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Posted on 06/30/2025 9:00:02 PM PDT by ransomnote
Many come here to read dispatches from the War between Good and Evil, to red-pill and encourage.....and to pray and give thanks to the God who fights for us.
Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see.
3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDT
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).
>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).
>Decide for yourself (be true in your own beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be open to following the facts).
>Decide for yourself (be strong in defending your beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be resistant to blindly accepting fact-less statements).
>Decide for yourself (be free)
Those who attack you.
Those who mock you.
Those who cull you.
Those who control you.
Those who label you.
Do they represent you?
Or, do they represent themselves (in some form)?
Mental Enslavement.
The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’) that provides the scattered (‘free thinkers’) with a ‘starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment).
When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or the stable.
When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
When you are awake, you are able to clearly see.
The choice is yours, and yours alone.
Trust and put faith in yourself.
You are not alone and you are not in the minority.
Difficult truths will soon see the light of day.
WWG1WGA!!!Q
In the battle between those who strip us our constitutional rights, we can't afford to let false divisions separate us any longer. We, and our country, will be forever made stronger by diligently seeking the truth, independence and freedom of thought.
Where We Go 1, We Go All
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Did ‘Mueller’ open the door to Ukraine?
Did ‘Mueller’ open the door to FISA [illegal]?
How do you introduce EVIDENCE legally?
Did ‘Impeachment’ provide a platform to discuss findings of Ukraine?
How do you introduce EVIDENCE legally?
Did ‘Impeachment’ harm or help POTUS [public]?
How do you introduce [D]s high crimes [corruption] to the public?
Why didn’t POTUS remove [Hussein] holdovers from NSC?
Do you really believe that POTUS & team trusted [Hussein] holdovers to remain within the admin and work to enact POTUS’ agenda w/o bias or confrontation?
How do you ‘awaken’ the ‘induced coma’ public [FAKE NEWS control] from their long sleep?
Sometimes allowing your enemies to [openly] attack…….
Logical thinking.
Q
Ahhh... Yep
Nothing is more honorable
than a grateful heart.
Seneca
“Pertinent.”
Nice theory, I hope it’s true.
But it utterly ignores Bondi, Patel, and Bongino lying to us and saying they were about to release everything, and then turning around and saying Epstein did kill himself, wasn’t working for anyone, and didn’t blackmail anyone.
40 Months? The Eternal FOIA Backlog
Wait times for public records have become so long they undercut the accountability FOIA is meant to provide.
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/40-months-the-eternal-foia-backlog
Excerpt:
One of the key commitments of the Trump administration is to find enormous efficiencies in federal spending by rooting out waste, fraud, abuse and self-dealing. But in order for those changes to be enduring, the feds must also radically improve transparency when it comes to public records requests.
According to new data obtained by Open the Books, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests last year that were labeled “complex” had an average response time of 267 days across 416 agencies. “Simple” requests took an average of 39 days for an initial response, but 31 agencies still took in excess of 100 days on average. At two agencies, that number was more than 800 days. 100 business days is roughly five calendar months. 800 is an astonishing 40 months, or more than 3 years. It’s simply unacceptable.
BACKGROUND
Through the Freedom of Information Act of 1966, Americans have the right to access documents created by the government bureaucracy: emails, text messages, meetings, rules, and regulations. If USASpending.gov can show taxpayers how their money was spent, FOIA requests are the key to understanding how the administrative state is spending their time on our dime.
As the size and scope of the administrative state grows, decision-making processes become more opaque even as those decisions impact our lives more fundamentally than ever. So, our ability to check their work has become more critical than ever before.
Although agencies are required by law to respond within 20 days, in practice many require extensions for months or even years, citing big backlogs of records requests.
(Table with agencies that have longest FOIA response time at link)
CASE STUDY: Administration for Children and Families (Dept. of HHS)
Open the Books has been waiting for records from one of these agencies, the Administration for Children and Families, since May 2023.
As our auditors previously reported, an office within ACF has spent billions on all manner of aid to migrants, including those who crossed illegally, those who enjoyed relaxed entry rules under the Biden administration, and even some children. The spending included anything from help with small business startups to savings for home and auto loans. The majority of the spending was done through third-party nonprofits who took grants from ACF and distributed them as aid.
