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I write sins and tragedies. He/him.
#truecrime
🇮🇪-🇺🇸 and 🏴-🇺🇸 and world citizen.
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Ilhan Omar
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I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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Captain Mark Kelly
25 days ago
Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
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clay jackson
4 months ago
that lawyer was me.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link
4 months ago
To the surprise of none
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Acyn
4 months ago
Grijalva: I was looking at the example of now-Representative Walkinshaw from Virginia, who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday. The following Wednesday—less than 24 hours later—he was sworn in, with unofficial results. So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.
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John Kohlstrand
4 months ago
Shockingly corrupt.
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568
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Scott Nover
4 months ago
“This is beyond McCarthyism,” said the
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's Christopher Anders. “Trump officials are repeatedly abusing their power to stop ideas they don’t like, deciding who can speak, write and even joke. Free speech could not be in greater danger.”
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ABC takes Jimmy Kimmel off the air over remarks on Charlie Kirk’s killing
The decision to indefinitely preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” follows backlash to comments the late-night show host made about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/09/17/jimmy-kimmel-abc-charlie-kirk/
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Libby Brooks
5 months ago
“Someone must know this guy” Four year wedding crasher mystery solved
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘Someone must know this guy’: four-year wedding crasher mystery solved
Bride finally tracks down awkward-looking stranger she and husband noticed only when looking through photos
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/12/wedding-crasher-mystery-solved-four-years-bride-scotland?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Justin Baragona
5 months ago
So MSNBC reportedly fired Matthew Dowd tonight just hours after Jesse Watters called for his "immediate" termination over his Charlie Kirk shooting comments. Meanwhile, Watters said he's going to "avenge" Kirk's death because "they are at war with us" -- and he'll face no repercussions from Fox.
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Josh Marshall
5 months ago
Egregiously bad reporting by the Times here. The President’s “fury” is not justification or explanation for a spew of lies and libels.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
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Ida Bae Wells
5 months ago
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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CNN
5 months ago
Survivors of Maine’s deadliest mass shooting and relatives of victims are suing the federal government, alleging that the US Army could and should have stopped one of its reservists from carrying out what they call “one of the most preventable mass tragedies in American history.”
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Survivors of Maine mass shooting and victims’ relatives sue US government alleging negligence | CNN
Survivors of Maine’s deadliest mass shooting and relatives of victims are suing the federal government, alleging that the U.S. Army could and should have stopped one of its reservists from carrying ou...
https://cnn.it/464DfCf
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Joe Walsh
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
6 months ago
ICE used your taxpayer dollars to trick out a bunch of trucks in new livery, all painted black with "ICE" and a logo printed in gold on the side (and Trump's name in gold on the back window), then shoot a rap video in DC to post on social media. I am not making this up.
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Charles Johnson
6 months ago
The most disheartening thing about America’s descent into fascism has been the abject cowardice of virtually all the people and institutions that could have stood up and refused to comply.
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jamelle
6 months ago
it is a testament to the low quality of the people of this administration that gabbard does not stand out as especially delusional
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Almost like he doesn't want them released. One might say.
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Mueller, She Wrote
6 months ago
ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻
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Aaron Rupar
8 months ago
Margaret Brennan totally exposes FDA Commissioner Makary for making it up as he goes and making conflicting recommendations in order to cast doubt on covid vaccines. He's so terrible during this interview that Brennan is left shaking her head as she wraps it up.
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David Slack
8 months ago
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.
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Evan Osnos
8 months ago
Around D.C., the new going rate is well-known: $5 million for a one-on-one dinner with Trump, but gov-affairs execs have “no clue where the money is eventually going,” one said. Another told me it’s “outer-borough Mafia sh*t.” My new piece is out
@newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder
The greed of the new Administration has galvanized America’s aspiring oligarchs—and their opponents.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/donald-trumps-politics-of-plunder
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8 months ago
This is the guy Cory Booker voted to confirm???
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Charlie and the Ambassadorship Factory
Charlie Kushner, the newly confirmed US ambassador to France, is a vindictive, felonious, and score-settling real estate mogul, not unlike a certain US president.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kushner-trump-ambassador-france/
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Oliver Darcy
9 months ago
Imagine how MAGA Media would react if Biden's press shop responded to legitimate press inquires like this.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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ProPublica
9 months ago
Arizona has so far indicted more than 100 individuals involved in the Medicaid fraud scheme and recouped $125 million — just 5% of the funds the state estimates it paid to bad actors. By
@jasminedemers.bsky.social
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Arizona Has Recovered Just 5% of Taxpayer Dollars Lost in a $2.5 Billion Medicaid Fraud Scheme
The state has so far indicted more than 100 individuals and recouped $125 million. But despite state and federal efforts, it’s likely that most of the stolen taxpayer money won’t be recovered,…
https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-medicaid-fraud-investigation-taxpayer-funds?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=5-11
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Will Stancil
9 months ago
Can anyone explain to me how "Trump donating the brand new Air Force One to his own presidential library right before leaving office, so he can continue to use it" is any different from THE PRESIDENT STEALING AIR FORCE ONE
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The Old Place is full-on N*zi now. No saving it.
