“‘Destroy MTG’: Trump’s Scorched-Earth Blitz Against the Georgia Congresswoman Is Going to Get Even Nastier” Zeteo speaks to Trump insiders who reveal the deep sense of betrayal an irate president feels at former MAGA ally Marjorie 'Traitor' Greene:

NC Gov. Josh Stein accused Border Patrol agents of “targeting American citizens based on their skin color, racially profiling and picking up random people in parking lots and off of our sidewalks” during ongoing Charlotte operation. (Via Desiree Mathurin) www.newsobserver.com/e-edition/li... #ncpol

“To be clear: I am not saying Donald Trump had Jeffrey Epstein killed. I am saying that if the situation were reversed, there is no doubt that Donald Trump would definitely be claiming Joe Biden had Jeffrey Epstein killed” - me for Zeteo

“We Should All Be Epstein Conspiracy Theorists Now” My take on Trump and Epstein, and the pretty stunning email from Epstein suggesting he could bring down Trump. From this morning’s Zeteo ‘First Draft’ morning newsletter. Read/share/subscribe:

"This Week in Democracy – Week 43: The President, the Pedophile, and the Cover-Up" Another week of Zeteo's project to document the ongoing growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term.

"This Is How Trump Is Laying the Groundwork to Steal the 2026 Elections" Trump’s administration and his election-denial allies across the country are working to undermine next year’s elections and make it so Republicans can’t lose. Read/share/subscribe: zeteo.com/p/trump-grou...

5 Extremely Outrageous Things Trump Is Doing to Destroy the US Constitution The gravity of the damage being done to our constitutionally-guaranteed rights and freedoms by this administration is mind-boggling, @kimwehle.bsky.social writes. Read: zeteo.com/p/trump-dest...

Trump Tries to Cover Up His Epstein Scandal With Wildly Corrupt Bullying A Trump adviser tells Zeteo the Epstein scandal “really fucking pisses him off.” It’s only getting worse for the president, writes @swin24.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social. Read now: zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...

A reminder that Trump is loyal to no one. No one. He will always eventually screw over everyone.

Zeteo is honored to announce our award from the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalist Association (AMEJA) award for best culture & lifestyle reporting, written by Nadine Apelian Dobbs. Read Nadine's now award-winning story here: zeteo.com/p/finding-my...

Love switching on my cable news to see Zeteo all over it.

Going on msnbc with host @chrislhayes.bsky.social tonight circa top of the hour 8pm ET to debate @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social (nasty gal) who has been Very nasty and unfair to Trump, for having Friends

"5 Extremely Outrageous Things Trump Is Doing to Destroy the US Constitution" The extent of the damage being done to our constitutionally-guaranteed rights and freedoms by this administration is mind-boggling, says constitutional law professor @kimwehle.bsky.social.

"Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found" Read what Epstein said about Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers.

Want to look through Jeffrey Epstein’s documents yourself? We published a searchable database of the entire set of new Epstein files and emails. Despite Trump saying this is a scam, Trump is mentioned more than anyone else. Search for yourself here: journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...

When a far right pundit on a CNN panel with me ‘joked’ about my beeper going off live on air & then got banned by CNN, Megyn Kelly had him on her show & they both laughed about it. Yet here is Kelly getting super offended when someone else makes the beeper threat against her. Oh, the hypocrisy.

Georgia election interference case against Trump and allies will continue with new prosecutor to replace Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. https://cnn.it/3JKiynX

Trump has one playbook:
When truth threatens him, he calls it a “hoax.” He did it with Russia, Ukraine, COVID, the 2020 election, E. Jean Carroll, and now 20,000+ emails, “The Jeffrey Epstein Hoax” If it’s all a hoax, why did real people suffer?

Jim Ryan's letter is not just surreal and troubling; it provides a series of deeply sobering lessons—about the perils facing public universities today; about what it means to "work with" this Department of Justice; & about what leadership does (and doesn't) entail at this especially fraught moment.

“MAGA’s grand poobah, Donald Trump, appears to be, rather clearly, either an actual predator himself or a man perfectly comfortable looking the other way in the presence of such depravity.” - from Zeteo’s First Draft email newsletter this morning, on Trump and Epstein and the fracturing GOP:

"There is so much about the draft papers that have caused some who’ve seen it to privately complain that it reads like openly fascist European rantings from the first half of the 20th century." Zeteo scoop on a "bonkers" national security strategy draft:

"Trump’s Unpublished National Security Strategy Is Stephen Miller’s Far-Right Wet Dream" The president’s new draft natsec document rants against migration and cultural “erasure” – and endorses far-right political parties abroad, sources tell Zeteo.

