epstein in dozens of pieces of written documentation: the presidential candidate my best friend loves coming over to my house for the young girls i rent reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open

Blanche didn’t ask Maxwell a single question about any of these emails. Then he moved her to Club Fed where she is served individual meals and has a puppy and numerous other special privileges while she prepares her clemency petition. WHY?

Acting just like a corrupt king, Trump is transforming the American system of justice into his personal plaything. Friends of the crown break the law with impunity. Enemies of the crown experience the sharp end of the law, whether they deserve it or not. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...

As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?" She did not respond.

A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.

Majority whip ⬇️

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

Q: "Why are White House officials…meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the [Epstein] files?" Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."

Raskin: If this were to pass, this astounding provision would give eight Republican senators a personal payday of at least a million dollars each, paid for by the U.S. Taxpayers at a time when we are throwing millions of people off of their health care…

"Look, every word the president just said is a lie." -- Me, telling the truth.

"Donald Trump owes his entire political career to defamation. Nevertheless, he routinely demands 10-figure settlements from media outlets who criticize him. And now his shakedown tour has gone international."

Veterans from MI’s 7th & 10th Cong Districts called out their representatives, Tom Barrett (R-Charlotte) & John James (R-Shelby Twp.), for votes that cut funding to health care, food assistance & veterans’ affairs programs, in a press conference on Veterans’ Day. michiganadvance.com/2025/11/11/v...

Happy discharge petition day to all who celebrate... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

'Chuck Schumer couldn’t hold his senators together at a time when their unity and toughness were essential. Yet Trump cracks the whip and gets all Republicans to do his bidding. Does this mean Schumer should go? Yes.' robertreich.substack.com/p/why-democr...

'In 1985, the median income was $23,620, and the median price of a home was $84,300. So the typical house was 3.6 times the typical income. By 2023, the median price of a home was $428,600, which was 5.3 times the median income of $80,061.' popular.info/p/trumps-sol...

“I haven’t seen the emails. I haven’t read them. I don’t even know what emails are.” - Mike Johnson this morning, probably.

Michigan Democrats rebuff Rogers’ evidence-free claim that the 2024 election was also stolen. Mike Rogers infers cheating is why he lost last year’s election to now-U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, despite all evidence to the contrary michiganadvance.com/2025/11/10/m...

So much for a clean CR... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

'If you showed up the right way, said right things, bowed your head in prayer, asked for help w/ shame--they resemble what remains of social safety net: they'll catch you if you contort yourself a certain way. That's not real compassion. That's recruiting obedience' www.patreon.com/posts/would-...

The Trump admin has unveiled plans to open California’s coastline to offshore oil drilling for the first time in decades, a move that has sparked swift and fierce backlash from state leaders. The proposal, which outlines up to six federal lease sales between 2027 and 2030, would mark the first

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So many things get me about the roll over, show belly capitulation from the Senate. And one of them is that the promise of a future vote in the Senate isn't even the promise (ha!) of future *passage* of an ACA bill because House would have to deliver same promise.

The same crowd yelling “lock her up” spent decades shielding predators and playing dumb. 🚨 NEW: House Democrats just released emails where Epstein wrote Trump “spent hours at my house” with one of his victims—plus messages showing Trump knew a lot more than he’s ever admitted.

'I had seen other executives escorted out of the building or compelled to leave for raising concerns. So I understood that was a potential outcome, and I was prepared for that. There’s never a wrong time to do the right thing.' www.wired.com/story/doge-w...

Jeffries: We are not going to be lectured by anyone on the other side of the aisle about fiscal responsibility when the bill that you just passed is the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation ever…

Clark: So what are we doing here today? You have already voted to dismantle medicaid, the largest health care program in America. A program that covers 40% of all births in this country. 40% of children in this country. 40% of disabled people in this country.

Trump administration’s war on homeless people harms veterans  michiganadvance.com/2025/11/11/t...

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

McGovern: He says food prices are way down. That's coming from a guy dines on caviar at mar-a-lago. He's never shopped for groceries a day in his life. He doesn't have to pick between plastic or paper.

Gagworthy, the whole clip.

Trying to think of a more vulgar person—or someone with less understanding of or appreciation for American history. No one comes immediately to mind.

A couple months back, I was curious as to how Bill Pulte was able to obtain Lisa Cook and Letitia James' mortgage documents. Today, the WSJ reports that he was actually under investigation for how he obtained them. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

'Does anyone know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours?'

A vile country isn't a country that can't feed its children, a vile country is a country that *won't* feed its children.

Once the government reopens, precedent has already been set, if Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Adelita Grijalva, the newly elected representative from Arizona’s 7th District, someone else will. In Powell v. McCormack (1969), the

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

Fifty years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. Here's a blog I wrote about the iconic Gordon Lightfoot song: teacherinastrangeland.blog/2023/05/02/t...

New York’s oligarchs spent more than $55 million trying to defeat Mamdani and get Andrew Cuomo elected instead. With Cuomo winning just under 855,000 votes, that came to about $65 per vote. robertreich.substack.com/p/musk-and-m...

Leadership coup now, please.

80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate. Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

It is noteworthy that opposition to ranked choice voting is predominantly led by Republican lawmakers; all states that have enacted bans on ranked choice voting are considered “red” states. (Michigan Democratic Party Rural Caucus)

'the biggest takeaway from all this is that Donald Trump learns another lesson in the virtues of brazening it out. He is willing to shoot the hostage, and the Democrats are not.' www.thebulwark.com/p/dems-rewar...

The So-Called Science of Reading's New Focus on Babies - nancyebailey.com/2025/11/07/t...

Fifty years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. Here's a blog I wrote about the iconic Gordon Lightfoot song: teacherinastrangeland.blog/2023/05/02/t...

45 minutes ago, from the deck. Eight inches yesterday.

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