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JUST IN: Judge Gleason in Alaska sounds deeply skeptical of DOJ's 11th hour lawsuit there to halt certification if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. She grants Dems' motion for expedited consideration and notes DOJ waited four months to sue over the ballot. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Donovan says she can get to point, which is that the crimes Witt was initially tasked with investigating at some point shifted to other crimes. Witt concedes that's correct. The initial tasking was the Albany IIR. Shifted to congressional testimony. Donovan: When did it morph? Witt: Not sure.

Donovan: What I'm trying to connect here is that we're talking about Floris being unpopular with the president because she discredited something that's one of the president's theories about the 2020 election Objection from DOJ Witt: I don't want to speak for the president

Donovan goes back to Patel. He directed you to investigate Floris? Witt: Directive in July given to Kansas City, I was assigned through chain of command Donovan: Is that normally how investigations play out? Witt: I've not had a tasking from a director in my career...agrees this was "unusual"

DOJ objects to this line of questioning Donovan explains that she's trying to ascertain whether Witt understands the nature of the subjects and type of investigations Floris was testifying about. Also notes that the 1st affidavit (not sworn by Witt) didn't mention experience, while 2nd (Witt's) did

Donovan asks about Witt's experience with intelligence and counterintelligence investigations. Witt says his background is criminal, unclassified. Not intelligence/counter-intel.

Okay we're back. Margaret Donovan is starting her cross examination of FBI agent Witt on behalf of Nikki Floris. She starts by asking how this investigation came about. Witt: Director Patel directed investigation. July letter referenced several potential crimes...18 USC 1512 was one (tampering).

Safer: You investigate drug dealers and human traffickers. You know how important history, credibility is...Before you came into court to accuse these public servants, wasn't it important to do a little research on their background? Witt: I was instructed to investigate this specific issue

Onto para 54. Safer: What you didn't do in questioning staffers with materiality, didn't provide transcripts? Didn't ask had the questions been answered differently, what would you have done? Witt: We did not do that

Safer: And you don't know what Benavides understanding of an "investigation related to a laptop" was? Witt says he can't speak for Benavides' understanding of words

Safer next focuses on this exchange from Benavides '23 testimony (after he left FBI). Questions focus on tense -- he's being asked if the FBI *is* in possession of the laptop. But Benavides had left FBI by then, yes? So he wouldn't know whether FBI *is* in possession of a laptop at that time?

Safer: Do you know from 2019-2020 Benavides was with the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force? Witt reads aloud from exhibit document describing FITF operations. Idea Safer is getting at is that FITF wasn't doing criminal investigations; was focused on intelligence.

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit rules 2-1 to dismiss DOJ's effort to force California to remove 20,000 purported noncitizens from the voter rolls based on data CA officials view as faulty. Majority: Bennett (Trump) Sanchez (Biden) Minority: Bumatay (Trump) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: We're asking the Office of Special Counsel & State Dept IG to investigate reports that diplomats' promotions hinge on how they vote & who they donate to If true, that's a political loyalty test & the law bars it @democracydefendersfund.org complaint 👇

BREAKING: 174 bipartisan former judges are calling on the 8th Circuit to toss DOJ’s misconduct complaint against the Minnesota judges DOJ wants them investigated & some barred from DHS cases, all for saying ICE violated 210 court orders @democracydefendersfund.org is proud to stand w/ them👇 -TN

Iran wasn't running out of firepower. It was holding back. Now vessels are being sunk, missile tests are accelerating, and the scale of attacks is expanding dramatically. What we're witnessing should terrify Trump's war planners.

Absolutely disgusting, but what can we expect from an adjudicated rapist and a congenital liar?

A letter sent to Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles by several House members, incl. Ro Khanna, demanded “an immediate, govt-wide investigation into the decision to restrict SpaceX's Starshield satellite-based intelligence & military support services in Ukraine.” www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...

