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What Happened To All Those Millions For Trump’s Presidential Library?
The fund that got the donated money was dissolved last year after failing to file a required report.NewsHound Ellen (Crooks and Liars)
"This is what the research on divorced-guy syndrome shows — the damage doesn’t stop at the person who left. It radiates outward, finding new targets, as the original wound festers with spite."
These are men who are intent on taking "the wound that has become their souls" and making it our wound, inflicting it on all of us, and above all, on all women.
#Trump #misogyny #RussellVought #Project2025 #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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As Sattler notes, in pointing to the large percentage of angry divorced men the Trump regime empowers, Andrea Pitzer "doesn’t mean every divorced guy ever. Just the particular brain of divorce that seems to metastasize over endemic misogyny when exposed to malign forces like an ungrieved childhood, cryptocurrency, Fox News, tax cuts for the rich, and Donald Trump."
#Trump #misogyny #RussellVought #Project2025 #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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The most divorced men in history
The resentment of women that undergirds so much recklessness.Degenerate Art
Citing Andrea Pitzer's valuable commentary on the role embittered, misogynistic divorced men are playing in wreaking havoc for all of us under Trump, Jason Sattler zeroes in on Project 2025 maven and head of the Office of Budget Management Russ Vought. For Sattler,
"The language of family trauma and abuse is the only way to understand governance under Trump."
#Trump #misogyny #RussellVought #Project2025 #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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"The problem isn’t that people are finally hearing a Christian politician talk about justice. The problem is that many of them had to hear it from a white man before they recognized it as Christianity."
#JamesTalarico #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteChristians #BlackChurch #Trump #WhiteEvangelicals
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Jemar Tisby notes the willingness of many white Christians to welcome a progressive, prophetic form of Christianity when someone like James Talarico preaches it — when that progressive, prophetic Christianity has been there all the time, for a very long time, in the Black church. He concludes,
#JamesTalarico #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteChristians #BlackChurch #Trump #WhiteEvangelicals
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Why White Christians Love James Talarico
And what they're missingJemar Tisby, PhD (Footnotes by Jemar Tisby)
"One of the Iranian foreign ministers, I forget which one, said basically, 'In this Epstein administration, they either rape little girls or kill little girls.' And sadly, that’s true. That’s true. Morally, that’s the ground that we’re standing on now. Really pretty shaky."
~ Greg Olear
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup #Iran #war
/12
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Ramble On: Over the Waterfall
Morning thoughts on the Iran war, the Iraq war, and the end of American empire.Greg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)
"As more records surface and investigations continue, the pressure for transparency is only increasing. The war in Iran may dominate headlines for now, but the Epstein story is far from over and the demand for accountability continues to grow."
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup #Iran #war
/11
"International media continue to connect the Epstein scandal to the current geopolitical climate. Reports circulating globally note that Iranian missiles have been marked with references to Epstein Island victims, further amplifying attention on the controversy and the still unreleased documents connected to the case."
~ Adam Parkhomenko
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup #Iran #war
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"[Trump's war on Iran] is so obviously about Donald Trump's involvement with Jeffrey Epstein and the fact that there are credible allegations that we've now seen that Donald Trump raped children. And so here we are with this distraction effort at the expense of American lives and American gold."
~ Michael Fanone
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup #Iran #war
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Trump's Using American Lives in Iran to Distract from Epstein | Protect & Serve with Michael Fanone & Maya May
This is an opportunity for us to stand up and defend democracy—and to say loud and clear to the rest of the world: Trump is not us.Maya May (Lincoln Square)
(continued from /7)
"that the new information she has been seeing about the Epstein enterprise has been 'worse' than even she thought.
'I would say most of the stuff that I’m getting is just more like, "Oh my God, this is worse than I thought,"' Brown told Miller."
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup
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"The journalist who helped put Jeffrey Epstein behind bars is appalled at the revelations coming out in the government’s drip-feed release of the Epstein files.
