American Politics from 2019 on

[Tero]

[Sean Hayden]

They don’t believe anyone is losing them, and if they are they shouldn’t have received it in the first place.

[JimC]

If you are poor, it's your fault, and you have no right to complain about your clearly superior betters. Just quietly go away and die...

[Tero]

[Brian Peacock]

Yeah, seems like an easy target, but the guy could've been a contractor and lost work because he wouldn't get vaccinated.

Also, I think it's probably a made up story anyway - like the one's that get passed around right-wing Fakebook that are generated by Russian troll farms.

[Tero]

[Brian Peacock]

I'm afraid I find myself in agreement with MTG here - but for completely different reasons

[Brian Peacock]

[Sean Hayden]

[JimC]

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-08/ ... /105505506

The US Justice Department has publicly walked back on a theory it possessed Jeffrey Epstein's "client list".
It said it had videos and pictures of Epstein and victims, which it would not be releasing as much of it was sealed by a court.

The department says it will not be releasing any more files relating to the case.
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The US Justice Department says Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a "client list" and it will not be releasing any more files publicly about the wealthy financier's sex trafficking investigation.

The announcement that the well-connected Epstein did not have a list of clients to whom underage girls were trafficked represents a public walk-back of a theory the Trump administration had helped promote, with Attorney-General Pam Bondi suggesting in a Fox News interview earlier this year that such a document was "sitting on my desk" for review.

Even as it released video from inside a New York jail meant to prove definitively that Epstein killed himself, the department also said in a memo that it was refusing to disclose other evidence investigators had collected.

Cunt and other conspiracy theorists would have a field day with this! Perhaps the possibility of Trump himself being on this "non-existent" list might explain his tame Justice Department decision. Actually that makes me a conspiracy theorist myself!

[pErvinalia]

This is a conspiracy theory I could get behind.

[Brian Peacock]

Yeah, but I bet they're still saying that Disney had Epstein murdered.

[L'Emmerdeur]

ABC is being unnecessarily circumspect. Bondi didn't just suggest that she had the 'Epstein list' on her desk, she said it outright. Given she pays homage to her master by lying on a regular basis, that statement could well have been false but then again maybe not. In my opinion, regardless of truth or fiction it's a pleasure to see the bozos who've been making hay on the case for years get stymied by the shitty turkey they idolize.

[L'Emmerdeur]

This item happens to be topical so is getting some attention, but the Trumpist agenda is going to be harming Americans (and vulnerable people around the world) in multiple ways for many years to come. The corporations, millionaires, and billionaires will enjoy their tax breaks though so it's all good.

'Trump Administration Wants to Close Down Key Weather Labs Nationwide'

The National Severe Storms Laboratory sits on a campus of radar equipment and office buildings at the University of Oklahoma, off State Highway 9 in Norman. It’s responsible for radar breakthroughs in forecasting that the nation relies on for storm warnings and emergency preparedness.

But the Trump administration wants to shut it down, prompting a rare rebuke from a prominent Republican member of Congress.

“I want to make sure that whoever’s proposing this actually goes down there and looks at it and meets them,” said Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole, chair of the Appropriations Committee. “I’ve allowed things in my district to be closed before, but this is a national asset, and I want to be very careful about what we do with it.”

The Trump administration is looking to make sweeping cuts at the nation’s weather agencies, including the closure of all federally funded meteorology labs, such as the National Severe Storms Laboratory. They’re facilities that experts credit for research that has saved countless lives; the deadly flooding in Texas over the Fourth of July weekend underscored just how crucial it is to have adequate warning systems in place to anticipate natural disasters.