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Center-left historian and writer.

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RationalLeft @rationalleft.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
What have the aliens done with the real Ted Cruz? (And should we care?)
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The Trump drawing in Epstein's birthday book, according to House Oversight Dems.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
DOJ's motion "appears to be a 'diversion' from the breadth and scope of the Epstein files in the Government's possession."
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RationalLeft @rationalleft.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Vlad still doesn't love you, Donnie.
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2...
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Mother sues Florida dairy farm, claims she lost fetus after raw milk led to bacterial infection
A New Smyrna Beach dairy farm was named in a lawsuit filed by a woman who claims she lost her fetus after falling ill while caring for her toddler who became sick after drinking raw, unpasteurized mil...
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Liberal Librarian, Son of Cuban Immigrants 🟦 @liberallibrarian.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
But the price of eggs in Gaza.
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RationalLeft @rationalleft.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
"The law and order party."
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RationalLeft @rationalleft.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
The R party is irretrievably broken.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
NEW from Oversight's Robert Garcia: "The favorable change to the conditions … raises possibility that the Trump Administration and the Bureau of Prisons may be affording Ms. Maxwell preferential treatment in an effort to shape or distort her testimony about Jeffrey Epstein." tinyurl.com/3ste8mhy
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RationalLeft @rationalleft.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Gee, that doesn't look suspicious or anything, does it?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Leader Schumer: "What does a bad leader do when they get bad news? Shoot the messenger. That's just what happened with the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
NBC News: Ghislaine Maxwell was ineligible to be transferred to a minimum security prison camp — like the one she was transferred to in Texas — because she is a convicted sex offender, according to the Bureau of Prison's own designation policy.
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RationalLeft @rationalleft.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This is what happens when you put an infantile megalomaniac in power with a party behind him too spineless and terrified to ever say no to him on anything. Nice job, voters, and nice job media, with your relentless sanewashing: "Trump IS a normal candidate, ignore what he says!"
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"It is with horror and outrage that we object to the preferential treatment convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has received. Ghislaine Maxwell is a sexual predator who physically assaulted minor children on multiple occasions, and she should never be shown any leniency."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The family of Virginia Giuffre responds to the Maxwell prison move: "President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter."
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RationalLeft @rationalleft.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Gee, they're being really subtle about the corrupt bargain with that monster, aren't they?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Breaking Bloomberg: The FBI redacted Trump's name in the Epstein files. "An FBI [Freedom of Information Act] team redacted Trump's name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the documents, according to three people familiar with the matter." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files
The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Schumer: "Just now, the White House announced construction of a $200 million White House ballroom that will begin in September. A $200 million ballroom! Where'd this money come from? Did Congress appropriate it? I don't think so. It's almost like DOGE was never about waste."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"She's not an object; she's a person," he said through tears. "She's a mom. She's a sister. And she was recruited by Maxwell. She wasn't stolen."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
BREAKING: Sky Roberts, Virginia Giuffre's brother, says the family was "shocked" by Trump's use of the word 'stolen' to describe their sister. He said it makes him wonder how much Trump knew about what Epstein was doing.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Despite Trump just saying his August 1 tariff deadline was set in stone, he has now caved and given Mexico another extension — this one of 90 days.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The Trump DOJ just dropped a case against restaurant group Fat Brands and its chairman, Andy Wiederhorn — months after the White House took the unusual step of directly firing a career federal prosecutor handling the case. Wiederhorn is a Trump and GOP donor. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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DOJ dismisses case against a Trump donor after White House fired career prosecutor
Trump allies like far-right influencer Laura Loomer had targeted a prosecutor in the case against Fat Brands and its chairman, Andy Wiederhorn.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
MORE from Virginia Giuffre's family: "The government and the President should never consider giving Ghislaine Maxwell any leniency." “Ghislaine Maxwell is a monster who deserves to rot in prison for the … violence and abuse she put not just our sister Virginia through, but many other survivors."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
New WaPo poll:   16% of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling issues related to the Epstein files. 58% disapprove.   63% of Independents disapprove. 24% of Republicans disapprove.
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Liberal Librarian, Son of Cuban Immigrants 🟦 @liberallibrarian.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
He's going to destroy US car manufacturing. It'll actually be cheaper to buy foreign cars. Unemployed, mostly armed auto workers are not people you want to piss off.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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Epstein grand jury transcripts include testimony from two witnesses, feds say
The disclosure raises questions whether the Justice Department’s attempts to unseal the transcripts will satiate the appetite for more information.
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RationalLeft @rationalleft.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Of course it wouldn't. It's an obvious effort to release selected materials that wouldn't touch on Trump himself. Which doesn't mean the Trump cult wouldn't choose to be "satisfied" anyway.
