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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security*** Legendary potty mouth*** Also at @emptywheel@mastodon.social & @emptywheel.bsky.social 🗽🇪🇺
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HEY MAGAts!!
@ByronDonalds is betraying Donald Trump!
Byron Donalds' campaign updated his website this week stripping away numerous references to Trump's endorsement, removing his photo with the president and taking "enact the Trump agenda" off his issues page
miamiherald.com/news/politic…
.@stephenm's latest criminal was not following the rules, just like all his other murderers, rapists, and assailants.
Again, Miller has created masked gangs who invade peaceful cities and shoot up legal residents and American citizens. He is the crime wave.
theatlantic.com/politics/202…
Again, you and I are paying this troll almost $200k/year to ... basically troll.
Want to save money? Fire him, hire a professional for less money.
BREAKING: @HarmeetKDhillon says Trump and all her closest friends were WRONG to try to steal 81M people's votes.
Will she renew the charges against Donald Trump?
In the last several weeks, @theJusticeDept either indicted or convicted 67 individuals for election related crimes. We @CivilRights don’t care who you vote for, we care that your vote counts! We will not tolerate non-citizens’ votes canceling out Americans’ votes.
Why is Donald Trump's paid propagandist @KatieZacharia 1) speaking Mandarin -- doesn't she know that's against GOP ideology and 2) pretending the dumbass claim that Trump had weakened China had anything to do with Mandarin?
Holy hell Trump really scraped the bottom of the propagandist barrel with this one.
BREAKING: Trump is trying to hide one or more pardons.
Did he pardon Ghislaine Maxwell? Is he trying to hide that he pardoned his buddy the sex trafficker?
All Trump pardons have been scrubbed from the @TheJusticeDept website:
justice.gov/pardon/clemency-…
When @AshleyMoodyFL talks about keeping Florida safe, she hopes you'll forget that she did NOTHING when Trump unleashed adjudicated terrorists and child predators into Florida.
She won't keep Florida safe. She'll protect the worst criminals!!!
We will keep fighting to protect Florida families, make our communities safer, and ensure the Free State of Florida remains exactly that.
Join Team Moody at AshleyMoody.com
What the GOP has shown is that American citizens who live overseas are permitted to donate money.
That's pretty exciting compared to Don Jr getting a wedding party paid for by Putin's bagman and Trump getting hundreds of millions from foreign oligarchs.
GOP lawmakers say ActBlue not taking fraud concerns seriously ahead of midterms justthenews.com/government/c…
WOWOW. Paid propagandist @KatieZacharia continues to pretend that the ENTIRE WORLD doesn't know that Trump pissed away US hegemony with his incompetence.
I guess this is why Trump has to pay propagandists?
🚨 President Trump is walking into the meetings with Xi Jinping from a position of massive strength that he isn’t getting enough credit for.
• 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil that would have gone to Beijing;
• The Greenland–Denmark deal: strategic military presence, rare earths, uranium, and the future of the Golden Dome; and
• The Hormuz blockade that has already cut China’s oil imports by a third.
Does this white supremacist know how positively weak he looks clapclapclapping bc SOME oil is getting out of Hormuz but not as much as was free flowing before an incompetent president started an illegal war?
It's just so weak and icky, this rush to find success in failure. Like Lost Cause obsession.
REALLY GREAT for @marcorubio to explain why Trump was stupid as shit for ripping up JPCOA.
.@SecRubio: "Iran can never have a nuclear weapon — they just simply can't. This is a radical clerical regime. You see how they treat their own people; you see the amount of damage and carnage that they've committed... A group like that can never have a nuclear weapon."
.@StephenM's violent gang members assault another American citizen in broad daylight.
Stephen's criminals continue to be PRECISELY THE SAME threat Stephen claims immigrants are: raping, assaulting, and murdering.
evanstonnow.com/victim-in-ic…
EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check retweeted
Milan Knežević has a cooperation agreement with Putin's United Russia.
This month, he met GOP Reps. Scott Perry, Randy Fine, Claudia Tenney, and Derrick Van Orden, Texas congressional nominee Brandon Herrera, and others. thenewsground.com/jay-patel-…
🚨Fake Einstein recipient Melania Trump scammed Trump supporters out of hundreds of millions of dollars in a matter of hours.
