Adam Rifkin 🐼
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Giving to others, when we can, gives our lives meaning.
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In the end, only kindness matters.
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In the end, only kindness matters.
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“Why would Lockheed Martin build a ballroom? That ain’t making sense to me… Why would Palantir want to help build a ballroom? That ain’t makin sense to me… Turns out Trump has the exact same plan…”
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November 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
“Why would Lockheed Martin build a ballroom? That ain’t making sense to me… Why would Palantir want to help build a ballroom? That ain’t makin sense to me… Turns out Trump has the exact same plan…”
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“Our President* is a 34x convicted felon [who] is starving the poorest among us while taking bribes in the open. Supreme Court that he bought says he can’t be tried for any crimes. He bulldozed a third of the White House down to rubble without permission.”
Brad Walsh
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October 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“Our President* is a 34x convicted felon [who] is starving the poorest among us while taking bribes in the open. Supreme Court that he bought says he can’t be tried for any crimes. He bulldozed a third of the White House down to rubble without permission.”
Brad Walsh
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“Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles [in the Epstein files] but it’s a reasonable interpretation of the situation… Republicans could easily avoid SNAP cutoff if they wanted to. It’s cruel: Millions of Americans will suffer severely from the loss of food aid.”
Paul Krugman
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October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles [in the Epstein files] but it’s a reasonable interpretation of the situation… Republicans could easily avoid SNAP cutoff if they wanted to. It’s cruel: Millions of Americans will suffer severely from the loss of food aid.”
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“The deal also brought the government’s investigation into Epstein’s finances to a halt. According to the former law enforcement official, the money-laundering probe remained open until the day of Epstein's guilty plea.”
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🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account
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Jeffrey Epstein Went to War Over Money Laundering Probe in 2007 Sex Case
Federal prosecutors opened a financial-crimes investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 amid their larger sex-trafficking probe. The financier and his legal team waged a war against them, his emails ...
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November 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“The deal also brought the government’s investigation into Epstein’s finances to a halt. According to the former law enforcement official, the money-laundering probe remained open until the day of Epstein's guilty plea.”
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”A few GOP House members say they’ve heard from FBI/DOJ contacts that the Epstein files (with copies in different agencies) are worse than Michael Wolff’s description of Epstein photos showing Donald Trump with half-naked teenage girls… Bondi refused to say. She didn’t give a denial.” David Shuster
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 AM
”A few GOP House members say they’ve heard from FBI/DOJ contacts that the Epstein files (with copies in different agencies) are worse than Michael Wolff’s description of Epstein photos showing Donald Trump with half-naked teenage girls… Bondi refused to say. She didn’t give a denial.” David Shuster
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“I pleaded to the kinder side of human nature and that’s not what they were. They were about abusing me and the abuse started almost instantly… Money should not be able to buy you the power to get away with hurting people… I was trafficked to…the most powerful people in the world.“
Virginia Giuffre
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November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“I pleaded to the kinder side of human nature and that’s not what they were. They were about abusing me and the abuse started almost instantly… Money should not be able to buy you the power to get away with hurting people… I was trafficked to…the most powerful people in the world.“
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“They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Release ALL the Epstein files!
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Release ALL the Epstein files!
Why???
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
That’s why. Not just him but the other mega wealthy who also are in the files.
#Pinks
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFilea
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
EPSTEIN
That’s why. Not just him but the other mega wealthy who also are in the files.
#Pinks
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFilea
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Release ALL the Epstein files!
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Release ALL the Epstein files!
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“Criminals posing as U.S. #ICE immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
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#ICELawlessness
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November 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“Criminals posing as U.S. #ICE immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
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#ICELawlessness
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“I helped make a film, out this week, called ‘Rovina’s Choice,’ about the deaths [men] without conscience or accountability [Musk, Trump, and Rubio] caused [by dismantling USAID] — already 600,000, two-thirds of them children.” @agawande.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“I helped make a film, out this week, called ‘Rovina’s Choice,’ about the deaths [men] without conscience or accountability [Musk, Trump, and Rubio] caused [by dismantling USAID] — already 600,000, two-thirds of them children.” @agawande.bsky.social
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“On top of refusing to fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, the Trump regime:
Cut $1 BILLION from USDA programs supporting food banks
Enacted tariffs that caused food prices to rise
Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
Canceled the annual food security survey
Shameful.”
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Cut $1 BILLION from USDA programs supporting food banks
Enacted tariffs that caused food prices to rise
Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
Canceled the annual food security survey
Shameful.”
@rbreich.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“On top of refusing to fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, the Trump regime:
Cut $1 BILLION from USDA programs supporting food banks
Enacted tariffs that caused food prices to rise
Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
Canceled the annual food security survey
Shameful.”
@rbreich.bsky.social
Cut $1 BILLION from USDA programs supporting food banks
Enacted tariffs that caused food prices to rise
Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
Canceled the annual food security survey
Shameful.”
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if you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.
April 28, 2023 at 6:11 AM
if you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.
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“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness… The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live…is…victory.” Howard Zinn
November 21, 2024 at 7:11 PM
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness… The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live…is…victory.” Howard Zinn
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“Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave — and it is often hard to be brave — be kind.”
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We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump
Having studied authoritarian states for over a decade, I would never exaggerate the severity of the threat we now face. But an American kleptocracy is exactly where president-elect Trump and his backe...
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December 3, 2024 at 7:11 PM
“Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave — and it is often hard to be brave — be kind.”
