Cleves Whaley
@cleveswhaley.bsky.social
Trump hater.
Democracy lover.
She/her
Democracy lover.
She/her
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What Peter Thiel Saw In Jeffrey Epstein
"Both believed that civilization was collapsing and that democratic norms were failing. And both did their part to help bring about these apocalyptic fantasies."
"Both men saw crypto as a weapon."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
"Both believed that civilization was collapsing and that democratic norms were failing. And both did their part to help bring about these apocalyptic fantasies."
"Both men saw crypto as a weapon."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein
In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy.
www.thenation.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:19 PM
What Peter Thiel Saw In Jeffrey Epstein
"Both believed that civilization was collapsing and that democratic norms were failing. And both did their part to help bring about these apocalyptic fantasies."
"Both men saw crypto as a weapon."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
"Both believed that civilization was collapsing and that democratic norms were failing. And both did their part to help bring about these apocalyptic fantasies."
"Both men saw crypto as a weapon."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre.
Epstein had videos of high-ranking men who he recorded having sex with underaged women, so that he could use those videos as blackmail to get them to do things he wanted.
Epstein had videos of high-ranking men who he recorded having sex with underaged women, so that he could use those videos as blackmail to get them to do things he wanted.
February 16, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre.
Epstein had videos of high-ranking men who he recorded having sex with underaged women, so that he could use those videos as blackmail to get them to do things he wanted.
Epstein had videos of high-ranking men who he recorded having sex with underaged women, so that he could use those videos as blackmail to get them to do things he wanted.
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/2 Anyway, this is what the Smoking Gun was reporting TWENTY YEARS AGO in 2006. It was horrifying then and it’s still horrifying and it unequivocally shows child abuse.
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
Billionaire In Palm Beach Sex Scandal
JULY 26--Prepare to take a shower after reading this remarkably sleazy probable cause affidavit filed in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested Sunday for soliciting s
www.thesmokinggun.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:53 AM
/2 Anyway, this is what the Smoking Gun was reporting TWENTY YEARS AGO in 2006. It was horrifying then and it’s still horrifying and it unequivocally shows child abuse.
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
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OK. It was The Smoking Gun. They deserved for me to remember their name. I plead getting older.
I bring them up because what they published shows what was publicly know about Jeffrey Epstein and when, which is important to evaluate the character of the people dealing with him in the 2010s.
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I bring them up because what they published shows what was publicly know about Jeffrey Epstein and when, which is important to evaluate the character of the people dealing with him in the 2010s.
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Trying to remember that small online journalistic outlet that used to publish primary documents, often leaked, that was one of the first to publish the police reports from the early 2000s Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
February 16, 2026 at 2:52 AM
OK. It was The Smoking Gun. They deserved for me to remember their name. I plead getting older.
I bring them up because what they published shows what was publicly know about Jeffrey Epstein and when, which is important to evaluate the character of the people dealing with him in the 2010s.
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I bring them up because what they published shows what was publicly know about Jeffrey Epstein and when, which is important to evaluate the character of the people dealing with him in the 2010s.
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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
February 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
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Reminder that more networks, just like the Epstein network, exist, and you know exactly who they are.
February 15, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Reminder that more networks, just like the Epstein network, exist, and you know exactly who they are.
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The astonishing amount of fraud, deception, and graft that will be associated with the so-called Board of Peace is going to BLOW YOUR HAIR BACK.
I doubt humanity has ever encountered as dark and diseased an operation as this one will be, if it even survives the decade.
I doubt humanity has ever encountered as dark and diseased an operation as this one will be, if it even survives the decade.
Trump promises billions in aid to Gaza as Israeli airstrikes reportedly kill 12 Palestinians
Trump's Board of Peace does not mention Gaza in its charter, instead hinting at a way to swerve accountability to the United Nations.
www.motherjones.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:22 PM
The astonishing amount of fraud, deception, and graft that will be associated with the so-called Board of Peace is going to BLOW YOUR HAIR BACK.
I doubt humanity has ever encountered as dark and diseased an operation as this one will be, if it even survives the decade.
I doubt humanity has ever encountered as dark and diseased an operation as this one will be, if it even survives the decade.
