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This Democrat Won’t Let Go of the Jeffrey Epstein Case, Either

New bombshell from my investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.

Always got the resources to harass arrest and shoot Black and Brown folks but somehow it’s always someone else’s fault that they couldn’t save kids’ lives

notice how strategically he says "we" and build that into your politics yesterday

“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably

Nobody has endorsed Cuomo like Gaston

Shaun King I think Iran deserves a new level of respect from all of us. They've done what we've begged the entire world to do for the past 20 months. I don't know where this will go, but they've stood up to a monster like nobody else. 823 100 326 90 39 25 8 7 4 &$!#% 1 9.2K

Shaun King lifting up the murderous Islamic Republic isn’t surprising but still worth noting and remembering.

It’s possible to be anti-war and anti-Islamic Republic but that would require a level of integrity, intellect, and moral clarity that Shaun King does not possess.

An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

Overheard:

"Soon, bored with their i-phones, i-pods and other forms of "mini me" which they see as mirrors, and not forms of surveillance -- they will udnerstand: t o remember is to betray a regime built on forgetting. Memory itself becomes a form of rebellion."

Again, this isn't Los Angeles. This is happening right now outside an ICE building in SF:

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

(S+) Verfassungsschutz stuft gesamte AfD als »gesichert rechtsextremistisch« ein Monatelang arbeitete das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz an einer Neubewertung der AfD. Nun steht fest: Die Behörde hält die gesamte Partei für rechtsextrem.

Ab heute gilt die AfD als „gesichert rechtsextremistische Bestrebung“. Der Verfassungsschutz hat das entsprechende Gutachten fertig, drei Jahre wurden Belege gesammelt. Das Gutachten soll rund 1100 Seiten umfassen:

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

6 Things You Can Do to Secure Your Phone as You Reenter the Country After Traveling In some instances, government agents can search your digital devices legally after an international trip

Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state
www.aarp.org/travel/trave...

us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

I’m impressed that we have gotten this far into being fucked over by people who are clearly very good at it and a lot of people still think they are stupid people.

Good luck with strategizing based on an assumption that is in complete conflict with the broader dataset.

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests.

So, best we share all the footage we can here!

This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu.

🇹🇷 #Turkey

Ah yes, who could forget the obvious distinction between being an antisemite and "creating the feeling of safe harbor for far-right elements who unabashedly or in coded language express antisemitic sentiments"

so far I'm seeing a lot of universities respond to grant terminations with

"oh I guess now we don't have that grant anymore"

instead of

"your assertion of a grant termination is executive overreach, see you in court"

So, universities: respectfully, what the fuck?

Sanders/AOC rally in Denver yesterday

The Seattle Times "There's nothing you need to do - we've deducted the funds from LEONARD A. JOHNSON's account." Uh oh. It itemized how $5,201 had been stricken from their bank account, on the grounds that Ned wasn't justified to get those benefits - because he was dead. That was for payments he'd received in December and January. Ned found that his February Social Security check hadn't been paid, and he's yet to receive his March check, either. His Medicare insurance had been canceled. He also learned that when you die, your credit score gets marked as "deceased, do not issue credit," which makes it tough to get a loan.

DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/

I promise you that white supremacists think Ukraine is white.

Whiteness is conditional, but part of the framing Putin has sought to sow here is that a Jew (Zelensky) is nefariously keeping a white nation (Ukraine) from its rightful white (Putin) rule

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

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"Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.” Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself. Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients."

ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.

This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH WATER TODAY?

The Fight for Wild Lands: Part 2 Executive orders coming from the White House could transform a range of core issues affecting Greater Yellowstone. From Forest Service and BLM priorities to national park staffing cuts, public lands a...

“In Congress now there’s the 'Fix Our Forest Act'. It’s a horrible bill, and we fear it will sneak through in some other legislation, because it won’t stand its own scrutiny … It allows whomever to come into a [national] forest and increase logging.” mountainjournal.org/fight-for-wi...

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

English campaign group Led by Donkeys and Germany’s Center for Political Beauty beamed an image of Musk making his Nazi-like salute onto Tesla’s gigafactory in Berlin, with “Heil” projected next to the lit Tesla logo. PHOTOGRAPH: LED BY DONKEYS

“‘While Musk might get away with a [Nazi-like] salute in some parts of the world, European markets reject such behavior,’ said Kraaijvanger. Tesla sales are now in free fall in Europe. Last month, Tesla sales in Norway fell 37.9%, France, 63.4%, Spain, 75.4%.” www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

There are two pieces on my website that might work, Chicago or Tactics Towards an Otherwise and Making a List While the Cop Bares his Teeth at Us