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Chris Walker

@thatchriswalker.bsky.social

Journalist since '03. News writer for Truthout.org. Lifetime Wisconsinite, which is obvious by my cheesy posts. Tips 'n such to: chris@truthout.org

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EVERY monthly BLS jobs report is revised. The reports are initial estimates.

Trump is either oblivious to this, or thinks he can trick the American people into believing his falsehoods. Meanwhile, the firing of statistics officials means we can no longer trust our data. Alarming, to say the least.

03.08.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents β€˜would not be appropriate or warranted....

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01.08.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bloomberg reports that the FBI redacted Trump's name in the Epstein files before the agency ultimately decided not to release them at all. Whoddathunkit!

01.08.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lawsuit Says ICE Arrests on Church Property Are Unconstitutional In January, DHS rescinded a federal policy barring ICE raids at β€œsensitive locations,” including houses of worship.

More than a dozen faith-based groups are suing Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security over the agency’s policy to conduct immigration raids in β€œsensitive locations,” including houses of worship.

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"What if we remade War of the Worlds but as an Amazon commercial?" is an elevator pitch that never should have made it past the first floor.

30.07.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Regarding those late-night comedians Trump complains about...

29.07.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm starting to think the White House isn't being honest about the whole Epstein situation...

29.07.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Says He Can Pardon Epstein Buddy Ghislaine Maxwell If He Wants To The issue of the Epstein files β€” and Trump’s lack of care to release more info β€” is splintering his MAGA base.

If you don't want people to talk about the Epstein files, why on earth would you say, "yeah, I can pardon his co-conspirator IF I WANT TO"?
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25.07.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bombshell Report Raises Questions on Whether Trump Knew He Was in Epstein Files Trump recently told media that he didn’t know his name was in the Epstein files β€” but a new report suggests otherwise.

Did Trump lie last week when he told reporters Bondi didn't tell him he was mentioned in the Epstein files? πŸ€”

24.07.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hulk Hogan dead at 71.

24.07.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Bashes Cashless Bail, Says it Leads to More Crime. Studies Say Otherwise. Real-world examples and case studies reveal that cashless bail doesn’t result in higher crime rates.

News flash: Trump is wrong about cashless bail.
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23.07.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Art of the Deal? πŸ™„

23.07.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not looking great for Trump...

22.07.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Tennessee Doctor Refused to Give a Woman Prenatal Care Because She’s Unmarried, She Tells Town Hall Tennessee’s β€œconscience law,” allowing doctors to deny care due to their religious beliefs, went into effect in April.

So-called "conscience laws" allow healthcare workers, including doctors, the "right" to deny care based on religious or personal reasons.
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22.07.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Holding for ransom funding that's already been appropriated because you want a sports team to be named after a racial epithet to distract from a scandal involving your dead buddy who you used to ogle young women with. That's something, right?

22.07.2025 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We Are One-Eighth of the Way Through Trump’s Second Term. Americans Aren’t Happy. Poll after poll after poll shows dismal numbers for the Republican president.

How would you rate Trump's job performance so far?
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21.07.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Amid Epstein Fallout, Video of Trump Judging Teen Girls in Modeling Competition Resurfaces Polls show most Americans β€” and a high portion of MAGA voters β€” are dissatisfied with transparency in the Epstein case.

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21.07.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s β€œBig Beautiful Bill” Allocates $300 Million to Protect the Billionaire’s Properties In the past, Trump has directly profited from overcharging agencies to protect him at his personal properties.

It's possible some of this funding could make its way into Trump's own pockets.
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21.07.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump's new tactic in his Epstein files defense is actually an old one: blaming past Democratic leaders for the conspiracy theory he helped spread.

He did the exact same thing with Obama birtherism, blaming Hillary Clinton, falsely claiming she started/promoted it.

Gaslighting, pure and simple.

21.07.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CBS Acquiesces to Trump's Fascism in Firing Stephen Colbert

#donaldtrump #stephencolbert #lateshowwithstephencolbert #politics #uspolitics #fascism

19.07.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Threatens to Sue Wall Street Journal for Publishing Letter to Epstein For decades, Trump had a strong friendship with Epstein, a disgraced financier and child sex trafficker.

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18.07.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Voters Want a Third Party. They Just Don’t Want Musk in Charge of It. Nearly two in five Democratic-leaning voters would consider joining a non-Musk-led third party.

Half of U.S. voters would give consideration to backing a third party movement. But they overwhelmingly reject the idea if Musk is leading it.
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18.07.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pam Bondi assuring me that the Epstein files are fine, no big deal, nothing to see, move it along now, means absolutely nothing to me.

16.07.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Rages Against β€œWeakling” MAGA Backers Who Still Care About Epstein Several prominent right-wing voices are turning on Trump after his angry social media post.

How do you feel about this, MAGA friends?
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16.07.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

This Epstein saga reminds me of Bill Barr teasing the Mueller report in '19, saying the document had totally exonerated Trump -- in fact, the report did not do that, & Mueller himself later said, "If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so."

16.07.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Trump Administration Set to Destroy 550 Tons of USAID Food Meant to Go to Malnourished Kids One Democratic U.S. senator condemned the plan to destroy the food as β€œdisgusting.”…

The cruelty is the point.
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16.07.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Only 3 Percent of Americans Say They’re Satisfied With Trump Admin’s Transparency on Epstein Files For years, Trump benefited politically from conspiracy theories regarding the disgraced financier.

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16.07.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Durbin: "Either they mislead the American people with this conspiracy theory for years, or they're covering it up now."

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AG Pam Bondi Fires Top Department of Justice Ethics Official Joseph Tirrell, who was Senior Executive in Charge of Ethics at the DOJ, shared his termination notice on LinkedIn.

In non-Epstein DOJ news...
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15.07.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump Is Visibly Upset With His MAGA Base Over Epstein β€œList” Fallout Trump has benefited for years from a MAGA conspiracy theory alleging that Jeffrey Epstein kept a β€œclient list.”…

The chickens are coming home to roost...
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