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The thing about Venezuela is that we need to see the Epstein Files.

The Department of Justice is releasing the Epstein files far too quickly. by Merrick Garland

Costco is the most prominent US company willing to publicly oppose President Donald Trump. And so far, it has paid no obvious price for its refusal to submit.

The worst thing Pam Bondi can do in the Epstein case is move too quickly. by Merrick Garland

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Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say

There it is

The president of Puerto Rico is on every page of the Epstein Files.

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.

Emergency video: The DC actions today aren’t good, but Trump is trying to make you think he’s big and tough and he’s really a small weak tiny victim. Also Epstein. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

The administration transferred nearly $1 billion dollars to a Pentagon project to modernize nuclear weapons, but those funds will be used to renovate Trump's "flying palace."

On Fox News: www.mediaite.com/media/news/f...

KYLE CLARK: “The Trump administration is trying to get insider access to voting systems in Colorado…” REPUBLICAN officials stopped them, and are sounding the alarm🚨

Schrödinger’s nuclear program: it is both completely destroyed and must be surrendered.

We’ve truly lost our way in this country. An 80-year-old vet who fought for this country just got arrested protesting Trump‘s parade. He deserves respect, not handcuffs.

They don’t care if you’re a citizen anymore. They enjoy torturing us.

NYT: “.. People making between about $51,000 and $17,000 could lose about $700 on average in after-tax income .. “By contrast, the top 0.1 percent, including those with incomes over $4.3 million, would gain on average more than $389,000 ..” @tonyromm.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

Why stop with a free jet? 🤡 @telegraphnews.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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I will block any arms sale to a nation that is doing direct personal business with Trump. We should have a full Senate debate and vote. UAE's investment in Trump crypto and Qatar's gifting of a plane is nuclear grade graft. An unacceptable corruption of our foreign policy.

The gift is bad enough on its own, but can we talk about how insane it is to use a foreign-gifted jet as *Air Force One* Air Force One has a lot of capability that a luxury jet simply doesn’t, and that’s before we even consider the obvious spying/bugging/security concerns.

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These people have no business anywhere near government.

This is what courage looks like. Kudos to the team at 60 Minutes.

We’re witnessing a nation descend into despicable levels of darkness. Not in secret, not hidden from view, not behind closed doors. Right in front of our eyes.

🚨New day, new horror. ICE deports two families, including 3 children that are US CITIZENS aged 2, 4 & 7. The families were snatched & blocked from communicating with attorneys/family. One mother is pregnant. One child has cancer & was deported without medication or any doctor support. INHUMANE.

I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.

Trump has indefinitely withdrawn federal funding for: • Investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against kids; • Responding to reports of missing children; • Preventing youth violence New, @propublica.org

(Bloomberg) - Insiders including Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Corp.’s Safra Catz and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon cashed out shares worth billions of dollars before President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements roiled markets. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Fox News has resorted to just straight up lying about Abrego Garcia, who has never been convicted or even charged with a crime

BREAKING: An American citizen has been kidnapped by ICE and is being illegally held in Florida. This is terrifying.

This is not a scene from a movie. A sitting Senator in the United States of America just said this.

Hogg says he wants to fund primary challenges against Democratic lawmakers who he feels are "out of touch" and not fighting President Trump hard enough. (via @wbur.org)

When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US. When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

The Associated Press said its reporters were prevented from attending an Oval Office event with President Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele even though a federal judge had ordered the White House to restore the news outlet's access as of Monday.

This is our future if we don’t ban together and stop Trump.

El Salvador has already returned people wrongly deported from the US. So why not Kilmar Abrego Garcia? At this stage, it feels vital to obtain evidence that Garcia is still alive.

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18

They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident

The administration that called Canada “the 51st state” and said “we’re going to get” Greenland is suddenly cowed by sovereignty.

UPDATE: El Salvador’s brutal far-right dictator, Trump and Musk friend Nayib Bukele, has confirmed that he will never return any person sent to him from America. And Trump has confirmed he wants American citizens sent to El Salvador to die in a foreign gulag. This is a five-alarm fire for democracy.

Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."