“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.

Rhetoric taken directly from Nazi Twitter. I can tell you the precise accounts even

This is super bad for US citizens, especially on the left of the spectrum. Gives this authoritarian administration potentially the power to surveil & go after US citizens on spurious "funding of FTO" grounds. This whole antifa boogeyman is being fully weaponized. So dangerous.

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"Memo to Democrats: This Is a War and Not a Moment for Peacetime Generals." The absurd culture of the Senate has produced a Democratic caucus of wimpy pushovers, writes @ryanlcooper.com: zeteo.com/p/centrist-s...

The Supreme Court Won’t Save Us. Public Opinion Might "The Supreme Court can’t, and won’t, save the American experiment from Trump’s wrecking ball," writes @johnjharwood.bsky.social. zeteo.com/p/trump-supr...

“‘This Sucks’: Trump and the GOP Thought They Survived the Epstein Scandal. It’s Back” ⁦‪Asawin Suebsaeng‬⁩ reports for Zeteo on how Trumpland is annoyed that GOP lawmakers aren’t running effective interference for the president and are getting ‘played by Democrats.’ Read/share/subscribe:

“We see the rise of anti-Semitism and the rise of Islamophobia in parallel.” In the latest episode of ‘We’re Not Kidding’, actress and comedian Ilana Glazer sits down with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social to discuss Zohran Mamdani, Anti-semitism, Trump, and Palestine. zeteo.com/p/ilana-glaz...

Remember when the Trump admin kept promising to release the Epstein files? No? We’ve got you. Watch this supercut: zeteo.com/p/every-time...

I Cannot Unsee the Photos of the Tortured Palestinian Hostages Returned by Israel @dianabuttu.bsky.social asks: Where is the outrage, the coverage even, of the mutilated Palestinian bodies that the Israelis finally released as part of this 'ceasefire' deal? zeteo.com/p/israel-ret...

Progressive groups are calling for Chuck Schumer's ouster after centrist Dems' shutdown cave. Dem senators' phone lines are "exploding" with the same demands. So far, Senate Dems don't have a ton to say. New at @zeteo.com w/ @swin24.bsky.social @premthakker.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...

"You've seen people [like Debra Messing] being red-pilled in front of our eyes." @ilanaglazer.com and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social discuss Debra Messing’s Instagram crash out after Zohran Mamdani’s election victory. Watch the full episode of 'We're Not Kidding': zeteo.com/p/ilana-glaz...

“Is MTG Crazy? Or Crazy Like a Fox?” Read Peter Rothpletz’s take on one of the weirdest transformations in modern politics in Zeteo’s morning newsletter ‘First Draft’:

In the struggle against authoritarianism, the pro-democracy opposition needs ruthlessly strategic leadership. Chuck Schumer ain’t it. It’s time for him to resign. We don’t have time for more Schumer Surrenders.

scenes from a victory lap zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...

Sheesh zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...

“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”

"Is there a more feckless, spineless opposition party anywhere in the democratic world? Why do Democrats insist on repeatedly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?" Me for Zeteo's First Draft this morning on the Democratic surrender in the Senate:

"This Week in Democracy – Week 42: Trump Pardons Crooks, Ignores Courts, and Threatens War" Another week of Zeteo's project to document the ongoing growth of authoritarianism in Trump's second term. Read/share/subscribe:

Keep up the pressure folks. The folders are getting screamed at and realizing there won't be a shred of cover.

Dems should be all over THIS, not caving on a shutdown and healthcare premiums on which the publicly currently clearly blame Trump and the GOP for.

Trump just got massively booed and flipped off by the crowd at the Commanders game. (Video: Marisa Schultz)

However bad you think Schumer is, he is worse prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...

this is a moderate to normie Illinois Democrat

Just a pathetic, needy, egomaniacal cult leader

I am fascinated by the growing number of conservatives who claim I should be ‘denaturalized & deported’ because I am apparently anti-American (based on what?); these same folks who hate many of the core freedoms & rights in the American Constitution, including the 1st & 14th Amendments. The irony.

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