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BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
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This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
The new pardon ends a legal clash over the limits of Trump’s sweeping Day One clemency for those who stormed the Capitol.
dlvr.it
November 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
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Just say it’s wildly illegal under both domestic law & our international treaty obligations. There’s no need for this brutal torture of the English language.
NEW: By targeting Brazil, President Trump has started to wield tariff threats as a way to meddle in another country’s political affairs, reigniting familiar questions about the legality of his actions to wage a seemingly limitless global trade war.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
Targeting Brazil, Trump Tests Legal Limit of His Tariff Powers
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Just say it’s wildly illegal under both domestic law & our international treaty obligations. There’s no need for this brutal torture of the English language.
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“So this is not gonna be some long, drawn-out thing.”
— VP JD Vance on the US war with Iran, June 22, 2025
“Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”
— Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on a likely US war with Iraq, November 14, 2002
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— VP JD Vance on the US war with Iran, June 22, 2025
“Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”
— Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on a likely US war with Iraq, November 14, 2002
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Vance: I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents
June 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“So this is not gonna be some long, drawn-out thing.”
— VP JD Vance on the US war with Iran, June 22, 2025
“Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”
— Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on a likely US war with Iraq, November 14, 2002
🤔
— VP JD Vance on the US war with Iran, June 22, 2025
“Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that.”
— Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on a likely US war with Iraq, November 14, 2002
🤔
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"Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has $185bn for ICE, which is more than the annual military budgets of the UK and France combined. Wherever ICE raids trigger protests, Trump can send in the troops." My column.
www.ft.com/content/3d6c...
www.ft.com/content/3d6c...
Trump is coming for the ‘enemy within’
Sending the National Guard into LA is the administration’s clearest step yet towards authoritarianism
www.ft.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has $185bn for ICE, which is more than the annual military budgets of the UK and France combined. Wherever ICE raids trigger protests, Trump can send in the troops." My column.
www.ft.com/content/3d6c...
www.ft.com/content/3d6c...
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Alaska Airlines continues its longhaul push, this time headed over the Atlantic from Seattle to Rome using Hawaiian 787s. Flights begin May 2026, on sale fall 2025.
June 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Alaska Airlines continues its longhaul push, this time headed over the Atlantic from Seattle to Rome using Hawaiian 787s. Flights begin May 2026, on sale fall 2025.
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NYT: “.. People making between about $51,000 and $17,000 could lose about $700 on average in after-tax income ..
“By contrast, the top 0.1 percent, including those with incomes over $4.3 million, would gain on average more than $389,000 ..”
@tonyromm.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
“By contrast, the top 0.1 percent, including those with incomes over $4.3 million, would gain on average more than $389,000 ..”
@tonyromm.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
May 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
NYT: “.. People making between about $51,000 and $17,000 could lose about $700 on average in after-tax income ..
“By contrast, the top 0.1 percent, including those with incomes over $4.3 million, would gain on average more than $389,000 ..”
@tonyromm.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
“By contrast, the top 0.1 percent, including those with incomes over $4.3 million, would gain on average more than $389,000 ..”
@tonyromm.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...
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This line is going to stick with me for a very long time.
“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”
“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”
Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
wapo.st
April 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This line is going to stick with me for a very long time.
“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”
“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”
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NBC has confirmed what we have been saying for weeks. Hegseth clearly copied classified strike schedules from a secure device to his personal phones. This alone would get a line service member thrown in prison. But when it’s SecDef we are supposed to ignore it.
Info Pete Hegseth shared with wife, brother came from top general's secure messages
Hegseth has denied the information he shared was classified, but it was given to him on a system for sensitive and classified information, sources told NBC News.
www.nbcnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
NBC has confirmed what we have been saying for weeks. Hegseth clearly copied classified strike schedules from a secure device to his personal phones. This alone would get a line service member thrown in prison. But when it’s SecDef we are supposed to ignore it.
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All I’m saying is that President Harris wouldn’t have us looking at the futures market on a Sunday night.
April 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
All I’m saying is that President Harris wouldn’t have us looking at the futures market on a Sunday night.
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Exclusive: Republicans are debating boosting the top tax rate to as high as 40% for those earning $1 million or more
Republicans Debate Hiking Top Tax Rate to 40% for Millionaires
Republicans are weighing the creation of a new bracket for those earning $1 million or more to offset some of the costs of their tax bill, a stark departure from decades of GOP opposition to tax incre...
www.bloomberg.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Exclusive: Republicans are debating boosting the top tax rate to as high as 40% for those earning $1 million or more
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“.. As a reminder, energy and critical minerals sold by Canada to the US are byproducts of explicit US efforts to reduce reliance on the Middle East and China. The notion that bilateral energy deficits with Canada are ‘subsidies’ is economically, politically and geologically illiterate.”
