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This is absolutely true.

@TheJFreakinC About a minute and a half into this Daily Show segment ... classic stuff. #Afroman lawsuit 🤣 youtube.com/watch?v=rIEGz9…

(Gift) Miami Herald Exclusive: Corrections officer tells FBI, federal judge, that boxes of documents were shredded at the Metropolitan Corrections Center after Epstein's death. Feds also talk about missing files miamiherald.com/news/local/cri…

Russia's foreign intelligence (SVR) offered to stage a fake assassination attempt on Victor Orban to aid his election. Anyone now wondering if similar occurred in the 2024 US election?

Pete Hegseth: The problem with Iran is it spends money on weapons and missiles instead of improving life for their people. Self awareness of a potato

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen on the internet. Afroman had his house raided by Ohio Adam County deputies… who found absolutely nothing… broke his door, trashed his place, allegedly had $400 go missing… and then they refused to pay for the damages. So, like any reasonable rapper would do… He turned his home security footage into music videos, mocking them. And then, the deputies sued him for FOUR MILLION dollars… because they didn’t like being made fun of. And Afroman’s response? He dropped ANOTHER music video. In his own words: “Unconfidential informant lied to Police to get out of some trouble. Adam County Sherriff officers made a mistake by believing the lie. Raided my house, found nothing, refused to pay for the damages and filed a lawsuit against me, Afroman, for exercising my freedom of speech! This is me holding trial in one song. I hope you enjoy it.” They said his videos “ridiculed” them… so he decided to show them what that actually looks like. And the best part? A jury basically said… yeah… you don’t get to raid someone’s home, end up in their surveillance footage, and then cry because they used it to make fun of you.

They called him “Sleepy Joe” because you could sleep at night when he was President.

Of course MAGAs are now mad at HBO and threatening to boycott because, let me check my notes, the show "The Pitt" portrayed a very realistic scene of ICE Nazis kidnapping a patient in the ER and arresting a doctor saying the show demonized ICE agents 🙄

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In a sudden turn of events, US 12-month inflation expectations have surged to 5.2%, the highest level since March 2023. In just 3 weeks, markets have gone from pricing-in rate cuts to rate hikes.

Moskowitz: Allegedly, Corey Lewandowski was shaking people down. He was saying, ‘If you want a contract, you’ve got to go hire this firm.’ That $100,000 number we heard, where anything over $100,000 had to come to Kristi Noem’s desk—well, it turns out it did go to her desk, but Corey Lewandowski was sitting at her desk. And that was really all about Corey being able to see where the money was going so that he knew who, allegedly, to go shake down. You don’t know who to shake down—you don’t know who to force to hire you as a lobbyist—if you don’t know who’s owed money from the department. That obviously created a tremendous amount of bureaucracy and slowed the department down as well. Then he put his minions in all of these places—on the procurement teams—so he would have insight into procurement. He could tell them: this goes to that company, this goes to that company. The committees are going to ask for bank records. They’re going to see all sorts of things. I think what we’re going to find is that his wealth has increased dramatically.

