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2 time Emmy Award-winning Director of Photography and Producer. Be nice to strangers and respect everyone.

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Release the Epstein Files or go to War with Iran?

Decisions...decisions...

War it is!

28.02.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 561 πŸ” 131 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 1
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Chicago teen whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer dies The Torres family story came to public attention after the teen’s father was detained at a Home Depot in Niles.

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...

15.02.2026 06:24 πŸ‘ 5854 πŸ” 2656 πŸ’¬ 322 πŸ“Œ 214

Exactly. This is how Putin came into power. Brewed a makeshift β€œemergency” then seized total power through intimidation and egregious illegal actions.

25.01.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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16.01.2026 22:58 πŸ‘ 2649 πŸ” 745 πŸ’¬ 106 πŸ“Œ 55
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decided to go smell the rotten milk in the back of the Washington Post fridge... I don't even know what to say about this

03.01.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 1707 πŸ” 265 πŸ’¬ 125 πŸ“Œ 70
Excerpt from Jack Smith deposition:

For nearly three decades I have been a career prosecutor. I have served during  both Republican and Democratic administrations and I've been guided by those principles in every role I've held. I continued to honor those principles when I was appointed to serve as special counsel in November of 2022. 

The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts.

Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power. 

Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and a bathroom. He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents. 

I remain grateful for the counsel, judgment, and advice of my team as I executed my responsibilities. I am both saddened and angered that President Trump has sought revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff simply for doing their jobs and for having worked on those cases.

Excerpt from Jack Smith deposition: For nearly three decades I have been a career prosecutor. I have served during both Republican and Democratic administrations and I've been guided by those principles in every role I've held. I continued to honor those principles when I was appointed to serve as special counsel in November of 2022. The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts. Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power. Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and a bathroom. He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents. I remain grateful for the counsel, judgment, and advice of my team as I executed my responsibilities. I am both saddened and angered that President Trump has sought revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff simply for doing their jobs and for having worked on those cases.

On Jack Smith deposition, now released:

100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning.

Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print.

What Smith says is far more incriminating.

31.12.2025 22:46 πŸ‘ 3260 πŸ” 1200 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 40
Much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia. β€œCongresswoman” Omar, an ungrateful loser who only complains and never contributes, is one of the many scammers. Did she really marry her brother? Lowlifes like this can only be a liability to our Country’s greatness. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

Much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia. β€œCongresswoman” Omar, an ungrateful loser who only complains and never contributes, is one of the many scammers. Did she really marry her brother? Lowlifes like this can only be a liability to our Country’s greatness. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

31.12.2025 16:32 πŸ‘ 21188 πŸ” 5874 πŸ’¬ 2015 πŸ“Œ 704

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28.12.2025 15:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

28.12.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 24339 πŸ” 6774 πŸ’¬ 784 πŸ“Œ 474
Wash Post: U.S. forces struck Islamic State targets in northwestern Nigeria on Thursday evening, the U.S. and Nigerian governments said, acting after threats by President Donald Trump to attack the country in an effort to stop killings of Christians.

Wash Post: U.S. forces struck Islamic State targets in northwestern Nigeria on Thursday evening, the U.S. and Nigerian governments said, acting after threats by President Donald Trump to attack the country in an effort to stop killings of Christians.

Wash Post: The Department of Homeland Security has announced the end of temporary protected status for a group of nearly 4,000 Burmese nationals β€” mostly persecuted Christians and democracy advocates. This action will send them back to a junta bent on punishing them.

Wash Post: The Department of Homeland Security has announced the end of temporary protected status for a group of nearly 4,000 Burmese nationals β€” mostly persecuted Christians and democracy advocates. This action will send them back to a junta bent on punishing them.

Two stories side by side in WashPost

26.12.2025 02:20 πŸ‘ 1603 πŸ” 677 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 36
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Goldman: This guy is so clearly trying to follow the Putin modelβ€”using the government to make money, making sure his allies control the most important companies in the country, including our media companies, doling out money by deregulating their industries, and taking money from them in return…

21.12.2025 00:36 πŸ‘ 15224 πŸ” 5666 πŸ’¬ 421 πŸ“Œ 226
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A fair question. πŸ˜•πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

01.12.2025 02:57 πŸ‘ 5768 πŸ” 1448 πŸ’¬ 317 πŸ“Œ 78
SCOTUS Echoes Plessy v Ferguson in Greenlighting Trump's Transphobic Passport Policy Repeating a pattern that has become all too familiar, late last week the Roberts Court issued a per curiam order staying a lower court rulin...

