Epstein was scheduled to have breakfast w/Bannon 2 days before his arrest.

'At a recent protest outside an ICE facility in Durango, Colorado an immigration agent grabbed a protester by her hair, choked her and threw her to the ground. In a video... Mr Bovino chirps: “We’re taking this show on the road to a city near you.”' www.economist.com/interactive/...

"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/...

You can't make this stuff up:

In 10 months MAGA went from “He’s the new messiah!” to “Look, we don’t have anyone else.”

Just had to re-post this.👇

Why is the name Brett Kavanaugh popping up across the Epstein files? Enquiring minds want to know.

Why is this not remotely surprising?

Larry Summers, overnight to Epstein after this — www.bbc.com/news/world-e... — happened:

Breaking on MSNBC: A source close to former CIA Director John Brennan confirms he has received a subpoena in connection with the Florida grand jury investigation. All the subpoenas in this round asked for docs related to the prep of the 2016 intel assessment on Russian election interference.

Remember, when everyone says Trump has no shame and therefore it’s not possible to blackmail him: he paid Stormy Daniels to stay quiet. There are definitely stories he doesn’t want coming out.

The midterms are going to be Republicans fighting to the death shouting that Trump isn’t a pedophile That is the hill they choose to die on Not Medicaid. Not food for for the poor. Not housing. Not affordability Pedophilia

All I can think is were Democratic oppo researchers catatonic for the last 10 years?

It's like Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre have come back from the dead to totally unwind US politics. 🤔

Yes. It’s also a very intimidating place

It isn't the pee tape that Trump is afraid of. 𝐈𝐭 𝐈𝐒 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐟!

where “transparency” means the attempted coverup is very transparent

Breaking on MSNBC: Rep. Adelita Grijalva has officially signed the Epstein discharge petition. She was the 218th signature — the final name needed.

Yeah- the illiterate part is interesting.

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva called Mike Johnson blocking her swearing in "an abuse of power."   "One individual should not be able to unitaterally obstruct the swearing in of a duly elected member of Congress."

Donald Trump needs to resign the presidency.

Given the Lavrov news, reupping this post from August. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/04/d...

Sloppy Steve doing damage control with the cult today trying to talk them off the ledge.

All the quality UK papers today are giving detailed and insightful coverage to the newly released Epstein email correspondence. By contrast, the American papers seem afraid even to touch them. I wonder why. The Financial Times is particularly good. www.ft.com/content/9242...

One really has to ask why these files weren't all released years ago? There is no compelling reason.

Underscoring how exceptionally lawless the maritime strikes are.

Responding to a 2017 message that Trump was 'so gross', Jeffrey Epstein said Trump was "worse in real life and upclose."

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released emails suggesting that President Trump knew more about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein than he has acknowledged. And Republicans on the committee then released 23,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate after months of delays.

Wow. Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. The Chase SAR noted that Epstein was laundering his money through Moscow.

And the Netherlands is among the most interesting bc the SVR docs that Kash and Tulsi have been releasing on a weekly basis were theirs.

Sure. But not reason not to use this to pressure Todd Blanche. Surely @robertgarcia.bsky.social and @raskin.house.gov can at least ask Blanche when he'll be charging Ghislaine and moving her back to digs more appropriate for a convicted sex trafficer.

"For the good of the nation why not try to get some of this out there."

Russia Russia Russia Trump

NEW: The classified opinion by Trump's Office of Legal Counsel says the US personnel taking part in lethal strikes on boats would not be exposed to future prosecution, per sources. “It sounds like an admission that there is no legal basis for these strikes” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

I’m at the Epstein Files I’m at the Russiagate I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate

You have gots to be kidding

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

Epstein says he told Putin that he had great Kompromat on Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Three Ways You Can Tell Trump Is Lying about Tariff Rebates www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/12/t...

In other words, the Court is trying to buy itself two more days to see if the House approves the shutdown deal (which may well moot this case), rather than having to rule *now* on whether USDA can be forced to fully fund SNAP for November. And KBJ objects because she’d just deny the application now.

Pleased to be quoted here alongside @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social and my friend @oonahathaway.bsky.social.

#BREAKING: Over a public dissent from Justice Jackson, #SCOTUS *extends* the temporary pause of the district court’s order that had mandated full SNAP payments for November—keeping that ruling (and those payments) on hold through the end of the day this Thursday:

The most blatantly and obviously corrupt admin in US history by far. Will ANY Republican have the integrity to speak up about this, the pardons, the crypto scam, ANYTHING?

What’s just a wee bit crazy is that (former) immigrants understand our constitution more thoroughly than the President of the United States. Rep Omar is brilliant and we are all better because she is one of us.