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Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17h ago

WaPo Exclusive: Trump has claimed that the White House needs a massive new ballroom because it would provide him and future presidents with a secure, hardened facility. But former officials say the argument fails to acknowledge that the presidential complex already has one.

Secret White House bunker undercuts Trump’s ballroom lawsuit, ex-officials say

The White House already has a nuclear-proof facility buried deep underground and built in secret after 9/11.

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · yesterday

An employe at McMahon's company, WWE was accused of systematically sexually assaulting vulnerable boys who worked at the company. McMahon persuaded them not to sue, and told one she would support his education. When his grades dropped, she stopped paying tuition support. He later killed himself.

In 1992, Cole, then twenty-one years old, and another ring boy told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Phillips had molested them. They said that he groped their feet for hours at a time. (Phillips would lock the kids into wrestling holds.) Sometimes he rubbed their feet on his penis. (Later, other ring boys alleged that Phillips had forced them into oral sex, ejaculated on them, and attempted to have penetrative sex with them; the McMahons have denied knowledge of the actions.) Cole later accused a W.W.E. executive named Pat Patterson of groping his butt, and an executive named Terry Garvin of turning on pornography and asking to perform oral sex on Cole during a work conversation. When the story broke, the three men left the company. According to one account, the McMahons let Patterson go personally, at the mansion, and both Vince and Linda cried. (Patterson was reinstated soon afterward.) Vince held a series of damage-control phone calls with Phil Mushnick, a sports writer with the New York Post. Mushnick later testified in a deposition that Vince told him, “We had known for some time that Mel had a peculiar and unnatural interest and attachment to children.” Vince said that they’d fired Phillips before, years earlier, but had subsequently rehired him “out of the goodness of our hearts.” He framed this as a joint decision: “We brought him back with the caveat that he steer clear of children.”Cole threatened to sue the company. At a meeting with the McMahons in New York to discuss a settlement, Cole’s attorney left the room several times, leaving him alone with the McMahons. Cole recollected that Linda seemed compassionate. “I thought having her present and a mother’s instincts were invaluable,” the company’s longtime lawyer, Jerry McDevitt, later said. Cole said she told him that she believed him, and that she wanted to help. He remembered her saying, “I consider you in a sense like a son. I want to look at it that way. I want you to come to me with your problems.” Cole opened up. At a later meeting at W.W.E. headquarters, according to Cole, the McMahons sought the names of other potential accusers with whom he, along with his brother Lee, was communicating. At the McMahons’ coaxing, he gave them access to his brother’s answering machine. (Vince denies this.) His lawyer had sought a monetary settlement, but Cole, who’d left the company, said that he just wanted his job back. The McMahons agreed, and also gave him fifty thousand dollars in back pay. Linda McMahon and Cole also made a separate agreement: he’d be paid as an employee but would return to school, as McMahon wanted. “I talked to this young man as I would my son, and told him how supportive of him we would be,” she later recounted. He signed a document that she’d prepared, agreeing that his employment was contingent on his academics.As the journalist David Bixenspan, who has reported on the ring-boy allegations, has detailed, Cole enrolled at a community college. McMahon corresponded with his professors. Cole found that he was still traumatized by the abuse and had a hard time concentrating. He asked McMahon if he could drop out and resume working for the company. She told him to stick with it. Cole stopped attending class. He failed. His transcript was sent to McMahon. “I was very disappointed in your performance,” she wrote to him. “At this point we believe that we have done everything we can. Therefore, this letter is to advise you of your termination with Titan Sports, effective immediately.” She concluded, “The opportunity of a lifetime is a terrible thing to waste.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

BASH: One of the things that's happening is there's a push to start students down a trade school track as early as elementary school. Is that too early? LINDA McMAHON: I don't think so BASH: But elementary school? McMAHON: I think you can have some introduction of skilled trades in elementary

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d ago

"He Co-Founded Airbnb. Now He’s a Red-Pilled Billionaire Helping Trump" Joe Gebbia, the first-ever chief design officer of the U.S., went from supporting Dems to going all-in on Trump and spreading racist takes and conspiracy theories online.

He Co-Founded Airbnb. Now He’s a Red-Pilled Billionaire Helping Trump

Joe Gebbia, the first-ever chief design officer of the U.S., went from supporting Democrats to going all-in on Trump and increasingly spreading racist takes and conspiracy theories online.

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404 Media@404media.co · last wk.

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2w ago

👇🎯 We are so far beyond the off ramp for presidency-ending crimes & negligence that we can’t even see how deep & how intertwined it all is. This is very helpful in bringing things together.

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Air Force One catering truck scandal is deeper and darker than the media is portraying it — it’s a Russian nesting doll of corruption and national security threats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 3w ago

A central part of why it seems like powerful, rich people live in a consequence-free world is that the social incentives to hold them to account have withered. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar... 𝟏𝟐-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞-𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 4w ago

About the Austin police murder of a Black child named Anthoneil Williams: - Uvalde police cowered for 3 hrs while an armed terrorist murdered children—because cops feared for their lives. - But Austin police opened fire in 3 secs to murder a child—because cops feared for their lives. 1/4

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · 4w ago

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC@mattnegrin.bsky.social · last mo.

Not a single network aired this on their nightly news broadcasts yesterday. They described Trump overseeing a "somber ceremony" and called it a "moving moment." The only way to know what trump actually said about the soldiers he killed is to follow aaron rupar which no offense to aaron is insane

nbc: fallen troops return homeabc: honoring america's fallen soldierscbs: trump oversees dignified transfer of US soldiersfox: saluting the fallen; president trump attends dignified transfer ceremony
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"

WIRED@wired.com · last mo.

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last mo.

“Investigators have linked shredded iceberg lettuce supplied to Taco Bell restaurants by Taylor Farms as a potential source of contamination in the outbreak of a parasitic illness that has sickened thousands in United States, according to two individuals familiar with the investigation.”

Lettuce supplier is potential source of cyclosporiasis outbreak, investigators say

Thousands have been sickened in the outbreak of cyclosporiasis, which has been largely concentrated in southeastern Michigan.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · last mo.

Isn't it weird that this week a currently sitting president had to pay a woman MILLIONS of dollars for *raping* (and defaming) her—and the media has forgotten all about it? There was a time that this would have been the ONLY story—until the rapist was driving from office.

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · last mo.

Today, the majority of House Democratic leadership chose to defend billions in military aid to Israel over the will of nearly 75% of Democratic voters and 103 members of their own caucus. 🧵

Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · last mo.

The rise of the progressive left wing of the Democratic Party has energized people like me to become part of the political process. Rather than invite the new energy and ideas into the party, Jeffries has always treated us as a threat to be destroyed. He is the worst of the establishment.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last mo.

Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.

Phil Plait@philplait.bsky.social · last mo.

When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.

Paul Russell@pwrussell.bsky.social · last mo.

Masked government paramilitaries are killing people on the streets in cold blood. No one is held accountable and a third of Americans are fine with it. Hard to believe, but here we are.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last mo.

"None of the ICE agents involved has been identified. None has stepped forward to contradict the witnesses’ account. No video or evidence of any sort has been provided by ICE." Read @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social on latest in Texas ICE shooting (cites my report): www.thebulwark.com/p/a-season-o...

rev. howard arson@theophite.bsky.social · last mo.

the tattoo should have been an antisemitism scandal, but instead the antisemitism scandals have all been about Israel, because the ADL has simply stopped caring about the interests of American Jews.

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Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The judge gave Estrella 21 days to file an asylum application, but I don’t know how that’s going to work, since she doesn’t have a lawyer, she’s separated from her mom, and again, she’s three years old.