Award-winning investigative reporter Julie K. Brown, whose 2017 probe into Epstein’s sex trafficking led to his arrest in 2019, told host Tim Miller on The Bulwark Podcast" (continued in /8)
~ Vic Verbalaitis
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup
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Veteran Epstein Reporter Says New Files Are ‘Worse’ Than Expected
“It’s completely overwhelming,” journalist Julie K. Brown said.Vic Verbalaitis (The Daily Beast)
"The purpose of this FOIA is to secure the release of all or nearly all of these documents, many of which are in the possession of Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys, as they pressure Trump for clemency."
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup
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"-Additional internal communications about her case, including any FBI emails at the time as well as any discussion of procedural hurdles — most specifically the OLC guidance that DOJ cannot consider a charging decision against a sitting president"
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup
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"-Field notes for interview 4 (this 302 was drafted 5 days after the interview; the 302 quotes her directly; she also declined to be recorded; there are almost certainly field notes affiliated with this final interview)
- Any memorialization of the FBI’s final disposition closing her case…also exist somewhere, but we don’t have it
-All versions of the FBI’s “updated case index” spreadsheet…"
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup
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"-Field notes associated with interviews 1, 2, and 3 (these are contemporaneous agent notes and are separate from the official 302 writeups; they total 37 pages, and none of them have been released publicly)
-A driver’s license report
-The FBI’s 2019 background check on the accuser"
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup
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"What they have not done is release all responsive records from her case file, which should be covered in full, or nearly in full, by the EFTA.
As [Roger] Sollenberger explained earlier this week, the Justice Department and FBI are still withholding:"
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup
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Brian Beutler focuses on the continuing coverup of material that evidently indicts Trump in the Epstein files.
"I have submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in an effort to unravel an ongoing Trump administration coverup—specifically, of evidence that Donald Trump battered and sexually assaulted a teenager in the 1980s."
#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #pedophiles #SexualAbuse #coverup
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Using FOIA To Expose Trump's Biggest Coverup
His administration is still concealing Epstein files that incriminate him.Brian Beutler (Off Message)
"Undaunted, undistracted reporters do not aim to create 'balance' between lies and truth or between a pro-democracy party and a cult. Armed with facts, they can ferret out lies and hold the government accountable, which in turn preserves a free press, objective truth, and, therefore, democracy itself."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #Minab #children #girls #school #TomahawkMissile
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"It was dogged reporting by U.S. and international journalists using open-source intelligence — 'geolocated videos, public statements from U.S. officials and the assessment of munitions experts' — that uncovered the growing evidence that it was the U.S. military that launched not one, but two Tomahawk missiles at the school."
~ Jennifer Schulze
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #Minab #children #girls #school #TomahawkMissile
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How U.S. Media Uncovered the Truth about the Iran School Strike
Dogged investigative news reporting has revealed the U.S. role in the deadly school bombing—but you won't hear much about that from Trump-friendly media.Jennifer Schulze (Lincoln Square)
The New York Times report by Mike Baker and Steven Rich featured in this thread of commentary is at the link below.
For articles behind paywalls, I frequently use the Archive Today site to read.
#billionaires #Republicans #Trump #oligarchy #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill
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For more reporting today on this topic of how billionaires have decisively bought the US and its political system in the Trump era, see:
Caleb Ecarma:
oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/h…
Wajahat Ali and Qasim Rashid:
thelefthook.substack.com/p/how…
Thom Hartmann"
hartmannreport.com/p/the-ceo-p…
#billionaires #Republicans #Trump #oligarchy #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill
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How Dirty Money is Buying Democrats and State Elections with Qasim Rashid
Democrats are being bought out by billionaires as pro-Crypto and pro-Israel groups are emerging to tilt primary races all across the country.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"They explain how underwriting political campaigns from those for local school boards to the presidency has enabled the very wealthy to lock in their policy preferences for tax cuts, deregulation, and cuts to the social safety net while also steering valuable government contracts to themselves."
