The discharge petition to force a vote on the Epstein Files only received a handful of GOP votes. But when we get the actual vote to release them, I'm presuming we'll see a whole lot more, right? "Congressman _____ voted against releasing the Epstein Files" isn't an ad you want before the midterms

pro tip: innocent people don't work this hard to keep the files that prove their innocence a secret

Stephanie MIller uses her appearance on Hannity to say Trump is all over the Epstein Files to the Fox audience..

NEW: A week before Donald Trump surged past Hillary Clinton to win the presidency, author Michael Wolff approached Jeffrey Epstein with a proposal to "finish" Trump's candidacy. "Interested?" Wolff wrote. Epstein, apparently, declined. w/ @eorden.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Breaking on MSNBC: Mike Johnson says he intends to put the Epstein resolution on the House floor NEXT WEEK.

Q: "Why are White House officials…meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the [Epstein] files?" Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."

"If I were in the Senate, I wouldn’t vote for this compromise. Shutdowns are an opportunity to make your arguments, and the country was just starting to pay attention... I worry that Democrats have just taught Trump that they will fold under pressure." { gift link } www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...

"Maxwell has received custom meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area, access to a service puppy, and private meetings with visitors arranged by the warden, complete with snacks. Visitors were allowed to bring computers..." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

“The worst view of current economic conditions since 1951… 61% blame Trump… 79% of independents have a negative view of Trump’s economic policies… if these numbers hold Republicans can wave adios to the house, and maybe the senate…”

Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal". But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows.

Many Americans are hurting right now because of the shutdown, but caving to Republicans won’t end the hurt. Trump and his lapdogs continue to assert that they alone have the power to slash whatever programs they don’t like. Deals with this regime are meaningless.

Waking up to the news that Donald Trump pardoned Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Sydney Powell, and dozens of people who tried to steal the 2020 election is really just the icing on the cake of yesterday, isn’t it? Enablers everywhere, including on the Dem side of the senate.

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”

This is remarkable. EVERY COUNTY in Virginia, which is blurple, went blue. Wow.

Mamdani: My message to I.C.E. Agents and to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate the law, you must be held accountable.

Big shout out to Utah Republicans, who greedily passed a fully gerrymandered map that includes an R+2 and an R+6 district, as they watched Democrats easily overcome those margins all across the country tonight.

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

FUN FACT: My favorite part of tonight's election results is that all three of the major trump endorsements (Ciattarelli, Miyares, and Cuomo) LOST bigly. And trump handed out 53 down-ballot endorsements in New Jersey and Virginia. THEY ALL LOST. Every. Last. One.

“London and New York, two of the west’s largest, richest, and most diverse cities are now run by Muslim men, both of them elected on the ticket of left wing, pro-LGBT, pro-multicultural parties…The victory is a reminder of the fundamental weakness of Trumpism, Faragism, and the politics of hate.”

Mamdani supporters, be petty AF tonight against all the haters. They truly deserve it. And you deserve joy.

Watching Abigail’s daughters cry as they stand next to their mom who just made history being elected the first woman governor of Virginia is a helluva moment.

Mary Sheffield will become the first woman elected mayor of Detroit, CNN projects. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/4oRiL7z

Congratulations to our Governor-elect, Mikie Sherrill. She has long been a partner in advocating for New Jersey and I look forward to working with and supporting her as governor of our great state.

BREAKING: All three PA Supreme Court Justices will RETAIN their seats!! www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

THERE IT IS

Breaking from NJ AG Platkin: "Early this morning, law enforcement responded to threats that were received by email involving certain polling places in Bergen, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic Counties. Law enforcement … have worked swiftly to secure these polling locations."

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

If the Supreme Court lets Trump’s tariffs stand, he and future presidents could claim nonexistent emergencies to act unilaterally on any number of issues, from climate policy to technology regulation. bit.ly/43OZTxQ

He wants to kill Obamacare, but has no other plan. He is not satisfied with his deportation operation because his ICE agents are not abusive enough. He plans to continue murdering people in the Caribbean Sea because the law and these humans are of no concern to him. All this thanks to John Roberts.

every passing day, rightwingers are inventing new and unexpected ways to signal to the world they may be the dumbest iteration of humans so far

MARGE: “Trump’s $40 BILLION bailout for Argentina is one of the grossest things I’ve ever seen. I don’t know how that’s America first.”

BREAKING: Per new reporting, ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting under Kristi Noem. One was discovered to have a history of robbery and battery related to domestic violence while already in training.

The government is in its second-longest ever shutdown, food stamp benefits won’t be going out next month, many govt workers aren’t getting paid, and Trump is suing his own DOJ for $230 million while building a $250 million ballroom at the White House. Are we winning yet?

Republicans will say anything to make you think they’re on your side. But when it counts, they always side with Trump and their billionaire donors, never with working families.

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

ICYMI — with electricity rates already skyrocketing, Trump just canceled the largest solar project in North America. Utah’s Republican governor seems to understand this is probably not the best idea: “This is how we lose the AI/energy race with China” 👇🏽

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..." www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

They are trying to kill us

I’m not cheering the ceasefire cause they (colonizers) have not, in fact ceased firing.

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too. Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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Pam Bondi wasn't going to answer any questions today. We all knew that in advance. People can watch the hearing if they want to, but the idea that this is an Attorney General testifying before Congress is laughable. This is just a Trump personal lawyer putting on a performance for her client on TV.