“Shocks the conscience” At BEST they knew what Epstein was and didn’t care. At worst they participated. Yet even now speaker Johnson and the gop don’t care.

To be more precise, the Russia connection entangles Trump, Melania, Epstein, Musk and Thiel and many others in their immediate entourage... it's one of the things bringing them all together.

stealing from Reddit

Quiet. We’re busy rebuilding Venezuelan infrastructure. And the Kennedy Center. 🤡

The nighttime protest at PDX ICE facility is now huge after ICE tear gassed children yesterday.

Lots of teargas at ICE tonight in Portland. People were just standing and chanting.

Watching Elon melt down in real time

Hmm, Paul Weiss, where have I heard that name before?

Two stunning revelations this weekend. WSJ: Trump crypto got half a billion from UAE “Spy Sheik” days before inauguration, then UAE got US-made AI chips NYT: DOJ pubbed nude pics of young Epstein women after redacting for Trump and lecturing us about child porn, victims, & how hard they worked

This is what embodying the American spirit looks like. Alex Pretti is America. Renee Good is America. Liam Ramos is America. We are all the disenfranchised, downtrodden, and despondent. They are us. H/t @jamestalarico.bsky.social

A new post from Stephen Miller’s wife where she directly goes after the staff of Justin and Hailey Bieber

and i say this as someone who would've also voted for sombr's, lola young's, and addison rae's songs. "man i need" is just too damn catchy.

FLASH: Trump says Kennedy Center will close for two years on July 4 Trump says closure is for renovations

The Trump Kennedy Center lasted less than two months

I see people on here making cracks about their ethnicity, as if it were somehow nonsensical. The desire for proximity to whiteness is a very, very real thing for some of us Latinos. But also, some families have been here for generations--not all of us are recent arrivals (though my family is). 1/2

Folds on the Kennedy Center 3 weeks ago: I was sick to my stomach when I quit because I knew they were going to run it into the ground. No one that they were appointing had any experience in arts administration, but that was never the point. The point was to take that, run over it, and move on.

Reminder: During the first Trump term, everything at the Kennedy Center was just fine because he didn’t involve himself in it. He even appointed some of the members and no one objected. People only objected when he did the take over.

MAGA government competence at its finest

🚨NEW BULLETIN: Federal agents names revealed in Alex Pretti murder, Trump family’s $500M foreign crypto deal exposed, Dems flip deep-red Texas seats, Epstein fallout grows, and Trump’s approval keeps sliding. Catch up on all the weekend news (paywall free):

"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments."

Great question from the former SIGAR:

Both of Alex Pretti's murderers are Latino CBP officers from South Texas. www.propublica.org/article/alex... So, it seems, is Alfredo Mancillas, who got wildly drunk on Tuesday (Monday?), drove drunk, then vomited all over himself. sahanjournal.com/public-safet...

California asked the Supreme Court to respect the will of the voters who approved the state’s newly passed congressional map in November. The state argued that the Republican challenge implies partisan gerrymandering is only unlawful when practiced by Democrats.

Thank you for the reminder that Alex Acosta sought, then got, career options instead of seeking justice for abused kids. Interestingly, Acosta has a starring role in an article I read this morning. @asharangappa.bsky.social categorizes Acosta under Complicit/Co-Principals/Collusion.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

It is one thing to seize old ballots; it is quite another to imagine federal agents seizing ballots from county offices on election night or the day after. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dojs...

Kristi Noem: "We've saved hundreds of millions of lives by interdicting drugs" (The entire population of the US is about 340 million!)

cool cool cool cool cool

Kristi Noem refers to protesters in Minnesota as "violent monsters"

This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 298. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

FOX & FRIENDS: Homan made there were mistakes that DHS made in Minneapolis. What were they? KRISTI NOEM: I would say we can always do better and we learn from every situation we're in. We see a very organized, well funded campaign of violent protests against our law enforcement officers

A GOP-caused accidental shutdown despite unified GOP gov't because they can't manage their "vote no, hope yes" conference is...unlikely to work well for them.

Trump's gratuitous smear of Danish soldiers who fell in service to America have the entire nation in a state of outrage, continuing now for many days. American media ignore this.

Kristi Noem: "Zero children have been trafficked in the last 12 months because of President Trump's leadership"

HOW TO PEACEFULLY, LEGALLY END THE TRUMP REGIME - RIGHT NOW. Step by step instructions to wrap this up, today. Caveat: Reporters have to do their jobs. They just got the tools courtesy Pam Bondi's Epstein reveal. The new Countdown Podcast drops at midnight

And this is why Schumer’s shutdown deal was good, actually. Make Republicans tell on themselves, and do a bunch of infighting, until Democrats gain power to actually legislate.

This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 298. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Extra gutting. But CPB has long been heavily Latino. In part bc of the (no longer required) minimal Spanish requirement. And because of where the majority of work used to happen. And bc—like many LEO jobs—good salaries and benefits in areas that don’t have much like that on offer.

NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

ProPublica, your work is stellar and we are so lucky to have you documenting this moment in America. Please consider the more precise term "legal observer" or even "observer" rather than the general protestor. Both of these victims were murdered while videoing ICE behavior, not during a protest.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Hundreds of local elections with upcoming deadlines still boltsmag.org/criminal-jus...

#GA14 🤓

BREAKING: CBP agents who murdered Alex Pretti have been IDENTIFIED: Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Heroes come in many forms and this is one of them

"tired of some of their admiration for [insert lefty or left-leaning political and cultural figure]" explains a solid three-quarters of the last decade of american politics

For clarification. Memo is "unclassified." And I should say "alleges" instead of "reveals."