"If you don't fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition.” -James Mattis as Secretary of Defense testifying before Congress in 2017. Succeeding with soft power is greatly preferable—and a lot cheaper—than having to address something with hard power.

Who needs a village when you can have parking lots?

“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

This is a horrific story. But, as in many of these awful stories, the abuses started before 2025. Getting rid of Trump won’t be enough to fix our racist immigration enforcement system.

ICE is out of control.

What else would you rather do around Christmas?

jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation

Suggestion regarding Trump-Epstein: Don't focus on finding a smoking gun. There's already so much smoke. Most unconvinced by already-public evidence are cultists who'll deny forever (or like it). The goals should be truth, justice for victims, and an appalled scandal drumbeat that never goes away.

NEW: In another assault on reproductive rights by the Trump administration, the US Department of Veterans Affairs sent out a memo on Monday announcing that it will no longer provide abortion or abortion counseling.

Internal documents leaked from Meta show how its business model depends heavily on advertisers it suspects are committing fraud. Meta earns about $7B/year from just one category of scam ads. AI will super-charge this abuse.

This seems especially insane since based on everything I've heard, Chiefs fans love Arrowhead?

"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter." Creative developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

This victim told a driver that she couldn't report Trump raping her because "They will kill me." In 2021, another victim said that Epstein told her girls who don't behave are fed to alligators and took her where they die. He threatened to kill her and her son.

Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he doesn’t have much time left. Sasse is just 53 years old.

A disturbing update to this story: Despite the fact that he was about to be released from a US prison after completing a sentence here, when Kelvin Membreño was deported to El Salvador he was sent to CECOT prison and remains there. The family has not heard from him since.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

This is critically important. Democrats need to pass it if they retake Congress. Trump will veto it. So pass it again. Campaign on it. Given current polling, corruption of the FBI, and the brutality of ICE and BP, there’s no better time to say, “Federal police are not above the law.”

In which we learn that the US attorneys office concluded that Trump traveled on Air Epstein regularly without appearing in he passenger manifest.

Here we go Link from the post: www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-...

* DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: SOME DOCUMENTS RELEASED CONTAIN UNTRUE AND SENSATIONALIST CLAIMS MADE AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP THAT WERE SUBMITTED TO THE FBI RIGHT BEFORE 2020 ELECTION * DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: TO BE CLEAR CLAIMS AGAINST TRUMP ARE UNFOUNDED AND FALSE @reuters.com

This is wild. Why would a line like this be redacted: “Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused.”

2 years old! Both parents deported, weeks ago! Her sister got the call, ‘We’re being detained. Take care of Sofía.’” Sofía wakes in the middle of the night crying out for her mother and “takes her mom’s photo and hugs it." Sister needs $ for basic expenses as they work on reuniting the family.

I just wrote an article about this and decided not to publish it yet. It is in the DOJ files (file got renamed after originally published and taken down. It’s online now). But too many unknowns about whether the letter itself is real or not. Some additional info though:

They have been harassing people at this nutrition bar factory in Cato, NY for *MONTHS* first this now the bathroom invasion? @governor.ny.gov when are you going to put a stop to these lawless thugs running a town in your state?

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

Radical bearded cleric issues new fatwa -->

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus Censorship. Bari Weiss

I just chipped in a tiny donation to support FRONTLINE, the award-winning documentary series on PBS. If you want to & can support their original, investigative reporting — here’s where you can donate: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... (currently they are matching so doubles your impact)

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

The NY Times interviewed over 30 of Epstein’s former employees, victims, & associates. The result is one of the most revealing looks into Trump’s sex crimes and friendship with Epstein seen in years. We’ve condensed the massive story into a TIMELINE of some sex crimes related to Trump . . .

Epstein survivors are convinced that the DOJ's noncompliance with the Epstein law's mandatory release provisions reflect the Trump administration's intense hostility towards them and desire to protect Epstein and his conspirators. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"The suppression of evidence ought always to be taken for the strongest evidence." — Andrew Hamilton, 1734

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Sources might risk lives and livelihoods, and journalists might do the same, only to be shopped by power-flatterers.

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

If you are in a D+32 seat you never ever get to complain about how a primary challenger to you is endangering the Dems' chances. There is exactly one way that you can lose your seat and it's not to a Republican!

Lots of people QTijg this who do not seem particularly familiar with work on this - here's a good paper bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/u...

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

DC Democrats irked by democracy and accountability.

To paraphrase the GOP's favorite MLK quote, it's not the color of JD's skin that people are asking him to apologize for, it's the rancid content of his character that is at issue. www.npr.org/2024/09/15/n...

Earlier this year the people at 60 Minutes urged me to overcome fear and speak on camera about what it's like being a lawyer being targeted by Trump. When I did, they lavished me with praise -- noting I was the only person willing to do it. Now it is their turn to show courage.