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@lepidopterist13.bsky.social
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lepidopterist13.bsky.social @lepidopterist13.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Newsmax agrees to pay $67M settlement in defamation case over 2020 election claims apnews.com/article/domi...
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Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over 2020 election claims
The conservative network Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump’s 2020 election los...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Oh good, at least someone isn’t ignoring that this happened — as the Sunday shows and press corps say nothing. Felt like we were losing our minds.
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Bopeep-Burton 💙🐓🏝🐈🏡🏖 🦋🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌎 @bopeep-burton.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Once upon a time, Woodward and Bernstein/Watergate made a young girl want to study journalism in graduate school and pursue it as a career. (I spent 6 years in radio news before pivoting full time to screenwriting.) I can't fathom that this is happening. That people are letting it happen.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is what is happening right now.
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The Haunted Drive-in @haunteddrivein.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Jimmy Fallon is the Hulk Hogan of Jay Lenos.
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 02/08/2025
Jimmy Fallon, as always, is the first to get the memo
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Fox News' host Greg Gutfeld to appear on Jimmy Fallon
Fox News late night host Greg Gutfeld will be a guest on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Thursday, August 7.
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lepidopterist13.bsky.social @lepidopterist13.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump apnews.com/article/publ...
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been a cornerstone of American culture for three generations.
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Unreal. In yet another one of the Trump administration’s distraction tactics from their failure to release the Epstein files, they invited someone guilty of statutory rape with a 16-year-old to the White House.
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Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas
According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Let them eat cake.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Re-up after running the clip of Bessent saying this. Privatizing SocSec through the back door is bc of the failed attempt to do it openly by (GWB's town halls). The Rs learn from their mistakes; they try again w/smarter tactics —& still tell on themselves! 🧾 crooksandliars.com/2025/07/trea...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/07/2025
NEW: We now know what Bove lied to Congress about according to the 3rd whistleblower. He lied when he said he didn’t offer promotions for DoJ lawyers who helped him dismiss the Eric Adams case and consequences for those who didn’t. There is audio evidence. Gift link: wapo.st/4fdVVmX
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Bove misled lawmakers about his actions in NYC mayor case, evidence suggests
The details from a whistleblower complaint emerged hours before a final vote on Bove’s nomination to a federal judgeship.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/07/2025
NEW: The FBI and DOJ have the original Epstein jail video, and their copy doesn't have a missing minute like the one they released to the public. They should release the missing minute. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
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There was no "missing minute" in the original Epstein jail video, government source says
FBI officials promised raw, unaltered video to quell speculation about Epstein's suicide.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Sen. Ron Johnson just floated sending Obama to Guantanamo. These people aren’t trolling...they’re laying groundwork. For arrests. For show trials. For dictatorship. Don’t laugh it off. Call it what it is: fascism with a smile.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Her name was Diana. She was 23 years old and 7 months pregnant. Russia murdered her today in an attack on the maternity hospital in Kamyanske.
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The NYPD officer killed by the active shooter was an immigrant from Bangladesh. He had 2 kids and a 3rd on the way. The US State Dept travel advisory for Bangladesh is level 3; “Reconsider Travel” for violence, crime and terrorism. He died here, for us, shot with a Colt M4 rifle. Think about that.
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Paul Scarpelli @paulscarpelli.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
He's allowed to do anything he wants, and with impunity. He's co-opted Congress, SCOTUS, DoJ, banks, businesses, all other institutions. He's going to rename the Kennedy Center after his skank wife. I lived thru Nixon, and I've never seen anything like this.
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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
*past McCarthyism*: understand this
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
“She’s worse than Epstein. She’s a monster… Epstein was Pinocchio, she was Geppetto.”
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Boebert and her thug children are the lower 48 version of the Palins. Last year he got a plea deal. Had 22 charges, 4 were felonies. Now charged with child abuse. I would like any sane judge to explain how that is a misdemeanor. This punk monster-in-the making belongs in prison.
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Lauren Boebert's son cited for misdemeanor child abuse: report
Rep. Lauren Boebert's (R-CO) eldest son was cited with misdemeanor child abuse charges on Friday, July 11, according to a report. Denver alt-weekly Westword reported on Saturday that Boebert's son, Ty...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2025
CNN put together a supercut of Pam Bondi being for releasing Epstein files before she suddenly turned against it
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
MOTHER JONES: “Trump’s top intelligence officer fabricated evidence to support a sham Justice Department criminal investigation that could lead to a show trial of former President Barack Obama and his aides. This is autocracy in action.” link.motherjones.com/public/40858...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
SPOILER: YES
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
🤣🤣
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
RFK Jr. plans to fire all 16 members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force calling them too “woke”. The panel sets free coverage rules for cancer screenings & more. A key meeting was quietly canceled.
