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The Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, was outed running the Epstein coverup from his office in the Department of Justice. Emails released this week show that his interview with Ghislaine Maxwell was a sham and a betrayal. youtube.com/shorts/hQeKb...
Todd Blanche’s Big Betrayal
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, was outed running the Epstein coverup from his office in the Department of Justice. Emails released this week show that his interview with Ghislaine Maxwell was a sham and a betrayal. youtube.com/shorts/hQeKb...
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I love how DOJ pushes back in this article by citing to what the still undisclosed memo supposedly says.
Simply releasing the document itself could really clarify what the administration’s legal rationale is.
Simply releasing the document itself could really clarify what the administration’s legal rationale is.
Glad to speak with @alexward.bsky.social about the license to kill that the Department of Justice furnished the Trump administration.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Exclusive | Secret U.S. Memo Authorizing Drug-Boat Strikes Cites Chemical Weapon Threat
The brief outlines the Trump administration’s legal case for military action against alleged drug-carrying boats in the Caribbean and Pacific.
www.wsj.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I love how DOJ pushes back in this article by citing to what the still undisclosed memo supposedly says.
Simply releasing the document itself could really clarify what the administration’s legal rationale is.
Simply releasing the document itself could really clarify what the administration’s legal rationale is.
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New: A site licensing Trump's name is selling merch with the presidential seal — including a $20 beer-pong set with “Presidential themed balls.”
Federal law says you can’t manufacture or sell likenesses of the seal without authorization.
me, for @forbes.com
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Federal law says you can’t manufacture or sell likenesses of the seal without authorization.
me, for @forbes.com
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Trump-Licensed Presidential Seal Beer Pong Set Could Violate Federal Law
A site affiliated with Lee Greenwood sells merchandise with the seal—such as a $20 beer pong set with “Presidential themed balls”—and pays licensing fees to a Trump LLC.
www.forbes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
New: A site licensing Trump's name is selling merch with the presidential seal — including a $20 beer-pong set with “Presidential themed balls.”
Federal law says you can’t manufacture or sell likenesses of the seal without authorization.
me, for @forbes.com
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Federal law says you can’t manufacture or sell likenesses of the seal without authorization.
me, for @forbes.com
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I was a huge Dalton fan. Living Daylights is a great flick
Dalton was best.
*ducks*
*ducks*
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I was a huge Dalton fan. Living Daylights is a great flick
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This entire administration is a national security risk
As the FBI’s deputy director, Dan Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This entire administration is a national security risk
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The same thing happened with Veep. The last season they had to phone it in because Jonah Ryan’s crazy MAGA style stunts were less wild than what was actually happening in politics.
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The same thing happened with Veep. The last season they had to phone it in because Jonah Ryan’s crazy MAGA style stunts were less wild than what was actually happening in politics.
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I remember when HOUSE OF CARDS debuted and I would tell people, "this is ludicrous, this is not how politics works," and by the show's last season it was so much tamer than real life.
When I chose to study politics for a living I had no idea that politics would get this dumb.
November 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I remember when HOUSE OF CARDS debuted and I would tell people, "this is ludicrous, this is not how politics works," and by the show's last season it was so much tamer than real life.
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Yes, a modern incarnation of Charles Guiteau would have his own meme coin and have been pardoned and appointed special envoy to Europe by the Trump administration.
. . . reaction to the screen version was to think at how heavily the current government seems made of people like him.
November 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Yes, a modern incarnation of Charles Guiteau would have his own meme coin and have been pardoned and appointed special envoy to Europe by the Trump administration.
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The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The important thing is not whether the Trump performing sexual favors for Bill Clinton thing is true. The important thing is that we all pretend it’s true, and that someone asks Trump about it every day.
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One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
www.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
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I do wonder how much of the capitulation is a calculation that the next administration will immediately tear up these agreements. So it’s cheaper to comply for a few years to avoid the cost of litigation and suspension of funds.
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
www.cnn.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I do wonder how much of the capitulation is a calculation that the next administration will immediately tear up these agreements. So it’s cheaper to comply for a few years to avoid the cost of litigation and suspension of funds.
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I said as much. Some cynics sneered but I think it's true. Politics is a business of using symbols to your advantage. Everyone knows the White House, and even if you have little or no patriotic or romantic attachment to it, you know it belongs to the Nation, not a person. And that cuts through.
Sir, I was wondering if I could get your thoughts on my theory that summarily demolishing the White House was a symbolic blow to the country and thus his single biggest miscalculation. I feel it set the stage for much of what has come since.
