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Enchanted Bean @fleetheogre.bsky.social · 4d ago

Visuals Suggest U.S. Dropped 2,000-Pound Bomb on Home in Iran, Killing 3 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...

Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians (Gift Article)

The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.

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Ellie Leonard @redpencilscript.bsky.social · 5d ago

Discussing the suddenly-dead modeling scout, Daniel Siad, with @wajali.bsky.social #Epsteinfiles

Enchanted Bean @fleetheogre.bsky.social · 6d ago

Investigation of School Epstein Helped Finds Abuses Went Beyond Him www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/a...

Investigation of School Epstein Helped Finds Abuses Went Beyond Him (Gift Article)

A law firm hired by Interlochen, the arts school and camp, to look into alumni complaints of sexual abuse fielded dozens of disturbing accounts, primarily from decades ago.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · last wk.

The Supreme Court invited exactly this when it held that the president's attempt to conduct "sham" "investigations" was a core executive power immune from all regulation, including criminal prosecution, in Trump v. United States.

Deborah Pearlstein@debpearlstein.bsky.social · last wk.

"Secret Service agents who questioned the former FBI director James B. Comey were told to send details of the interview to Air Force One so President Trump could review them....One government document said that 'POTUS was requesting a copy of the interview notes to use in his 6pm press conference.'"

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2w ago

DoorDash, in damage control mode, now claims it supports D.C. home rule and denies lobbying against it. Here’s the letter their lobbyist wrote to Rep. Comer supporting his bill to ban D.C. from ever imposing or increasing a tax or fee without congressional approval. hillheat.com/files/492/DD...

Re: DoorDash Support for H.R. 9720, the "D.C. Taxing Authority Review Act"
Dear Chairman Comer and members of the committee:
On behalf of DoorDash, I write to express our support for H.R. 9720, the "D.C. Taxing Authority Review Act," which would require congressional approval before the District of Columbia can impose or increase a tax or fee. We believe this is a reasonable check against the hastily enacted local taxes and fees that fall hardest on small businesses and the residents who depend on them.
DoorDash's marketplace in the District is built overwhelmingly on small, independent merchants: Roughly 80% of DC merchants that were active on our platform as of December 2025 had 3 or fewer storefronts on the platform. These are the businesses least able to absorb new taxes and fees or the administrative burden of complying with them, from costly point-of-sale upgrades to added compliance overhead.
The District's recently passed delivery tax illustrates the risk: a tax on virtually every delivery, with proceeds designated for a myriad of projects and the District's general fund, passed without a single public hearing and, consequently, without input from the residents and small businesses it will most heavily impact. Based on our internal data, a tax like this would mean millions of dollars a year in added costs for D.C. residents and lost revenue for local merchants, and that burden grows quickly as the rate is increased, as authorized by the Budget Support Act. Research on comparable taxes bears this out: an economic analysis of Colorado's retail delivery fee found it raised takeout prices by nearly 1%; cut delivery orders by more than 400,000 a year; cost the restaurant sector over $12 million in revenue; and resulted in a loss of roughly 234 jobs across restaurant and delivery workers.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · last wk.

Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

One might even see his destruction of the United States Agency for International Development — responsible, so far, for an estimated 700,000 deaths worldwide — as consistent with his concern with falling white birthrates relative to those in places such as sub-Saharan Africa, where U.S.A.I.D. was active. After all, one way to secure a future for Western children, in this zero-sum view of the world, would be to starve African ones.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · last wk.

This NYT article is just awful. We should judge Fauci based on his work, not his innermost musings to a diary he never intended to become public. Who cares that he enjoyed the admiration of celebrities? There's zero evidence here that it interfered with his job! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

The Doctor and His Diary: What Fauci’s Innermost Musings Reveal

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci seemed to be the life of the party, even in the midst of a deadly pandemic.

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Enchanted Bean @fleetheogre.bsky.social · 2w ago

youtu.be/vPriOpIek0E BILL BARR “in his opinion the 2020 presidential election was not stolen by fraud & he has not seen any evidence since then to change his mind”. #BillBarr #coverups #epstein #Trump #Toady #ToddBlanche #Maxwell #Epstein #billionaire #FelonTrump #TrumpCrimeFamily #WilliamBarr

WATCH: Why Bill Barr didn’t believe Trump’s baseless election fraud claims | Jan. 6 hearings

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Enchanted Bean @fleetheogre.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wanna bet Bill Barr has his hands in the corner for Toady Blanche? Lessons from 1992. Gift article #BillBarr #TofBlanche #Epstein #Democracy #pardon #corruptions #toady #TrumpCrimeFamily #Trump #nokings www.nytimes.com/1992/12/25/u...

Enchanted Bean @fleetheogre.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Enchanted Bean @fleetheogre.bsky.social · 2w ago

FlASHBACK to 1992. Sound familiar. THE PARDONS; BUSH PARDONS 6 IN IRAN AFFAIR, ABORTING A WEINBERGER TRIAL; PROSECUTOR ASSAILS 'COVER-UP' www.nytimes.com/1992/12/25/u...

THE PARDONS; BUSH PARDONS 6 IN IRAN AFFAIR, ABORTING A WEINBERGER TRIAL; PROSECUTOR ASSAILS 'COVER-UP' (Gift Article)

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Enchanted Bean @fleetheogre.bsky.social · 2w ago

How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed (Gift Article)

Barred from leaving Romania, Andrew Tate courted powerful figures on the American right, from Tucker Carlson to Barron Trump. Then an extraordinary order let him go.

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Enchanted Bean @fleetheogre.bsky.social · 3w ago

ICE Agent Kills Person in Vehicle in Maine, Homeland Security Says www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...

ICE Agent Kills Person in Vehicle in Biddeford, Maine, State Officials Say (Gift Article)

The fatal shooting in Biddeford, Maine, was the second in a week involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent firing into a vehicle.

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Enchanted Bean @fleetheogre.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump-Appointed Judge Reluctantly Grants Dismissal of Proud Boys Case www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

Trump-Appointed Judge Reluctantly Grants Dismissal of Proud Boys Case (Gift Article)

Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a federal judge in Washington, noted that he had little choice but to accept the Trump administration’s move to end the case.

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Enchanted Bean @fleetheogre.bsky.social · last mo.

Noel Casler knew the #TrumpCrimeFamily well. He worked on #CelebrityApprentice & was responsible for managing celebrity contestants & the #Trump family backstage during the live finale episodes for 6 seasons. He saw ALOT! ##Billionaire #corruption #SaveDemocracy open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...

'American Pie'

The next 250 years of this republic will be vastly different than the first because of the presidency of Donald Trump; the most corrupt man to ever hold public office, let alone the presidency.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social · last mo.

On Birthright Citizenship: “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” -Justice Ketanji Brown 💅💕