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Scott Kelley Ernest - CEPI x HEIR | #mtpol 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉
9 months ago
EXCLUSIVEGrant Hill, rising GOP star running for Congress spent three years in jail for child sex offences
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Congressional hopeful spent three years in jail for child sex offences
Grant Hill, an Iowa Republican congressional candidate, spent almost three years in prison and landed himself on a sex offender registry for child sex offenses in 2022.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14693063/Grant-Hill-rising-GOP-star-running-Congress-spent-three-years-jail-child-sex-offences.html
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Sue Stone
9 months ago
Trump, asked if he has to 'uphold the Constitution,' says, 'I don't know'
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Trump, asked if he has to 'uphold the Constitution,' says, 'I don't know'
Trump said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he’s following lawyers’ advice as he tries to execute rapid deportations, arguing that giving immigrants due process is time-consuming.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-asked-uphold-constitution-says-dont-know-rcna204580
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Peter Elkind
9 months ago
This is a helluva story by two of my @propublica colleagues: A deep dive into the conduct of Trump's nominee to run the all-important U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C.
www.propublica.org/article/ed-m...
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The Untold Story of How Ed Martin Ghostwrote Online Attacks Against a Judge — and Still Became a Top Trump Prosecutor
Martin’s career is dotted with ethical and professional questions, records show. Some of the most serious ones about the interim U.S. attorney for D.C. have remained buried in court filings, overlooke...
https://www.propublica.org/article/ed-martin-trump-interim-dc-us-attorney-secret-judge-attacks
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This was a blast to record. And it was fun to re-read a good little Joe Hill story from his fabulous collection "20th Century Ghosts." Here's to more to come.
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Christoph Koettl
10 months ago
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in
#Gaza
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#Israel
wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
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Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article)
The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of the incident, which described the vehicles as “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-aid-workers-deaths-video.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U4.S3jG.HnUfNsqO4i3N&smid=url-share
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Tara C. Smith
10 months ago
@lenasun.bsky.social
has reported that frequently-retracted, notorious antivaxxer David Geier has been tapped by Kennedy to run his autism/vaccine study. Geier is part of a father/son duo that have published bogus papers in this area for decades, often retracted & unethical.
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Vaccine skeptic hired to head federal study of immunizations and autism
A long-discredited researcher and vaccine skeptic will conduct a government study on whether vaccines cause autism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/25/vaccine-skeptic-hhs-rfk-immunization-autism/
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn
10 months ago
Chappell Roan’s The Giver, a song literally about lesbian topping she did as a country anthem cause she thought it was funny, used for Hockey Night in Canada’s opening tonight & it’s even funnier
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝
11 months ago
Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
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Clara Jeffery
11 months ago
In this case, it helps to note that Maye Musk’s parents were Canadian neo-Nazis who emigrated to South Africa because they were *fans* of apartheid
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Elon Musk, apartheid, and America's new boycott movement
If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-apartheid-boycott-tesla-doge-trump/
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#KingResist🤴🔥‼️ Revolt Fascism✊️ #FBaRmy Prepare To Defend America
11 months ago
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ProPublica
11 months ago
This is the disturbing story of how a handful of neo-Nazi influencers groomed a teen from Slovakia to become a killer. Here's our latest investigation with
@frontlinepbs.bsky.social
and the Investigative Center of Jan Kuciak. THREAD 👇 (Note: This thread mentions suicide.)
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Chris D. Jackson
11 months ago
🚨 BREAKING: This is beyond outrageous. Elon Musk, his cranky mother Maye, and one of his young kids were chauffeured in Air Force One and Marine One—straight to the White House, where they’re apparently staying. WTF is going on? It goes without saying, this is not normal. 🙄
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Melanie D’Arrigo
11 months ago
Elon spent $290 million to buy the Presidency… … then fired the head of the ethics watchdog agency who investigates conflicts of interest … then fired federal workers … now is giving himself government contracts for federal agencies That’s not efficiency. It’s corruption.
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FAA reportedly ordered staff to find 'tens of millions of dollars' to fund Elon Musk's Starlink deal
Officials at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have told staff "to locate tens of millions of dollars" for a deal with Elon Musk's Starlink, Rolling Stone reported.
https://fortune.com/2025/03/03/faa-starlink-deal-elon-musk-verizon/?utm_source=twitter.com&xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_FORTUNE&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fortunemagazine
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Aaron Rupar
11 months ago
Given an easy opportunity to criticize Putin, Gabbard immediately pivots to bashing Zelenskyy
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John Sipher
11 months ago
Oligarchs have each other’s backs.
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Trump administration ends Biden-era task force aimed at seizing Russian oligarchs' assets
The move to disband Task Force KleptoCapture is one of several moves undertaken by the Justice Department under the new leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi that presage a different approach towar...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-ends-biden-era-task-force-aimed-at-seizing-russian-oligarchs-assets
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Seth Cotlar
11 months ago
I still haven't stopped laughing about the fact that he posted this over a year ago on the platform that he literally bought, and paid $44 billion for.
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Michael Harriot
11 months ago
By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine
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David Corn
12 months ago
Blaming Ukraine for being brutally invaded by Russia. Putin is really getting his money’s worth.
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jamelle
12 months ago
so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky
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Ryan Mac 🙃
12 months ago
Interesting to see Tosca Musk get a friendly profile here. Around the time of the election I had reached out to her to report on something regarding her politics. She hung up on me and told her mother, who proceeded to bring up my race in a public tweet.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Elon Musk’s Sister Is a Hopeless Romantic
Filmmaker and CEO Tosca Musk is pouring her heart into Passionflix, a steamy streaming platform built on the unifying power of love — even as her brother increasingly becomes one of the most divisive ...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/elon-musk-sister-tosca-musk-passionflix-1236133590/
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Jason Kander
12 months ago
Say what you want about the VA (and most criticism has been wrongly aimed at VA instead of Congress) … But no one has ever said the problem with the VA is too many people work there. This is inexcusable.
news.va.gov/press-room/v...
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VA dismisses more than 1,000 employees - VA News
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs today announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees.
https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-dismisses-more-than-1000-employees/
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