At 10:30 ET, join me on Substack Live with @normeisen.bsky.social, one of the lawyers in a case filed to force Trump to take his name off of the Kennedy Center. Get some law & democracy-strikes-back energy before you check out for the holiday. (Prep involves 🍿 => 🐓 so they’ll be quiet while we chat)

The Trump DOJ is running scared and so they're putting out this kind of dreck on social media:

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

I hope it's clear to everyone by now that Trump's play over and over again is to yell "National Security!" and pretend as though that gives him the right to act like a dictator

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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

People must grasp the idea of “media capture.” It’s when authoritarian regimes and/or their powerful allies take control of media to stifle independent voices holding the government to account. It’s one way Hungary’s Viktor Orbán keeps power. In the U.S., it’s what the Ellisons have done with CBS.

From today's new Gallup poll news.gallup.com/poll/700241/...

“We couldn’t report on the sinking of the Titanic until we spoke to Captain Smith.”

Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

"We must become more demanding for what’s right, what’s true and what leads us toward a more just future. It’s in our power to prove that the sacrifice of so many Americans to sustain our democratic project was not in vain." www.americaamerica.news/p/we-cant-st...

When a major media outlet openly capitulates to the political agenda of the executive branch, they are no longer part of the fourth estate. They are state-run media. Add Bari Weiss and CBS to the list of those who have betrayed our Republic.

As is the case with Musk, and even Trump, the most grotesque part is not their existence — awful people have always been around and always will be. The most grotesque part is nominally smart or honest or decent people taken in by them. Or, at least, pretending to be taken in, for advantage.

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

Expect a "revolt" among 60 Minutes staff over Bari Weiss pulling the CECOT segment at the last minute, one network insider told me. Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.

My main takeaway is not so much how it demonstrates that they know they're full of shit, because we already know that. My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.

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60 MINUTES CORRESPONDENT: “Our story was screened 5x and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” #CBSNewsMAX #BariWeiss www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

"Russia carried out a missile strike on a port infrastructure facility in Odesa Oblast. Some of the victims were on a bus that was at the epicenter of the strike," the State Emergency Service reported. 8 killed, 27 injured.

My latest Substack piece on AI and if our political class is ready: substack.com/@katiephang/...

Dude did a minute long riff on his wife's underwear, but when your job as a member of the mainstream media is sane washing the incoherent ramblings of a guy who keeps the lights on in your building, the public must be told he's just doing normal President stuff🙃

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

Thanks, Suze! Abrego Garcia Seizes On Vanity Fair Interview talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/susie...

@stateline.org probes the deal the Justice Department has offered multiple states on their voter rolls. It would allow the federal government to identify voters to be dropped. That's unprecedented and dangerous. Our Eileen O'Connor weighs in. stateline.org/2025/12/18/t...

NEW: The DOJ has now dropped more data sets of the Epstein Files: www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-...

WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer. Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump. Now, it’s gone.

How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀 LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽‍♂️

Originalism is often a tool to cloak conservative policy choices in historical and legal jargon, so we've created a guide on how to beat originalists at their own game. bit.ly/44yksPF

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

We aren’t going to defeat fascism with a politics-as-usual approach. That’s why we’re gearing up for a massive primary program to put forward a new wave of candidates who can win at the ballot box and in the battle to defend democracy: indivisible2026.org/?utm_source=bluesky

A photo in a book I co-wrote, “Aftershock,” about the last days of World War II, shows destitute Germans picking through mud to gather coffee beans discarded along a street. I think it illustrates the legacy of authoritarianism: poverty and misery. Americans would be wise to remember that now.

one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES: During one of Doe's encounters with Epstein, he took her to Mar-a-Lago where he introduced her to its owner, Donald J. Trump. Introducing 14-year-old Doe to Donald J. Trump,... 1/2

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WOW: Fox News reports that the DOJ used the same redaction standards for “politically exposed individuals and government officials” as it did for victims.

JFK’s niece: h/t @jamiegangel.bsky.social

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Russia-sponsored traitor coalition Patriots.EU has emerged

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I’m deeply honored to earn the endorsement of State Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid! He has been a fearless advocate for civil rights, economic justice, and accountability across Illinois. So proud to stand alongside Rep. Rashid as we fight for a government that works for people, instead of corporations.

Renaming the Kennedy Center, our national fine arts center, after such a coarse, lowbrow, and ignorant buffoon is America at its very stupidest.

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