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Obviously these folks should be home with their families. The use of military personnel as props in domestic authoritarian theater is of a piece with the performative use of the U.S. military elsewhere by this administration. Reality TV commander in chief.

🚨 Congressman Ro Khanna has confirmed that he will be filing inherent contempt proceedings against Pam Bondi once Congress returns to session and will seek a special magistrate appointment from SDNY to review the DOJ's redactions in the Epstein files.

This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.

"Are a conservative Christian who supports Donald Trump? Nothing says 'Christmas spirit!' like spending your holiday redacting evidence that your favorite President may have committed sex crimes with minors. It's beginning to look a lot like...a cover-up!"

Schumer: The law was written very clearly, and it did not allow all these redactions—this blacking out of everything. It did not say you can dribble them out over a period of months. These guys are full of shit. They should simply release it all now.

Remember when Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wrote an op-ed trying to justify having sex with kids? Seems relevant now.

Complaints from Trump loyalists and functionaries working in and close to this administration focused largely on three grievances: 1) the way the Trump administration has handled this since the summer has not only created a massive political scandal for him, but has fueled public suspicions…

Horrific allegations. Hopefully, journalists are looking into this to determine whether the story holds up and what the FBI did to investigate

So far by my reading the DoJ is protecting ALL the unprosecuted Epstein perpetrators. Fucking shameful.

#Pinks #ProudBlue If anybody is still shopping here’s a reminder of some of the companies that have not bowed to trump on DEI.

watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race

“Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told the FBI in 2023 that Epstein was murdered in his jail cell because he was about to ‘name names.’ Mark Epstein, 71, who has long believed that his brother was killed, also alleged in the tip that President Trump ‘authorized’ the late sex trafficker’s murder.”

I will be capturing the Kennedy Center Awards tonight. If you are watching it tonight I’d advise against the following for a drinking game. “Biden” “Like nobody’s ever seen before, nobody’s ever seen anything like it.” “Tariffs” You might end up with alcohol poisoning.

Meet an American hero.

"A Miami Herald reporter witnessed the agents forcefully removing Dayana — who is 4-feet, 11-inches tall and weighs 85 pounds... The footage shows Dayana yelling at the reporter to help her and that she was a United States citizen." This was her third time being stopped in a month. #Pinks #Resist

As people comb the Epstein files for some crime they can get Trump on I’m thinking about how he was found with boxes of stolen top secret files in his possession and somehow that ended up being impossible to prosecute.

Trump has always longed to be part of the "in-crowd" of cultural elites, but they've never accepted him. His complete takeover of the Kennedy Center, including naming it after himself, is an attempt to put himself in the center of our culture, but it isn't working. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

It's time to leave your lucrative office job and go work at a factory, where the robots have taken all of the jobs

THIS is among the most important list of documents the public needs to see. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

"No parent can control fate. Or biology. Or personality. No parent can control addiction, or mental illness. All parents learn this."

A day after federal agents arrested Epstein in 2019, they were also apparently trying to contact 10 people they called potential 'co-conspirators,' according to a newly released email exchange. All the names were redacted except three: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean-Luc Brunel, and Leslie Wexner.

State media serving Dear Leader.

I value Denmark as a strong, enduring, democratic ally of the United States of America. Most Americans do too. Trump and Vance are way out of step with American society on this one. Elections are coming.

Donald Trump is an election-denier and a conspiracy theorist, and he should stop endorsing messages calling for Governor Kemp and Secretary Raffensperger's arrest. Period. Enough.

Today I helped someone at the library who didn't know you could borrow items for free. She gave me her library card and $40 to pay for the books. Was delighted when I said everything is free to use. I'd never encountered that before. I assumed people just knew library items were free and public.

I ran into one of my first year students at the new books section of our college library. My favorite bookstore, I said, and it’s all free! She looked confused. “What do you mean?” she asked. She was stunned to learn you could check books out. Nobody had ever told her.