An investigation by Explainer has confirmed what I wrote about earlier — Epstein’s network was a classic honey trap operation by Russian intelligence. And now a new figure has emerged in this scheme, making the picture even clearer. Svetlana Pozhidaeva is a graduate of MGIMO and the daughter of a hereditary KGB officer. And this is not a supposition. As Explainer writes: “Pozhidaev's family acquaintances and institute records describe a multigenerational service record: Yuri Pozhidaev's father and grandfather also served in state security roles.” His father graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages — a training ground for military intelligence — and in 1978, while still a cadet, went to Afghanistan as a translator a year and a half before the official Soviet invasion. Not a tourist, obviously. In 2022, Yuri Pozhidaev sent correspondence three times “to the pensions department of the FSB’s Moscow directorate at 20/2 Bolshaya Lubyanka.” Explainer elaborates: “Under Russian law, pensions for FSB officers and their families are administered by the FSB, not by the Social Fund.” In other words, his father is an active-duty officer seconded to civilian posts. The mother is no less interesting. She received income from the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation and from LUKOIL’s Cypriot subsidiary — “reporting have previously flagged Lukoil Overseas offices for possible intelligence interest,” as Swiss counterintelligence explicitly noted as far back as 2007. In other words, both parents are in the system. Svetlana spent nine years with Epstein — from personal assistant to organizer of flights to his island. After his death—an immediate change of name, passport, and country. “On Jan. 29, 2020 — five months after Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell — Russian state records show a formal name change. Svetlana Yuryevna Pozhidaeva disappears from Russian public registries and is re‑entered as Sofia Yuryevna Platt.” A new passport, a new apartment near Paveletskaya station for 45 million rubles, and a new name. The scheme for entering the American establishment is also telling. The letter of recommendation for the U.S. visa was signed by “Sergei Belyakov, then a deputy economy minister and a graduate of the FSB Academy.” Her charitable project WE Talks — “Epstein’s lawyer, Darren Indyke, registered the WE Talks trademark and paid initial bills.” And her project partner became Viktoria Drokova — the sister of the commissioner of the Kremlin-backed “Nashi” movement. And here it is worth returning to Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of Soviet spy Robert Maxwell, currently serving a 20-year sentence in a U.S. prison. Maxwell handled the Western aspect of the operation — recruiting victims, managing logistics, and normalizing violence. This is textbook training for a KGB operative. But if she represents the British-American vector, then Pozhidaeva fits seamlessly into the Russian one. Especially considering that Epstein’s documents contain 1,056 mentions of Putin and nearly 10,000 references to Moscow. The FSB has been running honey traps for over a century. From Margarita Konenkova with Einstein to Maria Butina with Trump — the scheme remains the same. Only the faces change. And every time, the West is surprised — is this really possible? Obviously, it is. Pozhidaeva is no coincidence. She is yet another confirmed link in the most effective intelligence method in modern history. And while the West continues to view the Epstein case as a criminal scandal surrounding a perverted billionaire — the FSB is calmly making use of the compromising material it has gathered over decades.

What just happened? At 2:30 PM ET today, CBS News reported that President Trump was considering "boots on the ground" in Iran. Then, at 3:43 PM ET, President Trump said "I don't want to do a ceasefire with Iran," with the S&P 500 hitting a new 2026 low. Exactly 90 minutes later, at 5:13 PM ET, President Trump said the US is "considering winding down" the war with Iran. Between the 3:43 PM ET and 5:13 PM ET comments, the S&P 500 had already risen nearly +1% on NO news. By 6:15 PM ET, the S&P 500 rallied +1.8% from its low, adding +$900 BILLION in market cap. Markets are now closed until Monday.

You know, it really should concern everyone that Trump called Gavin Newsom "President of the United States" and didn't even notice his error.

Today, I’m asking a journalist to investigate why trump main doctor, a gastroenterologist died suddenly? And why trump’s medical records from that doctor were confiscated by trump folks? Could that have any connection to Sascha Riley’s claim of injuring trump with a tent stake?

Servicemembers are dying and folks are struggling to survive, yet he’s in Florida soaking up cheers by billionaires like it’s party time. 🤮

🚨HELL YES!!! JB Pritzker just dropped the mic and is calling for Project 2029. A blueprint to UNDO TRUMP. His plan would: -PROSECUTE Trump crooks who broke laws, abused power, and attacked our democracy. - Promote justice, reestablish our relationships, and rights that WORK for ALL. IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME. No more chaos. No more impunity. No more letting fascists run wild. Democrats are DONE playing nice. LFG.

Funny… I’ve lived in California since 1977, and I have NEVER received more than one ballot. Any other Californians out there? More than one ballot??

Brazil’s President Lula slams Trump: “We can’t have someone thinking he’s the owner of the world and wakes up in the morning: I'll take Greenland I'll take the Panama Canal I'll take Cuba I'll take Venezuela I’ll bomb Iran Countries have sovereignty. And it must be respected.”

This is HORRIFYING and should scare all of us. ICE is holding people at secret locations for days. We’re demanding immediate answers and a top-to-bottom overhaul of ICE.