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Trump’s Epstein Scandal Takes Damning Turn as Dem Drops New Bombshell As new revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein saga threaten the president, a legal expert decodes what we just learned—and lays out a roadmap to what will happen now.

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up."

If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2070...

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

People don't want data centers polluting their cities.

They don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors.

They don't want warehouses being turned into ICE prisons.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home.

They want their basic needs met.

tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

it’s really annoying that the ‘defund the police’ conversation in the mainstream is only ever “should we have more or less police officers?” and not the “police officers shouldn’t be armed with riot gear and tanks and also can kill people” conversation

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

A few years ago, the IRS got additional funding. What happened? More audits of wealthy tax cheats and better customer service for everyone else.

Fast forward to now and the IRS is so understaffed and underfunded that it’s using HR employees to process tax returns.

Trump delivers for the oligarchs.

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Layoffs just hit their highest start-of-year total since January 2009 — the height of the Great Recession — according to data tracking firm Challenger.

Meanwhile, CEO pay and corporate profits continue to hit record highs.

Does anyone still believe that trickle-down tax cuts create jobs?

Don’t buy into Trump’s fake populism for a second.

He’s governing for the rich and powerful — not you

Cook County clerk urges early mail-in voting amid USPS postmark change before March 17 primary While the change might appear small, ballots mailed close to March 17 might not be postmarked by Election Day and therefore be deemed invalid, county official warns.

While the change might appear small, ballots mailed near the March 17 deadline might not be postmarked by Election Day and therefore deemed invalid, Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon warned.

Elon Musk's net worth just hit $800 billion. How?

One of his corporations acquired another one of his corporations.

Meanwhile, Elon's companies pay next to nothing in federal income taxes and get billions of dollars in government contracts.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

@KamalaHQ tweet: "TOMORROW"

okay look, i support whatever she could plausibly say she's going to do here, but it would be really, really funny if It Happened tomorrow

My actual job description is activist and here’s what I tell people in despair all the time: do not underestimate how much harm you can prevent by being just a little bit annoying.

I want folks to realize white people are not fighting for a better country.

They are fighting to go back to being able to ignore the horrors of police brutality and the belief that the best expression of civic good is voting for a candidate aligned with US imperialism.

We're not on the same team.

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...

i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In my opinion these people are the real heroes of the resistance to ICE. There’s no credit, no one can talk about their work (because they directly contact vulnerable families). It’s expensive and dreary and neverending. ICE follows them around. But they refuse to abandon their neighbors

Guys they are really, really not winning

It sucks what they’re doing to our country, and my city especially

God only knows how much damage they’ll do before they’re stopped, much of it irreversible

But they are very much not winning

Weird how you expect Black people to come save the same country that voted for Trump as part of its white supremacist temper tantrum. The same country that shrugged at BLM is now freaking out because the police state is hurting non-Black people. Y’all gonna learn now, and learn the hard way.

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Texas — Trump supporter fights kids

Kids win

www.instagram.com/reel/DUS-0sy...

Pretty notable how there was a wave of intellectuals and op-ed writers all saying "Has MeToo Gone Too Far?" riiiiiiiiiiight around the time it started getting close to the whole "a lot of the most powerful people in the world are involved in the most heinous shit imaginable"

Closeup of a smartphone screen showing the X app page with the X logo

The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences into the platform’s algorithms & their alleged complicity in the spread of CSAM, sexually explicit deepfakes, & other offenses

“Everyone hated Hillary” And yet she won the popular vote. There’s a reason why discourse about the electoral college started back up in 2017, and desperate people back then were holding out hope that some electors would defect to her.

a glorious rat coin purse

twitter comments that range from "oh! so contradictory - laugh & cringe" to "so curious to know who would want this - any ideas?"

twitter must be dead dead cause someone posted a rat coin purse that would have 2019 twitter losing its collective mind and most of the top comments are bots saying random words or people not nearly amped enough about the rat coin purse