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@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta.

Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

Post from Julie K Brown that says Does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why my American Airlines booking
information and flights in July 2019 are part of the Epstein files (attached to a grand jury subpoena)? As the flight itinerary includes my maiden name (and I did book this flight) why was the DOJ monitoring me?
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American Arlines CONPIDENTIAL for official

December 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM

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emptywheel

@emptywheel.bsky.social

Jeanine Pirro Got Curiously Silent about What Brian Cole Did on December 14, 2020

www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/28/j...

Jeanine Pirro Got Curiously Silent about What Brian Cole Did on December 14, 2020 - emptywheel

The accused pipe bomber, Brian Cole, started regularly wiping his cell phone the day after he traveled to Capitol Hill weeks before planting the pipe bombs. But DOJ dropped his December 14, 2020 trip ...

www.emptywheel.net

December 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM

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emptywheel

@emptywheel.bsky.social

Meanwhile, DOJ wants to push the first public hearing for accused pipe bomber Brian Cole past the date (January 5) when 5-year statutes of limitation would expire.

legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

2. On December 28, 2025, when pressed on the question of proceeding with
the preliminary hearing on December 30, the government asked to push the
preliminary hearing to either January 7 or 8. That request comes too late and does
not meet Rule 5.1(d)’s rigorous standard. The Court should confirm that December 30 is the preliminary hearing and detention hearing and direct the government to be
prepared to present its evidence in support of probable cause.

December 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump sympathizes with how stressful it would be for Putin to have to stop killing people for a while because of how inconvenient it would be for him to resume it. This whole thing is a farce. A charade. Putin is playing Trump like the useful idiot that he is.

December 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump is always “making progress” despite the fact that Putin never agrees to compromise on any of the maximalist demands he has had for three years. What are we making progress on? Getting Ukraine to make more concessions while Putin laughs? That is progress?

December 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

This is Part 2 of the Worst Things Trump Did in 2025. It goes from late February to early April.

101-200 in chronological order. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

500 Worst Things Trump Did in 2025 - Pt. 2

#101-200. February-April 2025

open.substack.com

December 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM

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Simon Rosenberg

@simonwdc.bsky.social

This dramatically enhanced pressure on Europe/Denmark and the new outrageous sanctions on info researchers coming at a time when Putin is escalating his physical attacks on Ukraine suggests that the US is now *coordinating* with Russia to weaken Europe and Ukraine.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d

They’re again advocating against Denmark when it comes to Greenland

December 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

A comprehensive list in chronological order of the 500 Worst Things the Trump Admin Did in 2025.

Here is Part 1: 1-100. Jan-Feb 2025. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

500 Worst Things Trump Did in 2025

Part 1-100, January-March 2025.

open.substack.com

December 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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Greg Sargent

@gregsargent.bsky.social

Great points in this thread: We don't usually think of 1965 immigration act as on par w/New Deal and Civil Rights, but it was a major liberal achievement and Miller's real project is to undo it. As @larryglickman.bsky.social says this connects w/goal of undoing other great 20th century achievements:

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d

Finally had a chance to read this Incredible piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social that documents Miller’s attempt to undo and reverse the 1965 immigration settlement and reveals how central this effort is to the administration’s reactionary aim to take down the New Deal and civil rights orders.

December 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM

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Internet Archive

@archive.org

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!

🧵👇

Montage of creative works entering the public domain in the US in 2026.

December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM

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Mike Nellis

@mikenellis.bsky.social

Everyone should read this week’s WSJ story on Trump selling pardons. It’s some of the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen—you can literally corner him at one of his lame parties and walk away with a pardon. How is this not the biggest story in the country?

December 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

Are these the files you boxed up from the Biden era probe into Epstein co-conspirators and shipped off to DC after you killed the investigation and fired the prosecutors? You’ve had these since January. I call BS.

December 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."

December 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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Radley Balko

@radleybalko.bsky.social

Looking forward to Nancy Mace’s condemnation of these men in a women’s bathroom.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 6d

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

December 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

The DOJ is not even trying to hide that it functions as Trump's personal law firm

U.S. Department of Justice
@TheJusticeDept
The Department of Justice has officially released nearly 30,000 more pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.

Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein’s victims.

December 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

Don’t forget. Biden’s DoJ was investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files up until the last minute. Trump shut down the investigation, sent the files to DC, & fired the prosecutors. They went through them, redacted Trump’s name, then elected not to release them and closed the matter.

December 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

Biden's labor secretary had a fantastic deal with US Steel and labor unions to build all wind turbines here in the US with unions. That's all out the damned window now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Burgum on wind energy: "It wasn't even actually green because when you look at the components, the magnets, the blades, everything that goes into building this thing, you can really question whether it was green in the first place"

December 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

There's always a Tweet.

December 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment

I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

www.muellershewrote.com

December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

The corruption is absolutely staggering. One big money donor after another receiving direct benefits in return. Trump didn’t drain any swamps, he created a giant sewer to roll around in daily. Great reporting. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

December 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM

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Anna Bower

@annabower.bsky.social

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7d

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn

December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Nobody should watch CBS until this airs. Which may be never after Trump threatened them again. He has the ownership and management he wanted who will now obviously do his bidding. Erika Kirk last week, now this. The MAGA News Network.