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Masshole. Mom of four. GenX. Garden lady. Green witch. #MSK #KidneyDisease #CKD #M4A #Prince4ever 💜☔️👑🎸☘️🌿

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “All of these Fox News guys are like I can’t believe this is what Graham Platner was doing. Pete Hegseth was literally your co-worker and was a notorious drunk rapist. I feel like I’m losing my mind, the standards are so out of wack. We just never look at Republicans. They can do whatever the fuck they want. They can literally murder, cheat, steal, rape”

[Anonymous TV 🇺🇦 @YourAnonTV]

🚨🇬🇷 Greeks Under Pressure Just Like Albanians: Israeli Fund Privatizing 200 Hectares of Land on Kalamata's Western Beach

⚡️An Israeli investment fund is privatizing 200 hectares of land on Kalamata's western beach. The Greek government calls the CUTTING OFF PUBLIC ACCESS FOR THE CITY'S RESIDENTS as "STRATEGIC INVESTMENT"

[Save Standard Time @SaveStandard]

On this day in 2005, Congress considers extending Daylight Saving Time another month, to serve golfing and shopping lobbyists. DST was never for farmers, energy, or safety.

[matrixbot @thematrixb0t]

American citizens who criticize Jews or Israel will now be monitored by the FBI.

"We will monitor social media and check your bank accounts. I have 40 analysts working 24/7, 7 days a week"

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

Peter Thiel said Pope Leo was the antichrist for wanting to regulate A.I. He bought a mansion in Buenos Aires and met Argentine president Javier Milei. Now Milei in FT pitches Argentina as the home of unregulated A.I., creating a new legal framework, the “nonhuman corporation”.

[Harrison Berger @BergerPosts]

A possible explanation for why Rep. Luna obeys directives from Tel Aviv is that if she did not, the lobby would hang this over her head and ruin her.

[🏴‍☠️Maddox🏴‍☠️ @realmaddox]

This is an insane story. The DOGE whistleblower who said that login attempts were made to the NLRB from Russian IP addresses minutes after DOGE got access had his brake lines cut and photos of him walking his dog from a drone taped to his door after Musk attacked him on Twitter

[kay @KayStarfire]

@sethmoulton Hey Seth why didn’t you support Khanna on NOT merging our military with Israel in the armed services committee today?

[kay @KayStarfire]

@DropSiteNews Only Jacobs joined Khanna? Was .@RepMoulton present? And didn’t support? If so, another reason to reelect .@SenMarkey

[Jejune The Annihilator @Midnight_JJ0]

Katie Gluek, the NYT hack who wrote the smear piece on Graham Platner, has parents who are *Israeli settlers* in the West Bank. As usual, the Israel lobby is demonizing a candidate b/c he's dared to criticize Israel. Many will be duped by these reprehensible tactics as usual

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

Here's the chair of the Independent Women’s Forum, the right-wing group where Lyndsey Fifield is a fellow, bragging about helping draft Susan Collins's remarks when she voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh.

Fifield is NYT's main source, and the only one alleging anything physical.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Marco Rubio yesterday: “I have never seen Trump fall asleep.”

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

Can someone ask Fetterman if he puts on a suit when he stays at $1,500/night luxury resorts in Aspen or when he’s stuffing his face w dry-aged steaks at Lucille’s in DC? What about when he’s spending $95,000 on limos and black car rentals? Does he still dress like a disgusting slob then too?

[kay @KayStarfire]

@cenkuygur @RoKhanna Is there a list of who voted which way?

[kay @KayStarfire]

@HunterBiden @Kenneth_Belkin Whomst of us, among GenXers, hasn’t spent a regretful night (or more) in a trashy motel off the highway? 😂 Keep doing your thing, Hunter, it’s refreshing to see an honest, real person, unafraid and unashamed. Well done on your sobriety work 👏🏼👏🏼

[kay @KayStarfire]

@EdMarkey Get him, Ed. He’s just a rich boy who loves him some finance and insurance money. Not to mention pro-Israeli money. Maybe he can run for mayor of Maahblehead.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Anna Paulina Luna is a pathological liar with a fake name who has buried elements of her life story.

So it's no surprise she would fabricate a violent attack.

But there's a more salient issue that has been lost in the drama: Luna (real name: Meyerhofer) has been targeting Medea Benjamin and Code Pink in a McCarthyite witch hunt with no concrete basis, accusing them of being Chinese agents based entirely on innuendo.

Luna's bogus investigation and her fake assault claims are of a part. Both are designed to criminalize antiwar dissenters and ensure that warmongers like herself are never challenged to their face by American citizens.

[Tom Elliott @tomselliott]

Jared Kushner is building a $1.4 billion resort on a former Soviet submarine base.

He says he discovered the island while on vacation aboard Nat Rothschild's yacht. He says he later met Albania's prime minister on the same yacht. The island has 3,600 Cold War nuclear bunkers, miles of tunnels, an underground hospital, an underground school, & an underground cinema — features the development plan markets as suitable for "adaptive reuse."

The Albanians are in the streets. The international press is laughing at Ivanka's "we discovered the island" line. The questions almost nobody is bothering to ask are What's actually being built? And on whose behalf? And through which network?

Spoiler: the network is the one Jeffrey Epstein spent his last decade assembling.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Brooke Rollins last November: We have screwworm under control south of the border. Beef prices will come down by spring 2026.

(The screwworm has just been detected in Texas for the first time in 60 years)