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Trump Pardons British Billionaire Who Admitted To Insider Trading Scheme

November 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Pardons are for sale, and laws are meant for poor people. I wonder how much Lewis paid the Fat Orange TACO?

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Joe Lewis, whose family trust owns the Tottenham Hotspur soccer club, shared corporate secrets with friends, employees and romantic interests.

'Beyond horrific': Observers aghast as teen at center of Gaetz sex scandal comes forward

November 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

The GOP has a MASSIVE pedophilia problem.

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Reactions mounted Thursday after a woman sharing her story for the first time said that then-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) sexually abused her when she was just 17, while she was living in a homeless shelter...

‘Things are pretty crappy.’ 1 in 4 US households are living paycheck to paycheck

November 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

TACO is doing what he's been installed by the oligarchs to do. Continue to re-direct wealth away from the average American into the hands of the 1%.

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Austin H. can’t wait to buy a house and start a family. But right now, the 34-year-old is barely getting by.

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November 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Dems can’t do squat about any of this, and they’d better do something about it when they’re in power again.

dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/13/2353651/-Top-Democrat-blasts-DOJ-for-hiding-Epstein-evidence-tied-to-Trump?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_1&pm_medium=web

Top Democrat blasts DOJ for hiding Epstein evidence tied to Trump

Rep. Jamie Raskin said in an MSNBC interview on Thursday that Jeffrey Epstein’s recently released emails prove the Department of Justice is deliberately hiding information on ties between ...

Critics Rip JD Vance For Laughing About Joe Biden Death Scenario

November 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

The Couch-Fucker is looking more presidential every day, said no one ever at any time.

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They also weren't buying his boasts about the president's "excellent" health.

'Whole new ballgame': Nevada judges step in with bad news for fake electors

November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Since these are state charges Cheeto Mussolini can't pardon these fake electors for their crimes. Have a nice time in the hoosegow and remember not to drop the soap, guys.

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The fake electors who tried to overturn the election results in Nevada in 2020 just got some bad news from the state Supreme Court.According to Eric Neugeboren for the Nevada Independent, "The Nevada ...

Johnson shifts strategy on Epstein files vote – as GOP leaders brace for mass defections

November 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

This is not a political issue. This is about children being raped and abused. There shouldn't be a single republican or democrat on record against releasing the Epstein files.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson decided to quickly schedule a House vote on an effort to force the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein case files once the calculation was made that it couldn’t be stopped...

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November 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

She's a better human being than me. I would have insisted that someone other than Little Grindr Mikey swear me in.

dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/12/2353514/-House-speaker-ends-pathetic-standoff-and-swears-in-Adelita-Grijalva?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_4&pm_medium=web

House speaker ends pathetic standoff and swears in Adelita Grijalva

Seven weeks after winning a special election , Democrat Adelita Grijalva was finally sworn into Congress on Wednesday, ending a standoff that left more than 800,000 ...

Trump Rages About 'Stupid' Republicans Falling Into Democrats' Epstein 'Trap'

November 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

TACO isn't sharp enough to hide his guilt. He displays it loudly like his ballroom's gaudy gold-painted decor.

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The president's rant comes after newly released Epstein documents suggest he may have known about the late financier's crimes.

Lauren Boebert 'convinced' Epstein conspiracy afoot as Trump pressure backfires

November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Well, what do you know? I guess a broken clock is right twice a day.

rawstory.com/lauren-boebert-trump-2674289805/

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is reportedly "convinced" that there is a conspiracy to cover up files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The lawmaker is one of a handful of Republicans supporting a discharge...

More Americans are unhappy with the way Trump is managing the government, AP-NORC poll shows

November 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

What management? He's taken a wrecking ball to it.

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Approval of the way President Donald Trump is managing the government has dropped sharply since early in his second term, according to a new AP-NORC poll, with much of the rising discontent coming fro...

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November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Doesn't the cowardly GOP ever get tired covering for this pedophile? He should have never gotten past the "grab 'em by the pussy" comments.

dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/12/2353477/-GOP-covers-for-dirty-Donald-amid-Epstein-email-fallout?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_1&pm_medium=web

GOP covers for ‘dirty Donald’ amid Epstein email fallout

Republicans are frantically trying to defend President Donald Trump, after House Democrats released a trove of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails Wednesday. In the exchange between Epstein, his former ...

Trump's Account Of His Friendship With Epstein Doesn't Line Up With Trove Of New Documents

November 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

As TACO himself said…”May every day be another wonderful secret.” Drip, drip, drip....

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Trump frequently socialized with the late child sex trafficker and once said admiringly that Epstein liked beautiful women “on the younger side.”

JD Vance bashed by WSJ as White House civil war erupts over high-skilled migrants

November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Is the Couch-Fucker going to make his hillbilly cousins brilliant scientists or his gun toting buddies brilliant mathematicians?

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Despite the Trump administration's overwhelming hostility to immigrants, there is one particular immigration issue that is triggering a civil war in the White House between President Donald Trump and ...

$2,000 tariff rebate checks? 50-year mortgages? Making sense of Trump's new 'affordability' proposals.

November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

...but wait, wasn't inflation solved on Day 1, January 20, 2025?

us.yahoo.com/news/article/2000-tariff-rebate-checks-50-year-mortgages-making-sense-of-trumps-new-affordability-proposals-222346258.html

Ever since Democrats swept the Nov. 4 elections, the president has been trying to regain his footing on cost-of-living issues.

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November 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Clear that many, many people already know a lot about what is in them. Tick-tock, tick-tock....

dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/11/2353215/-The-Epstein-Files-Are-Said-to-Be-Very-Very-Damaging?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web

The Epstein Files Are Said to Be Very, Very Damaging

Some of us have been hearing the Epstein files are worse than what we have imagined. They must be, or the felon would not be doing everything in his power to avoid their release. And, think about ...

CNN's Harry Enten Names 'Huge' Reason For Chuck Schumer's 'Terrible' Polling With Dems

November 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Bottom line is that Schumer isn't a wartime consigliere. He's a deal maker, not a fighter.

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The network's data chief explained why the Senate minority leader is "underwater" with his party.

'OMG!' Mockery erupts as Trump fumbles ‘God Bless America’ at Veterans Day ceremony

November 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM

Salty Snowbird

@belliled.bsky.social

Well, in fairness Dementia Donnie didn't have a bouncing ball for the sing-along. He's much better at YMCA.

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Mockery erupted online as video showed President Donald Trump singing just a few words of "God Bless America" at a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.The patriotic song was included ...