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yall will do absolutely anything except consider that maybe the voters of San Francisco keep rejecting ideas like “algebra is racist” and “building an apartment is genocide” because they are bad
The story of the San Francisco school board and DA recalls is that they were a data yoink to target SF residents and voters and turn them rightward for future elections. Sounded crazy to say for the past few years but we are seeing the effects now.
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Dear @FBI and @FBIDirectorKash, The New York Times @nytimes @debra_kamin just reported that the Alexander brothers’ publicist, Juda Engelmayer @judae, paid writers $15,000 and $10,000 to publish articles attacking the women who accused the brothers of rape. One of those articles suggested the first woman to sue them fabricated her allegations and was a criminal. Engelmayer confirmed the payments. His words: “In this world, everything is pay to play.” That is a man who represented Harvey Weinstein and Sean Combs explaining that he paid people to call rape victims liars while their case was at trial. I know this campaign from the inside. In 2024 I sat in the Alexander family’s house and was asked to go after those same women and their lawyer. I said no and went to you. The Times article is what the people who said yes went on to do. The brothers are serving 30 years. The machine that was built to discredit, intimidate, and silence their victims is still running, and the people who ran it are still being paid. Paying writers to smear witnesses in a federal sex trafficking case is not public relations. I believe it is part of a coordinated denigration campaign against victims, and I am asking you to treat it that way. Sincerely, Everett Stern HSBC Whistleblower Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit
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Replying to @merelmoistra
Remember what he said about the difference between freedom of speech and freedom of reach. He is throttling my reach. Still, it has more impact to tell this truth here to his fan boys and girls than to people on the other platforms.
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Excellent..
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I’ve known Haley Stevens for a long time. Until now, she has always had staff to protect her, prop her up, and keep her safe from her own irrational behavior. What we’re seeing now? This is just raw, unfiltered Haley. The Haley who flip-flops and goes from thought to thought without rhyme or reason. The Haley that calls you at 3 AM to yell at you, and then calls you back at 5 AM oblivious to the fact that she even spoke with you at 3 AM. The Haley who bends to the last and loudest voice that tells her something. More often than not that last voice is now her fiancé. And as you can see by what one of her former staff people posted earlier here on X, that appears to potentially be a really troubling relationship. Up until this point, other than a joke I made on X a few days ago, I wasn't going to say anything public about Haley Stevens or how she has comported herself since the primary. It not only wasn't appropriate, I would never, ever want anyone to think I was speaking for or on behalf of my wife. But Haley's erratic choices mean I can no longer be silent about my interactions with her since the primary ended. I approached Haley in the middle of September about putting her name to an Op-Ed attacking Mike Rogers for his unwillingness to denounce the antisemitic members of his own team, the $10 million in support he's received from Christian nationalist Tim Dunn, and his steadfast opposition to a woman's right to choose. The goal of the Op-Ed was to remind members of the Jewish community that Mike Rogers doesn't align with our values. The proposed Op-Ed never mentioned Abdul. The only thing it asked for was to not vote for Mike Rogers. Initially she was very interested in it. Then she wasn't. Then she was again. Then she wasn't. She never signed it. Literally the bare minimum - attack MAGA Mike Rogers, the guy who would have been running against you had you won the primary. And that was over a month ago. This is nothing new. This is just who Haley is. By the way, here's the Op-Ed that she wouldn't let me publish.
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Elon Musk deleted this video from X. It shows Republicans telling the truth about Trump before they teamed up with him. In the end, they sold out the whole world for money.
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Dear Director Patel @FBIDirectorKash, In 2024 I sat in Alon Alexander’s mansion in Miami Beach with the brothers, their father, the rest of the family, and a disbarred attorney who went to federal prison for helping drug traffickers obstruct justice, and I was told it was gang initiation time. My target was Evan Torgan, the attorney representing the women who had come forward against Oren, Tal, and Alon Alexander. The family believed Torgan was being paid to orchestrate the women and extort them. I was asked what my connections were to the FBI and the Department of Justice. Oren told me they had already hired another private intelligence operative to gather information on the women. They could see an indictment coming. The disbarred attorney was Samuel Burstyn. He served 42 months for conspiracy to obstruct justice on behalf of a drug trafficking organization. That is when I stopped thinking of it as an intelligence job and started thinking about what could physically happen to Evan Torgan. I said no. I called Evan Torgan and warned him. Then I contacted the FBI, told your agents what I had seen, and handed over every electronic communication between me, the brothers, and the family. That is part of what I heard in that house. I am leaving out the rest on purpose, because I will not put anything in public that could hurt an investigation. Yesterday the brothers were sentenced to 30 years each. Judge Caproni called what they did monstrous. She was right. But that sentence closes only half of this case. The other half is in the Peacock documentary The Wolves of Real Estate: The Alexander Brothers, and I did not understand its full extent until I watched it. The film reports that a victim was told by an investigator that her children had been mentioned. Victim 4 dropped out. Director Patel, that is not crisis PR. That is not intelligence gathering. That is a woman who reported a rape being told that someone knows where her children are. I believe it was witness intimidation, and I believe it was criminal. I am asking you to open an investigation into the PR firms, the investigation agencies, and the individual investigators who were paid to target, discredit, and intimidate these women and their lawyer, and where the evidence supports it, to charge them. I am also asking you to widen the case. Oren told me about other billionaires. He told me about a victim being held in a dungeon in a billionaire’s house in the Hamptons. I cannot prove what he said. You can. The brothers did not operate alone, and I believe there are more victims who were silenced by exactly this machinery. The people who helped this family, protected it, and hunted its accusers should not get to watch the sentencing on the news and go back to work. These women did their part. They spoke, and they were hunted for it. The brothers who raped them got 30 years. The people who hunted them got paid. Fix that. Respectfully, Everett Stern HSBC Whistleblower Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit
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Imagine pretending to be a journalist like @sarahcbedford is doing and showing NO interest in similar fuckery from Elon Musk -- the Cornell West campaign and the fake trans mailer in TX, not to mention the funding of a socialist in OH. Why is Sarah such a proud hypocrite?