On the blog: In approving Trump's transphobic policy of listing sex assigned at birth on passports, SCOTUS said govt was "merely attesting to a historical fact," thus echoing the obtuseness of Plessy v Ferguson's statement that Black folks were only choosing to see segregation as white supremacy. πŸ‘‡

10.11.2025 12:27 πŸ‘ 609 πŸ” 180 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4
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behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

05.10.2025 18:24 πŸ‘ 16843 πŸ” 3716 πŸ’¬ 1290 πŸ“Œ 527

Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...

05.10.2025 01:42 πŸ‘ 1887 πŸ” 588 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 39

Now this is peak projection. Utterly unhinged.

22.09.2025 02:22 πŸ‘ 2735 πŸ” 462 πŸ’¬ 271 πŸ“Œ 48
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Collins: The WH has denied that the drawing existed. They denied that it was Trump's signature. What do you what do you make of their defense here?

Crockett: The fact that the president is a liar? I mean, he's consistent.

09.09.2025 01:16 πŸ‘ 5239 πŸ” 1198 πŸ’¬ 102 πŸ“Œ 50
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WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK

08.09.2025 22:29 πŸ‘ 17032 πŸ” 7179 πŸ’¬ 1241 πŸ“Œ 720

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

08.09.2025 21:21 πŸ‘ 54011 πŸ” 9372 πŸ’¬ 961 πŸ“Œ 544
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JD Vance on Donald Trump: β€œI’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.”

{ ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }

30.08.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 5674 πŸ” 2152 πŸ’¬ 325 πŸ“Œ 141

Belly laughing!! LOL!πŸ˜‚

31.08.2025 01:05 πŸ‘ 1809 πŸ” 300 πŸ’¬ 37 πŸ“Œ 9
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ATLANTA: β€œThe city is opening a grocery store to clear up a downtown food desert… City leaders say the market will help those in the area who have not previously had easy access to healthy food.”

(cc: everyone acting like @ZohranKMamdani is crazyπŸ€”)

www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

29.08.2025 20:15 πŸ‘ 5384 πŸ” 1163 πŸ’¬ 116 πŸ“Œ 62
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Kennedy names deputy Jim O’Neill as acting CDC director after Monarez ouster | CNN Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary Jim O’Neill will serve as acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said...

The new acting director of the CDC, who is not a medical doctor, is instead a *biotech investor* who only joined HHS two months ago and is pals with MAGA loyalist Peter Thiel.

All Donald Trump rewards is loyalty, and he’ll do it at the expense of Americans’ health.

www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/h...

29.08.2025 20:10 πŸ‘ 80 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Must be nice to have no oligarchs on your supreme court.

24.08.2025 19:23 πŸ‘ 19388 πŸ” 6049 πŸ’¬ 397 πŸ“Œ 162

I feel safer already

23.08.2025 17:13 πŸ‘ 2124 πŸ” 252 πŸ’¬ 449 πŸ“Œ 43
As the family of one of the most prominent survivors, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, we are outraged. The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history. 

This travesty of justice entirely invalidates the experiences of the many brave survivors who put their safety, security, and lives on the line to ensure her conviction, including our sister

By moving convicted felon Maxwell to a minimum security, country club prison, the DOJ sends a disturbing message that child sex trafficking is acceptable and will be rewarded. 

The Department of Justice serves the people of the United States. We continue to call upon the DOJ to do its job by investigating and holding accountable the many rich and powerful people who enabled Ghislaine Maxwell’s and Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

As the family of one of the most prominent survivors, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, we are outraged. The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history. This travesty of justice entirely invalidates the experiences of the many brave survivors who put their safety, security, and lives on the line to ensure her conviction, including our sister By moving convicted felon Maxwell to a minimum security, country club prison, the DOJ sends a disturbing message that child sex trafficking is acceptable and will be rewarded. The Department of Justice serves the people of the United States. We continue to call upon the DOJ to do its job by investigating and holding accountable the many rich and powerful people who enabled Ghislaine Maxwell’s and Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces β€œDAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...

23.08.2025 17:20 πŸ‘ 11498 πŸ” 4428 πŸ’¬ 281 πŸ“Œ 193

Tell me you're in the Epstein Files without telling me you're in the Epstein Files.

23.08.2025 18:27 πŸ‘ 575 πŸ” 132 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 8
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Paul’s right, it’s unreal how little traction this story has gotten.

www.mediaite.com/crime/israel...

19.08.2025 03:47 πŸ‘ 4050 πŸ” 2025 πŸ’¬ 161 πŸ“Œ 144
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ICE’s Spectacle of Intimidation Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate past rows of masked federal agents.

Mark Peterson’s black-and-white images of ICE agents evoke film noir and the urban-crime photography of the 1930s and ’40s. β€œIf someone is doing everything right, and then they still get detained, it’s a crime scene,” he said.

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