Polly Sigh
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Loudmouth writer. “If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.” –Albert Einstein
🎯 @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social : “Any senator who votes to confirm Todd Blanche should know — you’re now part of the cover-up. You’re complicit in the cover-up if you vote to confirm the Todd Blanche for attorney general, who has led the cover-up of the Epstein Files.”
Kentucky Voter on Mitch McConnell: Your retirement is long overdue. Give it up. We don't want you. You're not representing us well, so don't represent us at all.
🚨🚨 So ICE removed all Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's personal effects--wallet, phone, etc--after shooting him before they put him in an ambulance. Is that normal law enforcement practice? Or does it suggest a coverup or attempt to manage information was underway from the beginning?
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 4mo agoJuan Proaño on the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo: The family is demanding the release of Lorenzo’s body. It has been complicated because they removed all of his personal identifying information before they put him in the ambulance. That required the hospital to admit him as a John Doe.
FEC is without a quorum to act. EAC is without a quorum to act. DOJ is under Trump's direct control. This is a very dangerous time for elections. My advice and request is to sign-up to Democracy Docket to stay informed. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
CNN montage of Trump claiming for months that Iran wants to make a deal
Juan Proaño on the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo: There were three others with him in that vehicle. Those individuals are now being pressured to sign self-deportation orders. They’re trying to get rid of them as witnesses as well.
BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.
Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midterms
The dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms.
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🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In sweeping attack on elections, Trump fires leadership of key federal voting assistance commission
The dismissals leave the elections assistance agency without leadership just months before the upcoming 2026 midterms.
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If you haven’t heard of Devon Murphy-Anderson, you will. She’s the exec director of the Maine Democratic Party, and quickly becoming one of the most influential Democratic operatives in the country. She makes one thing clear: 📌 The mission is bigger than any one candidate.
“It’s not a secret” but Trump continues to deny that Russia is helping Iran. Because, as ever, Trump’s loyalty lies with Putin.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo agoWELKER: Are you receiving any help from Russia? IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ABBAS ARAGHCHI: We have a strategic partnership with Russia WELKER: So that's a yes? ARAGHCHI: It's not a secret and will continue WELKER: Is Russia helping you locate US forces? A: I don't have exact military information
Lindsey is particularly blood thirsty for wars he won't be fighting or sending his kids to fight. It's all just a fun game of talking tough by a small man.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo agoLINDSEY GRAHAM: Israel and the United States -- you just wait to see what comes the next two weeks BARTIROMO: Meaning what? GRAHAM: We're going to blow the hell out of these people
New: Prison guards discussed cover-up in Epstein's death, inmate tells FBI. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
DOJ docs, FBI interview, raise new questions about Epstein's "suicide"
Notes from an FBI interview indicate that prison guards discussed "cover-up"
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Trump raises the stakes in Iran by weighing deployment of US ground forces ft.trib.al/APC2P5W
Trump raises the stakes in Iran by weighing deployment of US ground forces
Democrats and some Republicans fear a deepening involvement in the war with no clear exit strategy
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McLaughlin is such a damn liar. According to the Minneapolis Police Department, Ross was taken to the federal building 15 minutes after he murdered Renee Good –– not the hospital. I don't think he ever went to the hospital. He certainly didn't have internal bleeding. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
Emergency Call Transcripts Record a Crisis Unfolding in Real Time
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agoMcLAUGHLIN: He had internal bleeding & was sent to the hospital CNN: Doctors say normally if you have internal bleeding you wouldn't be released same day. Can you give us more detail? McLAUGHLIN: I haven't spoken to this individual's doctor. He was pretty banged up. We pray for him and his family
damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis
JFC. This is just rage-inducing to watch. Like the rest of Trump's admin, McLaughlin just repeatedly and blatantly lies about every aspect of Renee Good's murder even in the face of hard evidence to the contrary.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agoBLITZER: When Noem called this 37 year old mother a domestic terrorist, that really was outrageous McLAUGHLIN: In no way is that outrageous. She used her car as a deadly weapon B: She was driving by after dropping off her boy at school M: That simply is not true. I have the facts on the ground
NEW: While serving as South Dakota governor in 2024, DHS secretary Kristi Noem's personal company reportedly collected nearly $140K from a secretive nonprofit promoting her interests, according to a tax return obtained by CREW.
Kristi Noem’s company was paid almost $140,000 by a pro-Noem group in 2024 - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
In 2024, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was still governor of South Dakota, her personal company, Ashwood Strategies LLC, again received a cut of the money raised for a nonprofit that promotes her in...
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It’s amazing Trump’s supporters think he’s such a great businessman when it’s obvious he doesn’t understand basic math.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 9mo agoTrump: We are bringing medicine down by many times -- and there are two ways of calculating, you could say 1000%, 2000%, or 90% or 80%. The Democrats want you to say 90 or 80, but there are two ways of calculating it
So he’s going to lean on other countries and threaten them like a mob boss if they don’t go along with his asinine plan to invade Greenland.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agoTrump: "I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland because we need Greenland for national security"
So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away. Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · 9mo agoGIFT LINK www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Newly released records: Renee Good was found in her vehicle with two gunshot wounds to her chest and another to her forearm. After they removed her from the vehicle, she was not breathing and had an irregular pulse. She also had a possible gunshot wound to the left side of her head.
Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
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Yet still the official position of ICE is “hats off to that agent [Jonathan Ross]” for killing Renee Good while insisting that their personnel always follow the law Meanwhile they continue to investigate Ms Good-and her family The term “perversion of justice” somehow seems wholly inadequate here
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9mo agoNewly released records: Renee Good was found in her vehicle with two gunshot wounds to her chest and another to her forearm. After they removed her from the vehicle, she was not breathing and had an irregular pulse. She also had a possible gunshot wound to the left side of her head.
Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats
Our allies are literally doing troop buildups against us Putin is loving this
“.. Mr. Xi’s message seemed to be: Beijing had proven its capacity to hit back and Washington would do well to remember it.” @nytimes.com 🇨🇳 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...
