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17:05
> “What Tulsi is saying is we only want to hear anything that’s pro-Trump, pro-Trump policy, pro-this, pro-current Republican Party, from any of our intel services. And if we hear anything that’s not that? Then we’re going to come after you,” Miller said. “We looked at everything, and we’re being now told that we somehow did it wrong.”
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> Responding to the Trump administration’s praise of Gabbard and the dismissal of the Mueller report’s findings as a “total hoax,” Miller called it “wrong in every single way.”
17:05
> If there had been any pressure, Miller said she would have promptly resigned. She added, “And I can guarantee, the other three members of my team would have quit too. They are just righteous people.”
17:05
> “Absolutely not,” said Miller, who has served nine times overseas in the CIA before becoming the agency’s chief of counterintelligence.
17:03
> A former CIA officer who helped investigate Russian election interference denied Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s claim that the Obama administration cooked up intelligence on Russia to undermine Trump’s 2016 election win.

Susan Miller, a 39-year CIA veteran, was one of three officers commissioned to assemble the 2019 Mueller report, also known as the “Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election.” In investigating “sound” intelligence on inference claims, Miller told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that they were simply directed to “look
14:30
Folks. Don't get surprised when Don pardons Ghislaine.
14:29
> This, of course, comes just days after reports that Maxwell held two off-the-books meetings with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — yes, the same Todd Blanche who served as Trump’s defense attorney in multiple criminal cases. Suddenly, the Department of Justice, under the thumb of a Trump-aligned leadership, is reportedly offered a proffer deal — a form of immunity — in exchange for Maxwell’s cooperation in the still-smoldering Epstein scandal.
14:28
> The collective whiplash among journalists and court watchers this week is understandable. After years of deflecting, dismissing, and denying any connection to the sex trafficking scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald Trump’s orbit is now testing a jaw-dropping pivot: Ghislaine Maxwell as victim.

On Friday night, CNN’s Maggie Haberman revealed something both stunning and depressingly familiar: that people close to Trump are floating the idea that Maxwell — currently serving a 20-year sentence for conspiring to sexually abuse underage girls — might be a victim o
13:44
My god.
13:44
> It’s unclear what exactly led Kennedy to adopt this view. But the Journal notes that a July 9 article in The American Conservative called attention to the task force’s use of the terms “pregnant persons,” “structural racism,” and “microaggressions” in recent publications.

Other departments in the Trump administration have become obsessed with rooting out anything to do with DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) initiatives and content.
13:43
> Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to remove all 16 members of a cancer screening and HIV medication task force because he believes they’re too “woke.”

The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that the Health and Human Services Secretary is planning to completely overhaul the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an organization comprised of volunteer doctors, nurses and public health experts that decides which types of preventive health measures, like cancer screenings, insurance providers must cover free of charge to patients.
13:34
When the cost of living is so high, pets also suffer:
12:29
2 days ago, by User1865345
> Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump shared an “abiding obsession” of chasing supermodels as part of their long-standing friendship, according to biographer Michael Wolff.

Wolff, who participated in over 100 hours of interviews with Epstein, told CNN’s OutFront with Erin Burnett on Wednesday that he believed hunting for women “was probably the most important part of their lives.”
12:28
@Memor-X yeah. We knew. And that's apparently not a problem for the party of family values and MAGA. Dude literally wanted to date his daughter. He is pathetic human being.
 
17:01
150 up
16:14
Ind 122 - 2 (45)
15:56
Ind 104 - 2 (41)
15:48
> 100-plus third wicket stands after starting at 0/2 in Tests
105 - Mohinder Amarnath, Gundappa Viswanath (IND) vs AUS, Melbourne, 1977/78
102* - Archie MacLaren, Stanley Jackson (ENG) vs AUS, Lord’s, 1902
100* - KL Rahul, Shubman Gill (IND) vs ENG, Old Trafford, 2025
15:48
100 up
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14:45
Ind 86 - 2 (29)
14:42
Fifty for Gill
13:48
50 up
13:33
Ind 40 - 2 (13)
13:30
> Shubman Gill (641* runs), now has most runs by an Asian batter in a Test series in England, surpassing Mohammad Yousuf's 631 in 2006.
13:22
Ind 28 - 2 (11)
13:21
At best, they can hope they would be able to bat tomorrow post lunch, which at this point seems far-fetched.
13:20
@PaulWhite at this point, we can safely infer that this match is beyond India now.
12:26
-- 🍝🥗🍱 --
12:26
Trail by 310 runs
12:26
Ind 1 - 2 (3)
11:56
Ind 0 - 2 (1)
11:56
On hat-trick
11:56
🔴 Sai Sudharsan c Brook b Woakes 0(1)
11:49
Amazing.
11:49
🔴 Jaiswal c Root b Woakes 0(4)
11:38
Lead by 311 runs
11:38
Eng 669 (157.1) CRR: 4.26
 

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