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Department of #Energy officials to meet with White House to tamp down Trump’s idiotic idea of explosive nuclear testing
Top energy & #nuclear officials in the #Trump administration are planning to meet with the White House & #NationalSecurity Council in the coming days to dissuade Trump from resuming testing of the nation’s #NuclearWeapons, sources told CNN.
Poll: 40% of young American women want to leave the U.S. permanently - Boing Boing
A Gallup poll has found that 40% of American women aged 15-44 want to move out of the United States permanently. Link is here. "In 2025, 40% of women aged…Ruben Bolling (Happy Mutants, LLC.)
Top #FannieMae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential #housing data
A confidant of #BillPulte, the #Trump admin’s top housing “regulator”, provided #confidential mortgage pricing #data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor, alarming senior officials of the govt-backed lending giant who warned it could expose the company to claims that it was colluding with a rival to fix mortgage rates.
Saying goodbye to comet A6 Lemmon. It's getting very low, and clouds are increasing in southern New Mexico.
It was a remarkable run of many clear nights.
This is a single exposure on a fixed tripod.
There's a blurred silhouette of a power line, and satellite trails in this image. They belong in the frame because this is the world we have created. It's getting increasingly difficult to escape to pristine nature.
Perhaps the phrase 'pristine nature' is now an oxymoron?
When is the first No Kings General Strike?
We all need to help with community building and boosting civic engagement. These activities have atrophied for decades, and it shows.
#NewMexico #Comet #Photography #Astrophotography #Technology #Astronomy #Science #Nature #Politics #USpol #Fascism #MAGA #ClimateChange #Trump #Musk #Anthropocene
#Trump admin to fire worker for TV interview about #SNAP
The employee warned that the #shutdown could have negative impacts on the millions of Americans who rely on the #FederalGovernment to put #food on the table.
#censorship #authoritarianism #dictatorship #law #labor #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech
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The #Trump admin has developed plans for a shift in #homelessness #policy that would slash support for long-term housing programs…& critics say it could place as many as 170k formerly #homeless people at risk of returning to the streets.
Pivoting from #housing #aid, the approach would shift billions to short-term programs that impose work rules, help #police dismantle #encampments, & require [force] the #unhoused to accept treatment for mental health or addiction.
This first excerpt in the thread is long. My apologies for that. What J. Filipovic has to say here seems so important that it's hard to choose short pieces to share:
"The Trump administration is a regime of restoring male power. That includes being a pedophile protection racket covering for men who sexually abuse girls."
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #DirtyDonald #Epstein #GhislaineMaxwell #VirginiaGiuffre #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #SexualAbuse #misogyny
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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
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Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.
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#News #Chicago #ICE #Immigration #FBI #Venezuela #Immigrants #Trump
#USpol
👉When the Tail Wags The Dog👈
#Epstein-Files: Will the real-life #US President soon resort to emulate his fictional predecessor?
"#Illinois Gov #JBPritzker says he’s worried how #Trump might respond 2 the growing controversy over his ties 2 #Epstein.
“My great fear...is that...the release of that information, which...will be devastating 4 Trump,...he might take us 2 #war w/ #Venezuela just 2 get a distraction in the news & take it out of the headlines.”
#Illinois Gov #JBPritzker says he’s worried how #Trump might respond to the growing controversy over his ties to #Epstein.
“My great fear, of course, is that with the release of that information, which I think will be devastating for Trump, he’s going to do everything in his power to distract. What does that mean? I mean, he might take us to #war with #Venezuela just to get a distraction in the news & take it out of the headlines.”
[we’re all worried about that JB]
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Criminals of a feather…
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#netanyahu #trump #israel #USA
Trump formally asks Israel’s president to pardon Netanyahu after Gaza truce
US president calls corruption charges against Israeli PM ‘unjustified’, describing Netanyahu as ‘formidable’ leader.Ali Harb (Al Jazeera)
#Epstein dump exposed #DOJ's massive #CoverUp for #Trump
Law professor & co-editor-in-chief of Just Security Ryan Goodman said the latest documents from #JeffreyEpstein is explosive & seems to implicate Trump's deputy attorney general [#DAG] in a massive cover-up.
The emails released directly contradict statements Epstein's associate, #GhislaineMaxwell, made to DAG #ToddBlanche in a taped interview designed to exonerate Trump.
#law #EpsteinFiles #corruption #DOJ
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'Explosive’ Epstein dump just exposed DOJ's massive 'cover-up' for Trump: legal expert
A legal expert said on Wednesday that the latest batch of documents from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is "explosive" and seems to implicate President Donald Trump's deputy attorney general in a massive "cover-up.Robert Davis (Raw Story)
Wait, Are the #EpsteinFiles Real Now?
