Barb Vaughan

🧵 In response to my posts on X today, DOJ 1) unredacted an FBI file that LABELS two individuals as co-conspirators 2) unredacted a file that lists several men who might be implicated 3) tacitly admitted that Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was the sender of the torture video

Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein

Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency.

She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

YouTube video by Katie Phang Maxwell TAKES THE FIFTH as Epstein COVER-UP IMPLODES

Ghislaine Maxwell MUST answer questions, but GOP Rep. James Comer’s performative theater today doesn’t get us there.

I've got the latest on Maxwell’s deposition, Congress being able to view selective Epstein Files at DOJ, and Pamela Jo’s upcoming deposition.

youtu.be/fLVDj7C7ZtM?...

Houston man pardoned by Trump arrested on child sex charge - The Texas Tribune Andrew Taake received a six-year sentence for assaulting officers on Jan. 6. He was arrested Thursday on an outstanding charge of soliciting a minor.

NEW: Insurrectionist pardoned by Trump has been arrested for child sex crimes. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/a...

Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...

🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

Periodic reminder that ICE still isn’t going after “hardened criminals”

We would all support that.

What do we gain from yanking this father away from his wife and child? What do we gain from deporting people who have been here for 20 years and never been in legal trouble?

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

Suddenly republicans have forgotten what the constitution says 🤷🏼 🇺🇸

This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for “illegals trying to vote.”

“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.”

Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.

I continue to believe that the fastest way to get Stephen Miller fired is to convince Trump that Miller's ICE operations are what cost him the Nobel Peace Prize.

ALEX JEFFREY PRETTI. Gone, but never forgotten...

#RIP_Alex 💔

This sickens me.

“Heartbroken but also very angry… sickening lies by the administration… reprehensible and disgusting… Alex is clearly not holding a gun… please get the truth out about our son, he was a good man…”

This is Alex Pretti.

We’re Nearing the Day When ICE Thugs Just Open Fire on Crowds The United States is now closer to Assad’s Syria than to anything we recognize as fitting within the understood norms of American history.

"Until Minneapolis, I would have told you that as bad as Trump is, he’s not capable of ordering ICE agents to shoot people...at random, and that as bad as ICE is, they’d refuse such orders. Now I no longer believe either of those things."

Read @mjtoma.bsky.social:
newrepublic.com/post/205379/...

This guy is basically inviting China to take Taiwan.

What Pete said… 💯

Pass this on please

Jesus.

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Watched the full depo of Jack Smith. There was a marked difference in how majority and minority questioned him. He held his composure throughout and answers were civil, grounded in facts when he knew them, bounded by the Florida injunction, and candid when he had no recollection. Man is a rock star.

Unless I'm missing something, and I'm pretty sure I'm not, Twitter's AI is cranking out CSAM deepfakes, Elon Musk is making jokes about it, and nobody is doing anything to stop it or hold anyone at Twitter accountable for its creation and distribution.

Is that right?

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

Image of two twitter posts from the U.S.Coast Guard @uscg calling wapo's report false.

I think they've had a change of heart.

Rep Swalwell (D-CA) asks why the #RepublicansAreAWOL while Democrats are at work ready to negotiate skyrocketing health care premiums that are on the horizon. Trump’s Little Johnson (R-LA) knows when the House is back in session there will be a vote on the Epstein Files!🦗🦗🦗

Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

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The corrupt begat corruption

Has a single “journalist” in mainstream media asked Trump, Mike Johnson or John Thune why they haven’t used their Senate majority to override the 60 vote threshold and reopen the government?