I spoke with @npr.org @steveinskeep.bsky.social On most significant implications of Epstein emails - what emails say about President Trump - discrepancies in record - law enforcement interest in Michael Wolff's tapes - role of elites palling around w/ Epstein in 2019 www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...

Ukrainian strikes on Novorossiysk are extremely consequential. 1) Massive loss of revenue for funding Russia's invasion of Ukraine. $70 million / day $2.1 billion / month $25.2 billion / year 2) Proof of maturity of Ukraine's new Neptune missile. 1,000km range 260kg warhead

💥 Russia lost $70 million daily oil export revenue: Ukraine used Neptune cruise missiles to strike an air defense military unit and oil export infrastructure at the Port of Novorossiysk. Export of 2.2 million barrels/day halted - 2% of global crude & petroleum products supply.

To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.

I expected Fitzpatrick to rule ... maybe by Wednesday? Instead ... silence. With Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer confessing she did NOT present the case twice, once each per indictment.

This post explains why "the blondes from Florida"s effort to sustain the Jim Comey indictment was adding to the damage. But I can't shake the silence from MJ William Fitzpatrick, who I expected to rule quickly on whether Comey got GJ transcripts. www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/14/l...

Shit. Pam Bondi has radicalized Reid Hoffman. 👀

NEW: The loudest critics of Trump in the judiciary have turned out to be Ronald Reagan-appointees. This week, another — Mark Wolf — joined their ranks, resigning to speak out against the president. I spoke with Judge Wolf today. He’s worried. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

With both oil terminals taken out Russia is currently not loading a single drop of oil in the Black Sea, leaving Ust-Luga in the Baltic Sea at the moment as the last remaining large sea terminal in all of Russia.

All oil operations at the port of Novorossiysk have been halted. This is reported by Reuters. It comes only three days after the latest Ukrainian strike against oil infrastructure in neighboring Tuapse.

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces confirmed striking the Saratov oil refinery about 600 kilometers from the border overnight, sparking fires at the facility. The refinery processes 4.8 million tons annually and supplies fuel to Russian occupation forces.

A major fire is burning in Voronezh near the Chemical Automation Design Bureau, a key Russian rocket development center testing engines for Soyuz, Proton and Angara rockets. The cause remains unclear.

The Novorossiysk strike disabled critical oil infrastructure, Exilenova reports. One hit appears to have struck pipelines feeding crude from shore tanks to pier loading terminals, with fire covering a large area. Damage to pipes or pumps halts tanker loading even if storage tanks remain intact.

I guess we all understand now what the bunker is for.

That’s not how it works. They are not lawful orders simply because DOJ tells them they are.

So … mar-a-lago?

Evil ages you

To be clear, no one else would be allowed to successfully sue in that context. This was a pure money grab.

The Epstein Files bill that's about to overwhelming pass says, "The Attorney general may withhold or redact the segregable portions of records that...would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary"

BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...

They just found a way to redact whole sections of the DOJ file from public release

Now I know he is guilty. Every accusation is a confession. Also Pam Bondi will be going to jail after all this is over. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.

Nevada’s state motto is "All for Our Country."

It doesn’t matter who is in the Epstein files. Presidents, oligarchs, foreign dignitaries, royalty, democrats, republicans… Release them all and let’s be rid of our national shame.

My friend @drannieandrews.com will be Lindsey Graham's opponent. She is a pediatric surgeon who has performed spinal surgeries on children, running against a grownup with no spine. Dr. Andrews is poised to perform a full Lindsey-ectomy on the United States Senate.

1. BREAKING The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement admonishing the Trump administration’s immigration actions. The last time they issued such a statement was in 2013 in response to contraception mandates.

Mafia governance in action "the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."

What could go wrong?

Having just watched the entire interview here in Austin: Pete’s discussion today was a master class in politics. He is brilliant. Hands down the most eloquent guest at the Texas Tribune Festival.

But if don't eat our own, we have to get dressed and go out and try to eat the other guys - and that's really tiring, especially on a Friday. And our own is just sitting there, already cooked.

It is annoying to me how people leap on a sentence pulled out of (in this case) an hour-plus conversation and immediately slot the speaker into a pre-existing category of Enemy. Here is the entire talk. www.texastribune.org/2025/11/14/p...

"This kind of mutually reinforcing corruption is what one sees in failing societies and empires in decline" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/larr...

Michael Flynn pleaded guilty - on multiple occasions - to lying to Trump’s FBI to cover up his dealings with Russia and other foreign agents, who already paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes

Excellent read. Trump is doing authoritarianism without accounting for the fact that he is in fact term limited and so his schtick cant last for long because everyone is starting to think about the day after.

Breaking: A bipartisan group of 58 former state AGs filed an amicus brief in United States v. James. “This prosecution targets every state’s sovereignty,” the state attorneys general write. www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul... (1/3)

The state attorneys general argue that James’ indictment, motivated by “personal and political vendettas,” constitutes federal overreach and an attack on the rule of law. Read the brief here: www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul... (2/3)

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

I feel like Trump has pioneered a new form of spoils, where criminal allies of the President can expect to be compensated for their crimes.

New GAO report: Agencies are not following OMB guidance to identify and reduce administrative burdens in safety net benefits, least likely to pay attention to learning and compliance costs. www.gao.gov/products/gao...

I'm mostly an Epstein conspiracy theory skeptic, but it has been incredibly insightful in demonstrating the double standards in how Trump uses power

The shutdown was an excuse, not a reason, to go after SNAP. SNAP recipients have to re-apply either every 6 months or year. Onerous process, with almost no fraud. There are no shutdown-related requirement for SNAP renewal. But it would predictably result in low-income families going hungry.

Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Academics who have advised a graduate student from China over the past years would be banned from federal funding. This would give the federal government one more lever to attack scientists. And how long before they expand the list of "hostile foreign" countries?

I dream of a day when corporations have to reapply for every tax break, contract, and grant every six months, with a requirement that it is the CEO who must complete the paperwork, and attest under penalty of law that they personally did so.

I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

You would think that the 8 GOP Senators who are SO OUTRAGED that Jack Smith subpoenaed their phone records that they want $1 million compensation would bring him in to testify IN A PUBLIC HEARING to explain why he did this. But no, they don’t want to do that. I wonder why?

1/14/25 DOJ released special counsel Jack Smith’s 137-page report on Donald Trump's election interference case. If Trump had not won the election, he would have been found guilty.