Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about
The writer who features prominently in newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails has achieved extraordinary access but faced questions about his journalistic ethics
Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag โ with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Not surprised to see Republicans follow in Stalin's footsteps, trumping up charges against political opponents.
14.11.2025 01:28 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Trump Escalates War on Leftists With Antifa Foreign Terror Label
Move cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused "anti-Christianity," "anti-capitalism," and "anti-Americanism"
My NSPM-7 coverage has for weeks been met with smug assurances that there's no law for domestic terrorism. Well, the Trump admin just designated Antifa groups as Foreign Terror Orgs - for which there is a law:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...
13.11.2025 23:29 โ ๐ 641 ๐ 195 ๐ฌ 29 ๐ 11
So Trump has been mortgage price fixing to hurt consumers. Cherry on the cake this week!!
14.11.2025 00:19 โ ๐ 936 ๐ 353 ๐ฌ 32 ๐ 8
Americans cannot afford food under Trump.
14.11.2025 01:00 โ ๐ 672 ๐ 204 ๐ฌ 27 ๐ 3
The story is as bad the post.
The reporter, Michael Schmidt, basically places responsibility for the statutory rape and exploitation of this girl on the victim and her mother, not Gaetz.
(Schmidt is also the journalist who โbrokeโ the Clinton email server story and is married to Nicolle Wallace.)
14.11.2025 01:08 โ ๐ 69 ๐ 25 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 2
If there's money in it for Trump, he'll gladly sell American security down the river for China. And Republicans will stay mute, as always.
14.11.2025 00:47 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
America uhhh eventually? Maybe?
14.11.2025 00:09 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Orbรกn counts on Trump going full Argentina to save him from election doom
The specter of Washington throwing a financial lifeline to save its ally in Budapest echoes another controversial White House gambit.
Orbรกn counts on Trump going full Argentina to save him from election doom.
The specter of Washington throwing a financial lifeline to save its ally in Budapest echoes another controversial White House gambit.
www.politico.eu/article/hung...
13.11.2025 17:34 โ ๐ 240 ๐ 101 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 2
so, no actual audit or report of what doge cut exactly?
13.11.2025 22:15 โ ๐ 328 ๐ 62 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
For those who know what โcrenellatedโ means, like we do, this house has it (or them). Crenels here, crenels there. Just a ton of that good stuff.
Reference #49308
Real Estate: Crenellated Aesthetic
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The Future of Counterintelligence in America
The Steady State | by Edward J. Appel, Sr.
The Future of Counterintelligence in America open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... Tulsi Gabbard making an effort to move CI from the FBI to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence raises the fraught and frightening prospect of a politically-motivated, secret security organization.
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today's unprecedented foreign terror designation of Antifa has resulted in exactly zero (0) cable news segments ๐
13.11.2025 23:55 โ ๐ 1099 ๐ 176 ๐ฌ 27 ๐ 10
A tweet from JD Vance (@JDVance) reads:
โWhat possible interest would the US government have in keeping Epsteinโs clients secret? Ohโฆโ
Heโs quoting Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) from December 30, 2021, which says:
โAre you paying attention yet? The DOJ and Ghislaine Maxwellโs lawyers have made a deal that her โlittle black bookโ of contacts will never be made public...โ
A tweet from JD Vance (@JDVance) dated December 30, 2021, says:
โIf youโre a journalist and youโre not asking questions about this case you should be ashamed of yourself. What purpose do you even serve? Iโm sure thereโs a middle class teenager somewhere who could use some harassing right now but maybe try to do your job once in a while.โ
Below it, Retard Finder (@Ifiwasarichman) responded on July 25, 2025, with:
โDamn, this post didnโt age well.โ
Iโm surprised JD Vance has left this tweet and reply up.
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Massive air raid underway in Kyiv, with some of the explosions large enough to register on local seismic monitoring stations
13.11.2025 23:34 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
13.11.2025 21:38 โ ๐ 3421 ๐ 977 ๐ฌ 160 ๐ 41
you could fact check this โ there arenโt 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin โ or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
13.11.2025 22:12 โ ๐ 11759 ๐ 3041 ๐ฌ 399 ๐ 83
this dweeb doesn't even seem to be a US citizen. He's a student from the UK. hard to prove from the evidence online that he's not naturalized. (even then the below would be pretty rich). But he seems to be some posh brit here on a student visa.
13.11.2025 16:35 โ ๐ 936 ๐ 278 ๐ฌ 69 ๐ 20
Jim Avila, former longtime ABC News senior correspondent, dies at 69 โ ABC News
Avila served as an ABC News senior correspondent and a 20/20 correspondent.
Very sad. One of the dwindling group of real journalists.
Jim Avila, former longtime ABC News senior correspondent, dies at 69 - ABC News
apple.news/AC7svhcJjTX-...
13.11.2025 20:07 โ ๐ 50 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1
despite standing, Trump seems to be having trouble keeping his eyes open while Melania speaks
13.11.2025 19:20 โ ๐ 1575 ๐ 361 ๐ฌ 370 ๐ 71
says the network that has only mentioned Epstein 6 times all day today ...
13.11.2025 20:13 โ ๐ 2008 ๐ 490 ๐ฌ 100 ๐ 19
Family fights for man's release from ICE custody, details conditions at Broadview facility
A family is fighting for a father's release from ICE custody after a suburban arrest.
Some good news! Judge Matthew Kennelly orders GRANTS Ramiro Cabrera's Habeas Corpus petition & says he must be released or have a bond hearing by Nov. 19.
Cabrera has been in custody since Oct 3, when ICE picked him up while setting up a tent for his family business in a Crestwood parking lot.
13.11.2025 20:30 โ ๐ 124 ๐ 33 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
The entire GOP remains committed to policies that were discredited a century ago because doing stupid s**t is easier for them than admitting that Donald Trump is economically illiterate.
13.11.2025 16:05 โ ๐ 92 ๐ 21 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1
Prices aren't coming down. Trump lied. They started going up as soon as he took the wheel.
13.11.2025 16:00 โ ๐ 1538 ๐ 601 ๐ฌ 62 ๐ 23
Farm workers are proud to stand in solidarity with Starbucks workers.
Los campesinos se enorgullecen de solidarizarse con los trabajadores de Starbucks.
#NoContractNoCoffee
12.11.2025 17:06 โ ๐ 438 ๐ 140 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 4
sheโs a kareeeeschin
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