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The Supreme Court has one last chance to decide whether we will still abide by the Constitution, or ignore it like the Bible.
speaking of the Supremes
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/supreme-court-weighs-appeal-to-overturn-ruling-that-legalized-same-sex-marriage-nationwide
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/supreme-court-issues-emergency-order-to-block-full-snap-food-aid-payments
BOSTON — The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown, even though residents in some states already have received the funds.
A judge had given the Republican administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. But the administration asked an appeals court to suspend any court orders requiring it to spend more money than is available in a contingency fund, and instead allow it to continue with planned partial SNAP payments for the month.
After a Boston appeals court declined to immediately intervene, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an order late Friday pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until the appeals court rules on whether to issue a more lasting pause. Jackson handles emergency matters from Massachusetts.
Her order will remain in place until 48 hours after the appeals court rules, giving the administration time to return to the Supreme Court if the appeals court refuses to step in. [continues], their latest:
in other news
WHAS11 Nov 7, 2025
Former President Joe Biden on Trump blocking SNAP benefits during the government shutdown.
some comments on the above:
The way they claim his brain was that far gone..I expected him to be using sign language by now..Fake News
Blessed man — talks about the big picture, not about golden toilets
Humanity what a difference
but some others were verbatim maga-ese
SNAP Decision Headlines Getting Ahead of Themselves
Strange goings-on last night with the SNAP case. Justice Jackson temporarily paused a lower-court order requiring the Administration to make full payments. From what I can tell, the appeals court in Massachusetts declined to act on the stay, so it landed on her desk as the Circuit Justice.
Some outlets are running with “Supreme Court rules for Trump on SNAP,” but that’s a serious overreach. Jackson’s move was procedural — it didn’t touch the merits of the case at all.
don’t recall ever seeing Joe like this at resolute desk
https://www.thedailybeast.com/every-angle-of-president-trump-79-falling-asleep-during-press-conference/
Schumer Shutdown Offer: Concession Or Pivot?
So how much of a concession is it, really, for Schumer to offer ending the shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of the ACA premium subsidies? Sure, it’s a step back from demanding a permanent fix — that’s the concession part. But by insisting the subsidies be written into the actual reopening vote, not just promised later, it feels more like a tactical pivot than a surrender.
What puzzles me is why Schumer went public with it knowing Republicans would immediately reject it. Maybe the point wasn’t to win them over, but to show voters who’s actually trying to negotiate.
Something about watching the clips of stupid during the last month makes me wonder about the decency of his handlers. He is a criminal and stupid. He should be in prison, not the WH. What we are seeing is probably elder abuse.
This is what the magat world is. Use someone so far out of this world he cannot understand a sentence. Use his body until it is a corpse.
Listening to his rambling statements of nothings and hate is scary. He is free form now, just a stream of jumbled thoughts, nothing of critical thinking. Bonkers.
The rate of decline is accelerating. One of the “press conferences” he might drop his pants and do a diaper show. Maybe less than a month left in the walking fool.
craig, I go with the “to show voters who’s actually trying to negotiate” version plus it hi-lights that GOPers don’t care about healthcare ins costs let alone the flying public.
Me too Pat. I see a bunch of gloating in the MAGA echo chamber — Dems caved! — but when it sinks in to the general public they might be sorry, just as you point out.
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The court formerly known as supreme said this is legal, hunt by skin color.
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Wow that was easy. I have enjoyed reading comments here for a while. Appreciate the invite. Will try to add something if anything genius comes to mind. NOT!
Interesting article on the promise and loss of a progressive president.
https://bbc.com/culture/article/20251107-the-tragic-murder-of-forgotten-us-president-james-garfield
‘He could have been remarkable’: The tragic murder of forgotten US President James Garfield
We just watched the first episode last night, Jamie. It is really good, better than I expected. And what a thrill to see that man get some attention.
Now if they would just do one on my other favorite unknown, Grover Cleveland. I wanted to write a book on him but publishers had no interest.
BlueB, in case you didn’t know, that cartoon you linked above can be displayed here by right-clicking the image and putting its direct link on a separate line.
