Dan Fleser

Was a sportswriter for website in Chattanooga and newspapers in Knoxville and three other cities. Co-author of “Redemption” a bio about novelist Scott Pratt.

[Tony Androckitis* @TonyAndrock]

"Our hotel room before the games in Toronto was a mess a little bit in terms of how much pain people were in, but you're going to war & that's a part of it.

That's the most fun I ever had playing hockey & I was playing on a broken foot, so.." - Owen Pickering

@InsideAHLHockey

[Pittsburgh Penguins @penguins]

Nine years ago today, the Penguins made history.

Relive the 2017 back-to-back Stanley Cup victory through photos you can hear 🔊

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"We now know from the Times that Blanche was the mastermind behind nearly all the effort to shield Trump from any political fallout over the Epstein files. When he goes before the Senate for his confirmation, they should tear him apart for it."

https://t.co/2KwnogjfUB

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

It’s not about arguments. It’s about facts.

I know one great fact about American elections, and I know it because the Republican Party has proved it to me:

There is no election fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States.

The Republican Party and its allies, FOR DECADES, have been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of election fraud.

This effort has been made with vast sums of money and other resources, and with some of the greatest powers in our nation at the party’s disposal:

A presidential commission under President Donald Trump.

The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, armed with the resources of the FBI, and the powers of subpoena.

Committees of Congress under Republican control, also armed with the powers of subpoena and the investigative resources of the first branch of government.

State legislatures under Republican control, also with subpoena powers, have launched similar efforts to find evidence of election fraud.

Republican-controlled states have set up special commissions and task forces, some with subpoena powers, all well-funded and with access to the state’s electoral systems.

Conservative academics and think tanks have launched projects seeking out evidence of election fraud.

Fox News and the rest of MAGA media have dedicated significant resources to finding evidence of election fraud.

What is the result of this enormous Republican effort to find election fraud?

Ask The Heritage Foundation.

For nearly a decade, Heritage has maintained an “Election Fraud Database.”

The database contains “proven instances of election fraud.”

It covers elections going back nearly fifty years.

That’s billions and billions of American votes.

Right now, the total number of proven instances of election fraud that Heritage can document is:

1620.

That’s an infinitesimal number, vanishingly small, and it is solid proof of two things:

1. Some individuals commit election fraud.

2. There is no evidence at all of systemic or even widespread election fraud anywhere in the USA.

The election-fraud panic is the Big Lie of our time.

It is peddled by people who know better. Their own investigations over decades demonstrate that.

Stop trying to subvert our democracy.

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[D-LIB @whittler_e]

VOTE: Mike Johnson can't cut Social Security if he's not the Speaker of the House. Vote against every-single-republican. As if your Social Security depended upon it.

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

In all seriousness though, this will (or at least should) go down as one of the biggest media failures in modern history.

The political media absolutely HOUNDED the previous president and made his age/health THE ONLY issue that mattered of his presidency.

And then they helped elect a guy who was just a few years younger (aka still old as shit) with a litany of unexplained health issues, a brain that is visibly detoriating and who brags about taking his dementia test 3x a week.

And then....they just haven't talked about it. At all. You can barely even get them to acknowledge it.

They alleged a big coverup of Biden's health, but they are literally complicit in covering up the current president, Donald Trump's health...which we can all see, right in front of our very eyes.

Just can't put into words how much of a disgrace the political media is...

[Being J Wood @BeingJWood]

The larger picture gives perspective.

[Congressman Robert Garcia @RepRobertGarcia]

BOMBSHELL: For the first time, we now know that Vice President Vance has been deeply involved in Epstein strategy and this White House cover-up.

