bryant hudson

I am a seeker, a seeker is born every minute. Arguing with me is pointless I knew I was wrong 10 minutes ago

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

1. I know everyone is numb to what Trump says, but here he is admitting that the process to approve the Paramount/WBD merger is part of a corrupt plan to make CNN more MAGA-friendly, None of this new, but it's time Democrats wake

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

According to Axios, citing both U.S. and Israeli officials, in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last Thursday, U.S. President Donald J. Trump told him that the Israel Defense Force (IDF) should begin to withdraw forces from both Syria and Lebanon. Per the report, President Trump warned that the risk for escalation, particularly with the IDF’s presence in Southeastern Syria, is high, with Trump telling his Israeli counterpart “They don't want you there. You should redeploy.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu has pushed back, saying that security zones in both countries are necessary. This comes as Israeli and Lebanese diplomats met in Rome today to discuss continued cooperation on the gradual Israeli withdrawal and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s announcement during a visit to the Czech Republic that the IDF was preparing to withdraw from 2 pilot zones in Southern Lebanon.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"A San Diego infectious disease doctor says it’s probably best to stay away from fresh produce for the next week or so, even if you wash it," per NBC

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

McConnell’s lengthy hospitalization and Graham's sudden death offer the latest reminders that the Senate is run by a geriatric class of lawmakers — some old, and some very old. The average age is 66 and more than 1/3 are Graham's age or older. @anniekarni https://t.co/1eOGV8PU8d

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING UPDATE OUT OF MAINE: The man killed in the Biddeford, Maine ICE shooting has been identified as a 26-year-old Colombian man who was authorized to work in the United States and had been issued a Social Security number.

This wasn’t a “violent criminal.” This wasn’t even an undocumented immigrant.

This was someone who had legal authorization to live and work here.

So why was ICE trying to pull him over?

A witness also says he saw a large white vehicle ram the smaller vehicle, followed by a second impact… And heard gunshots.

He says he then saw an officer open the vehicle door, pull a man out with blood covering his head, and heard him say: “I tried to stop.”

ICE agents do not have the authority to stop whoever they want, give conflicting orders, escalate an encounter, and then use deadly force when that situation becomes chaotic.

If the government gives agents the power to carry weapons and take someone’s life, those agents have a responsibility to make sure they are acting within the law before they create a situation where someone can be killed.

A person’s rights do not disappear because an ICE agent decides to stop them.

Which means the question that must be answer is this…

Was this man killed because ICE created a dangerous situation that never should have happened?

Because when the government can put someone in a life-or-death situation, the question cannot only be whether the final seconds justified pulling the trigger.

We have to ask why this encounter was allowed to escalate in the first place.

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

Yep. These are tire tracks in the reflecting pool. Sediment has built up on the indents.

You can see where the front tires turned in unison.

10 years prison for Trump!

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

The Senate cannot confirm Todd Blanche on Wednesday, because Todd Blanche is actively covering up the Epstein files.

Thirty miles south of Santa Fe there are 10,000 acres called Zorro Ranch. Jeffrey Epstein owned it for a quarter century. Survivors say girls were flown there and abused there. There was a tip about girls buried in the hills, disturbing enough that the state searched with cadaver dogs this spring.

In all those years, no law enforcement agency ever searched that ranch. Not once. In 2019 the FBI raided Epstein's Manhattan townhouse and his island the week of his arrest. The ranch? Never. And when New Mexico's attorney general built his own case that year, with victim statements and suspects beyond Epstein and Maxwell, federal prosecutors called and told him to stand down. They promised to share their evidence for state charges later. His words, on the record: "I don't think that they were forthright, and I don't think that they were operating in good faith." Epstein died and the case of Zorro Ranch died with him.

This February, New Mexico tried again. A new attorney general, Raul Torrez, reopened the case: the only active criminal investigation into Zorro Ranch anywhere on earth. In March his investigators became the first law enforcement officers to ever search the property. To charge anyone still living, he needs one thing from Washington: the unredacted files. The names of victims, witnesses, and co-conspirators that are blacked out in the public release.

He asked on February 13. He asked again. And again. Five times, plus a formal legal letter, plus an attempted meeting in Washington. On June 30 he sent a letter addressed to Todd Blanche, by name: 130+ days of silence. The delay is "unreasonable under any rule of reason." And this sentence, which should be read aloud at Wednesday's hearing: "Every avenue of investigation that begins with a redacted name, a blacked-out face or an obscured date is an avenue that ends before it begins." Statutes of limitation are dying while the files sit in a building in Washington.

The man that letter is addressed to is Todd Blanche, the acting Attorney General of the United States.

Before he ran the Justice Department, Todd Blanche had exactly one job: personal criminal defense lawyer to Donald Trump. Trump's PAC paid his firm nearly $10,000,000. Trump appears in more than 5,300 of the released Epstein documents. The Justice Department's own ethics chief told Blanche, in writing, in his first two weeks, to recuse himself from his former client's matters. He refused. Then he took personal control of everything Epstein.

