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"As my final column of the year, I wanted to take some stock of where our country stands as 2025 winds down. The events of this week drive an inescapable conclusion: Donald Trump is losing. …
Never this year has Donald Trump looked as weak as he did yesterday."
~ Garrett Graff
#Trump #MAGA #ApprovalRating #ICE #immigrants #economy
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"President Trump erupted Thursday in a wild rage on Truth Social in which he appeared to blame pollsters for failing to register his world-historical success."
~ Greg Sargent
"Americans are seeing what it looks like when you send masked people out to pick people off the street in vans and take them away and ship them to foreign torture prisons, right? And this is not what they had in mind."
~ Will Saletan
#Trump #MAGA #ApprovalRating #ICE #immigrants #economy
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Trump Rages at Cratering Polls as GOP Losses Reveal Surprise Weakness
As this week’s brutal GOP election losses show Latinos shifting hard against Trump and the GOP, the author of a piece on Trump’s agenda of ethnic persecution explains why naked bigotry is also backfiring politically.The New Republic
"If you really, truly, deeply believed that Trump would lower prices quickly? I’m sorry. You’re an idiot."
~ Michael Tomasky
The truth is, it never was about the economy for a majority of Trump voters. Truth is, they knew exactly whom and what they were voting for. "The economy" was just a specious excuse. The racism and heterosexist male entitlement and immigrant bashing: that's what they wanted.
#Trump #MAGA #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #ballroom
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Sorry, but you had to be an idiot to believe Trump could lower prices
Fighting Words. What got...newsletter.tnr.com
Aaron Parnas also shares Epstein images from the cache released today, stating,
"Some of the images are extremely disturbing in nature, and are part of a larger batch of documents that are set to be released to the public in one week."
#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #SuperRich
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Major Epstein Files Update and Release
We have a critical update about the Epstein files, including new photos showing a closer relationship between Trump and Epstein.Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)
"One image released Friday shows what appears to be a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face...Another showed Trump with six women with leis whose faces were redacted by the committee."
~ Bill Kristol quoting CNN
#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #SuperRich
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"These men should be shunned, banished from what we used to call polite society and disinvited from any and all honors which might be bestowed upon them such as speaking at a college, attending a wedding, or even being invited to a dinner party."
Trump, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Alan Dershowitz, Woody Allen, Richard Branson: these are the men of whom Truscott is speaking.
#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #SuperRich
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"The photo is one of a number from the 'personal collection of Jeffrey Epstein' released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee today.
Other photographs show sex toys and bondage equipment — including something with a 'choking hazard' warning on it — and a murderers’ row of men hanging out with their good buddy, Jeffrey."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
The photo Truscott is referencing is at the head of his posting.
#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #SuperRich
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This is so gross and creepy, I can't even.
The photo is one of a number from the “personal collection of Jeffrey Epstein” released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee today.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
"Other images feature individuals like Steve Bannon, Alan Dershowitz, Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Larry Summers, Woody Allen, Richard Branson, and others. …
The images show Trump at social gatherings and aboard aircraft connected to Epstein. Additional photos document items recovered from the estate that underscore the depravity of Epstein’s operation."
#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #SuperRich
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"As more photographic and documentary evidence is released, it becomes clearer and clearer as to why Trump is so petrified of the Files being made public. …
According to the committee, roughly 95,000 photographs were obtained from the Epstein estate. Only 19 have been released so far, and multiple include Donald Trump pictured alongside Epstein and individuals whose faces are redacted to protect their identities."
#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #SuperRich
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"The release of new photographs from the Jeffrey Epstein estate has pushed the long-simmering questions about Donald Trump’s relationship with Epstein into an even more urgent phase, especially with just days to go until the DOJ is supposed to release the full Epstein Files. I have published all the photos we have obtained from the House Oversight Democrats in galleries below. Scroll down to view them all."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #SuperRich
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"He doesn’t just get a mugshot. He has to sell merch. And then he has to hang the mugshot in the Oval Office, like the world’s biggest middle finger to democracy and the rule of law. Why? Because the thrill of transgression is the thrill of getting away with it."
#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #SuperRich #immunity #men #pedophiles #rape
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"That’s what they get off on. That’s the ultimate transgression. Not just to do things that are considered immoral or that are formally illegal—but to do it and get away with it.
And this is Donald Trump’s whole schtick. That’s why he does all these weird things. Like, he doesn’t just evade his taxes for 19 years and do it quietly. He has to tell everybody about it."
#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #SuperRich #immunity #men #pedophiles #rape
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"I think one of the things that Jeffrey Epstein did is, he organized the Competitive Depravity Olympics among very wealthy men. And it wasn’t just that they, as individuals, wanted to rape girls. They wanted to be seen to do it and—this is the crucial part—get away with it consequence free."
~ Brooke Harrington
#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #SuperRich #immunity #men #pedophiles #rape
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The Ultimate Transgression: Kompromat Culture & the Competitive Depravity Olympics
A discussion with economic sociology professor Brooke Harrington, author of "Capital Without Borders" and "Offshore: Stealth Wealth & The New Colonialism"Greg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)
@anderspuck makes some valid points here. The leverage that the #US has over #Ukraine is much smaller than most people realise. Since #Trump came to power, there has been no weapons donation programme; Trump and his lackeys are selling the material for profit, of course, while the Europeans foot the bill.