The White House’s responses get curiouser & curiouser
…the revelations are a bit too damning to be dismissed as a news-cycle gambit, so the WH took a different tack a few hours later. It released a statement noting that the unnamed victim in the #Epstein email who “spent hours” with #Trump at Epstein’s house was #VirginiaGiuffre, who “repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever.”
#law
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Wait, Are the Epstein Files Real Now?
The White House’s responses get curiouser and curiouser.Jonathan Chait (The Atlantic)
#House passes bill to reopen government after longest #shutdown ever
The legislation now goes to #Trump to sign into #law.
The bill INCLUDES the provision allowing Senators who were investigated by the #DOJ for their alleged involvement in Trump’s effort to overturn the #2020election to sue the #US #government for $500,000.
It DOES NOT INCLUDE the #healthcare subsidies for the #ACA, nor a reversal of the GOP #Medicaid cuts Democrats wanted.
Rep #AdelitaGrijalva, Democrat of Arizona, addressed #Congress for the first time as a lawmaker in a fiery speech calling out #Republicans for delaying her swearing in for the purpose of quashing the #EpsteinFiles vote. She chastised them for abdicating their #power as a coequal branch of government to #Trump & for letting millions go without benefits during the shutdown. After finishing her speech, she immediately signed the petition to release the full #Epstein files.
#Epstein emails suggest a cozy friendship w/ #LarrySummers.
A series of exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein & Lawrence Summers, fmr #Treasury Secy & #Harvard president, suggest a far cozier & intimate relationship than previously known.
Emails between the 2 show the men bantering, sometimes multiple times a day.
The discussions, which occurred 2017–2019, largely focused on #Trump. But many of the emails focused on Summers’ conversations with a woman & how to handle relations with her.
#law
I mean 🤬🤬🤬
Though #AdelitaGrijalva provided the final signature necessary to advance a vote on the #EpsteinFiles, the vote will likely not place before December. Under the rules that govern this procedural maneuver, the #House cannot act on the measure until after it “ripens” for 7 legislative days — days when #Congress is in session.
How slowly the bureaucracy moves!
#Trump #Epstein #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Confirmation: the so-called discharge petition that would force a vote on the #EpsteinFiles has the backing of 218 members, their signatures are frozen & cannot be removed.
#House #Congress #DOJ #law #criminal #Trump #Epstein #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Judge #AileenCannon Is Back—& Poised to Do More Damage for #Trump
Donald Trump is sending all of his #revenge cases to his favorite judge.
The #DOJ is teeing up a sprawling “conspiracy” investigation into Trump’s perceived political enemies, which will be sent to the same judge who got him his #ClassifiedDocuments get-out-jail free card.
#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment
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Judge Aileen Cannon Is Back—and Poised to Do More Damage for Trump
Donald Trump is sending all of his revenge cases to his favorite judge.The New Republic
The messages are certain to inflame the debate on Capitol Hill over the #Trump admin’s handling of the #EpsteinFiles, & top ofcls’ decision to backtrack on a promise to fully release them. That issue, which has split #Republicans & alienated some of Trump’s right-wing supporters, had faded to the background as the govt #shutdown dragged on.
But the #House is set to return Wednesday to clear legislation to end the shutdown, & attention is likely to shift back to the #Epstein matter.
“These latest emails & correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding & the nature of the relationship between #Epstein & the president,” Rep Robert Garcia of California, the top #Democrat on the #Oversight Cmte, said in a statement.
The 3 separate email exchanges released on Wednesday were all from after Epstein’s 2008 plea deal in Florida on state charges of soliciting prostitution, in which federal prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges.
They came years after #Trump & #Epstein had a purported falling out in the early 2000s. One was addressed to Epstein’s longtime confidante #GhislaineMaxwell, while 2 were w/ the author Michael Wolff.
In one email from April 2011, Epstein told Maxwell, who was later convicted on charges related to facilitating his #crimes, “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.” He added that an unnamed victim “spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned.”
#law
“I have been thinking about that,” Maxwell wrote back.
In an email from January 2019, #Epstein wrote to Wolff of #Trump: “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.” #House #Democrats, citing an unnamed whistle-blower, said this week that Maxwell was preparing to formally ask Trump to commute her federal prison sentence.
#criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #felon47 #EpsteinFiles
The emails were provided to the #Oversight Cmte along with a larger tranche of documents from Epstein’s estate that the panel requested as part of its investigation into Epstein & Maxwell, who is serving a 20yr sentence for #SexTrafficking.
