I can’t believe tonight is the final episode of Colbert.

🤔 #Epstein

If you are waiting for huge corporations to pass along the tariff refunds they are about to get from the government to consumers who bought tariffed products, you haven’t been paying much attention to the way things work in this country.

Has anyone else considered that if the Epstein files were released this could all go away?

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NO MORE FAKE ASSASSINATIONS! NO MORE DISTRACTIONS! Release ALL of the Trump-Epstein files! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

21 May 1971, Marvin Gaye released his album 'What's Going On'. The concept album told the story of a Vietnam veteran returning to the country he had been fighting for, and seeing only the hatred, suffering and injustice. It is regarded as 1 of the greatest albums of the 20th century. #WhatsGoingOn

💖💚💛 love is love 💖🤎🧡

And let’s not forget the writers, producers and crew who also made the Late Show what it was and who have lost their jobs because our president is a thin-skinned thug who deeply fears the ridicule he so richly deserves.

Her Planned Parenthood was shut down. Now she's running for office open.substack.com/pub/progress...

Storms plus sunset equals amazing pink rainbow! 😍

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

Who cares about the DNC report? It's one of a million opinions and theories, that frankly I am sick of hearing about. Everyone has an opinion about why we lost. I don't need to see a bunch of them in writing. I don't need to justify my vote for Democracy. It was obvious which way to vote.

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Other than some NFL games, I have no reason to watch CBS. I'll miss the games. But I'll miss Stephen Colbert more. And I'll have more free time on Sundays, so maybe it's a plus after all...

Texans I'm counting on You to VOTE for Talarico....talk to everyone U know to register and VOTE....

The Late Show aired its final episode on Thursday, bringing an end to Stephen Colbert’s decade-long run as host and the show’s 32-year run as CBS’s premier late-night talk show.

This is a true statement and we’ve got to get the vote out to stop this madness.

CBS thinks they canceled Stephen Colbert. CBS actually canceled themselves.

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

Even without the full release and endless redactions of the Epstein files, we know the President raped children. It is all there in the files we can see and the court documents that have been released. He. Raped. Kids. He is a sick fuck.

You know what is most likely pissing off this administration? The fact Stephen Colbert is getting universal praise and attention today.

Oh, cringe: "April Perry's nomination [to US Attorney for Northern District of Illinois] was blocked by then-Senator JD Vance in protest of the indictments of then-former President Donald Trump."

/25 [I found that to be regrettably ignorant for a DA who practices before the grand jury. But they made him a judge, so that fixes it, I guess?]

/24 The line AUSAs committed misconduct. At least one was too stupid to grasp it. His excuse reminded me of the deputy DA who said to the judge in a case “I am going to look into this Fifth Amendment more carefully” after telling grand jury witnesses they could not take the Fifth.

/23 Responsibility is not a zero-sum game. It can be held by several people without diminishing anyone’s share. The administration set the tone here and gave the marching orders. It also started sending inexperienced dipshits to do grown-up jobs in politically motivated cases.

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

/21 Boutros announces the government is dismissing the charges with prejudice — meaning they cannot be re-filed. The judge is not particularly impressed.

/20 Boutrous attempts to argue that because they previously once offered to provide unredacted transcripts they must not have been trying to hide the ball. Which would be convincing if these people were competent or understood from the start they’d done wrong. They’re not and they didn’t.

/19 The defense points out that the AUSAs stood mute when the court speculated it was only a few lines redacted and probably just IT issues, even though they knew pages had been left out and the stuff redacted and left out was catastrophic.

/18 Boutrous, still not reading the room, about how terrible the defendants are.

/17 Boutrous admits he knew about the vouching and dealt with it by dismissing the felony - but not by disclosing to the judge.

/16 “We didn’t go to a fresh grand jury after we vouched and wrongly excluded people because that would be grand jury shopping” is a truly Trump DoJ excuse.

/14 Mr. Boutros, the US Attorney, admits he KNEW about the vouching and it led them to decide to dismiss the felony — but NOT to disclose it to the court. Also: he learned of the “excusing” of grand jurors, and told the supervising judge, but NOT this judge.

/12 The US Attorney himself cannot read a room for SHIT

/11. AUSA suggests that when grand jurors voted no bill the first time, they asked grand jurors who had “made up their mind” not to participate in the next ones.

/10 Trumpist prosecutor: well, firstly, this was only my second grand jury hearing ever, I am but a smol bean, and secondly, I just found out that vouching is bad? Holy fucking shit this is humiliating for DoJ.

/9 Defense lawyer: Can this plz go RIGHT TO THE TOP Judge: Oh fuck yeah

/8 Next, the judge tells them that (1) she wasn’t inclined to find vindictive prosecution before but now she’s revisiting, and (2) there are sanctions and findings of ethical violations coming.

/7 This encapsulates how Trumpism and Trumpist prosecutors have destroyed, probably for a generation at least, the reputation of DoJ and federal prosecutors.

/6 Next: the judge calls them out for hiding the ball and redacting this obviously illegal stuff and lying about it.

/5 Every single prosecutor knows that’s wrong. Second, you CAN’T COMMUNICATE WITH GRAND JURORS OFF THE RECORD. Every prosecutor knows that. Third, getting rid of grand jurors who don’t vote for you? What the fucking fuck?

/4 “Vouching” is when a prosecutor asks a grand jury or jury to just trust them rather than rely on evidence: “I am a federal prosecutor, I have had this job for twenty years, and you can rely on me when I say there is additional strong evidence that shows they are guilty,” that sort of thing.

/3 Here’s the judge’s initial summary for the benefit of the defense, which hadn’t seen the transcripts yet. It’s very bad.

/2 Second: federal judges don’t talk like this unless it’s REALLY bad, and it is.

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

A very good, digestible thread about the historic prosecutorial misconduct it was revealed Kat and her fellow protesters were put through, and what to expect next.

Greenlanders send an unambiguous message: they think Jeff Landry is an idiot, and they want Trump to keep his hands off their country. www.wsj.com/world/trumps...

Being pro trans rights is not only the moral thing. its helps you get elected. Being anti trans rights is a political liability. www.erininthemorning.com/p/fox-news-p...

For two years, Mike Johnson refused to hang the plaque on the wall honoring police officers who defended the Capitol on J6 against a mob of violent rioters, even though a law was passed to mandate it. But he supports paying over a billion dollars to the criminal rioters.