From a military perspective, however, this “peace treaty” makes no sense. Russia is losing the war in the long term and is not in a position of power in this matter. Personally, I don't subscribe to the conspiracy theory that there are Russian operatives in the Trump administration — or even that Trump is one — but who knows?
Let's see what happens in Geneva today. #TACO, as we all know. Especially if there's a buck or two to be made along the way.
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Trump's ultimatum and the limits of US leverage over Ukraine
Donald Trump has given Ukraine a Thanksgiving deadline to accept a 28-point peace plan negotiated with Russia. In this video, I discuss Trump's leverage over...YouTube
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#Trump says #Thailand & #Cambodia agree to cease all shooting effective Friday
Thailand & Cambodia have agreed "to cease all shooting" effective Friday, Trump said after he held a call with the countries' leaders.
"Both Countries are ready for PEACE and continued Trade with the United States of America," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
#geopolitics #extortion #FactCheck #TrumpLies
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“With this terrible overstep of power, the #DOJ is now weaponizing laws meant to protect #voters for their political #vendetta,” Nabers added.
#law #propaganda #Trump #FultonCounty #Georgia #2020election #BigLie
“This administration’s unending obsession with the #2020election results in #Georgia uses outright #lies to compensate for the fact that they lost,” Kristin Nabers, the state director for All Voting is Local, said in a statement. “President Trump’s bidding, the Department of Justice is attacking the very notion of #FreeElections in this country, demanding to see #ballots from #FultonCounty because their candidate didn’t win there half a decade ago.”
#law #propaganda #Trump #DOJ #BigLie
The act requires #election officials to retain a large swath of documents, including #VoterRegistration & #ballots, for 22 months after any federal election. It also requires ofcls to make the documents available for “inspection, reproduction, & copying” in response to a request by the AG.
#law #propaganda #Trump #DOJ #FultonCounty #Georgia #2020election #BigLie
In Friday’s lawsuit, Dhillon claimed that the Fulton board hadn’t complied with the letter’s demands & alleged that Ché Alexander, the clerk of courts for #FultonCounty, violated record retention requirements in the #CivilRightsAct of 1960 by not producing the documents.
#law #propaganda #Trump #DOJ #Georgia #2020election #BigLie
…While Dhillon’s lawsuit makes the demand for #FultonCounty #ballots official, it wasn’t the DOJ’s first attempt at securing access. In Aug, #EdMartin, head of the DOJ’s vague weaponization task force, reportedly sent a letter to a Fulton County judge demanding to “immediately access” 148k absentee ballots being stored in a ballot warehouse.
In Oct, Dhillon, again on #PamBondi’s behalf, sent the Fulton County Board of Registration & Elections a letter demanding the records.
The suit, filed Friday on US AG #Pam Bondi’s behalf by Assistant AG for “Civil Rights” Harmeet Dhillon, marks the first time the #DOJ has officially demanded actual #ballots from #state or local officials as part of its pursuit of a myriad of election #ConspiracyTheories long & repeatedly debunked.
#law #propaganda #Trump #DOJ #FultonCounty #Georgia #2020election #BigLie
In reality, #Trump lost the race by a significant margin & his repeated allegations of fraud have been widely debunked.
In a new lawsuit, the #DOJ is demanding “all used and void ballots, stubs of all ballots, signature envelopes, and corresponding envelope digital files from the 2020 General Election in Fulton County.”
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#law #propaganda #DOJ #FultonCounty #Georgia #2020election #BigLie
In Major Escalation, #Trump #DOJ [Frivolously] Sues #FultonCounty, #Georgia for 2020 Ballots
The DOJ is suing Fulton County, GA, seeking #ballots & other #election records from the #2020election.
The lawsuit, which a pro-voting group condemned as a “terrible overstep of power,” is a major escalation in the Trump admin’s dangerous effort to revive Trump’s #BigLie that the election was stolen.
#law #propaganda
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In Major Escalation, Trump DOJ Sues Fulton County, Georgia for 2020 Ballots - Democracy Docket
Attorney General Pam Bondi has demanded that officials in Fulton County, Georgia, hand over ballots and other election records from the 2020 presidential vote in an attempt to revive President Trump’s fraudulent claims that the election was stolen.Democracy Docket
#DOJ attorneys haven’t elaborated on how doing so might hamper the portrayal #Trump seeks to present to the public. But overturning policies encompassing #diversity, #equity & #inclusion have become a hallmark of his second admin, starting with his very first week back in the White House.
#law #discrimination #ableism #optics #image #ASL #SignLanguage
Total BS
#Trump admin says #SignLanguage services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his #image
The Trump admin is arguing that requiring real-time #ASL interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to control the image he presents to the public,” part of a lawsuit seeking to require the White House to provide the services.