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None of this is normal
February 15, 2026 at 8:13 PM
None of this is normal
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There are no words to adequately describe the depravity of the theft and betrayal of the United States of America by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.
February 15, 2026 at 2:24 PM
There are no words to adequately describe the depravity of the theft and betrayal of the United States of America by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.
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"Why Isn’t News of Trump Building Vast Concentration Camps Being Treated as a National Emergency?
History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people."
www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-....
History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people."
www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-....
Why Isn't News of Trump Building Vast Concentration Camps Being Treated as a National Emergency? | Common Dreams
History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people.
www.commondreams.org
February 15, 2026 at 9:51 PM
"Why Isn’t News of Trump Building Vast Concentration Camps Being Treated as a National Emergency?
History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people."
www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-....
History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people."
www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-....
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We are polluting our air and running out of drinking water so we can render fake photos of people with six fingers and so that students can mindlessly have computers do their homework for them?
Win-win in the dystopian Trump world we live in!
Win-win in the dystopian Trump world we live in!
NC5: “TVA leaders said data center growth now equals power for 6 MILLION homes… AI demand projected to double by 2030… TVA reverses coal plan closure…”
As Trump, Beaman move to privatize TVA— and @SenatorHagerty has his eyes on running TVA.
www.newschannel5.com/news/state/t...
As Trump, Beaman move to privatize TVA— and @SenatorHagerty has his eyes on running TVA.
www.newschannel5.com/news/state/t...
February 15, 2026 at 7:20 PM
We are polluting our air and running out of drinking water so we can render fake photos of people with six fingers and so that students can mindlessly have computers do their homework for them?
Win-win in the dystopian Trump world we live in!
Win-win in the dystopian Trump world we live in!
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We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 2:51 PM
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
I feel bad about seeing someone shamed for being gay.
He’s a despicable, evil person with no discernible morals.
But still…
He’s a despicable, evil person with no discernible morals.
But still…
February 15, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I feel bad about seeing someone shamed for being gay.
He’s a despicable, evil person with no discernible morals.
But still…
He’s a despicable, evil person with no discernible morals.
But still…
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This is an important piece. Epstein was a consummate social climber and courted academics as a way of building social clout. Brockman and “the edge” illuminate just how that worked.
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
This is an important piece. Epstein was a consummate social climber and courted academics as a way of building social clout. Brockman and “the edge” illuminate just how that worked.
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Like a true Trump cultist, Fox Business News' Larry Kudlow opens by saying they don't care if Trump lies about the economic numbers, as long as he's optimistic.
"I don’t care if the numbers aren’t precisely right. The optimism is precisely right."
"I don’t care if the numbers aren’t precisely right. The optimism is precisely right."
February 14, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Like a true Trump cultist, Fox Business News' Larry Kudlow opens by saying they don't care if Trump lies about the economic numbers, as long as he's optimistic.
"I don’t care if the numbers aren’t precisely right. The optimism is precisely right."
"I don’t care if the numbers aren’t precisely right. The optimism is precisely right."
Homan has adopted Trump’s habit of inventing large numbers, just pulling them out of thin air, whenever he thinks it’ll help make his point.
Tom Homan is given free rein to just say stuff on Fox & Friends: "President Trump has already found 145,000 children. In Minnesota alone, only 33,000 missing children we found that the last administration wasn't even looking for."
February 15, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Homan has adopted Trump’s habit of inventing large numbers, just pulling them out of thin air, whenever he thinks it’ll help make his point.
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1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
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“The bigger worry is what will be left to reclaim of the Justice Department once Bondi and Trump are done.” Corruption at MAGA DOJ is epidemic.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Pam Bondi’s Contempt for Congress
The Attorney General treats oversight like roller derby.
www.newyorker.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:22 PM
“The bigger worry is what will be left to reclaim of the Justice Department once Bondi and Trump are done.” Corruption at MAGA DOJ is epidemic.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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As we outlined in the story, it is very much Not over
As of yet, there is no evidence of them actually drawing down or ending their occupation of Minneapolis-St. Paul😡
February 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
As we outlined in the story, it is very much Not over
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No words. Just sadness and disgust.
This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.
February 15, 2026 at 4:27 PM
No words. Just sadness and disgust.