Trump is deploying his DOJ in a defensive stance designed to protect him at all costs, while calling the files a Democratic hoax. But really, he could do the survivors a great service by sharing what he knows. joycevance.substack.com/p/he-looks-l...

trump has a billion terrible qualities but his worst may be his simpleminded gullibility and the ease with which he can be manipulated

Don't forget about the Epstein-Trump Victims. Many were just young Teenage Girls at the time. Why isn't the media calling this out as Statutory Rape? www.democracynow.org/2025/12/24/e...

@deadder.bsky.social By Michael de Adder.

Seems to me this is a pathetic exhortation but an air-tight confession of guilt

Unlike CBS News, Frontline PBS ran their report recently on stories from some of the migrants sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador. Trump & his enablers can’t erase the truth about what happened. Watch the PBS piece. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

“The problem isn’t some mistaken redactions and non-redactions. The problem is the administration has decided simply not to release key documents, like the original victim statements and the 60-count draft indictment of Epstein. We’re in the midst of a coverup.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-and-...

“Coverups are difficult in free societies. They are routine for authoritarian governments. The Epstein coverup will be an indicator of how far we are down the road to authoritarianism. The success of such a coverup would take us much further down that road.” www.thebulwark.com/p/why-the-ep...

The problem with this piece, like all the other pieces, is that the missing hed, dek, & lede is that all of this was wildly illegal, unconstitutional, & criminal. This is how you normalize lawless authoritarianism - treat like just another story in our politics. “Transformation” is lazy euphemism.

They obviously missed this one in their coverup. makes you wonder how many more they caught and are covering up.

I trust major news organizations, members of Congress, and public interest groups are publicizing their secure tip lines so DOJ and FBI employees with knowledge of political interference in the Epstein files review process, can explain safely and confidentially what they saw.

Reup of this public resource we created Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025) with links to all the publicly available documents

Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."

I don’t think the law passed by Congress said that DOJ has to release less than 1% of the materials by Dec 19.

Epstein Survivor Jess Michaels: I'm feeling strangely validated. Because in plain sight, and with even with an act of Congress, we're seeing the exact same delays, negligence, corruption, incompetence that we've seen consistently and have been advocating about. They've actually proved our point.

Judge Mark Wolf on why he resigned: What we have now under President Trump is utterly inconsistent with equal justice under law. I watched, virtually day after day, his direction to the DOJ to prosecute his perceived political enemies and to insulate his friends, his family….

The Kennedy Center was established and named by an act of Congress. No media outlet should call it anything different until Congress amends or repeals that Act. Trump is not a king.

The corruption is never ending.

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

J*F*C This is *exactly* the sort of thing I've been screaming about for decades: anti-science lofted to the level of a government-funded colossal waste of money, as well as more eroding of public confidence in science. RFK Jr. is an immense danger to this country.

Frankly, a group that wants to erase a critical section of the post-Civil War 14th Amendment (birthright citizenship) and strike down the Voting Rights Act, really has no grounds to claim Lincoln as its founding father. Likewise, the current crowd is about as supportive of free markets as Karl Marx

Steve Bannon’s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein deserves even more scrutiny. Every day. Bannon has manipulated press coverage for years, even while being a superspreader for rightwing extremism and idiotic conspiracy theories. Reporting every day. Bannon + Epstein.

Oversight Dems just dropped a new trove of photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate — including this one of Steve Bannon. @monacharen.bsky.social has a question: Where's the uproar over Bannon's connection to Epstein? Read it here: bit.ly/3Mq75uP

The Trump-Vance admin has been committing illegal strike after illegal strike. They're trying to normalize it. They're counting on you to lose track, to be too overwhelmed to remember the gravity of what they're doing. But we're keeping track of every single strike. So far: 22 strikes. 87 killed.

Put together some numbers to know for the #NBA Cup semifinals. Fun nuggets in there about the Magic, Knicks, Thunder & Spurs... www.nba.com/news/emirate...

New in PN: @kevinmkruse.bsky.social on Trump making Nixon look like a choir boy "He’s following the Spiro Agnew playbook of browbeating the press, but the howling from the WH over the war crimes scandal shows how it can backfire. It only reveals sore spots that need more attention from reporters."

it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind

Great to be with @1199SEIUFlorida last night in Clearwater! We're fighting for an economy that works for everyone -- including the 25,000 health care workers that serve Floridians across the state and make up 1199! Join us on this campaign!

On June 6th, the first day of Trump's Invasion of Los Angeles, I was teargassed for the crime of handing out water at an anti-ICE protest. My story isn't unique. 1000s of protestors & journalists were brutalized for standing up against fascism. Join us tomorrow to demand reform & accountability.

year 1 of Trump 2.0: -personal graft -abuse of power -subversion of the rule of law -violation of the Constitution -top-to-bottom dishonesty -acts of violence including murder this ugliest of all presidencies has weakened America my @zeteo.com column zeteo.com/p/trump-corr...

Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."

Notice how he sues everyone who has ever said anything bad about him EXCEPT the survivors who are saying he raped them as children? Odd

Code of Conduct for United States Judges, Canon 5: "A judge should not . . . attend or purchase a ticket for a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization or candidate... A judge should not engage in any other political activity." (All judges receive training on this.)

It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.) Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Giving credit where credit is due #FIFA #FIFApeaceprize

You hear the man: he hates it when media organizations cover this. He hates is almost or just as much as the Epstein coverage. So lay off, news media. Leave the wonderful President with great Stamina Alone

Love this new wrinkle on the “bread and circuses” theme where the authoritarian ruler is both the creator of the circus and its primary audience…meanwhile he and his family are consuming all the bread themselves.

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

The Roberts Court will go down in history as having upheld the desires of Donald Trump and the GOP, rather than its commitment to justice, precedent or the rule of law. Today’s ruling — which substitutes its own fact finding for that of the lower court — is yet another example.

The Republican hacks on SCOTUS start with whatever ruling will help their fellow Republican partisans and lazily work backwards from there, barely offering an excuse for their egregious hackery. John Roberts keeps complaining no one respects them. Yeah, because we’re actually paying attention.

1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal. You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government. It says it right in the Constitution.

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

“To believe anything about Epstein coming from Trump and his cronies requires a complete suspension of common sense, which is why it’s good to remember that the simplest explanation is often the correct one: they’re lying.” — @justinglawe.bsky.social

What’s being kept from us. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The White House just released a propaganda portal on their official website to spread easily debunked lies and attack reporters, media outlets and his political enemies. Government sponsored propaganda is a feature of fascism, not a bug in Democracy.