#law #discrimination #ableism
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Carol Quillen, #NationalTrust’s CEO said she did not have a “hard objection” to a #WhiteHouse #ballroom — so long as its size, materials & design were consistent with the White House & did not overshadow the main building. It is the National Trust’s job, she said, to preserve #Americanhistory, particularly at the White House, given the building’s iconic status & central role. She noted that the org has also brought legal challenges to past admins’ construction projects.
…The #WhiteHouse also has defended the project by drawing a distinction between construction on the grounds, which admin officials say is covered by federal review panels, & demolition & site prep, which they maintain is not.
However, the #NationalTrust says that this is a distinction without a difference. Recent photos have shown that heavy construction machinery & teams of people are working regularly on the site, & #Trump has said that pile drivers are operating “all day, all night.”
#law
#WhiteHouse officials have previously dismissed criticism from the #NationalTrust, [in their typical manner] arguing that its leaders are “loser Democrats & liberal donors” who oppose #Trump on political grounds 🙄. However , the National Trust has a decades-long association with Trump: In 1995, he donated easements to the org to make his #MarALago resort in Florida a historic property in exchange for #TaxBreaks.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #EastWing #ballroom #HistoricLandmark #USHistory
…The #NationalTrust …alleges that the #Trump admin violated the #Constitution’s property clause, which authorizes #Congress to oversee property on #FederalLand.
The National Trust’s lawsuit names Trump & other admin officials, including at the National Park Service [#NPS] & the General Services Administration [#GSA], as defendants.
#law #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #HistoricLandmark #USHistory #conservation
#Trump has also maintained that he is not bound by typical building restrictions or the need to seek construction approvals, citing conversations with advisers and experts.
“They said, ‘Sir, this is the White House. You’re the president of the United States, you can do anything you want,’” Trump said at an October dinner to celebrate the ballroom’s donors.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #HistoricLandmark #USHistory #conservation
“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever — not President Trump, not President Joe Biden, & not anyone else,” the complaint says. [yeah, no shit. Too late.]
#Trump #law #WhiteHouse #EastWing #ballroom #HistoricLandmark #USHistory #conservation
The lawsuit from the nonprofit #NationalTrust for #HistoricPreservation, which was filed Friday in the US District Court for DC, represents the first major legal challenge to Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot addition & is poised to test the limits of his #power. The organization argues that the admin failed to undergo legally required reviews or receive congressional authorization for the project, which #Trump has rushed to launch in hopes of completing it before his term ends in 2029.
#law
Historic preservationists begged #Trump in October not to rapidly demolish the White House’s #EastWing annex for his #ballroom project, urging him to wait for federal review panels & allow the public to weigh in [begging & urging don’t work on him]. Now a group charged by #Congress with helping preserve historic buildings is asking a judge to block construction until those reviews occur, arguing the ongoing project is #illegal & #unconstitutional.
Just a bit too freaking late!
Maybe they could have done this BEFORE he demolished the entire #EastWing of the #WhiteHouse?!?!
#NationalTrust sues to stop #Trump #ballroom construction
The organization, which is charged by #Congress with #HistoricPreservation, has retained President Barack Obama’s former lawyer as it seeks to pause the project.
#law #HistoricLandmark #USHistory #conservation
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#Trump touts his peace deals - but many are already unraveling
Trump has made it well known that he is coveting the Nobel Peace prize, & rarely passes up the opportunity to say he has solved 8 conflicts around the world in 8 months.
But despite his #propaganda efforts, the results have been mixed: many outcomes are precarious, & Trump's role in brokering deals is disputed. Others have simply unraveled.
#geopolitics #FactCheck #TrumpLies
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#House #Democrats release photos from #JeffreyEpstein's estate showing #Trump, #SteveBannon, #BillClinton, #BillGates, #RichardBranson & other high-profile people
Many of the men have been previously linked to Epstein, though the photos may shed new light on the extent of those relationships.
Taken collectively, the 19 images reinforce the #SexOffender was tied in the past to a wide variety of powerful & high-profile people whose ties to him are under scrutiny.
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this is worth your time because it's absurd comedy
watch as #Mississippi Rep #BennieThompson brutally dismantles some turd who works for the #FBI about the big scary #Antifa 😱
i don't know his name and i don't even care, and Bennie runs circles around him
laugh, and then cry this is our govt
"Where, in the United States, does Antifa exist?"
"hurr durr..."
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@donray points out he's not a #Trump #MAGA appointee, i was wrong. still a mindless lackey
FBI Leader Crumbles During Basic Questions About Threat of “Antifa”
Well, this sure sounds like a confession that antifa’s designation as a domestic terror group was based on nothing.The New Republic
So much for #StatesRights
#Trump signs #ExecutiveOrder to neuter #State #AI laws, a win for #tech companies & #billionaires that have #lobbied against #regulation of the #technology.
The order would create one federal regulatory framework for #ArtificialIntelligence, Trump told reporters.
#law #regulations #safety #labor #DataCenters #energy #climate #PublicHealth
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"The authoritative World Inequality Report 2026, based on data compiled by 200 researchers, also found that the top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90% combined, while the poorest half captures less than 10% of total global earnings."
#Trump #Republicans #affordability #economy #EconomicElites #ApprovalRating
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