2017: Jonathan Farkas emailing w/ Epstein about "seeing" someone, then mentioning his wife, Somers, who got an appointment from Trump to the White House Fellowship Commission. Epstein warns Farkas about the other woman. 2025: Somers Farkas was confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Malta in October.

Kids whose families choose to transfer them to private schools outside the public school system lose their IDEA rights, because private schools do not have to comply with the law—meanwhile, maga party LIES, saying kids with disabilities would be better served in a system based on "school choice."

"I have been at probably every powerful table that you can think of….They are not that smart." —Michelle Obama

People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best Thank you @paulgp.com

listen sure an international cabal of sex trafficking is bad but we can't lose sight of this grammar and sentence structure when we list the man's crimes.

Things happening fast. Emails much worse than I knew writing this. Boebert rebuffs Trump to flip. More cracks in the cover-up. Keep up the pressure! Keep SHARING this and everything else. mdavis19881.substack.com/p/epstein-16...

how they got the docs is from the estate, here’s the full story on that

The day Michael Cohen pleaded guilty Epstein is asking about David Pecker: www.npr.org/2018/08/21/6...

If this court tosses contempt of Congress, Congress truly will be the appendix of branches. a relic of a past time.

They're calling it "the most Sent from my iPad email of all time"

2018 email from a Melanie Walker, introducing Neal Kassell to Epstein: "I've known Jeffrey 28 years and this isn't a joke - Donald Trump introduced us."

"Kafka" - Lawrence Krauss's one-word response in September 2018 to being told by Epstein of reporting on a Jed Rubenfeld investigation and Amy Chua complaints. The Guardian story: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018...

Tonight could be interesting

This appears to be Epstein's response to @jkbjournalist.bsky.social's Miami Herald report — www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a... — and involves a discussion with Michael Wolff about "plac[ing] a story." Wolff: "They've won the high ground—young, vulnerable, poor girls."

FFS. The bill to end the government shutdown includes a last-minute provision that re-criminalizes many hemp-derived products, reversing their legalization in the 2018 Farm Bill.

I assume you’ve read this www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...

Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger: New Epstein emails are out. This isn’t politics—it’s a moral test. You either stand against predators, or you defend them because they hate who you hate. There’s no middle ground left. (link in reply) 12:48 PM • Nov 12, 2025

This is actually the central theme of the current Martian Manhunter series, which I cannot recommend enough.

In other news...Cooley, a firm that fought the Trump EOs in court, is having a banner year: "[Its] litigation department has been nothing short of swamped throughout 2025 & its work on various matters earned the firm a nomination for The American Lawyer's General Litigation Department of the Year."

Procedurally, substantively, and on damages, Trump's legal claims against the BBC are pathetically weak. The statute of limitations has expired (and damages caps apply) in the U.K., site of publication; two execs say they believe the show never aired in the US, yet Trump wants to sue in Florida. /1

In other emails, Epstein described his relationships with foreign leaders, advised Steve Bannon on how to increase his influence in Europe and offered his (mostly, but not entirely, dim) assesment of Trump to those who asked. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger: New Epstein emails are out. This isn’t politics—it’s a moral test. You either stand against predators, or you defend them because they hate who you hate. There’s no middle ground left. (link in reply) 12:48 PM • Nov 12, 2025

I know legacy media outlets have gone out of their way to treat the lab leak like it’s equally plausible with natural origins. But this is fairly black and white. The evidence points one direction. Journalists should follow facts even when that doesn’t make a sexy headline.

Please note: I feel guilt that I didn’t fight harder to make people understand the threat of the anti-vaccine movement 15 years ago. I could clearly see what disinformation on social media was doing to our society. I did not have the knowledge or tools to stop it. I should have worked harder.

“Extraordinary” doesn’t even cover it. The House of Representatives literally stopped meeting for two months. The branch meant to check presidents just... checked out. Experts say you have to go back decades to find anything like this. Congress didn’t gridlock—it vanished #BlueSky #LawSky #NewsSky

Very perceptive and well-done piece- you can learn a lot from going to quack conferences. There is a disappointing lack of study on quackery and medical conspiracy theories.

The Trump administration is trying to create a national military-police force in an effort to intimidate people and consolidate power. Our communities are less safe when masked agents are deployed into our streets to carry out Trump's mass deportation agenda.

The Trump administration is objectively pro-dictatorship, in the global sense.

Fascinating inside baseball. The omission of those seven words is easy to miss, but it points toward a sharp dispute behind the scenes—KBJ wanted to make it as clear as possible that she did not support extending this stay any further.

UPDATE: Tonight, the Supreme Court extended the administrative stay keeping a lower court ruling requiring full SNAP payments on hold until 11:59 p.m. EST on Nov. 13.

The question really is WHY people aren't listening, and keep saying "they have no plan." They do have a plan. 👇🏽

open.substack.com/pub/thenextm... Kasparov knows how this plays out -Putin’s playbook in Trump’s hands rewritten as Project 2025

Finished reading @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's biography of Jeans-Jaques Dessalines, one of the founding fathers of Haiti. The book is a story of what Dessalines did versus the way he has been sometimes inaccurately portrayed for political reasons as a bloodthirsty unthinking man unfit to rule. 1/

Meanwhile, we CAN afford it all.

'Go hide underground': Left furious as Dem-voting senator says shutdown 'didn’t work' www.alternet.org/news-politic... I agree w King here, the shutdown was the opening Trump used to carry out his worst…threatening US while he sucks all the cash out of the kitty and sends our classified info to

It’s a sign of the times that the only Americans who will be able to obtain damages for constitutional violations are these corrupt Senators whose rights weren’t violated at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Lawyers 'astonished' at mass exodus from Trump DOJ as recruiting 'plummets' www.alternet.org/trump-doj-re... No surprise there! most lawyers don’t want to go to jail for following orders by Trump the legal profession is made up of people that respect the rule of law-unlike the squatter in our WH

Not to fail to mention that another reason it's ignored and downplayed is that Black and Brown people have been disproportionately affected by Covid too.

Sick of it, these ignorant bozos encouraging violence, blocking them all. You know, MLK wasn't lying and wasn't just messing around. TRUTH: There's only one force that can overcome hate—and it ain't violence.

WRONG. Violence is not the answer.

And no doubt, a reason that Long Covid is dismissed, downplayed and under-researched.

She operates on another level. A phenomenal woman.

#WhatsOn 🎧🎶🎶 youtu.be/Y9KC7uhMY9s?...

The notebook in question.

This isn't getting near enough attention...

Since the shutdown began, the Bureau of Land Management has issued more than 600 new permits to drill (APDs) on public lands—more than 19 permits per day. #Climate #Environment 🔗 westernpriorities.org/2025/11/a-mo...

Much of anti-trans rhetoric is meant to make cis people believe that their interests and trans people’s interests cannot be met at the same time. As the ad from trump’s reelection campaign put it, transphobes want cis people to think that someone who cares about “they/them” could never be for “us.”

OK, where are we on the SNAP benefits cases? Two things happened this morning: * DOJ told SCOTUS they're still fighting to stop full November SNAP benefit payments, via their stay request at SCOTUS * District court judge in Mass. stayed USDA's 11/8 memo ordering states to "undo" full payments

I'll say it again and again, #ILLEGAL is the point.

🚨This 16 year old was living a normal life until this administration took over the country. ICE is the enemy of humanity, decency, integrity, and all that used to represent this country. Meanwhile, Trump is building a private army, one that will be more ruthless and violent. 1/2