Will @AAGMcDonald ever investigate all this FAR LARGER fraud? Or will he keep playing the errand boy for lifelong fraudster Donald Trump?
🚨Green Card Holder Sentenced for Scamming Elderly Victims
Franco Fuentes is a Peruvian national who received the blessing of a green card in America.
He then started defrauding elderly victims of hundreds of thousands of dollars by posing as a bank employee and tricking them into surrendering their bank cards,
In one instance, Fuentes sent a rideshare service driver to an 80-year-old victim’s house and then used her cards for withdrawals and purchases totaling over $43,000, including $22,000 in purchases at Apple stores.
Another victim who lost $56k wrote to the court: “This experience has caused me significant emotional and financial stress. As a 72-year-old woman, I never expected to have to deal with something of this magnitude. I experienced ongoing worry, fear, frustration, and anxiety while trying to understand what had happened, protect my accounts, and work with the bank to resolve the unauthorized activity. The situation disrupted my sense of financial security and left me constantly concerned about whether my personal information and finances were safe. The financial impact and the amount of time and effort required to address this identity theft have been extremely stressful.”
Today, Fuentes was sentenced to 57 months in prison and ordered to pay his victims more than $270k and forfeit property seized from his residence, including over $37k in cash.
Proud and thankful for the attorneys and agents in @SDCAnews for STANDING UP for the voiceless and delivering justice for these victims.
EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check retweeted
On Wednesday, Xi Jinping lands at Joint Base Andrews, and President Trump will be waiting for him on the tarmac. Then comes a flyover by a B-2 and four F-22s and a meeting between Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan.
Nothing quite like that happened when Trump went to Beijing in May. Xi wasn't waiting for him, there were no flyovers, and there was no meeting of the first ladies.
"Reciprocity" is the administration's watchword. But the asymmetry in pageantry reflects a broader asymmetry in the relationship: Beijing believes rare earths tamed Washington, and Washington at times seems to agree.
Below, I've pulled together quick brief on the ten issues that will likely define the state visit, from the Busan truce and rare earths to AI dialogue, Taiwan, and Iran.
Link here -> rdoshi.substack.com/p/when-x…
Today is a perfect day to point out that this breeding partner of white supremacist @StephenM is so subintelligent she doesn't understand her chart shows something different.
🚨Fraud @AAGMcDonald refuses to charge:
According to Public Citizen, Donald Trump has bilked his crypto victims--many of them elderly--of $4.7B while pocketing $1.4B.
EVERY TIME this guy advertises a fraud arrest, it becomes clear he is ignoring similar fraud that is ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE larger from Trump
🚨Fraud Charge and Arrest in Maryland
This man is alleged to have—
➡️made more than 1,500 fraudulent ATM withdrawals that netted more than $1 million.
➡️used victims’ debit cards to purchase more than $100,000 in luxury fashion items.
➡️defrauded more than 40 victims, with an average victim age of 81.
He’s been charged and arrested for bank fraud.
Excellent work by @USAO_MD and @USPIS_HQ.
EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check retweeted
FT Exclusive: Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international banks handled billions of dollars from a Kremlin-backed fintech company that tricked its way into the global financial system using a vast document forgery operation. ft.trib.al/gt3Lkdv
Hinson last voted against a congressional resolution demanding an end to the war in Iran on — [check notes] oh it was just six days ago, on September 15.
Iowans are being squeezed and shouldn’t have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran. We need to use every option at our disposal to provide some relief from high prices.
That includes suspending the gas tax, pausing diesel exports, unleashing E-15 everywhere we can, reinstating the $1/gallon biodiesel tax credit, and creating a diesel relief program to help our farmers and truckers being crushed by the high costs.
While doing this, we should also ensure our highway trust fund is replenished, so that Iowans don’t suffer from crumbling roads and bridges while relief comes our way now. These actions to lower costs are needed ASAP, and the war needs to be brought to a successful and immediate end.
I am working every day to deliver bipartisan results for Iowans and I will work with anyone who is ready to tackle this challenge immediately.
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Congresswoman voted against resolution to bring immediate end to the war 4 times this year:
clerk.house.gov/Votes/202685
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026199
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026282
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026307