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In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked The Pentagon Papers exposing the lies told to the public about the disastrous Viet Nam war, forever becoming a hero in history. Now... someone PLEASE leak #TheEPSTEINFiles & end the biggest coverup scandal of all-time! 🙏

Incredible @angieforfl.bsky.social Nixon pic 🔥

It only took 19 months for RFK Jr to turn the once safe US food supply into a game of gastrointestinal Russian Roulette.

NEW: Just got a lovely email from the Alex Vindman campaign asking us to UNITE behind Angie Nixon and to donate in support of her campaign. Thank you, @avindman.bsky.social! You can contribute here: angienixon.com

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

Worth a listen. “If I was gonna stage a coup in 2028…”

BREAKING: The USS Abraham Lincoln is returning home after our reporting exposing the horrific conditions soldiers faced overseas. We did it. You did it. This is the power of independent media. Subscribe to support my work: www.youtube.com/@aaronparnas1

This would not be happening if people remained silent.

here's today's post: "no one gives a shit about your White House helipad, you out-of-touch fuck" — fix the country you broke, asshole. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

Ken Paxton’s office helped bury records involving hundreds of lab animals, including at least 100 dogs subjected to painful testing. Now, Meidas News has obtained disturbing photos and video of what he fought to keep hidden.

Psaki: Why do you think Mike Rogers is so far refusing to agree to a date for this debate? El-Sayed: I mean, I hate to say it, he’s a coward. Rogers the Dodger does not want to actually debate because he knows that he’s an empty suit with no new ideas

The US gross national debt just crossed $40 trillion. Sure, let’s build a helicopter pad, a ballroom, paint statues gold, and keep going. 🙄

Hannity on AOC: Wow, she couldn’t answer a question about Taiwan! Hannity on Darline Graham: Why is everyone making a big deal about this question on Taiwan? People can’t event find it on a map!

My opinion: data centers are massively hated because they represent the tech overlords that are getting richer and richer off our back, and are more and more out of touch. H/t to Tim Miller for bringing this up on today’s pod. What do you think?

A quick note about the “leaked handwritten notes“ that are floating around that were released on Reddit: I haven’t posted on these documents yet as there are concerns and questions about their authenticity. I’m trying to see if they can be vetted by source(s) that can verify them.

Thou must avoid eating jalapeños, salsa, guacamole, pico de gallo, iceberg lettuce, shredded lettuce, eggs, frozen blueberries, frozen mixed berries, ricotta, requesón, cuajada, tomato bisque soup, super greens, and moringa unless thou wishes to have explosive RFK Jr. diarrhea.

Yes.

People tell me they like suits but don't have occasions to wear one. You can wear a suit to court, funerals, and religious services. Doesn't have to be your trial, friend's burial, or religion you believe in. Go to random trials, attend a stranger's burial, join multiple religions. Try it sometime.

NEW: Hegseth hid the fact that our main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman was destroyed. newrepublic.com/post/214510/...

BREAKING NYT: A month after the Trump admin declared without evidence that thousands of noncitizens had illegally registered to vote in Nevada, DHS officials were unable to substantiate the claim — finding just 185 potential anomalies, not the 16,000 claimed last month.

NEW: House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia is calling on Chairman Comer to have Todd Blanche testify on the status of the Epstein investigation. "Mr. Blanche's testimony should be public or videotaped and promptly released to the American people."

The other day, the president told a 10-year-old boy rescued by a lifeguard that if he were there, he would have let him drown, and everyone there laughed so hard because that shit is so true.

Wiles wanted Jennings from the beginning. He’ll be a perfect propagandist for the administration. He clearly has no qualms with getting on TV and lying his ass off.

NEW: Despite being ruled “permanently ineligible” from coaching by SafeSport, a Texas girls volleyball coach has continued to run his club, posting hundreds of videos in which he works with players, supervises practices and is alone with teen girls. with @washingtonpost.com

The Agriculture Secretary for the past 19 months will not take responsibility for agriculture yet. Maybe next month. bsky.app/profile/atru...

NEW: As you know, I FOIA'd the initial Epstein redaction training materials. Last month, the FBI admitted they have them but refuse to hand them over. Today, DOJ goes further, saying the training videos "have a combined length of one hour, 13 minutes, and 14 seconds." 1/

Tyson Foods just settled a price-fixing lawsuit and has almost doubled its profits this year compared to last. Its CEO makes $34.5M — 798x more than his median employee. Remember this as it closes plants in Illinois and Utah, laying off 3,200 with little notice.

The national debt just hit $40 trillion, gas is $4 a gallon, personal bankruptcies are at an all-time high, mortgage rates are up, GDP growth is terrible, we are stuck in another endless Middle East conflict, but the Republican Party is focused on ballrooms and car races.

