The Epstein scandal has exploded, Trump is melting down, his grip on our politics is ebbing, and he's about to have a very, very bad week, one of the worst in his political career. My latest 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-epstei...

Oh yeah...Medicare premiums & deductibles are going up as well: acasignups.net/25/11/17/oh-...

Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love being comrades in arms with @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social. (Though I don’t get invited to these meetings or conferences.) www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...

Olympian levels of gluttony, greed and corruption. Perhaps we call it Trumpian?

They’re telling you… That prices are down, while all your bills are going up. That tariffs don’t raise prices, but now they’re lowering tariffs for some items in order to…wait for it…reduce prices. That they don’t have money for SNAP or healthcare, while they send $40B to Argentina. 1/2

Avelo is an ICE Air charter, transporting shackled detainees on deportation flights. You'll not be shocked to learn that the flights are a fiasco: loss of cabin pressure, slow evacuations, dangerous cargo onboard, no safety checks, long tarmack delays. Great piece by Gillian Brockell:

“Of course Trump, if he wanted the Epstein files released, could just release them himself at any point,” writes @simonwdc.bsky.social. “But he doesn’t want them released, does he?” www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-epstei...

Editorial: Some hypocritical politicians in Tallahassee act shocked — shocked! — that Islamic schools, 22 by one count, are taking advantage of the controversial #Florida taxpayer-funded private school voucher program. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/11/16/f... via @sun-sentinel.com

Now journalists cannot access the Dep of State without PRIOR ARRANGEMENT/APPROVAL. Prior, credentialed press could access the building with a daily pass issued right on spot, pressers were open coverage as well as any “special events”. You could also apply for a permanent pass.

I’d love to see Trump react to a grocery store receipt like the rest of us - standing there blinking at it like it just proposed marriage.

Russia’s flagship oil price plunged to the lowest in over 2 1/2 years, as low as $36.61 a barrel, last week, with days to go until US sanctions are due to hit the nation’s two largest producers - Bloomberg reports.

Crypto ATMs are almost perfectly designed to facilitate financial crime from the most vulnerable Americans. Be very suspicious of anyone who asks you to make a deposit into one; they are designed to make it impossible for you to get it back. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...

New: this app lets ICE track vehicles and owners across the country. ICE uses phone to scan license plates, add to a database of billions of records. Thomson Reuters then enriches that with marriage, voter, other info. Can predict where a car will be in the future www.404media.co/this-app-let...

Don't know all the details. But apparently civilians were commended for saving his life after being the first on scene. What the actual fuck? So they didn't just not stop, but didn't detach or call -anyone-? www.thedailybeast.com/vance-motorc...

US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

DON'T BE FOOLED! Trump's apparent overnite pivot on release of the Epstein files is a ruse Trump has simply devised other depraved means to avoid release of the Epsptein files Because Trump could just release all the Epstein files TODAY, but he won't GASLIGHTING SURVIVORS & ALL OF AMERICA

There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy. Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:

Republicans look to defuse the Obamacare time bomb they set Republicans said they’d discuss Obamacare subsidies as soon as the government shutdown was over. They now have a choice to make.

sorry, kids

Trump retreats on Epstein files. Three lessons: 1. It can be easier to fracture the MAGA coalition than get "responsible" Republicans to step up. 2. Democrats should fight rather than find reasons not to fight. 3. Dems need to be anti-elitist not just anti-GOP. www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-eps...

Agree With Mr. Rothkopf. Chump Is Destroying America, Piece by Piece,Day by Day.......

He’s panicking.

Flail harder, #Krasnov. #Trump #Putin #Epstein #KGB #FSB #TREASON #WarCrimes

In its orders this morning, SCOTUS grants one new case, relating to asylum claims. Full orders list: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court... Docket for Noem v. Al Otro Lado: www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docke...

The message from Trump is crystal clear - if you beat the hell of out police, if you threaten to kill FBI officers - I will make sure you get away with it if you are breaking the law to keep me in power. If you don't see it, this is a message about 2028.

Trump is unraveling when it comes to Epstein. We're talking about it right now on Coffee with the Contrarians LIVE. Tune in: https://open.substack.com/live-stream/79487

They think we’re all so stupid

Incredible impact from @mattburgess1.bsky.social whose work put a spotlight on Starlink’s use in scam compounds in February.

It has taken a while, but it seems based on last night’s post by Trump that Bondi now has the Epstein files sufficiently scrubbed for release.

Those flock cameras we keep hearing about are a huge security issue with how vulnerable they are to certain things. Reminder that ICE uses these cameras.

FBI Director Kash Patel’s country music performer girlfriend currently enjoys the protection of an FBI security detail to shield her from potential threats, prompting concerns that the arrangement may delay law enforcement from responding to other incidents www.ms.now/msnbc/news/k...

It's a revealing moment... J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost. The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.

If they make it to where there are less jobs, people will have a harder time quitting jobs that abuse stuff like labor laws. Factor in health insurance going up and how workplace insurance is tied to employment and you begin to see the indentured servitude the techno-fascists need. They need workers

Tariffs off bananas. Tariffs off coffee. And suddenly the White House wants credit for lowering the cost of living. That’s like unplugging the treadmill you pushed us onto and declaring yourself a fitness guru.

“On Saturday, community groups passed out another 10,000 whistles as part of a day of action put on by Hands Off NYC, a coalition that includes dozens of unions, community groups, churches and political groups, hosting a day of action and events across the city.” @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

"This is about covering up crimes. Period," Fred Wellman, a Dem candidate for Congress in Missouri, posted on X. "These pathetic people have sacrificed their morals and ethics for political power. They hate sex trafficking…unless it’s their people doing the crimes." www.rawstory.com/john-barrasso/

Do you have 2 minutes to seek justice for these victims of Epstein's CHILD MOLESTATION? SIMPLY dial 202-225-3121 for your 2 Senators & your Congressional rep. I beg you to call. As an SA survivor, I wish I had justice. JEFFREY EPSTEIN destroyed 1000+ lives! These 1000 victims deserve justice!

John Oliver calls out MAGA, especially Megyn Kelly, for shielding Trump from the Epstein scandal: "When even the guy running the Pervert Express to Crime Island thinks you're a dick."

Perfect: @lastweektonight.com John Oliver is not impressed with Megyn Kelly’s “pedophile math”

The decision by the Defense Department comes as Guard deployments in Chicago and Portland have been stalled for weeks by the courts. n.pr/47JZjUD

Something familiar is happening… In the civil rights era, they smeared leaders as “communist” to break their credibility and stall their momentum. It was the easiest way to silence dissent and turn justice movements into supposed security threats.

Just a reminder that all of the following is necessary simply because Trump and Bondi refuse to release the Epstein files.

American Coup

Guy on losing team wants to switch sides. News at 11. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

And then think of what a cornered psychopathic human being with the morals and instincts of a rat and control of over five thousand nuclear warheads would do.