In 2019, after Epstein was arrested, Trump told reporters he was “not a fan of his, that I can tell you.” Trump also said he hadn’t spoken to Epstein in 15 years, which would have been 2004. But the just released emails prove they spent Thanksgiving together just TWO YEARS earlier. Donald's a liar.

Lindsey Halligan's Seven Times 18-Minute Gap This catalogs the many struggles DOJ is having proving that they actually did indict Jim Comey, much less that they didn't rely on privileged comms. www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/13/l...

And meanwhile MJ Fitzpatrick is reviewing them to see whether DOJ relied on unlawful or privileged material to get the indictment, and he won't be able to do so bc that part didn't make the transcript. Which may explain his delay--trying to figure out what legally to do.

"He bears responsibility for his words and actions. No ifs, ands or buts. I asked him personally today does he hold responsibility for what happened? Does he feel bad for what happened? He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened." www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Here's the document in which the attorney general of the United States tries to go back in time: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JD Vance: "I don't know if you saw this media circulating on social media, but the president met the president of Syria, al-Sharaa, in the Oval Office a couple of days ago, and he asked him, 'How many wives do you have?' Heh heh heh heh heh! Haaaaaa! Amazing comedic timing."

Adelita Grijalva may get sworn in, but watch as a Trump sycophant withdraws a signature to protect Trump from having the horrors of his behavior in the Epstein Files becoming public. To finagle to protect a serial pedophile, you have to be a truly amoral cretin. That would be you, Nancy Mace.

I will be surprised if one or more of the House Republicans who have signed on to the Epstein discharge petition aren't strong-armed by Trump into changing their votes after Grijalva is sworn in, thus leaving the signers short of 218

If he dies before being held accountable there is always his whole family and all his enablers in congress and in his regime to crush under the full weight of the law.

Andy Biggs defends provision in funding bill that would allow Republican senators to sue their own government: "It's highly unusual but then so is the fact that the FBI was surveilling these members of the Senate and Congress. And don't forget, you had members of the House that were also pursued."

House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of the convicted sex offender’s victims, among other messages that suggested Epstein believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. nyti.ms/441Dyxh

Adelita Grijalva's swearing in will make her Democrats' newest member in the US House of Representatives, but it'll also officially set in motion lawmakers' effort to force a vote on a bill to compel the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files. https://cnn.it/47U4nor

Trump Already Confessed He Knew about "the Girls" www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/12/t...

A good moment to revisit what happened when writer Leland Nally reached out to everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. “He would interrupt the conversation and change it and say things like, ‘What does that got to do with pussy?!’” “Jeffrey Epstein was my best pal for decades."

Touchy little prick, isn't Greg Bovino?

Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."

Trump will fuck anything that’s 15 years old.

If you can’t see another 2008 banking crisis on the horizon, you must be blind. Trump has fucked the economy. Imagine having a 15 year loan on what will be ostensibly a zero value product after the loan is over. It’s madness.

If you're asking why Trump would pardon his co-conspitators from the 2020 coup attempt when none of them faced federal charges and therfore the pardons are meaningless Well, there will be elections in 2026 and 2028 And they were just handed a literal "get out of jail free" card

"And rather than explain to these very real constituents that Republicans have sidelined us completely and created an authoritarian regime, I nodded and said, OK, you probably know more about it than I do."

A baby was pepper-sprayed by CPB here in Chicago this weekend. A BABY. DHS says it never happened but here's the video evidence. It shows: "a masked, helmeted man pointing a pepper-spray gun through his open window and firing into the car." youtu.be/vfChp4E_bzk?...

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.

The administration went all the way to the Supreme Court on Friday night to halt food-stamp funding. 🤡

On Tuesday, Americans sent Democrats a resounding message. “Fight for us” “Fight for working class Americans” “Fight against Trump’s corruption, criminality and cruelty” 5 days later, Democrat Senators sent Americans a resounding message. “Nah”

Me: "There are three years left in his term and he's only going to get worse. … I don't mean to be pessimistic on this. I think at the end of the day, we're going to survive this, but it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better."

Killed by trump super supporter.

I'm still debating with myself as to whether they are really that tone deaf or if they are deliberately trolling us while secretly bragging about how mean they are and how they're owning the libs.

Something about that hyphen between 1776 and 2026 makes it read like birth and death dates. Unintentional but perhaps appropriate!

The indictment against James Comey charges him with lying to Congress about authorizing someone at the FBI to speak to the media about the Clinton investigation. @AnnaBower.bsky.social finds that public documents may undermine a core premise of those charges. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...

How to disrespect your life partner and virtual-signal yourself on the global stage in 3...2...1... sbee.link/v78xnr6ead

omg

Note the footnotes. Their notice of compliance, submitted first, reflects the written order. Their notice of appeal, submitted second, claims there never was a written order. These people are malicious AND dumbasses.

One of my local pizza joints is telling people who have SNAP cards that if they just show the card, they’ll get two slices and a fountain soda free. This is how community steps up to help when our government pushes those in need down. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DmSJNw/

Happy 5th anniversary to the funniest thing that’s happened in the history of ever

Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.

Quick. Everyone write letters of approval for Stephen Miller and Trump’s entire junk drawer of sycophants…

We are 36 days into the Trump government shutdown, the longest in American history.

HAPPENING SOON: Possibly biggest #SCOTUS arguments of term as justices consider whether Trump's broadest tariffs are legal. Case pits conservatives' support for presidential power in nat sec/foreign realm v. their skepticism of exec control over economy www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Today we celebrate. None of this “hard work ahead” stuff yet, okay? We swept the fucking board, from dog catchers to governors, WE WON THEM ALL. I need some time to simply be JOYOUS.

Trump: "I want my cabinet to behave like [Xi Jinping's staff]. I'm demanding that....I've never seen men so scared in their lives...JD doesn't behave like that. JD butts into conversations."

I just finished my analysis about what comes next after last night’s blowout elections. Donald Trump and the GOP are going to do everything they can to rig the 2026 midterms. Become a premium member now to support Democracy Docket's mission and receive it straight to your inbox. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

Here we come. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Today would be a good day to fund the ACA and end the GOP shutdown.

Holder: I don’t think Jim Comey stands any chance of being convicted. I think the same is true for Letitia James. But to have a former insurance lawyer—someone who has never been a criminal prosecutor—present a case to a grand jury simply at the call of the President is extremely dangerous.