DoJ tried to pass off a fake AI video of Epstein killing himself as part of the “release” of documents. The criminality of this regime is beyond comprehension. If they fail to consolidate power and opposition is allowed to retake control of the government, all of these people must go to prison.

I think the bigest difference between the White House staff in the first and second Trump Administrations is that a whole lot of folks in the former assumed they could control Trump or influence him. The 2.0 folks see Trump as a way to burn America down so that they can rebuild a tech dystopia.

Donald Trump is so easily graspable that it befuddles the mind. You want to stare at him because he simply *cannot* be exactly what he seems to be, and the longer you stare, the more horrifying and alien that irreducible simplicity becomes. Surely it can't just be "orange man bad." But it is! He is!

"Amid America’s fall, the news media has largely failed to meet the moment...Trump is covered with deference; with headlines and stories that often take him at face value." @sulliview.bsky.social is relentlessly staying on this and it's good to see: margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/america-ha...

I hate few public figures more than Hamilton Nolan but this is 100% correct and necessary.

it's helpful to go back to Fraenkel's "dual state" theory here, bc it seems like the Supreme Court is enabling the triumph of the prerogative state over the normative state, while maintaining the latter as a means to preserve a sense of continuity.

Wow, Adm. Holsey didn't leave of his own accord, Hegseth pushed him out. What looked like the SOCOM head resigning rather than do war crimes now looks like SecDef canning him to facilitate war crimes. Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

We are the new Axis

Debunked wellness trends and the fraudster influencers who push them are being fully and unapologetically mainstreamed.

I would suggest this has very significant and negative social consequences that have transformed politics worldwide!

Demand for bad news is insatiable, and we’ve built a media ecosystem where the vast majority of content creators have total freedom to simply invent bad news to meet that demand

RFK Sr.'s trip to Mississippi in *1967* left him shaken. It is obscene how many problems we have solved in living memory and people just pocketed those gains and decided they could never return. Now we have Kennedy's son leading the charge to bring them back. It's deranged.

I know this is screaming into a well because young people don't read books now, and they certainly don't read books published in 1941, but this is still within living memory.

"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" was published in *1941.* People today do not have any conception of the level of ambient poverty, malnutrition, and just general backwardness that existed in the US prior to WWII. These are people who remember the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.

People feel less wealthy now than people in the 1950s/1960s did because the material conditions of you and the people around you is roughly on par, unlike the 50s/60s when a twenty minute drive out of town might return you to the 19th Century if not further back.

Any population with any dignity will not long suffer so abjectly corrupt, immoral, and indulgent a group of people as their rulers. History tells us this. These types of people do not meet with good outcomes at the ends of these stories.

When Trump was asked about the release of the Epstein files, he called one reporter "piggy" and said another was "being insubordinate." When Trump saw a video calling on the military to follow the constitution, he called for the death of the Democrats who made the video. He's a tyrant.

Deplorable. This is textbook authoritarianism.

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

Any New York Times staffer who wants to explain to me why NYT headlines are so godawful in normalizing Trump should contact me. I'd prefer for you to go on the record, but I would consider granting anonymity. You can contact me through my book authorship website. www.markjacobbooks.com

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

“straight up giving the president a bar of gold” is where we’re at now on the “corruption isn’t real” scale good work, John Roberts

our media betters don't care that the government acts like a bunch of groyper freaks in its public communications because they want us to live in a one-party state ruled by groyper freaks forever

We're now up to over 40 persons pardoned by Trump facing charges for new crimes. The recidivism rate is exceptionally high. Showing that the people sentenced were in fact hardened criminals... but wealthy enough to buy their pardons. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump. The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.

Save & share these videos because believe it or not many people haven't seen/heard this before. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DtXH5R/ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dty1sU/

NYT had details of Trump's engagement with Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking and *hid it for him*, at the same time it was crucifying Clinton as untrustworthy due to her document retention & security.

About the same time the NYT sat on a scoop tying Trump to Epstein, Maggie Haberman was downright giddy (y'all) about NYT promoting an anti-Hillary Clinton book.

Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is NYT: but her emails

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

Every formerly awe-inspiring symbol of the presidency, and by extension of American power, is being disgraced. The scale of the humiliation of every aspect of the American state under Trump is beyond comprehension.

Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.

the president raped children and his entire political party continues to actively cover it up even if we can't throw him in jail for it he should resign in disgrace and so should all of them

It’s good to see near universal front page pickup of the Trump/Epstein emails, but is it remotely surprising to anybody that Trump “(knew) about the girls”? I honestly thought this was priced in. What kind of deluded simp must you have to be to possibly think otherwise? Many such cases, it seems.

Have you ever seen a trained law enforcement officer hold a gun like that? You can instantly tell this guy is a street thug

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Not throwing this guy in prison on Day 1 of the Biden presidency was an historic mistake, not unlike giving Hitler a slap on the wrist the first time he tried to overthrow the government.

How many kids first experience of the state will be of masked men grabbing people?

NYT writing about the new mayor this morning

Oh but I’m a doomer

I take zero comfort from anything that happened last night. MAGA does not really care about who runs NYC, or even who governs the states. Their entire political project is the creation of a permanent, centralized dictatorship which supersedes any and all other authority. That project continues.

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris 60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…

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