America in Distress
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This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.
Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
As a parent this hits home as I am in that question phase with my children.
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A key aspect to all of this is the fact that while Donald Trump is the most famous person in the world now, he wasn’t two decades ago. Yes famous, but not famous enough to have this many photos with him unless he’s deep in your social circle
WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A key aspect to all of this is the fact that while Donald Trump is the most famous person in the world now, he wasn’t two decades ago. Yes famous, but not famous enough to have this many photos with him unless he’s deep in your social circle
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Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
December 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
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This Miller deep dive scared the shit out of me. He's evil.
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This Miller deep dive scared the shit out of me. He's evil.
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If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now
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Would a low information reader get any sense from Politico reporting that all politicians and billionaires except for Bill Clinton have been scrubbed from the files? Not at all. Politico deliberately deceives its readers into thinking the Epstein files are actually being released.
December 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Would a low information reader get any sense from Politico reporting that all politicians and billionaires except for Bill Clinton have been scrubbed from the files? Not at all. Politico deliberately deceives its readers into thinking the Epstein files are actually being released.
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Do these CNN headlines help Americans to understand the severity of DOJ lawbreaking? No, Ma’am. The very opposite. They prevent people from comprehending what just happened. They make this country dumber and less informed.
December 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Do these CNN headlines help Americans to understand the severity of DOJ lawbreaking? No, Ma’am. The very opposite. They prevent people from comprehending what just happened. They make this country dumber and less informed.
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And may every day be another wonderful secret.
December 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
And may every day be another wonderful secret.
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An NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files. n.pr/4pO8hXB
Available to download Friday, some Epstein files no longer there Saturday afternoon
An NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files.
n.pr
December 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
An NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files. n.pr/4pO8hXB
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This is the shit that'll get them. We already have footage that all the public has seen (even the dopes) & photos of them together. A smart crook would leave a few photos/emails/notes in the files to show that what contact he did have with Epstein wasn't as bad as others, but instead they do this
i’m just going to assume the 90% of pages that they blacked out is ONLY donald trump
December 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
This is the shit that'll get them. We already have footage that all the public has seen (even the dopes) & photos of them together. A smart crook would leave a few photos/emails/notes in the files to show that what contact he did have with Epstein wasn't as bad as others, but instead they do this
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I know I'm late to this but the double "the" is incredible.
December 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I know I'm late to this but the double "the" is incredible.
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“It’s pretty striking that a secretary of defense who has posted, gleefully, video of strikes of drug boats, now says we cannot post a strike of a drug boat.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
For Hegseth, There Is One Boat Strike He Doesn’t Want the Public to See
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“It’s pretty striking that a secretary of defense who has posted, gleefully, video of strikes of drug boats, now says we cannot post a strike of a drug boat.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
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So the "most transparent president in history" won't let Jack Smith's testimony become public. He's got them holding back tens of thousands of Epstein documents, haven't seen his taxes, his school records, and no one knows why the East Wing was destroyed before he even had ballroom plans. Yeah.
December 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
So the "most transparent president in history" won't let Jack Smith's testimony become public. He's got them holding back tens of thousands of Epstein documents, haven't seen his taxes, his school records, and no one knows why the East Wing was destroyed before he even had ballroom plans. Yeah.
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lmao this is the worst possible way they could have done it, you gotta leave him in some non-terrible stuff so you can argue that's all there is
"he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly
"he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly
December 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
lmao this is the worst possible way they could have done it, you gotta leave him in some non-terrible stuff so you can argue that's all there is
"he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly
"he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly
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Pam, darling, you missed a spot.
December 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Pam, darling, you missed a spot.
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Hey! Remember when Barr (Bondi) withheld the Mueller (Epstein) documents for weeks so he (she) could mischaracterize what was in the Mueller (Epstein) Report and spin the findings for three weeks and then over-redact them? I sure do!
December 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey! Remember when Barr (Bondi) withheld the Mueller (Epstein) documents for weeks so he (she) could mischaracterize what was in the Mueller (Epstein) Report and spin the findings for three weeks and then over-redact them? I sure do!
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I guess Epstein isn’t in the Epstein files.
December 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I guess Epstein isn’t in the Epstein files.
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Walz: "It's very clear that the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota. They're threatening us. And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency and it's about those ballrooms. Now we're back on transgender folks."
December 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Walz: "It's very clear that the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota. They're threatening us. And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency and it's about those ballrooms. Now we're back on transgender folks."
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Imagine if, in 2022, when Russia occupied nearly 30% of Ukraine and was close to Kyiv, we had been told that almost four years later, Russia would still be fighting for Donbas and would only occupy 20% of Ukraine.
We would all have considered it a Russian failure
We would all have considered it a Russian failure
December 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Imagine if, in 2022, when Russia occupied nearly 30% of Ukraine and was close to Kyiv, we had been told that almost four years later, Russia would still be fighting for Donbas and would only occupy 20% of Ukraine.
We would all have considered it a Russian failure
We would all have considered it a Russian failure
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my “yes, even the empty margins of our files are redacted” t-shirt answers a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt
December 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
my “yes, even the empty margins of our files are redacted” t-shirt answers a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt
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🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice will fail to publicly release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by a Friday deadline, violating a new federal law explicitly mandating that the trove of documents be turned over for public scrutiny. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Chickens Out on Epstein Files Release in Violation of New Law
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice will fail to publicly release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by a Friday deadline, violating a new federal law explicitly mandating that the trove of documents be turned over for public scrutiny. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Peace through being a little bitch.
Rubio on Russia-Ukraine: "It's not our war. It's a war on another continent."
December 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Peace through being a little bitch.
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Trump wants America to “shrink from a global…to a regional power.”
Ambassador Susan Rice warns: stay alert — this administration thrives on distraction and destruction: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/dictatorship-isolation-and-automation
Ambassador Susan Rice warns: stay alert — this administration thrives on distraction and destruction: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/dictatorship-isolation-and-automation
Dictatorship, Isolation, and Automation: Susan Rice Assesses 2025
The Ambassador warns the nation of looming fascist threats domestic and abroad
contrarian.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Trump wants America to “shrink from a global…to a regional power.”
Ambassador Susan Rice warns: stay alert — this administration thrives on distraction and destruction: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/dictatorship-isolation-and-automation
Ambassador Susan Rice warns: stay alert — this administration thrives on distraction and destruction: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/dictatorship-isolation-and-automation
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"May have to be approved by Congress"
May?
Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
🤷♂️🤦♂️
May?
Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
🤷♂️🤦♂️
That’s quite a peppy headline for yet another outrageous dictator move.
December 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"May have to be approved by Congress"
May?
Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
🤷♂️🤦♂️
May?
Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
🤷♂️🤦♂️
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Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.
December 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Warnock: He's got a lot of nerve saying that I'm using faith to divide people. This is a man who literally had protesters gassed and beaten down so he could hold up a bible in front of a church.
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The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)
December 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)