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#StandWithTheConstitution
#StandWithTheRuleOfLaw #StandWithUkraine🇺🇦 #StandWithNATO
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November 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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This coming from one of the biggest financial deadbeats in the EU...Hungary:
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Hungarian PM Viktor Orban launched another attack on EU support for Ukraine, comparing financial aid to “sending another crate of vodka to an alcoholic.” He criticized EU plans for increased funding, accusing Brussels of fueling a corrupt “military mafia” instead of demanding accountability.
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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The rest of the world doesn’t want to come here. The rest of the world is afraid to come here. Trump’s America is the exact opposite of that “shining city on a hill.”👇
November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Reid Hoffman nukes Trump’s plan calling for an investigation into Epstein’s ties to Reid Hoffman
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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‼️ Russia: “Volodin: The Russian budget must protect the interests of Russian citizens”

😂 Sure

tass.ru/ekonomika/25...
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The second paragraph of every article about Trump freeing House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files should make it clear that he could order them released himself and chooses not to.
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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This really needs to be stressed, as it seems obvious Trump is going to let them vote to release it and then pretend his hands are tied.

He’s had the power to release them all along, and still does. It’s just his excuses that are changing.
The second paragraph of every article about Trump freeing House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files should make it clear that he could order them released himself and chooses not to.
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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If you are unaware of the absolute horrific tragedy that is happening in our first person communities please take a few minutes to become informed. If this was blond haired blue-eyed people we would have declared a national emergency and be throwing an inexhaustible amount of resources at this.
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I want to tell you what we know about Trump’s truly sh*tty economy. Then I’ll suggest 10 things that Democrats should pledge to do about it. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-truly-shtty-economy
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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National Guard cases in SCOTUS, Epstein files, & pardons: Here’s what you need to know to be ready for the week ahead.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Week Ahead
November 16, 2025
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Several women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein came together for a powerful PSA video demanding that Congress release all files on the accused sex trafficker.

“While we are Epstein and Maxwell survivors, we are standing for so many victims of sexual assault and of domestic violence, as well.”
Epstein survivors push for release of files in new PSA, say fight isn't political
Several women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have come together for a public service announcement video demanding that Congress release all files on the accused sex trafficker.“It’s a call to a...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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“I’d release my taxes but they’re under audit.”

“I’d release the Epstein files but they’re part of an active investigation.”

“You’ll have it in two weeks.”

America is tired of the excuses and lies.
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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FBI assets currently exist primarily to serve Kash’s social life and calendar. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/k...
November 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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‼️ Russia: “Russia has decided to use budget funds to film a comedy about the war in Ukraine.”

🤦‍♀️

www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/11/17/v...
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Let's call it the Trump Murder Memo. Based on what we know about it, this memo looks like it may be substantially worse than the Bush torture memo. Liberal commentators should be talking more about this.

#TrumpMurderMemo
The Trump Murder Memo is an admission of legal vulnerability on boat bombings. Read @dandrezner.bsky.social: "It is extremely unusual for a DOJ memo to preemptively declare that members of the armed forces are immune from prosecution."

(cites my report)
danieldrezner.substack.com/p/so-how-is-...
So How Is the Illegal War Going?
The Trump administration keeps killing people in the Caribbean in the hopes of... what, exactly?
danieldrezner.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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AXIOS: “Two of the hottest songs in country music were generated by artificial intelligence,” pitting AI against humans who earn their living as songwriters ..

A “human singer-songwriter .. is #2 ..”

@axios.com
www.axios.com/local/nashvi...
November 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Reup: One thing EVERYONE is missing abt the two things that went down last week--Bondi bowing to Trump's demand for an investigation of Dems, and her re-ratification of the Comey indictment--is how vulnerable Bondi is, both politically and legally.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/16/m...
Might Pam Bondi's Latest Prosecutorial Abuse Give Us Ponies and Puppies? - emptywheel
Pam Bondi's obeisance to Trump's demand she conduct a frivolous investigation into Democrats to make his own Epstein scandal go away may be a gift to Jim Comey.
www.emptywheel.net
November 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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‼️ Russia: “Russian cargo air carriers have warned of the risk of completely ceasing operations within three to five years. “

🍿

“the industry is facing a critical shortage of spare parts, depleted aircraft resources, and a severe personnel shortage.”

www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/11/17/b...
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Definitely read Chris on what EB White would say about being expropriated by fascist goons.

But I honestly think this could backfire.

Bovino literally adopted a name in which he is the clear bad guy and the women and secretly smart folk are the clever heroes.
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.

DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.

Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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In Donetsk region, a Ukrainian ground drone took out a Russian FPV loitering unit with machine gun fire.
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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But of course. We all remember all those decades and centuries of a very civilized Russia before Putin that contributed so much to European civilization.
OPINION: According to Yulia Navalnaya, the Russian opposition believe their nation is an inseparable part of European civilization.

For this reason, they see the dark years of Putinism as an aberration, not an historical inevitability.

🔗 politi.co/3K7mbnY 
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM