Nothing about this quote about a “ballroom” suggests “peaceful transfer of power.”

Government data show there are now a million more people who are unemployed than there were in Jan of this year after Trump's inauguration.

There are a lot of files in this new dataset that have made me feel this way. I’m still making my way through DataSet 8, but this is some vile shit.

#EspteinFiles #FuckDoJ #DV1 #ProudBlue Either through incompetence or clandestine actions by some in the DoJ a group in Reddit figured out that they did not properly redact the released files so they were able to unredact it

This is sinister. If you're wondering why so many people don't report sexual assault, this is why.

🚨DAILY REMINDER🚨 Soon marks the fifth anniversary of the January 6th insurrection. Let us never forget the lives lost, the desecration of our Capitol, and the deliberate assault on our democracy. Memory is accountability and forgetting is not an option. 🫖 #StayWoke ✊🏽 #Pinks 🌸 🎥 @mjfree.bsky.social

Horrific allegations. Hopefully, journalists are looking into this to determine whether the story holds up and what the FBI did to investigate

Mockler: He said he grabbed women because they let him do it. You heard that clip, right? Abuse of power dynamics. Now that he's in office, he's abusing these same power dynamics to cover up the files, delay the releases, redact.

What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.

UPDATE: CNN confirms that "the envelope [holding the Epstein-Nassar Note] was sent from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City [where Epstein was being held] to Nassar"—*and* got vetted by federal officials. Which explains the Virginia postmark (where the FBI is).

kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass

Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when

Epstein survivors’ lawyer, Bradley Edwards on Justice Dept protecting powerful men & not victims: “Protect the victims. Release the files, otherwise. It’s so simple-the fact that this administration is not just doing it, should be troubling to all American people irrespective of political party.”

This hadn't occurred to me, but yeah. Thomas and Alito know that the wheels are off the wagon—Trump could appoint ANYONE to replace them, and the likelihood of confirmation of whatever weirdo he does put up, while not quite low yet, is dropping all the time.

BREAKING: #SCOTUS rejects Trump over deployment of National Guard to aid immigration enforcement in Illinois, says law limits use to when regular military is insufficient. 3 justices dissent: Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

NOTED: In Kavanaugh's Illinois National Guard solo concurrence, he adds footnote that seems to try to calm outrage over his solo opinion in the CA ICE emergency ruling that led to some calling race-based immigration arrests "Kavanaugh stops." Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

JUST IN: Judge postpones decision on whether DAG Blanche & aide Singh must testify at vindictive prosecution hearing for Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Trial due in Jan. also postponed, but court will hear other witnesses Jan. 28. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tariffs are the new Grinch. During the first 9 months of 2025, Americans paid… $520 million in tariffs on Christmas decorations, $685 million in tariffs on video game consoles, and $1.5 billion in tariffs on construction set toys & scooters. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/art...

Socialists and communists are not destroying 249 years of Constitutional democracy. In 2010, the GOP rammed "Citizens United" through SCOTUS, their most deceptively named scam since Fox "News", which unleashed unregulated corporate greed. And an apocalyptic billionaire feeding frenzy.

www.wcvb.com/article/loca... Thank you Trump !! This is not fake SO THANKFUL THAT WCVB tv news in Boston that took care of this horrendous blunder.... ( ht @smith83k.bsky.social ty)

Unbelievable Pam Bondi did it again Another batch of the Epstein files was released-in which Trump was featured prominently-but the Department of Justice promptly took them down a few hours later Sure looks like Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie have enough evidence to hold her in contempt

Annexing another country?? You know who annexed neighbors? Nazi Germany. They annexed Austria first followed by the Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia) then Bohemia and Moravia. When will the Senate and House of Representatives stop this? How many people will die from a completely needless war?

I saved this a while back and didn’t realize that this is why we’re seeing ICE dressed differently in videos. They were fresh out of prison and into their ICE uniforms. #Pinks #ProudBlue #FuckICE

They used a "redacted" font? Amazing. I used it as a satirical conceit a couple days ago. (I don't have any idea if this is what they used, but have at it.)

The USS Bone Spurs

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Don’t forget. Biden’s DoJ was investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files up until the last minute. Trump shut down the investigation, sent the files to DC, & fired the prosecutors. They went through them, redacted Trump’s name, then elected not to release them and closed the matter.

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

Congressman Robert Garcia is urging FBI & DOJ whistleblowers to come forward because they know this is a massive coverup with the #Epstein files.

Tonight’s #FridayLimericks go to Susie Wiles, enabler of the worst of this administration. Underneath all the bombast and wrath, Susie Wiles has enabled Trump’s path. She’s a matronly Roger Who helped the draft dodger Run anti-democracy math.

Wrote up my predictions for 2026. -I think 2025 will have been rock bottom. -The Trump coalition is going to panic and fall to infighting as election day draws closer. -The AI bubble will get even more obviously bubbly. -We'll begin the long road to repair. 🤞 open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice will fail to publicly release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by a Friday deadline, violating a new federal law explicitly mandating that the trove of documents be turned over for public scrutiny. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Garcia: This is not a real release. This is continuing a coverup that's been going on now for months.

Khanna: "The law clearly required all unclassified information being released today. They obviously have not complied with that law. They claim it's because it was only a few weeks -- well they've known about this for months."

1 year into going through this, where: -The flood of horrible crap is by design -The bullies' grip is weakening in places, & we're making some headway -The level of suck is still crazy high. It's ok to acknowledge that, & take timeouts as needed -It's vital that we hold each other up & not give up.

This popped up in new Epstein Files from new DOJ DROP TRUMP KNEW about sexual abuse underage girls From Daily Mail

In order for America to actually heal its divisions, we need to reckon with its two original sins: the genocide of Native Americans by the initial government structures during and after the Revolution, and the deliberate sabotage of Reconstruction by the racist remnants of the South.

Phang: If Maxwell is so worried about the grand jury records coming out, can you imagine the treasure trove of information against Maxwell, Epstein, and others that’s being held in the total Epstein files?

“It was not unanimous. I was muted and not allowed to speak.” 🤔

#KennedyCenter #FDT #DV2 #ProudBlue New Rule: if Trump wants to add his name to the Kennedy Center then the board must also add Epstein’s name

Listen to Maria Shriver, niece of President John F. Kennedy.

It is within Donald Trump's rights to fire everyone on the Federal Reserve Board and replace them with his friends. But if a future Democratic president tries to remove Trump's friends from the Board, that will be strictly unconstitutional. by John Roberts

The trump meme coin is the new trump casino. Pass it on...

Jack Smith is testifying behind closed doors on Wednesday and there’s a lot to know about what the stakes are. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Call your 2 Senators & your Congressional rep no matter their party at 202-224-3121. Demand accountability for #ICELawlessness! Make every lawmaker that this is unacceptable!

Read this. Then read it again.

"Trump has spent years cultivating the idea that lawsuits are weapons he can deploy without personal exposure. That belief holds only as long as discovery remains abstract." But in his Florida suit against the Pulitzer Prize board, discovery is finally starting to matter. [@jeffquinton.bsky.social]

feels stupid to say at this point but how the fuck isn't anyone invoking the 25th amendment.