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It’s obscene to have this draft dodger whose children *never* served and whose father never served and whose grandfather was kicked out of Germany for dodging service, wheezing platitudes about the unnecessary deaths he caused to other people’s children who did serve their country.

I wrote about allegations by ANOTHER Epstein victim who said Trump raped her when she was 13 years old. The New Republic responded by writing multiple hit pieces on me. That other child rape case, and its court documents, are in my 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT.

As far as the Supreme Court is concerned, "lost mail" and "intentionally withheld mail" are basically the same thing for sovereign immunity purposes under the Federal Tort Claims Act

So if racists won't deliver your mail, you can't sue the govt for FTCA damages

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...

But this isn’t just a regular account. Johnny MAGA appears to actually be a White House staffer named Garrett Wade who works for the Trump administration as a rapid response manager, helping to run the very same White House account his anonymous MAGA account amplifies. A phone number associated with Wade is linked to Johnny MAGA, according to a WIRED review of publicly available records, and the connection was confirmed by a source close to the White House. Wade and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.

The Johnny MAGA account was created in September 2021, according to its X profile. (It originally used a different handle, which referenced Wade’s birth year, according to records reviewed by WIRED.) While the account’s earliest available posts focused on NFTs, it has been a consistent pro-Trump presence since at least 2022. The operator of the Johnny MAGA account has not disclosed an official relationship with the White House while operating the Johnny MAGA X account. Multiple media outlets, including Mother Jones, TownHall, and the New York Post, have all linked out to posts on the Johnny MAGA account seemingly as organic reflections of public sentiment on political issues.

This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed. The White House's own staffers are running meme accounts to make them look more popular than they are. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

Never forget this: The forces undermining our democracy, rigging our economy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win.

Greenland has universal health care and far higher standards of healthcare than are found in Louisiana and most of the US. In the meantime, Trump has blocked funding of the ACA, meaning that tens of millions of Americans are about to lose their healthcare coverage.

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Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.

But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.

newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

The Dystopia That Was Always Coming — And the One They Built While We Looked Away Eyewitness for History by Thomas Drake “They transform pain into social media content. They turn pain into predator contentment. The pursuit of truth is always noble: but not the sluggish or careless...

A thoughtful and damning analysis of my new article “Jackhammering into the Sewer”, on Epstein and deep corruption:
eyewitness-for-history.mymagic.page/the-dystopia...

No fair remembering stuff
@driftglass.bsky.social

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

I’m somebody now!!

Sarah Kendzior on Trumpland’s Criminal Distortions of American Reality It is common to hear that Americans no longer inhabit a shared reality. To a large extent this is true, especially in an era of social media manipulation, but we did not share a reality in simpler …

From THEY KNEW, excerpted here in 2022: "It became reasonable to believe that a critical mass of people in power were either criminals, pedophiles, or traitors, or that they were being blackmailed, bribed, or threatened by a criminal, pedophile, or traitor."
lithub.com/sarah-kendzi...

Newly revealed emails undermine RFK Jr testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of measles outbreak Kennedy later said the purpose of his trip had nothing to do with vaccines. US embassy and UN staff at the time said otherwise, emails show

📢📢📢 BREAKING 📢📢📢
Surprising nobody, newly uncovered emails show RFK Jr lied under oath about the real reason for his 2019 Samoa trip: spreading anti-vax disinformation.

Reminder: 83 people, mostly kids under 5, died of measles during the Samoa outbreak.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Excerpt Kendzior book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT:

"Trump covers up crime with scandal. That is his main propaganda tactic, the one few seem to be able to discern...The crimes are much worse than the scandals, but the media will always take the scandal bait."

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

COVID effect without the COVID.
2009 crash effect without the crash.

And inevitably, there RFK's disease will eventually create a COVID effect and Trump's insanity will eventually create a 2009 type crash.

NEW ProLeftPod episode 966: The media's "Both Sides" lie is the rotting corpse they've been hiding *in their beds* for decades. But Minneapolis resists, and one brave judge compares ICE to King George's tyranny.
www.buzzsprout.com/229/episodes...

Hard to believe Mike Johnson got this wrong, right?

We could do this. Instead, Trump is increasing fossil fuels

Gabby Johnson declined the invitation.

Bari Weiss’s new CBS hires include ‘germ theory denialist’ doctor Dr Mark Hyman, who claimed he reduced his biological age by 20 years, brought on as a contributor

"Among the hires at CBS News announced by Weiss is a doctor who claims he reduced his biological age by 20 years with cold plunges; that cod liver oil treats autism; and that Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with supplements he sells on his online store."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A new statement from Epstein survivors:

"Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."

League of United Latin American Citizens v. Executive Office of the President Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS Donald Trump executive order "imposing new requirements for verifying the U.S. citizenship of people registering to vote or applying to receive absentee ballots."

Another BIG Victory for the Democratic Party and free and fair elections!

I think what a lot of folks miss is how profitable deportation is for the corporations involved & the politicians they're backing.

Holding people, physically removing them, is cost for the taxpayer & profit into the pockets of the worst people you can imagine.

rick scott committed bigger fraud than is alleged in Minnesota and they made him senator

Ms. Omar, visibly shaken after the assault, insisted to her staff and security that she would continue. She asked for a napkin and told them: "Just give me 10 minutes. I beg you. Please don't let them have the show." Ms. Omar then turned the crowd. "Here's the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand," she said. "We are Minnesota strong, and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us." Someone in the crowd later thanked Ms. Omar for staying and continuing after the assault, which had shaken not only her but the entire room. "I learned at a young age you don't give in to threats," Ms. Omar said.

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Tom Homan wearing a suit into which three more Toms Homan could easily fit

STOP MAKING SENSE (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1984)

Referring to the US as a "homeland" was always creepy as fuck, always nazi-adjacent, and creating a Dept. of Homeland Security was an obvious lurch toward authoritarianism that should have been strenuously resisted from the beginning.

(Oh weird the hippies were right again.)