Thanks for speaking up! Tomorrow, there will be even more of us!

Parts of Indiana have been without power for 9–10 days due to storms. Tens of thousands are currently in the dark (peak was over 300,000). Puerto Rico has been rationing water for 13+ days due to severe drought. Trump has not said a word about either crisis. Not a tweet. A “Truth.” Nothing

But ballroom.

Can't get enough of the Natalie Harp stuff. The 1:1 parallels with the girl from Obsession. Everyone in rightwing media pretending she's 16 years old so they can be mad, their favorite mood. The phrase "over-the-diaper handy" entering the lexicon. Keep it up everybody.

just stop it. enough.

We all knew this photo op was coming this week after Sunday.

Chick-fil-A isn’t open on Sundays, so polls shouldn’t be either. That was one reason a GOP county board member in North Carolina offered for scaling back weekend voting during a heated North Carolina State Board of Elections meeting Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Waiting for the other shoe to drop in the catering cart Natalie Harp story.

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“I don’t speak politician,” says the candidate yammering on about her state’s imaginary problem with trans athletes.

NEW: A U.S. National Park Service engineer warned the Trump administration about the floor of the Lincoln Reflecting Pool peeling in early June due to the renovation process and the materials used for the job, court filings reveal. THEY KNEW.

My Latest: How this case is dismissed will be critical to the future of the pro-democracy movement. At stake is a system of criminal prosecution that could cripple political opponents of the president — or be reined in before it's too late. newsletters.democracydocket.com/the-comey-se...

Bessent on the latest bad jobs report: "After the deportations that we've seen and the closing of the border, we don't need to produce as many jobs"

Oh. Trump and DHS lied about non-citizen voters in Nevada? No way!

"The decision by Trump to dissolve USAID — once the world’s largest humanitarian donor — gutted maternal and neonatal care, decimated nutrition programs for millions of pregnant women and children, and left scores of birthing centers devoid of equipment and medicine..." apnews.com/article/usai...

The question is: why did Natalie Harp resist applying for a security clearance? What doesn't she want anyone to find out? www.ms.now/news/trump-a...

"Given the letters revealed in a 2024 New York Times article, it certainly seems that their relationship is romantic even if it isn’t sexual, at least from her end. The kind of ecstatic devotion Harp describes is beyond the normal employer-employee relationship, or even the closest friendship."

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) sued the Department of Justice Thursday, seeking records about any plans to seize ballots, voting machines or other election materials before the 2026 midterms are certified. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy turned his family vacation into a six-part taxpayer-funded YouTube travel show on the government’s channel. Nobody’s watching.

NEW: @thedailybeast.bsky.social has published two of Natalie Harp’s letters in full. 1/ www.thedailybeast.com/natalie-harp...

this woman needs serious help

I have done a gender and am now in league with Pete Hegseth for not thinking AI is revolutionary for all peoples :(

Troy Jackson: Susan Collins votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time, and she’s just not working for everyday Mainers. Most of the people across Maine know that now and have watched her over the years be a puppet for people like Donald Trump and billionaires.

Donald Trump hates me and Republicans think I am the enemy. Trolls and critics can say what they want, but they should know that I wear their scorn as a badge of honor. As FDR said, “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”

Ordinarily, if you are recorded against your will, you can try to leave the area or otherwise resist. But many people are encountering smart glasses for the first time while at their job, especially those who interact with the public. Read more from @miasato.bsky.social: buff.ly/NCRVnoe

More of this, please.

Whether it’s Hillary Clinton sharing risotto recipes on a private server or Donald Trump spending 24 hours a day with a mentally unstable aide who has no security clearance, both candidates presented grave national security risks.

A Florida school board that was at the epicenter of national debates over COVID mask mandates and book bans just lost its conservative majority. 
Two Democratic-backed candidates beat out conservatives in the school board election in Sarasota — flipping the board's majority.

Tech executives are warning that AI could lead to “a level of wealth concentration that will break society." I refuse to accept that. If we’re going to build a future that works for everyone, we need to tax AI and invest in people.

This is an important piece about the extradition of the ICE officer in TX to MN. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

'After an 18-year career at Fox News, Jennifer Hegseth is now her husband’s most influential adviser and de facto producer, shaping the job like no Pentagon spouse has before ... “It’s bonkers,” said John Ullyot, who left the Pentagon as chief spokesman after three months working under Mr. Hegseth'

🤦 Bessent's media tour was a disaster 🤦 "There's nothing magic about the $40 trillion number. We can grow our way out of that" "After the deportations that we've seen and the closing of the border, we don't need to produce as many jobs" Bessent's spin of bad data was pathetic. Here's a supercut:

Bless you, Patti LaBelle!

