New in PN: Mike Johnson's Epstein bungling is a disaster for the GOP "Observing Johnson in recent months has been like watching an extended Road Runner cartoon, where the Coyote fashions intricate knots of congressional procedure in order to tie himself to a giant stack of lit dynamite."

notably, Fox News is not broadcasting the Khanna/Massie/Greene Epstein news conference live. CNN and MS are.

Pay attention to how Mike Johnson is trying to shift the narrative today - he’s saying some Epstein files can’t be released because they’re intelligence products and would harm national security.

This is bullshit! What are the charges? 📌 Border Patrol arrested two women for allegedly honking their car horn to alert others of the agents’ presence

Extreme Caution Marjorie Taylor Greene *gulp* struck the right notes for this one historic moment? CAVEAT Unless she had a major Jesus encounter & is in repent mode, nice sentiment but I can’t trust until she starts coughing up legit receipts of turning on MAGA for good. youtu.be/WY-DXtdqr80?...

Miss me with this instant forgiveness of Marjorie Taylor Greene. She’s no hero. She’s Christoph Waltz at the end of Inglorious Basterds.

Wow, @nicollewallace.bsky.social looks so “warm” that the White House behind her looks like it has a tan. Can you turn down the warm and slide it back toward cool colortones? The contrast between Nicolle and Jess Michaels visual is stark. Please adjust. #MSNOW #DeadlineWhiteHouse #ScreenColor

Phang: It is a fundamental premise of the law that there is no requirement that a criminal defendant be forced to testify to explain away the government’s evidence. Hallagan went to law school and knows better, but she’s so stupid that she made that misstatement of the law to the grand jury.

Can the next please dear God can the next interviewer ask MTG about oh I don’t know January 6th etc before we keep pretending she found politics Jesus

Yep! Institutions do not protect themselves.

Nothing ages a person like hate

It is NOW!!! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

A new paper from @econliberties.bsky.social shows that the culprit is a shift in how homebuilding is financed that ultimately favored Wall Street profits over Main Street’s housing needs. Read: economicpopulist.substack.com/p/how-wall-s....

How wonderful is it that Trump is entertaining a guy who ordered a reporter be murdered with a bonesaw. He even had a decoy leave, pretending to be him. Republicans don't care. He had an Al Qaeda terrorist in the Oval fucking Office on Veteran's Day

The same simmering rage he’s shown toward women his entire life. Same type of unfiltered vileness by billionaires towards women as in Giuffre's biography.

Khanna: "There should be no buildings named after people in this Epstein class. There should be no scholarships named after them. They shouldn't be enjoying perks of being affiliated w/ corporations or universities. Many of the survivors will tell you some of these people still are celebrated"

Jennifer Jacobs is a senior White House reporter who works at CBS News. She's known for covering the Trump administration and has received several awards for her reporting, including the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency in 2020

Take a moment to listen This is the Republican Mantra All they do is LIE THIS is also about Epstein O'Reilly caught in lies and watch his face Faux news has done this for years And the gullible believe their lies LIES, CORRUPTION, AND GREED Please watch

You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

This is *still* the best book I've read this year. I think about the families whose difficult lives Brian so carefully chronicled often.

so anyway I plunked myself down, read the entirety of E.B. White's 1940 essay "Freedom" for Harper's Magazine, and put it up for free on my Patreon. enjoy (or don't, I'm not your dad). there's an intro for context, and then the reading starts at 6:35 www.patreon.com/posts/e-b-wh...

1/2 FWIW, Gay is still a professor at Harvard. It is, and must be, a lot easier to remove a professor from an administrative role than it is to fire them as a tenured faculty member.

Epstein survivor Jena-Lisa Jones: "I beg you, President Trump, please stop making this political. It's not about you, President Trump. You are our president — please start acting like it…I voted for you, but your behavior on this issue has been a national embarrassment."

Remember this when DJT starts attacking the WSJ for their headline: The WSJ is not a rogue outlet. It’s one of the GOP’s preferred barometers. When Murdoch-aligned media floats “Trump’s grip is slipping,” it’s not journalism, it’s permission-setting for Republicans who have been waiting for cover.

