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Thursday, July 17, 2025

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order in the coming days designed to help make private-market investments more available to U.S. retirement plans, according to people familiar with the matter. read more


Monday, July 14, 2025

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Thursday, July 03, 2025

A former FBI agent who was charged with joining a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol and cheering on rioters is now working as an adviser to the Justice Department official overseeing its "weaponization working group," which is examining President Donald Trump's claims of anti-conservative bias inside the department. read more


Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Rep. Keith Self (RTexas) said Monday President Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill," which Republicans are aiming to pass by the president's selfimposed July 4 deadline, was "fiscally criminal." In a post on the social platform X, Self wrote: "The House was clear: no new deficit spending. The Senate isn't listening"their version adds over $1T to the deficit, completely ignoring the House framework. This isn't just reckless"it's fiscally criminal."


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#65

www.justice.gov

Page 2 third paragraph.

All you clowns have is personal attacks. These documents are very damning and you all got nothing.

#50 | Posted by BellRinger

No, they're not. They're just the usual rightwing distortion that fools those looking for an excuse to support a pedophile.

Documents revealed that in the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the intelligence community consistently assessed that Russia was "probably not trying ... to influence the election by using cyber means."

Cherry picked line (see ...) that only means they probably weren't trying to use this singular method, a finding that was at odds with other assessments and evidence at the time.

Then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's talking points stated: "Foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the U.S. presidential election outcome."

The claim was never Russia hacking and putting their thumb on the electoral scale. It was them using false or misleading information on social media platforms to confuse and anger gullible idiots.

"We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure," the Presidential Daily Brief stated. "Russian Government-affiliated actors most likely compromised an Illinois voter registration database and unsuccessfully attempted the same in other states."

Again, not the central claim or findings and, again, this doesn't support the conclusion you're pushing.

The brief noted that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence assessed that any Russian activities "probably were intended to cause psychological effects, such as undermining the credibility of the election process and candidates."

So the claimed activities were happening...

As usual, right wing "news" sources bury an accurate assessment of reality far enough down that your average bellringer won't read far enough to get to it. That's the MO for all "news" sources from righty sources.

And you fall for it every single time.

"suppressed intelligence from before and after the election showing Russia lacked intent and capability to hack the 2016 election."

Again, direct interference was never the claim.

I'm not going to keep going as it's clear this is just a distortion piece meant to support a narrative, not report reality.

I can't help but notice that it also projects massively on the Dems the arguments and unsupported claims you idiots made about 2020.

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