The cmte’s staff redacted victims’ names & any identifying information from the emails. Because the full set of documents has not been released, it was not clear whether the emails were excerpts from larger conversations with fuller context.
…At the time #Epstein emailed Maxwell in 2011 calling #Trump the “dog that didn’t bark,” Trump was a reality television star & New York tabloid celebrity who was years away from becoming president.
…Epstein’s email from 2019, which claims #Trump “knew about the girls” & asked Maxwell “to stop,” was sent to Wolff, who had recently written a tell-all book about the president.
#Epstein was months away from the arrest & federal charges that would send him to prison, but he was the focus of significant attention after The Miami Herald had published a series of articles drawing renewed attention to the secret agreement he had signed in 2008.
In his email, Epstein mentioned a victim of his #SexTrafficking operation. He also mentioned Mar-a-Lago, then disputed that #Trump had ever asked him to resign from the club. “Never a member ever,” Epstein wrote.
Wolff was also involved in a third email exchange, which began on Dec. 15, 2015, the night of a debate in the Republican presidential primary. Wolff emailed #Epstein & warned him that CNN was “planning to ask #Trump tonight about his relationship with you — either on air or in scrum afterwards.”
Epstein wrote back, “If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”
Wolff advised inaction, suggesting that #Trump might try to deny a close association with #Epstein. “I think you should let him hang himself,” he wrote of Trump. “If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable P.R. & political currency” that could be used to “hang him” later or “save him, generating a debt.”
Trump never received a question about the matter in that debate, according to a transcript. It was unclear if he was asked about it separately.
#law
![On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Michael Wolff to Epstein: I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you-either on air or in scrum afterwards. On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Epstein < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: if we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be? 12/16/2015 4:26:32 PM Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] wrote: I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt. Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he'll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5286761 "On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Michael Wolff to Epstein: I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you-either on air or in scrum afterwards. On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Epstein < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: if we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be? 12/16/2015 4:26:32 PM Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] wrote: I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt. Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he'll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.")
The #Democrats’ release of the emails came hours before Speaker #MikeJohnson was scheduled to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva, Democrat of Arizona, whom he has avoided seating for nearly 2 months since she won her election.
She is expected to provide the final signature necessary on a petition to force a #House vote on a measure demanding that the #Trump admin release all of its investigative material pertaining to #Epstein. The White House has strongly opposed the measure.
Link to actual emails:
#Democrats #House #Oversight Committee Releases #JeffreyEpstein Email Correspondences, Raising Questions About #Trump White House #Coverup of #EpsteinFiles
#criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #felon47
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House Oversight Committee Releases Jeffrey Epstein Email Correspondence, Raising Questions About White House Coverup of Epstein Files
Washington, D.C. — Today, Oversight Democrats and Ranking Member Robert Garcia released never-before-seen emails from the latest production from Jeffrey Epstein’s Estate, striking a blow against the White House’s Epstein cover-up.The Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democrats
Trying to #FloodTheZone, #House #Republicans have now released 23k pages of documents from the estate of the #SexTrafficking rapist #JeffreyEpstein — shortly after Democrats released several emails that stated #Trump knew more about Epstein’s #SexCrimes than acknowledged.
They were published online ~2 hrs after House #Democrats released the emails including one from Epstein in which he wrote that Trump “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims.
It was not immediately clear if the release would include other disclosures…. But the emails from #Epstein to friends & associates were laced with unflattering, at times mocking, references to #Trump — including a description of Trump’s financial disclosures by an Epstein associate in 2019 as “100 pages of nonsense.”
A year before that, Epstein described Trump as “borderline insane” in an email exchange with Lawrence H. Summers, the fmr #Treasury secretary & #Harvard University president.
#law
The release of documents appears to be intended to provide #Republicans with a defense against charges that they have not released all of the government’s files on #Epstein & his longtime partner in #crime #GhislaineMaxwell — & possibly to stave off demands, including from some #House Republicans, to force the release of all of the #EpsteinFiles.
#Trump #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #CoverUp
Link to GOP’s 23k Epstein docs:
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Oversight Committee Releases Additional Epstein Estate Documents - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
United States House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformOversight Committee Republicans Verified account
In the 2018 email #Epstein wrote to Lawrence H. Summers, the fmr #Treasury secretary & president of #Harvard University where he called #Trump “borderline insane”, Epstein also made a reference to the lawyer #AlanDershowitz writing, “dersh, a few feet further from the border but not by much.” It was unclear what prompted this assessment from Epstein.
#criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #EpsteinFiles #CoverUp