Merry Christmas Ireland 🇮🇪

From the domestic deployment of the military to sweeping changes of the executive branch, a lot has happened this year that has raised thorny legal questions. As the end of 2025 approaches, Lawfare will be hosting its annual mailbag episode. Submit your questions today!

There’s a BIG #PROTEST IN DC, this weekend, called #RemovetheRegime!  Be there!  The #NewYorkTimes better cover this one properly or we’re all cancelling our subscriptions!!

With subsidies, I am paying $34 per month. If subsidies are not renewed, it will be over $1500 per month with a $10,000 deductible. Not doable.

Moskowitz during a hearing reads an excerpt from Kristi Noem's book where she talks about shooting her dog Cricket and says, "If we're get on high horse about animal cruelty I just want to make sure we apply that equally"

Pet our reindeer friends

The moment when 30 million American's received healthcare (2010) The moment when insurance companies had to start covering preexisting conditions, young adults could stay on their family's policy and I could trust that the small print couldn't screw me if I needed serious medical assistance. 🇺🇸

Host: Scientists are keeping a close eye on a particular mutant strain of the flu. And what's adding to this concern is in the US, there have been 2 million fewer flu shots administered compared with around this time last year.

Lost in the reporting: Know who’s not in the Epstein files? Latinos. Black people. Poor people. Immigrants. Trans people. All the “DEI” people. 1/

"You are my brother, and I will defend you, you are my sister, and I will defend you, you are my family, and I will defend you" youtu.be/b8IRNRMrKkQ?...

“A dung hatching obscenities” is a pretty good description of the media environment that occasions all this éclat for Nuzzi’s return. — @lioneltrolling.bsky.social

Mike Johnson refused to swear in Adelita Grijalva for months because she was the 218th signature to force a vote on the Epstein files, but sure, Republicans always wanted to release them as they now claim today for the first time.

Digital IDs are officially coming to Illinois, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced Tuesday.

St. Francis Friends of the Poor is looking for volunteers to serve on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day from 10:30am to 1:30pm at each of their three residences.

I want to see another world leader say "Quiet, Piggy" to a female reporter when asked a question they didn't like. What? Only we do that kind of shit because our Republican party protects him? Well, lucky us.

New from 404 Media: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. Spoke to people briefed on plans. This isn't licensed PIs/bounty hunters. These are just former police/military; members of public "Something doesn't sound right" www.404media.co/contractor-p...

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie on Trump attacking his wife: “He went after my late wife and my current wife…It’s a new low for him. But we laughed it off. It’s more to his detriment than mine…But I think it was beyond the pale.”

Just an obvious reminder that nothing just happens. Walls don't just fall in. The refusal in the House to ratify the cover-up of the Epstein Files happened because of the survivors' efforts and because key Republicans, from Musk to Massie to MTG, were willing to act as defectors, at least briefly.

Ramifications of Saudi deal cannot be underestimated. "U.S. sale of fighter jets to Riyadh could upend [Israel]'s “qualitative military edge,” a long-standing American law that ensures Pentagon weapons ...do not erode Tel Aviv’s military advantages" www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Rep. Moolenaar on Trump selling F-35s to Saudi Arabia: "I believe the president is bringing different countries into the coalition that would be more aligned with Western values and with respect for national security. I trust his team."

Regular reminder for folks reporting on federal courts that there are two different Judges Ho (Dale / SDNY, James / 5th Cir), with two different judicial philosophies. Remember it this way: When your Judge Ho is Dale, your claims might not fail. When your Judge Ho is Jim, your chances are grim.

Q: “Speaker Johnson is calling on the Senate to make revisions because he says it's doesn't adequately protect survivors.” REPUBLICAN REP. MASSIE: “That's a red herring. The survivors have always been in favor of this legislation. He's trying to save face after opposing this.”

Ah yes, the economic Golden Age of Trump where grandma goes without.

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Religious wolves in sheep’s clothing. “He fell to the ground & heard a voice saying to him, ‘Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?’”—Acts9:4 “The King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers & sisters, you were doing it to me!’”—Matthew 25:40