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[Jarl Finland @jalle51]

You cannot make this level of hypocrisy up. Facing an unprecedented national fuel crisis, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has reportedly appealed to the White House, begging them to convince Ukraine to stop striking Russian oil refineries.

The unspoken Russian logic here is mind-blowing: "Hey, Ukraine has plenty of residential areas, theaters, schools, kindergartens, and hospitals you can bomb instead! But hands off our refineries—that's PRIVATE PROPERTY!"

This plea comes from the very regime that has spent four years systematically turning Ukrainian cities to ash, targeting children's hospitals, and leveling civilian infrastructure. But the moment Ukraine’s precision drones strike the financial heart of Putin's war machine 2,200 km away, Moscow suddenly rediscovers the sanctity of "private property."

A definitive confirmation that Kyiv's strategic campaign against Russian oil is hurting the Kremlin exactly where it matters most. #Peskov #KremlinDesperation #Hypocrisy #RussiaFuelCrisis #DroneWarfare #UkraineWar #BreakingNews

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

I couldn't understand why the FBI was investigating Lindsey Graham's death—in the absence of any suspicious toxicology report in the autopsy—until I realized it gave Trump and his lawyer Kash Patel an excuse to enter Graham's house and remove potentially incriminating documents

[Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin]

I’m announcing today that Liz Oyer and Dani Bensky will be the Democratic witnesses in opposition to Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination.

Liz Oyer served as the Justice Department’s nonpolitical pardon attorney. She was fired by Blanche for refusing to rubberstamp gun ownership rights to Mel Gibson, a convicted domestic violence abuser and friend of Donald Trump.

Dani Bensky is a brave survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s horrific crimes. Her name has been included in multiple batches of released Epstein Files, due to Todd Blanche’s failures. She’s attempted multiple times to redact her information without success.

They will offer compelling testimony about the dangers of Todd Blanche weaponizing the Justice Department in service of Donald Trump, rather than the American people.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

It’s time to take a step back and look at what’s really going on when it comes to
voter suppression and deliberate attempts to disenfranchise American voters.

Take a moment today to watch this excellent piece from the team at @MorePerfectUS I’ll let Cassie Willson explain.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/zPPBBHlWLo

[Badd Company @BaddCompani]

This is an absolute must-watch!

For years, my followers and I have been telling you this, a story of the Factions trying to end Democracy!

This is election fraud on a massive scale and exactly who Marc Elias is standing against!

Faction #1

I will add to this post!

[Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates]

Did you catch this? Last week, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn told a Memphis reporter that the $30 million state incentives package for Starbucks would be recouped in six months through payroll taxes.
FACT CHECK: Tennessee does NOT have payroll/income taxes.

[Joe Flood @joeflood]

The Reflecting Pool is empty now and there is no 300 yard long gash that’s been peeled up. That line running down the middle is for drainage and was there before

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

*** JUST IN *** Court documents now show that $5,625,005.48 HAS been disbursed electronically to the law firm representing E. Jean Carroll.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This is the line to see @JamesTalarico in Marfa, Texas.

Marfa's population is 1,788.

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

Dear Jaime,

Below is the last birthday photo that we have of you. It is on your 14th birthday. Today should be your 23rd birthday. Today is the 9th year that we are honoring your memory and remembering you as the always laughing, always talking, always active, always dancing, always family and dog loving, and just the most amazing daughter who is missed every second of every day.

At your funeral, I talked about how you were the energy in our house and in every room that you went into. It is a fact that those who knew you knew that you had this amazing ability to always talk and to always say important and thoughtful things. We miss your amazing and powerful voice always. We miss your constant laughter.

I wonder what you would have been like now. I miss not getting to see you growing up, hearing about times with your friends and living your best life with them, having boyfriends, and pursuing your career as a pediatric physical therapist. I wonder if you would have met your life goal of full-time work and marriage by the age of 25. Without question, we know you would have had at least one dog in your house. Without question, we know you would have been using your voice as a voice for good and for those with differing abilities.

Those who were lucky enough to know you knew that your favorite color was orange. The meaning of orange in our life did not begin because of gun violence, it was genuinely your favorite color. The idea that your favorite color was also the recognized color of the gun violence prevention movement is just a tragic reality that we live with every day. Before your funeral, your studio dance sisters got together and made thousands of orange ribbons for us to give out at the funeral. While delivering your eulogy I said “I was never a voice in the gun violence debate before, but I will be now. With you by my side, I will fight. For those of you who do not know me and what I can be like when I take on a cause, I will be relentless. This will be my life’s cause going forward. The Orange Ribbon Movement started by Jaime’s beautiful sisters in Parkland Florida has become the rallying cry for the fight against gun violence.”

Approximately two weeks after the funeral, on a visit to Home Depot while wearing my orange ribbon, I was informed by another customer that orange was the color of the gun safety movement. It was a connection that I did not know of before this. It was not lost on me that the Home Depot sign is also orange. I truly took this as a sign from you, Jaime. The movement had a color, but it did not have a symbol. You were showing me the way Jaime. On that day, I said to mom that I want to make the orange ribbon the symbol of the gun violence prevention movement and to do it in your name. That was the day that we decided to begin our foundation Orange Ribbons for Jaime. The following week, I gave out thousands of orange ribbons at the march in DC and the connection of the orange ribbon to this movement began. I hope that nobody ever forgets going forward that when they see people wearing an orange ribbon because of gun violence, that is because of you Jaime, and the work of our foundation in your name. Your name will always be remembered.

