TRUMP PUSH SPURNED BY INDIANA GOP LEGISLATORS: Indiana Republican senators reject Trump’s redistricting push; won’t convene in December indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/11/14/i...

They just found a way to redact whole sections of the DOJ file from public release

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

It as almost as though some still do not appreciate the stakes of all this. Anyway!

All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.

In the past year, 75,000 people have signed up to run for local or state office through Run for Something, a grassroots political group that recruits young progressives. For context: 67,000 people signed up with the group in Trump’s first term ― over the *entirety* of those four years.

NEW: The backlash to Trump has been coming in big waves. Dems' sweep in last week’s elections. The 7 million people who turned out for “No Kings” protests. But it's been fueling something else all year: a surge in young progressives signing up to run for office. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Flynn pled guilty!!!

Super smart observation from @pbump.com www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

this is my shocked face

Only 29% of Americans support using the U.S. military to kill suspected drug traffickers without a judge or court being involved, a rebuke of President Donald Trump's strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived www.wired.com/story/the-da...

BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...

$220 million for a fascist ad campaign is bad enough. But it's all to line the pockets of Noem's friends and their families. The details in here are nuts. www.propublica.org/article/kris...

My next book project, Every Man A Sovereign, makes this very argument

I see Trump is trying to deflect from Epstein coverage by complaining he has a country to run, as he has nothing on his public calendar today except jetting off to Mar-a-Lago

(I love @gregsargent.bsky.social and we are friends, don't take those last posts the wrong way, everyone)

In many cases I think this is true, but when the paper of record glamorizes a journalist for sleeping with her source, I think it's worth talking about. (Especially on the heels of "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?")

For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...

Between the Epstein shit and the NYT glamorization of Olivia Nuzzi -- idealizing her as a female journalist -- this week is just... I can't

The glamor shots are sending me

what the actual fuck

NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign. We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.

I have no knowledge of what happened at UVA. I do know Jim Ryan and regard him with deep respect. I can't believe he would do anything other than tell the truth just as he experienced it. This seems likely to go down as one of the most sordid chapters in the history of American academic freedom.

who here works for the @librarycongress.bsky.social? Ive got (generous!) questions about a collection.

Levin responds: “I also want you to be thinking of the fascists and the neofascists. … Fuentes and Bannon and Alex Jones and Tucker”

In a joint hearing in the Jim Comey and Letitia James cases, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie gave no indication that she thinks Lindsey Halligan was lawfully appointed as interim U.S. attorney. But it wasn’t at all clear what Currie will do about it now. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pam-b...

My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?

Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit

I keep thinking about this bit in @hunterw.bsky.social's piece on Rod Dreher's tete-a-tete with Vance, and how it connects with Christian Zionists being furious with Kevin Roberts. 🧵 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vanc...

when your example of 'barely legal' is just literally illegal

pedophilia is the president's worst issue

Republicans have been trying to deflect and diminish Trump’s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein by delaying the release of the Epstein files. But now they can’t hide. It’s time for the truth to come to light and for the DOJ to release the files.

Rod Dreher's warnings about the Groyper takeover are completely devoid of self-reflection or awareness. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vanc...

*he* has PTSD

Amazing reporting from @chalkbeat.org: Christian Nationalist law firm Alliance Defending Freedom was involved in setting up Colorado's first "Christian public school" specifically so it could get another case to the Supreme Court over whether public money can fund religious schools

An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today: ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...

New: Judge in Jim Comey proceeding says part of grand jury proceeding is still missing. There is a gap from about 4:38pm to when the grand jury handed down the indictment later that evening. Judge again demands full transcript.

Interesting. Christian right leader hosts Rep. Randy Fine (R FL) on podcast to condemn Fuentes and Carlson as "most dangerous antisemite in America" myemail.constantcontact.com/Tucker-Carls...

The magic numbers on the Epstein Files petition are 290 and 67. That's what it takes to override a presidential veto. The petition needs 72 more House Republicans and 20 Senate Republicans willing to defy Trump. (That has not happened all year.) Trump had a veto overridden once: NDAA 1/1/21.

Kevin Roberts, the fascist president of the Heritage Foundation, is claiming he only follows sports media and that he doesn't know much of anything about Nick Fuentes, the neo-Nazi he said belongs in Republican politics archive.is/Ysxtm

Did you find them before or after you tried to starve them

ICE/CBP terrorized this woman, the kids, teachers & families at the daycare where she worked. She should have never been targeted in the first place. #chicago

Raskin: "The DOJ hasn't released any of these emails that mention Trump's name & identify his role in all these activities. Those came from the Epstein estate. So this is a demonstration the govt is deliberately withholding the info everybody is actually looking for & could be damaging to Trump"

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

One reason you need a public editor, representing the readers and their rights.

Speaking as a government worker: The paper that our whole professional class reads doesn’t know that it is not normal to end whole agencies lawlessly, shred the Constitution based on laughable legal justification, and kill cancer and Alzheimer’s research??? Either we have failed or they have.

Apples-to-apples, the Clinton email server dump had so much boring, banal email compared to this. But that didn't stop Trump and the GOP from running around in 2016 like it was Watergate. Other lesson: the news media has/had no discernible methodology for document dumps and proportional coverage.

This comes as part of an extended chat between Epstein and Larry Summers, in which Summers is defending Trump, and notorious pedophile ring leader Jeffrey Epstein says no, Trump is a very bad person.