MamaLisa

Proud 💙 mama, democracy defender, humanity lover, truth teller. I’m an old and tattered warrior, fierce and unafraid. Never give in. Never give up.

[Katie @KazooKatherine]

Wow! Raskin just sent Kash Patel this letter. It’s umm… interesting. Read it twice. 👀

The House Judiciary minority says Patel has handed out more than $1 million in “bonus” payments to agents on his Director’s Advisory Team and his security detail. The letter calls it a personal slush fund.

Here’s the mechanism. Federal pay is capped by statute. The letter alleges Patel routed money around that cap. Nearly $8,000 per agent, every two-week pay period. Some collected five in a row. Roughly $40,000 each.

Then the accounts ran dry. Raskin says some of the payments bounced.

Who got paid? The letter points to the unit NOTUS reported as the “Payback Squad.” And it ties the cash to silence, alleging agents were polygraphed over whether they helped cover up Patel’s drinking.

Now the other column. The agents he fired include an FBI Medal of Valor recipient, the official who led the Jan 6 law enforcement response, a Marine combat veteran cut weeks after his wife died of cancer, and a counterintelligence unit that tracked Iranian threats.

Reward the loyal. Purge the rest.

Raskin wants every bonus, every authorization, and every legal memo on whether this broke federal law. Deadline June 29.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

More Epstein case insanity:

Not only is Ghislaine Maxwell in the lowest security facility in America, but she is the ONLY sexual offender at Club Fed, and even the warden doesn't know why she's there.

But Todd Blanche knows.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

The Vice President of the United States wanted to use the Insurrection Act to quash protests and Stephen Miller wanted to suspend habeas corpus rights. These are basic constitutional freedoms. Let that sink in.

If you haven’t read the latest reporting from the New York Times, this is a must-read. ⬇️
https://t.co/9dY4fXixMl

[AnthonyAndrews @anthon7yandrews]

Yuri Milner said to have funneled money to Kushner in the email below from 2017.

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

With tariffs and rising costs creating real uncertainty, it means something to see Kris’ Fresh Frybread still looking out for their neighbors. Local businesses like this, and the people behind them, are why I'm proud to call Arizona home. And the fry bread is worth every bite.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

🚨 LAWYERS SANCTIONED. A far-right group filed a lawsuit to sabotage Wisconsin's voter data system, completely inventing a false claim to back it up. Federal Judge Conley didn't just dismiss it—he legally sanctioned the lawyers. Read the truth: 👇 https://t.co/2DNOnZcETC

[FonsFlacko @FonsFlacko]

🚨 Invitation to Peter Thiel’s 2014 Dialog Retreat. Email says it's "100% off-the-record". Giant list of names including CEO’s, Congressmen, former US officials and more.

“You're invited to join us at the Dialog Retreat ... 150 people to change the world... a participatory and entrepreneurial conversation on changing the world.

The Dialog participants aren't modest. We want to change the world.
But we don't want to spend our time being in a large audience listening to winded speeches.

There are no speakers. No panels. All attendees participate in break-out facilitated discussions. And we *limit the discussion to only 150 global leaders" who can have an impact now and emerging leaders who can help implement the plans we develop.”

#EpsteinFiles

[FonsFlacko @FonsFlacko]

I went through all 2,279 Epstein files mentioning Ramsey Elkholy. Here’s a thread of all of them.🧵🚨

Context: Ramsey Elkholy markets himself as a musician, anthropologist, and former modeling agent. He is best known as the frontman of the indietronica collective Monotronic. Elkholy also holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Manchester.

The Epstein emails reveal another side of Elkholy. A man embedded in the modeling world who was actively pitching business deals to Epstein that centered on buying modeling agencies for “access to girls,” scouting internationally, and sending women directly to him.

@digitalmusicnws reported on him using my Reddit post and received a cease and desist letter. He’s been mentioned by @washingtonpost, @MiamiHerald, and @BBC but he’s not getting enough attention nor being asked the right questions in my opinion.

Here’s a link to my substack thread containing all of them. 👇🏽

#RamseyElkholy #EpsteinFiles

https://t.co/jEMNoUORjC

[The Fair Witness 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 @adamross]

No surprise that most people on the leaked Dialog list are associated with the right and far-right side of the political spectrum, both in the U.S. and abroad. But WIRED didn’t mention any of the following names from the list — all of whom are prominent Democrats or associated with left-leaning political media in America:

• Cory Booker (U.S. Senator, New Jersey)
• Jared Polis (Governor of Colorado)
• Wes Moore (Governor of Maryland)
• Julián Castro (Obama administration U.S. HUD Secretary)
• Robert Rubin (Clinton administration Treasury Secretary)
• Lawrence Summers (Clinton administration Treasury Secretary)
• Reid Hoffman (major Democratic donor; LinkedIn cofounder)
• Nick Thompson (CEO of The Atlantic)
• Ezra Klein (NYT opinion columnist; founder/former editor-in-chief of Vox)

As a Democrat, I’d like to know if these guys are actually on our side or not?

The original source for the Dialog leak/list is on Bluesky, as shown in the attached screenshots.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

It should be bigger news that Jeffrey Epstein’s billionaire associate, who is contracted to build Trump’s mass surveillance state, is hosting a secretive retreat with other oligarchs to discuss cult-building, World War 3-prepping, and get sex tips.

Epstein Island never ended.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Jon Ossoff just dropped a new ad calling out Mike Collins for what he really is: A rich politician's son who rode daddy's business to Congress, backed Trump's chaos, voted to hike healthcare costs, protected billionaires, and left Georgians paying more.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Stop calling Neville Trump’s DocuSign two-pager a deal.

It’s not a deal. It’s literally just a memo (an MOU).

For that matter, stop calling the memo “bad.”

It’s not merely bad—it’s a surrender, by the United States, to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

It’s a *historic disaster*.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In direct response to Donald Trump's threats to our elections and democracy, Governor Gavin Newsom just signed legislation that will protect Californians from election intimidation and interference. This is huge.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Axelrod: When I was in the white house, I got a call from Donald Trump. And he called to say he wanted to build a ballroom. And he said, we have those shitty little tents. He never raised security. He is obsessed with building a ballroom. This just became a convenient way to divert public money into the project because he it became much more expensive and he couldn't extort enough from the donors

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

He ruined his own career.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “Headline: ‘Donald Trump can’t open the Strait of Hormuz, so instead he’s blocking the Strait of Detroit.’ It’s a headline from The Globe and Mail, the Canadian newspaper. The big beautiful new bridge that Trump is not allowing us to use, is a bridge that crosses the Detroit River. It goes from…Detroit…to…Ontario. Canada fully financed and paid for this bridge. It is ready to be opened, it will be the biggest U.S. border crossing in Canada, it will be one of the most important routes for trade in the entire world, the single most important one with one of our two most important trading partners, Canada, but Trump won’t let anybody use it, even though it’s ready, ready to be driven on.” 🤦‍♀️

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trickle down economics is the lie billionaires tell so you’ll support them stealing and hoarding your money.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Markwayne Mullin is fine with people dying as long as he gets his. Only the best people!

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Justice Dept. is seeking to throw out a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s company, xAI, over the data center's air pollution, saying it has the right to run polluting gas-burning turbines in Mississippi despite not having permits for them. https://t.co/CxztBM0baD

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

This week, more than 100 FBI agents executed a massive law enforcement effort targeting the Ohio Organizing Collaborative.

The group's offense? Running successful voter registration programs and fighting for fair redistricting in Ohio, @marceelias writes. https://t.co/JUwlfmc2Wb