Seems like NYT should have mentioned that UAE's spymaster bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty Financial and used $2B of its USD1 stablecoin, directing hundreds of millions to Trump.
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Reupping my video and post explaining the most corrupt aspect of Todd Blanche's appointment to criminalize investigating RU: bc in 2019, he and Victoria were trying to get corrupt foreigners to lie abt the topic.
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“Keep men out of women’s sports!” Lol
Palantir: National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. Translation: We’re going to bring back the draft. Our vision of permanent war only works if we courageously volunteer people 40 years younger than us to die for oil.
Palantir: Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. Translation: Which cultures? Oh, you know the ones.
We translated each part of Palantir's 22-point manifesto because public service is our passion
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Democracy Docket’s coverage of Virginia has taken a different approach — making clear from the start the obvious and crucial point that the redraw is an effort to level the national playing field in response to Trump’s scheme.
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Convicted sex criminal Ghislaine Maxwell socialized with Melania from Palm Beach to Manhattan. Emails revealed in the Epstein Files show that the two communicated. Today, the DOJ is still hiding nearly half the files. Why? What’s being hidden? Oversight Dems will find out.
College Where Charlie Kirk Was Killed Revokes Graduation Speaker's Invite Utah Valley University was thrilled that Sharon McMahon, a best-selling author, would speak at its graduation. And then her old posts resurfaced. Listen • 5:02 min
You'll never believe what this speaker--now cancelled thanks to "free speech" warriors like TPUSA & Sen. Mike Lee--posted about Charlie Kirk.
She said she was "gutted" by his murder. She described it as "horrific" and said it "should have never happened." And then she went on to post Kirk's words.
SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
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They told me there would be no math. And they were right.
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
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The biggest reason it is insane that Todd Blanche put Joe DiGenova in charge of criminalizing investigations into Russia.
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GOP lawyer Joe diGenova, now running Trump’s “Grand Conspiracy” probe, said earlier this month that Pam Bondi had “nixed” him from the role
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Free speech absolutism.
🇺🇸 WE NEED TO TALK 😬
It's unpleasant, but we can't avoid the problem any longer.
Our government is rudderless. The senior staff struggles to keep up with his increasingly haphazard mood shifts and random directives.
He started a war. It's... not going well.
It's time to find A Place for Don™️
Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT): "Jeffrey Clark was indicted in Georgia, pushed out of DOJ for his unethical conduct, and the D.C. bar has recommended he lose his law license. The best they’ve got is a conspiracy theorist…it’s a joke.”
Somewhere out there, in a law firm office far, far away, an associate on the defense team for John Brennan just started updating the exhibit list for his draft selective or vindictive prosecution motion
Nikopol district today, 3 people were killed and 7 wounded in russian attack‼️
Before WSJ published that article you may have read, I thought about how Trump really spends his days, bc it shows he's not really acting as President.
The answer?
Construction, cons, and corruption.
& watching snuff films that make him believe DOD can do anything.
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The Atlantic responds to Kash Patel's $250 million lawsuit:
"We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will vigorously defend The Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit."
Victoria Toensing @VicToensing Hubby being sworn in as Counsel to the Attorney General. 4:04 PM · Apr 20, 2026 · 6,199 Views Jason Reding Quiñones, the US Attorney in Miami, swearing in a much shorter Joe DiGenova.
Joe DiGenova, whose wife once solicited payments from foreigners to lie about Joe Biden in 2019, just got sworn in to investigate things those things he lied about in the past.
Over the weekend I laid out why this is so problematic.
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Other false media statements identified in the Kash Patel complaint:
1. Special Agents do not, in fact, refer to him as “J. Edgar Shart”
2. Patel did, in fact, know that the FBI is part of the Executive Branch and that Wyoming is a state. He just always looks surprised when you tell him things.
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TODAY: Kash Patel just filed his defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic. I spoke with former Deputy Director of the FBI Andy McCabe about the article. Patel denies the allegations. You can watch here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/former-fbi...
142. Jensen then noticed collection of whiskey bottles and cigars on Patel’s desk. He asked if he was a collector. Patel then gave him two cigars, telling Jensen that they were “awesome” and that he has “gotta see this.” Patel explained that he used to produce his own brand of cigars, but they are not in production anymore. He then gave Jensen a third cigar but said that he should not smoke it because it was from President Trump’s inauguration. Jensen asked whether Patel was sure he wanted to gift Jensen a cigar of such significance for Patel, particularly since Jensen himself did not attend President Trump’s inauguration. Patel insisted that Jensen should take it. As Jensen walked out of the Director’s office, Patel told him to enjoy his leave, that he should take as much time as he needs, to take care of his family, and that he was “crushing it.”
Reminder that the guy then in charge of DC Office, Steve Jensen, says that Kash had a collection of whiskey bottles in his office.
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Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
First, the Court takes a step back from its assessment of the particular categorical exclusions invoked and emphasizes the animating text of NEPA. The claim that the conversion of a commercial warehouse equipped with four toilets and two water fountains and designed for cargo storage into a detention center capable of housing over 500 people is the type of action that would not “normally . . . significantly affect the quality of the human environment” is, bluntly, absurd. See 42 U.S.C. § 4336e(1); see also ECF 15-1, at 16; ECF 15-13, at 4; ECF 34, at 10; ECF 15-4, at 66. As such, even before the Court examines the text of those exclusions, Defendants’
Friends, is it good when a judge tells you your argument is, "bluntly, absurd"?
Is it good when the judge says your proposal "raises a red flag"?
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Several people with signs like this at the Boston Marathon today
