Weird way to support our "warfighters," Whiskey Pete

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds.

NEWS: For nearly 20 years, Epstein moved over $1B through the major banks. The banks looked away. Sen. Wyden’s 3-year probe exposes it all. But most damning? How Trump and the GOP tried to bury it.

Follow the Money: How Wall Street Bankrolled Epstein, and How the Trump Administration and CBS are Blocking The Truth

For nearly two decades, Jeffrey Epstein moved more than a billion dollars through some of the biggest banks in America. He withdrew millions in unexplained

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Here’s the key takeaway from our report: Epstein couldn’t have carried out his trafficking and criminal activity without the help of the highest ranking employees and executives at the most powerful banks in the world. Wall Street is complicit in Epstein’s crimes from top to bottom.

Epstein made millions in direct payments to women and young girls out of just one JPMorgan account. Many of these payments were to women in high-risk countries like Belarus, Lithuania, and Russia.

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

so democratic socialism is good

Democrats@democrats.org · 2d ago

HUGE: Under Mayor Mamdani, New York City just recorded its safest first 7 months of a year in history—and its safest July ever. In July: Major crime dropped 13% Murder dropped 32% Robberies dropped 15% Vehicle thefts dropped 25% Democratic mayors are putting public safety first.

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Somehow everything in my house is breaking down all at once. 😭

Create a shadow cabinet. Every time Hegseth stands at pentagon podium to announce some wild holy war action, our shadow SecDef gets up at ours to explain what we’d do differently. Same with RFK vaccine announcements or supplement things. Create a constant contrast, counter narrate the presidency.

Disagree. Vance’s public comments, which are blatantly immoral and white nationalistic, are impossible to square with his actual family life. He’s brought his own family into it by implication. Fair game.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d ago

I think it’s a remarkably stupid thing for a political candidate to say. This is not the first time people have pointed out Vance’s hypocrisy on this issue, but to pull his children into it and say that you somehow know what’s in Vance’s mind about his own kids is over the line.

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 7d ago

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

I wish that some journalist would at least ask a high-profile Democrat how they justify still posting on X, a site owned, run, & shaped by a racist Republican oligarch. At least make them articulate it! It's just wild no one talks about it, asks them about it, nothing.

WHAT. I’m trying to visualize this.

Semafor@semafor.com · 5d ago

Nearly 50,000 migrants have crossed into its North African enclave of Ceuta in the last 24 hours. www.semafor.com/article/07/3...

This case is really important. Not the greatest facts, since one shot a police officer, but govt used 1A protected activity to frame the non-shooters as as conspiracists/terrorists. Not good.

Jeremy Schulman@jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 6d ago

Savanna Batten went to an anti-ICE protest. Now she’s serving 50 years in federal prison.

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

theguardian.com

#alphabetchallenge #weekDforDark Stirling Castle, Scotland

Emmanuel Macron says out-of-control wildfires are the country's greatest crisis since World War II. More than 250,000 people have been evacuated, with fires threatening the outskirts of Bordeaux and raging through popular tourist areas and wine regions. www.semafor.com/article/07/2...

Macron says fires are warlike crisis for France

More than 250,000 people have been evacuated, with fires threatening the outskirts of Bordeaux and raging through popular tourist areas and wine regions.

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what an absolute fucking shitshow of a decade. imagine if all this energy had been put to good, rather than evil.

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It is my birthday, please hire me.

It's me, Nico.@nicasio.bsky.social · last mo.

If you've got a novel manuscript in need of developmental editing, a quick-but-incisive overall evaluation, or a sensitivity read, then hit me up! I've got spots open starting mid-month, and can't wait to get my grubby little hands all up in your stories.

#alphabetchallenge #weekCforCurves Punta del Custodio, Nayarit, México

India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned after days of ‘Cockroach Janta Party’ protests over exam paper leaks. Al Jazeera’s Neha Poonia is in New Delhi reporting on this ‘remarkable development’.

💪🏽✊🏼

‘I will die for this cause’: how India’s cockroach meme became the biggest challenge to Modi’s grip on power

Prime minister’s propaganda machine falters as fiercely secular youth protests reclaim nationalism

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So education is only about how much money you make. And we hate the arts and helping people. Got it.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/PzUDagM

Real foreign policy expertise there.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2w ago

“For a long time I’ve known that country… I owned the Miss Universe pageant, and Miss Venezuela always did very well.”

Trump Is an Angry, Violent Man … And Canada Is His Battered Wife

Trump Is an Angry, Violent Man … And Canada Is His Battered Wife

Donald Trump has announced that he will impose in 30 days a...

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#alphabetchallenge #weekCforCurve Cloud Gate aka “The Bean” in Chicago.

Sorry to be Uncle Marxism but employer-based healthcare is a tool of social control for the ruling class

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E