one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

Is it just me or does it feel like the 'ushers' are on a hair trigger of late, lunging in front of the cameras to rescue Trump whenever he starts doing a dementia.

A follow up on this Jesse Watters clip from 3 weeks ago. The victim of ICE testified today before Congress that she was on her way to a 39th scheduled treatment at a traumatic brain injury center.

“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..”

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Good time to reup this post from last month.

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved.
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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

"In October, a retiree emailed a DHS attorney to urge mercy for an asylum seeker. Then DHS subpoenaed his Google account and sent investigators to his home."

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Richard Hanania & @RichardHanania Subscribe Hating Epstein represents the essence of antisemitism. The resentment of mediocrities, conspiracy thinking, and chud moralism.

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#GA14 🤓

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This has all been public for a couple of decades. It's Thiel’s client Vance’s job to bring this to completion if Trump doesn't suffice. (2/2)

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

In the last 48 hours, Musk's reactions to the Epstein release show exactly why he bought Twitter.

He's used the platform to call coverage of his emails with Epstein as "lies," elevated his fans who have defended him, and gotten positive reinforcement from his AI chatbot.

* UKRAINE'S ZELENSKIY SAYS OVERNIGHT RUSSIAN AIR ATTACK WAS 'DELIBERATE' AGAINST ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE, INVOLVING A RECORD NUMBER OF BALLISTIC MISSILES

* ZELENSKIY SAYS RUSSIA EXPLOITED U.S. PROPOSAL TO BRIEFLY HALT STRIKES NOT TO SUPPORT DIPLOMACY, BUT TO STOCKPILE MISSILES

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exactly. this is not difficult.

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“.. Weiss insists she does not want to cut ties with Attia over his links to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and sees it as giving in to the mob.”

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I think Ms. Bondi is increasingly aware that if she doesn’t get a pardon she will die in prison, and her pardon depends entirely on the goodwill of someone who’s entirely capable of screaming “why should I do anything for you when you wouldn’t put Peekaboo James in jail like I told you to”

Democrats gonna flip 100 House seats.

🤔You mean the *centrist* Dem responsible for killing good bills had ties to Epstein? Imagine that

Selling pardons to wealthy fraudsters and drug traffickers is a full time job in the Trump admin.

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Neither Trump nor the GOP in congress have this power, & the only way they do this is if we decline to stand up for our rights. He's had a string of electoral defeats & rightfully fears the midterms. His outbursts are real threats, but they come from weakness. Tough shit, he's going down. No Kings.

Here we go….

If true, this would be one of the least surprising turns of events in the history of events turning.

Karl Rove (yes, THAT Karl Rove) shreds Trump’s lies about the economy

The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files

NEW: The Justice Department published dozens of unredacted images of nude women (and possibly teens) as part of its Epstein release.

The faces of those people were also left unredacted.

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ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections The measles​ cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.

BREAKING: ICE has halted "all movement" at a Texas detention facility due to measles infections, DHS confirms.

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein: ‘You’re amazing’ Department of Justice documents detail relationship between head of Wall Street law firm and child sex offender

The king of law firm capitulators was also apparently an Epstein fanboy. www.ft.com/content/e12a...