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Scientist, NY sports fan, CUNY alum, certified gluten free as of 2019 not by choice

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

If you think someone cut 350 feet of a thick sealant that’s underwater in the middle of the night under video surveillance with a box cutter, you’re fucking stupid.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Host: Trump is still very fascinated with you and your family

@BarackObama: I obviously have a room in his head. A suite. When I was president, the last thing I had time to do was worry what my predecessor did. It shows me somebody who is not focused on the American people and the job they're supposed to do.

[Brown Eyed Susan @smc429]

Good morning ☕️

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada is a legal immigrant. His wife got arrested at an ICE protest in Texas. Daniel moved a box of antifascist zines after she called him.

He was convicted on terrorism charges & given 30 years in prison. His wife was given 50.

This is not my country.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH: Trump’s Postmaster General David Steiner confirms under a new rule the U.S. Postal Service will refuse to deliver mail-in ballots in states that don’t hand over their voter lists to Trump 🤔

We are very far off the cliff, folks 🇺🇸

[Lies Or Liars @Liesorliars]

THE HANDLER

Jeffrey Epstein was running operational security for Steve Bannon's Middle East meetings.

This was November 16 2018. Bannon was travelling to Abu Dhabi for a meeting Epstein had arranged and described as very important. Epstein had already booked the flights, coordinated the contacts, and arranged accommodation.

Then he sent this.

"Tomorrow meeting powerful. Reminder. Phones not secure AT ALL. Wait until you return for downloads"

Epstein was not just arranging access. He was managing information security. He knew the phones were compromised. He knew the meeting was sensitive enough that nothing discussed should be transmitted electronically. He told Bannon to debrief in person only after returning.

This is the operational language of an intelligence handler. Not a social acquaintance. Not a financial advisor. A handler.

Bannon was meeting unnamed Middle Eastern figures in Abu Dhabi. Epstein had arranged the meeting. Epstein controlled the debrief. And Epstein knew enough about the security environment to warn Bannon that his phone was being monitored.

A convicted sex offender. Running counter surveillance protocols for a former White House Chief Strategist. In the Middle East. November 2018.

This is message 1395 of 3,356 in the Bannon thread alone. We have read 1,500.

Source: DOJ Epstein Files Transparency Act release. Jmail iMessage Archive. steve-bannon thread. Message 1395. November 16 2018.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Look what we pulled out of the Reflecting Pool...

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

The legal system assumes people operate with ethics and morals‼️

[Acyn @Acyn]

Lieu: Trump overpaid on a no-bid contract to a pool guy who was a total amateur and messed up the Reflecting Pool, and now Trump’s fragile ego has him trying to cover this up by saying someone did a 350-foot gash in the pool. This pool has 24/7 cameras on it. So we’re in a place where the president is just lying because he can’t handle that he totally screwed up the Reflecting Pool.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

I can't believe I have to say this, but arresting civilians for collecting paint chips and not arresting the people in power for raping children is fucking evil.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Imagine a country where you can get a 10 year prison sentence for removing peeling paint from a pool…

And receive no prison sentence for raping a child.

Welcome to America.

[Epstein File Search @epsteinsearchin]

Howard Lutnick went into business with Jeffrey Epstein. That is Congressman Ted Lieu, citing the Epstein files release, saying Lutnick lied to the public and knew exactly how evil Epstein was. Lieu's demand: he must resign.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

‼️‼️‼️ HOLY HELL: Watch Ted Lieu state that in the un-redacted Epstein Files there are “highly disturbing allegations” of Donald Trump raping children and threatening to kill children.

He wants to know why these files remain sealed and no arrests have happened, suggesting a major cover-up.

Ted references specific claims like a limo driver’s FBI statement about a girl later found dead who claimed Trump and Epstein raped her.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A note to my friends who still back Trump:

I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.

Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.

And the green water?

A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.

Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.

That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.

The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.

Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.

Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.

Prove them wrong.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

He thinks of this as a television drama reality show.
He is literally just producing a tv show.
Shame on the New York Times for choosing profit over democracy.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

How did Cory Booker end up being the only Democrat to vote for Trump‘s billionaire donor? The story goes all the way back to Oxford in 1992 & involves a wild redemption arc, a federal prison sentence and the Kushner family. This relationship runs deeper than anyone realizes‼️

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

Donald Trump mishandled classified documents after he left office.

He took classified intelligence to Mar-a-Lago and stored it in a bathroom.

The full Special Counsel report on it is still hidden from the public and Congress.

Jack Smith’s report should be released fully.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A Justice Department lawyer just signed a memo saying disabled Americans have no right to live in their own homes. In the same document, she admits no court in the country agrees with her.

Read that again. A government official wrote down, in black and white, that her own argument is wrong by every legal standard of the last thirty years, and she made it anyway.

Here is what it means in plain terms.

Right now, 8.4 million people get help that lets them stay in their own homes. Aides who help them dress. Care that lets them work, see friends, raise their kids, sleep in their own beds at night.

This memo tells states they can cut all of it.

And if they cut it, where do those people go? Into nursing homes. Into institutions. Into facilities where someone else decides when you wake up, what you eat, who your roommate is, whether you go outside today.

A lawyer who has visited people locked in these places said their whole world shrinks to one hallway. That is the future this memo is opening the door to.

Keeping people in their own homes is cheaper. In one case, home care cost under $7,500 a year. The nursing home would have cost close to $50,000. The cruel option is also the expensive one. They want to spend more money to make people's lives worse.

So why?

Because last summer Trump signed an order to deal with homelessness by force, by sweeping people off the streets and committing them. He said it out loud during the campaign: the mentally ill belong back in institutions.

The only thing standing in the way was the law that says people deserve to live in their own communities.

This memo is how they get around it. And it landed the same week Republicans slashed Medicaid, giving every cash-strapped state the perfect excuse to start cutting.

A think tank drew up the plan. A lawyer wrote the memo. A president signed the order. Three signatures, and millions of people could lose the right to their own front door.

We are about to spend the summer celebrating 250 years of American freedom.
Some Americans are about to find out it doesn't include them.