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I’m an editor at TPM. signal: johnalight.99 email:
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elias isquith
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For me, the main takeaway from that thread by Pritzker's CoS: she suggests, imo, that even very informed and very engaged political hobbyists are wildly underestimating how fragile and dangerous a moment this is. my read: this is a response, in part, to ppl who want CBP/ICE agents arrested
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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NYC's immigration courthouses have loomed large in our reporting on ICE. Routine hearings now inspire terror for immigrants, who might be aggressively detained in the halls. However, I didn’t realize, until TPM spoke to him, that Mamdani’s father was there this spring for a citizenship interview.
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“If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient,” Alfonsi wrote in her email.
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Bari Weiss Spikes 60 Minutes Segment at Last Minute
Black Rock Crumbles In an unprecedented last-minute intervention, rookie CBS News editor-in-chief...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/bari-weiss-spikes-60-minutes-segment-at-last-minute
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One wild thing that's probably not gotten enough attention this year is the administration refusing to let members of Congress inspect immigration detention facilities, a violation of the law. This story has some details on how that's played out.
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Tim Dickinson
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
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Wild. ICE arrests a woman, won't accept proof she was born in the U.S., not Mexico, including a Maryland birth certificate.
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Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-citizen-arrested-by-ice_n_693c9355e4b018dc36f254c0
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Hunter Walker
8 days ago
Advocates have created a system with
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to fight "unjust detention." While they are scoring victories and freeing detainees, they are left wondering how many others are being wrongly held without access to similar help.
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How a ‘Habeas Machine’ Reunited One Family That Was Pulled Apart by ICE
The agents were on the hunt, but as they staked out the...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-habeas-machine-reunited-one-family-that-was-pulled-apart-by-ice
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@hunterw.bsky.social
follows a Venezuelan family from the point when their son is taken from them by federal agents in the halls of immigration court to when he is freed, days later, through the work of activists and a member of Congress.
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How a ‘Habeas Machine’ Reunited One Family That Was Pulled Apart by ICE
The agents were on the hunt, but as they staked out the...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-a-habeas-machine-reunited-one-family-that-was-pulled-apart-by-ice
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Sarah Posner
9 days ago
how in the fuck is this shit real
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Sarah Posner
13 days ago
This whole thread, man, you should be following Josh anyway, but this whole thread documenting derangement in real time
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Alison Killing
13 days ago
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
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ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/ice-holding-chinese-man-who-documented-uyghur-camps-a4702045?st=w7ZTZ9&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Josh Kovensky
13 days ago
Currently at the New York Young Republican’s annual gala, where the MC is 18-year-old streamer Matan Even. Introduced as a “landlord activist,” he is singing the SpongeBob theme and bombing, to boos
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A deep look at the comings and goings inside of Manhattan’s immigration courts, where individuals and sometimes whole families are, now notoriously, surrounded by ICE and removed from the halls, often with little notice. Observers then rush to set them free.
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The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court
One day last month, a Peruvian mother and her daughter went into...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-york-immigration-court-ice-undocumented-underground
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Fetterman drafted a letter to Israel's president asking him to grant Netanyahu's request for a pardon.
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Fetterman Writes Letter Asking Israel’s President to Pardon Netanyahu
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) prepared a letter in recent days asking Israel’s...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fetterman-letter-netanyahu-pardon
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Jack Jenkins
17 days ago
Via me and
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: CBP posted a pic of two detained Iranians, saying, “No fun in the sun when you are unlawfully present.” According to their Episcopal priest, they’re Christian converts seeking asylum, and deporting them may be a death sentence
religionnews.com/2025/12/09/b...
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Priest says sisters slated for deportation are Christians who could face persecution by Iran
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘We all feel a wound in our body of Christ, knowing what’s happening to them,’ said the Rev. Fran Gardner-Smith.
https://religionnews.com/2025/12/09/border-protection-mocked-two-detained-iranians-on-social-media-their-church-says-theyre-christian-converts/
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Following the Canal Street raid earlier this year,
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spent weeks embedded with an underground network of New Yorkers helping immigrants to stay safe amid Trump’s constantly shifting deportation regime. We’ll be publishing several stories highlighting what he saw.
