the blond guy is Link Lauren, a former RFK Jr advisor, and close friend of Jessica Reed Kraus, among other things
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In 2023 I wrote about Dilley and his team of meme makers, whose often racist and sexist and nearly always crude videos have been widely shared on the right, including by Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/u...
Inside the Troll Army Waging Trump’s Online Campaign (Published 2023)
A team of meme-makers has been flooding social media with pro-Trump posts riddled with sexist and racist tropes. Donald Trump is cheering them on.
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That's Brenden Dilley, a life coach turned QAnon podcaster turned MAGA meme creator who once said on the air "It doesn’t have to be true. It just has to go viral."
Q: Trump trolling or Trump truthing -- Greenland joining America?
LEAVITT: Definitely Trump truthing
Q: Canada becoming the 51st state
LEAVITT: Trump truthing. All the way. And the Canadians would benefit greatly.
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His lawyer? AG Pam Bondi's brother.
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Milton was convicted by a jury of 3 fraud counts in 2022 for misleading investors about his company & its electric trucks. He was sentenced to 4 years + restitution. Two weeks ago, prosecutors recommended he pay $676M in restitution.
Now he won't have to pay that & is a free man.
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NEW: Nikola founder Trevor Milton, just pardoned by Trump for fraud, donated over $2 million to Republicans between September and December of last year, per FEC records. His largest was $920K to the Trump 47 Committee.
He'd never previously made political donations.
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This reminds me of when Jamie Raskin told me that Comer repeatedly called him "Mr. Raskins," even after Raskin said that he didn't have an "S" at the end of his name.
oh my god -- Comer thinks "editorial standards" literally refers to standards for editorials and is corrected by the NPR head
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good story but the Spanish translation is horrible! Are we using AI now to do those because nobody, but nobody, says "afirmaciones fácticas" and the rest of the story is equally gobbledygook
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I'm sure the Elon would NEVER tell the Chinese govt (which "now accounts for more than half of Tesla’s global deliveries") what he learns in a top secret briefing about American plans for a possible war with China, right? RIGHT?
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China
Giving Elon Musk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to President Trump and highlights his conflicts of interest.
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This is incredibly grim
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...
Threats Rise Against Judges Overseeing Trump Policy Cases, Fueling Safety Concerns
Federal judges are worried that online threats against those who oversee high-profile cases challenging Trump administration policies may lead to real-world violence.
