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Another nugget flooding the human trafficking zone while Trump and the Epstein files continue to dominate headlines

Trump faces backlash as 69% believe Epstein details concealed -Reuters/Ipsos poll Most Americans think President Donald Trump's administration is hiding information about accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and give it poor marks on the issue after pledging to make public documents in the case, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

"69% of respondents thought the federal government was hiding details about Epstein's clients"

w here’s a picture MN can celebrate. State Senator John Hoffman discharged from ICU today after being shot numerous times during assassination attempt. His family tells me he’s moving to a rehab facility and still has a long road ahead.

Elon Musk's trump/epstein tweet has Alex Jones’ attention

A taekwondo class in rural Alaska may save the community’s school Whale Pass doesn’t have a grocery store, but it does have Alaska’s only certified Songahm Taekwondo dojo. That could be key to drawing more students.

in a town of fewer than 100 year-round residents ... it's "the nation’s first and only school offering Songahm Taekwondo as a school sport ... the students have literally put Alaska on the taekwondo world’s map."
alaskapublic.org/news/educati...

Can Scouting Save Young Men? There is an organization dedicated to addressing the “boy problem.” It operates in over 100 countries and works with tens of millions of children, primarily boys and teenagers.

interesting piece on the parallels of what led to the creation of the boy scouts 125 years ago and the present day rise in loneliness, white nationalism and violence among young men.

The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone “Who’s calling?” the president asks as he answers call after call from numbers he doesn’t know.

"The draw of the phone is simple: Trump likes to call people. He likes to be called. Unknown numbers come with a thrill akin to putting a coin in a gumball machine and waiting to see which flavor rolls out. Surrendering the phone would be inconvenient, limiting, and so he keeps it."

This figure, if remotely accurate, is 5x the current Gaza death toll

Bukele’s crackdown pushes top Salvadoran journalists to flee El Salvador’s top independent investigative news outlet moved its headquarters to Costa Rica in 2023. More of its journalists left the country this month.

“Interviewing a gang member doesn’t make me a criminal,” Peña said. “Just like interviewing a pope doesn’t make me a saint, and interviewing a corrupt politician doesn’t make me corrupt. But our job is to do those interviews.”

Cardinals are watching ‘Conclave’ the movie for guidance on the conclave IRL The 2024 movie is proving a useful primer for clerics about to take part in the real thing to choose the next pope.

"some of the 133 high-ranking clerics set to enter the Sistine Chapel when the conclave starts on Wednesday have looked to the Ralph Fiennes movie ― handily titled just “Conclave” ― for pointers."

www.politico.eu/article/card...

seven Dunkin' stores that dot Revere's route today

1 if by land, 2 if by Dunkin'? What Paul Revere's midnight ride would be like today The route of Paul Revere’s midnight ride from Boston to Lexington 250 years ago looks much different today. For starters, it’s easier to find a Dunkin’.

250 years ago today was Paul Revere's midnight ride: "But, the real taste of the same American — and Boston — pride that the revolutionaries may have felt in their rejection of tea can be found in the seven Dunkin' stores that dot Revere's route today"

www.nbcboston.com/news/local/p...

Big Gretch next to Natalie Harp in a photograph was not on my bingo card

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear nabs the latest must-have for a major politician: His own podcast In an interview with NBC News, Kentucky's Democratic governor said he hopes his podcast and direct-to-cam videos draw in (and comfort) viewers amid a torrent of political news.

“How is ‘skibidi’ different than ‘fire’?” the second-term Democrat asked his son on the first episode of his new podcast. “Fire is, like, it’s really good,” Will Beshear, 15, explained. “‘Skibidi’ is just, like ‘Oh, OK.’”

“He’s not demanding cookies, he’s not demanding a helicopter,” an Interior Department official told us in response. “It is antithetical to diva behavior.”

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants | CNN Business Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wag...

114 years ago today was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/b...

“Bring Me the Poison”: On the Trail With Trump’s Inner Circle of Suck-Ups In this exclusive first excerpt from ‘All or Nothing,’ Michael Wolff’s raucous chronicle of the 2024 campaign, MAGA lackeys Boris Epshteyn and Natalie Harp worship at the altar of the will-be presiden...

"... Natalie constantly fed Trump from the printer—carefully assembled with Trump’s signature gold paper clips, faithfully carried by him in a beige Lulu­lemon bag—flying off his table, and everyone had to suddenly scurry to collect them, seeing, dumbfounded, the contents."

“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.

"Tillis has said that if people want to understand Trump, they should read the 2006 book Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work. (When asked for comment for this story, a spokesperson for Tillis said it was false that the senator had recommended the book in that capacity. ...)"

State Dept. orders cancellation of news subscriptions around the world U.S. embassies and consulates were told to terminate subscriptions to the New York Times, the Associated Press and other media outlets.

"... prioritize the termination of contracts with six news organizations in particular: the Economist, the New York Times, Politico, Bloomberg News, the Associated Press and Reuters." But they can "submit a request to maintain a news subscription but that it “must be done within 1 sentence.”

The DOGE Brain Drain Has Begun It’s not just jobs cut and agencies gutted. It’s the talent that will be lost for generations to come.

"With leadership being pushed out, funding drying up, morale plummeting, and firings coming by the hour, the question now confronting people beginning their careers in the field of scientific research is not whether the government is there to help them, but whether they can survive its wrath."

Kansas City doesn't have enough jobs available for all the federal workers getting laid off Federal workers in Kansas City whose jobs were eliminated under the Trump administration's massive budget cuts will have a hard time finding comparable work in the area. Instability in the city's work...

"Unemployment is already low ... jobs for people with bachelor's degrees have decreased "by more than 50%,"

Zuckerberg Says 'Everything I Say Leaks' in Leaked Meeting Audio "There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."

"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"

www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...

Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X Dozens of big subreddits have already banned all Twitter links, and posts about potential bans are some of the most popular on the site.

"Hundreds of subreddits are considering banning all links to X.com in response to Elon Musk’s salute at a Donald Trump inauguration rally that was celebrated by Nazis as being a Nazi salute. The moderators of dozens of those subreddits have said that they have decided they will ban all links to X."

Call log showing multiple calls from the dept of justice

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections."
Each defendant assaulted him.

Opinion | Trump Barely Won the Election. Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way? The president-elect’s cultural victory has lapped his political victory.

“What Democrats have is an attention problem, not a media problem, and it stems partly from the fact that they still treat attention as something the media controls rather than as something they have to fight for themselves.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/o...

Toxic fallout from LA fires will damage both land and sea Rainfall could send debris from hillsides charred by wildfires rushing down ravines and through drainage ditches into the Pacific Ocean.

"But these wildfire toxins, which include benzene, styrene, formaldehyde and cadmium, aren't the kind of chemical that can be easily purged with a $16 "Royal Defense" smoothie from upscale grocery Erewhon."

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

GOP candidate for Florida attorney general once sued Trump in federal fraud case A former judge, Ashley Moody, said she nevertheless backs Trump.

"... the Moody family’s Trump Tower Tampa case stands out because it marks the first time that a plaintiff who sued Trump wound up running for statewide office — and then voicing her support for the person she once accused of fraud but now calls commander in chief."

www.politico.com/states/flori...

Drake's lawyer represented Comet Pizza from the Pizzagate incident in 2016 - and they are drawing parallels re: vigilante justice

"If an insurrection happens in a forest, and Pam Bondi isn’t there to hear it, did it really happen?"

A great read on the intersection of climate change and politics...

"That’s about to be our new normal: Things we’ve never seen before, things that have never existed in all of known history, until they do now."