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Raskin is riskin’ quite a bit here. Strange bedfellows, indeed, but hey, we’ve got to take what we can get. I’ll be watching this one.

Is this the font? Looks great if it is a body style, I wonder what would compliment it as a header.

And in 3,. 2,. 1,. we will all watch Mike Johnson avoiding a press scrum saying “he hasn’t seen this” and “I don’t know anything about it”.

Congress is literally letting fascism happen. Trump needs to be impeached now! His adviser Steve Bannon has told us they are going to employ voter intimidation tactics. On his podcast he said, “We’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November”.

Thanks for the link, Whitney Webb is a legend.

That’s the way I feel, although others might feel differently. However, from my point of view, if he’s referencing this and putting it up there as journalism, then I would think it holds some weight.

Well if you look at the landscape of modern media, it’s pretty clear that the line between “just the facts” reporting and passionate activism has gotten really blurry. Sites like Raw Story tend to lean into the tabloid or “fast-paced” side of digital news for sure.

But when you talk about Thom Hartmann, you’re looking at a completely different animal. He isn’t just a talking head; he’s a incredibly prolific author (American) who has spent decades building a reputation on “advocacy journalism”—which is basically reporting with a clear moral or political goal in mind.

Great work I didn’t have time to verify as I was working all day but this is the answer and so it seems, yes it’s fake.

I’d take it down although many commented on it and honestly it doesn’t change the fact that Elon was in the files, referenced by the FBI, and where other entries show way worse conduct than some poorly written words.

Again thanks for the heads up.

“highly paid Lunatics, Agitators, and Insurrectionists”

Sounds like he’s describing the kinds of people who joined ICE.

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Maybe try using a redlib instance if you need to check out reddit. Personally, I wouldn’t sign in knowing I’m about to freely train that lifeless humming shell of a parasitic LLM incubator.

OK critical thinking, stay sharp people and yes I do reference this author a lot, however, where is the proof?

By Rachel Hurley:

The Soviets called it “dezinformatsiya.” We call it salting. And somebody just salted the shit out of the Epstein discourse.

Here’s how this trick works in spy school.

Take nine true things and one lie. When someone finds the lie, they throw out all ten. Or flip it: take nine lies and one verifiable truth. When someone confirms the truth, they assume the rest must be legit too.

This isn’t conspiracy theory.

The KGB literally had a department for this. A Czech intelligence defector named Ladislav Bittman wrote a whole book about it - said that for any disinfo campaign to work, “every message must at least partially correspond to reality.” You mix the poison with sugar so it goes down smooth. Churchill called it “a bodyguard of lies.”

Now. The Sascha Riley audio tapes.

If you’ve been anywhere near political social media this week, you’ve seen people losing their minds over these recordings. Supposedly a decorated Iraq War vet recounting childhood trafficking connected to Epstein, naming names including Trump, claiming he’s testified to the House Oversight Committee. People are crying. People are demanding investigations. The emotional temperature is through the roof.

One small problem.

Not a single claim has been verified by anyone. Not courts. Not law enforcement. Not the FBI. Not a single mainstream outlet.

The “journalist” who published the audio, Lisa Noelle Voldeng, has no verifiable professional background.

Fact-checkers have flagged mismatched dates, references to military figures who may not exist, and claims so “over the top” they’re raising red flags everywhere. When supporters demand proof, they point to… the audio itself. Which is not how evidence works.

I can t but keep asking - why would someone release so much unverifiable testimony right now?

Think about it. If you wanted to protect Trump from the actual Epstein evidence - the stuff that’s documented - what would you do?

You’d flood the zone with something so sensational it drowns out the receipts. You’d make the claims so extreme they can never be proven. Then when the whole thing collapses - and it will collapse if it’s fabricated - everyone who shared it looks like an idiot. Suddenly all Epstein investigation becomes “that conspiracy theory people fell for.” The real journalism gets buried under the rubble of something designed to blow up.

That’s salting. That’s the technique.

“But Rachel, survivors should be believed.”

Survivors with depositions and court records should absolutely be believed. Virginia Giuffre’s testimony withstood cross-examination. The victims in the Maxwell trial provided evidence that led to conviction. That’s what real survivor testimony looks like when it’s legitimate. It goes through legal process. It gets verified. It holds up.

Audio recordings published by someone with no credentials, containing allegations no outlet will touch, expecting you “just believe” without verification? That’s not survivor testimony. That’s a test of how gullible you are.

The reaction alone is a tell. “I listened and cried.” “I felt physically sick.” “I believe completely.” These are emotional responses, not evidentiary ones. And content that’s optimized for emotional virality rather than accuracy is… well, that’s exactly what disinfo looks like. The KGB would be so proud.

Here’s what I know for sure: the real Epstein evidence doesn’t need help from this story. The real connections are documented. The receipts exist. And anyone trying to get you to share unverifiable claims instead of documented evidence is either not paying attention or doing someone’s work for them.

You want to nail Trump on Epstein? Use the depositions. Use the flight logs. Use his own words on tape. Use the evidence that holds up.

You want to protect Trump on Epstein? Get everyone sharing sensational claims that collapse under scrutiny, then watch the whole discourse get dismissed as hysteria.

Know the difference. Please.

I believe that Sascha Riley believes what he is saying. But that doesn’t make it true.

And not one piece of evidence that he has shared proves a damn thing.

Periodt.