Like this..
Note to all: For reasons Sam is trying to identify – somehow the image reverts to a raw link if you go back and edit anything on the comment. There’s always a wrinkle in html land.
Sometimes if you refresh the page the image comes back, replacing the Blue Link.
Blue Sky Fan …
Hello and how be’s it….
Welcome to all lurkers and anyone hanging from the rafters. We all have bats in our belfry of one kind or another so all politely phrased utterances are welcome.
Just a reminder that Russia invaded the sovereign nation of Ukraine and are still at it.
https://bbc.com/news/articles/ce3xdg7xrv9o
Six dead as Russia hits energy and residential sites in Ukraine
today’s meme…
Renee,
The trend is the Republicans believe tax cuts for the wealthy will bring in more revenue than is lost. The Democrats know better, they have aptly demonstrated that modest tax increases on the wealthy bring in enough money to lower the deficit and still have a robust economy. The problem for Democrats is they don’t have the ability to get this basic fact across to the general public.
Jack
Blue Sky, welcome to the mad house. Don’t be afraid to give your opinion, nor to push back when we disagree. Just do so without name calling , if you would.
Jack
Bought a half ham for $2.36 a lb. I’m spread across the kitchen counter cutting it into smaller chunks. I just finished boning it and cutting the bone with my meat saw into 3 chunks that will flavor pots of beans this winter. The meat Ill slice wrap in plastic wrap and put in the freezer. A cheap breakfast substitute for bacon and more tasty imo.
Jack
Looks like tomorrow night will be a hard freeze so I need to go out and pick the last of my garden truck. Beets, turnips and Bok choy. The latter really produced. If the cabbage I planted at the same time had produced as well I would be set for the winter.
Jack
Wow, homemade Bok choy??? I am jealous. That’s my new favorite vegetable.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220784161
“Trump has a copy of the Resolute Desk on display in the Mar-a-Lago lobby”
“ How do we know it is not the real desk?
It is certain that Trump is stealing priceless artifacts. Is this one of them?” Irish_Dem
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https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/us-news/trump-swaps-out-resolute-desk-in-the-oval-office-days-after-elon-musks-son-x-appeared-to-wipe-booger-on-it/
“The White House has assured the public it’s snot a permanent change. President Trump ordered the iconic Resolute Desk removed from the Oval Office for refurbishment after Elon Musk’s 4-year-old son, X, appeared to pick his nose and rub the desk on live TV last week.” Feb,2025
meme #2…
Planted bok choy this spring, but too close to summer. A few leaves and then straight to seed.
Welcome BlueSkyFan & others who may be lurking. We’ve lasted for about two decades because this doesn’t feel like the rest of the series of tubes called the internets.
There is a whole lot of conversation going around about “Democratic Socialism” and what do people really want. I’m favoring the old original meaning of “Commonwealth”.
What is so hard to understand about the “public purse” should benefit the public good. The funds shouldn’t benefit the tiniest percentage of the people. It should make life easier to navigate for the broadest possible number. We can quibble about what those benefits that might be. My list includes
1. Free education kindergarten through college (technical or academic) since a well-educated population benefits all.
2. Childcare/handicapped since this makes work possible for the able bodied.
3. Police and welfare (possibly two separate functions) as public safety benefits all.
4. National defense. This should be only enough for defense against attacks or mutual cooperation for allies.
5. Free healthcare. No one should go bankrupt for illness.
Feel free to argue or contribute.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-conviction-2674276447/
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday urged a New York appeals court to overturn Donald Trump’s felony conviction – an “extraordinary” move by federal officials on behalf of the sitting president as he seeks to erase his criminal conviction.
*Orange Adolf is trying to get into heaven. LoL! It’s gonna take waaay more than three ghosts to scare him into changing his ways.
Frail Caesar
My Bok choy did not form a head but it did produce a lot of big leaves and stalks, which sliced and stirfried with other veggies is good over rice or noodles.
