Bill Walter
@billwalter.bsky.social
Proponent of remembering again our true American positive-sum core values. "Until we are all free, we are none of us free." - Emma Lazarus
The payoff to Flynn was a forerunner of what Trump wanted to do with his $1.8B slush fund to pay insurrectionists who beat up cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Republicans are pretending that shameful idea is “dead,” but they could reinstate it after Todd Blanche gets confirmed as AG. 4/4🧵
How Cornyn and Tillis’ deal on Blanche falls short of their demands
Trump has already said the GOP senators didn’t get anything beyond what Todd Blanche had already said.
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Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
404media.co
Who can forget the infamous Putin dinner before the 2016 election attended by Michael Flynn and Jill Stein.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 8h ago🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
No end to the White House incompetence. Marine One, Trump's helicopter, took off without notifying the FAA traffic controllers. Endangered both the helicopter and commercial Air flights in the area. If only...
FAA Probing Safety Incident Involving Trump’s Marine One Helicopter: Reports
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Narcissus was taken down by a reflecting pool too you know... Just sayin'...
The bigger question emerging from the reflecting pool case is what to do with the lawyers. Had they pursued the case, disbarment would be an appropriate case. Still they secured an indictment from the grand jury and that was almost certainly through deceit and misrepresentation which requires study.
Lawyers in Reflecting Pool case say Justice Department knew case was flawed
Lawyers for a former Olympian charged with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool say that the Justice Department knew or should have known for weeks that its case was flawed.
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Explosions echoed across Kyiv, Ukraine, and fires broke out in the capital and its outskirts as Russian forces attacked the city with waves of ballistic missiles early on August 5. The strikes killed 14 people, injured 27 and damaged warehouses overnight, emergency service officials said.
The most stimulating thing I’ve done today is calculate the energy of impact and the mass of lunar material ejected, and I am pleased to say it squares nicely with the figures presented herein:
Bleddyn Bowen@bleddb.bsky.social · 2d agoThat SpaceX Falcon 9 debris that will impact Einstein crater on 5th August: 4 metric tonnes mass 8,000 kph velocity 17 meter impact radius 100km altitude ejecta Equivalent to 3 tonnes of TNT
If you have a telescope, you might get to see Musk's boondoggle crash and burn. www.space.com/astronomy/mo...
A 9,000-pound SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon tonight. Will you be able to see it?
While the impact itself probably won't be visible from Earth, observers may have a chance to spot a plume of debris rising above the lunar surface.
space.com
One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayBombshell 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:
Reupping: A drug trafficker who turned informant, told the feds Epstein was involved in funding & distributing MDMA/ketamine/ methamphetamines. DEA/DOJ during 1st Trump admin moved to terminate the investigation. In March ‘26, Todd Blanche blocked Senator Wyden from getting the unredacted memo.
Wyden Questions DEA Over Mystery Epstein Investigation | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Questions DEA Over Mystery Epstein Investigation
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Wow. Iowa MAGA Senate candidate Ashley Hinson has taken nearly $90,000 in donations from billionaires named in the Epstein Files. https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-iowa-gop-senate-candidate-ashley-hinson-faces-fresh-heat-over-epstein-pen-pal-campaign-donor-cash/
MAGA Candidate Faces Fresh Heat Over Epstein Pen Pal Cash
Ashley Hinson took close to $100,000 in campaign funds from billionaires with ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
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If you're wondering who profits the most from Trump's Iran War... Chevron posted a $12 billion in quarterly profits, Exxon made $14.5 billion and Shell doubled its profit too. While we're struggling to pay for gas, Big Oil makes a killing.
Yeah, didn't believe Russia would attack Poland after Ukraine? Its already happening. THIS is why NATO exists.
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 5d ago⚡️ Poland confirms Russian Kh-101 missile fell in Lublin region during mass attack on Ukraine. "It was a provocation, an intention, an alliance test. In this case, the next weeks will probably give us more answers," Polish Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk said.
This case was doomed from the start. If there is to be a DOJ “weaponization” fund, as Trump insists, let’s start the payouts with this one. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Justice Department drops criminal case against Olympian over damaged Reflecting Pool
Government lawyers said in a 20-page court filing that information provided since the indictment of David Hearn shows that the damage was the result of a “flawed installation by the contractor” as wel...
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This Should Be The First Reason Todd "Coverup Queen" Blanche, Doesn't Get The AG Nomination....
How 6 Billionaire Families Fund Climate Denial and brought us Project 2025 (via the Heritage Foundation) - desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial
Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025
Unraveling a $130 million web of climate denial, political extremism, and Trump campaign ties.
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ICE detained a 29-year-old man. 30 days later, he was dead. "He was completely fine. Everything started with ICE,” his father said.
Flock cameras’ days are numbered. Across the country, communities are removing them city by city. Thank you to everyone who is standing up, speaking out, and fighting back against their expansion. Here’s the cities that have fought back and won! Denver CO, Austin TX, San Marcos TX, Evanston IL,
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
Wild story from @jamesjbaratta.bsky.social about how Amazon and Walmart can detect Made in America fraud but choose not too, with their chatbots explicitly saying that this is a "business calculation." prospect.org/2026/07/30/g...
The Great ‘Made in the USA’ Fraudyssey - The American Prospect
Amazon and Walmart are well equipped to detect deceptive claims about where products are made. Their own AI chatbots describe the choice not to act as a business decision.
prospect.org
Since the Supreme Court wants to misinterpret the Constitution to bestow an immunity to Crime without punishment on the president, which no one else in the country enjoys, then we need a Constitutional Amendment to instruct the Supreme Court that "Equal justice under law" means EXACTLY THAT!
Your vote is one of the few things in this world that’s completely yours. No one can take it, buy it, or fake it. Show up in November and use it. #LoserTrumpsElectionLies #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