November 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I said as much. Some cynics sneered but I think it's true. Politics is a business of using symbols to your advantage. Everyone knows the White House, and even if you have little or no patriotic or romantic attachment to it, you know it belongs to the Nation, not a person. And that cuts through.
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The people who censor pamphlets, books, and the press are not on the right side of history.
When they push harder it is because they see their own precarity, the power slipping away.
Fights for books, fight for democracy.
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
@aabbri.bsky.social
@uabookbans.bsky.social
When they push harder it is because they see their own precarity, the power slipping away.
Fights for books, fight for democracy.
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
@aabbri.bsky.social
@uabookbans.bsky.social
On this day in 1830, North Carolina passed laws that criminalized teaching enslaved Black people to read and that made the repeated dissemination of anti-slavery pamphlets punishable by death.
Nov. 15, 1830 | NC Mandates Death Sentence for Dissemination of Anti-Slavery Pamphlet
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
calendar.eji.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The people who censor pamphlets, books, and the press are not on the right side of history.
When they push harder it is because they see their own precarity, the power slipping away.
Fights for books, fight for democracy.
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
@aabbri.bsky.social
@uabookbans.bsky.social
When they push harder it is because they see their own precarity, the power slipping away.
Fights for books, fight for democracy.
@txfreedomread.bsky.social
@aabbri.bsky.social
@uabookbans.bsky.social
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Looking at this fiasco, and the mess Starmer is making of government, it’s looking more and more like the defeat of Corbynism was about its own limitations rather than the Machiavellian machinations of the Labour right
Three people who’d be expected to be Your Party bigwigs have largely walked away from Corbyn’s project: former NE mayor Jamie Driscoll, former Labour MP Beth Winter, and former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein.
I have some new intel on the fall-out, if you’re interested in that sort of thing… 🧵
I have some new intel on the fall-out, if you’re interested in that sort of thing… 🧵
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Looking at this fiasco, and the mess Starmer is making of government, it’s looking more and more like the defeat of Corbynism was about its own limitations rather than the Machiavellian machinations of the Labour right
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thinking about how the president with the highest approval ratings in the history of reliable measurement of such, saw the nation through its worst terrorist attack, devastated the opposition's core coalition in reelection, wasn't even invited to his party's nominating convention the next term
Not enough people realizing we are in the lame duck years now.
Trump un-endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
thinking about how the president with the highest approval ratings in the history of reliable measurement of such, saw the nation through its worst terrorist attack, devastated the opposition's core coalition in reelection, wasn't even invited to his party's nominating convention the next term
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A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold.
Where are my Originalists at?
Where are my Originalists at?
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold.
Where are my Originalists at?
Where are my Originalists at?
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Trump says he’s withdrawing his support for Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“…I can't take a ranting Lunatic's call every day.”
“She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors.”
“…I can't take a ranting Lunatic's call every day.”
“She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Trump says he’s withdrawing his support for Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“…I can't take a ranting Lunatic's call every day.”
“She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors.”
“…I can't take a ranting Lunatic's call every day.”
“She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors.”
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From the beginning, we told UC administrators we needed to fight. They treated us like children, too starry-eyed and naive to grasp the reality of our new regime.
November 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
From the beginning, we told UC administrators we needed to fight. They treated us like children, too starry-eyed and naive to grasp the reality of our new regime.
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get
whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.
whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get
whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.
whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.
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If Joe Biden had an MRI a month ago and we had no idea why it was done or on what body part and he claimed he had no idea about either of those things it would literally be all you heard about in the press but Trump just gets a huge pass b/c reporters treat him differently.
November 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If Joe Biden had an MRI a month ago and we had no idea why it was done or on what body part and he claimed he had no idea about either of those things it would literally be all you heard about in the press but Trump just gets a huge pass b/c reporters treat him differently.
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A quarter of the entire deployed US Navy is now stationed in the Caribbean.
That goes way beyond frighteners.
That goes way beyond frighteners.
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A quarter of the entire deployed US Navy is now stationed in the Caribbean.
That goes way beyond frighteners.
That goes way beyond frighteners.
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Don't forget, it was argued before SCOTUS that the felon could order the killing of people and should be immune. SCOTUS then agreed to that by awarding him immunity.
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Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
It gets even darker than that. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Boat Bombings Take Dark, Unnerving Turn with Leaked Memo Stunner
A new Trump administration memo argues that those carrying out the boat attacks can’t be prosecuted. Why? Because the administration says so!
newrepublic.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Don't forget, it was argued before SCOTUS that the felon could order the killing of people and should be immune. SCOTUS then agreed to that by awarding him immunity.
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What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...