In the early years of our foundation, the focus was on educating the country on why gun violence happens, making sure that the orange ribbon was becoming the symbol of this movement, and in supporting causes important to you and what you fought for, even at the age of 14. Over the years, our foundation started to focus more heavily on causes important to you in life and on our work to support survivors and families affected by gun violence. That is the pure focus of Orange Ribbons for Jaime today.

Jaime, I will be forever moved by the reality that your name is connected to the now recognized symbol for gun violence prevention. I will be forever grateful to those who allowed us into their lives and who we were able to support. Mom and I will struggle more today because it is your birthday. However, we will find purpose and meaning. Your amazing mom made blessing bags with all sorts of goodies, and we will drive around and spend the day giving out the blessing bags to those who are unhoused and less fortunate. Simply put, Jaime, you lived your short life always helping others and that is what we will do today.

We are proud of the work that we do to honor Jaime through our foundation Orange Ribbons for Jaime. If you are so inclined, please check out our website and if possible, please make a donation.

https://t.co/qGAmrDMQRe

Happy 23rd birthday Jaime. We love and miss you every second of every day.

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🚨 Rep. Sarah Jacobs just left Pete Hegseth STUNNED in this hearing.
With 2,500 Marines from her district off the coast of Iran and military families calling her office in panic, she asked the question no one else would:
“Do you believe the president is mentally stable enough to be Commander-in-Chief?”
Hegseth deflected hard.
She didn’t flinch.
Then she dropped this:“If you think this is what winning looks like… maybe we should be questioning your mental stability.”
Pure accountability. No notes.
It takes a woman to say what needs to be said when lives and billions of dollars are on the line. This clip is everything.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Three years ago I sued @PatrickByrne for lying about me. He claimed that I took a bribe and committed treason. He implied I was in some part responsible for the Hamas attack of October 7th.

His lies caused real damage and endangered my family.

On Friday I was awarded $1.7M in punitive damages by a Reagan-appointed federal judge. The court determined that everything he said about me was a complete fiction.

For those of you who don’t know Patrick Byrne, he is the former Overstock CEO who lost control of his company when it became public he was sleeping with convicted Russian agent Maria Butina. He is the man who was in the Oval Office with Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell leading up to the January 6th insurrection.

He is a clownish footnote in history. But his lies travel far and wide. He is a fraud who did the bidding of Donald Trump and Steve Bannon.

This isn’t the first defamation case brought against Byrne, and it won’t be the last. Even after losing, he is still doing it.

He continues to tell his audience he has “three dynamite voicemails” and a former federal agent whose testimony confirms his story. Byrne had three years to bring that evidence to court. He never produced it. The voicemails he did produce, the court found, “do not mention a bribe, implicate contemporaneous involvement in any illegal scheme by Plaintiff, or otherwise independently corroborate Defendant’s story.” The former federal agent Byrne relied on, John Moynihan, gave sworn testimony that contradicted him. The FBI agent Byrne claimed had backed him up denied it under oath.

Those are not my findings. Those are the findings of a federal court. And nothing prevents Byrne from releasing the voicemails he keeps promising his audience. He never has, because the court has already listened to what he produced and found they prove nothing.

Patrick will try not pay this judgment. He didn’t pay the $34,969 the court ordered six months ago either. His strategy is delay. Fire the lawyer. Skip the hearing. File nonsense with courts that have already ruled. Repeat the lie on Alex Jones while the clock runs.

He is not a whistleblower or a spy. He is a man who got played by a Russian intelligence asset, lost his company over it, and has been performing a spy fantasy on the internet ever since.

He is a coward who wouldn’t even show up in court to face me. He is hiding in Dubai, where he fled during my case to avoid being deposed, and told the court a story about a Venezuelan hit squad to explain it.

He will run from this judgment the same way he ran from my trial. Fine. Every defamatory statement is a new lawsuit. I have as much time as he has words.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

My latest about how earlier today, all of Trump's abuses — the abuse of the legal system, the politicization of the DOJ and the grift — came crashing down on Trump and his lawyers in a Florida federal court. https://t.co/MoFiOfLZjw

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 BREAKING: Democrats successfully block construction of ICE detention center in Pennsylvania.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

This is GREAT: Leader Jeffries is slamming trump's "Ponzi Scheme" that was REJECTED by a judge today.

He blasted 6 right wing SCOTUS justices for giving trump "blanket immunity to unleash a crime wave on the American people and enrich himself." 🔥🔥🔥

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

MAINE: “Vote her out! Vote her out!”

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

🚨 JUDGE KATHLEEN WILLIAMS DROPS A BOMBSHELL:

Federal Judge Kathleen Williams has referred key Trump lawyers — including Acting AG Todd Blanche — to state bar authorities for disciplinary action in the IRS settlement scandal.

In a scathing ruling, she found the $10B lawsuit was filed for an “improper purpose”: a collusive, bad-faith scheme lacking real adversity between parties. It was designed to rubber-stamp audit immunity for Trump and allies plus a $1.8B taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization” fund.

Self-dealing that abused the courts.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

I know Susan Collins is pro-ICE, but you’d think she’d at least care enough to put out a statement when a victim is gunned down by ICE agents in her own backyard. Her silence today speaks volumes.

For shame.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Trump ordered the FBI to find out who leaked the truth about his Qatari jet.

Within 24 hours, his own leak investigation leaked.

You can’t write a better metaphor for this administration. Too corrupt to hide it & too incompetent to cover it up.

https://t.co/zAGbaxJBCV

[CNN @CNN]

Judge says Trump sought to "manipulate the judicial process" with his IRS lawsuit and will recommend sanctions against the president's attorneys. https://t.co/OU8NCFR90Y