One key date in all these files is June 30, 2008. That was the day after cutting a deal with future Trump Labor Secretarty Alex Acosta, that Epstein went into a court room and pled guilty.
Every correspondent after that knew they were speaking with a convicted child rapist. Every one of them.
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Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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Remember when Ruben Gallego preened around over his support for the Laken Riley Act, and pundits treated him as having the magic key to Dems' working class woes?
Well, Spanberger voted against it and erased GOP gains with working class, including among Latinos:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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I think the βtell your colleagues not to cave bc we will blame you also if they doβ is good messaging bc WE WILL β they should be scared!
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if dems take this deal, they take ownership of the shutdown pain. fucking champions of own goals..
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Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability
The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.
NEWS: Federal agents crashed with womanβs car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...
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Jake Tapper would have driven to the White House with a gun if Biden had said this
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People ask all the time what they can do to fight this. Here is the most obvious and important one.
Itβs more than voting. Itβs helping your neighbors and complete strangers when they need you. It is the antidote to fascism and if we do this we can build the defense and the answer to fascism.
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The answer to fascism is connection and a repairing of our communal ties. We have to reinvigorate the feeling that we are all connected as fascism feeds on isolation.
Millions of Americans need your help and if we sacrifice them or any one else to the fascists we only make them stronger.
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Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in:
- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Philadelphia
- Denver
- El Paso
- San Diego
- Seattle/Portland
- New Orleans
Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.
Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.
Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.
ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.
I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations.
I am hearing from both sides of this friction.
One senior DHS official tells me:
"ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?".
Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me:
"What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."
It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there.
Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.
Official statement to
@FoxNews
via
@TriciaOhio
:
"While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country."
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π¨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
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There are so many reasons why an anonymous payment of 130 million dollars should NOT be accepted
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yes, also to shoot up marijuanas
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I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.
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for people pretending not to understand, the problem with having an SS-style Totenkopf on your chest you got while you were drunk in Croatia is that you never got it covered up. this means either:
βyou knew and didn't care
βyou have no friends who knew what it meant and cared enough to tell you
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The real mother lode is going to be when someone leaks the group chats theyβre in with JD Vance, and I have to believe weβll see them eventually. I canβt wait.
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Friends, the climate at the University of Texas is the most hostile I have experienced in my entire career, and the hostility is directed at the most vulnerable students, faculty, staff and departments/programs. UT has become the test case for the implementation of Project 2025 in Higher Education
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you're an absolute piece of shit and you believe in absolutely nothing. may history remembering you accurately be your family's curse
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canyon cybertruck
canyon cybertruck
"I was married, but Iβm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle," says Roger Davis, a Cybertruck owner.
Davis also uses the Grok feature in the car: "Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist."
www.wired.com/story/owning...
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"We're saving God."
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Police officers who publicly declare that theyβll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffingβsure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pensionβand (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who donβt see themselves as public servants.
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Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.
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CHICAGO β Outside an elementary school during dismissalβ¦ horrifying. What have we become?
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This was literally the strategy of the Nazi Reichstag fire: use a violent event you've instigated yourself to suspend civil liberties and impose totalitarianism.
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marsupiyoga
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The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through β¬οΈ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldnβt have to answer for
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if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately
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