Sheryl Cogdell

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

YouTube video by Democracy Docket SCARY: Trump Knows What He's Doing | Ruth Ben-Ghiat

NEW VIDEO: Donald Trump may not be as dumb as he looks. Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins Marc Elias on the podcast with a warning about Trump's next authoritarian moves

Tunnel Vision Do you remember September 9?

"There is no longer 'news' in the US: only speculation, propaganda in oligarch-run newspapers, dark money posts disguised as articles, the occasional well-researched but paywalled piece, and independent reporting blocked by algorithms."
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"We can speak against political violence without somehow twisting ourselves around to defend others who spoke for it."

@jeffsharlet.bsky.social responds to a new column about Charlie Kirk from @ezraklein.bsky.social.

The Struggle is Long On Charlie Kirk and resisting the momentum of civil war

I'll be on @democracynow.org this morning to talk about assassination of Charlie Kirk & what his org, Turning Point is: a transformation in rightwing youth politics away from ideology per se toward fascistic cult of personality devotion to Trump. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-strugg...

Trump's War on America To allow Trump's autocratic allies to prosper, our military and intelligence must take on new roles at home. We can sound the alarm with those who serve.

Called it last week: The true rationale for the change to Department of War is the war Trump is waging on America:
lucid.substack.com/p/trumps-war...

This excellent essay is published by Lucid but it is written by @marceldirsus.com

Free link for all excerpts here: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-state-survival-your-questions?triedRedirect=true

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From my latest Q & A, on Epstein, Maxwell, and Israel: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...

“An FSB-trained Russian official helped [Jeffrey Epstein] handle a blackmail threat in return for advice on circumventing sanctions.”

Intriguing information from Russian oligarch-in-exile @khodorkovsky.com that invites more questions, like how and when Epstein and Belyakov first became acquainted.

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show The Author Who Warned America: Sarah Kendzior

"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...

Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation And hope to gobble up some land near you.

Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation

The Real Story of the Trump-Putin Summit Is a US Oil Deal Hiding in Plain Sight While no progress was made towards a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, the Kremlin opened the door to a deal that could pour billions into its own war coffers

🚨Kremlin’s message is clear—if ignored—Russia wants sanctions lifted to keep funding the war.

On the day of the summit, Putin signed a decree allowing ExxonMobil to return to a Rosneft project, Sakhalin-1, under a condition.

Who comes to Alaska to discuss?

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A guess about a point Putin and Trump agreed on: that Putin won’t release the files about Russia’s campaigns to support Trump in 2016 and 2020 so long as Trump continues to aid Russia’s war.

Sudden rise in blood pressure… uh oh

Trump and the GOP’s goal is to “exterminate” the disability community “They want to exterminate us.”

Trump and the GOP’s goal is to “exterminate” the disability community. This deserves far more coverage! My article medium.com/@dean.obeida...

Trump’s Use of the Military in Los Angeles Goes to Trial – What to Know Read more here.

UPDATE: On day one of the trial over Trump’s use of the National Guard in California, the head of a task force overseeing the military mission in Los Angeles said his loyalty was questioned by a DHS official after objecting to a request for 50+ military vehicles for the MacArthur Park raid.

This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like In a post-American world, greed and nihilism are destroying Sudan.

Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak.Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Trump regime has removed sections 9 and 10 of the constitution from its website, which include Habeas Corpus, congressional appropriations, and other states rifhts constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

Republicans complain about Texas Democrats “fleeing”—yet just days ago, they themselves fled D.C. to avoid voting on the Epstein files.

Why? To protect a convicted felon sitting in the Oval Office.

One side dodges accountability.
The other fights for democracy.

Repost @djmelodie

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I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos On July 20th, I was the first to report the existence of training videos instructing FBI personnel how to flag mentions of Trump and others in the Epstein files. Today, I'm suing for those videos.

BREAKING: I am suing the Department of Justice for the training videos instructing FBI personnel to flag mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein files. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/i-am-suing...

SCOTUS Could Be Set to End Key Protection for Minority Voters Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court escalated the high-stakes redistricting battle in Louisiana by ordering new legal briefings on whether intentionally creating a second majority-Black congressional district — to comply with the Voting Rights Act — might violate the U.S. Constitution.

YouTube video by politizane Wealth Inequality in America

It’s always the money & power…

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Trafficked

YouTube video by DW News Anne Applebaum: 'The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism' | DW News

The war will be over when Putin realizes that he can't win
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Also, restore the funding. The $1.1 billion (of our tax money) that was cut from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting -- i.e., NPR, PBS, and member stations -- served all Americans. The $45 billion for new detention centers, $29.9 billion for ICE, and $46.6 billion for border wall construction?

New review of THEY KNEW! This one goes into detail on the chapters about Jeffrey Epstein and his predecessor Craig Spence:

www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issu...

From “Hiding in Plain Sight” by Sarah Kendzior FYI - Numbers in (38) are documented footnotes. “As of 2019, no such accountability has come, and that should not surprise anyone. Kushner does not need to fear the law when his father-in-law can rewrite it. That is how life works in a dynastic kleptocracy. That is how life works now in the United States of America. Prior to Trump's campaign, Kushner tended to be portrayed as a supporting player in the endless series of puff pieces about the fashionable Ivanka. A 2008 breakup of the couple, who began dating in 2005 and married in 2009, was in part remedied by right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his then wife, Wendi Deng, who seemed to have great interest in unifying two white-collar crime families in matrimony. The owner of Fox News, the New York Post, and other right-wing media properties, Murdoch became a mentor to Kushner after Kushner bought the Observer. Meanwhile Deng, a New York socialite, befriended Ivanka, who was over a decade her junior. (38) Following the breakup, Deng invited them separately to the Murdoch family yacht, where they were reunited. (39) Ivanka and Jared soon wed, while Deng went on to divorce Murdoch, allegedly date Putin during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and take vacations in Eastern Europe with her old friend Ivanka. (40) Murdoch later insisted that Deng was a Chinese spy, a claim backed up by US intelligence agencies. (41) These events seem, in retrospect, foreboding and strange. All of the players in this little love story eventually became subjects of the federal probe into election interference, with several suspected of espionage. Corruption in the federal government has become expected to some degree, but a president's social circle being implicated in multiple criminal and espionage plots spanning the course of several decades is not normal. And the refusal of the press and state officials to treat it as abnormal is part of the problem.”

Interesting note (that I don’t believe many people ever discuss), but there is a Rupert connection with Jared and Ivanka that I think is intriguing. From “Hiding in Plain Sight” by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
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If I knew the answer to "how do we get more women into <insert STEM related thing here>" I'd have made my fortune selling the idea*.

So just because I AM a woman in STEM pls stop asking.

*actually I do have an idea but it involves dismantling the patriarchy and no one is willing to hear that