Phang: Donald Trump would suck at playing poker, wouldn’t he? Because it’s so obvious. All you have to do is ask him about the Epstein files and he loses his shit.

“Peter Mandelson’s involvement with [Peter Thiel’s] Palantir must be exposed to full public transparency, campaigners have said, amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information than is alleged in his emails to Jeffrey Epstein.” 2/4/26 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Kamala Harris mused about price controls for food for about five minutes in fall 2024, & the entire country & national media lost its stuff over “SOCIALISM!!!” 🤔🤷‍♂️ Happy week, everyone.

As a class, something changed for the billionaires in 2024

NEW: The warning signs are becoming clearer that Trump intends to meddle in the 2026 elections. Here's a look at what Democrats are doing about it: www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-dem...

The difference. My @smh cartoon.

At what point does a misrepresentation become a lie?

Watch to the end. It’s < 90 seconds.

Messy... Trump's CEA chair, Stephen Miran, who went on leave from that role to serve out a Fed governorship that ended last week, just resigned from CEA, so he can keep serving in that Fed role, presumably until Trump gives Warsh his slot. And no-one know what next... www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/b...

Never forget: Pam Bondi and Kash said there was nothing in the Epstein files back in March

In the last 48 hours, Musk's reactions to the Epstein release show exactly why he bought Twitter. He's used the platform to call coverage of his emails with Epstein as "lies," elevated his fans who have defended him, and gotten positive reinforcement from his AI chatbot.

This video explains it all! 👇

The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.

“.. Weiss insists she does not want to cut ties with Attia over his links to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and sees it as giving in to the mob.” @calderone.bsky.social #$PSKY www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

BREAKING: Ian Austin, who was arrested for participating in an anti-ICE protest, has been released.

Totally normal headline you see every day in functioning democracies around the world…

making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal

Other countries have agency & domestic politics, too 🇩🇪🇸🇪

This is what happens when the guy who promised growth and peace delivers violence and poverty.

Quelle surprise: Canada's CEOs and Tech bros are pushing the narrative that Carney should have kissed the gangster's ring at Davos. You can count on that crew any time to sell out our nation. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

The Kennedy Center has been in continuous operation for 55 years. Trump and Ric Grenell destroyed it in one year by making it so toxic that nobody will perform there. Now they have to shut it down like a Trump casino.

Liam goes home… www.instagram.com/reel/DUOW4_E...

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

straight up Gestapo shit

It’s nice when people turn out to be exactly who they appear to be

The director of Melania movie

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here Peter Thiel's data company is powering ICE operations in the US. In part 2 of the Nerve’s Palantir series, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social argues that the UK will be next - and we map Thiel’s network🧵 www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

The brave city of Philadelphia rose against the regime, protesting well into the night despite the cold temperatures "Fight, fight, fight! Fine people, fight ICE." "Every city, every town, fuck ICE, shut it down." "No justice, no peace" #3E #GoodVsEvil #NationalStrike #ICEOut

Breaking: Days after declaring, "I'm not going to live in fear" in a now-viral video, Army veteran Ian Austin was arrested by federal agents on Friday. Austin was part of a group, including journalist Don Lemon, that interrupted a St. Paul church service.

NEW: Howard Lutnick, the billionaire who serves as President Trump’s commerce secretary, planned a visit to Epstein’s island in 2012. Lutnick previously claimed that he was so revolted by Epstein that he had cut ties with him years earlier. 1/6 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Elon Musk Emailed With Jeffrey Epstein to Plan Island Visits in 2012 and 2014 https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-emailed-with-jeffrey-epstein-to-plan-island-visits-in-2012-and-2014-2000716075

OK, so Musk was planning to go to Epstein's island, but it's not like he went there with the intent to go to a wild party or something, it was probably just some business. Excuse me, an email just came in. *Reads:* "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?"

HASSETT: We have a list of the groundbreakings. It's really quite striking FABER: Manufacturing job numbers are actually down HASSETT: That's in part because people haven't turned the machines on yet

Elon Musk chatting it up with his friend Jeffrey Epstein five years after he was convicted for child sex crimes 👍

If you want a guess as to what Kevin Warsh -- who throughout the Obama years was a devout hawk -- told the President to win the job of Fed Chair, I think this clip might give you a sense of it. (This is from late October.)

Trump's skin is thinner than a paper straw halfway through a McDonald's milkshake.

One of my core beliefs about villainy - real evildoers among us - is that it almost never looks as comically wicked as we would expect; it's a kind of reasonable-looking guy standing in front of a podium saying very soberly how he had no choice but to do the evil things.

Take a look at what tariffs have done to aluminum prices in the US (versus prices in Europe and Japan) — and you can almost understand why there’s been no manufacturing boom. 🤡 A good primer here from @scottlincicome.bsky.social @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Are we now in a police state? Not quite. The right to protest and challenge Trump’s reign of violence remains. But Trump, Miller, and the rest are attempting to smother opposition to the point they’re justifying and whitewashing the brazen murders of American citizens.

FEDWATCH: “.. The dollar smile theory — dollar strengthens on uncertainty and a good economy — is not working; just like US Treasuries have lost their flight-to-safety premium as the threat of Iran drives investors deeper into Gold.” #$GLD

While Minneapolis mourned a man killed by federal agents, Trump’s elite gathered in black tie to celebrate a Melania vanity film. This is what a ruling family looks like. Let them eat cake. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

"Politics aside, hand bidets are a good thing. You should try them... I promise you, you will not be disappointed." I took on the biggest scandal so far of the Zohran Mamdani mayoralty in New York. Yes... Bidet-gate! Watch/share/subscribe: zeteo.com/subscribe

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller