What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.

The DOJ identified at least 10 co-conspirators who worked with Epstein and Maxwell. It’s obvious to anyone with two eyes that Epstein and Maxwell were engaged in organized crime, yet NO ONE ELSE involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring has faced criminal charges. Why?

NEW: Statement from some Epstein survivors: "It is alarming that the United States Department of Justice, the very agency tasked with upholding the law, has violated the law, both by withholding massive quantities of documents, and by failing to redact survivor identities.."

🚨 @rokhanna.bsky.social on Pam Bondi violating the Epstein Transparency Act: "People are subjecting themselves to the risk of prosecution... This is not just about these 3 remaining years. A new administration could prosecute these individuals. The statute of limitations would not have run out."

Trump's in the Epstein files over 600 times.

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

Solar is quite a solution for Australia!

December 20, 2025

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Representative Jim Himes, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee: “Pete Hegseth happily releases a video after each strike... He recognizes when the American people see this video, they will be repulsed. It is basically the summary execution of two people clinging to wreckage.”

Jack Smith has requested that Jim Jordan release the entire video of his 8-hour closed-door testimony which he gave this week to the House Judiciary Committee. Will Jordan release the video to the public? If not, why not?

2/ "Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General SHALL, subject to subsection (b), make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format ALL unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials in the possession of" DOJ, FBI.

A few screenshots from the Kennedy Center 990 for the year ended Sept 30 2024 listing Ambassador Richard Grenell as principal officer to refute Grenell's claim Trump saved the center. Net assets were $558M at the end of the fiscal year... projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

Massie: Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs that did not exist. Now it's the same playbook. Except we're told that drugs are the WMDs. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia. This is about oil and regime change.

Donald Trump is a sweaty. desperate man who somehow thinks yelling at the American people about how great he’s doing and how fantastic the economy is will convince Americans he’s not panicking.

Do you remember when the broadcast networks declined to air primetime speeches by Obama and Biden they deemed too overtly political? Because I do apnews.com/20ccd7a90e43... www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...

Murphy: "This isn't shocking, bc over last year, Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He's restoring gun rights to felons, eliminated the WH office of gun violence prevention & stopped funding mental health grants & community anti-gun violence grants"

"The administration is stonewalling on releasing the full video of the September 2 strike, despite President Trump’s statement last week he’d be happy to do so...[and the fact] that the administration was perfectly happy to release the first part of the video..." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"We may now be at an inflection point, as the Trump administration tacitly threatens to purge not only Powell but other officials who set interest-rate policy. If he’s successful, Trump could seize direct control of the money supply and turn America into Venezuela." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

With just incredible sweeping all day by Anderson-Heide

The key question in American politics now is whether public disapproval of Trump will grow fast enough to save our democracy before Trump builds such a crushing dictatorship that public opinion no longer matters.

"The woman, a U.S. citizen who was born in Edina Minnesota, was zip-tied when she was detained near Nicollet Mall..." www.fox9.com/news/u-s-cit...

HOPE WALZ: “What world are we f*cking living in? I draw the line at Gus. You people are f*cking disgraceful.” She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.

Kagan: “this Court’s eagerness to playact a district court here has serious consequence.” Yes.

Interesting new piece in the puzzle Rachel was outlining with @nicollewallace.bsky.social yesterday: www.wsj.com/politics/nat... Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdw6...

In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

it's insane how good it feels to see someone with actual political clout give a single honest response to something

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

He has threatened to annex Canada & Greenland, conduct strikes in Mexico, Venezuela & now Nigeria. He has orchestrated 50+ extrajudicial killings. No evidence provided for his actions. He is openly enriching himself and his billionaire donors while waging war against the working class. 1/3

The Administration of Cruelty is at it again.

“What is to stop Trump from making comparably inflated claims about the situations on the ground in other American cities as a pretextual basis for deploying troops? And what’s to stop him from making those claims not tomorrow, but next November—on the eve of the midterms?” Me, via “One First”:

[checks calendar]

We're going to win.

Yes, part of the implication of No Kings, especially repeating it, is to communicate both to wavering elites and to MAGA that the will and numbers exist to color revolution the administration if elections are subverted or cancelled.

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

OBAMA: “What if I sent the National Guard into Texas and said I don’t care what Governor Abbott says… and just kind of took over?” Imagine that. Fox News would’ve held a 96-hour emergency broadcast with 18 split screens and a countdown to “Tyranny Day.” But when it’s Trump doing it? Crickets.

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Due process. Academic freedom. An independent judiciary. A free press. A professional civil service. A protected environment. These aren't partisan talking points; they are the pillars of a healthy nation. And every single one of them is under direct assault by the Trump administration.

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense. www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

#ICYMI: Yesterday’s “One First” summarized just how weak the defenses of the Supreme Court’s behavior on Trump-related emergency applications have been—and explained what someone would have to do to *actually* defend all that the Court’s majority has been doing: www.stevevladeck.com/p/183-the-mi...

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers. On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this: newrepublic.com/article/2016...

"Cleary’s departure is the latest in a string of resignations and firings in the Eastern District of Virginia in less than a month." She was among those opposing the Comey sham indictment.

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown. “We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

Before us are illegal and unnecessary Republican mass firings, which they will own; behind us, millions of Americans whose health care Republicans attack, and will own. We stand our ground. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

If only there were a Nobel prize for narcissism ….