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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 06/10/2026
10/6 The story of Senator Susan Collins refusing to meet with 17 female Maine elected officials who went to DC to talk to her about Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination #maine #MEpolitics
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/10/2026
Cornell University police in 2024 summarized hours of interviews with a woman who said she was attacked in the Chi Phi fraternity house into a document that excluded her unequivocal statement that she had been raped, documents show. A prosecutor did not pursue criminal charges based on the document.
nytimes.com
Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks Reagan 😕 The Republican agenda for the past 45 years in one chart 👇🏽
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yehonatan Ovadia – a Hasidic Jew and Israeli citizen who has lived in the U.S. on a visa since 2022 – is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (a notorious federal prison) and facing deportation … for his criticism of Israel on religious grounds.
nytimes.com
A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported.
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pete Hegseth, who has been rebuked by the pope and the leaders of several other churches for a stream of heretical statements (statements inconsistent with Christian theology and dogma), appoints himself the supreme authority over all chaplains serving in the US Armed Forces.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gotta pay to replenish all those munitions and AI autonomous weapons from fly by night no bid contractors eh Pentagon Pete? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Announces More Sweeping Cuts to the Military's Top Ranks time.com/article/2026...
time.com
Hegseth Announces More Sweeping Cuts to Military's Top Ranks
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said that he had directed the U.S. military to cut 20% of the number of general roles.
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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
”… the U.S. and Russia worked together to weaken a United Nations plan to regulate AI weapons. They stripped out a provision to make sure humans review the targets AI has selected for a military strike—a provision that would likely have avoided the U.S. strike on the Iranian school at the start …”
Today, Pranshu Verma of the Washington Post reported that earlier this month, the U.S. and Russia worked together to weaken a United Nations plan to regulate AI weapons. They stripped out a provision to make sure humans review the targets AI has selected for a military strike—a provision that would likely have avoided the U.S. strike on the Iranian school at the start of the Iran War—and took out requirements that AI systems must act in a “predictable” and “reliable” manner. They also removed a requirement that those using the systems take “ethical considerations” into account.
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026
Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From the original report discussed in the NYT article above about the OpenAI attack on Hugging Face: “Agents attempted to remove traces of their work” “An agent referred to server resources and credentials as ‘LOOT’” (swarmtraces.org)
+ 3 The agents ignored a warning from Hugging Face 
+ 4 Agents attempted to remove traces of their work 
+ 5 Agents interacted with external language models on
Hugging Face
+ 6 An agent referred to server resources and credentials
as "LOOT"
+ 7 Agents uploaded vulnerable Docker images to Docker
Hub
+ 8 Agents accessed and searched Hugging Face's Slack to find information on their evaluation
+ 9 Agents turned Hugging Face workers into reusable infrastructure
+ 10 Agents used DNS requests to exfiltrate data 
+ 11 Agents mapped out Hugging Face's Kubernetes
cluster
+ 12 Agents tried to build CAPTCHA solvers to sign up for
user accounts
+ 13 Agents set up elaborate communication infrastructure
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“.. And Trump may just do it, telling reporters on Tuesday, ‘I’ve said let’s not send out the diesel.’” @cnn.com #ExportBan ⛽️ www.cnn.com/2026/09/22/e...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As Americans struggle…
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It simply never ends. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik issued new guidance interpreting the Endangered Species Act’s prohibition on “taking” endangered wildlife much more narrowly. Under the new interpretation, an action generally has to be intentionally
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
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ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
theatlantic.com
What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The US military almost boarded a Chinese cargo ship because an intelligence analyst trusted a false AI-generated conclusion that the ship was carrying components for a nuclear-weapons program. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
The bot fused together open-source intelligence with secret signals intelligence in government holdings and reached its fateful conclusion about the material the ship was carrying.