#billionaires #Republicans #Trump #oligarchy #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill
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"On March 9, Mike Baker and Steven Rich of the New York Times published a long exposé of the corruption of American politics by billionaires."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#billionaires #Republicans #Trump #oligarchy #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #BigBeautifulBill
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March 12, 2026
In Ohio today, Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy launched a $10 million TV and digital ad campaign to run until Election Day.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"Trump’s gift to Vladimir Putin to get his own ass out of the sling is both a huge concession to Russia and an unmistakeable admission that the economic reverberations from the elective war in Iran are having acute downstream political effects on Trump and Republicans in an election year."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Putin #Iran #war #oil #gas #Russia
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Trump Bails Out Russia to Save His Own Hide
INSIDE: JD Vance ... John Brennan ... Nathan CavanaughDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"Fox News and Newsmax are doing their best Baghdad Bob impersonation to downplay the incredible surge in gas prices Americans have faced since President Donald Trump launched his war on Iran. Fox and Newsmax personalities are urging their viewers to accept spiking gas prices as a patriotic 'sacrifice' to take on Iran, and are claiming that prices will come back down quickly."
~ Zachary Pleat
"The White House’s videos mixing football hits with bombing footage tell us: We have some twisted people running this country."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/23
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War and football? What kind of sick mind thinks that video is cool?
Fighting Words. What got me...newsletter.tnr.com
"This is Trump’s Derp State in action, an administration full of people who are not only ignorant and stupid, but believe that anyone who knows what they’re doing or tries to anticipate problems that might arise is a traitor to the cause. This is not something unique in history; authoritarian regimes are often characterized by the way they elevate idiots to positions of power."
~ Paul Waldman
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #authoritarianism #idiocy
/22
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Welcome to the Derp State
The dumbest president, surrounded by the dumbest people, making the dumbest mistakes.Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)
"Oil prices have surged, and one of the biggest beneficiaries so far has been Russia. According to reporting from the Financial Times, Moscow could be earning up to $150 million per day in additional revenue due to the global energy shock triggered by the conflict. Analysts estimate Russia has already gained between $1.3 billion and $1.9 billion in additional oil revenue as demand for its crude rises."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Putin #Iran #war #oil #gas #Russia
/21
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Friday Afternoon Updates: Reality Gets in the Way of Trump's Lies — 3/13/26
It’s Friday, we’ve made it to the end of the week.Ben Meiselas (Meidas+)
(continued from /19)
"his insistence that tuning the economy to the benefit of a few favored producers is a victory, even if it harms the vast majority of consumers."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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The Bulwark today headlines its morning report: "Trump to America: Thank Me for Your Gas Bill." Andrew Egger writes:
"[Trump's statement about how *we* benefit from higher gas prices is] an illustration of the exact mindset that led Trump to do so much damage to the U.S. economy even before the war:"
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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Trump to America: Thank Me for Your Gas Bill
Higher prices = more money, according to the president.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"According to petroleum analyst, Patrick DeHaan, Americans today will spend roughly $250 million more on gasoline than they did 30 days ago. That’s over $1.5 billion per week."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
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"Trump isn’t even trying to hide it anymore. When he says 'we' make a lot of money, he means oil executives, and he means himself. Because that’s all Trump cares about. How he can put more money in his own pocket and deliver a payout for his billionaire cronies."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
/17
"Trump, in his latest spiral, just tried to rebrand soaring gas prices as a good thing.
'The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,' he wrote on Truth Social.
Who is 'we?' I’ll tell you who it’s not: the voters who put this guy in office."
~ Brian Tyler Cohen
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA
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Trump's Soaring Gas Prices are a "Good Thing" for Anyone but You
Trump claims “we” stand to make a ton of money off the war in Iran. But the “we” does not include you.Brian Tyler Cohen
"We should face the honest, painful truth. It took America 20 tortured years, an unspeakable death toll, and finally the image of desperate people climbing toward helicopters on an embassy roof to acknowledge the bitter reality that our nation had lost a war."
~ Will Bunch
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It took U.S. years to lose a war in Vietnam. Trump lost one in days.
It's increasingly clear that Trump's war of choice in Iran has failed spectacularly. America learned nothing from past war failures.Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)