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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11h
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation” 2 year olds In deportation hearings Without lawyers Hillary was right. Trump and his followers-in particular ICE-are truly deplorable
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#VeryAsian Eric @ektaka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Purging your generals and admirals in the middle of a war is never a good sign...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 29/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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How Biden Averted a War With Iran
In April 2024, the U.S. military helped avoid a wider conflict in the Middle East by working with Israel to defeat an Iranian missile attack.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 29/09/2026
Just going to park this here
Steven Pifer @steven_pifer •4h
I spent 27 years with the State Department.
People there know exactly for whom they work.
This tweet is beneath you, Matt.
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The US State Department lobby used to display the flags of the roughly 200 countries with which the US maintains diplomatic relations. Now, it displays 200 American flags, to remind State Department employe...
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The same person arguing that he must exclude certain media outlets for "national security" reasons is showing his self-proclaimed military bunker and drone base to arguably America's biggest adversary -- while it's still under construction. www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...
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Trump Invites Xi, State Dinner Attendees to ‘Walk Into a Construction Site’
President Donald Trump invited guests at his state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping — including Xi himself — to get a firsthand look at his much-touted White House ballroom, encouraging them to...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Hannity's list of "TRUMP'S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS" includes restoring Confederate names to military bases and releasing dietary guidelines
cap from Hannity
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The polls are so bad that a pro-ICE Kansas Republican is now preemptively begging ICE to not shoot one of his constituents now that they're active in his state
When ICE operates in Kansas, it needs to coordinate with our local law enforcement. Our sheriffs and police know these communities better than anyone, and working together keeps officers and residents safe.
I'm closely following what's happening in SW Kansas and have been in direct contact with Secretary Mullin and local law enforcement as ICE executes warrants in order to keep Kansans safe.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Excellent post on the vile Russell Vought. "Russell Vought is the kind of man who would deprive every child in America of a drug that saved his own daughter’s life because it advances his own."
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
"you should pay more for gas and everything should be more expensive so iran can have more influence over the middle east than they've had in your lifetime" is what they're actually arguing here and for very obvious reasons people are not buying it
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Big win for the Kremlin. Another one.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
newrepublic.com/article/2151... The Final Battle for America’s Democracy Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how. By Michael Luttig
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The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/02/2026
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He’s reaching new levels of stupidity.
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Jonathan Caverley @jcaverley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Remarkable, and depressing, data analysis in this piece.
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checkingoutnow.bsky.social @checkingoutnow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good lord what a badass
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kloza: ⛽️
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
President Trump wants control of the midterms. Also, he made a new pledge!
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My read is that there aren’t five votes to let Trump literally rig elections. Roberts and Barrett won’t greenlight overt election subversion or chaotic, illegal interference with voting. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch aren’t reliable but don’t love the chaos either. Thomas and Alito want to end democracy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
I said it at the time (and before!), but I truly believe that American voters electing Donald Trump for a second term in 2024 was the dumbest and most self-harming choice made by an electorate in the history of humanity
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
To say the Iran War "is not going well" for Trump and his side kick Crown Prince Bone Saw would be a decided understatement. At this point it's looking existential for both leaders, though in different ways. Meanwhile, US media doesn't appear to understand what's going on. www.ft.com/content/f2a4...
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A spreading war threatens Trump and MBS
Energy supplies from Saudi Arabia have been hit just as Europe and the US head into winter
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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Saudi Arabia didn't decide to shut down the pipeline. There is no pipeline. It'd be like insisting you grounded the flight after it already crashed. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/i...
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Satellite images show extent of damage to Saudi Arabia’s oil pipeline that bypasses Strait of Hormuz
Saudi Arabia temporarily shut the roughly 750-mile pipeline as attacks threaten a key alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump hosted neo Nazi Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago. Mike Rogers campaign team was connected to a chat which praised Hitler. Brandon Herrera approves of Nazis murdering Jews. And the Republican party has had an actual Nazi as a Congressional candidate This is who they have always been 51 days
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Strong endorse. Will say it again: the pundit class's choice (and it was a choice) to overread 2024 as a seismic cultural shift was a catastrophe for this country, emboldening Trump to go full fascist and encouraging institutional surrender in the face of it. This lives on amid his total collapse.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/09/2026
Epstein survivor Dani Bensky reveals that Fox News has refused to give survivors a platform, even as they try to reach Americans across the political spectrum. “We have survivors on both sides of the aisle... but there really is this great divide that we can’t seem to cross.”
