DO IT! "Among the oldest powers of Congress, holding an official in inherent contempt allows for Congress to force compliance either with fines or detention, and in a manner that entirely bypasses the DOJ." #Pinks #ProudBlue www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...

Grotesque and inhumane. These posts reflect people with hollow souls.

You can also contact me via Signal. I will keep you anonymous. muellershewrote.23

I am furious that DOJ ignored the new federal law requiring release of the Epstein Files. I am equally angry that so many in legacy media seem not to care. My latest for Democracy Docket lays out the case. Sign up now to access this and all premium content. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

Congress did not authorize a rolling review. The Epstein Files Transparency Act compels DOJ to release all Epstein-related materials in its possession. The law imposes a mandatory disclosure obligation and permits only limited redactions to protect victims. www.mediaite.com/opinion/impe...

The DOJ didn’t decide to release that Trump-related file. They forgot to remove it. And once it was noticed — once people started talking — the file disappeared. That sequence matters more than any individual image. open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

The handiwork of a guilty man and his criminal henchmen who thumb their nose at the law, Justice, Congress and the American people.

Congressional investigation now.

This is symbolic of the last 12 months as well as the future. It’s Caligula being performative while Rome declines into chaos and dysfunction.

Today, Trump declared that the nation will host the first-ever “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” featuring high school athletes, one boy and one girl, from each state and territory. If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.

In case laws still matter…

Sorkin: This is now state-sponsored capitalism. This is not really capitalism. Everything runs through 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue now. That is a fundamental reshift, and that is something that’s more akin to places like China, frankly.

Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.

Democracies survive only when citizens decide that character still matters, that truth still matters, that children deserve better examples than tantrums and threats and gold-plated vulgarity. open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power

Jacking up costs, surging unemployment, terrorizing communities, and millions spent gold-plating the Oval Office. Trump's year of historic accomplishments indeed.

McDonald’s USA — Employee: $15/hr, no benefits — Big Mac: $5.79 McDonald’s Denmark — Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension — Big Mac: $5.49 Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.

Leaving Congress didn’t give me all the answers. It forced me to ask better questions. Here are the first ten things I’ve learned about myself, politics, and humanity since the lights went out. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Donald Trump’s reclassification of fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction is a public-relations tactic, one expert tells @willgottsegen.com in The Atlantic Daily:

$900 Billion yet they destroyed USAid and are letting millions starve and die around the world. Priorities. Power and might over serving the common good.

In his final interview with Rolling Stone earlier this year, Rob Reiner talked Spinal Tap, Janis Joplin, 'Misery,' 'The Princess Bride,' and Donald Trump.

Trump’s greatest gift to America this year was to liberate people to be their worst selves. open.substack.com/pub/tinabrow...

Hegseth: A Security Risk to the United States open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... "I can attest to the fact that in our nation’s history, never has a more damning [IG] statement been written about the conduct of an American Secretary of Defense (SECDEF)."

The New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow was correct when he said Donald Trump was involved in as many as 60 "catch and kill" operations during the 2016 presidential election in which Trump first won power, former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said.

Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.

Trump has spent years fuming that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize. So a deeply compromised organization invents a “FIFA Peace Prize” just for him. It’s authoritarian ego-management 101: if reality won’t deliver a trophy, make one up. #holdfast #SteadyState

Ever since the government shutdown, it’s finally begun to sink in on people that Trump and his entire administration are a bunch of raging ideologues or incompetents or both, peddling a fantasy version of their strength that people no longer buy. trib.al/bxVWbrK

Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire. The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich. We should tax trillionaires out of existence.

An American president is pressuring politicians of his own party on social media by name, even after some of them have received threats and been swatted in the wake of prior Trump postings. This is what experts on political violence call "stochastic terrorism."

ICE thought Minneapolis would fold. Instead, a police chief lit a flare bright enough to burn D.C.’s eyebrows.🔥👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

If the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t real then Section 3 isn’t real either and the justices are suddenly just people in funny clothes.

Kelly: “I've been through a lot worse in service to my country. The president and Pete Hegseth are not going to silence me.”

Thank you Senator Kelly for standing up to this bully who lacks a moral compass and exhibits malignant narcissism.

If the US can do whatever it wants to whomever it wants with no regard for human rights, the Geneva Convention, US law, the UCMJ, or international law, then we are no different than Vladimir Putin and Russia, who I suppose was the role model for Trump foreign policy doctrine.

OPINION: Shocking as this moment is, none of us should pretend we weren't warned.

Probably the most important post you will read today. #HoldFast

There is almost no chance DC would grant permits for a ballroom larger than the White House.

Everyone saw this coming. Trump stiffed his contractors, then fell out w/his architect because he refused to back his demand for a ballroom bigger than the WH. And those corporate donations he keeps bragging about are pledges, not real money. Taxpayers will end up on the hook one way or another.

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This is what Americans elected in 2024: a man who had clearly demonstrated his unwillingness to accept unwelcome information. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that he’s doing the same thing now.

Read this excellent piece on data centers www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback

He only looks smart because his lies have overwhelmed a political culture that didn’t know how to respond to them. If I were a Trump fan, I’d start worrying about what happens when that stops. trib.al/bqvNXan

GOP-led committees are looking into a report alleging Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” aboard a boat in the Caribbean.

Honored to be included in the list www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/best-b...