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And there were other strange doings that night and morning. There’s the missing three minutes of the footage Pam Bondi said was “complete” that turned out to actually be footage spliced together in Adobe Premiere Pro, with time missing around midnight. Snoozy guard Bonhomme got off his shift at midnight, then guard Michael Thomas came on. And though Thomas should have been bright and bushy, he and Noel missed every single mandatory-every-30-minutes wellness check of Epstein from midnight until Thomas found his body at 6:30 a.m. That’s sure a lot of negligence overseeing a man who was the highest-profile prisoner in the federal system aside from maybe El Chapo!

“If you want a rubber stamp, you can vote for my opponent”

President Donald Trump’s racist social media post featuring former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle was deleted after a backlash from both Republicans and Democrats who criticized the video as offensive.

In an interview with NBC News’s Tom Llamas on Wednesday, President Donald Trump indicated that it’s possible he won’t accept the outcome of the 2026 midterms. Asked whether he’d respect the results of the elections that will be held later this year, Trump said he would only do so if he deemed the outcomes to be legitimate. “I will [accept the midterm outcomes] if the elections are honest…

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Belyakov is a graduate of the FSB Academy which prepares Russian intelligence officers.

A Democrat won a state legislative special election in a district that President Trump carried by 17 percentage points, unnerving Republicans in Texas and beyond.

The FBI director couldn’t stop himself from posting news that shouldn’t be public.

This article uses the word ‘wilding’ which is not in widespread use.

Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Canada’s premiers today in Ottawa with a focus to “come together and build.”

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a bit late

President Trump’s faith in his ability to wring concessions by taking maximalist positions was on full display this week. So were the costs, as he splintered NATO and then undercut his credibility by climbing down from his threats.

Trump launched the new initiative at the World Economic Forum earlier this week

After weeks of authoritarian threats to crush protests with the military, cancel elections, conquer foreign countries, and send masked agents door-to-door to round up anyone who can’t prove their citizenship, Trump on Wednesday told an already uneasy room full of world leaders that “sometimes you need a dictator.”

In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump announced that he was revising a lawsuit against The New York Times to include the organization’s polling research, which currently shows him tanking on everything from the economy and immigration to his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Turns out all you need is a Supreme Court majority on your side and you can wipe your ass with the Constitution.

Come on, it’s not just the admiration there Mehdi.

xcancel…philly

In a whiplash-inducing U-turn, U.S. President Donald Trump suddenly dropped his insistence on taking control of Greenland, mere hours after laying out at great length his rationale for ownership of the Arctic island.

President Trump delivered yet another rambling, long-winded speech Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, using the massive world stage to rail against windmills, complain for the umpteenth time about how the 2020 election was rigged, reaffirm his desire to seize Greenland from Denmark, and take credit for every good thing in the world.

President Trump said Wednesday that he was calling off tariff threats that he had issued in an effort to secure American ownership of Greenland, saying he had reached a framework agreement with Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, over the future of the icy Danish territory.

Trump’s first year back in the White House closed with the U.S. national debt roughly $2.25 trillion higher than when he retook the oath of office, showing how fast Washington’s red ink is piling up even amid DOGE hype and promises to pay it down. Over the calendar year 2025, the growth in the national debt was even higher, some $2.29 trillion.

General Abolfazl Shekarchi, a spokesperson for Iran’s armed forces, delivered a severe threat: “Trump knows that if any hand of aggression is extended toward our leader, we not only cut that hand but also we will set fire to their world.”

In an interview on Fox News Sunday, US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Shannon Bream that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is not, nor are they planning to, investigate Jonathan Ross—the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot and killed Renée Nicole Good in her car in Minneapolis earlier this month.

Contents of said letter from daily beast: https://archive.is/YFBK3#selection-773.0-779.748

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Cowichan businesswoman Kristi Koons said she’s alarmed and concerned over the fact that she and another two women were asked to leave a town hall featuring federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on June 10 because of the T-shirts they were wearing.

Archive https://archive.is/w1Yln Want a permanent seat on President Donald Trump’s new international board of peace? According to a draft charter obtained by Bloomberg, permanent membership comes with a $1 billion buy-in and grants Trump the authority to decide who is admitted. The proposed “Board of Peace” would be an international body chaired by Trump himself, who would serve as its inaugural leader and retain sweeping authority over its operations. Under the draft charter, Trump would reportedly control invitations, approve the agenda, sign off on the organization’s official seal, and designate his own successor.

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Rather than repealing civil rights statutes outright, the administration has focused on disabling the mechanisms that make those laws work.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/58805949

Donald Trump bought at least $1m worth of bonds in Netflix and Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), according to a financial disclosure form, days after he said would “be involved” in a proposed merger between the two companies.

What life is like in Minneapolis now

US President Donald Trump has said he may impose trade tariffs on countries that do not support his plans to take over Greenland.

Trump has said that the United States shouldn’t have midterm elections this year because midterm voters often vote against the president’s party. Democratic congressional leaders have said they expect Trump to disrupt and dispute the midterms.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to use the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to deploy military forces, in Minnesota amid escalating tension over a deployment of federal agents in the state’s most populous city, which has become the focus of daily clashes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41659019

One day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea. “Trump called me down to the Oval Office,” John Bolton, national security adviser in 2018, told the Guardian. “He said a prominent businessman had just suggested the US buy Greenland.”

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“It is a sign that people aren’t happy within the U.S. government, clearly. The shooting [of Good] was the last straw for many people,” Dominick Skinner, ICE list founder, told The Beast.

OMFG

Donald Trump has declared himself the “acting president of Venezuela” in an unhinged Truth Social post.