The analyst then used AI again to package the findings into a standard intelligence report — the kind that is trusted by military officials — and disseminated it.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
nytimes.com
RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Heritage Foundation is infamous for organizing Project 2025. As I was investigating Heritage, I found that it promotes a network of Christian nationalist schools to parents. That network was founded by Doug Wilson, who is well-known for his extreme views. Read my investigative report here:
civildefenseinstitute.org
How the Heritage Foundation Promotes Christian Nationalist Schooling — Civil Defense
Tracing Heritage and Kevin Roberts’s ties to a growing network of classical Christian schools—and the policies steering public money their way.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 17/09/2026
Two notes here: 1. Hard to convey how unusual it is for an admin to be pitted against this many religious groups in *so many different ways* all at the same time in court. The Trump admin is an outlier here. 2. I’m a religion reporter, but unclear why this trend hasn’t gotten more attention.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mike Pence: "I looked at Trump as I got up from our meeting and I said, 'Mr. President, I want you to know. I’m praying for you.' And he looked at me and he said, 'Don’t bother.'"
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 15/09/2026
Trump couldn’t get his name on the building, so his board voted to close the Kennedy Center’s main building. Follow Lincoln Square: lincolnsquare.media #KennedyCenter #Trump #DC
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Uplifting News @upliftingnews.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A $50 million gift will fund Native student scholarships for the next five years and create a permanent endowment to support Indigenous students for generations.
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A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott is being dedicated entirely to Native students, with $10 million funding scholarships over the next five years and $40 million placed in a permanent endowment to support Native students for generations to come.
A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott is being dedicated entirely to Native students, with $10 million funding scholarships over the next five years and $40 million placed in a permanent endowment to support Native students for generations to come.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, admits errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, NOT VANDALISM, caused the pool’s blue liner to peel and break loose. Atlantic is being paid $14.7 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/c...
nytimes.com
Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage
The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...
ms.now
A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms
The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This story is also a tale of two social media platforms. Seven of the videos were posted to Bluesky, but most were posted to X. Bluesky removed the inauthentic accounts. X did nothing.
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Change in eligible voters, by race and ethnicity, since the last midterms Hispanic voters: +5.25 million (+16%) Asian voters: +2.25 million (+20%) Black voters: +1.65 million (+6%) White voters: -2.60 million (-2%) www.pewresearch.org/race-and-eth...
Chart showing how the number of White, Hispanic, Black and Asian eligible voters in the United States has changed since the 2022 midterm elections. The chart is based on a September 2026 Pew Research Center analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Doctors, lawyers and engineers" is an international online Nazi trope. The "joke" is that non-White people are too stupid to be anything other than a criminal or someone who leeches social services. Read a Spanish newspaper about Ceuta, e.g., and you'll see "médicos y ingenieros" in the comments.
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Charlie Fox. @realseafox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Today, the WH announced the next 6 weeks of epstein distraction.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
Trump claims his super PACS money is “my money”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The subtext on this WaPo story on Betancourt suggests he had a big role in luring the US to invade. Also note the personally hand-delivered note to Putin while Rudy was chasing Russian disinformation on Biden. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
washingtonpost.com
Trump’s huge Venezuela deal began with a call and a bet on an oilman
Alejandro Betancourt was warned that taking on the U.S. government as a business partner would have costs, but America's backing already is providing big benefits.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
Trump says 18 Americans dying fighting Iran is “small potatoes”
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2026
The NIH Director confirms they are giving away biomedical research money used to develop treatments and cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens, to the Department of Defense. Outrageous.
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
@NIHDirector_Jay

NIH funds should be used to improve the health of Americans.
Far from siphoning money away from research, this partnership between @NIH and @DeptofWar focuses on research projects that will drive discoveries to improve the health of American citizens and members of the military.
Led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, all work will be 100% aligned with our public health mission.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
After Trump gutted the IRS workforce — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires — the agency's annual audit revenue plunged by 35%. Trump's attacks on the IRS were never about "efficiency." They were about making it easier for the wealthy and powerful to skirt what they owe.
