1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated 2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements 3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program 4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Good morning. One from a few days ago.

“National security concerns” isn’t a magical incantation. There have to be real, plausible national security concerns. A swarm of drones becoming undetectable by flying through an offshore wind farm is not plausible. Laughably so. Even if radar had trouble there, how’d they get to the wind farm?

We don't know this is really from Epstein, though.

“As you know by now, I have taken the “short route” home,” huh? Sounds like Epstein was planning his suicide.

i'm sorry this is one of the last things epstein ever wrote

Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The guts to write a piece titled „The Epstein files - count me out“ when you’re in the Epstein files: here’s something to aspire to.

"Some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims" against President Donald Trump, according to the DOJ.

DO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!

So everyone's watching the 60 Minutes that was supposed to be banned and everyone who knows how PDFs work can unredact the Epstein files, it's like the Christmas spirit has irony poisoning this year

Another day, another wonderful secret.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

to announce to all the world that you won’t run a story if a subject withholds comment is to effectively kill your news organization; you’re just doing PR now

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

Total threat, is there ever was one. December 22, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election. we are in december of year one.

U whiny bitch you u should not be in charge of a Cub Scout troop

This is as easy a test of your belief in the American system as is conceivable: Should this be an acceptable argument from a president?

The critical question in today’s GOP is if you think the Jews will end the world in a good way or a bad way.

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

Electrifying development on EelTok @erinbiba.bsky.social

Bari Weiss praised El Salvador's dictator before spiking '60 Minutes' story on his torture prison. new w/ @premthakker.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

‘How the South Won the Civil War’ 💯🎯 @hcrichardson.bsky.social

The full Weiss memo is dogshit -who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT -who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison —who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison

I know the Wallet Inspector wouldn't take my money because that's inconsistent with my sense of her professional values.

I've been looking for an excuse to make myself a redaction detection tool based on the open source FreeLaw project. This give me the perfect document to test. github.com/freelawproje...

This document, with the bad redactions, seems to have been around for a few years. Here’s an Archive.org copy from 2023. web.archive.org/web/20230920...

I’m not giving George Conway a milligram of my time or attention like please be serious

Trump’s press conference today was among his more haywire performances, and his slushy delivery and meandering answers will not halt speculation about his cognitive health. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

We don't need to colonize Greenland for our national security. Denmark already let us put missile bases there. Invading Greeland or bullying Denmark to get it would be terrible for our national security. Trump is just an egomaniac who wants his name on something bloated by the Mercator Projection.

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

Every time a fascist degenerate quote tweets a TPM article a golden dukes fairy gets its wings

See, here is the thing about saying everything is a national security matter...

💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B 💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M. 💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M. 💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.

“10 co-conspirators” 🤔#TrumpEpsteinCoverup @coffeezilla.bsky.social breaks down the Epstein files that HAVE been released and what they tell us, and how they show Todd Blanche is blatantly lying redactions weren’t used to cover for powerful people: youtu.be/R7i9KdVTFR4?...

In which we learn that the US attorneys office concluded that Trump traveled on Air Epstein regularly without appearing in he passenger manifest.

It's not looking good for Leslie Wexner. New FBI emails, released in the latest Epstein Files dump, reveal Wexner was investigated as one of ten other "Epstein co-conspirators."

Even if you are/were a gang member, you have a right to due process. Even if you have committed a violent crime, you are not by any standard of humanity, supposed to be shut away forever in a torture chamber run by sociopaths and gleeful torturers. THESE ARE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. Shame on us. Shame.

We should call out antisemitism wherever it exists — which means not only when members of the Mayor-elect’s transition committee may have ties to someone like Farrakhan, but also when the President and VP *repeatedly* appoint and embrace avowed neo-Nazis. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Remember when that little Kansas newspaper was raided and the owner died from a heart attack? Yeah, that raid isn't going well for the Marion County LEO. And by extension taxpayers. Really, folks, quit electing your cousin as sheriff.

A House vote to expel Ilhan Omar? Not a chance. Enjoy losing, loser.

I am still shocked by the degree that casual racism has been completely normalized in the US. I shouldn't be after the last 10 years, yet I am.

My millennial heart is so happy watching everyone pirate and share the 60 Minutes piece like we’re all on 2002 Napster.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...