Protect independent journalists at all costs.

The Department of Justice says that this is the final drop of the Epstein files and no more Epstein files will be released. By all accounts there are many millions more pages that haven’t been released. What are they still hiding??? They must release the remaining files.

We rejected great candidates like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris in favor of a deranged narcissist, who promotes Project 2025, which aims to remove civil service protections and bring independent agencies like the DOJ and FBI under direct presidential control.

Not only is Trump's regime going after those protesting ICE's brutality. Now they're going after the journalists who cover the protests. It's an all-out assault on the First Amendment.

Next time choose *not* to get played.

Release all the Epstein files.

New salacious details will get most of the attention. But this latest wave of Epstein files can also help us understand how Trump got so many powerful players to bend over for him. For example, Paul, Weiss, the first law firm that surrendered to him last year.

Marimar Martinez is a hero. She was shot 5 times by ICE. The agent told her to “do something b*tch” before opening fire. He later bragged “5 shots, 7 holes”. DHS tried to smear her reputation but video footage vindicated her. Next week she will testify in Washington about ICE’s brutality.

They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

No wonder they are slow walking the release of the Trumpstein files.

So this administration has charged an independent Black journalist reporting in Minnesota but not two white agents who murdered two citizens

The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024. If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!

Absolutely disgusting.

New in PN: Trump blames Canada "It isn’t just Trump that Canada can’t trust. It’s us, the American people. Trump may have low approval now, but his numbers were even worse after J6 and we still returned him to power. At this point, no one can have faith that everything will go back to normal."

Your daily reminder that Donald trump is killing Americans to distract from the Epstein files they’ve still not released. EpsteinTrumpFiles

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.

Let's go with some ICE/DHS rescissions, like the Rethuglikkkans did to the ACA.

There's something funny at American right-wing talking heads saying "millions of deportations occurred under Biden & Obama, so why are people protesting now?" They're flat-out admitting that Obama & Biden weren't the open borders commies they claimed, and all their messaging on it was a lie.

Donald Trump’s authoritarian overreach and the recent killings in Minnesota have sparked widespread outrage—and the hope that ICE’s madness may soon be dialed back. But, @sbg1.bsky.social writes, the President has a playbook for moments just like this. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/wJLUR1

Don’t mess with Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Is Donald Trump actually reversing course on his national immigration crackdown, or is he just following his usual playbook? In a new column, @sbg1.bsky.social cautions against believing that ICE’s madness may soon be dialled back. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YppeAB

With these and other petty moves executed by Pete Hegseth, Trump’s loyalist secretary of “war,” the White House and Pentagon appear strangely determined to undermine, and even erase the evidence of, Black patriotism.

Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers. The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second. And the Hunter hunters are silent. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

It’s not law enforcement. It’s ethnic cleansing. Taking property from the person of another by force is the violent felony we call robbery, in every state. Adding battery doesn’t help matters. This is what happens when you tell them they’re righteous and immune and rewarded.

At another point in American history, loosely regulated federal agents violently removed people from their homes or grabbed them off the streets. They were called “slave catchers.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/-vYhFO

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

Hey PAM: Quit trying to repeal the First Amendment and RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

FOUR journalists were arrested. Proving again that this administration isn’t “pivoting” or “turning down the temperature.” By targeting independent journalists instead of the murderers of Pretti and Good, this is ramping up. Not winding down. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

... so now we're at the "middle-of-the-night-banging-on-the-door-take-away-the-journalist" stage of American fascism.

Thousands of obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

This is Georgia Fort as she’s being arrested by federal agents. Apparently, they had a grand jury indictment in hand. She was arrested for being an independent journalist who filmed the Cities Church protest.

"I begged my wife for the last two months to stop calling me flaccid. That kind of rhetoric needed to stop. I said to her in March--if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be a black eye. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anyone with a black eye. But I warned her."

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Federal agents fired pepperballs on journalists and peaceful protesters in Eugene, OR on Tuesday. Check out my interview with student journalist Agostinho Da Silva. Despite clear press identification, he was shot six times. Subscribe to Last Week in Hell to support more work like this.

“’Force’ is a nice way of saying, ‘Ending someone’s life.’ A nice way of saying, ‘Shooting someone in the face and maiming them, breaking people’s bones, kicking people’s teeth out.'”

At least 3,800 kids, including 20 infants, have been detained since Donald Trump returned to office.

Can I hope this prods the Senate to get rid of the "hold privilege"?

Pretty tough to blame Dems for a shutdown when Lindsey Graham is shutting the government down so he can get money from the taxpayers for himself. The Lindsey Shutdown

It's all about the grift.

You know they know these charges against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a desperate attempt to chill dissent bc the bots are out en force spewing regime BS on every post about it. The right wing slop pages on FB are pumping out the regime narrative, bots are frantically posting disinfo comments.

This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.

Aaaaaaand there it is. bsky.app/profile/atru...

DOJ will refuse to release the Epstein files based on their sham "ongoing investigation." Bookmark it.

That's how it's done 🔥