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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/02/2026

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.

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Senator calls for DEA to provide info on "incredibly disturbing" Epstein drug investigation

Federal drug enforcement investigators targeted Jeffrey Epstein and 14 others in a yearslong probe first reported by CBS News.

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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

1. God is a silent, hostile void 2. Language is a speculative, fraudulent slide 3. Society is a paranoid allegorical warzone

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 18/02/2026

"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was the host of Fox & Friends Weekend from 2017 to 2024.(. . .)Former Deputy Director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, spent the better part of the last decade as a podcaster. He has been a guest host of various Fox News shows and hosted the Dan Bongino Show"

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Killing for Content

The Trump Administration cares more about clicks and content than human life.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/02/2026

and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!

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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I agree with your comment @davetroy.com. We should welcome the transparency while denying the narrative. But we face a practical deadlock. The DOJ is actively defying Public Law. Massie is the only actor using the Speech & Debate Clause to force compliance. 🧵👇

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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

We were designed to have #NoKings In the 1700s, Royal Prerogative was the tool used to shroud corruption in silence. Today, the DOJ uses Executive Secrecy as the modern shield for elite impunity. But the Founders left a kill switch: The Speech and Debate Clause. 🧵👇

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon. The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough. bsky.app/profile/alan...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Elon probably meant to say "Scots-Irish" and probably knows more of the history here than you might assume since white supremacists like him regard the Plantation of Ulster and displacement of the Catholic Irish as a prototype for later white supremacist settler colonialism (like South Africa)

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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Nancy Mace demands the release of files she claims exonerate Trump, while attacking Trump’s AG for keeping them hidden. That’s illogical and indefensible. NPR’s constant normalization of Trump is why people change the station.

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br00t4c @br00t4c.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

“My party is taking up for pedophiles”: Massie explains split with MAGA, Trump The Kentucky representative explained his ongoing feud with President Donald Trump in an interview with CNN www.salon.com/2026/02/08/m...

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"My party is taking up for pedophiles": Massie explains split with MAGA, Trump - Salon.com

The Kentucky representative explained his ongoing feud with President Donald Trump in an interview with CNN.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

People are waking up.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

One thing the ICE masks do is hide that Stephen Miller's white supremacist project relies on brown labor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTSe...

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Behind the Masks

YouTube video by emptywheel

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE. Our conversation:

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"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS

The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 13/02/2026

President Donald Trump is now embarking on a crusade to MAGAfy the American past, via a hostile takeover of the federal government’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. bit.ly/3Oex6xY

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The Antidemocratic Zealots Presiding Over Trump’s Makeover of US History

The administration’s sketchily funded Freedom 250 project, which will oversee the celebration of America’s semiquincentennial, is a pageant of right-wing extremism.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/02/2026

not putting Zohran in the center here is… a choice

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Is Tommy Robinson a paid agent of the Kremlin? Of course. That's been clear for years, and now new evidence of the payment stream has become public. In February 2020, Robinson travelled to Moscow and St Petersburg. But even before that trip,

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Tommy Robinson and the London News Website Linked to a Putin-Backed Propaganda Network

In February 2020, far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (‘Tommy Robinson’) travelled to Moscow and St Petersburg, giving interviews to Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT and meeting figures linked to Ru...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Andy Ogles offers us a strong reminder that when many Republicans look at the Stars and Stripes today, what they see and understand is the battle flag of the Confederacy. The world accorded Blacks is harvesting cotton on the plantation, while he role accorded Hispanics is harvesting sugar.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Johnson keeps saying "trained activists" like he's saying "convicted murderers." This is essential to the right's project: if the left gets its shit together, that means its democratic participation is inherently illegitimate. I wrote about this here: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-rights...

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The Right's Greatest Fear Is an Organized Left

What's happening in Minneapolis is deep democratic participation, and the right says it can't be real.

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

SCOOP: Tensions at Palantir have grown in recent weeks over the company's work with ICE. On Friday, CEO Alex Karp tried to calm concerns in an hourlong video that offered few specifics—instead offering NDAs to workers who want to understand how it's empowering ICE. www.wired.com/story/palant...

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees

In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company's products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Completely wrong headline from CNN. The report from a 2006 police interview with Trump ANSWERS questions. Specifically, it proves that (no surprise) Trump is lying when he says he had no idea what Epstein was up to. CNN should not perpetuate the lies.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

“Democrats are trying to impose guardrails on how Trump’s fascist paramilitary force looks and operates, and how Trump can deploy his fascist paramilitary force, when the truth is that his fascist paramilitary force must be eliminated.” From First Draft: zeteo.com/p/reforming-...

