Russell D. Vines

Still mostly upright! 🤣

Thank you!

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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979

Watch Steve Bannon's pawn and part-time Russian asset Jack Posobiec get wrecked by Zohran Mamdani without even trying for pushing a racist hoax about his tax policies.

The greatest comic short story of all time. The original Peanuts strip that inspired the masterpiece. From Detective Comics 500 by Len Wein & Walt Simonson

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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States:

- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats

Those are just factual statements.

This is excellent. This is the kind of guidance needed in the face of a lawless regime.

Someone should be talking to a lawyer.

Like now.

Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.

The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.

The bill only forces the release of unclassified information.

Pass it on.

This is the reporter that Donald Trump called "Piggy." She is Catherine Lucey, currently with Bloomberg.

I don't think it is a coincidence that, back in 2018, Lucey was the first reporter to ask Trump about Stormy Daniels. Trump responded with a lie, but, clearly, did not forget the question.

This is brilliant!
🧪“The Monster Slash”
By @ellecordova.bsky.social on IG

She performs a song about the cuts to the government agencies that impact our daily lives.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly shared state voter-registration data with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), despite earlier assurances to state election officials that the information would only be used for routine voter-list maintenance. Beginning in May 2025, DOJ

Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems.

"Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."

Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

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“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”

Meanwhile, consider this.
A GREAT NUMBER of beltway scribes wasted time last fall obsessing abt Nuzzi's sexting life rather than focusing on dangers of electing a fascist.

And now, Condé Nast has chosen Nuzzi over Tean Vogue's exceptional political reporting (and the 5 journos who stood up for it).

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

A HUGE win for James Comey in his criminal case.

A federal judge orders the DOJ to turnover ALL OF THE GRAND JURY MATERIALS to Comey's defense team.

About to drop a new episode walking through the details of this scathing order on my YouTube channel!

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The 11 Fuck-Ups Pam Bondi's DOJ Made in Indicting Jim Comey - emptywheel In an opinion granting access to grand jury materials, William Fitzpatrick lists 11 ways Pam Bondi's DOJ fucked up their efforts to indict Jim Comey.

The 11 Fuck-Ups Pam Bondi's DOJ Made in Indicting Jim Comey

www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/17/t...

Due to the metering policy, asylum seekers began to accumulate on the Mexico side of the border. Many camped near the bridges at ports of entry. In an at- tempt to impose some order, Mexican government offi- cials and nonprofits made lists of people waiting to be processed. U.S. border officials sometimes coordi- nated informally with those keeping lists, but they did not keep lists of their own. Asylum seekers waited in Mexico for days, weeks, or months. Many were subject to persecution and crime, and they often lacked adequate food and shelter. Some were murdered in Mexico while waiting for an oppor- tunity to be processed by U.S. officials. Some at- tempted to reach U.S. soil by other means, such as run- ning down vehicle lanes at ports of entry, so that they could apply for asylum. Others, including young chil- dren, tried to swim across the Rio Grande River and drowned.

The 9th Circuit’s description of what happened after the government introduced the “metering” policy to block asylum seekers at the border. Incredibly bleak. www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/u...

Kash Patel's girlfriend being protected by FBI SWAT agents as security perk Agents on a detail with the country singer would presumably be unable to respond or delayed in responding to other incidents, according to sources.

President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris And John Bolton Disapprove This Message!

Cash Patel's Girlfriend Being Protected By FBI SWAT Agents As Security Perk

The jury thought the case was baloney

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.