Pretty great juxtaposition against CBS owner David Ellison’s NYT op-ed today about why he’s actually the perfect guy to run CNN and how everybody is wrong to suspect he has political allegiances
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayOne 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.
Apple got a $2.2 billion tariff refund. Amazon got $600 million. Trump is sending the "refunds" to the companies, not working people. Every single cent of these refunds should go back to American consumers.
We’ve been saying this for a while now many of the people being targeted are just fishermen. Evidence now supports that the United States has killed individuals who were not involved in drug trafficking during its “counternarcotics interdiction operations” in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Two senators on their way out the door. Nothing left to lose. Total leverage. And they traded it for a memo. A piece of paper. Cornyn and Tillis folded like lawn chairs, and everybody knew they would. Again.
BREAKING: Todd Blanche has released what he calls a rescission of the slush fund (left). The last lawsuit he mentions is mine (Gill v DOJ). This doesn't change the fact that the "settlement" setting up the fund is still in effect. On the right, Blanche is LEAVING IN PLACE Trump's tax immunity.
CNN posts an article that says Trump "forgets" what voters want.....nope! Trump could care fucking less what voters want should be the real story! No blaming dementia.
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Post 1/2: Jim Jordan (R-OH4) is up for reelection Nov 3. He co-founded the Freedom Caucus, backed the 2020 SCOTUS bid to toss swing-state ballots, and defied a Jan 6 subpoena over his talks with Trump that day. His opponent: Joshua Kolasinski (D), a Columbus small business owner. 1/2
Mike Collins had a chance to condemn his son-in-law’s antisemitic videos. Instead, he dodged. Jon Ossoff: “We saw this morning a sad spectacle of a crumbling man.”
This is a very good job that'll be a little hard. You're basically running point on an omnichannel comedy network for aspiring paranoiacs that will turn into a cult of its own. Apply or tell your smartest friend to apply. There's a war on for your mind and we need a John Brown.
A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List
A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.
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Somebody At The Pentagon Just Cooked The Books: The bodies didn’t disappear. The paperwork did. www.JackHopkinsNow.com
Dr. Fauci had us wear masks during a global pandemic. RFK Jr. collects raccoon penises. But okay.
Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.
By the way Mitch McConnell voted against paid leave many many times
He really does run to the Supreme Court with emergency filings every chance he gets. Trump just asked the Supreme Court to overturn the $83.3 million jury award against him for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll after a jury found he made false and damaging statements about her.
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Overturn $83.3 Million Award in Carroll Defamation Case
President Trump paid E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million from a 2023 lawsuit, but he is now asking the court to overturn a much larger award that a jury ordered him to pay in 2024 for defaming her.
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@bsky.app If you start censoring criticism of Trump like Musk does, I'm out of here. Seriously. I'm done with tolerating authoritarianism and oligarchy and done with any business that bows down to tyrants and rich people.
The FBI has ADMITTED it has the Epstein Files redaction TRAINING VIDEOS that an anonymous FBI source told me about last year. TODD BLANCHE was required to release these under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. TODD BLANCHE is unfit to serve as Attorney General. VOTE NO. @judiciarydems.senate.gov
New Yorkers: Tonight's forecast calls for potentially life-threatening flooding, especially for those living in basement apartments and neighborhoods that have flooded before.
LA Dodgers owner Mark Walters had a very good reason to corral the players into a WH visit. His company is under investigation by the DOJ & SEC. Private credit, billions in undisclosed loans transferred from his investment firms to his insurance firms. Gift link: www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Exclusive | Federal Probe Into Dodgers Owner’s Financial Empire Was Sparked by Whistleblower
Authorities are examining about $16 billion in private-credit deals involving Mark Walter’s insurance companies to determine whether fraud occurred.
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Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office released a health update today, saying he is still not ready to return to in-person work at the Capitol following his June 14 hospitalization. That means he has now been away from in-person Senate work for 43 days.
🚨 URGENT! 🚨 Republicans tucked a rider into the defense bill (NDAA) that lets the Pentagon seize CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS — to help out an oil company! It already passed the House. The Senate hasn't taken it up yet — which means there's still time to stop it - see first comment!