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First Draft: Reforming Trump's Gestapo?

As Congress weighs guardrails for Trump’s fascist military police, lawmakers vote to allow themselves to overturn the president’s tariffs.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

It goes on and on and on and on and on

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid. I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Rep. Krishnamoorthi and 38 other Democrats signed a letter addressed to DHS and Dept. of Labor leadership about their use of white nationalist imagery on social media. The letter cites the white nationalist anthem, "We'll Have Our Home Again," as an example. krishnamoorthi.house.gov/media/press-...

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Congressman Krishnamoorthi Leads 38 House Democrats in Condemning White Nationalist and Extremist Rhetoric in Department of Homeland Security and Department of Labor Communications

WASHINGTON — Today, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) led 38 Democratic Members of Congress in sending a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Department of Labor Se...

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

For @theredoubt.net, I wrote about Trump connecting the federal killings in Minneapolis to the Pentagon's killing spree in the Caribbean — and how, to him, it's all the same war. www.theredoubt.net/trumps-war-o...

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Trump's war on the Americas

The U.S. president views the attacks in Minneapolis and South America as all part of the same conflict.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/02/2026

Epstein also appears to have connected Sulayem with Musk, who may have brokered Tesla's entry to Dubai (timeline lines up). Intriguingly, Kimbal seems to have been one of Epstein's routes into the Musk enterprise on behalf of his buddy from Dubai

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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Mikeladze is an old Georgian noble name, White Russian emigres in NYC high society, intelligence and aristocratic fashion grift (see Princess Keto Mikeladze). But its also a common Georgian surname, so its kind of like finding a random David Kennedy in Boston (could be someone, could be no one)

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 20/01/2026

NEW: Leaked emails show details of Jeffrey Epstein's decade plus long relationship with the chief of the powerful Dubai Ports world empire, Sultan Sulayem. Sulayem is one of the most powerful businessman in the Emirates, currently helping lead a push to recognize the new state of Somaliland...

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Call lies lies. Call murder murder. Call fascism fascism. Name reality.

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Trump's racist video depicting the Obamas as apes wasn't a mistake—it's part of a pattern. From DHS posting neo-Nazi recruitment material to erasing slavery exhibits, white nationalism has become official government policy. My latest in @theunpopulist.net

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Trump's Vile Obama Video Follows the White House's Official White Nationalist Line

DHS and other agencies have been spewing racist goals as government policy

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

As Le Point and Le Monde have both reported, Epstein was running a major project out of his luxurious apartment in Paris' 16th arrondissement to advance the interests of Marine Le Pen and her Pétainiste party, which appears to have been coordinated on several levels with the Kremlin. Here's Bannon.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 10/02/2026

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer

Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

On the Marquis de Lafayette, Pablo Neruda, and the Accent of América "While the English text on the ball served as an invitation, the Spanish litany of nations defined the terms." write.as/eliot-sumner...

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Together We Are América

The current US doctrine treats the Western Hemisphere as a shapeless blur and a containment zone for threats rather than a shared geograp...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/02/2026

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage. The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts. Follow along!

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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The difference between an empire and a neighbor is an accent mark. US strategy treats the hemisphere as a shapeless buffer. Bad Bunny treated it as a confederation of peers. Greg Grandin's America, América, Pablo Neruda, and the geopolitics of the Super Bowl halftime show: write.as/eliot-sumner...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/02/2026

I have appreciated Amanda’s efforts here so I’m disappointed she’s wrapping things up by spreading misinformation. I can assure you as someone whose neighborhood has been crawling with ICE in recent days that we are not in the “aftermath” of anything.

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Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social · 05/02/2026

Françoise Thom highlights close relationship between the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and the father of his accomplice Ghislaine, Robert Maxwell, the late British press magnate. @DeskRussie desk-russie.info/2025/07/30/t...

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The Cesspool and Chaos: the Russian Connection in the Epstein Affair • russian desk

In this explosive article, French historian Françoise Thom highlights the close relationship between the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and the father of his

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 08/02/2026

Counterpoint: no serious person in the Twin Cities is worried about any meaningful amount of "destruction" by observers/protestors. Get real.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Yes: one of the things that has kept protests peaceful is that the insider/outsider dynamic was so pronounced. The feds were invaders; local and state police were separate and not really against us. What we’ve seen in the last couple days feels like the sheriff and state patrol switching sides.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Was Epstein a Russian agent? Was Epstein an Israeli agent? This debate that's is "either/or" is raging in social media right now. It's far off the mark. Epstein ran an operation on the model of Robert Maxwell, who networked with at least 7 intel agencies,

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