Just a Small Town Girl

Just a Small Town Girl

@bluejay007.bsky.social

I believe independent investigative journalists will be vital the next 4 years so will be reposting a lot of their news, plus sharing "gift article" links to paywalled news. WA State.

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Just a Small Town Girl reposted

A day after the U.S. military operation in Venezuela, President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed his calls for an American takeover of the Danish territory of Greenland, while his top diplomat declared the communist government in Cuba is “in a lot of trouble.”

bit.lyAfter Maduro, who's next? Trump's comments spur anxieties about his plans for Greenland and CubaA day after the ouster of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump is renewing his calls for an American takeover of the Danish territory of Greenland.

Just a Small Town Girl reposted

What’s the point of being a political reporter if you accept a national politician pretending to not know about anything that’s happening, including things directly relevant to his job, and move on after you get that answer?

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All the people being fired for telling the truth about Charlie Kirk—many of them women—in the aftermath of his death demonstrates that his legacy was never one about universal free speech. It was only ever about about straight, white, conservative Christian men spouting bigotry without consequence.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

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And now law enforcement is in the position of either following the evidence, even if it contradicts Trump’s “conclusions” and makes him mad, or validate his predetermined narrative no matter what

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

Trump lying in an Oval Office address that Charlie Kirk’s killing was caused by people comparing him and his organization to Nazis—lying because he has no idea, but declared it anyway—pairs interestingly with some prominent Trump fans saying they hope this can be their Reichstag Fire.

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Deeply disturbing rhetoric is spreading from influential MAGA figures (including the President of the United States and the owner of that other website). They have no idea who the shooter is, and many of these same people mocked Democrats when they were victims of political violence in the past. 1/

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Sorry MAGA. That's Trump's signature. Compare it to the one on his letter to me. You would've been smarter (lol) to claim it was a copy or tracing or a xerox or stolen from my letter but no... you're not smarter.

Just a Small Town Girl reposted

EXPOSED: Here’s Trump’s creepy birthday note to Epstein. Add this to the pictures, videos, plane logs, weird quotes, and court pleadings. RELEASE THE FULL EPSTEIN FILES NOW.

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oh boy. Trump is not going to like that Fox panned his big summit

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Heinrich: And what was really stunning to me as someone who has been in a lot of these press conferences a few things very unusual. You had Putin come out and address the press first. We are on U.S. Soil here

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When not even Fox News can pretend Trump did well ...

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left

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This is one of the most awkward things I've ever watched. Trump, who has no idea what he's talking about, is regurgitating things off a piece of paper to generate grievances against Powell, who DOES know what he's talking about, and is visibly frustrated and annoyed at being attacked for nonsense.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Trump: It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion Powell: I’m not aware of that. Trump: It just came out Powell: You just added in a third building Trump: It’s a building that’s being built Powell: It was built five years ago.

Just a Small Town Girl reposted

BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files. As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed. Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.

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My reaction to that completely batshit press briefing by Tulsi Gabbard in which she accused Obama of “treasonous conspiracy” is that whatever is in the Epstein files about Trump must be really really bad

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CNN: The Wall Street journal is reporting that in May, AG Pam Bondi and her deputy informed the president at a meeting in the white house that his name was in the Epstein files.

Just a Small Town Girl reposted

According to @wsj.com, the Department of Justice told Trump that he is in the unreleased Epstein files. House Republicans are shutting down Congress until September to avoid voting on releasing the Epstein files. Release the Epstein files.

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Pam Bondi was Attorney General in Florida from 2011 to 2019. That is when Jeffrey Epstein was still involved in his child sex ring in FLORIDA. Yet she never prosecuted him. Corporate media MUST ask Bondi why she didn't prosecute Epstein?! My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/why-didnt-...

deanobeidallah.substack.comWhy didn’t Pam Bondi as Florida AG investigate Jeffrey Epstein?!Everything Bondi does is to protect Trump.

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The Senate Intel Committee unanimously concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. If there had been some Obama conspiracy, we would have found it. This latest lie is another sad, dangerous example of Tulsi Gabbard trying to rewrite history and erode trust in the IC.

Just a Small Town Girl reposted

Trump lies all the time. He lies to his business partners; he lies to his wives, he lies to himself. He lies to the people of the United States. He is so easily disproven that to continue to believe him is you need to lie to yourself. Americans: The truth will keep us free. 🎁 wapo.st/44CSxi1

wapo.stTrump said he ‘never wrote a picture in my life.’ Here are four.Trump claims he’s never made drawings. He’s done many. Here are four examples.

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Shout out to the @wsj.com for publishing the Epstein story, even after being threatened with legal action by Trump. Thank you for showing other outlets what it means to stand up to those in power.

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Everyone in America needs to read this FREE—I’ve gifted it below—report from the conservative WALL STREET JOURNAL about Trump and Epstein. Apparently the president has now threatened to sue the WSJ over this 100% accurate report due to how damaging it is.

wsj.comExclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

Just a Small Town Girl reposted

Thoughts and prayers don’t stop mass shootings, and they don’t stop climate disasters either. This is a tragedy Gov. Greg Abbott did nothing to prevent. He still denies that climate change is real. He won’t act, and he won’t regulate.

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Replying to @morgfair.bsky.social

The Trump administration issued a service change notice announcing no more DMSP data after June 30. The information alerted forecasters to rapid intensification or other major changes hours before they become apparent in other data—providing crucial time to warn people in harm’s way.

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I miss having presidents who respected their office instead of viewing it primarily as a tool to build their own wealth and power. And I miss having presidents who respected the people in this country as humans, instead of viewing them as pawns and plebeians over whom to rule.

Just a Small Town Girl reposted

💯. There is no strategy, only impulses to quench an unquenchable narcissistic thirst.

Ellen Braaten@ellenbraaten.bsky.social

We have to stop talking about him as if he is he is a man who has the ability to understand diplomacy or military tactics….or anything else for that matter. He is a pathological narcissist with limited cognitive functioning. No one should discuss him with any other lens.

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Replying to @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

We should vote as soon as possible on legislation to explicitly deny President Trump the authorization to drag us into a conflict in Middle East that could get countless Americans killed and waste trillions of dollars. All my thoughts tonight are for the safety of our personnel in the region.

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Replying to @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

I've been briefed on the intelligence - there is no evidence Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States. That makes this attack illegal. Only Congress can declare preemptive war.

Just a Small Town Girl reposted

Donald Trump, a weak and dangerously reckless president, has put the United States on a path to a war in the Middle East that the country does not want, the law does not allow, and our security does not demand.

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I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

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as someone prone to directly confronting people for stuff they say online, that from lee is the face of someone who did not expect to be confronted for something he said online

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social

Photo from The Hill's Al Weaver (from Xitter) catches Tina Smith confronting Mike Lee.