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OH MY G-D @nytimes.com IT ISN’T A CLAIM IT’S A LIE HE DISRESPECTS EVERYONE WHO PERISHED ON 9/11 FROM THE VICTIMS IN THE TWIN TOWERS TO THE SELFLESS FIREMEN WHO SAVED THOUSANDS, RUSHING INTO THE BUILDINGS-ONLY TO PERISH THEMSELVES AND THE HEROES OF FLIGHT 93 A DESPICABLE, CONTEMPTIBLE LIE
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New midweek update out (first part free). The US might be running out of Patriot interceptors quicker than people realize--and that will matter more than Iran being deprived money. People have their heads in the sand about the real state of US power. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-up...
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Midweek Update #27: When Will The US Run Out Of Patriot Interceptors?
More And More This Looks Like The End Of An Era; China And Russia Must Be Loving This
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026
For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
BREAKING: Trump Cheers German Neo-Nazi Party Wins
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Either the world’s biggest narcissist has extraordinary message discipline and managed to keep this story secret for 25 years or it’s time for the 25th Amendment.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We already knew Egyptian intelligence warned Israel ahead of Oct. 7 and the Netanyahu govt dismissed it. Now we learn UAE leader MBZ warned Bibi directly that Hamas was about to try something big. He dismissed that too. One of the worst security failures in history. And followed by so much awful.
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Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Remember when John Kerry got swiftboated for his ACTUAL Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts?
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If Barack Obama had done this, every Sunday show would have talked about nothing else.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
FUCK ICE
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/bf6b095...
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Pentagon refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran conflict ‘because it isn’t a war’
JD Vance offers support after widow expresses frustration in viral online post
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Todd Blanche is systematically covering up everything DOJ has on Epstein's Zorro Ranch, where young female victims mysteriously disappeared. nmdoj.gov/press-releas...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That is an incidence rate of… 0.00547% The voter fraud allegations you’ve been sold are blatantly and provably false.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Great summary. And it should be the lede in every report on this so-called deal.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Trump did the Baby Cages thing and Americans mostly forgot about it and the ones who remembered thought “more baby cages actually!”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
I would like ask JD Vance about Pierre Damas Bel.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The crowd who screeches into the void about the deep state sure is quiet about being force-fed undisclosed propaganda from a DOD influencer program.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
One thing that this excellent Washpost scoop (gift link below) reminds us of is the utter futility of Hegseth’s campaign against the press. In fact, it is entirely possible that it pissed off senior Pentagon officials so much that they’re now more prone to leak. wapo.st/4wT23bL
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Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations
A recent classified assessment advised that prolonged large-scale operations in the Middle East risk weakening U.S. capabilities elsewhere.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
When the stupidest people are in charge “The fact that the U.S. did not preemptively — or at least expeditiously — evacuate families and dependents is truly mind-boggling.”
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wendyspirit.bsky.social @wendyspirit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This entire 🧵. The entire chain of events Trump has engaged in with Venezuela is outrageous.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
So, after taking 31 US government equity stakes in private companies over the last year, Trump just announced a MAJORITY-STATE-OWNED oil company? This isn't even "creeping" socialism anymore. www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
GOP Senate candidate Mike Collins’ former staffer shared posts of himself in KKK robes and a swastika.
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A former Mike Collins staffer posted KKK and Nazi images. Some Republicans see a pattern.
Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia) is challenging Sen. Jon Ossoff (D). The former Collins staffer posted a swastika and shared an image of himself in what appear to be KKK robes.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/08/2026
So Trump lied about Nevada and Pennsylvania, and everything else.
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