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[Robert holgate @415holgate]

#TrumpEpsteinCoverUp 👇🏿

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Some thoughts on the new Epstein Files revelations:

I’ve now read everything that’s come out from the new Haberman and Swan book, and the thing I keep coming back to is the Situation Room. They held multiple meetings in the Situation Room about the Epstein files. That room is for war. It’s for national security emergencies. It is not for figuring out how to spin a scandal you’re telling the country is a hoax.

While the President was deflecting or calling this old news, his own Vice President and Chief of Staff were huddled in the most leak-proof room in America because they knew how bad it really was.

You don’t take a nothingburger to the Situation Room.

And I have to be honest, reading all this brings back a lot of frustration about what happened in the House of Representatives. I sat there and watched Mike Johnson send the House home early to dodge a vote on releasing these files. I watched him refuse to swear in a duly elected colleague for months just to stall the discharge petition. Month after month of excuses, arm twisting, and procedural games, all to keep this information from the public. We only got the files because survivors, families, and a handful of members in both parties simply refused to let it go.

So when people ask me why I talk so much about transparency and accountability, this is why. The truth eventually comes out. It always does.

The only question is whether your leaders helped reveal it or helped bury it.

Everyone who voted to keep these files hidden should have to answer for that.

Finally, notice what’s missing from all of this is any sign that Trump’s DOJ will actually investigate the powerful men named in these files.

Draw your own conclusions about why a Justice Department run by the President’s former defense lawyers might not be eager to pull that thread.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Prominent Rep. Jamie Raskin exposes a horrifying reality.

He confirms Donald Trump mass pardoned 97 violent criminals, including a man who went on to sexually assault two children.

The administration is actively protecting the most depraved predators!

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
https://t.co/8kY171r5w1

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

A disgrace.

[Red Media @RedMedia_us]

NYC Mayor, Zohran Mamdani reacts to Elon Musk becoming a Trillionaire:

"Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich."

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Eric Trump out here proving that the potato doesn’t fall far from the trump family tree.

[Florida Democrats @FlaDems]

Congratulations to Congressman Maxwell Frost on his re-election to Florida's 10th Congressional District! We're proud he'll continue serving Central Florida and delivering for working Floridians.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

They say getting your name removed from a building hurts.
Imagine spending your whole life trying to put your name on everything... only to discover the Kennedy Center had an eraser bigger than your Sharpie.
Politics is a rough business. 😏

[Praise @tufpraise]

Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Robert F. Kennedy stopping for a meal at a drive-in in Bluefield, West Virginia during the campaign for his brother John F. Kennedy to become the 1960 Democratic presidential nominee.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

In Trump’s 1st administration he bailed out farmers with $28 billion of TAXPAYER money harmed by his trade policies. 😡 That bailout was more than the federal government spends each year building ships for the Navy or maintaining America’s nuclear arsenal. https://t.co/gTHzu4XsUE

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.

“You are not numbers or case files.

“You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

[Acyn @Acyn]

Elias: Why does California have signature matching? They have it to satisfy the same right-wing zealots who claim there’s fraud, right?

So they do this whole kabuki theater that takes all of this time in order to contend with the fact that people say that if you don’t do signature matching, there’s going to be fraud. And then they get attacked for taking the time to do that very thing.

The fact that the New York Times thinks there’s a middle ground here… Here’s my message: I don’t compromise with Republicans because there is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist, and they are trying to burn down democracy.

[It's politics @uspolitics1111]

Jennifer Welch on Susan Collins: “You are a pedophile enabler, you are pro-billionaire, you are anti-American, you are pro-war, you are anti-economy, you are a pathological liar that has blood on your hands.

You support child sex abuse and sexual abuse with your vote of Brett Kavanaugh. We need to support the democratic voices in Maine and their candidate and get this c-u-n-t out of the Senate"

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

Trump wants to put his former defense lawyer in charge of the Justice Department. That’s not justice — that’s corruption.

Tell Congress to oppose Todd Blanche for AG:
https://t.co/XG9fVpN0Fg

[SPIEGEL English @SPIEGEL_English]

A young woman from Germany vanished without a trace 11 years ago. Now, her name makes several appearances in the Epstein files. Her family wants to finally learn what happened to her. https://t.co/cwnleksESl

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Are you fucking kidding me?

[California Democratic Party @CA_Dem]

More than 2.8 million LGBTQ+ folks call California home, making us the state with the largest LGBTQ+ population in the country. We're committed to keeping California safe, welcoming, and inclusive for everyone.
https://t.co/PQMQijLHrU

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: "YOU THINK YOU CAN GET RID OF ME?" MAGA loser Spencer Pratt has a nuclear meltdown hissy fit after his embarrassing Los Angeles mayoral loss.

This guy is completely off his rocker...

"Now, that the campaign portion of my mission to save Los Angeles is coming to a close and I'm moving on to the next more interesting phase," Pratt said in a video posted to X. "Listen, I've spent a lot of time slaying everybody. I've ridiculed everyone on the roster."

To point out the obvious, he didn't complete a "portion" of a "mission." He was thoroughly repudiated by Angelenos because it turns out that a campaign driven by AI slop videos, an endorsement from noted pedophile Donald Trump, and putting forward no real policy platform is a recipe for electoral humiliation.

The fact that he's bragging about "slaying" and "ridiculing" people drives home what an unqualified manchild he is. Insulting people online has nothing to do with good governance. But of course, that's all Republicans have these days. Their political movement has resulted in a stagnant economy, skyrocketing inflation, and another Middle East military quagmire. All they have left is vulgarity and cruelty.

"And I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, I'd like to take the chance to apologize to absolutely nobody. You think you can get rid of me that easily?" Pratt continued. "I know a lot of dimwitted jerks thought I was in this for a grift, that I was going to roll up and leave town if I didn't get into City Hall."

"Hey morons, I didn't get in this for political power," said Pratt, who got into this for attention.

Growing more visibly agitated as he went, Spencer went on to attack the two Democrats who defeated him in the primary, calling them "morons," "demons" and "commie animals," further proving that all he has left are playground bully barbs.

An easy rule of thumb: Once a conservative starts throwing around the phrase "communist" you know they've run out arrows in their quiver. Nithya Raman is a Democratic Socialist and Karen Bass is an establishment Democrat. Neither is a communist, but we've seen this playbook for decades now from Fox News and other reactionary outlets. When everything is "communist," nothing is.

"You have no idea how many major developers, hoteliers, business owners, entrepreneurs have been texting me saying they're packing up and leaving town," said Pratt, deploying the shopworn "trust me bro" strategy. "More of your favorite restaurants will be shuttering. That means less tax revenue."

None of that will actually happen. Pratt is leaning into the deranged myth that exists in Republican spheres which asserts that all Democratic-run cities are crime-infested hellholes. Believing that narrative requires that one never venture into the city.

"I want all of you awake at night, sweating and worried about 5am when an FBI blazer busts in the door, breaking open your office, because I assure you, they're coming," Pratt added.

"You think your election was going to stop me? If you want to stop me, you're going to have to f*cking kill me!" he concluded.

Dear. Lord. To think that some people actually believed that this lunatic could be trusted to run America's second largest city...

This man belongs in a padded room, not City Hall.

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