Thanks and yes I’m comfortable with English as my first language. I was trying to post my comment with respect for OP. A QWERTY keyboard has the U and I together, my phone keyboard sucks for sure, but honestly, I can’t say much more for this comment.

Hey just a heads up, you added an extra “to become” in your title. Anyway great question, I’ve always wondered this, hopefully someone knows better.

Perhaps the growth of everyone placing files on clouds these days may be contribute to its inpopularity, or simply because the name just got lumped together with copyright infringement.

Well it came from a substack which of course it doesn’t prove that it’s real or AI, most probably he uses AI in some capacity to embellish or edit before his content is published, but I don’t see it in this piece in an overt way personally.

Here is a great writeup by Brent Molnar.

The Great MAGA Bot Unmasking and Why X Suddenly Flipped On Its Own Army of Fakes…

Let me take a deep breath before diving into this swamp, because what just happened on X is not a glitch and it is not random. It is the political equivalent of kicking over a rotten log and watching thousands of beetles scatter into the light. The new “About This Account” feature exposing where profiles are actually based is already revealing that many of the loudest MAGA screamers are not in Ohio, not in Texas, not in Florida, and not in any diner Fox News pretends to interview. They are overseas. They include accounts registering from Russia, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, and other low-cost troll-farm regions.

And no, this is not a surprise to anyone who has been watching this ecosystem since Trump stepped onto that escalator in 2015. The only surprise is that X finally let the public see it. The question is why. The answer takes us through the economics of bot amplification, the politics of foreign influence, the global regulatory environment closing in on Musk, and the fact that even the biggest con artists eventually realize they have to show a little transparency if they want to avoid getting hauled into court.

The first thing to understand is that X has been under growing international pressure. The EU’s Digital Services Act has been tightening the screws on platforms that fail to disclose bot activity, foreign influence, or coordinated political campaigns. X is already being investigated by Brussels for disinformation failures. This transparency feature is not a gift. It is a survival maneuver. Musk can tell regulators that he provided the tools. Whether users fall for foreign propaganda or not becomes “their problem.”

Next comes the advertiser problem. X has been hemorrhaging ad revenue. Most major brands do not want their name appearing next to a flood of anonymous accounts screaming about “civil war” or cheering for authoritarianism. By showing where accounts are actually based, Musk can claim the platform is safer, cleaner, and more accountable. Advertisers love the word “accountable” almost as much as they love avoiding lawsuits.

But here’s the real core of it. The feature exposes something Trump’s movement desperately needs to hide. Much of its online enthusiasm has always been artificial. The volume never matched the number of real humans willing to say these things in public. The trolling, the pile-ons, the artificial virality, the coordinated amplification of Trump’s worst rhetoric, the constant harassment of journalists and critics, the sudden explosion of identical talking points across thousands of accounts in minutes. Real humans do not behave like that. Bot networks do. Troll farms do. Foreign political influence operations do.

And now ordinary users can click a button and see that the loud “America First” account screaming about patriotism is posting from Moscow. The guy demanding “DEFEND OUR COUNTRY” is posting from the Philippines on a six-cent-per-hour content farm. The account accusing Biden of corruption is registered in a country run by oligarchs who would like nothing more than to put a puppet in the Oval Office again.

The next question is why Musk would risk blowing up the ecosystem that props up Trump’s movement. The answer is timing. It is late 2025. Elections are coming around the world. Regulators are circling. Evidence of foreign influence has been publicly documented again and again. Musk knows that if he does nothing, X becomes the center of the next major election interference scandal. If he adds the visibility, he can shrug and say, “We told you where they were. What more do you want from us?”

This is liability management, not integrity. It is legal positioning, not enlightenment. It is cover-your-ass insurance disguised as transparency.

And here is the final twist. The Trump regime is now directly tied to foreign actors in ways that are getting harder to hide. We just watched a “peace plan” for Ukraine circulate that appears to have been drafted by Kremlin-adjacent figures and laundered through U.S. political channels. We just saw senators admit that proposals they thought were American actually came from Russia. We just saw Trump take public positions that map perfectly onto Moscow’s demands.

Now imagine what happens when the public can see, in real time, that much of the social-media support for these positions comes from accounts not based in the United States at all.

The timing is not a coincidence. The pressure is not imaginary. The exposure is not accidental. The authoritarian ecosystem that helped build Trump’s movement is suddenly visible. The “America First” crowd is being revealed as one of the most foreign-amplified political factions in modern American history. And the panic on the right is already loud enough to hear through the screen. The darkness is being dragged into daylight. And daylight is not kind to parasites.

A subscription or donation is the only thing that keeps this voice standing. They want pages like mine erased and your support right now is the firewall that stops that from happening. If this work matters, this is the moment it genuinely counts. I left the corporate grind to speak the truth without permission, but independent media has no protection and the platforms are actively suppressing it every day.

By Trump’s thinking and current stance is that the Epstein files are really all full of Democrats, and that’s why we shouldn’t talk about them.

Wait, what?

If they’re full of Democrats, wouldn’t you want everyone screaming about them from the rooftops? The logic doesn’t logic. But that’s where we are.

A month ago Patel and Bondi were saying there was no files, so they lied underoath. But, obviously there’s no accountability under this administration.

So, what changed in a month? Everything of substance has been scrubbed from the files. We’re not going to get any justice or accountability. Par for the fucking course