mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

This is exactly the type of stuff we should want representatives in purple districts to break from party orthodoxy on www.politico.com/live-updates...

if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove

Whoa the new Rosalia album is a revelation.

Bears being 7-3 is downright hilarious.

I don't think the president should accept gold bars from foreign governments

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

Brendan Carr and I are the same age.

Probably fewer women in economics because they’re just not as smart, right, Larry?

They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.

In Sept, my colleagues & I published one of the first stories in our series from the trove of 18K emails we obtained from Jeffrey Epstein's private Yahoo acct. This email Maxwell sent to Epstein on Aug 23, 2007 still piques my interest www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

1) 'Why I Resigned' from UVa Prez 100% worth reading www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... 2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.) 3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories

After upending the officer's life, The Blaze has now added the denial in graph four, under the "They were fucking in on it" pull quote.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV will share a meal this Sunday with Alessia Nobile and four fellow transgender Catholic activists, during the Vatican’s Jubilee of the Poor — marking the most significant public encounter shared between a pope and the trans community.

It’s the hottest economy in history with $21 trillion coming in. Also: we need the Fed to cut rates and “prop up this economy.” 🤪 @atrupar.com

I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices

> @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...

NEW: A company run by the husband of Kristi Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson (and that has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides) secretly got money from $220 million DHS ad contracts 👀 by @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

The author(s) of this memo will come out and they should be shunned the rest of their careers in the law. (Seeing as how John Yoo is a law professor, I’m not getting my hopes up) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

I gotta say, thirteen years after it was published, I think this holds up bookshop.org/p/books/twil...

obviously the fight is far from over, but he had what seemed to be an impregnable position, and now it has been very much pregnabled.

Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵

proud of my father in law for being one of them!

Straightforward confirmation from Angus King that the gang of eight made the deal out of earnest concern for the filibuster. www.pressherald.com/2025/11/13/w...

One caution I'd offer as everyone goes through these emails is that *Jeffrey Epstein* (of all people) saying something in an email does not automatically make it true!

Gonna be haunted by that Gaetz story for a while.

“Ultimately, between the money she made from her interactions with men and in the food services industry she was able to save up enough money to get braces.”

Michael Wolff, Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein taking time out of their day covering up the world's most famous pedophile ring to complain about Ta-Nehesi Coates.

“Court documents described the party as involving ‘alcohol; cocaine; middle-aged men; and young attractive females.’” No not Epstein: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Quite a read the day after the Epstein emails

WATCH: @raskin.house.gov explains the deal that would allow eight GOP senators lucrative lawsuits over phone record subpoenas: "It's certainly the most corrupt provision authorizing financial self-dealing and plunder of the public passed by Congress in this century."

Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????

I think this is definitely the correct reading.

WATCH: In a 2011 email, Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump “spent hours at my house” with a woman later identified as a sex trafficking victim. Chris Hayes unpacks more from the trove of never-before-seen emails.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

I think this helpfully confirms the notion that the end of the filibuster was a big motivator for the eight Dems.

these epstein emails are pretty damning. i sure hope that we haven't spent the last couple years in a cultural backslide where men are seemingly allowed to openly and gleefully fantasize about dominating young women without any threat of reproach

This is performative BS, as the Senate has no obligation to take it up. The leverage was to strip this bill in the underlying text last night at rules but Republicans refused to do so. Johnson is trying to do some CYA but he isn't fooling anyone.

amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...

Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts

feel like a hack constantly beating the drum of like: this stuff is poisonous! our discourse has been poisoned. many of the most powerful brokers in silicon valley have been radicalized by their own algorithms & are funding moral decay. it's sad and...boring! but this is a lot of whats being built!

Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

This is very funny because I've been banging on the crime reduction story all year, *particularly* in Chicago prior to federal intervention, which Trump and flunkies have been calling a crime-ridden hell hold.

not great!

More examples from this week! You are getting a lot of "free check might be on the way" stories on local news and the free check is not on the way.

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New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...