dreadpiratedave.bsky.social
dreadpiratedave.bsky.social
@dreadpiratedave.bsky.social
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” ~Thomas Jefferson
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I’m a national security expert. I handle clearance matters every day. Not a single one of the quoted “experts” do clearance work as far as I can tell. They all appear to political operatives at think tanks. None cite information that would be viewed as disqualifying (or even reportable!).
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Pete Hegseth is using OUR OWN TAX DOLLARS to pay conservative social media influencers with large followings to go online and troll all of us to help the Republican Party with their PR nightmares. I 👏🏻HAVE 👏🏻BEEN 👏🏻SHOUTING 👏🏻ABOUT 👏🏻THIS 👏🏻FOREVER. wapo.st/4x0p3pf
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Next up on Donnie's "Redecorate America" list- Lady MarALago. "Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,I lift my lamp beside the golden door, where ICE is waiting to deport you!"
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And yet, Marla Maples was pregnant before she married Donald Trump. Their daughter, Tiffany, was born on October 13, 1993, and the couple married two months later, on December 20, 1993. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Nice job today Senator Gary Peters. Peters.senate.gov
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Michael Wolff is still being given a platform and making money off survivors. To be very clear: he knew, he discredited them (including Virginia Giuffre), and he paved the way for Epstein to continue abusing children for ten more years. #EpsteinFiles ellieleonard.substack.com/p/the-beginn...
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Federal employees operate under an array of statutory, regulatory and policy restrictions on the unauthorized disclosure of unclassified information. The only reason to add this NDA would be to undercut lawful WBer disclosures to the media that SCOTUS approved. supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...
Trump administration proposes NDAs for all federal workers www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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An upcoming Montana ballot referendum would deny corporations the power to spend in state and federal elections. If it passes in deep red Montana, it could pass anywhere. State by state, this could effectively nullify Citizens United. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1fPbGHe3xE
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This is what Hegseth doesn’t want the media to cover.
NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East. This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family. Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships. Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.
ABC reports that Mike Flynn’s reward for committing crimes for Trump will be $1.2M. abcnews.com/US/doj-pay-t...
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An epidemic of suspicious trading has emerged around Trump's most consequential decisions — each time, just minutes or hours before he rattles global markets. It's precisely the kind of alleged corruption Trump built his political career railing against.
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Someone or someones made $580,000,000 in exquisitely well-timed oil trades that took place 15 minutes before Trump's dubiously optimistic post about the negotiations with Iran. Gift link ⤵️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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I know it's only March but this might be the most bizarre news story of 2026. share.google/yq9Jl9We1ADe...
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NEW: Elon Musk said he was “selling almost all physical possessions” when he moved to Texas. Nope. Instead, he has secretly amassed land and penthouses and planes and mansions. We just had to spend months digging through private company records to find it all. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...
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“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds.” www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...