If Donald Trump wants to release the Epstein files, he could just release them, instead of green-lighting the House resolution. And it's not as if he cares whether he has statutory authority to do a lot of what he's been doing. But he needs a law for this?

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

Not sure who needs to hear this but we landed on the moon

Purges of senior military officers. If this were happening elsewhere, we'd understand right away what was happening. It's hard to grasp that it's happening here. But it is... www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

Of Kings and Palaces @jvl.bsky.social with his second Triad on the White House Ballroom @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/of-kings-a...

Seven million patriots celebrated the real America today.

He sang Rod Stewart, danced — and then ICE grabbed him. @timmiller.bsky.social talks with @roadsteamer.bsky.social about his detention in Portland

"Retreating to the level of numbers and statistics brings neither clarity nor comfort: Only a handful of individuals were detained." In exchange for no meaningful law enforcement activity, we get terror and trauma. Fair trade? www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-depo...

Big tech: From capitulation to collaboration. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

ICYMI here is a quick explainer on why the strikes in the Caribbean are illegal and why you should care (hint: you might be next) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

WATCH: Top Oversight Dem @robertgarcia.bsky.social says Sen. Adam Schiff – who many expect Trump might target next – is “unafraid”

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

Speaker Johnson continues to stall the swearing in of Rep.-elect Grijalva so as to avoid having to deal with the Epstein discharge petition. Why shouldn’t Dems make support for reopening the government contingent on adding to the funding measure a provision mandating release of the Epstein files?

"From now on, our fighting men—and I guess women—are going to adhere to the highest male standard, which has been set by our president, Donald J. Trump: Six-foot-six, buck seventy-five!! A-cups, perky!! With a dump truck in the back you wouldn't even believe! www.mediaite.com/media/entert...

I can totally see Archer saying this 😅

So Speaker Johnson gave the congress another week off. Paid of course, while they shut the govt down. The GOP has made it clear they have no interest in compromise with Dems. So they will have to figure how to reopen their govt that they closed. And they get another vacation

A terrific cri de coeur and an important fire bell in the night by Michael Wood. "I don’t think our generals and admirals are soft. I served under one of them—my old battalion commander in Afghanistan—who was likely in that room. He was a relentless warrior..." open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

A week after her win in Arizona, @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social still has not been sworn in by Speaker Johnson

Gov. Beshear: “What we're seeing on the other side is the president making threats, almost negotiating through blackmail, saying, 'If you don't agree to exactly what I want, I'm going to fire a whole bunch of people and cause a lot of pain.”

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in

File this under “essential function.” 🤡 #Shutdown abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

“Health care for illegal aliens” is the new “immigrants are eating cats and dogs in Springfield.” The Republican playbook is simple: make up a baseless lie, repeat it every chance you get, hope and pray that everyone blames Democrats for the crises you created.

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Pfizer "secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals" and in return will "sell some drugs at a 50% average discount on a direct-to-consumer website called TrumpRx" looks like state capitalism to me www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration. It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough. www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

Trump is threatening to sabotage HIS OWN GOVERNMENT if there is a shutdown. Ok. Thats dumb but you own that. Why are we not hearing Dem leaders saying that? “Well that sounds reckless, Americans won’t be happy about that.”

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

The statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands mid-frolic wasn't the first anti-Trump artwork on the National Mall in recent months. But it was the first to be removed, despite having a permit.

Will this be the moment that wakes people up?

Rep. Jim Himes: "Having the Defense Department kill alleged drug runners in the Caribbean is illegal...These folks are committing murder — murder defined as killing without a legal basis. I am mystified over why the rest of the chain of command is quite comfortable with it."

Grifters all the way down — great scoop @carolleonnig.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Let me state the obvious that seemingly needs restated. You can BOTH condemn the murder of Charlie Kirk, and still disagree with what he said. This is the USA.

While we're all distracted by the domestic sideshow, Trump is sending the military out to kill people he says are "terrorists", in violation of US and international law. No wonder people at the Pentagon are checking in with their lawyers. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."

Trump is literally threatening to have his Justice Department go after reporters who are asking him questions he doesn’t like

As more info comes in this needs to be said: if it wasn’t some left wing radical that did it, and it appears it wasn’t, there need to be massive pushback because they are STILL pretending it’s some culture war and it is only in their own minds Dangerous times

I have no words for this.

Those in the advocacy community say they’ve never seen a bleaker environment. And yet, within this sea of despondence, the inability of Congress to move the Give Kids a Chance Act stands out as uniquely inexplicable. ICYMI @samsteindc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...

"Our leaders eschewed violent rhetoric and when violence erupted they said the right things. They sought unity; they tried to take the temperature down. Until Donald Trump showed up."

The words from Gov Cox of Utah are the words they should be coming from the president of the United States. Will the media hold him, and people like Nancy Mace accountable for their false accusations?

New version: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

If you have a screenshot of a US politician or leader blaming the left, or declaring some war, or anything before we knew who the shooter was, please post in the comments. We will need to keep these

Just putting this here for anyone who might like to hear Bobby Kennedy's remarks to a predominantly black audience in Indianapolis on the evening of April 4, 1968, after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2kW...