Bid, mine tended to send up seed heads too. I picked those first , part of the stalk was tender enough to stirfry. I will probably plant some early next spring and thin by transplanting the seedlings. This is my first year but it does seem to be easy mild tasting greens.
If you do Southeast asian stir fry then you use lemon grass. It is easy to grow. Just buy some stalks from an asian store cut off the lower 3 inches put the butt ends in water and when roots appear pot them. plant after threat of frost. I use these as an ornamental plant then harvest some of them for winter cooking. They will keep most of the winter in the fridge.
Jack
Jamie
I’m acommunitarian
I believe in helping neighbors and I believe in supporting members of my community. How ever large I expand the concept of community.
I’m not socialist as I don’t believe in the government ownership of the means of production. In fact by it’s true definition I am antisocialist.
Jack
Yep Putin is ratcheting up, intent on a freezing Ukraine into submission by destroying their energy grid. Obviously Trump has no influence over him.
Here’s report just now from German public TV:
Meanwhile. Putin’s puppets play ball.
So my sliced ham came out to $3.76 a lb plus some fat trimmings for flavoring dishes and 3 ham bones for a pot of beans.
A lesson on how to live cheap but good.
Jack
Jack
As practiced in the Nordic countries, the means of production are not owned by the government with just a few exceptions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
My gardening guru sows new greens on a short rotation, like every two to three weeks, so he always has fresh young leaves to harvest
I guess I’ll go get my Roquette out of the ground, which you Americans call arugula
Jack… I too believe in helping out community whenever possible.
The local church is helping out the food pantry in the neighboring town for Thanksgiving. I am helping with peeling apples for apple pies which are going into the Thanksgiving baskets. The food pantry takes requests for these baskets. Last year they got 110 request. This year they’ve gotten 200 requests and have asked if we don’t mind making another 25 pies on top of that because they expect to get people just walking in this year. My fingers feel like they’re falling off with all the peeling… but I am thankful not to be food insecure.
Renee
I think that is why my mother never peeled apples for her apple pie. She just cored them and slice them peelings and all. When you have a large family to care for you take shortcuts. I think she learned it from her mother. Things like peeling your apples are what folks with access to cheap labor or time on their hands do.
I tried both ways for the apple butter I made this fall, I think I prefer leaving the peel on. Just my upbringing.
Jack
Tough to say which is worse: when he’s not paying attention to the shutdown debate — or when he does pay attention.
I garden and can as a hobby.
My mother gardened and canned to put food on the table.
In the summer time she would be in the garden, early while it was cool, pulling weeds, planting. By 10am she would bring several buckets up and spend the rest of the day peeling and canning food for the winter. Then when it cooled down in the afternoon she was back in the garden.
My mother worked hard so I could eat.
Jack
Craig
Trump is loosing it.
All the Dems have to do now is hang on and don’t blink, they can win this game of chicken.
Jack
How to fight food insecurity?
learn to cook!
one of the most amusing articles on food insecurity was where the author bought canned beans, if you cook, you can have 4 times as much if you use dried beans.
Beans and rice.
Learn to make noodles
flour is cheaper than pasta
learn to bake, a cake is cheap and easy for a treat.
Jack
Just prepped my first turkey of the season. Shrouded in butter-and-wine soaked cheesecloth. think I’ll do low and slow: 450 for 30 minutes, then 225 for 3 hours. (It’s a 9-pounder).
Trumpy is going to the Lions game in Washington tomorrow, ESPN reports that Trumpy wants the Commanders new stadium to be named after him. “That would be a beautiful name, as it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told ESPN on Friday night via email
This midterm ad writes itself.
The administration is rapidly gutting a 2022 law intended to ensure that a sliver of the country’s most profitable corporations pay at least some federal income tax. The provision, the corporate alternative minimum tax, was passed by Democrats and signed into law by President Joseph R. Biden.
Gift link —
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/trump-administration-tax-breaks-wealthy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zk8.sRSC.Fwc8olAFbXdF&smid=nytcore-android-share
Wonder if that will kill attendance the way his takeover of the Kennedy Center did?
Corey
would that be “Trump, President” stadium, the TP stadium?
