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Kevin Hell-iott @kjephd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
THEY LITERALLY DID THE ONION HEADLINE
NYTimes headline reading "NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say"Onion headline: 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens'
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
“So how was it that Israel had the capacity to destroy pinpoint targets in Iran, some 1,200 miles from Tel Aviv, and could not safely deliver boxes of food to starving Gazans 40 miles from Tel Aviv?” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | How Netanyahu Played Trump for a Fool in Gaza
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 29/07/2025
The Justice Department has the Epstein files. Right now. Everything they’re doing now is a distraction. Just RELEASE THEM.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/07/2025
Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.
ballsandstrikes.org
The Cowardice of Senate Democrats Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible
Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/07/2025
ATTN: If you’re a DoJ employee and have knowledge of the missing minute (or 2:53) of Epstein jail video, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
There's so much that's so wrong about Trump's "he stole her" comments on the late Virginia Giuffre. A great columnist pounces on this. @rexhuppke.bsky.social is a great columnist www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
usatoday.com
Trump says Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre, a heartless and revealing admission | Opinion
Without a hint of empathy, Donald Trump said his former close friend Jeffrey Epstein 'stole' a teenage Mar-a-Lago spa worker named Virginia Giuffre.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated
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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
we have completely fucking failed as a culture that we let a narcissism-of-small-differences hatred of other progressive young people turn them into a scapegoat for high housing costs rather than racist millionaire homeowners blocking housing construction
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Trump is laying the groundwork for a pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell, pretending that she's a reliable informant on Epstein and not his literal partner-in-crime, so it's probably worth recirculating the facts: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
Ghislaine Maxwell convicted of federal sex trafficking charges for role in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuses
The jury weighed evidence from about 30 witnesses over 3 weeks who alleged the British socialite played a pivotal part in recruiting teenage girls for sex with Epstein.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This is one of the hardest ones to believe. It's a total capitulation by Republican Senators to corruption; it's not about getting conservative judges on the bench.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
both these takes predate all or nearly all of the dem response to trump's win and I think they've both been extremely vindicated. I say this not to take some victory lap but because I think it should inform how we think about primaries; who is going to actually help break these patterns?
a snake eating its tail of "you need money to win; you need to appeal to donors to get money; appealing to donors means taking several viable approaches to campaigning and governance off the table, hampering your ability to win"post from ‪Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow‬
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give us a bit of time we've only had three months to prepare! it's not like Trump is a known quantity or that we were handed a complete roadmap for everything ahead in the form of a handy book of policy intentions they released like monologuing villains

QT from me:
they don't know what to do because they think winning elections is their job. if they had substantive ideals that they fought for, and winning elections was merely an instrument for achieving those ends, they'd know exactly what to do. they don't even realize this is a problem.

follow up from me:
ironically, "having substantive ideals and fighting for them regardless of your electoral situation" would in fact help them win elections
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The news headline we deserve: “Trump says being on Epstein’s Pedophilia Island a privilege”
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Brion @mntngroove.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
No one is safe.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
And there you have it. If the Trump admin determines that evidence against a specific person is not “credible” they will bury that part from whatever they end up releasing.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2025
Massie on the DOJ saying they won't release more Epstein info because it could hurt victims: "That's a strawman ... they're hiding behind that ... it's the president's own AG, FBI director, children, and VP who said these files need to be released. We're just trying to hold their feet to the fire."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/07/2025
trump is first and foremost a vehicle for delusional extremists — most of whom are total mediocrities — to impose their ideologies on the country, with vought as a paradigmatic example
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
🚨 #SocialSecurity is on the chopping block. Thanks to Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” retirees are now staring down $18,000-a-year benefit cut in just seven years. Seniors who paid in their whole lives are left holding the bag. – $13,600 cut for a typical retired couple.
axios.com
A new analysis projects a 24% cut to Social Security benefits by late 2032.
Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will cause sharp cuts to Social Security by late 2032, a new analysis says.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Reminder of the coverup timeline: By mid-April the administration has reviewed and redacted the Epstein files and is close to the oft-promised release. In May, Bondi and Blanche tell the president his name appears multiple times. Trump orders his subordinates not to release the files.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2025
MULLIN: There was a sweetheart plea deal that was struck in 2009 under Obama TAPPER: No. It was 2008. The US attorney was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become Trump's secretary of labor M: Who was in office at the time? T: Bush M: No. Obama was in office TAPPER: Not true
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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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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
We’re minutes away from trump giving private tours of Area 51 in the hopes of distracting from Epstein.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
It will never not be depraved that universities sanctioned and participated in the harassing and criminalization of student activists for saying one day we would all be against this when now, suddenly, everyone is against this.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
texasobserver.org
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/07/2025
This is truly insane. We are witnessing one of the most corrupt cover-up schemes in history—and it's all playing out in plain view.
