A draft indictment against Jeffrey Epstein prepared by federal prosecutors in 2007 listed a series of sex crimes he was accused of committing against more than a dozen teenage girls, saying he told one 16-year-old that bad things could happen to her if she reported what happened at his house.

Between seizing ballots in Georgia, trying to leverage Minnesota to turn over its sensitive voter data, and political prosecutions, the DOJ is laying the groundwork to subvert the 2026 elections. I created Democracy Docket for times like this. Help it grow by supporting it now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

BREAKING: Lemon’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, said Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents Thursday night while he was covering the Grammy Awards. He called the arrest an "attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration."

Creating a new position to prosecute fraud and report directly to the White House destroys 40 years of post Watergate reforms to protect DOJ independence. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

🚨BREAKING: Outrage and grave concern about the midterm elections followed in the wake of the FBI’s court-authorized raid of the Fulton County, Georgia elections office Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed. The next could be you. What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones. This is personal — to every one of us.

Stephen Miller is a very sick person, more so, IMO, than the president. And he is calling the shots. I remember when Terry Moran dared to make this observation and got fired from ABC for it.

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

Donald Trump campaigned on fighting crime and improving public safety. Since he entered the White House, his administration has terminated, redirected, or delayed more than $1 billion in federal grants related to gun violence, public safety, mental health, and other efforts to save lives.

Not only is Trump repeating a lie about the conduct of the 2020 election, but he is also announcing — at an international conference — that his administration will soon prosecute his political opponents for having defeated him in an election. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dona...

Trump said this: "The 2020 U.S. presidential election [was] rigged. It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that. They found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. That’s probably breaking news." I explain why it was, in fact, breaking news.

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal is not backing down from her claim that ICE agents are “wannabe law enforcement.” The sheriff, a controversial figure, began critiquing the agents after the murder of Renee Good. She spoke to us about these assertions, her career, and more.

The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter seeking classified state documents. Nothing she wrote about could be considered classified. They simply want to suppress dissent via intimidation. Don't let them. Here is what she wrote. Please share. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Finally a Tennessee outlet (@memphisflyer ) picks up on Musk’s MEMPHIS-based Grok making child sex images: “xAI’s AI chatbot facing mounting legal and regulatory pressure around 🌎 over its ability to generate sexualized images of kids & women.” www.memphisflyer.com/uk-asia-move...

In Minneapolis, violence and unrest followed George Floyd’s murder in 2020. Since then, residents and law enforcement have worked together to rebuild community safety and trust. Community leaders now fear that the killing of Renee Nicole Good could undo that progress.

A suspect in an arson fire at a Mississippi synagogue confessed to starting it because of its “Jewish ties” and called the building a “synagogue of Satan,” the FBI said in a court filing. There were no reported injuries, officials said, but the suspect was recovering from burns.

Trump is going to use DOJ/FBI to try to steal the 2026 election. My legal team and I will fight back in court but we all have a role to play. Tomorrow, I will offer my thoughts on what Trump is up to and what we need to do now. Subscribe to Democracy Docket for free to find out. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Jonathan Ross worked for Border Patrol before ICE

This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Authorities at the CDC are now calling this year’s flu season “moderately severe,” with an estimated 11 million illnesses in the U.S. so far.

"Mamdani, who was sworn in on January 1, inherited a city with its lowest rate of gun violence on record. But rather than riding that wave, he is preparing to overhaul the machinery of public safety itself, shifting the focus from police enforcement to a 'whole-of-government' prevention model."

The National Shooting Sports Foundation has won accolades for trying to raise awareness about suicide, but it uses deceptive numbers to promote its efforts. thetr.ac/C165u

In the fight to lower the leading cause of death among kids — gun violence — a new Ad Council commercial is aimed at healthcare professionals.

They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration. It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.

Exclusive: ICE officials plan to spend $100 million to recruit gun-rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers and a geo-targeted ad campaign, part of what the agency called a “wartime recruitment” strategy to hire thousands of officers, according to an internal document.

He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.

Photographer Lou Bopp spent years documenting the lives of students who never returned home. His project is the focus of a new Netflix documentary.

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

"In Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, 91% of handguns recovered from crimes in 2024 came in illegally from the United States"

"It turns out that the network delivered the segment to Canada’s Global TV app (it has since been pulled). As I understand it, this is only part of the overall story, but this 13-minute-long video— sent to me by a source —is what exists." - @yasharali.bsky.social

Last month, researcher David Riedman asked ChatGPT to plan a school shooting. The chatbot initially directed him to a crisis hotline. But when Riedman changed tack, the chatbot quickly planned a “Nerf ambush.” Luckily, Riedman had no intention to carry out a mass shooting.

Shohei Ohtani's historic performance on a clear October night defined sports in 2025, a year full of versatile generational athletes dazzling us all with the seasons of their lives. - @bylizr

Philadelphia is creating a housing plan to build and rehab 30,000 homes over the next four years. Officials and residents hope the initiative will alleviate the city’s long-standing problem of housing affordability — and drive down violent crime. Read more:

"Sinatra, who died in 1998, adds his seventh Adult Contemporary No. 1 — and first since the chart dated Sept. 30, 1967, when 'The World We Knew (Over and Over)' wrapped a five-week reign."

Philly is about to embark on an ambitious affordable housing plan, hoping it will help reduce shootings in the years to come. It's the kind of long-term public health approach to gun violence that experts say city officials should pursue. More from Mensah Dean for @thetrace.org

Gunfire has become more common at high school sporting events — especially at football games and in the South. While these shootings remain a grim fact of life, gun violence at high school sports events “dramatically dropped” in 2025.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

In 2016, the country’s best-known suicide prevention group teamed up with the gun industry to tackle the biggest form of gun death. The effort was good for public relations and raising money, but it never came close to meeting its goal. A trove of internal records shows why.

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

IT’S WORKING: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force just issued a powerful, evidence-based roadmap to keep Michigan families safe. 🧵

The Supreme Court Friday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump can unilaterally limit the constitutional right to citizenship granted to virtually every person born in the United States. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NEW: Jimmie Duncan spent 27 years on death row, convicted in part based on evidence experts now consider to be junk science. But even after the overturning of his murder conviction and his release on bail, Louisiana still wants to execute him. By @richardawebster.bsky.social, w/ @veritenews.org

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Experts say top FDA official’s claim that Covid vaccines caused kids’ deaths requires more evidence www.statnews.com/2025/11/29/c... via @statnews.com

Reposting my @cafedotcom.bsky.social piece from October ICYMI open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

"Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime.'” - Todd Huntley, Georgetown Law (Gift article)

Israeli forces fatally shot two Palestinian men at point-blank range moments after they appeared to surrender in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday in an incident captured on camera.

KFF Health News and @thetrace.org are talking to people who’ve been wounded or families of those killed by gun violence to better understand how insurance affects such medical care. Click below to reach our reporting team ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

My latest for @thetrace.org challenges a common narrative. That gun violence “starts in the home”. Adlone Morris was a Detroit cop and a devoted father. Still, his sons got caught up in the streets he patrolled. Their story highlights the complexities of gun violence that are often ignored [1]