Nobody is watching Sean Duffy’s Great American Road Trip show, which he filmed with his family over the course of 7 months. The 6 episodes of the YouTube show have a total of just over 5K views combined after 24 hours. meidasnews.com/news/nobodys...

Fine, but how come no Epstein investigation? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Natalie Harp Natalie Harp Natalie Harp Natalie Harp Natalie Harp Natalie Harp Natalie Harp Natalie Harp Natalie Harp Natalie Harp Natalie Harp *NATALIE HARP!!!*

Look at this muppet. “Mickey”, photo from my collection, no date.

Talarico: “Ken Paxton makes Ted Cruz look like a statesman”

BREAKING: Former Republican Florida state Rep. Mike Caruso, a Ron DeSantis appointee who was arrested on five felony charges involving the sexual abuse of a boy who was under 5 when the abuse began, has been DENIED BOND and remains behind bars.

Gary, Indiana is 76% Black.

If you wanted to hear an old-school Republican in Florida Tuesday night, you had to go to a Democratic victory party. David Jolly talked about free markets, lean government and individual liberty. Big tent. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

What are odds they are still blaming everything on Biden next year?

this is no way to run a lemonade stand, let alone the american government. what a humiliating and destructive mess... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

of all the things that never happened in Minnesota, this never happened in Minnesota the most

Reminder: You can like me on social media but not be thrilled with my books. You can like my books but be annoyed with me on social media. You can like both! Or neither! Or alternately be absolutely indifferent toward me in every possible way! It's fine. It's all fine.

Talarico details Paxton’s anti-puppy record

The best measure of how America is doing isn’t the unemployment rate, or the stock market, or the rate of economic growth, or the inflation rate, or the average wage. It’s how well most Americans are living. And the reality is that most Americans are struggling.

Want to understand the mentality behind corporate greed? Just watch The Lorax.

The DNC has sued the Trump administration for FOIA records because it wants to know whether federal agents are planning to seize ballots, voting machines or other election-system components during the 2026 midterms.

All it took to get Trump and Melania back together for a few hours was a Jon Ossoff speech.

Insane and desperate

part of me wonders if the discrepancy here is intentional, as the message it sends is “you are failing as a parent if you can’t feed your family like this on just 20 dollars.” also, there is a version of this meal that is much more affordable, but it relies on canned salmon and…

Yup. I know bullies online who are perfectly pleasant offline, and what I take from that is "Oh, so you know how to behave when you might get punched." And to tell on myself, this is one reason I'm a nicer person online now than I was a decade+ ago. I stopped liking that version of me, a lot.

Ka&h Patel has failed 4 different times suing for defamation and his case against The Atlantic and its reporter, Sarah Fitzpatrick, isn't looking so hot. I've got the latest details in this case, including why Patel is facing a dangerous discovery process. youtu.be/EhXAKnKHiMc?...

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ICYMI — “The padres catching coordinator was taken by ICE at an airport… Oswaldo Pirela has been in 🇺🇸 legally for 10 years… Remember when they told you they were going after criminals and the worst of the worst? Turns out they’re actually just going after brown people.”

NEW: Federal judge has ordered Trump Administration to respond by Sept 3 to the new legal challenge from ABC Television, which seeks a temporary restraining order against the FCC's onerous review of ABC TV stations Probe was launched amid Trump complaints about ABC

Man with a net worth of $700 million says putrid jobs numbers are fine because we don't need more jobs. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Did not mean to create a slur for Cell People. I respect the Cell People. Many of them haven't even murdered anyone.

NEWS: The DNC is suing the Trump administration over its failure to turn over records about any plans to seize ballots, voting machines, or other election equipment in the midterms. Nearly five months after the requests, the DNC says the FBI and DOJ have produced nothing.

This is low-key one of the most insane things any Trump administration official has ever said.

The verdict is in. The decision is made. We will protect this place.

Normally when a sitting president has historically low approval ratings heading into midterms, candidates from his party in swing districts and states distance themselves from him during their campaigns. But Trump does not permit that, so they are stuck doubling down on failure.

The DNC just sued the Trump admin over its 'failure to respond' to Freedom of Information Act requests seeking records about any plans to seize ballots in the midterm elections.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Aisha Wahab wins election to U.S. House in California's 14th Congressional District.

Trump ran on ending forever wars and immediately got us in multiple ones

It's like Amnesty International UK have never heard of the Streisand Effect. I fully intend on challenging this DMCA strike and force them to litigate this in federal court in the US if they want to take it down. This is squarely fair use.

“Do you have any concerns about the president's sons profiting off of DOD contracts?” REPUBLICANS: 🤷🏼 🤷🏼‍♀️🤐 Pathetic.

"Politicians from both parties and judges should be prepared to push back forcefully against any attempt Trump and his allies make to interfere with the 2026 elections. If he succeeds in perverting the results, he will be emboldened to take similar steps in 2028..." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...