Imagine if control of the Senate comes down to Alaska, and there's no plausible deniability for senior aides (!) in the Democratic Party who recruited a fake candidate to swing the vote.
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Tesla just launched off the road and ate a whole wall in Lomas del Chamizal 😱
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1/3 Musk ordered last week's slowdown of Starshield, which Ukraine fights on, after talking with Trump, per @WSJ. In '23 the Pentagon signed a contract with SpaceX to “prevent Musk from turning off the switch," per fmr Under Sec of Defense Colin Kahl. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
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Before your @elonmusk followers continue praising him claiming he will give shares of @SpaceX to children next year, let me remind you another promise he made but didn't keep. He banks on the fact you have short memories.
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Latest: ​Zelenskyy tells reporters over WhatsApp that restrictions on Ukraine's Starlink systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function, logistics and operations hobbled. The maximum speed is 161 kph; "exceeding this limit causes the Starlink connection to cut out completely, resulting in the loss of the drone." He says Ukraine has done tests to determine whether SpaceX is truly facing technical issues, as has been told Kyiv by the US side, or if this is a "deliberate operation... to restrict us, cut us off, and prevent us from defending ourselves and protecting our people, both at the front and among the civilian population." He says Ukraine "sent a couple of vehicles equipped with Starlink terminals into European Union territory." "They moved at speeds exceeding 180kph, and the Starlink systems worked perfectly. We have the relevant logs and evidence to prove this." He adds: "The conclusion is clear: the restrictions are in effect within Ukraine but do not apply within the European Union. In other words, this is a planned operation."
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MAGA always refers to Obama by his full name but never the same rule for Kashyap Pramod Patel. Why is that?
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers reportedly had a text thread competing to pull over the most Black drivers, while using racial slurs in discussions about force against Black residents. More than half a dozen officers have reportedly been recommended for termination or quit. A badge should NEVER be a license for discrimination! These allegations call into question traffic stops and use-of-force incidents involving these officers!
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A Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv. Once again, no early warning from our partners. The main target was energy infrastructure, specifically CHPP-4. Unfortunately, it was hit. A residential building was also damaged, and rescuers are currently putting out a fire there. Our systems detected these missiles only when they were already virtually on approach to Kyiv. CHPP-4 is one of Kyiv’s key energy facilities. According to our intelligence, the Russians are preparing further ballistic missile launches. The facts show that the Russians do not consider themselves bound by what the President of the United States said. Ukraine supported an energy ceasefire. Russia is targeting yet another power plant and the lives of our people. And this is absolutely unjust: when they are destroying our energy infrastructure, and Ukraine is not even receiving early warnings about ballistic missile launches. It is important that the world does not stay silent about this. And it is important that the United States really see what is happening and who is responsible for this war continuing. Please stay safe tonight and tomorrow. We are working to replenish our air defenses with anti-ballistic missiles.
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🚨NEW🚨: A very, very detailed estimate on how every demographic is voting for 2026, for @TheArgumentMag — for both registered voters and the likely electorate. Hispanics: D+8 -> D+26 Young voters: D+10 -> D+33 (!) RVs: D+6.6 LVs: D+9.1 theargumentmag.com/p/the-mag…
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I am an affluent white male who was born 62 years ago in Boston, Massachusetts. Both of my parents were born in the USA (Cleveland and Boston) I have lived at the same address for the past 30 years in a medium-sized Midwestern city. I have voted in every national election since 1984 when I was 20 The first time I voted, I showed up at my polling place, gave them my name and was issued a ballot No ID, no verification other than the poll worker looked up my name in the list of registered voters Yesterday I voted. But not before the poll worker expressed concern that my signature that I just made did not match what the machine (an iPad) said was my signature This was >after< I presented my Real ID compliant Indiana driver's license Another poll worker, who I know personally, intervened and I was allowed to vote If MAGA can attempt to disenfranchise me, they will attempt to disenfranchise everyone And with armed federal goons at the polls in 2028, that is exactly what will happen
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Paul Ryan took debt so seriously that he voted for the tax cuts that did this at only 31 years old, and again at 33 years old, and again at 40 years old, and again at 42 years old, and again at 47 years old. He retired before he could do it yet again at 55 years old.
FWIW, Paul Ryan is only 56 years old. In our age of absolute fiscal irresponsibility, what if the man who took tackling the debt seriously pulls a Winston Churchill and suddenly comes back onto the scene with serious momentum in 2028?
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I'm suspicious that the two receipts' items are labelled *exactly the same* 43 years apart, but even besides that: Average weekly earnings... in April 1983: $282.92 in Sep 2026: $1,101.88 So 3.9x increase in wages versus 3.6x increase in list prices for this basket.
We need to go back to these prices cause wtf
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The 1983 Sam's Club receipt shown is AI generated. The first store opened April 7, 1983, but the logo differed from the one pictured and the club sold bulk items, not the single units listed here. Grocery prices are higher today consistent with inflation since 1983. corporate.walmart.com/about/samsclub… 1000logos.net/sams-club-logo/ in2013dollars.com/prices-in-1983
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