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Kate Riga
17 days ago
Sotomayor quoted RBG's famous "umbrella" line today, from her dissent in a case that hobbled the Voting Rights Act. it was an appropriate linkage, as the Roberts Court's destruction of voting rights and campaign finance regulations alike form the foundation of its profoundly anti-democratic legacy
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Allegra Kirkland
17 days ago
1 welcome center in NYC began in 2023, when Abbott + DeSantis started sending busloads of undocumented migrants to blue cities Under Trump's ICE crackdown, it's serving mostly young West African immigrant men, most of whom are orphaned or fleeing abuse at home
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Inside the Secret Network Offering Sanctuary to Immigrants Amid Trump’s ICE Onslaught
They call them the “forgotten migrants.” Of the approximately 11 million undocumented...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/inside-the-secret-network-offering-sanctuary-to-immigrants-amid-trumps-ice-onslaught
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Hunter Walker
17 days ago
Some of the same churches that are part of the Undocumented Underground in New York played key roles in the fight against slavery. They are springing back into action to defend migrants.
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Inside the Secret Network Offering Sanctuary to Immigrants Amid Trump’s ICE Onslaught
They call them the “forgotten migrants.” Of the approximately 11 million undocumented...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/inside-the-secret-network-offering-sanctuary-to-immigrants-amid-trumps-ice-onslaught
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Hunter Walker
17 days ago
Since October, I have been reporting on the effects of Trump's mass deportation agenda in NYC. I have found heavy ICE machinery and a resistance network full of regular people defending migrants Our series on the "Undocumented Underground" kicks off today and I hope you will give it a read.
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Republicans try to remember a world in which not all policy came from Trump.
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It’s Time to Govern, and Republicans in Congress Can’t Remember How
Republicans Try to Remember a World in Which Not All Policy Came...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/its-time-to-govern-and-republicans-in-congress-cant-remember-how
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Ian Bassin
19 days ago
This is a really excellent explanation of liberalism’s shortcomings, why it also remains essential, how the quest for justice lost its way, and how we can get back to a synthesis of justice and liberalism, from
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www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-henhou...
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The Henhouse Liberalism Built
A response to Matthew Yglesias. What he calls “postliberalism” is often liberalism’s own elite, anemic offspring.
https://www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-henhouse-liberalism-built
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Scott Nover
20 days ago
NEW >> I spoke to industry experts and CNN staffers to find out what the Netflix–Warner Bros. Discovery deal means for the company. "There’s some short-lived relief I think that it wasn’t Paramount, and Bari won’t be our boss," one staffer said.
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What Netflix’s purchase of Warner Bros. means for CNN
The cable news giant won’t be part of the deal, foreshadowing an era without the backing or the baggage of a much larger parent company.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/06/cnn-netflix-warner-bros-discovery/
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The metaverse lost more than $77 billion.
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Meta Plans to Shift Spending Away From the Metaverse
CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s bet on immersive online worlds has lost the company more than $77 billion.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-plans-to-shift-spending-away-from-the-metaverse-d0ac3b7f
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Kate Riga
22 days ago
In a world where 11 months out counts as the “eve“ of an election, any state can safely pass an illegal gerrymander so long as they even slightly run down the clock
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Supreme Court Just Okayed One Neat Trick to Illegally Gerrymander Your State
The Supreme Court was simply hamstrung, Justice Samuel Alito wrote, unable to...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-just-okayed-one-neat-trick-to-illegally-gerrymander-your-state
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"Soon after oral arguments, Trump announced a flurry of modifications to his tariffs on certain foreign imports levied using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). At the same time, the administration continued stacking up tariffs on more specific goods under a different statute."
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It Sure Looks Like the Trump Admin Is Prepping for SCOTUS To Demolish Its Tariff Policy
President Donald Trump’s foreign trade policy has been marked by contradiction from...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/it-sure-looks-like-the-trump-admin-is-prepping-for-scotus-to-demolish-its-tariff-policy
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Ben Penn
23 days ago
Scoop: FBI aims to escalate its inquiry into 6 Democrats who made video for troops by pressing domestic terrorism squad to launch a formal seditious conspiracy investigation. Washington Field Office leaders are pushing back b/c they don't see a crime.
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FBI Seeks ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Probe of Democratic Lawmakers
The FBI is pressuring domestic terrorism agents to open a seditious conspiracy investigation into six Democratic lawmakers who advised military service members to defy unlawful orders, according to th...
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/fbi-seeks-seditious-conspiracy-probe-of-democratic-lawmakers
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New York Attorney General Tish James’ office is preparing legal strategies and lawsuits to file that would challenge any National Guard deployment, one official told TPM.
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When To Accommodate, and When To Fight? NY Officials Agonize and Prepare for Federal Escalation
Jackie Bray has been thinking about how quickly things could spiral out...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-york-trump-immigration-surge-planning
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Josh Marshall
27 days ago
The diehards are starting to decide after much prayerful consideration with their beautiful brides that being in the minority next year sounds like a shit sandwich.
