Jon Ossoff lays into RFK Jr for his role in the ongoing Cyclospora outbreaks:
"He cancelled the CDC's required FoodNet monitoring of Cyclospora and he refuses to answer my inquiries."
A lot is being said lately about Jared Kushner as it relates to the Epstein case.
It's important to consider that the Kushner family real estate business routinely fronts for others and doesn't use their own money for a lot of their real estate transactions. It is reminiscent of how Epstein, who was also involved in "distressed" NY real estate and regularly referred to as a "property developer" in 90s press reports, was often a conduit for other people's money. While Epstein is the focus of the criminal case for obvious reasons, he was a fixer for the billionaires whose money he "managed," (eg Wexner, Black, etc.) With these people, it's essential to follow the money to see who is pulling the strings.
Several key Kushner real estate deals have seen the family serve as fronts for Andrew Farkas, with Farkas being the co-owner of the USVI marina from which women and girls were ferried to the island (among other thins). Farkas should absolutely be investigated (as my recent report notes) but likely won't be because not only is he too close to the Kushners (and arguably Trump as well), he is also the long-time moneyman and private sector employer of Andrew Cuomo, so Dems are unlikely to pursue him either.
You can read my recent report on Farkas and his ties to Epstein (as well as Kushner and Trump) here: https://t.co/2BJXhOz2aX
Wow! During Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing, Jeffrey Epstein survivor Dani Bensky just seemingly accused Todd Blanche and the Trump administration of intentionally releasing her personal information!
"I'm a teacher. In my school, if a student released a nude photo depicting a peer's sexual assault and abuse, they would almost certainly face expulsion. And yet, this is what our Department of Justice did to crime victims.
"Today, Todd Blanche has been at the helm of the release of nude images of survivors, the outing of Jane Does, and the exposure of more than 100 victims' identifying information and documents describing horrific acts of abuse, including my own.
"Instead of treating this release as its own violation and holding the man who led it accountable, you have a decision on whether you place him in the highest law enforcement position in this country.
"In December, before the document release, our attorneys submitted 350 victims' names to the Department of Justice as victims' names to be redacted prior to the release. In that first release, I found my name in two places.
"In that next release in January, my name appeared again. But this time, the redactions were so far worse. The files displayed not only my name, but my phone number, my former addresses, where I worked, and other identifying information.
"When my name appeared in the third file release, it became difficult to believe that this was not intentional."
Theodore Roosevelt said the national parks were the greatest gift this country ever gave itself, and the greatest idea we ever gave the world.
More than 100 nations copied it.
Donald Trump looks at that gift and sees a piggy bank for his own pet projects.
This week we learned where our national park money has been going. Not to Yellowstone. Not to Yosemite. To the walkway outside his office, where Trump ripped out American flagstone and laid down Italian granite at a cost of $689,000 to taxpayers. He said he paid for it himself.
That was a lie.
To cover his vanity projects, they are robbing the parks. Spending on parks outside Washington is down $854 million. More than 900 projects went unfunded. They even pulled money from a guardrail on a Colorado cliff that the Park Service flagged as a safety hazard.
I serve on Appropriations.
The power to spend belongs to Congress, not to a king redecorating his palace. These parks are not Trump’s to loot.
They belong to all of us, and I will fight for every dollar.
The number of financial side deals the Trump family is running is so shocking it can sometimes be hard to track.
According to @Reuters, their crypto ventures alone have delivered $2.3 billion to Trump & co. while creating a similar-sized loss for investors.
This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.
The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.
Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.
The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz
I find it interesting that Trump supporters have never seen these videos. They claim there is no footage of that day. 😳 I watched it in real time on TV when it was happening, just like Trump.
1. FYI, the footage is all over the internet.
2. You can CLEARLY see them breaking windows. The law says that’s breaking and entering.
3. I’ve been to the Capitol, you have to go through security to enter. You don’t enter through broken windows. That’s just a fact.
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David Byrne burns down the house with Stephen Colbert on one of his show's final performances 🔥
Byrne was last night’s musical guest, tonight will be Bruce Springsteen, and then the final episode on Thursday's guest is TBD.
(📹 via @colbertlateshow, IG davidbyrneofficial)