Mark Clemens
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Mark Clemens
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· Sep 1
Johnson Cuts Short House Business to Avoid Vote on Releasing Epstein Files
www.nytimes.com
It’s September! The leaves are falling, the air is chilled and Congress is back. Ok, let’s see the Epstein files, Mr Speaker.
Kennedy: “I probably did say, Lyme disease is highly likely a militarily engineered bioweapon.”
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Kennedy: “I probably did say, Lyme disease is highly likely a militarily engineered bioweapon.”
RFK, Jr: “Because 24 years of evidence ain’t enough to make it safe and effective.”
RFK Jr. launches FDA review of abortion pill
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Republican states this week that the FDA would conduct a new review of abortion pills.
abcnews.go.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
RFK, Jr: “Because 24 years of evidence ain’t enough to make it safe and effective.”
Congratulations to Lindsey Halligan, the 2025 FIFA Sarah Palin award winner. (Alina Habba, Runner-Up).
Halligan Continues as U.S. Attorney, Prompting Criticism From Judges
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Congratulations to Lindsey Halligan, the 2025 FIFA Sarah Palin award winner. (Alina Habba, Runner-Up).
Congratulations to Pete Hegseth, the 2025 FIFA Benedict Arnold Courage Under Fire award winner.
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Congratulations to Pete Hegseth, the 2025 FIFA Benedict Arnold Courage Under Fire award winner.
Congratulations to Robert Kennedy, Jr, winner of the FIFA Josef Mengele award for Public Health.
RFK Jr. says he personally directed CDC's new guidance on vaccines and autism
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told The New York Times in an interview that he personally directed the U.S.
apnews.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Congratulations to Robert Kennedy, Jr, winner of the FIFA Josef Mengele award for Public Health.
Congratulations to Pam Bondi, FIFA Best Actor of the Year in a dramatic role.
Bondi orders US law enforcement to investigate 'extremist groups'
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday ordered federal law enforcement to step up investigations into the anti-fascist antifa movement and similar "extremist groups," and asked the FBI to compile...
www.reuters.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Congratulations to Pam Bondi, FIFA Best Actor of the Year in a dramatic role.
Congratulations to Kristi Noem, the 2025 FIFA Humanitarian of the Year.
Judge weighs potential contempt prosecution referral for Kristi Noem in El Salvador deportations
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem directed that hundreds of Venezuelan men who were removed from the U.S. in March be transferred to El Salvador, according to a new court filing.
abcnews.go.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Congratulations to Kristi Noem, the 2025 FIFA Humanitarian of the Year.
A little like waiting to get polio before the vaccination.
December 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A little like waiting to get polio before the vaccination.
This is disturbing, if true.
Disinformation workers to be barred from entering U.S., per State Dept.
A new memo shows the Trump administration is ramping up its campaign against people who work to stem the spread of disinformation and hate speech online.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is disturbing, if true.
Yeah, the 1st Amendment is just a suggestion.
Another line of attack: White House sets up a hall of shame for news outlets
President Donald Trump's White House has established a hall of shame for journalists it finds guilty of media bias as it looks for new avenues of attack against legacy news outlets.
apnews.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Yeah, the 1st Amendment is just a suggestion.
After taxes, seven bucks. Woohoo.
December 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
After taxes, seven bucks. Woohoo.
This man left his mark on the world and a much better place.
Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This man left his mark on the world and a much better place.
Nobel Laureate Barack Obama wanted this one badly.
Donald Trump awarded inaugural FIFA Peace Prize by Gianni Infantino
FIFA never announced nominees for the new award and has not said how or by whom the winner was chosen.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Nobel Laureate Barack Obama wanted this one badly.
Pam Bondi must be so disappointed.
Accused DC pipe bomber told FBI he believed the 2020 election was stolen, sources say | CNN Politics
During interviews with the FBI, the suspect arrested in the pipe bomb probe told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen, providing perhaps the first indication of a possible motiv...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Pam Bondi must be so disappointed.
Wow. The first annual FIFA Peace Prize. Awarded at the Trump/Kennedy Center and Donald Trump won it on the same day Trump’s Admiral Bradley defended extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea. Hard to believe that they didn’t award it at the new Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace.
Donald Trump awarded inaugural FIFA Peace Prize by Gianni Infantino
FIFA never announced nominees for the new award and has not said how or by whom the winner was chosen.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Wow. The first annual FIFA Peace Prize. Awarded at the Trump/Kennedy Center and Donald Trump won it on the same day Trump’s Admiral Bradley defended extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea. Hard to believe that they didn’t award it at the new Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace.
A member of the Democratic Party is a Democrat.
Trump likes to call it the Democrat Party because he thinks it sounds more like a slur.
It’s been the Democratic Party since 1828. Calling it the Democrat Party is just adding a Markwayne Mullins accent to it. democrats.org
Trump likes to call it the Democrat Party because he thinks it sounds more like a slur.
It’s been the Democratic Party since 1828. Calling it the Democrat Party is just adding a Markwayne Mullins accent to it. democrats.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A member of the Democratic Party is a Democrat.