- JPM 🇨🇦
- JPM 🇨🇦
March 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“.. As a reminder, energy and critical minerals sold by Canada to the US are byproducts of explicit US efforts to reduce reliance on the Middle East and China. The notion that bilateral energy deficits with Canada are ‘subsidies’ is economically, politically and geologically illiterate.”
- JPM 🇨🇦
- JPM 🇨🇦
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I dunno, what else do you call a shadowy group of bureaucrats working to reshape government policy from the inside to serve their own ends? www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
DOGE Is the Deep State
A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!
www.wired.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I dunno, what else do you call a shadowy group of bureaucrats working to reshape government policy from the inside to serve their own ends? www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
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NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
Social Security Workers Aren’t Allowed to Read This Story
New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.
www.wired.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment."
WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
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Overstating Apple’s domestic manufacturing stance is a Trump administration classic.
Assembling iPhones here “is simply *not* what’s happening,” says @stevekovach.bsky.social
@cnbc.com $AAPL
Assembling iPhones here “is simply *not* what’s happening,” says @stevekovach.bsky.social
@cnbc.com $AAPL
Apple's $500 billion U.S. investment: For AI servers not manufacturing iPhones
CNBC's Steve Kovach reports on news regarding Apple's U.S. investment.
www.cnbc.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Overstating Apple’s domestic manufacturing stance is a Trump administration classic.
Assembling iPhones here “is simply *not* what’s happening,” says @stevekovach.bsky.social
@cnbc.com $AAPL
Assembling iPhones here “is simply *not* what’s happening,” says @stevekovach.bsky.social
@cnbc.com $AAPL
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What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?
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This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid
March 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid
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Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…
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Friday's Oval Office betrayal was to create a pretext for this move. As long as Trump is in office, America will be on Putin's side.
March 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Friday's Oval Office betrayal was to create a pretext for this move. As long as Trump is in office, America will be on Putin's side.
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AP: “.. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the contract cancellations, 794 in all, are expected to yield no savings.”
@apnews.com #DOGE 🇺🇸
apnews.com/article/doge...
@apnews.com #DOGE 🇺🇸
apnews.com/article/doge...
Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings
Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money,...
apnews.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
AP: “.. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the contract cancellations, 794 in all, are expected to yield no savings.”
@apnews.com #DOGE 🇺🇸
apnews.com/article/doge...
@apnews.com #DOGE 🇺🇸
apnews.com/article/doge...
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Elon Musk has found that government “waste”. And the only solution is to give more business to Elon Musk.
#oligarchEra 🇺🇸
@cnn.com $VZ
www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/b...
#oligarchEra 🇺🇸
@cnn.com $VZ
www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/b...
Elon Musk says upgrade of FAA’s air traffic control system is failing and SpaceX needs to take over Verizon’s contract | CNN Business
Elon Musk said Thursday that Verizon’s efforts to provide a critically needed upgrade to the FAA’s air traffic control system is failing. And he said that it is important that Starlink, a unit of his ...
www.cnn.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Elon Musk has found that government “waste”. And the only solution is to give more business to Elon Musk.
#oligarchEra 🇺🇸
@cnn.com $VZ
www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/b...
#oligarchEra 🇺🇸
@cnn.com $VZ
www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/b...
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25-year-old Marko Elez has been reinstated in the Trump administration and given an EOP email address, per source, as Musk had said would happen
Elez left Treasury after the WSJ reported that he had tweeted last year: "Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool"
Elez left Treasury after the WSJ reported that he had tweeted last year: "Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool"
February 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
25-year-old Marko Elez has been reinstated in the Trump administration and given an EOP email address, per source, as Musk had said would happen
Elez left Treasury after the WSJ reported that he had tweeted last year: "Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool"
Elez left Treasury after the WSJ reported that he had tweeted last year: "Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool"
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Totally fine smh 🙄 www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
February 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Totally fine smh 🙄 www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
February 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.
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A.P.: “.. It is among the most basic tenets of the First Amendment that the government cannot retaliate against the public or the press for what they say.”
@nytimes.com @apnews.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...
@nytimes.com @apnews.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...
AP Accuses White House of Violating First Amendment
The Associated Press said the White House had blocked its journalists from attending press events because the news agency had not started using the term Gulf of America.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
A.P.: “.. It is among the most basic tenets of the First Amendment that the government cannot retaliate against the public or the press for what they say.”
@nytimes.com @apnews.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...
@nytimes.com @apnews.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...