Donald Trump and JD Vance were not welcome at today’s Dick Cheney funeral. If that doesn’t send a message to the Republican Party, I’m not sure what will at this point.

JD Vance is still lying openly in order to stoke violence about his “friend” being assassinated. Got it!

1) @gene4va.bsky.social says Trump is more implicated in Jamal Khashoggi's execution than we knew 2) After that, MbS paid Jared $2B 3) We don't yet know where all the stolen docs ended up 4) Trump agreed to sell MbS F-35s even tho China will get the tech

Look, I don't think this is a Bulwark issue at all. I'm a huge Bulwark fan. There are a great deal of ragebait pundits who keep selling, "Dems get no credit for Epstein" But they are all built on prior ragebait obscuring how unified almost all Dems were on this.

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke. IG bscomedian

Reminder that the FBI Director is paid by Shein.

Trump take Barbie. Trump take Farm. Trump take East Wing.

I mean, what if someone discovered how much CZ paid Trump for the pardon or what Dmitriev paid Witkoff for dismembering Ukraine? That'd be such a downer.

From my own interviews with FBI agents done to support a ZDF exposé, I would add that any agent involved in Russian and Chinese counterintelligence is threatened, whether they were involved with Crossfire Hurricane or not. Trump sees counterintelligence as a threat.

Patel is not in charge of the FBI. When he fires someone: “He’s just telling everyone who’ll listen, ‘Yeah, I just did this to keep my job.’” The White House, DOJ and the online MAGA conspiracy nuts are making these decisions. Here are other reasons FBI agents are being purged:

The White House unintentionally created a sharp contrast between their vision and best the traditions of the FBI by (accidentally) appointing Brian Driscoll as its acting leader while Patel was being confirmed. The Drizz was everything Patel was not: an experienced and respected agent w integrity.

Kash Patel, who had previously called for the grounding of the FBI jet, has been using it to visit his girlfriend in Nashville. The jets movements were public and he reposted selfies with his girlfriend at a wrestling event. But when the story broke, he blamed and fired a veteran FBI agent.

This are some of the reasons why people are being fired at the FBI right now. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

So much is happening at the FBI that I wanted to step back and gain perspective. Gläßel and Scharpf (@ascharpf.bsky.social) emphasize that secret police organizations are staffed not primarily by sadists but mediocre careerists looking to prove their loyalty. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New from me: Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI. Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

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She signed that in the courtroom. She says she didn't sign the first one, or at least said that at 6:47, which raises questions abt whether it was forged.

Marcy goes deep on Lindsey Halligan's Big Day. I still don't see how Halligan signed the second indictment if she left the grand jury room at 4:30, before it was prepared.

Amb. @mcfaulmike.bsky.social warns us in his new book that we aren't in just another version of the old Cold War. We talk about why Russia is willing to take more risks, incl. invasion & cyberattacks, to assert itself & how the greatest threat to America comes from within. youtu.be/KFDYUBDRJZY?...

Yes, peasants, your life has gotten worse but the Trump family and his buddies are getting rich AF.

Uhhh, there are countless media articles doing just that.

Trends keep getting worse.

The president is calling for members of Congress to be executed. Also known as Thursday.

maybe you can address this in your next book, which presumably will document in detail the profound cognitive decline of the current president, who is busy demanding members of congress be executed. And when do we get our apology on that?

In which a GOP pollster cautions Loomer that “digging in” on addressing the GOP’s “Nazi problem” will “alienate younger voters which Republicans need to win.”

... Jeffrey told me on a number of occasions that he flew up or flew down with Donald on his plane."

Mark Epstein: "You know, they used to fly in each other's planes. ... They say Donald was on Jeff's plane like seven times, but... have they checked Donald's flight logs from those days to see how many times Jeffrey was on [Donald Trump's] plane? ...

Given that Prime Minister Tusk has never vivisected a journalist from an American newspaper or invested money with the president's son-in-law, there is apparently no reason why the United States government would care about this

Socialism is bad if the socialists try to expand access to healthcare. Socialism is good if the socialists tell business owners exactly how to run their companies.

It was Jared who gave Prince Bonesaw the intel for a coup against other elements of his circle. Jared walked away with two billion dollars. And then Bonesaw went after Khashoggi because Khashoggi was investigating the deal.

I feel like we're going to learn that Trump is happy to share intel on American residents for the tidy sum of $2B.

Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

NEW: “36% of Latino voters who voted for Trump in 2024 now say they are disappointed or regret their decision – representing more than 1 in 3 of his supporters having remorse directly tied to economic disappointment and broken promises.” www.somosvotantes.com/press-releas...

Someone should be talking to a lawyer. Like now.

Nice, but wrong billboard imo. “Quiet, Piggy!: should be on signs, interstate BBs, projecteded on buildings, written in the sky… This phrase has legs….if we give it a push

I mean, the only rational response to this is LOL

tl;dr: The United States House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution effectively declaring Senator Lindsey Graham to be a ridiculous twit

Can we get some Wikileaks or Anonymous to release the Epstein files? Or better yet, anyone credible with a shred of decency?

This is misleading. Every link relied upon shows that a BUNCH of Dems were always behind the Epstein strategy. For example, one "supportive" link says, "The majority of congressional Democrats are relishing the Epstein moment."

I kinda like reading this in Harvard’s student paper considering that the last public pronouncement Summers made before his shit hit the fan was a bullying threat to round up alumni to “investigate” The Crimson for its “moral bankruptcy” on supporting Palestine. Who’s being investigated now, Larry?!

"Women at Harvard deserve educators who respect them."

Harvard just opened an investigation into Larry Summers's ties to Epstein. That's just PR cover for Harvard. They've known this entire time. Epstein literally had an office at Harvard for years.

Good As he plotted with a known sex offender a plan to sexually exploit a mentee, this leave should be permanent He has proven himself to be categorically unfit to be in contact with students, at Harvard or anywhere else #EconSky

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