How are things up in Michigan btw
Jack
Ugh
I’ve thought about growing fresh greens like that but in the end, I’m too lazy.
I tend to eat the greens that are available and easy to grow in bulk. Right now that is the bok choy and turnip greens. I should have turnip greens until mid winter, they are very freeze tolerant.
My Cambodian neighbor turned me on to a green, a variety of amaranth that she called cambodian spinach. It was what I would call pigweed as I knew it to grow in the hog lot and never thought of it being edible. It was very productive in the summer and would self seed so once planted it came up every year like a weed. Very tasty for a dark green veggie.
Jack
yeah, but
If you saw how the other half lived, you’d understand it’s not that simple, their shoe boxes with 10 people living there don’t have a bunch of room for rolling out dough and hydrating beans
In a perfect world, you’d be right
you’re not “lazy”
i’ll show ya “lazy”, it’ll break your fuckin’ heart
hey, that said and in a non-sociological context sowing seeds is easy, you just scratch the soil with a stick. Sprinkle them in there.
next season…
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-sleep-scandal-limo-video/
Trump appeared to doze off during a press conference on Thursday, drawing both mockery and shock from political analysts and other online observers.
One night later, he was seen “slumping” into his limo, according to video posted by Fox News and shared by the Daily Beast Saturday.
*It might be time to start up the death watch, again.
Ugh
Those crowded houses are where they do the beans and rice, they usually have Grandma there who knows how to cook. In fact it is not a problem of space to cook, those 900 sq ft houses have stoves, counters and kitchen tables, finding a place for everybody to sleep is the problem. How those folks live I’m well aware. How the richer half out in the suburbs live I can’t tell you.
Jack
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/08/gavin-newsom-redistricting-2028-00643761
Gavin Newsom, rallying Democrats in deep-red Texas on Saturday, urged the party base to set its sights on returning Democrats to power in 2026 and 2028, as he returned to ground zero of the national gerrymandering wars.
Much of the event danced around Newsom’s highly speculated 2028 presidential run, with the governor pausing at one point in his speech as rally-goers shouted “2028.” The governor only chuckled at the calls.
Abbott is also set to appear in Houston on Sunday to make what his campaign team billed as a “special announcement,” which Houston Public Media suggested could be the launch of his campaign for a fourth term as governor.
Everything old is new again – sfb told the magat senators to kill “Obama Care”, which is a nickname for for the Affordable Care Act, again. Give people cash and let them buy their own health care payment plan. Yeah, once again a stupid thing.
“I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE,” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/senate-republicans-trump-obamacare
see, you’re saying “house”
if you live in a house in this country, you’re lucky, if you own one, you are rich
if you own two houses you are wealthy
The working poor live in shitty apartments
like Craig‘s economics professor friend said, there is no more middle class in this country anymore. You either own shit or you’re struggling.
ironically, a pseudo-socialist food-desert mitigation plan like Mamdani and his “city-owned” grocery stores is that it is predicated on the kind of encouragement you are expressing, you do need cooking skills to take advantage of the kind of high quality foodstuffs those stores are supposed to be filled with.
the people want processed food
Hmmmm, Senator Cornyn is still running tiny hand-in-claw with tRUMPsky.
A Cornyn anti-immigrant ad, heavily doused with military sauce, just aired during the TX A&M game.
As a Senator, Cornyn is like a bowl of cold, oatmeal. Still trying to figure out how MJ Hegar didn’t win.
Yes I used the term house because house is a common place for people to live. Especially where more than one family lives in the dwelling as you stipulated. There may be exceptions in some isolated parts of the country, New York City comes to mind. But in general across this nation families live in houses. But even if they are living in an apartment, subsidized or market rate, what I said still applies.
Jack
I do appreciate lib/prog innovation like City-owned grocery stores, for instance, but it seems to me they need a concerted effort to be successful and half of the country isn’t interested
shrug emoji
The whole East Coast is one big city now good sir
the Megopolis they told you would happen has
it’s kind of intense, not gonna loe
Newsom in Texas today…
https://www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa-should-cancel-all-private-jets-during-shutdown-say-millionaires
Private jets make up one in six flights handled by the FAA, and taxpayers already foot the bill for their ‘jet setting,’ says Patriotic Millionaires.
