Mike In Houston

Aftermath: The investigation into Epstein’s death, and the suppression of surveillance footage, occurred under the Trump Justice Department & Trump FBI (Bondi, Patel, Bongino).

2018–2019: Epstein is arrested and federally charged again under Republican FBI Director Christopher Wray, and prosecuted under Republican Attorney General Bill Barr.

2019: Epstein dies in federal custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan—on Donald Trump’s watch.

2008: Epstein receives a sweetheart plea deal brokered by Republican U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, who later became Trump’s Secretary of Labor.

Let us review, with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer to the skull:

2005: Investigation of Jeffrey Epstein begins in Florida under the direction of Republican FBI Director Robert Mueller, appointed by Republican President George W. Bush.

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With that in mind, potamos (of the river) would mean that the Potomac River is basically River of the River?

Camp Mystic’s leader got a ‘life threatening’ flood alert. They evacuated an hour later. More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.

Gift link:
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I'm just wondering what the average BMI of that crowd is... and how many of them rely on Medicaid.

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Sound familiar?

Trump is rationalized as anti-war because:

He says so (and repetition = truth in cultic dynamics).

Contradictions are rebranded as strategy, strength, or necessity.

Group identity overrules evidence—to question him is to betray the tribe.

Right-wing columnists like Megan McArdle are eager to flog anything that isn't the Trump/Musk break-up or the Big Beautiful Medicare cuts.

Opinion | The Bluesky bubble hurts liberals and their causes The social media network was doomed to fail as progressives tried to re-create old Twitter.

I see Megan McArdle is bleating about @bsky.app again:
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And ICE immediately arrested him…

1. MMR vaccines aren’t made from ground up abortions
2. Anti-vaxxers ARE more likely to have leprosy or some other nasty communicable disease

But they can tell you what *you’re* doing that triggers *them* with no problem.

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Econ 101 - simplified for your MAGA uncle…

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I wonder if we will be able to de-MAGA like Germany did post WWII...

I went round & round on that… the most rational response was “if it’s the teachings of” why isn’t it the learnings? English amirite?

No wonder Hornets are flinging themselves off deck…

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And yet, she's gone because you guys wanted censor her.

They're counting on getting away with it once - that becomes the precedent for the next time, etc.. They need Republicans in Congress to acquiesce and the Courts to shrug as it being a dispute between the Congress & the Executive.

Simply:
This isn’t budget politics. It’s about one man trying to cancel Congress and spend our money like a dictator.

No votes by Democrats on anything budget-related - including the debt ceiling. Attach riders on everything. Don't Schumer your way into "compromise".

I hear they're launching a new RFK Jr. line of children's coffins...

A pediatrician warns of 'long-lasting' consequences of RFK Jr. leading HHS Adam Ratner predicts the appointment of anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will impact vaccine availability and hesitancy: "It is much easier to scare people than to unscare them," he says.

It's no wonder MAGA wants to defund NPR...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Full Ginsberg

Meanwhile, the Schumer 10 are out there saying they were vindicated on the CR fight...

And yet they had no problem telling Romania to give up the Tate brothers - who are actually charged with human trafficking & rape (including a minor).

Judge scraps US rule capping credit card late fees at $8 (Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule capping credit card late fees at $8, after the agency agreed with opponents that the rule adopted durin...

Tell me again about how a single federal district judge is going rogue by making a national ruling...
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who's going to tell him he has no clothes?

Apophenia is the psychological phenomenon of perceiving meaningful connections & patterns in random or unrelated events. It involves a tendency to assign unwarranted salience or importance to information, leading to the identification of patterns where none exist. (See media & Trump)