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RationalLeft @rationalleft.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Rs did not allow the whistleblowers to testify. Hearing the truth would have made their preordained obedience even more embarrassing.
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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Wait a sec. Last year NYC had 171 firearms deaths on a population of 8.3 million. Louisiana had 1,266 deaths on a pop of 4.6 million, which is on the order of 12 times as many. You are twelve times as likely to be killed by a bullet in Louisiana than in NYC.
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💥LazarTagWolf💥 @lazartagwolf.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Sighted in West Hollywood yesterday. Is this what people mean when they say that you’re “not allowed to criticize Israel”?
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RationalLeft @rationalleft.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Of course it does. The major goal of this regime is to simply repeal facts in favor of MAGA dogma.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A new whistleblower has come forward to challenge the federal judicial nomination of Emil Bove — sharing evidence with lawmakers suggesting Bove misled lawmakers during his confirmation hearing. The info follows revelations from two other DOJ whistleblowers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Whistleblower evidence suggests Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove misled Senate
A third whistleblower has new information about a Justice Department official the president has nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Senate Judiciary Democrats have sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche seeking a public commitment that the DOJ will not advocate for a pardon or commutation for Ghislaine Maxwell in exchange for her cooperation. tinyurl.com/49pj452h
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
They're also seeking comms about how DOJ officials should "approach or address references to Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago" appearing in the Epstein files.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Trump just said he "never had the privilege of going to" Epstein's island.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Trump just said he's "allowed to give" convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon. He then adds: "Right now it would be inappropriate to talk about it."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Trump is increasingly frustrated with how his administration's handling of the furor around the Epstein files has dominated the news and overshadowed his agenda. 
His exasperation follows weeks of missteps and no clear strategy from officials. "They seem to be in full-bore panic mode."
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Trump fumes as Epstein scandal dominates headlines, overshadows agenda
The White House and Justice Department’s response to the crisis has been driven by no clear strategy other than asking the country to forget it and move on, multiple people close to the situation told...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
As Trump visits Scotland: Hundreds of anti-Trump protesters poured onto the streets of Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dumfries. One protester, playing bagpipes, carried a sign: "Pipe down Donald." Kids were photographed with signs that read, "Keep orange fizzy, not fascist," with a logo of Irn-Bru.
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Scotland protests Trump – with wit, bite and bagpipes
Locals in Scotland, long annoyed by Trump’s golf courses, expressed their outrage as the president visited for the weekend.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Can’t believe this needs to be said but here we are. The MMR vaccine DOES NOT contain pieces of aborted fetuses. The vaccine contains weakened forms of measles, mumps, and rubella viruses and inactive ingredients like rHSA, neomycin, and sorbitol to stabilize the solution. That’s it.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The DNC is launching a digital ad campaign pressuring the GOP to release the Epstein files — targeting vulnerable Republicans in their home districts.
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Liberal Librarian, Son of Cuban Immigrants 🟦 @liberallibrarian.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I do not like Occupy Democrats. But this is completely accurate. Any "deal" Ghislaine makes with Trump is DOA. She's a rapist and a trafficker.
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RationalLeft @rationalleft.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
They're giving a monster a corrupt bargain in plain public view so she can say what Trump demands she say (and her lawyer is a buddy of the Trump official conducting the "interviews"). It stinks to heaven and beyond.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Todd Blanche, the Deputy Attorney General who's meeting again today with Ghislaine Maxwell, said on a podcast last year that he considers Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney "a friend." "You are by far the best out there." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...
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In Seeking More on Epstein, Justice Dept.’s No. 2 Official Occupies Unusual Role
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RationalLeft @rationalleft.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Which of course is a direct announcement that he's offering to pay her off is she'll lie for him.
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RationalLeft @rationalleft.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Contempt for the law is Trump's hallmark.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
NYT confirms: Trump's name appeared on a contributor list for the book celebrating Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday — evidence that he participated in the collection. Trump's name is listed among dozens of Epstein's acquaintances who were asked to contribute messages.
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Liberal Librarian, Son of Cuban Immigrants 🟦 @liberallibrarian.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Meanwhile, the left's hero, Iran, has sent 1.5 million Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan, where they will be butchered. Get those campus protests going. Chop chop.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Leader Schumer is calling on the Trump admin to provide a closed-door briefing to all senators on the Epstein files. "This issue isn't going away. It's only getting bigger and more dangerous the longer Republicans ignore it."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
On the Senate floor, Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin just admitted this on Epstein: "What we're simply wanting to do here is give [Trump] cover."
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