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Sarah Posner
28 days ago
Potentially world-altering levels of brazen corruption by Trump, his cronies, and family
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Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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TPM's Golden Duke Awards: coming soon.
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Olivia Messer
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Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, wandered away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. She reported him missing to Houston police. But instead of reuniting them, the city turned him over to ICE. “They’re failing all of us,” his mom said.
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A Disabled Child’s Mom Reported Him Missing. He Was Locked Away by Federal Immigration Authorities for 48 Days.
Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.
https://thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/disabled-child-federal-immigration-custody/
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EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/22/forever-chemicals-pesticides/
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Bolsonaro apparently tried to destroy his ankle monitor with a soldering iron while under house arrest. He claimed his medicine caused him to become paranoid and attack it.
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How a Sabotaged Ankle Monitor Ended Bolsonaro’s House Arrest
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/world/americas/jair-bolsonaro-ankle-monitor-brazil.html
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Joey Fishkin
about 1 month ago
The fun thing about being a longtime reader of
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is that as soon as I saw this headline I knew
@joshtpm.bsky.social
was incorporating by reference the whole previous series he did on "The Brittle Grip" more than a decade ago. Since then, the oligarchy got somewhat more grippy.
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The Brittle Grip of Ultra-Wealth
Just before I began writing this post, I saw this article from...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-brittle-grip-of-ultra-wealth
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Layla A. Jones
about 1 month ago
Trump's anti-DEI crusade hit healthcare when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, under Dr. Mehmet Oz, removed race questions from its kidney failure patient form. The problem is, those questions weren't about DEI. That data informed actual medical breakthroughs
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The Trump Admin’s War on Data Is Compromising Major Health Advancements for Black Americans
Thanks to a 2009 medical breakthrough, researchers could be on the precipice...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-mehmet-oz-cms-kidney-failure-dialysis-race-usrds
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Josh Kovensky
about 1 month ago
Way more questions than answers from this one
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US troops storm Mexican beach in dramatic invasion
Six signs saying 'warning: restricted area' were plunged into the sand at a beach in Northeast Mexico called Playa Bagdad.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15310923/US-troops-Mexican-beach-invasion-fentanyl.html
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Jack Posobiec, one of the primary influencers behind the Trump administration's claims that its enemies are all "antifa," notes that "antifa" was founded during the Weimar Republic. (His point is that it makes sense for the Trump admin to target German antifa groups.)
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Data on race and ethnicity has put us on the cusp of breakthroughs in treating kidney failure, which disproportionately affects Black Americans. But the Trump administration has halted that data collection as part of its war on supposed "DEI." Important new story from
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The Trump Admin’s War on Data Is Compromising Major Health Advancements for Black Americans
Thanks to a 2009 medical breakthrough, researchers could be on the precipice...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-mehmet-oz-cms-kidney-failure-dialysis-race-usrds
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This story is insane.
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Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use
Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/florida-nonprofit-news-reporters-ask-board-to-investigate-their-editors-ai-use/
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Chris Hayes
about 1 month ago
Seconding this! It's so so impressive and admirable.
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Noah Shachtman
about 1 month ago
Josh really doesn't get enough credit as a digital journalism pioneer — and as an entrepreneur who built something meaningful and lasting.
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David Roberts
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Thriving in independent media for 25 years, without a) getting hoovered into some larger media org & subsequently axed, b) getting ruined by some hedge fund guy, c) falling afoul of any short-lived "pivot to video" style trends, or d) going broke... ... is a genuinely remarkable achievement! Kudos.
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"In the short term, no enforcing mechanism exists that would incentivize Justice Department officials or the Trump White House to abide by Congress’ demand. [...] Practically, there’s no real way for Congress to know if the Trump administration buries damaging documents or files."
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Trump Gives Himself an Enormous Out on the Epstein Files
Epstein Politics Shift on the Hill President Trump’s absurd effort to avoid...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-gives-himself-an-enormous-out-on-the-epstein-files
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Taniel
about 1 month ago
Big news: Indiana Republicans signal they still do not have the votes to re-gerrymander the state, and that the Senate won't convene the Senate after all in December. Getting 1-2 seats out of Indiana was central to the GOP's redistricting-war math.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Indiana redistricting push likely dead despite White House pressure
It’s a massive blow to the White House’s efforts to shore up a Republican House majority next year.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/14/indiana-redistricting-trump-vance-00652288?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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David Dayen
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NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
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Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
https://prospect.org/2025/11/14/epstein-confidant-larry-summers-guiding-democrats-project-2029/
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