Rep. Thomas Massie has conceded. Republican voters have rejected the member of their own party most responsible for forcing the vote to release the Epstein files. All because Trump, a man named in the Epstein files thousands of times, didn't want them released. That says a lot. None of it good.

Seth Abramson is 💯 percent right 🔥

In case there are any doubts what this was about

Thomas Massie: “Today is the six month anniversary of the Epstein Transparency Act. We’ve taken out two dozen CEOs, an ambassador, a prince, a prime minister, a minister of culture, that was just six months. I’ve got seven months left in Congress.” video courtesy @acyn.bsky.social

In his first term, Trump ended an early pandemic warning program just months before the onset of COVID-19. Last year, he and Elon Musk gutted funding for agencies like the CDC and USAID that respond to infectious diseases like hantavirus and Ebola. The pro-virus president.

Senator Cassidy voted with the Democrats ~

So he made a deal with…himself? How the hell is that legal?!

Republicans told us it was ANTIFA~

The President is out of touch and out of his mind. Trump doesn’t think about your finances — he even thought gas prices would go up even more.

Donald Trump forged a 1.776B dollar fund in the United States via IRS truce to repay January 6 rioters and allies through Washington proxies siphoning taxpayer cash into his revenge ledger exposing a president who trades loyalty for stolen state revenue. #CorruptionRampant

When you lose the Babylon Bee. #BeeBest 🥴

Would a corrupt president do this?

Enemy of freedom? Explain your nuanced approach

This is a SUPER-PARDON for Trump and his family.   It guarantees no prosecutions, no investigations, no IRS audits. A total free ride.   In Trump’s gangster state, he and his family don’t even have to pay their taxes because they’re way, way above the law.

"It’s utterly un-American. It’s emperor stuff. If they had a shred of dignity left, they’d impeach the son of a bitch today." @eggerdc.bsky.social on Trump's usurpation of Congress, and Congress's indifference:

SIGN OF THE DAY…

love this idea

Trump says he “doesn’t think about” your financial situation. But don’t worry, he’s spending a billion on his ballroom and nearly $2 billion on a slush fund to pay the criminals who beat cops on Jan 6. Wake up. This career con man is fleecing you just as he’s fleeced everyone in his life.

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Also in this piece: Senator Ron Wyden tells me Dems will pursue testimony from the Treasury official who resigned after Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund was announced:

If the line isn't drawn at raping children, there is no line.

The richest man in the world gutted USAID and bragged about “feeding [it] into the wood chipper.” Remember who is responsible for this suffering. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

Trump spent the morning talking about his ballroom. You know what he didn’t tell us? How he’s going to lower the cost of living.

WATCH — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social : “Trump entered office worth $2.3 billion and is now worth $6.5 billion… Decisions are made based on what's good for the president's own companies, not Americans… for example — why did the Saudis invest $2 BILLION in Kushner’s companies?”

The grifter in Chief

💰 Some perspective on the $1.776 BILLION Trump heist from Senator @jeffyarbro.bsky.social

Merkley: "Is the Epstein investigation closed or open?…The FBI said last year in July that it had closed the Epstein investigation." Blanche: "I don't understand what 'Epstein investigation' means. As for Jeffrey Epstein himself? Yes, he's dead."

Trump: "Thomas Massie…He's really a 'Dumocrat.' He votes against us all the time…He voted against men playing in women's sports. He voted against transgender for everybody."

That is why, in our amicus brief, we insisted that the court reject this settlement and dismiss the entire lawsuit as a sham and a scam. (3/3)

Judges have authority to block parties from engaging in collusive lawsuits to create phony “settlements” like this.  
As the Supreme Court has said, lower courts have power to prevent "tampering with the administration of justice." (2/3)

Trump and DOJ are now trying to walk away from his bogus $10 billion IRS lawsuit and take nearly $1.8 billion from taxpayers with them to confer a million-dollar bonanza on each of 1600 members of Trump’s private J6 militia. But not so fast. (1/3)

Notice they keep calling it a settlement agreement. Over and over. Sane washing the fact that this isn’t a settlement. It’s not pursuant to a lawsuit. It not approved by a court. It JUST THEFT.

Donald Trump Jr’s venture capital firm said its assets under management jumped from $200 million to $3.5 billion over the past year after a dealmaking spree. ft.trib.al/IHsszUI

One of the reasons this isn’t a legal settlement is that a settlement of this nature requires transparency. This slush fund does the opposite by allowing for confidentiality.

There's no money for health care but there is $1.8 billion for Trump's friends? The rot of corruption is eroding our democracy.

The guy's name is Andrew Paul Johnson and it's 100% true www.yahoo.com/news/article...

WATCH: Hayley Williams performs in front of an image of Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Salt Lake City

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Cyanide bombs are a cruel response to wildlife. It reminded me of something buried in the Epstein files: accounts that he ordered the deer on his island killed, and at another point ordered his staff to kill the animals at Zorro Ranch. Power without empathy becomes dangerous very quickly.

NEW: The top lawyer at the Treasury Department just resigned. Even though he clerked for Clarence Thomas, perhaps the $1.7B heist was probably too much. Also note the Times (right) and the WSJ (left) refer to it as a settlement. The judge found IT IS NOT A SETTLEMENT. 1/

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Powerful MAGA

NEW Trump’s admin quietly brought back cyanide bombs on public lands. Spring-loaded traps that fire sodium cyanide into animals’ faces. 🧵

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Mississippi College School of Law has given an honorary law degree to Medgar Evers, who was barred from enrolling at the University of Mississippi law school in 1954 and was assassinated in Jackson nine years later. Reena Evers-Everette said she is overwhelmed by this award for her father.