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QuoterGal @quotergal.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
"Moreover, by April of 2024 Gaza had already suffered more than 70,000 tonnes of bombing. To put that in perspective, that is more than the combined bomb tonnage dropped on Dresden, Hamburg, and London in World War II."
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
2 points here: 1) There's no statute of limitations in New York for Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes (maybe also options in New Mexico and Florida). A pardon can't stop state prosecutions. 2) We just got another reason to release the Epstein files: so the public can test Maxwell's truthfulness.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We’ve got in the habit, starting in earnest a year ago, of blaming the craziness of populists on political polarization. But there has not, in any measurable way, been a general polarization to extremes of left and right. Only one side became polarized www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: No, politics haven’t become polarized. Only one side has moved to the extremes
Many became attracted to fringe ideas and conspiracy theories on the right, but there hasn’t been a similar shift, of any significant scale, on the left
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
An initiative launched last year by Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has now erased $429 million in medical debt for 352,000 Arizonans. Elections matter. www.abc15.com/news/state/m...
abc15.com
Medical debt for over 350,000 Arizonans erased, Governor Hobbs announces
Gov. Katie Hobbs has announced that $429 million in medical debt has been erased so far for hundreds of thousands of Arizonans.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
State Dep't officials asked who, exactly, can qualify for the Trump administration's South Africa refugee program. The answer, emailed days later by a top department official, was that program is intended for white people. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The Department of Justice is pretending it needed to talk to notorious liar Ghislaine Maxwell to know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein, when it is concealing thousands of documents about him that don’t lie. It’s a sick farce.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
And there it is. This whole thing reeks. If you just release the files you don’t have to make deals with one of the worst child sex traffickers in history to protect Trump. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
you will be able to tell a lot about media publications by which choose to cover bove's confirmation as a scandal - until trump it would've been the biggest scandal in the history of the DOJ - and which choose to cover it as "another big win for trump"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
What the actual hell was CBP looking for? This suggests a very specific pre-existing investigation that was done in coordination with the FBI to target him in particular.
During the interrogation, Chavarria said the unidentified individuals attempted to threaten and manipulate him into giving them access to his professional devices, containing information about students in the Winooski School District.
"I was threatened with being referred to the FBI.
The FBI was mentioned multiple times,"
Chavarria said. "They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn't give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
So then her credibility is not a question. She has no credibility. Period.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I want to know if the President of the United States is a pedophile. And I know the American people do too. I'm shocked that Republicans would rather shut down Congress than stand up to a dead pedophile. So why not release the files?
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pdxben.bsky.social @pdxben.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Get yourself one of those Peter rabbit baby pouches from starbucks
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 24/07/2025
Donald Trump’s White House is melting down over Wednesday night’s South Park premiere, which just so happened to attack the president’s “teeny tiny” manhood.
rollingstone.com
Trump White House Rages Over 'South Park' Episode, Calls Show 'Fourth-Rate'
The White House is furious at "South Park" after the show's premiere lampooned Donald Trump, depicting him in bed with Satan.
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Kevin Hell-iott @kjephd.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
For my money, the Senate Democratic caucus seems to be one of the most serious foreseeable hurdles to any project of constitutional restoration. Not because of a pivotal member or two getting cold feet, but rather a pervasive sclerotic disbelief at what time it is.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
🚨NEW: Further stories of the horrors inflicted on people the Trump admin imprisoned in El Salvador without trial are emerging. Three men describes how they were punished by guards — stripped naked, beaten for six days straight as men and women watching laughed and mocked them.
One night in mid-May, some of the Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador tried to break the locks on their cells with metal rails from their beds. It was a futile gesture of rebellion; no one thought they could escape. Still, punishment was swift. For six consecutive days, the inmates were subjected to lengthy beatings, three inmates told me. On the last day, male guards brought in their female colleagues, who struck the naked prisoners as the male guards recorded videos on their phones and laughed. The female guards would count to 20 as they administered the beatings, and if the prisoners complained or cried out, they would start again.
Tito Martínez, one of the inmates, recalled that a prison nurse was watching. “Hit the piñata,” she cheered.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
It was inevitable that the conservative grievance mindset would somehow make DONALD TRUMP the victim in matters related to Jeffrey Epstein, a pedophile who engaged in sex trafficking.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
If you’re feeling uneasy, it’s probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
🚨 🚨🚨🚨 @RepTimBurchett admits Trump plans to reduce Ghislaine Maxwell’s sentence in exchange for her testimony
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
They just sent Congress home to cover for a pedophile who was best friends with the president so it's time to wheel out Crooked Hillary. Eat your slop rubes!
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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Columbia University has handed over its undergraduate admissions process to Donald Trump and his MAGA allies, who will now decide at their sole discretion whether the university has admitted enough white people. It's no longer an independent institution.
Screenshot of Columbia's settlement with the White House
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 23/07/2025
Trump's name appears in the files multiple times. Attorney General Pam Bondi informed Trump that his name appears in the files during a meeting at the White House in May. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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