Personal control looks like this. He flew to Florida and spent nine private hours with Ghislaine Maxwell, the only living witness who knows everything. She came out announcing Trump did nothing wrong. A week later she was moved to a minimum-security camp that Bureau of Prisons policy says sex offenders can't be in. Under oath, Blanche described it as "low-security to low-security." That is false on the Bureau's own records. She has made it public that she'll "speak fully and honestly" if she gets clemency. Think about that...

Personal control looks like this. When a 2015 DEA memo surfaced in the files tying Epstein and 14 redacted names to drug and prostitution money, about $50 million in flagged wire transfers, a senator demanded the unredacted version. The DEA administrator was ready to hand it over. Senator Wyden says Blanche personally stopped him. Blanche's response was to call a sitting senator a fabricator. The memo is still sealed today. And the 43-year-old task force that wrote it, the one that caught El Chapo? Blanche shut the whole thing down.

Personal control looks like this. His department withheld FBI interviews of a woman whose abuse allegation mentioned Trump, and quietly deleted one from the public database after release. It came back only when reporters caught it. He certified to Congress, in writing, that nothing was withheld for political reasons. A federal judge has now ruled, in the government's own words, that "the Attorney General has conceded that he is in violation of the Act." Blanche's answer to the unsealing order was to refuse and ask for 60 more days. His answer to you was: "We are not sitting on a single piece of paper."

One man sits between the Epstein files and every investigation trying to open them. That man was paid ten million dollars by the most famous name in them.

And Epstein is only the first file. The deep dive covers the rest: the tax immunity he signed for Trump's family, "FOREVER BARRED," worth $600M+, that a judge is now probing as a possible fraud on the court.

The prosecution a federal judge dismissed as vindictive, finding Blanche "started the investigation to implicate" the defendant.

The bodycam of an opposition mayor arrested "per the deputy attorney general of the United States" as the cameras were ordered off.

The armed marshals at a whistleblower's door the night before her testimony.

This is a dangerous man. Not a partisan, a dangerous man: one who has proven he will point the entire machinery of American justice at protecting a single client and burying a single story, and who is days away from owning that machinery permanently.

The hearing is Wednesday, 9am. Your two senators decide. Tag them below and ask one question: "Will you confirm the man covering up the Epstein files before the Inspector General tells you whether he lied to you?"

@SenThomTillis @SenatorCollins @LisaMurkowski @JohnCornyn @SenBillCassidy @HawleyMO: you said you had concerns. This is what they look like on paper. I'll email you the full 20 page report.

Repost so no senator can say they didn't know.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The CDC under RFK Jr stopped tracking cases of cyclospora, a parasite that causes diarrhea

Now the case count, like the diarrhea it causes, is explosive

Thousands and thousands of cases across the US but no one is quite sure how many

What a shit show

[Hazie Thompson @haziethompson]

Cyclospora can not removed by washing, using fruit/veg washes or soaking in vinegar solutions.
Fruits and vegetables must be cooked to a temperature of 158°F (70°C) or higher in order to be consumed safely.
Produce with thick skins such as bananas or oranges can be peeled.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

A year ago, CDC made Cyclospora surveillance optional. It had been tracked for 28 years.

Today: ~3,000 cases across 31 states, no confirmed source, and CDC’s own count (843) is trailing what states are reporting by thousands.

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

I agree with this. Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but Lindsay Graham was the leading driver of the devastating sanctions bill against Russia. Yesterday, he announced that president Trump agreed to it. He had just returned from Ukraine where it’s not unknown for Russian agents to operate. Russians are expert at administration of poisons that look like heart attacks. All tests should be done immediately to rule out foul play. I’ve seen enough Russian related suspicious deaths to know this is the only course of action

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🎯 @Rep_Walkinshaw: “Any senator who votes to confirm Todd Blanche should know — you’re now part of the cover-up. You’re complicit in the cover-up if you vote to confirm the Todd Blanche for attorney general, who has led the cover-up of the Epstein Files.”

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Not sure why the FBI would be involved with a heart attack.

[Discourse News @Discourse__News]

🚨 BREAKING: The Trump Administration is now obstructing a New Mexico investigation into sex trafficking at Epstein's private ranch.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Defund the grifters who created the SF Doom Loop

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

Epstein survivor Lara Blume McGee confirms the Justice Department has not released all of the Epstein files.

She tells me there were recordings of crimes from inside of Epstein's townhouse.

[Harrison Berger @BergerPosts]

An American congressman is detained and threatened by armed Israeli settlers and his colleagues in Congress instantly side with the Israeli soldiers and thugs who did it.

As Pat Buchanan said, Congress is Israeli occupied territory

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Bamf

[Carol Leonnig @CarolLeonnig]

SCOOP O CLOCK- @FBIDirectorKash summoned to White House by frustrated Trunp advisers today . He had to cancel his jet trip to see his girlfriend play at a country music festival in Chicago - from the tarmac. Great @MSNOWNews team
https://t.co/Up4HTbvWfG

[Daniel Kochis @dankochis]

This is great news, long overdue, but excellent nonetheless. Tide has turned