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Kennedy to oust care task force, WSJ reports; HHS says no decision yet
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
LAWRENCE COUNTY, TN: “Doctors notes no longer excuse absences…” (Under threat of juvenile court intervention) Director of Schools Michael Adkins: “They need to learn reliability and work ethic… we’ve all gone to work sick.” 🤔 Parents: “How does that make sense?”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This party needs to wake up. These guys aren't screwing around... They're assassins when it comes to the way they weaponize grievance and the way they play politics. Enough! What more goddamn evidence do we need? They have rolled back the last half century in real time!"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/07/2025
NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
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His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Is NOBODY going to call DoJ's Todd Blanche "questioning" Ghislaine Maxwell what it actually is - WITNESS TAMPERING? Really, not one person?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/07/2025
We’re spending a lot of time talking about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. But don’t forget their victims. The survivors. Not all of them made it. At least two women connected to Epstein’s abuse have died by suicide. The real number may be higher. Jeffrey Epstein accuser, Maria Farmer, speaks out.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/07/2025
"In 2020, the government pointed to Maxwell’s 'willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct' as a reason to deny her bail. Now, with her entire life in the government’s control, it turns to her as a source of truth. Or, if not truth, a story that can help the president out of this jam."
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DOJ slides into DMs of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell
They're gonna make her an offer she can't refuse.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
JUST IN: Former Jan. 6 prosecutor Michael Gordon (prosecuted Riley Williams, Ray Epps, Bigo Barnett, among others) and press aide Patty Hartman have sued Pam Bondi over their terminations from DOJ. Their lawyer: Abbe Lowell storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/07/2025
Well yeah. Now that they have convicted sex trafficker Maxwell ready to say what they want her to say - it’s suddenly not a hoax anymore. 🙄
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, is meeting with a notorious sex trafficker today. Not to ensure that she pays for her many crimes, but to ensure that she lies to protect Donald Trump from his own. Law and order, y’all!
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Larry Krasner @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
According to the WSJ, he knew he was in the files. The Attorney General helped him hide the files. He likely has already destroyed the files that implicate him. Now we need an investigation that makes Watergate look small.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The deportations are about to turn into detentions. There isn’t money in deporting folks, but there is in detaining them…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Wait - @MarshaBlackburn refused to back @RonWyden’s subpoena of Epstein’s bank records, which show billions linked to sex trafficking? Has her Epstein crusade been entirely performative? Maybe local media could ask the governor wannabe about this? newrepublic.com/article/1982...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/07/2025
FRIEDMAN: Is it accurate that at least 80% of the calls that went to FEMA call centers on July 7 went unanswered? RICHARDSON: When the tragedy struck, ah-- F: It's a yes or not question RICHARDSON: The majority of the calls were answered at the call centers F: That's not what the report says
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
A whole LOT worse.
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M. Douglas Wray @mdouglaswray.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Well, golly gosh darn. www.kvoa.com/news/in-dept...
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In-Depth: Willcox Border Patrol agent charged with child sex trafficking, defrauding government
A Border Patrol agent is facing more than a dozen felony charges related to child sex trafficking and fraud. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) conducted a long internal investigation,
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Julie Novkov @jnovkov.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
If you haven't been paying attention, Ron Wyden (D OR) has been taking no prisoners on this.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Giving this speech while adjourning the house to cover-up the Epstein files belongs on the Mount Rushmore of hypocrisy. Amazing stuff, Speaker Johnson
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 23/07/2025
To be clear, this now a massive cover up involving the President, the Attorney General, the FBI Director, and the GOP Congress.
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Flower Girl Baker @flowergirlbaker.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It’s every man for himself now. There’s no safety regulations
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lepidopterist13.bsky.social @lepidopterist13.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Supreme Court allows Trump to remove 3 Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission apnews.com/article/supr...
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Supreme Court allows Trump to remove 3 Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission
The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to remove three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who had been fired by President Donald Trump and then reinstated by...
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