He’s not just a convicted felon, he’s not just a lifelong fraudster, he’s not just a child rapist, he’s not just a sexual predator, he’s not just a white supremacist, he’s also a murderer and republicans rewarded him with power because he is the embodiment of who they truly are.

Trump shares and endorses a post calling for Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp to be arrested

It is axiomatic that DOJ is not supposed to do stuff like this.

I investigated Epstein a little less than a decade ago, more focused on his ties to Russia, and all year, I have not focused on him, but after reading some of the documents this morning, I am beyond sickened and outraged. Trump and his DOJ goons must be impeached

(Miami Herald) - Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told the FBI in 2023 that Epstein was murdered in his jail cell because he was about to “name names.” @miamiherald.com www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

It’s an honor to receive the Annie’s List endorsement! 2026 is our year. Together, we’re building a movement that puts Texans first again. And together we’re going to defeat Greg Abbott next November.

(PS3) But an ex-federal investigator like me must always return to Occam. There’s simply no way—given that we know Epstein *did* sent a note to Nassar that week—that someone *outside* the jail knew that and was able to contemporaneously replace the real note with a fake. No way.

(PS2) In the event—likelihood—Epstein dictated this like much of his correspondence, it’d explain the non-Epstein handwriting and use of an evasive euphemism that possibly references suicide. At the time no one really believed he’d kill himself, and that would include the person he was dictating to.

So (1) Why won’t the FBI release the 2020 handwriting analysis it did, if that analysis concluded the note was a forgery? (2) How did the FBI preclude the possibility—even *likelihood*—of dictation in 120 minutes? (3) Where’s the *real* Epstein-Nassar note we *know* Epstein sent?

UPDATE: CNN confirms that "the envelope [holding the Epstein-Nassar Note] was sent from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City [where Epstein was being held] to Nassar"—*and* got vetted by federal officials. Which explains the Virginia postmark (where the FBI is).

BREAKING SCOTUS NEWS: In a 6-3 decision, Convicted Felon Donald Trump LOSES his bid to be able to deploy the National Guard in Chicago. I walk through the order, incl. detailed analysis on why the majority ruled as it did and why the dissenting justices are HYPOCRITES. youtu.be/3BZV17pHJCw?...

At 1pm PT today, I'll offer a brief (30 min) pop-up live update regarding the pair of very strong/high-impact storms which will bring major flash flood risk to SoCal/LA area tomorrow, plus the possibility of severe thunderstorms nearly statewide. #CAwx

So awesome not being able to trust anything that this administration says. We don’t know if the economic numbers are cooked. We don’t know if the rape evidence is real. Quite a state of affairs.

How have only Epstein and Maxwell been prosecuted for the biggest human trafficking scheme in modern U.S. history? The answer is pretty simple: Pam Bondi knows she can’t go after Epstein’s co-conspirators because they possess damning information on Donald Trump.

Notably the Administration hasn’t even tried to explain how it could be fake: why someone would forge his signature 22 YEARS AGO.

Donald Trump claims the letter to Jeffrey Epstein, complete with his drawing and signature, was fake. This is a man who sues over everything. If it were actually fake, there would’ve been an investigation and answers.

Cuomo: You really believe Donald Trump is capable of having your brother murdered? Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein: “Absolutely. He doesn’t seem to have a limit on what he would do to help himself.”

President Biden fought for student loan borrowers and made it possible to have their debt forgiven. Meanwhile the MAGA regime says they will start garnishing paychecks from borrowers who are in default aka raiding people’s bank accounts. They are not the same.

Trump has "outsourced torture carried out with American money, American authority, and deliberate deniability." CBS News didn't just cancel the 60 Minutes CECOT report. Weiss yanked it bc she knows Trump is lying about something horrific, and she's covering for him. @cliffschecter.bsky.social

Never forget the story of Festivus, for the rest of us! Let the airing of grievances commence! 😂

Forest and trees re Epstein documents, as of now. Trees: Controversies about particular documents. Forest: Virtually none of the key documents, ones that we know exist, the ones the victims and knowledgeable observers have been demanding to see, have been released. And so the coverup continues.