consumers: i want a laptop that doesn't degrade in six months and doesn't cost $2000 silicon valley: have you considered giving us all the money in existence to build sex dens on mars
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Coiner of the popular expression "Zut, alors" and inspiration for the Lynyrd Skynyrd song "Gimme Back My Bullets."
Susan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics
One 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.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Maybe he missed the memo, but his job is to lead the UNITED STATES of America. Instead, he is blaming one of our own states for an apparent foreign attack because its governor is a Democrat. It’s a shameless lie, and a fundamentally un-American one at that.
APPLEBAUM: Witkoff and Kushner had a pretty profound effect on how peace negotiations been conducted, and it’s not positive. They prolonged war in Ukraine because their attitude was, "We’re going to Moscow to do deals with Russian companies." Russians were delighted by this,
Might be worth exploring www.npr.org/2026/08/02/g...
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns
The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...
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i follow the pattern in which his demands become more total/imperial ("don't ever talk again") as his actual power fades, walls close in
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
Could Russia be preparing to test NATO's defenses through a military provocation or hybrid attack? Several Western intelligence agencies have recently warned of this scenario.
Ben McKenzie maps out the potential crypto crimes of Trump & members of his Executive Branch—specifically how they’ve benefited from their financial ties to the shady foreign operator, Tether. Gulp down this #CupOfJoe full of significant facts.
Epstein boasted that he “gave” a 20-year-old woman to Trump. The current president, a convicted felon who lies all the time, might want you to think he and Epstein were not close, but they were obviously sexual predator buddies. 5/6🧵
This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)
The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...
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Three enormous wildfires are raging in Spokane. Thousands of people are evacuating, not knowing if they’ll come back to a home or nothing but ashes. Climate change isn’t some faraway threat. It’s happening right now, to our neighbors and friends. We have to fight for them.
when Linda divorced the cyclops, she went back to her maiden name, Liinda
🤔 Wonder which Trump officials are regulating the industries that made them rich? @publiccitizen.bsky.social built a tracker so you can find out—updated regularly. And look how many promised to recuse rather than divest!
Tracker: Trump Appointees' Corporate Conflicts of Interest - Public Citizen
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SCIENTIST: giant centipedes are attacking new york! ARMY GENERAL: my god that one must be 100 feet SCIENTIST: they all have 100 feet roger
Trust in American institutions is at an all-time low, and it’s painfully obvious why. Donald Trump wants corruption to feel so constant, so overwhelming, and so normal that Americans stop believing it can be defeated.
Listen: Trump's crypto schemes make his first-term grifting seem like the good old days. I chatted about his unrestrained profiteering, the Clarity Act, and more with @lizdye.bsky.social & @andrewtorrez.bsky.social for @lawandchaospod.bsky.social.
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Government Podcast · Updated Weekly · Ignorance of the law is no excuse! That's true for a traffic stop, and it's true if you want to participate in whatever's left of American democracy. If the event...
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Trump would rather pull Blanche’s nomination for AG than allow him to commit in writing that Trump’s IRS deal is off. The immunity Blanche granted to Trump from IRS audits is a windfall that some experts estimate is worth $100 million in taxpayer funds for Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
Trump Threatens to Withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, Dealing Blow to Nomination
President Trump’s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.
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He's better suited to compete on "American Idol."
Rex Huppke@rexhuppke.bsky.social · 6d agoThis is a factual sentence: Amid an outbreak of explosive diarrhea and with measles cases at a 35-year high, America’s top health official, who has an affinity for roadkill and guzzling raw milk, will soon start hosting a cooking show. My column, tragically: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
They're literally stealing representation from citizens of a representative democracy. It's "Death of Stalin" bullshit, but with *less* concern for public opinion.
They could not look guiltier if they tried. If Mitch is dead/incapacitated, These people should be in prison for fraud/racketeering. They’re defrauding the people of Kentucky for their salaries at the VERY least. @govandybeshear.bsky.social #MissingMitchMcconnell
They have rejected my appeal. YouTube is now taking down public records.
Scott Stedman@scottstedman.bsky.social · 7d agoYouTube took down body-camera footage (that I obtained via public records request!) of Zach Witkoff’s arrest on cocaine possession and resisting arrest charges, citing a privacy complaint.
Why won't the Trump regime tell us what border czar Tom Homan did with the $50,000 he took in an FBI sting operation that was caught on video? If he kept it, did he pay taxes on it, or is the regime letting him commit a 2nd crime on top of the 1st crime? Let's not forget about this.
Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
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Trump isn’t done trying to fleece the American taxpayer—this time, for the poorly attended Great American State Fair. trib.al/Xv77qbA
Trump Asks for Millions More to Cover American State Fair Disaster
Trump isn’t done trying to fleece the American taxpayer—this time, for the poorly attended Great American State Fair.
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Families across CA-28 have spent $104 million more on gas since the beginning of Trump’s illegal war in Iran. But instead of addressing these sky-high costs, Republicans decided to hand Trump $73 billion more for his reckless war, a war that the House of Representatives has voted to end TWICE.
Dilley is run by ICE for-profit prison contractor CoreCivic (NYSE: CXW). Institutional investors, pension funds, foundations and endowments must divest from CoreCivic, as well as from GEO Group (NYSE: GEO). Do not reap profits from torture of kids. #Divest $CXW $GEO
Joaquin Castro@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · last wk.112 children are imprisoned at Dilley. The youngest child imprisoned at Dilley is 2 months old. None have committed any crime. Private investors make money for each new child taken into Dilley. We need to #ShutDownDilley and end family detention.