Biden-era ACF director Robin Dunn-Marcos was also a former employee of one of the biggest migrant-related ACF grantees, the International Rescue Committee. The organization received $235 million in spending in fiscal year 2023 compared to just $22M in 2021. ACF claimed the director must recuse herself from matters related to her former employer; we FOIA’d her emails with employees of IRC to verify that statement.
Dunn-Marcos was fired early in the Trump administration, and as we approach the two-year anniversary of that FOIA, we have no idea how much longer we’ll have to wait for answers.
Case Study: National Institutes of Health and the House of Fauci
The NIH has taken multiple years to respond to two Open the Books FOIAs filed in early 2023. One was for the budget of NIH’s Bioethics Department, which we finally received in June 2025, and another was concerning Dr. Christine Grady’s ethical consultations for the NIH Clinical Center, the agency’s on-site hospital.
Grady is the wife of former National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci, and the former director of the NIH Bioethics Department. (Grady was removed from her post in April 2025).
The NIH had an average simple request response rate of 130 days in 2024, yet still our auditors wait for answers.
This example highlights why FOIA expediency is crucial for accountability: Grady is married to Dr. Anthony Fauci and they’ve frequently praised one another for their insights, yet they were never required to file a nepotism waiver or detail any conflicts of interest. We were seeking details of Grady’s day-to-day work and the spending she oversaw, as Fauci separately served as the face of the public health community’s Covid response.
While we’ve waited for answers, both have left government, and their household wealth has steadily grown to $12.6M at the last count.
Almost unbelievably, the NIH to this day still blames the COVID pandemic for FOIA processing delays on its FOIA portal.
After Delays Come Blackouts
There are numerous more examples of outstanding FOIA requests in the Open the Books research pipeline. Multiyear waits for important information is not acceptable when unelected federal bureaucrats like Dunn-Marcos and Grady have tremendous impact on public policy.
Extreme waiting times are only one obstacle to transparency in FOIA. The Department of Defense Education Activity, DoD’s school system for the children of service members, boasts a relatively reasonable 14.89 days for simple requests, and 46 days for complex requests. But these numbers are deceptive. While Open the Books has not had to wait as long for responsive records, many of those we do receive have been so redacted they’re functionally unusable.
Case in point: On October 10, 2023, we requested calendar invitations for DoDEA’s DEI Steering Committee, an internal group designed to inject the divisive ideology across the school system’s operations and curricula. That yielded a 22-page document, of which nearly every page was redacted.
Open the Books appealed these redactions in November 2023. In October 2024, we were informed our appeal was successful, and that the DoDEA FOIA office would process our request again. We received the documents again in May 2025. Still, with some exceptions, every page and useful piece of information was redacted.
We were told that the FOIA officers considered the “foreseeable harm standard,” which weighs “whether the DoD Component reasonably foresees that disclosing it, given its age, content, and character, would harm an interest protected by an applicable exemption.” Why they believe disclosing information related to the DEI Committee could be harmful is an open question.
Transparency is Accountability
Open the Books files over 50,000 public access requests a year at all levels of government, and while these examples stand out as particularly egregious, they’re part of a repeated pattern at the federal level.
In some cases, lawyers have to get involved. Open the Books partnered with Judicial Watch to sue the National Institutes of Health over redactions to its data on royalties from pharmaceutical companies paid out to agency scientists. The litigation has since forced NIH to produce thousands of pages of documents, which we’ve used to delivered blockbuster reports on the connections between federal scientists and the private sector.
Three years later, litigation is still ongoing.
But public trust in government transparency was again shattered last year when emails from David Morens, an advisor to Dr. Fauci, showed he had been evading FOIA requests as a matter of institutional practice. One email stated he learned “from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA’d but before the search starts.” He added, “plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail.”
Recommendations
The DOGE team could start by updating the FOIA legacy software, which is slow and out of date. For example, some FOIA offices are not able to batch automate redactions, meaning a staffer must redact repetitive information over and over again, over potentially hundreds of pages.
More broadly, routine information like staff lists, payrolls, and royalty data could also be posted automatically, obviating the need for staffers to respond to common requests for large datasets.