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NewsNation anchor Leland Vittert offered a solution to government shutdown in leveraging the aviation “travel hell” he says will hit millions by insisting private jets be “grounded” and “rich folks” forced to ride commercial like everyone else.
During a Friday War Notes segment, in a deliberately pointed broadside at America’s elite, Vittert declared: “Do not ground commercial flights packed to the gills with all of us regular Americans. Ground private and corporate jets until the shutdown is over.”
There are almost 1,000 trackable private jets in the area at any one time,” he argued, citing fleets like NetJets, FlexJet, and VistaJet.
Those jets, Vittert noted, are not side-channel curiosities, they move through the same airspace and take the same federal staff capacity as a commercial aircraft carrying families with children and bags packed for Thanksgiving.
“Dealing with a private jet for an air traffic controller takes just as much work as dealing with a Southwest 737,” he continued. “If you ground all the private jets, the air traffic crisis goes.”
Vittert highlighted that out of the 40 airports hit by FAA cuts, only one – Teterboro – is a private airport. The rest, he said, will hammer the public. The living-large “rich folks”, meanwhile, get preserved first class treatment, uninterrupted.
Politico: Newsom urges Democrats to focus on the midterms. But Texans are thinking about 2028.
Still spending tax dollars on “Go, Army” ads during football games, but not on getting soldiers paid & providing veterans with what they were promised…which is why there will be a draft from the pool of public school boys, per Project 2025.
Interesting how folks hoarding resources and living in a super-privileged universe are the cause of most problems, and how taxing them and making them do little things like fly commercially would solve many issues.
Thiel, MuskRat, etc., could do a lot of good and take credit for it, but they won’t.
No hospitals. No libraries. No hospitals. Nothing of use.
No more pouf in the pompadour
Will we know when it happens or will they “Weekend At Bernie’s” him for awhile, showing his double from a distance on the golf course?
His (the White Heritage Foundation’s) policies are hurting libs & MAGAts alike, so expect more hollering once Adolf is gone. The cruelty doesn’t hold together without the spokesmodel for the atrocities. JD, Rubio, Hegseth, and maybe others, will be fighting for control. It won’t be pretty.
it seems what is in the Epstein files might be trickling out?
I saw something that I won’t repeat because I can’t confirm it
Tinkling out is about his speed.
We like rumors, founded or not.
https://newrepublic.com/post/202813/department-justice-admits-republicans-epstein-files-worse-donald-trump
DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump
Details in the files are reportedly even more damning for Donald Trump than previously indicated—and it was already bad.
For months, just four Republicans had penned their signatures on a discharge petition demanding transparency into the investigation of the pedophilic sex trafficker and his potential associates.
But the disturbing new rumor has dredged up far more support, with “more than 100 Republicans” planning to vote alongside Democrats in an effort to “get in front of what’s coming,” reported Schuster.
*Surprised to see MSM do a segment on tonight’s news about how giddy Ghislaine is about her new digs at Club Fed.
Repugz would like to keep protecting pedophiles, but it wouldn’t be prudent if they plan to keep their seats.
“get in front of what’s coming” hmmm
Is this how they plan to rid themselves of Adolf? Many powerful folks will still need to be named and dealt with, even if Adolf is pushing up daisies.
i read about photos
you can guess of what and whom
I’ll say no more, it could be bullshit, but when I read it, I was like “oh yeah, that is bad”
that would explain pushing out all the AI stuff from the geometric workspace, to try and establish some plausible deniability when photos hit the internet
Except that the victims have been telling their stories for years, there was a joint lawsuit against tRUMP & Epstein by Katie Johnson (who dropped it because she was scared), there is evidence from Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, it was an open secret among a certain group of creeps, there are FINANCIAL records, Michael Wolff has hours of interviews on videotape with Epstein, and Melania & Adolf haven’t sued Wolff or Hunter Biden for comments made because the tRUMPs are afraid of legal discovery. Also, AI can be verified and tagged as being AI.
