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The prosecution failed to rise a defense and should now roll over. But we all know they follow the dough.

Absofuckinglutely

A half baked idea fails to rise to assault. DOJ should roll over now.

*Concentration Camp.

Let's not use their cutesy rebranding names, please.

Gov. Pritzker on Adelita Grijalva: "Mike Johnson won't swear her in. Why is that? … She'll be the 218th signature forcing a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files."

"Trump and Mike Johnson are working awfully damn hard to keep a sexual predator's files from being released. Makes you wonder why."

Hello friends. I don't think very many of you are in #Ireland, but I'm giving a talk at a National Women's Enterprise Day event in Kilkenny Castle on Thursday 16th Oct. I'll speak about my weird, unplanned career path. Tickets are €20. I'd be really happy to see some friendly faces there 😊 🧪👩‍🔬 #nwed

When does beaver reintroduction make sense? This is the second installment of Mongabay’s coverage of beaver restoration in California. Read the first story. TÁSMAM KOYÓM, U.S. — “It’s a little wet!” Ben Cunningham shouted over his shoulder as…

The second of my two stories about beavers in California for @mongabay.com looks at the promise and perils of translocating beavers to parts of their former range in the hopes that they'll bring ecosystem benefits

please invite your archaeologist friends here

A close-up photo of a vibrant hummingbird perched on a branch. The bird has deep magenta and purple plumage with a striking, snow-white cap on its head. The background is a smooth, blurred green, highlighting the bird’s vivid colors.

#SnowcapoftheDay

Male Snowcap #hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#birds #nature

EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: A higher up at the Bureau of Prisons WAIVED Ghislaine Maxwell's sex offender status in order to transfer her to a minimum security camp in Texas, per source. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

A reminder: The perpetrators in the Epstein files are Oligarchs, and so are the ones protecting them.

Lawyer Dilan Esper writing about how amazing the Bollea v. Gawker case was for him while insisting no harm done to the 1st Amendment. I can't say that much about our mediation strategy (it's shrouded in lawyer-client privilege and work product) but I have seen Nick Denton make accusations about it, and they are false. We were willing to settle; Gawker needed to offer a lot more than they did though. In other words, Peter Thiel was not my client and he was not directing the litigation behind the scenes. We were actually litigating the case exactly the same way we would have had Bollea been personally paying his bills. Thiel may have had his reasons for getting Gawker (and to be clear, he apparently paid the bills for several cases that were brought by us and others against Gawker), but the strategy doesn't work without a viable case. Gawker hung itself with its conduct towards Bollea. The bottom line is I take a great deal of professional pride in what we did. Precisely because we actually didn't ruin the First Amendment. No outlet is prevented from doing real journalism as a result of the Bollea v. Gawker case. We simply enforced a long existing norm. And drew a line in an era of "anything goes" content on the Internet. This was Hulk Hogan's legacy, and in a very real way, it is mine as well.

I had to spend two and a half years fighting a frivolous lawsuit that was a direct result of Bollea v. Gawker. And that lawsuit massively decreased our capability to do what we do, so I take issue with one of Hulk Hogan's lawyers claiming that Bollea v. Gawker had no impact on journalism

Gonna have to add this to the bio, but the big question is:

above or below Darth?

Lehrer's performance is sampled in the track "Dope Peddler" by U.S. rapper 2 Chainz on his 2012 album Based on a T.R.U. Story, (2) In 2013, Lehrer said he was "very proud" to have his 60-year-old song sampled. His response to the request to use the song was "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?" [21

Just realized I haven’t seen anyone post the Tom Lehrer-2 Chainz letter yet today.

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Could we NOT normalize the stupid catchy name.

It's concentration camp.

Mullin blocking Gallego resolution calling for release of the Epstein files: What we’re simply trying to do is give [Trump] cover

I see we've moved past the "race" stage and into the "and other undesirables" part of Holocaust 2.0

EXCLUSIVE: The Universe of Those with Access to the Epstein Files Keeps Expanding According to new sources, photos and testimony of the survivors of the Epstein/Maxwell sex trafficking ring were available to even more people in the government than previously thought.

EXCLUSIVE: I have spoken with more people since my initial article on the review of the Epstein files and one thing is clear: more people had access to them because of the rushed nature of the review than previously thought. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

Within the last 6 months, 402 attacks on science have been counted. “Attacks on science” include actions, statements, or decisions from an elected official in a federal agency that results in the censoring, manipulation or misinforming on science data/results/conclusions conducted w/in the govt.🧪

Sen. Dick Durbin is leading the Senate Judiciary Committee in an effort towards more transparency regarding Trump's handling of the Epstein files—particularly an order from AG Pam Bondi for FBI agents to “flag” any mention of Donald Trump.

https://trib.al/kUBdRCg

He Came to the U.S. to Support His Sick Child. He Was Detained. Then He Disappeared. Like most of the more than 230 Venezuelan men deported to a Salvadoran prison, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas had followed U.S. immigration rules. Then Trump rewrote them.

We previously found that the Trump administration knew the vast majority of the 230+ Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes.

Our latest analysis reveals another jarring reality: that most of the men were already moving through the U.S. immigration system.

Military bases in New Jersey, Indiana, to be expanded to detain immigrants

NPR has learned that the Pentagon has also approved the expansion of the U.S. Naval Base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the same purpose.

The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI Inside the chaotic review process of the Epstein and Maxwell files at the Bureau

The amazing thing about brave people speaking out is that it inspires others to do the same by creating a permission structure. Since I published this article 4 hours ago, I've heard from multiple sources confirming what's in it. www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...

oh look, we need to distract you from the Epstein files and concentration camps we're building.

focus, people.

“As Russia deepens its decades-long influence in Africa and the Middle East, Ukraine is working to challenge that dominance diplomatically and, where possible, militarily,” writes David Kirichenko.

lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...

honestly this guy has struck me as fairly charisma-free up til this point (in a way that is itself kind of charming?) but it takes a special kind of rizz to get this much information out of the thugs who are actively detaining you

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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We...

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