Trump likes to call it the Democrat Party because he thinks it sounds more like a slur.
It’s been the Democratic Party since 1828. Calling it the Democrat Party is just adding a Markwayne Mullins accent to it. democrats.org
Trump likes to call it the Democrat Party because he thinks it sounds more like a slur.
It’s been the Democratic Party since 1828. Calling it the Democrat Party is just adding a Markwayne Mullins accent to it. democrats.org
Abbe Lowell’s rejected Grand Jury indictment of Leticia James just floated another turd in the Trump Justice Department pool. Again.
Grand jury rejects new mortgage fraud indictment against New York Atty. Gen. Letitia James
Prosecutors went back to a grand jury in Virginia after a judge’s ruling halting the prosecution of James and another longtime Trump foe, former FBI Director James Comey, on the grounds that the U.S. ...
www.latimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Abbe Lowell’s rejected Grand Jury indictment of Leticia James just floated another turd in the Trump Justice Department pool. Again.
How ironic that the new Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace was, in the words of Judge Beryl Howell, “taken over with blunt force, backed up by law enforcement officers from three separate local and federal agencies." Sounds like a new “Truth” Social.
December 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
How ironic that the new Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace was, in the words of Judge Beryl Howell, “taken over with blunt force, backed up by law enforcement officers from three separate local and federal agencies." Sounds like a new “Truth” Social.
This is about as close to a “kill them all” order as you can get.
How does he get away with this crap?
How does he get away with this crap?
‘We're Gonna Kill Them:’ Trump Signals No Formal Declaration Of War Against Venezuelan Drug Cartels
At least nine U.S. military strikes have been carried out against alleged drug vessels in the Caribbean since September.
www.forbes.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This is about as close to a “kill them all” order as you can get.
How does he get away with this crap?
How does he get away with this crap?
The notion that 2 survivors in a skiff hit by a Hellfire missile can climb back in the skiff after the strike and continue to deliver their cargo of drugs to a destination 500 miles away is only plausible to a Republican. To believe this is to believe January 6th was a “love-fest.”
‘One of the most troubling things I’ve seen’: lawmakers briefed on double-tap strike | CNN Politics
Two top House lawmakers emerged divided along party lines after a private briefing with the military official who oversaw September’s attack on an alleged drug vessel that included a so-called double-...
www.cnn.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The notion that 2 survivors in a skiff hit by a Hellfire missile can climb back in the skiff after the strike and continue to deliver their cargo of drugs to a destination 500 miles away is only plausible to a Republican. To believe this is to believe January 6th was a “love-fest.”
Maybe Trump is not the best person to judge guilt or innocence. His own legal brushes with the courts seem to indicate he’s not wild about due process.
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Maybe Trump is not the best person to judge guilt or innocence. His own legal brushes with the courts seem to indicate he’s not wild about due process.
The one qualification that all Trump Cabinet Secretaries have is that they are spectacularly unqualified to do their job.
Live updates: CDC vaccine advisers meeting to discuss childhood vaccine schedule | CNN
Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting today, and they could vote on possible changes to the childhood vaccination schedule. Follow here for live updates fro...
www.cnn.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The one qualification that all Trump Cabinet Secretaries have is that they are spectacularly unqualified to do their job.
Mr President, any advice for Putin?
“Epstein affordability is a Democrat hoax. Look, we’re being invaded by Himalayan sherpas from the Gulf of America to Mount McKinley and they’re eating the dogs because it’s much easier to hit Venezuela by land after I send everyone a $2,000 tariff bonus. okay?”
“Epstein affordability is a Democrat hoax. Look, we’re being invaded by Himalayan sherpas from the Gulf of America to Mount McKinley and they’re eating the dogs because it’s much easier to hit Venezuela by land after I send everyone a $2,000 tariff bonus. okay?”
CNBC: "This data would suggest this is US companies, US consumers paying these tariffs ... that's part of what's been dragging down the economy ... I don't think we have a booming job market"
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Mr President, any advice for Putin?
“Epstein affordability is a Democrat hoax. Look, we’re being invaded by Himalayan sherpas from the Gulf of America to Mount McKinley and they’re eating the dogs because it’s much easier to hit Venezuela by land after I send everyone a $2,000 tariff bonus. okay?”
“Epstein affordability is a Democrat hoax. Look, we’re being invaded by Himalayan sherpas from the Gulf of America to Mount McKinley and they’re eating the dogs because it’s much easier to hit Venezuela by land after I send everyone a $2,000 tariff bonus. okay?”
Funny how that works…
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Funny how that works…
This is a ticking time bomb for the United States, buried under the Trump administration. It will take decades to recover. Add tariffs and wars to it, and we have self-isolated ourselves from the rest of the world.
U.S. Diplomats Report Broken Morale and Abandoned Careers
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is a ticking time bomb for the United States, buried under the Trump administration. It will take decades to recover. Add tariffs and wars to it, and we have self-isolated ourselves from the rest of the world.