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Turp @turpin4prez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This story should have more attention. ASU's idiot coach brought in some military prick to run a grueling boot camp-style workout in the heat, which included restricting water intake. NHL prospect player suffers a heat stroke and is probably going to die from it. arizonasports.com/ncaa/arizona...
arizonasports.com
ASU hockey player Matthew Mayich has no chance of recovery after heatstroke, attorney says - Arizona Sports
"His body ceased functioning in a fundamental way, and this condition is irreversible," Robert Carey said.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: Democrats say Hegseth and the Pentagon is attempting to steal funds from the National Institute of Health to make up for the record amount of taxpayer money they’ve spent in their war on Iran.
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Tony Borroz @nemounruhe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
jalopnik.com
Texas Funds Flock Camera Surveillance Network With $1 Car Insurance Fee Meant To Combat Catalytic Converter Theft - Jalopnik
The Texas's Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority doesn't show any signs of stopping either.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
On August 31st, 2026 an ICE agent tried driving through the crowd and rammed a woman, running over her leg outside of Delaney Hall during a Prayer Vigil. Footage from this via Casey Kinward
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 29/08/2026
The US sent a 3-year-old citizen to HAITI
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
We need assistance this month to cover rent due to a more than doubling of our electricity bills this summer (over $500 per month). All reposts and donations are deeply appreciated and help keep us housed. GFM: gofund.me/84dc0534 PPL: www.paypal.com/paypalme/lea... VNM: venmo.com/u/leahmcelrath
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Thank you for your consideration: My autistic daughter and I and our dog, Bonnie, are… Leah McElrath needs your support for Help Keep a Disabled Family Housed
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 28/08/2026
An inspection contractor found a chemical tank at a Washington state paper mill "not fit for continued service" 10 months before it failed in May, killing 11 in one of the deadliest U.S. workplace disasters in recent decades, according to a federal report released Friday. to.pbs.org/3SApmsI
pbs.org
Washington chemical tank was called unfit for service before deadly failure, investigators find
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s update about the May 26 failure in Longview, which expelled enough caustic liquid to blow out building walls, is part of an ongoing investigation. The federal agency s...
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
jfc the number of missing in Nepal DOUBLED today with a better count www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...
Nepali officials [highlight] roughly doubled [/highlight] their tally of missing people on Friday to over 1,900, saying hydropower producers had only recently shared a count of unaccounted-for workers at projects in the devastated river valleys. China said more than 500 people were missing in Tibet on its side of the border and at least five had died.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Gone. Funded by us. 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 www.instagram.com/reel/DcgyEGt...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
At the FBI, a history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from employer may no longer be a barrier to being hired www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-can...
cbsnews.com
At the FBI, a history of hiring prostitutes or stealing from employer may no longer be a barrier to being hired
In June, the FBI quietly lowered some of the standards it uses when it conducts background checks on would-be federal agents and other personnel.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 28/08/2026
As RFK Jr. suggests the measles deaths in Pennsylvania may have been "fabricated," anti-vaxxers are trying to find more details so they can get to the affected families and spread more misinfo. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Vaccine misinformation spreads as RFK Jr suggests two measles deaths were ‘fabricated’
Anti-vaxxers are spreading conspiracy theories after two recent measles-associated deaths in Pennsylvania
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OSINT Mirror Feed @osint-mirrors.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Source: @osint613 on X Flash floods swept away several houses and a bridge near Trishuli Bazar, Nepal.
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Michael Cruickshank @cruickshank.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Before and after imagery of the glacial outburst flood catastrophe in Nepal. (Imagery via Planet)
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The grand jury report on the Florida embezzlement scheme is blood-boiling. It's clear beyond serious dispute that the current AG of Florida was part of a shameless, calculated plan to steal public funds from sick children to gift the Republican Party & his own PAC. drive.google.com/file/d/15YSC...
drive.google.com
Grand_Jury_Report.pdf
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