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Wow. @TPUSA targeting educators *through* students appears to be in sync with my federal government's war on data. I say this as an educator currently targeted *by* @TPUSA in a hit piece written by @FBIDirectorKash's girlfriend. *waves from Nashville*
The State Dept. is instructing its officers to deny visas to those who engage in “activities including combatting misinformation, disinformation or false narratives, content moderation, compliance, and trust and safety”.
https://t.co/miDMY1bm85
The vice president's entire public life started with a memoir about growing up poor in a struggling Ohio town. It made him a bestseller, a movie, and eventually a national ticket. The pitch was always the same: he gets it, because he lived it. This week he went on a podcast and described what "getting it" looks like now. He doesn't shop, cook because army of people does it for him. He doesn't wait in line, because he's on a 757. The poverty was his product, now the private chef is the payoff. And 65% of the country still can't picture a middle-class life, let alone his.
He wrote a whole book to prove he was one of you. Some people become successful and then turn their backs on where they came from.
NEW EXCLUSIVE NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel's team needed someone to run his attack-dog @FBI_Response account. He hired a massively popular conservative social media influencer and Charlie Kirk ally who once called Taylor Swift a witch. (1/4)
My friend Jamie Raskin is one of the most careful and principled people in Congress. So when he says the director of the FBI may be running a taxpayer funded slush fund, I pay attention.
Here is what he found.
Kash Patel directed more than $1 million in bonus payments to a small circle of agents in his inner circle and on his security detail.
Some were getting nearly $8,000 every two weeks on top of salaries that were already maxed out at the federal ceiling. A number of them collected close to $40,000 over consecutive pay periods.
The payments came so fast that the FBI’s bonus reserve accounts ran dry and some checks bounced.
So who got the money?
Agents on Patel’s so-called "director’s advisory team."
That is the unit created in 2025 and described internally as a payback squad, built to dig up dirt on the law enforcement officials who investigated Trump and his allies.
Raskin has given Patel until June 29 to account for every payment, every recipient, and any internal review of whether this was even legal.
Patel should answer for all of it.
https://t.co/HZPeRJ2Kqg
"She wants the kind of people who’ll pursue her partisan goals — the kinds of people who might frame a journalist. And even as she tries to criminalize Blue state election administration, she just got a bunch more of them." @emptywheel https://t.co/a8J8Kssmeo
To be clear: ICE shot and killed a man who was not their target. He had no criminal record, was seeking legal status, & was pushed off the road by unmarked cars.
There’s “no body cam footage”, his family can’t recover his body, and the witnesses in his van have been detained.
A woman registered for a public JD Vance event using the official signup form, got a confirmation on White House letterhead, and stood in line for thirty minutes before five people, two of them armed Secret Service agents, pulled her out by name and told her, "we know where you stand."
Her offense was running a cat meme Instagram account with two million followers. The ACLU is now suing the Executive Office of the President and the Secret Service over it, and the strongest detail in the whole complaint is not the ejection itself. It is that Secret Service agents apparently monitor a satire account closely enough to recognize its founder on sight in a rope line in Bangor, Maine.
Vance called his own 2021 cat ladies comment one of the dumbest things he has ever said. He was right the first time. Weaponizing federal security personnel against the woman who turned that quote into a punchline is a worse unforced error than the original one.
Given @danielsilliman's knowledge of @SalemMediaGrp, I'm surprised that Salem (Mr. Kirk's employer) isn't mentioned in this @CTmagazine piece. Salem is broadcasting Kirk's show from @WhiteHouse today. 1/x https://t.co/UrWxFOFoC7