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RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES
October 11, 2025 at 6:11 AM
RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES
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🎶 Those Epstein files gonna bite your butt, but it ain’t gonna go away … 🎶
August 6, 2025 at 6:11 AM
🎶 Those Epstein files gonna bite your butt, but it ain’t gonna go away … 🎶
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🎶 “Do you remember his pledge to expose sex offenders? It’s since been erased from the agenda, and hidden from the light of day…” 🎶
July 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🎶 “Do you remember his pledge to expose sex offenders? It’s since been erased from the agenda, and hidden from the light of day…” 🎶
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“MAGA is really a composite of several factions with parallel and occasionally conflicting agendas… I’m not sure where to put the Epstein files in this diagram. They clearly have cross-faction interest (all of them seem obsessed with pedophiles…).”
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September 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“MAGA is really a composite of several factions with parallel and occasionally conflicting agendas… I’m not sure where to put the Epstein files in this diagram. They clearly have cross-faction interest (all of them seem obsessed with pedophiles…).”
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“What Trump is doing is reversing the American Revolution to reestablish this nation as a kingdom, with mad King Donald as the broligarchy’s monarch.
To top it off, he may be protecting the largest child sex trafficking ring in modern history?” @malcolmnance.bsky.social
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To top it off, he may be protecting the largest child sex trafficking ring in modern history?” @malcolmnance.bsky.social
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August 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“What Trump is doing is reversing the American Revolution to reestablish this nation as a kingdom, with mad King Donald as the broligarchy’s monarch.
To top it off, he may be protecting the largest child sex trafficking ring in modern history?” @malcolmnance.bsky.social
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To top it off, he may be protecting the largest child sex trafficking ring in modern history?” @malcolmnance.bsky.social
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The fact that Trump’s “Justice” Department met with Epstein’s accomplice for two days, but never met with a single survivor of Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes, tells us everything we need to know.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
August 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The fact that Trump’s “Justice” Department met with Epstein’s accomplice for two days, but never met with a single survivor of Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes, tells us everything we need to know.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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“After she had been groomed and raped during her teenage years by Jeffrey Epstein, 20-year-old Anouska De Georgiou was ‘introduced’ [in 1997] to the then-51-year-old Donald Trump by Epstein's sex-trafficking partner Ghislaine Maxwell. Soon after, the three flew to Mar-a-Lago for a ‘happy weekend’ …”
September 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“After she had been groomed and raped during her teenage years by Jeffrey Epstein, 20-year-old Anouska De Georgiou was ‘introduced’ [in 1997] to the then-51-year-old Donald Trump by Epstein's sex-trafficking partner Ghislaine Maxwell. Soon after, the three flew to Mar-a-Lago for a ‘happy weekend’ …”
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“We felt from the beginning this was a follow-the-money case. This horrific sex-trafficking operation cost Epstein a lot of money, and he had to get that money from somewhere… In this era of misinformation, these reports are the coin of the realm… Over 4700 transactions…”
Ron Wyden
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July 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“We felt from the beginning this was a follow-the-money case. This horrific sex-trafficking operation cost Epstein a lot of money, and he had to get that money from somewhere… In this era of misinformation, these reports are the coin of the realm… Over 4700 transactions…”
Ron Wyden
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Ron Wyden
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“Epstein was working with the Kremlin—after the occupation of Crimea. So, in addition to the child sex trafficking operation, serial rapes and sexual abuse, Ponzi scheme, tax avoidance, and all the rest, Epstein was also a traitor to his country...”
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September 10, 2025 at 6:11 AM
“Epstein was working with the Kremlin—after the occupation of Crimea. So, in addition to the child sex trafficking operation, serial rapes and sexual abuse, Ponzi scheme, tax avoidance, and all the rest, Epstein was also a traitor to his country...”
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“Epstein and Maxwell … from the start … manipulated me into participating in behaviors that ate away at me, eroding my ability to comprehend reality and preventing me from defending myself. From the start, I was groomed to be complicit in my own devastation.”
Virginia Giuffre with Amy Wallace
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October 26, 2025 at 6:11 AM
“Epstein and Maxwell … from the start … manipulated me into participating in behaviors that ate away at me, eroding my ability to comprehend reality and preventing me from defending myself. From the start, I was groomed to be complicit in my own devastation.”
Virginia Giuffre with Amy Wallace
Virginia Giuffre with Amy Wallace
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“I was recruited at a very young age from Mar-a-Lago.”
Virginia Giuffre
“There was no follow up about why Trump was employing underage girls at his spa, or why his story keeps changing. There was also no follow up asking why Trump views 16 year old girls as property.” @muellershewrote.com
Virginia Giuffre
“There was no follow up about why Trump was employing underage girls at his spa, or why his story keeps changing. There was also no follow up asking why Trump views 16 year old girls as property.” @muellershewrote.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“I was recruited at a very young age from Mar-a-Lago.”
Virginia Giuffre
“There was no follow up about why Trump was employing underage girls at his spa, or why his story keeps changing. There was also no follow up asking why Trump views 16 year old girls as property.” @muellershewrote.com
Virginia Giuffre
“There was no follow up about why Trump was employing underage girls at his spa, or why his story keeps changing. There was also no follow up asking why Trump views 16 year old girls as property.” @muellershewrote.com
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“Don’t be fooled by those in Epstein’s circle who say they didn’t know what he was doing. Epstein … took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch — scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care.”
October 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“Don’t be fooled by those in Epstein’s circle who say they didn’t know what he was doing. Epstein … took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch — scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care.”