Today, I’m honored to share that President Obama is supporting our campaign for the U.S. Senate. President @barackobama.bsky.social & I both started as organizers in our communities, because we immediately understood that real changes come from regular folks joining the fight. #AngieForFlorida

Looks like when you fall out of favor with Convicted Felon Trump the protection from investigation falls too

I would be shocked if he’s not charged multiple times, particularly if the Vanity Fair article is accurate. Just a cavalcade of corruption.

Trump confirms he's the one who ordered the DOJ to stop the certification of the Alaska Senate race if the Republicans lose.

Obama just SLAMMED Vivek Ramaswamy for the disgusting ad he ran using Amy Acton's estranged mother: “There is no office that is worth stooping that low.”

I believe we can have a secure border and a clear pathway to citizenship and we can do it without a rogue, illegal agency like ICE.

“A taker, you say?” 👇👇💪

We're less than two weeks out from election day, and I can't do it without y'all. There are almost 200 opportunities to get out and tell your neighbors new leadership is on the ballot and I will fight for you! Let's get it! #AngieForFL

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: MeidasTouch obtained NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN photos and videos revealing devastating damage to U.S. bases from Trump's Iran war. Troops and military families describe being abandoned by their own government. “It’s so much worse than people realize.”

Musk should be in prison.

This is fucking insane. It reads like a bad spy novel. The corruption is almost cartoonish at this point. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Again: Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything. That’s not how DOD contracts work.

Vivek is vile. It’s a horrible ad. But the good news is that the ad will destroy him.

CNN compiled a montage of Senile Satan talking about other men. Courtesy of @acyn.bsky.social

Talarico: Elon wants our land. He's already trying to buy one of our beautiful state parks down in South Texas. He wants our water for these AI data centers. And he wants his very own personal United States senator — and that's what he thinks he can get with Ken Paxton.

Ashley Moody’s big closing argument is calling me "radical." Not gas, food, or rent costs. That’s it. That’s her plan. Ashley, if you’re scared of a Duval mom, just say that. #AngieForFlorida #WheresAshley

Basically the argument I was making yesterday, writing about … uh … Abdul El-Sayed.

NEW: Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker, wife of Governor JB Pritzker, announces she’s sending $500,000 to Amy Acton after Vivek Ramaswamy’s truly vile ad featuring Acton’s estranged mom.

🚨 NEW: A bombshell 44-page Senate investigation obtained by MeidasTouch reveals how Trump is opening the floodgates to corporate megamergers, raising fears of higher prices, job losses, and media consolidation. @macfarlanenews.bsky.social reports.

Seized ballots, ICE at the polls, nonstop election lies Pro-democracy AGs & secretaries of state are ready for all of it Their level of preparation is off the charts @Democracydefendersfund.org & partners are proud to be at the table 👇 @theguardian.com - TN

AKA JD Dumbass!

A video just resurfaced of Vivek Ramaswamy mocking Amy Acton for being a victim of sexual abuse. He’s a real piece of shit. And every Republican who’s still backing him should have to answer for it.

The fact that not a single staffer has resigned from Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign since this disgusting Amy Acton ad dropped is shocking. If any client I ever worked with did something even a fraction as disgusting as this, I would have quit and burned down their entire fucking campaign.

Court documents show that Amy Acton’s stepfather abused her as a kid, and REPUBLICANS HAVE DECIDED TO MAKE ATTACKING HER OVER HER OWN SEXUAL ASSAULT THEIR CLOSING ARGUMENT IN THE MIDTERMS. They are never going to beat the allegations...

Usha Vance is on the board and a licensed lawyer. She clerked for Kavanaugh (Appeals Court) and John Roberts. She knows better. What a corrupt group.

Whoops! The Kennedy Center's Trump-installed Board quietly revises a key justification for the two-year closure: that a report supposedly found phased renovations would cost $41M more. The Board admits it never read that before voting. buff.ly/a7LEkeV