Trump Has the Power to Release the Epstein Files, With or Without Congress www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

Today, we released a new paper on the urgent risks of politicizing the U.S. military. Our armed forces have remained apolitical, professional, and subordinate to civilian authority for over two centuries. That norm is under strain—and requires renewed attention. counteveryhero.org/letter_docum...

Trump knew he was going to lose this vote badly so he's trying to save face. He should direct the DOJ to release all the Epstein files NOW without waiting for a vote in Congress. Survivors have waited long enough.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. There’s no vote required if he wants to release them! The only reason the house was voting was because he refused. This is an obviously cynical ploy and major news outlets are running whole pieces without pointing this out. He could release them tonight.

If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

If we’re ever going to get out of the crisis we are in, it is going to take things like this: People who helped create the crisis reversing course. We don’t have to erase what people like MTG did to get us here, but we should welcome things like the below if they turn out to be real changes.

A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold. Where are my Originalists at?

> @schatz.bsky.social

In the Obama White House we were so careful to follow the rules, including about use of the seal (which is regulated by statute), that we ran a legal process just to see if we could use the seal for fun on our White House softball team tee shirts! No joke. The team was called STOTUS.

I keep coming back to this mind blowing @jvl.bsky.social observation.

Marjorie Taylor Green read the writing on the wall & promptly broke with Trump.

Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him

Just a momentary reminder of the absolute madness we’re living through that a man whose own chief of staff said met the definition of a fascist is the president because so many people were willing to overlook that and still stand by him because yada yada yada.

Given that Trump's most consistent MO is to accuse others of the wrongs he himself committed ("they tried to steal the election!" "they committed fraud on their loan documents!"), this is the ultimate tell. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

So Trump pushes GOP states to gerrymander themselves into one-party rule and then when other states respond, his DOJ sues them and them alone for it. Gimme a break. These people are such embarrassments and bring such shame upon the US government. www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr...

Seriously: What if QAnon was right about everything except the role Trump played in the conspiracy? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-spen...

This line from @politico today is not accurate, as established by the rest of the article: "No evidence so far has suggested Trump took part in Epstein’s trafficking operation." That's what the email the piece describes is: "evidence" that "suggests" he took part. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Art often has a unique way of distilling truth.

Trump down to 33% approval, entering new low territory that should make it harder for him to easily consolidate power. In the race between how fast he can consolidate power and how fast he becomes unpopular, he's losing. And this is before the Epstein/Trump news. apnews.com/article/trum...

Thank you to everyone who has served to defend freedom and democracy.

I missed this chain when it was first posted but please do yourself a favor and read the whole thing.

“The court also lays out a variety of compliance measures and fact-finding measures for us to know what is going on and that the government is respectful. If someone has violated people's rights, we need to know who.”

“The government cannot use force against people that are being nonviolent. [But] that force has come in the form of tear gassing, and shooting rubber bullets and pepper spray. We've seen peaceful people subjected to these things,” Johnson adds.

Johnson continues, "People have a right to be in public places and to express their views peacefully."

WATCH: Counsel @haydenjohnson.bsky.social breaks down the key aspects of our victory against the Trump admin’s violent and unconstitutional actions in the Chicago area. Threaded ⬇️ If you're in the area & have witnessed misconduct by ICE & other federal agents, report them at tinyurl.com/chicagoTRO

Many thanks as well to our great partners in this effort: @loevy.com, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law's Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic, UChicago Law's Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, First Defense Legal Aid, and the ACLU of Illinois. Read more about the case ⬇️

We are proud to stand with our brave clients, including associations and unions representing every major media outlet in Chicago, clergy like Rev. David Black, and protesters like 67-year-old William Paulson, whom federal agents have targeted for speaking out.

Judge Ellis’s ruling is a necessary response to the Trump admin’s repeated violations of her previous temporary restraining order. To be clear: the admin's tactics in the Chicago area are from the authoritarian playbook—a deliberate, nationwide campaign to suppress dissent and neutralize opposition.

VICTORY: Judge Ellis granted the most powerful rebuke of the Trump admin’s immigration enforcement tactics yet — a preliminary injunction to more permanently stop the violent and lawless tactics federal agents have deployed against protestors, press, and clergy in the Chicago area.

Full video of today's press conference, with our attorneys and our incredibly brave clients speaking about the injunction entered today protecting the rights of protesters, clergy, reporters, and observers against federal troops in the Chicago region. www.youtube.com/live/SZnjIlE...

It’s getting a bit lame and tired every time Trump loses an election he claims without evidence it’s because of cheating and “fraud.” Now he’ll roll out some new measure to make it harder for people to vote because he can’t admit to losing. C’mon. Who’s fooled at this point. It’s tiresome.

It is wild the degree to which the formerly capitalist free market anti-socialism cohort in American politics has been absolutely silent about Trump behaving like the CCP and having the government essentially force giant companies to make the state a co-owner and give Trump a management say. Wild.

A coalition that ranges from democratic socialists to neoconservatives, including a lot of energized liberals in between, is large and formidable. A big pro-democracy tent. A united front. Any internal disagreements can be hashed out once the authoritarian emergency is over. This really can work.

America had normal elections across the country today. An unpopular president’s party suffered a rebuke at the polls in sign that our system of democratic accountability still works. The dangers to that system are real and remain, but our democracy is not dead yet. It’s on us to keep it that way.

The Trump Admin is literally trying to make government work less well for Americans. Bananas. But it'll help funnel millions into the pockets of wealthy private companies who charge for this service.

Q: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?" Trump: "No. I think they haven't gone far enough”

The people on the right getting mad at Tucker Carlson for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast don’t seem to have gotten mad at all at Donald Trump for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his home for dinner. Funny that.

Started his career as a bigot against gay New Yorkers, resigned as governor for being an abusive misogynist, ending it with anti Muslim bile and now just some casual mixing up of Black journalists while criticizing diversity.

Is that the best relief appearance in World Series history? Runners on 2d and 3d nobody out and Glasnow throws 3 pitches and gets out of it?! AYKM!?

Evanston Mayor Dan Biss on today’s ICE raids in his community: “What federal agents are doing in Evanston right now is monstrous.”

From an Evanston resident filming an arrest at Oakton/Asbury ~an hour ago: "He was being very violent with her, I said ‘You got to stop that,’ and he said, ‘Step back or I’ll fucking shoot you.‘ I step back, and then I continue to record, at which point he turned around and pointed a gun at me.”

NEW: More than 100 federal judges have now rejected the Trump administration’s new policy to lock up nearly everyone facing deportation — including 12 judges appointed by Trump, according to a POLITICO analysis. Only 2 judges have sided with ICE. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Joining @nicollewallace.bsky.social shortly to talk about this must read from @nytopinion.nytimes.com on how we’re losing our democracy. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It may not be a global trend leftwards or rightward but rather against incumbency. Which doesn’t bode well for Trump when voters start to wonder: Where’s my “Golden Age”?!?! www.wsj.com/world/europe...

There’s no replacing the gutting of our safety net that the Trump Admin has engaged in from the start, but to help on the short-term emergency many families are facing, @give-directly.bsky.social is raising cash assistance to make sure kids dont go hungry. Chip in here: www.givedirectly.org/snapgap/

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna is introducing legislation to ban the president, his family, members of Congress, and all elected officials from trading crypto or stocks.