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SCOOP: The FBI informant convicted of lying to the Bureau about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Donald Trump any moment.
Alexander Smirnov, who has multiple business ties to Trumpworld, was sentenced days before Trump became president. He had pleaded guilty to fabricating a story that former President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, had received millions in bribes from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, as well as to a $2 million-plus tax evasion offense.
Yet despite Smirnov being judged a flight risk, with ties to Russian intelligence and foreign assets, the U.S.-Israeli citizen has been mysteriously missing from prison for at least the past four months.
Vivek may have a 4.5 million ad buy but Acton has groyper memes about her having an AI dump truck
Details are out on Vivek Ramaswamy’s statewide TV buy for his attack spot featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother:
$4,518,306 total for ads in every Ohio media market, starting Thursday and running through Election Day, per @MediumBuying.
Jacqueline Sweet retweeted
🚨Texas PAC, the Elon Musk-funded offshoot of John Thune's Senate Leadership Fund, drops another $32.35 million into ads hitting James Talarico in the #TXSen race, bringing its spending to over $180 million and total outside spending to $342 million
Two updates to this: SnailWorks is more of a middleman tracking company here so the direct mail company is still a mystery.
And an NRRC spokesperson tells me they had no involvement in the trans mailers.
This is sort of buried in here, but a USPS worker told the Tribune that the mailer ID number on the mailers belongs to SnailWorks, a Maryland company with disbursements from the NRCC in recent FEC records.
Besides Democrat Nina Turner who paid SnailWorks $825 in 2022, it's all NRRC payments for SnailWorks in FEC records: More than $166K over 67 payments between May 2020 and August 2026.
This is sort of buried in here, but a USPS worker told the Tribune that the mailer ID number on the mailers belongs to SnailWorks, a Maryland company with disbursements from the NRCC in recent FEC records.
Besides Democrat Nina Turner who paid SnailWorks $825 in 2022, it's all NRRC payments for SnailWorks in FEC records: More than $166K over 67 payments between May 2020 and August 2026.
Pamphlets purporting to come from a transgender rights organization — mailed to families across Texas and igniting criticism from conservatives — came from a company formed last month in Wyoming. The Texas Transgender Student Union listed a Houston-area post office box as the address on the mailers. texastribune.org/2026/10/20/…
Yes, Amy Acton's mother had several animal neglect and bad checks/ fraud charges over the years
"Arthur, 78, was found to have kept several newborn kittens locked in a filthy vehicle with the windows rolled up on an unseasonably warm spring day. Hope’s Dream Rescue and Sanctuary founder and President Lisa King testified during trial the nonprofit received a report that the internal temperature of the vehicle was 120 degrees. Humane society police officer Harold Walstrom testified he felt 'a wave of heat release' after opening one of the vehicle’s doors.
Arthur testified on her behalf, but Centre County Judge Brian Marshall found her not credible.
Public records show Arthur was charged with animal neglect at least two other times. After appeal, she was found not guilty earlier this month by Centre County President Judge Jonathan Grine."
Ohio politics blogger and Shrek penis pic texter guesses that long-time Vance advisor and former DHS Tricia's husband/ Kristi Noem $200M horseback ad-maker were the two masterminds of the Vivek Amy Acton molestation mother ad.
(I just had to write that sentence because it will never again be possible to string those words together. Let me have hobbies.)
Jacqueline Sweet retweeted
The federal government is producing a reality television show with your tax dollars featuring scientologist Grant Cardone and hosted by Dean Cain, who amplified the Vivek ad that tried to discredit Amy Acton as a survivor of child sexual abuse. Elissa Slotkin will become the moderate position.
TONIGHT at 6PM.
Five small-business owners. One million dollars.
Watch them battle to turn their dreams into reality.
The Million Dollar Pitch Competition. Don’t miss it ➡️ youtube.com/live/M_lGBxyrnio…
Jacqueline Sweet retweeted
NEW: Trump’s mega Venezuelan oil deal, signed by Hegseth and Rubio, benefits an unknown group of investors and was intentionally crafted to keep the next U.S. president or future leaders of Venezuela from undoing it. @propublica saw the secret contract: propublica.org/article/trump…
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Here is the second video that went out in the original push poll from Dynata.
In features a previously posted clip from Acton’s campaign, featuring her brother, in a way to gauge his credibility with the audience as a counterpuncher.
Acton’s team dropped the hammer yesterday.
What's super crazy is that this 2020 interview with Amy Acton's mother was apparently seen by a lot of the people who later pushed the mother's account as credible, and in this interview Amy's mother herself admits the guy's other daughter had previously said he raped her, before Amy's allegations, and this...didn't give them pause?
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Another mind-bending corruption story. Alina Habba took a $50m job with a Venezuelan billionaire seeking a pardon while she was serving as a top adviser to AG Bondi (with an office at DOJ!) Trump delivered on the pardon weeks later. nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/po…
Jacqueline Sweet retweeted
New: DHS appointees made an unusual request of CISA, its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use CISA for its own ends. propub.li/4zL7awx
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Exclusive: Secret pay-for-play text rocks Trump White House as it pits top MAGA insiders Ric Grenell & Alina Habba against each other
At the center of the feud: an alleged stolen Kennedy Center donation & a $17.6m transaction out of Congo
Read it here
axios.com/2026/10/19/kennedy…