While it is important to remove staff undermining the mission, like Morens’ “FOIA lady,” the offices should be appropriately staffed at a high level. Congress can prioritize this by mandating FOIA offices be staffed at least 80% capacity within a given number of days after a new administration arrives. Changes along those lines would remove excuses about understaffing and backlogs.
The federal government could provide free courses on FOIA policies and procedures, so staffers can be chosen not from ranks of ideologically captured university graduates, but through a merit-based examination of the materials.
The new administration has already made government efficiency a priority. To maximize impact, transparency must be prioritized as well, so the public can verify those efficiency gains.
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Re Alpha:
Oh, I hope it’s true! My heart was thumping as I read the whole thing.
I never believed Epstein was really dead
It just didnt smell right, so been looking forward to his reappearance and the horror on the faces of the perps.
Am I mean? 😝
Bondi, Patel, and Bongino lied to us in an unacceptable way.
Trump has other people who can continue the work of rounding up the active traffickers without lying to us and protecting the people Epstein was working for.
Epstein was “with intelligence”, and it wasn’t just US intelligence, it was also British and Israeli intelligence blackmailing our politicians and business leaders etc.
Feds charge 3 current or former Louisiana police chiefs in an alleged visa fraud scheme
Excerpt:
Federal authorities have charged three small-town Louisiana police chiefs with taking hundreds of $5,000 bribes over nearly a decade in exchange for filing false police reports that would allow noncitizens to apply for visas that let certain crime victims stay in the U.S.
The false police reports would indicate that the immigrant was a victim of a crime that would qualify them to apply for a so-called U visa, U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook said Wednesday at a news conference in Lafayette. He said the police officials were paid $5,000 for each name they provided falsified reports for, and that there were hundreds of names over the years.
There had been “an unusual concentration of armed robberies of people who were not from Louisiana,” Van Hook said, noting that two other people were also charged in the alleged scheme.
“In fact, the armed robberies never took place,” he said.
Fraud, bribery and conspiracy charges
Earlier this month, a federal grand jury in Shreveport returned a 62 count indictment charging the five defendants with crimes including conspiracy to commit visa fraud, visa fraud, bribery, mail fraud and money laundering, Van Hook said.
Those charged are Oakdale Police Chief Chad Doyle, Forest Hill Police Chief Glynn Dixon, former Glenmora Police Chief Tebo Onishea, Michael “Freck” Slaney, a marshal in Oakdale, and Chandrakant “Lala” Patel, an Oakdale businessman.
If convicted, the defendants could face years or even decades of jail time. Court and jail records don’t list attorneys for any of them.
According to investigators, people seeking special visas would reach out to Patel, who would contact the lawmen and offer them a payment in exchange for falsified police reports that identified the migrants as victims of armed robberies that never occurred.
U visas offer a rare pathway to citizenship
Getting a U visa can give some crime victims and their families a pathway to U.S. citizenship. About 10,000 people got them in the 12-month period that ended Sept. 30, 2022, which was the most recent period for which the Homeland Security Department has published data.
These special visas, which were created by Congress in 2000, are specifically for victims of certain crimes “who have suffered mental or physical abuse” and are “helpful to law enforcement or government officials in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity,” based on a description of the program published by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
“These visas are designed to help law enforcement and prosecutors prosecute crimes where you need the victim or the witness there, ” Van Hook said. “U visas serve a valuable purpose, and this is a case where they were abused.”
In 2021, USCIS warned that the U visa program was susceptible to fraud after an audit from the Office of Inspector General found that administrators hadn’t addressed deficiencies in their process.
The audit found that USCIS approved a handful of suspicious law enforcement signatures that were not cross-referenced with a database of authorized signatures, according to the OIG report. They were also not closely tracking fraud case outcomes, the total number of U visas granted per year, and were not effectively managing the backlog, which led to crime victims waiting for nearly 10 years before receiving a U visa.
Post from that thread:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4329276/posts?page=41#41
To: madison10
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: AG PAM BONDI announces EPSTEIN GRAND JURY files will be unsealed *TOMORROW* in court
Holy smokes
41 posted on 7/17/2025, 6:16:23 PM by Sarah Barracuda
Horry sheet!!!
that watch q drop date is 18th of July 2019 !!!
Boom!!!!!
Rescissions bill that passed the House has passed the Senate, headed to PDJT’s desk:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4329308/posts
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