NEWS
Elon Musk and others LOSE their bid to duck depositions in DOGE litigation.
Judge doubts protections for "high-ranking government officials" for multiple reasons. It's unclear they ever had that status, and Musk "left government service."
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buff.ly/uhpSOTzThat mask is also popular with neo-Nazi accelerationist groups, which I think is really important to mention. Just like it's important to mention that ICE agents in Denver have been dropping Ace of Spades cards where they've kidnapped people. The white nationalist culture at work is clear.
In 2009, this was the mask of a UK SAS character in “Call of Duty.” By 2015 it was de rigeur among Iraqi government commandos and Shiite militiamen. In 2018, in “Sicario 2,” it was what CIA surrogate characters wore to disguise themselves as cartel gunmen.
Now US law enforcement wears it.
Well thought-out summary.
Host: Joe Rogan was one of your biggest endorsers in 2024. He said he understands why critics compare ICE officers to the Gestapo.
Trump: What happens is that, I think we do a phenomenal job, but I don't think we're good at public relations
James Comer is bringing Hillary Clinton before his committee to testify about Epstein despite having zero contact with him, but not Epstein’s neighbor Howard Lutnick who lied about his connections to Epstein over many years which is proven in the files.
2016: “This is Katie Johnson... “It sickens me every time I see his evil face on TV. I am not after money, I want revenge for what this evil pedophile did to me. He doesn’t deserve to be President, he deserves to be in jail...If you really are a reporter... then please publish my statement for...
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Tulsi called Donald after the raid and put him on speaker phone with the FBI agents conducting the active investigation. You bet it was coordinated.
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The targeting of Native Americans by ICE is so widespread, tribal governments all over are responding. To protect tribal citizens from ICE raids, tribes are holding events to help citizens get updated IDs and even speeding up the printing and processing times.
Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.
She was asking a question about whether the Epstein survivors have received justice. But Vance wants her to “smile and have some fun” while asking the president a question about trafficking victims.
bsky.app/profile/fact...Vance: There was a moment in the Oval Office, I wasn't even in there, but Trump was talking to Kaitlan Collins. Trump says, 'Why don't you ever smile?' And it's actually, like, so perceptive. Have some fun.
The CIA is up to something and Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who is the longest serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, doesn't like it but can't tell us about it.
"ICE guys are pretty miserable. I don’t think morale is particularly high for them. They’re freezing, they’re getting shouted at. They can’t go anywhere without being tailed by 5 cars. They get out and immediately there's a crowd of 100 people shouting at them, blowing whistles as loud as they can."
Inside the resistance with Will Stancil
"It's something I could do to keep them from stealing my neighbors."
Burn the Billionaires: Democracy-Ish with
@daniellemoodie.bsky.social
The Lords of Lawlessness: Inside the Billionaire Syndicate Burning Down Democracy
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...France just raided Elon Musk’s X office in Paris. Not a drill. Regulators are coming for algorithm abuse, illegal content, and platform accountability. Musk screams “political attack.” Musk is also under criminal investigation in Europe!
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
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BREAKING: France Just Raided Elon Musk’s X Offices In Paris — And It’s Not About One Office, One Country, or One Week
This is about power. Influence. And what happens when one billionaire decides the rules don’t apply to him anymore.
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When a whistleblower’s lawyer gives you a deadline and cites the statute, that is not posturing. That is the last stop before Congress. And they just pulled the trigger.
“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.” Alex Pretti
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Statistics for Christian Nationalists to Ponder
NUMBER OF TIMES YOUR HERO DONALD TRUMP IS MENTIONED IN THE EPSTEIN FILES:
Over 38,000 times.
NUMBER OF TIMES JESUS IS MENTIONED IN THE US CONSITUTION:
Never. Not even once.
For those keeping score at home:
I wish I lived in a country where our elected officials in Congress had at least half the balls of E. Jean Carroll, Stormy Daniels, Christine Blasey Ford, Anita Hill, or the Epstein survivors.
I don’t like this
there's something unholy about the Trump administration being laser focused on "fraud" while Trump pardons an endless clown car of fraudsters and bilks taxpayers at every opportunity. it's just transparently absurd.
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INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.
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What an ass!! He is such an empty vessel being controlled by the money from a rich immigrant who can’t sit on the same violated couch.
Reporter: Do you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti?
Vance: For what?
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And France, do Elon...
France’s🇫🇷 Foreign Ministry owns Elon Musk in this response..👇
🚨🚨Poland to examine “increasingly likely possibility that pedophilia scandal was co-organized by intelligence services” in Moscow.
Read the full story below. 🖇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...Nancy Mace: "For people who say I'm not okay -- no, I'm not okay. I'm not okay with Epstein co-conspirators walking free."
(Note that in the next breath she defends Trump!)
lol this is the most ominous letter I've ever seen in my life.
Keep your antennas sharp for all the people who are telling us to "move on" from the Epstein Files.
They are telling on themselves and running cover for Trump and MAGA.
Some AMAZING news out of SCOTUS today:
SCOTUS denies the GOP’s request for an injunction to block California’s Prop 50 redistricting plan while the Republicans’ appeal winds its way through the system.
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The president had his DOJ raid an election office and seize ballots. Now he is threatening to take over elections. Sadly, this is treated by legacy media as just another normal day.
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hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0BREAKING: huge, gigantic, enormous win
SCOTUS allows our big victory at trial upholding the Prop 50 redistricting to remain in place
Kudos to my
@democracydefendersaction.org,
@lulacorg.bsky.social, Arnold & Porter & rest of the coalition that countered Trump's attempt to steal Congressional seats
It is terrible to see what is happening at The Washington Post. Democracy Docket is a small newsroom, but it is growing. If you want to work for an independent, pro-democracy media outlet, I encourage you to apply.
ats.rippling.com/democracy-do...Heads are going to explode 💥
Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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Not enough. Every single ICE and CBP agent should be out of Minnesota. The terror campaign must stop.
ICE must be abolished.
From 1982-2018, the Republican National Committee was barred from "ballot security measures" because of their record of using state actors to intimidate minority voters.
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@rickhasen.bsky.social)
www.npr.org/2018/01/09/5...Steve Bannon: “You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November.”
If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
How much money has Trump pocketed from the presidency since his second election?
NYTimes Editorial Board did the math and it’s insane….
Americans are outraged by what ICE has done to our communities.
Congressional Democrats are united in our plan to rein them in.
