The Ballroom Effect

This government shutdown is going to show folks where the rubber meets the road. Republican-dominated states will not fund food assistance. Democratic-dominated states will. We will all witness in real time what politicians think of their constituents.

There is so much happening, I forgot to address this on TheFive8. Here’s why to vote “yes” on NY Prop 1. www.adirondackcouncil.org/about-the-pa...

Trump found $300 million to build a ballroom nobody needs. “Let them eat cake.”

Don’t worry, Mitch McConnell, we haven’t forgotten that most of this is your fault.

Nadine Smith is joined by guest host Stephanie Koff for your midweek break, LIVE tonight 8e/5p Notifications ON ✅ @nadinesmith.bsky.social @lincolnsbible.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/uVgBfGk...

. @lincolnsbible.bsky.social: "WE ARE NOT BEING INFORMED." Racist, sexist legacy media refused to listen to Kamala Harris about Project 2025. And here we are. Full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=liwm...

Less cowbell

My little violin plays the old standard, “As everyday Americans are stripped of their rights, their healthcare, and eventually their vote, the uber wealthy mourn only the loss of coveted luxury item - taken by the monsters they voted in.”

Stephanie Koff & Greg Olear LIVE tonight! 8e/5p Notifications ON ✅ @lincolnsbible.bsky.social @gregolear.bsky.social youtube.com/live/6ov5O6s...

I saw, during my reporting in Hungary, how much putting friendly oligarchs in charge of the media matters in authoritarian consolidation. That's starting to happen in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/462...

You’re the FBI... You CAN subpoena the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.

Okay, but *why* would somebody have pretended to be donald trump and written a little play about trump and epstein being friends and then drawn a prepubescent girl on it and then signed it as donald trump and given it to jeffrey epstein twenty-two years ago

Agreed. The passive nature of the most individualistic society that’s ever lived as their rights get erased is stunning to behold.

The vast stupidity washing over the United States is wearing me down. I fully expect the flat-earthers to take over all education. We are such a stupid stupid nation.

Block isn't enough, I want a button that shocks them

Trump is a mobster, criminal, and Russian asset. He's in the Epstein files. And those are his GOOD points! @lincolnsbible.bsky.social joins my podcast and brings the goods! www.patreon.com/c/PoliticsWi...

A replay of the July 11, 2025 episode, featuring Jen Taub, in which we talk all things Epstein files. See you Friday night 8e/5p Notifications ON ✅ @jennifertaub.com @gregolear.bsky.social @lincolnsbible.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=qxgs...

Googling “intel chips” + “Russia” is illuminating…

Mind blown. Seriously. Do not miss this interview with @lincolnsbible.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/LERfocg...

Fighting fascism with pithy aphorisms is taking longer than I thought

The crazy thing about painting the border wall black is that donald trump is in the Epstein files.

They can get up and walk out any time…

LB breaks down the myth of Jeffrey Epstein as financial wizard. @lincolnsbible.bsky.social @gregolear.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=fasM...

I mean… did anyone really think he was building that ballroom for someone else? When will it be done? 2029, 2030, 31…? And there will be a giant statue. Just wait.

Why yes, @lincolnsbible.bsky.social and I are doing a show tonight. How can we not, after rooftop-shouting, moon-nuking, child-sex-trafficker-transferring, JD-Vance-asking-Kash-Patel-how-to-spin-Ghislaine week? Also, we have an EXCELLENT guest lined up to talk Russia. Please join us at 8pm ET.🥃🍸🎱

Donald Trump is not a political story, it’s a crime story. And understanding him does not depend on political science, but psychology.

And here we go. The plan seems to be to go full 𝕾𝖈𝖍𝖚𝖙𝖟𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖋𝖋𝖊𝖑, to turn the nation into a military police state. They’re telling each other to be careful what they write down, but they’ve already written down too much. 🧵:

Despite a letter signed by over 900 DOJ employees and 3 whistleblowers, the dumb ass senate just confirmed Stephen Miller Sr. to a lifetime judgeship!!! F&%$ all of you corrupt assholes!! Emil Bove 🖕🏽

We’ll be live in less than 2 hours to tap dance on donald’s head and celebrate some wins. @gregolear is on a decades-late, well-earned vacay, so I’m flying with some stellar North Country activists tonight - an all women panel. See you soon! m.youtube.com/watch?v=STnF...

“Stiffen your spine and show up for the people who need you.” @nadinesmith.bsky.social @lincolnsbible.bsky.social @gregolear.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=b9UW...

The thing about the best friendship that donald had with Jeffrey Epstein during the years JE was raping & trafficking is that Epstein didn’t play golf, neither drank, & I can’t see donald pontificating Ancient Rome. So what did these 2 grown men do together so often to call each other best friends?

The craziest part of this video of Obama being arrested is when Donald Trump is in the Epstein files wants us to focus on anything other than that.

"If MAGA recognizes their empathy-deficient heroes in the film’s main bad guy, it’s not because Lex Luthor is based on Thiel and Andreessen and Musk; it’s because Thiel and Andreessen and Musk are themselves comic book villains." #Superman

Mike Pence tells CBS: "The time has come for the administration to release all of the files regarding Jeffrey Epstein's investigation and prosecution."

The same people who obsessed over a tan suit, a private email server, and an autopen are strangely indifferent to the possibility that their president raped children.

Who’s going to tell her the kitchen table has no issues anymore? It’s fucking broken. As broken as our families, communities, democracy, and bank accounts. Move along, Nancy. You failed us all, when you shivved Joe.

As one does…

As promised, here is today's PREVAIL: a (long) convo with @lincolnsbible.bsky.social about the shadowy world of Jeffrey Epstein & Donald Trump. Video + full transcript:

“The Trump/Russia thing is not a hoax. DONALD is the hoax.” — @lincolnsbible.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...

Epstein wasn’t some genius financial wizard. @lincolnsbible.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...

DoJ argues that all Epstein's co-conspirators are immune except Ghislaine Maxwell, and that SCOTUS shouldn't grant cert on the appeal of her conviction.

This is monstrous.

“Today it’s migrants - and tomorrow it’s you or me, or Rosie O’ Donnell. The federal government of the U.S.A. is essentially being stripped for parts by a gang of hooligans and miscreants pretending to be the good guys.”

Welcome to the resistance

Yep.