That’s what you’re going to have to say when they try it! 🏆
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-israel-surveillance-state-cote-d-ivoire-ehud-barak-leaked-emails
New details about Epstein’s role in Israeli intelligence operations in Africa have emerged from two sets of documents: an archive of leaked emails released by the Handala hacking group and hosted by non-profit whistleblower site Distributed Denial of Secrets and documents released by the U.S. House Oversight Committee last month. The latter set includes Epstein’s personal emails and appointment calendars, which provide clear evidence of Epstein’s involvement in Israel’s West African security negotiations in 2012, while Barak was still Israel’s Defense Minister.
The two men worked together as a conduit for Israel’s intelligence sector in Côte d’Ivoire, where Barak was welcomed as a representative of the Israeli government even after leaving public office. Epstein helped Barak deliver a proposal for mass surveillance of Ivorian phone and internet communications, crafted by former Israeli intelligence officials.
In late 2010, a disputed presidential election in the west African nation of Côte d’Ivoire triggered political upheaval and violence that rapidly destabilized the country. The UN certified Alassane Ouattara as the winner of a November 2010 runoff vote. But the outcome was not accepted by the rival incumbent, Laurent Gbago. After months of violence, a French and UN military intervention was launched in April 2011 to remove Gbago and drive him from the country.
After Gbagbo’s exile, Ouattara inherited a security apparatus fractured by the crisis, and his own hold on power was uncertain. The new president announced that his government had foiled a coup plot against him by officers still loyal to Gbagbo in June 2012.
Five days after that announcement, the new Ivorian president, who had a long career as an economist at the International Monetary Fund and a reputation as a technocrat, traveled to Jerusalem to meet Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and discuss cooperation on science, technology, and counterterrorism. The following month, an Israeli delegation visited Côte d’Ivoire to field Ouattara’s questions about Israel’s security apparatus and rebuilding the Ivorian presidential army.
Epstein and Barak’s private deal-making evolved seamlessly into an official security agreement between Israel and Côte d’Ivoire in 2014. Since the agreement was signed, over a decade ago, President Alassane Ouattara has tightened his grip on power, banning public demonstrations and arresting peaceful protestors. In this October’s election, the octogenarian won a fourth term, in defiance of constitutional term limits, while opposition candidates were barred from participation.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/31/hacked-emails-epstein-diplomacy-israel-russia-syria-america/
Hacked Emails Allege Jeffrey Epstein Helped Broker Diplomacy Between Israel, Russia
Hacked emails alleged Jeffrey Epstein facilitated efforts to open a backchannel between Israel and Russia during the Syrian civil war, according to multiple reports.
Leaked emails allegedly between former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Epstein reveal multiple exchanges during the height of the Syrian conflict between 2013 and 2016, according to Drop Site News. The “Handala Hacking Team,” a hacking group, leaked the alleged emails and Distributed Denial of Secrets disseminated them, the outlet reported.
The communications purportedly included a private meeting arranged by Epstein between Barak and Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a potential joint effort to end the conflict.
Epstein was a crucial asset for Barak by relaying insider information from Russia’s elite, insights on Putin’s international contacts and guidance on the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, the hacked materials alleged.
Epstein communicated with Barak on Feb. 21, 2014, writing, “with civil unrest exploding in ukraine, syria, somolia [sic], libya, and the desperation of those in power, isn’t this perfect for you,” according to the alleged emails obtained by Drop Site.
Drop Site claimed the materials suggest he was a “fixer” who used backchannel diplomacy with Russia to secure access to senior officials and advance Israeli national security concerns even when it conflicted with the national security policies being pursued by the U.S.
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@RepThomasMassie
Not a hoax. Release the files. Investigate.
Sorry I’m not going along to get along.
@JDVance
@realDonaldTrump
@FBIDirectorKash
@AGPamBondi
@SpeakerJohnson
https://nytimes.com/2025/10/30/business/jpmorgan-jeffrey-epstein.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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