He and top Admin officials have been using the situation room to meet. It’s time to talk to the VP.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: McCaskill: “…who knew that the [White House] Situation Room was going to be the hallowed place where we talked about sex scandals that the president was afraid of coming out in public? And clearly there’s only ONE reason this stuff [#Epstein files] hasn’t been released. It’s not protecting the innocent, it’s not him worrying about the victims, it is just Donald Trump. There’s stuff in this file, and the article even references some of it…It’s weird to be talking about NIPPLES on the Deadline White House show, but they were talking about it in the Situation Room, over Donald Trump’s proclivity to have certain sexual activity with some of these girls…this isn’t going away…as always, the coverup is…worse than the crime…”😳

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

The White House tried to make the Epstein files go away, and instead discovered they had stapled a foghorn to a chainsaw.

Gifted article: https://t.co/Wv3GRzll3a

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

This is Trump’s Watergate.

Today, the @nytimes released a truly stunning report on the Epstein cover-up by the White House. 

Collusion, breaking the law, evading subpoenas—it’s all in there:
- Trump quashing the files
- The VP, COS, DOJ, FBI, and others colluding in the Situation Room to stop their release and compliance
- Officials lying to the public 
- Admin in-fighting and exits
- Officials who appeared in front of Congress during this time

Read the report here: https://t.co/prgyF2Isfg

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

🚨‼️ Breaking News in Epstein Case‼️ 🚨

Comer has agreed Todd Blanche must appear in @OversightDems . With explosive reporting from @nytimes on the White House coverup and multiple Situation Room meetings — this is looking more like a Watergate-style coverup every day.

Meanwhile we’ve got Bill Gates in front of Committee today answering why rich and powerful men like himself continued to hang out with Epstein even after he was convicted of sexual crimes. Regardless of party, power, or wealth—we are following every lead!

[David Corn @DavidCornDC]

A nugget buried in the big NYT piece on how the Trump White House had an internal freak-out over the Epstein case....If Bondi didn't use DOJ email, what did she use? I recall a time when the right (and the NYT) went ballistic over a Cabinet official's use of non-gov't email.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Congress Just Learned Something Pretty Stunning About Jeffrey Epstein’s Operation.

According to Rep. Melanie Stansbury, Epstein’s longtime executive assistant admitted her legal fees are being paid by a fund established through Epstein’s estate.

Read that again.

Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019.

Yet his money is still paying the attorneys of a key witness connected to his network.

Then came another admission.

She acknowledged helping arrange calls between Epstein and Trump, Prince Andrew, and other powerful figures.

Even now, Epstein’s money appears to be shaping who can afford legal representation and who can’t.

That’s a remarkable revelation.

[Sheryl Gay Stolberg @SherylNYT]

NEW: Major posts are vacant. Waves of scientists are gone. Ebola looms. How RFK Jr. manages HHS:

“If the C.E.O. lacked deep expertise in the company’s business and the leaders of its most important divisions were missing, investors would revolt."

https://t.co/QTZtLMUmUl

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

The inflation rate in Biden's last month in office was 2.9%. Trump (supported by a Republican Congress) has driven it up to 4.2%.

Thank you, voters, for your attention to this matter.

https://t.co/2BWtpX5aEf

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Scientists at Trump’s EPA say they are being told to make chemical risks “disappear on paper.” Not to study or manage them, but to make them vanish.

When a safety test on a household chemical shows danger, supervisors reportedly ask to keep shrinking the scenario until the poison looks safe.

They have reassigned senior scientists to paperwork and handed life-and-death risk assessments to staff with less experience. They have installed former chemical industry lobbyists to run the very offices that are supposed to regulate the chemical industry.

A gift to industry, paid for with your family’s health.

They are even throwing out research on how certain chemicals hit certain communities harder, calling decades of established science “DEI.”

You can make risk disappear on paper.

The cancer does not disappear.

The birth defects do not disappear.

The infertility does not disappear.

The kids drinking the water and getting sick do not disappear.

The EPA exists to protect people, not to protect the profit margins of the people poisoning them.

Every American deserves to know what is happening. #TrumpMakesUsSick

https://t.co/5DwXgxBybt

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) faked a phone call for roughly 90 seconds after being asked about Speaker Mike Johnson’s comments regarding potential Social Security cuts.

The phone's screen remained visible, with his cheek inadvertently tapping different parts of the display.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

November is coming