So...longer than two weeks?

1. True. 2. #journalism does not want to fix it.

So...you'll release the #EpsteinFiles without Congress passing legislation forcing you to do so? A great day to do it would be: ♦️Tomorrow.

I don't like to judge someone based on his appearance. But just-fired FEMA chief David Richardson sure looks the kind of guy about whom there will soon be a True Crime podcast.

1. That wasn't #Venezuela. It was #Cuba. 2. It happened in 1980. But whatevs.

How many people have died in (illegal) US strikes on (civilian) boats in international waters? The running tally, as of 3:13 Eastern Time today is: ♦️As many people as Donald Trump wants to kill.

Note to all parents of college students wrestling with #FAFSA: ♦️You're not crazy. ♦️It truly IS the most aggressively incompetent Federal agency in existence.

NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill. @melbuer.bsky.social reports:

Don't take it personally, Ms Takaichi. #XiJinping really hates shaking hands with EVERYONE.

I don't begrudge #OliviaNuzzi writing a book full of this. I very much begrudge the editors who paid her actual money (a LOT of it), and agreed to publish it. Her book publisher is Simon & Schuster. Which (I'm embarrassed to say) published the UK edition of one my books.

To clarify (it's actually even worse): ♦️This illiterate writing was published in Vanity Fair, and its perpetrator has been gifted the title of West Coast Editor. With all the accompanying pay and privileges. ♦️But its actual source is her book. For which she's been gifted an insane advance.

Fun fact: the US sells more higher ed to China than soybeans

Clarify this headline, @nytimes.com: ♦️"by rewarding [HIS] allies and punishing [HIS] rivals." Headline implies Trump is rewarding AMERICA's allies and punishing AMERICA's rivals-- as any president would do. Nayib Bukele & Javier Milei are TRUMP's friends, Lulu is TRUMP's foe. Not America's.

Read this tough but fair assessment of the Summer’s-Epstein situation and what should happen next by @nellscovell.bsky.social. www.thedailybeast.com/harvards-slu...

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

I believe Buddy Holly was a straight cis white dude. But whatevs. (Did Texas authorities confuse him with blues legend Buddy Guy? Or maybe Buddy, the Clintons' dog?)

Latest Administration removal of "DEI content": ♦️A report legally mandated by Congress. Because #NativeAmericans insist on complaining when some of them get kidnapped or murdered.

This has been Trump's superpower since 2016, and the secret to his success: ♦️He doesn't hide his crimes: He boasts of them. ♦️His case: Everybody does these things-- I'm the only one being honest about it. Effective, but false: ♦️Many are corrupt, many are abusers. But he's in a league all his own.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

You can tell who is in “the Club” and who isn’t by who gets chased out of journalism or scrape and claw back into it versus the people who one year later come out of “exile” after gross breach in ethics and get glossy profiles and a book deal.

Tip for aspiring #writers: ♦️If you'd like to get paid for your work-- at industry-max Vanity Fair rate-- just invest in a Random Word Generator.

Today's illegal execution of civilians in international waters brings the total number to: ♦️However many people Trump wishes to kill.

Why doesn't he understand? 1. He's never had to buy insurance. 2. And he's always had enough money not to need it.

Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — not California Gov. Gavin Newsom — had the most effective ad in California's recent Proposition 50 campaign, according to private research by the Democratic Party's main super PAC, Future Forward.

Not sure that theory holds up. ♦️My old mix tapes generally combined bangers like The Clash, Public Enemy, and NWA. And yet...

Yes, NYT, a "clubby world that is all but gone." Perhaps its passing can be remembered like that of the antebellum South: ♦️A genteel, gracious society where everybody was friendly and polite to each other. And absolutely nothing untoward ever occurred?

The best thing #LarrySummers could do right now: ♦️Buy a one-way ticket to a remote island. One without Internet, phone, or postal service. The best thing every Democratic and left-of-center group could do to assist: ♦️Not have ANYTHING to do with him ever again. ♦️Nothing. ♦️Ever. ♦️Really.

We need less extremism from both Hannity AND Colmes.

Corrupt, yes. Obviously. But compared with the billions offered by the Saudis, the Qataris, and others: -The Swiss really need to up their corruption game.

Conversation between Jonathan Karl and his bargain-basement off-brand clone.

You know who from Harvard ISN'T in the Epstein Files? Claudine f'ing Gay isn't.

No notes 🎯….internet is undefeated!

Amen. He certainly violated his Hippocratic Oath with that vote.

Chris Murphy: "The fact of the matter is if you don't put constraints on Donald Trump's illegality, this democracy isn't going to be here next November. It isn't going to be here in 2028. So Democrats, yes, have to draw firm moral lines in the sand right now."

GOP Sen Cassidy isn't as ignorant as he's pretending to be. He definitely understands how #HealthInsurance works (and it's NOT like this): ♦️He's a medical doctor.

Yes: Donald Trump has been playing a brilliant long game: ♦️He palled around with #JeffreyEpstein across three decades, helped enable his teen sex trafficking, appointed his sweetheart-deal-giver to his cabinet, and is now trying to cover it all up... ...to distract from Dems shutdown surrender.

I'm Not a Lawyer But™: ♦️This statement-- by the allegedly Only Sane Cabinet Member-- may be the single dumbest legal pronouncement ever made.

A former Treasury Secretary, President of Harvard, and Listen-To-Me-On-Every-Topic Opinion-Haver was-- as late as 2018-- seeking dating advice from #JeffreyEpstein. At minimum: ♦️He should never be listened to, on any topic, ever again. Better: ♦️Forced to call himself "Larry Mountbatten-Summers."

New principle in constitutional law: ♦️Any action is constitutional if the president really, really wants it.

1. More proof that #TikTok is for idiots. 2. Of all the disinformation out there, the @washingtonpost.com is devoting its reporters' investigatory attention to debunk "using raw potato slices in socks to cure colds."

In today's news that won't be treated as newsworthy:

1. Are "brokers" randomly subscribing people to Medicare without their knowledge? 2. Oz wants to charge everyone on Medicare a nuisance-fee of $5/month just...to make sure they're paying attention? 3. If he thinks that would force people to "opt into the program," he hasn't tried to buy printer ink.

#LarrySummers has, for several decades, been one of the most insufferable people in public life. Somehow, his email exchanges with #JeffreyEpstein reveal new depths. Here he is telling Epstein how he's going to cut off contact with a student he's been harassing: "Suspect she will miss it."

#LarrySummers and I taught at the same university. I was a grad student, just a few years older than those in my class. He was the former President of the University. I would NEVER have tried to date one of my students. If I had, I'd have been fired (and probably expelled). And rightly so.

To that doppleganger who (briefly) took over Marge's body: ♦️Can you please come back?

To whatever doppelganger has taken over Marge's body and is using it for press interviews: ♦️Welcome! We're glad to meet you, and hope you stay.

Julie K. Brown (@jkbjournalist.bsky.social) has been covering #JeffreyEpstein better than anyone in #journalism. Here's reminder from her about the 2008 sweetheart deal negotiated by Epstein's lawyer (who would later be Trump's lawyer) & the GOP US Atty (who would later be Trump's Cabinet Secy)

Also: ♦️No Democratic presidential candidate has won a majority of the white vote in half a century. It's been non-white (and especially Black) voters who comprise the Democratic base. ♦️If Pete and the Dem Consultant Class are using "identity" as code for "race": Maybe think about that.