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Beyond Epstein: How to fight child sexual abuse in the US The Department of Justice recently released 3 million pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. While the case’s boldfaced names flying on luxury jets to private islands continue to attract endles…

NEVER FORGET:

The Epstein scandal is bipartisan, and all the political finger pointing right now does nothing to protect those being abused today.

Important read thehill.com/opinion/heal...

After El Paso airspace was shut down this week, the Senate Armed Services Committee postponed today’s previously scheduled drone hearing

INBOX: @elizabeth Warren, @ocasio-cortez.house.gov Team Up to Lower Costs, Deliver Universal Child Care

AG Bondi said Rep. Zoe Lofgren hadn’t sent a single tweet about Epstein during Biden‘s four years.

So a Justice Department employee went through every Democratic committee members tweets on X for the past four years?

No subscription doesn’t matter.

If you own a device with a camera and / or mic built in, EXPECT Silicon Valley (or some other actor…) to be recording.

And saving those recordings…

(year is young…and proving to be deep and wide, if shallow…)

“They can't keep a grip on their own arguments without twisting themselves into knots over the fact that Alex Pretti lawfully was carrying a gun, [it] was taken from him and then he was executed in the street,” @repdean.bsky.social tells me. www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...

“They can't keep a grip on their own arguments without twisting themselves into knots over the fact that Alex Pretti lawfully was carrying a gun, [it] was taken from him and then he was executed in the street,” @repdean.bsky.social tells me. www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...

Republicans don’t want to talk about recent Trump administration attacks on gun rights 

My latest for @rawstory.com is live on MSN www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...

Who says:
‘said my friend’?

No. One.

So why do news outlets keep writing in such alienating ways?

Write like you speak.

Accessibility is the smallest of steps an industry that’s lost the trust of the majority of Americans can do to begin to regain relevancy.

- Prof. Laslo

What do these 3 cities have in common…?

Trump just called out Philadelphia, Detroit and Atlanta for allegedly not being able to run elections.

RESET:
The House just funded the government, so we’re now roughly 2 weeks away from the next government shutdown…

WTF

DHS Targets Hill Aides with Bogus "Fact Sheets" Defending Warrantless ICE Home Entries (SCOOP) As House Democrats demand a total rescission of the May 2025 warrants memo, the administration doubles down, telling staffers that non-citizens lack standard privacy rights.

SCOO: DHS Targets Hill Aides with Bogus "Fact Sheets" Defending Warrantless ICE Home Entries migrantinsider.com/p/dhs-target...

OVERHEARD at the Capitol:

“I think the ICE Director is coming here,” a Capitol Police Officer just told his partner.

Each hard copy of the @washingtonpost.com in the Capitol, seemingly, is wrapped in a thick red poster calling for Kristi Noem’s impeachment.

Paid for by: Home of the Brave (who I’ve never heard of).

My interview with @ilhanmn.bsky.social from last week on ICE unrest in Minnesota is tragically still timely.

Rep. Ilhan Omar: ICE agents responsible for bringing “pure terror” to Minnesota

Sadly, @mattlaslo.bsky.social’s interview with @ilhanmn.bsky.social about @jd-vance-1.bsky.social visit to Minnesota last week remains eerily timely: www.askapolpolitics.com/p/omar-accus...

Why are so many on the right not standing up for a US citizen’s right to bear arms any and everywhere?

Like WTF does ICE do in Texas?

Let alone Ala, Alaska, Ariz, Ark, Florida, Ga, Idaho, InD, Iowa, KS, KY, LA, ME, Miss, Missouri, Montana, Neb, NH, ND, Ohio, Okl, SC, SD, Tenn, UT, VT, WV, WY?

“Quit referring to these people as law-enforcement,” Minnesota @Gov. Tim Walz says of
ICE. “They’re not law-enforcement, we have law-enforcement.”

America 🇺🇸 salutes you 🍷 🍷 *

*remember freedom fries? 😂

F*** slavery. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

This #crypto Congress facing its first real conundrum…

NEW:

@coinbase-support.bsky.social crypto conundrum: Banks “got...greedy & pushed too far, so they lost everything," Sen. Cynthia Lummis tells @mattlaslo.bsky.social

Listen to the full interview and transcript at Ask a Pol Crypto on Substack www.askapolcrypto.com/p/crypto-con...

CIA’s slippin’ when it comes to secrecy.

Trying to find myself algorithmically.

5 bucks says Trump unironically taps his Secretary of War to serve on “Board of Peace”

“The notion of independent agencies is inconsistent with the Constitution,” @tedcruz tells me: www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...

“The notion of independent agencies is inconsistent with the Constitution,” @tedcruz tells me: www.msn.com/en-us/news/n...

NEW:
Forget Trump vs Jerome Powell — Ted Cruz wants to abolish the Fed as we know it

My latest is live www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...