Jelly8bean
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Lucifan, , without facts, there is no truth
Republicans have blocked Wyden’s measure that would require the Treasury Department to produce copies of all suspicious activity reports related to Epstein and his co-conspirators for congressional committees,and it singled out U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
August 4, 2026
On Friday night, a court filing from Capital One denied there was any political motivation behind the closure of more than 380 bank accounts in the names of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.
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'First you complained when we stole your money, now you're complaining when we give it to our rich allies - MAKE UP YOUR MIND'
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayBessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."
If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them. defector.com/the-right-ha...
The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector
A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN…
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In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC
Our Team
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Politico@politico.com · yesterday26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
Cornyn and Tillis refer to this ... as a ‘binding written order that the audit settlement is limited to the plaintiffs and the scope does not extend beyond the defendants in the lawsuit, the IRS and the Treasury.’ But this isn’t an order nor does it bind anyone. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
August 3, 2026
Just before midnight last night, news broke that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche had rescinded the order of May 18, 2026, establishing a $1.776 billion slush fund for those who claimed that the D...
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The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
The degradation of the Department of Justice, which is charged with defending the rule of law for the American people, into an instrument of Trump’s political wrath has been illustrated in the fight over ....Blanche open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
August 2, 2026
Friday’s dismissal of the Department of Justice case against David Hearn for vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool came days after Hearn’s lawyers asked for transcripts of the grand jury p...
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A Mormon Border Patrol agent sexually abused all 6 of his children for years. He confessed as much to his bishop, who did not report it. Instead the bishop told the wife ... who was later sentenced to jail for not reporting it. The bishop? The AZ Supreme Court says he did nothing wrong.
Arizona Supreme Court: clergy don't have to report child abuse
U.S. Border Patrol agent Paul Adams sexually abused all six his children for at least seven years before he was caught. He killed himself after being charged, but not before…
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“Federal law enforcement is protecting one party and prosecuting its opposition…They are confident they can avoid consequences. If they can break the law with impunity, elections are the only consequence they face, [so] they have every incentive to steal them.” open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
A Ruling Party That Faces No Consequences for Open Corruption Has No Reason to Accept Elections
We won't survive if we try to play by their rules.
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services is pathologically lying, gaslighting psychopath.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRFK: "You are saying nonsense." Bash: "I am not saying nonsense, excuse me?…This is not productive. " RFK: "You're talking nonsense…You were scaring people." Bash: "Why are you saying that?" RFK: "Because that was the job of CNN." Bash: "Okay, stop."
Yes it was and yes we do. It killed roughly 1,300 kids in the US and caused serious and sometimes chronic illness in thousands more. Also, COVID killed a parent or household caregiver of over ten million children worldwide and over a quarter million in the US. Fuck you.
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d agoCovid was- overwhelmingly- not a threat to children. Hence why (generally) we don’t vaccinate them now.
In order to prove their lie, administration officials used the power of the government to harass, indict, and threaten a random individual whom they could blame for their own failures. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
August 1, 2026
In a classic Friday night news dump, the Department of Justice last night moved to dismiss the criminal charges against David Hearn, the U.S.
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The president took on a vanity project, gave no-bid contracts to contractors who screwed it up, made up a story about vandals to cover it up, and then fomented a felony prosecution against an innocent scapegoat. You could impeach for anything he's done but "This asshole is out of control" is a layup
Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · 5d agoWhen you slow down and think about it you realize it's ten times worse than it seems. Sure it's farcical, but it's also a brutal legal attack on a man they knew to be innocent, done to distract from their own thievery and incompetence and as a flex to terrify anyone who might make them look bad.
My unvaccinated brother died of COVID in 2021. I was about a year and a half into my epidemiology career. Healthcare staff did absolutely everything they could but they cannot cure ignorance. They cannot cure an anti-science belief and culture. Thats YOUR responsibility. Not Dr. Fauci’s.
government should regulate business, maintain a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, protect civil rights, and support an international order based in rules rather than in military might. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
July 31, 2026
Courtney Kube, Monica Alba, Peter Nicholas, Gordon Lubold, Katherine Doyle, and Andrea Mitchell of NBC News reported Wednesday that President Donald J.
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An abusive son-in-law leveraging his father-in-law’s (alleged) gay activities to stay quiet about his daughter being a punching bag is the most Republican thing I can imagine, which is aided by the fact that Ohio somehow elected both of these losers to federal office.
the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 5d ago
After a privately funded border wall in South Texas faced legal issues and claims of shoddy construction, President Donald Trump denounced the project. His administration has handed the company behind it billions to build more of the wall. (Pub. May w/ Big Bend Sentinel & @texastribune.org)
The Trump Administration Is Facing Scrutiny for How It’s Handing Out Billion-Dollar Border Wall Contracts
A new lawsuit alleges the Trump administration awarded the bulk of new Texas border wall contracts to two firms without “genuine competitive opportunities.” One of the chosen firms has faced legal iss...
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FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d agoThey lied about the whole thing and now admit the contractor screwed up the Reflecting Pool installation. And because they were in a rush to indict to please Trump, they presented false evidence to a grand jury. meidasnews.com/news/doj-see...
New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...
Watching the show trials
Anthony Fauci and the politics of retribution
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Democracy is a fine system for choosing officeholders. What democracy must never do is reach into property, markets, or the power structures they produce. Inequality is the natural state of things — open.substack.com/pub/tadstoer...
Barbarians Inside the Gate?
Mike Johnson keeps saying the barbarians are inside — not at — the gate. He isn’t misquoting the classics. He’s quoting somebody else, and who he’s quoting, and why, matters right now.
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The argument here is simple.everywhere a private company stands between people and something they need, collecting a toll for a service the public could provide directly. Apply it not as theory but as a concrete, sector-by-sector blueprint for building the economy that people actually deserve.
What Republicans did not do is introduce any evidence that the 85-year-old lifelong public servant had broken any laws. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
July 29, 2026
Ariel Edwards-Levy of CNN reported today that a new CNN poll conducted by the public opinion research firm SSRS found that 70% of adult Americans disapprove of the way President Donald J.
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-Gas prices are up. -Grocery prices are up. -Utility prices are up. What are trump and Republicans focused on? -Putting trump’s name on federal buildings -Putting trump’s face on a coin -Putting trump’s name on airports and rail stations NOVEMBER IS COMING.
CNN@cnn.com · last wk.A record-high 73% of US adults say that President Donald Trump hasn't paid enough attention to the country's most important problems, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds. https://cnn.it/4pP2PVd
Social Security is not a handout. You paid into it with every paycheck, and you shouldn't get a dime less than what you're owed. I’ll always fight to protect the benefits you earned.
What you need isn’t a wall. It’s a Perimeter…a controlled border where the news gets in on your terms…not the machine’s. You stay informed. You just stop letting the firehose run 24 hours a day straight into your chest. open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...
The Perimeter: How to Stay Informed Without Getting Flooded
Bedrock: What holds when everything else shakes
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