Joe Conason
@joeconason.bsky.social
Journalist, author, dad, citizen.
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Kash Patel's country music performer girlfriend currently enjoys the protection of an FBI security detail — prompting concerns that the arrangement may delay law enforcement from responding to other incidents, two people with direct knowledge tell MS NOW. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel's girlfriend being protected by FBI SWAT agents as security perk
Agents on a detail with the country singer would presumably be unable to respond or delayed in responding to other incidents, according to sources.
www.ms.now
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Kash Patel's country music performer girlfriend currently enjoys the protection of an FBI security detail — prompting concerns that the arrangement may delay law enforcement from responding to other incidents, two people with direct knowledge tell MS NOW. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
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Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
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2023: "They're taking advantage of a 16-year-old MINOR!! I have a daughter close to that, if you come near her as a 31-year-old man, we're going to have a SERIOUS PROBLEM!!"
2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."
2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
2023: "They're taking advantage of a 16-year-old MINOR!! I have a daughter close to that, if you come near her as a 31-year-old man, we're going to have a SERIOUS PROBLEM!!"
2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."
2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."
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Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."
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This is acting like a pure money laundering operation. They reported losing another $54 million last quarter. It has never made money. Investor money is just flying out the back door faster than in comes in to enrich a lot of shysters and grifters.
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
This is acting like a pure money laundering operation. They reported losing another $54 million last quarter. It has never made money. Investor money is just flying out the back door faster than in comes in to enrich a lot of shysters and grifters.
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Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
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I hope someone with better photoshop skills that I have will give this image the “Bernie Mittens” treatment so we can start putting “Who-gives-a-F*ck-if-it’s-not-about-Me” Trump in all sorts of crisis scenarios.
November 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I hope someone with better photoshop skills that I have will give this image the “Bernie Mittens” treatment so we can start putting “Who-gives-a-F*ck-if-it’s-not-about-Me” Trump in all sorts of crisis scenarios.
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I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
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Brilliant
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Brilliant
Classy
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Classy
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RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
Stick that indictment somewhere else, Attorney Winebox
Jeanine Pirro bragging in August that she just arrested Sandwich Guy and was going to teach him a lesson in court.
November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Stick that indictment somewhere else, Attorney Winebox
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Nick Fuentes is simply another fringe MAGA nut you probably never would have heard of if Trump were not elected. Steve Bannon is in the same category.
If we hadn't embraced a corrupt racist & misogynist like #Trump you never would have heard of these people.
Their ideas are not valid.
If we hadn't embraced a corrupt racist & misogynist like #Trump you never would have heard of these people.
Their ideas are not valid.
November 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Nick Fuentes is simply another fringe MAGA nut you probably never would have heard of if Trump were not elected. Steve Bannon is in the same category.
If we hadn't embraced a corrupt racist & misogynist like #Trump you never would have heard of these people.
Their ideas are not valid.
If we hadn't embraced a corrupt racist & misogynist like #Trump you never would have heard of these people.
Their ideas are not valid.
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LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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167 races called, 110 wins confirmed and 8 moving to run offs. 😈
More to come!
More to come!
With 158 races called, we've got 103 @runforsomething.net wins, nearly a quarter of which are red-to-blue flips.
Heading to bed shortly, but a quick update: With 98 of our 222 races called, we've got 72 wins.
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
167 races called, 110 wins confirmed and 8 moving to run offs. 😈
More to come!
More to come!
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It’s already understood but here’s analysis of Elon Musk’s X & its algorithmic bias news.sky.com/story/the-x-... “Over half of the political content shown to new X users came from accounts categorised as extreme. Of the content from extreme authors, 72% of posts came from right-leaning accounts.”
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It’s already understood but here’s analysis of Elon Musk’s X & its algorithmic bias news.sky.com/story/the-x-... “Over half of the political content shown to new X users came from accounts categorised as extreme. Of the content from extreme authors, 72% of posts came from right-leaning accounts.”
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"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."
chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
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Why do they have her engagement ring? Are they just looting?
ICE detained a U.S. citizen for 7 hours in Portland after she photographed ICE agents.
As of Tuesday morning, ICE still had her phone and her engagement ring, she said.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
As of Tuesday morning, ICE still had her phone and her engagement ring, she said.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
ICE detains U.S. citizen for 7 hours after she photographed agents in Oregon
Authorities claim Berenice Garcia-Hernandez "aggressively followed" agents, while she says she was targeted for documenting their presence to warn the community.
www.oregonlive.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Why do they have her engagement ring? Are they just looting?
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Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to US President Donald Trump, told leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany — classified as an extremist party by German authorities — that he sees them as “bold visionaries” shaping the country’s future.
Trump adviser to Germany’s AfD: ‘We are in this together’
MAGA social media guru Alex Bruesewitz visited Berlin to make common cause with the far-right Alternative for Germany at a time when the party is seeking allies in the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to US President Donald Trump, told leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany — classified as an extremist party by German authorities — that he sees them as “bold visionaries” shaping the country’s future.
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Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
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Does this seem like a responsible person that you'd want in charge of anything?
Yet in 2010, Noem—then a congressional candidate—had “20 speeding tickets, three stop-sign violations, two seat-belt violations and a citation for driving with no driver’s license.” She had six court notices for failing to appear, and had two warrants out for her arrest. trib.al/s4Sj24q
ICE Barbie Says Immigrants Are Too Dumb to Drive Semitrucks
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made the inane claim while bragging about arresting immigrant truck drivers.
trib.al
November 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Does this seem like a responsible person that you'd want in charge of anything?
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Keystone Kash needed a distraction from the story that he took another private govt jet to watch his girlfriend sing. apnews.com/article/detr...
November 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Keystone Kash needed a distraction from the story that he took another private govt jet to watch his girlfriend sing. apnews.com/article/detr...
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It is now illegal to be anti-Trump. - per Dicktator Donnie.
November 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It is now illegal to be anti-Trump. - per Dicktator Donnie.
A Georgetown friend sent this image of the Halloween display put up by RFK Jr’s neighbors:
November 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A Georgetown friend sent this image of the Halloween display put up by RFK Jr’s neighbors: