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Jacqueline Sweet

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Once censored by Elon Musk bc I did a journalism Signal: JSweetLI.61 Words in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Intercept, Drop Site News, The Handbasket, POLITICO, The Nation https://jacquelinesweet.substack.com/

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04.03.2026 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Here’s Brian McGinnis’ last Instagram video from before the protest

04.03.2026 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It's hard to know what Loomer and Cornicelli, fringe MAGA candidates in NY and Florida, could do for someone running a test prep company in California

04.03.2026 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Israni has also donated to opponents of Roe v. Wade, election deniers, and a veteran for Trump who wrote a book about whiteness.

She has ties to Hindu nationalist groups and opposed CA’s caste discrimination legislation.

04.03.2026 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 189    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
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Dem Candidate for Rep. Eric Swalwell’s Seat Donated to Far-Right Republicans β€” Including Laura Loomer Democratic primary hopeful Rakhi Israni, who is running for Rep. Eric Swalwell’s seat, gave to MAGA figures β€”Β including Laura Loomer.

NEW: A Democratic candidate in the primary in Eric Swalwell’s district raised $2M in the first two weeks of her campaign from unknown donors.

Rakhi Israni’s personal political donations have gone to over 10 MAGA and far right candidates including Laura Loomer.

theintercept.com/2026/03/04/c...

04.03.2026 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 491    πŸ” 273    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 56
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Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

01.03.2026 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4
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Trump ties Iran strikes to claims that Tehran interfered in U.S. elections President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that his military strike against Iran may have been driven in part by claims that the country interfered in the last two U.S. presidential elections.

As U.S. and Israeli bombs started to fall, Trump took to social media to link the unauthorized military actions with the Big Lie.

Trump posted an article asserting that β€œIran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States.”

01.03.2026 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 340    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 17

Yikes

28.02.2026 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The second case is an absolutely WILD case about a postal service employee refusing to deliver someone's mail because they are Black.

The majority is a conservative win, 5-4, with Gorsuch joining the liberals to dissent.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

24.02.2026 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1064    πŸ” 280    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 130

ICYMI: We obtained the missing three FBI interviews with the woman who said Epstein and Trump abused her in the early 1980s. The FBI memos reveal unsubstantiated and at times outlandish claims. House Dems opened an investigation earlier this week into why the files were missing from the public files

28.02.2026 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

UPDATE: The plane was towed to the terminal around 3pm. Migrants are reportedly "at the terminal," though it's unclear to me if that means still on the plane or off of it. And if off, unclear if they are still shackled.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/breaking-sha...

23.02.2026 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 378    πŸ” 202    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 13

I mean I’m sure she heard about it independently. It’s still standard practice in journalism and the right thing to do to credit the outlet that beat you. I do it!

21.02.2026 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Brb going back in time and uncrediting easily half the outlets I’ve ever credited that beat me because I also knew about the story before

21.02.2026 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone involved emailed the reporter asking why they didn’t credit us and her answer was that she knew about the case before we published. ??? As if that’s ever been the standard for crediting previous reporting of the exact same story a week before. lol

21.02.2026 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

I loved this story when I reported it first on February 12 for The Intercept!

20.02.2026 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 98    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is an interesting story @nytimes.com

It was even more interesting when I broke it a week and a day ago in The Intercept which you did not cite or mention.

20.02.2026 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1382    πŸ” 405    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 15

There’s no memo. It’s just us contending with ourselves. Now that’s scary

20.02.2026 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

People who want a fairy tale that they will find some hidden memo of Trump raping kids somewhere emotionally don’t want to contend with the fact that people voted for Trump and all that means and that his banal evil won’t be magically vanquished by some secret revelation to save us all

20.02.2026 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Apparently not but they have 100k followers on X and some legit people follow her here like Rupar

19.02.2026 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why do you say wrongly won? Didn’t she show she had never met the woman they accused her of sex trafficking? Genuinely asking as that’s what I saw.

19.02.2026 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nor is it an elderly financial advisor from Washington State named Susan Hamblin Bentley, as others have posted.

Sue Hamblin in Epstein's Black Book had a South African address.

19.02.2026 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Jesus Christ. The Susan Hamblin who wrote this 2014 email was not a Mormon woman married in a Seattle temple in 1987. That's who runs the adoption agency, Susan Hamblin Lawrence, a widow with four kids.

19.02.2026 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

14.02.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 538    πŸ” 307    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 19

Yes let me do their job for them for free or maybe they should thank me for helping them avoid lawsuits due to their own incompetence.

The source that shows their story is wrong is IN THEIR OWN story.

17.02.2026 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The woman who dated Kimbal is in Epstein flight logs years before the lawsuit of the other woman claims she ever even MET Epstein.

17.02.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's already being used to discredit the real stuff, which is my soapbox rant all the time

17.02.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

this is bad bc it's almost defamatory and it's an explosive claim, and it's so easily disproven by the very sources it cites

17.02.2026 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the messiness around the Epstein files reporting is insane

17.02.2026 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

bsky.app/profile/jswe...

17.02.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0