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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

The Epstein files contain the name of a prominent former PM who brutally beat & sexually assaulted an 18 year old.

Trump, Bondi, Patel & Johnson don’t want the world to know his name.

That’s why Johnson will have the House adjourned today for the 78th day out of the last 90.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h

Trump's FTC just deleted articles by former Chair Lina Khan about the dangers of AI.

Meanwhile, Trump is fast-tracking data center permits after Big Tech gave huge donations to his inauguration.

AI is making the richest Americans even richer while everyone else pays the price.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "Can I have your vote Josh? Because I like Josh. And Josh, who can be very difficult, said, 'Sir, you have my vote.' His wife was screaming at him on the other side. But I called people and they weren't really hard nosed. They wanted a little attention unfortunately at 4 in the morning."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

we doomed america because we wouldn't say "are you just stupid, bro?" and make it too embarrassing to support him, because then everyone knows you're stupid, too

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "Buttigieg spent billions fixing the air traffic control. They used copper wire going into glass wire. Any union electrician here or any non-union electrician would say you can't hook copper into glass. It doesn't work. They spent billions, turned on the system & it was stone cold blank"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

Cost of the Argentina bailout Trump is trying to finance: $40B.

That same amount could fund almost two years of extended ACA subsidies, or two years of full SNAP benefits, or nearly all of the annual Medicare cuts from Trump's Big Ugly Bill.

Priorities.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

Bondi put 1000+ personnel on finding and tagging Trump’s name in the Epstein files. There were training videos showing them how. I’ve filed a FOIA for those videos and have sued the government to get them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mike Johnson: "Suddenly now, they've somehow convinced themselves that the Epstein files will be damaging to President Trump and Republicans in some way that they've imagined, and so they feign outrage."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h

Ironically, the current head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division which is supposedly committed to combatting antisemitism on American campuses was embroiled in a controversy in college involving antisemitic stuff her conservative campus newspaper published. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Jul 24

Interestingly, when Dhillon was the editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth Review her paper was accused of trafficking in antisemitism when it published an article comparing conservatives on campus to Holocaust victims, and equating Dartmouth's Jewish president with Hitler. NYTimes, 6 November 1988.

Satire by Dartmouth Publication
Under Heavy Fire as Anti-Semitic
By ALLAN R. GOLD
Special to The New York Times
BOSTON, Nov. 5
A bitter war of
words between Dartmouth College and
right-wing
weekly
erupted again, this time over a satirical column likening the school's
Pecs oftis Campus plictes to the Hote
A column in the Oct. 19 issue of the weekly, The Dartmouth Review, appeared under the headline "Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Freedmann," a play on a Nazi slogan, "One Empire, One People, One Leader,
" but substituting and mis-
spelling the name of James O. Freed-man, the president of the school in Han-over, N.H., for "Führer."
Using the analogy of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, James Garrett describes how
bes how "per
Freedmann" and his associates rid the campus of conservatives. A drawing on the cover of the next issue, on Oct. 26, also depicted Mr. Freedman, who has been critical of The Review, as Hitler.
Reaction to the column was muted until Thursday, when a full-page advertisement assailing
Review and
signed by four associate faculty deans appeared in The Dartmouth, the daily student newspaper.
"Wildly Inappropriate"
An editorial Thursday in The Dartmouth also took The Review to task:
"Tie column is anti-Semitic; its impact rings through this community today and will remain long after its publishers have completed their stints in Hanover."
Several faculty members
have written to outside advisers of The
lege, asking them to reconsider allowing their names to be associated with the publication.
"The fact that President Freedman is Jewish raises the stakes in a rather frightening way.
mouth president to Hitler is so wildly greeted warmly. inappropriate that one
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mation League of B'nai B'rith, in Bos- Review receives more than $100,000 in ton, has also condemned the column.
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Conservative Problem" and to "survi- an…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers.

And after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in Vietnam.

And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.

Today it roars once more — at the tyrant in the Oval Office.

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 4h

Speaker of the Empty House

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 7h

Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 5h

A reminder all: GO TO JURY DUTY WHEN YOU ARE SUMMONED

Yes it is disruptive of schedules but these days, juries need you

Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 5h

There are war crimes and then there are War Crimes. Murder, for however awful it is, tends to be terminal, the person dies. The kidnapping of children is a specific form of intergenerational violence that will rip apart relations between Russia and Ukraine for a century

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 7h

"I abducted a child from Mariupol and brought him into my family."

Russia's Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, has admitted guilt in a war crime - the abduction of Ukrainian children - for which the Hague court issued a warrant.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4h

How does one steal $23K and not get arrested?

Dona Flaca @chilangolandia.bsky.social · 4h

At two of those events, the club ran up bills of more than $23,000 over a weekend at a Syracuse hotel – spending big on a three-course plated dinner with filet mignon and open bars – but then didn’t pay, according to records obtained by syracuse.com.

NY State Young Republicans stiffed Syracuse hotel for lavish party before racist chat ended their run

Embattled GOP group failed to fully pay bills for three-course steak dinner, luncheon and open bars at Syracuse hotel.

www.syracuse.com

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 6h

Daily reminder that what they did to us on the flotilla was the red carpet, VIP lounge version of what they do to Palestinians

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 3h

Johnson's keeping the House Chamber empty because he knows a functioning House of Representatives will force an end to the shutdown, and salvaging of the healthcare system the GOP just vandalized, as I discuss here.

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wisemet well met @wisemet.bsky.social · 3h

Isn’t he part of Coe’s family cult on C Street? No tv, just a belief that the Pres is God’s chosen and must be defended at all costs?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Warren: "Observe the cruelty of what they're doing. I was a Special Ed teacher long before I ever got into this job... They need extra opportunities so they will also have a chance to succeed. Donald Trump wants to just take that away & Republicans are willing to just stand by and watch him do that"

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The Kakistocracy @thekakistocracy.bsky.social · 3h

I'm wondering about number 2.
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The Kakistocracy @thekakistocracy.bsky.social · 1d

Hegseth: We are sure these were drug boats but why should I tell you how we know?
Vance: We can't tell a fishing boat from a drug boat.

Hegseth: There will be a Qatari military air base in Idaho.
Vance: There will be no Qatari military air base in Idaho.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

JD Vance sparks backlash after joking about US strikes on Venezuelan boats

‘This regime gets giddy about violence. It's sick,’ one social media user wrote

www.independent.co.uk

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Elizabeth Warren: "I'm just going to say something that a lot of people said on Saturday. We don't have a king in this country, and Donald Trump doesn't get to sit over in the White House and make all of these decisions by himself. At least he doesn't get to if Senate Republicans would grow a spine"

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Goldman: The notion that Tom Homan does official consulting business by receiving $50,000 in cash in a Cava bag is preposterous.

And the fact that they closed that investigation while charging Jim Comey and Tish James with bogus charges at Trump’s direction is completely destroying the DOJ.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3h

🚨BREAKING: The North Carolina Senate hastily passed a GOP gerrymander Tuesday in a 26-20 vote, advancing a proposed congressional map that aims to dismantle one of the state’s Black Democratic seats at the request of President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Senate Approves Gerrymander Targeting Black Voters