Working overtime to pretend they want to release the files while making sure they do everything possible not to release the files

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

was it jared

…and then the rest of the White House press corps pushed back against the president’s gratuitous insult aimed at one of their colleagues? Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened! Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week. people.com/donald-trump...

Chris Murphy: "He wouldn't be going through all of this effort to try to stop the release of these files if he wasn't seriously implicated in those files. This is most likely the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the country. We know that b/c Trump is going to these extraordinary lengths"

Performative public lying is bad & being an elite member of the club because of your pedigree should not exempt you from social & professional shaming & consequences for doing it.

Congrats again to the elite economists at Harvard who vouched for this guy & Stephen Miran as serious candidates to occupy the most senior economic policymaking posts in 🇺🇸 government, because they went to the right schools & cocktails parties. bsky.app/profile/mcop... bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Zero understanding of how risk pooling and insurance works.

This, from the people who said sending artillery shells to Ukraine would leave us unable to defend Taiwan.

Great thread here ⬇️

*spits out coffee*

Epstein’s War

I don’t think US taxpayers should subsidize treason against the United States

NEW: "Is there *any* version of this information which a reasonable person could conclude meant that Trump did not know that Epstein was sexually molesting and trafficking underage girls? I can’t think of one." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-epst...

Really sad to see the Old Gray Lady looking more like a grocery store checkout line tabloid.

Damn. It's 11 pages of scholarly, erudite prose -- then he drops this absolute hammer. 💥💥💥

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...

"The longer this chaos continues, the more our allies feel they can’t trust us, the fewer agents on the streets investigating terrorists and spies, the more likely we’re going to face a catastrophic intelligence failure." The latest from @vermontgmg.bsky.social at @motherjones.com...

What did the press know about Donald Trump's pedophilia and when did they know it?

Spotted at @texastribune.org #TribFest @principlesfirst.bsky.social Great day of sessions including Bolton, @davidjolly.bsky.social, Fmr Texas Speaker Dade Phelan, and more. Principles First Texas folks on the ground all #TribFest25

Getting to hear from Spiro Agnew’s most famous intern, in conversation with @vermontgmg.bsky.social @texastribune.org #TribFest25

"what began as a way to increase the pace of deportations has come to look like a national police force, answerable to the president, that is at least as focused on bullying the residents of Democrat-run cities as it is on deporting undocumented migrants" www.economist.com/interactive/...

A must read recap of this week’s events from @jenrubin.bsky.social @contrariannews.org (And it’s only Thursday.) open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Priorities. 🤡 @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

All of the times I’ve wondered what Putin had on Trump, and now we find out Jeffrey Epstein was talking to Putin’s ambassador about Trump.

He's on a mission from God.

What you want from a functional, thriving superpower is every reporter in the country spending all day combing through a cache of documents that all say, more or less, “hi [rich ruling class person], it was good seeing you last week for all the child sex crimes!”

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

Epstein name drops Thiel, "Mooch," and Musk in a single exchange

What an odd coincidence again

Reposting (had deleted because I thought I inadvertently posted incorrect info). This is the man Epstein was referring to in terms of who he used to talk to. www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

The most lurid, wild-eyed resisters from January 2016 eatin good rn

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

“In the Situation Room”?! Highly restricted access and no cell phones allowed. White House officials needed to meet with Lauren Boebert in the room where highly sensitive National Security issues are handled? To talk about the Epstein Files?!

“The artist Anish Kapoor is considering taking legal action after border patrol agents posed for a photo in front of his Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago, saying the scene represented ‘fascist America.’” Go get ‘em, Kapoor. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

an actual not-made-up death panel, except there’s only one guy

WUT

when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale

Banning all Musk products from the federal government and federal contractors and canceling all federal contracts must be a day one executive order in 2029.

If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?

What an incredible view from MN tonight. These reds were naked eye visible

That reminds me, hey, Donald and Mike, where are those Epstein files?

Once again, if you wrote a story in which the jetsetting corrupt FBI chief took a government plane to the "Boondoggle Ranch" an editor would tell you to get a different job, because you're not cut out for writing believable stories.

Made everything worse, and they're still blaming immigrants because the far right understands that the last thing anyone wants to do is bear the shame of their own mistakes bsky.app/profile/chri...