a hearing on a proposed ban on Congressional stock trading.
This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?
This ban is long overdue. Why should members of Congress be able to use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you?
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
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Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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Americans are on the verge of losing their ability to choose their government. But they don't seem to have realized it yet.
Donald Trumps plan to subvert the midterms is underway
From David Graham, on the cover of the next edition of @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
From David Graham, on the cover of the next edition of @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way
Our election system is reaching a breaking point.
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Americans are on the verge of losing their ability to choose their government. But they don't seem to have realized it yet.
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Can someone please ask him how the GOP changed the 60 vote threshold twice in the last two months to approve 150+ trump appointees in one go? Cuz they are in charge and can change the rules to open the government. And they know it. They WANT the shutdown.
Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Can someone please ask him how the GOP changed the 60 vote threshold twice in the last two months to approve 150+ trump appointees in one go? Cuz they are in charge and can change the rules to open the government. And they know it. They WANT the shutdown.
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in over 3 months.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
September 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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Bring back John Prine to save us
September 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Bring back John Prine to save us
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A petition has been launched to reinstate a University of South Dakota professor who was put on administrative leave and relieved of his duties.
Petition launched to bring back University of South Dakota professor who called Charlie Kirk a ‘hate spreading Nazi’
A petition has been launched to reinstate a University of South Dakota professor who was put on administrative leave and relieved of his duties.
It was created after Governor Larry Rhoden posted he, “was shaking mad” about comments Professor Michael Hook shared online.
Hook said he didn’t care about Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated earlier this week in Utah, and it didn’t stop there.
www.dakotanewsnow.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A petition has been launched to reinstate a University of South Dakota professor who was put on administrative leave and relieved of his duties.
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Read anything by Vine Deloria Jr. Read, ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me,’ by James Loewen. Read Howard Zinn’s ‘A People’s History of the United States,’ and read ‘The Lakota Way,’ by Joseph Marshall III. You have your homework.
August 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Read anything by Vine Deloria Jr. Read, ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me,’ by James Loewen. Read Howard Zinn’s ‘A People’s History of the United States,’ and read ‘The Lakota Way,’ by Joseph Marshall III. You have your homework.
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The story of how Trump sells access to the White House - to benefit himself and his family financially and to benefit his political operation - is shocking and sordid.
No President has ever monetized access like Trump has.
1/ It's a story you need to know.
No President has ever monetized access like Trump has.
1/ It's a story you need to know.
August 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The story of how Trump sells access to the White House - to benefit himself and his family financially and to benefit his political operation - is shocking and sordid.
No President has ever monetized access like Trump has.
1/ It's a story you need to know.
No President has ever monetized access like Trump has.
1/ It's a story you need to know.
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The dam has burst
July 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The dam has burst
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The Dem 2026 messaging seems, at this point, pretty damn simple. Donald Trump is running a protection racket for the elites.
www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats’ 2026 Rallying Cry Is Staring Them in the Face
Plus: The big difference in where money for the midterms is going so far.
www.thebulwark.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The Dem 2026 messaging seems, at this point, pretty damn simple. Donald Trump is running a protection racket for the elites.
www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...
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America has the most corrupt political system in the Western world.
July 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
America has the most corrupt political system in the Western world.
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Christ, I just went down this rabbit hole and there is a LOT
July 2, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Christ, I just went down this rabbit hole and there is a LOT
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NEW: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…
www.propublica.org
June 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
NEW: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
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Just a reminder going forward...
(cartoon from 2003)
(cartoon from 2003)
June 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Just a reminder going forward...
(cartoon from 2003)
(cartoon from 2003)
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A question every reporter should be asking Trump and Republicans:
If Trump doesn't trust his own Director of National Intelligence, and by extension, US intelligence, then which country's intelligence is he relying upon?
If Trump doesn't trust his own Director of National Intelligence, and by extension, US intelligence, then which country's intelligence is he relying upon?
June 22, 2025 at 6:38 AM
A question every reporter should be asking Trump and Republicans:
If Trump doesn't trust his own Director of National Intelligence, and by extension, US intelligence, then which country's intelligence is he relying upon?
If Trump doesn't trust his own Director of National Intelligence, and by extension, US intelligence, then which country's intelligence is he relying upon?
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This former Marine PAO is 50 years younger than I yet she gives advice that I wish I'd thought to give.
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June 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This former Marine PAO is 50 years younger than I yet she gives advice that I wish I'd thought to give.
🎯💯
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Stephen Miller watching his wife go work for Elon
May 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Stephen Miller watching his wife go work for Elon