The Epstein files released today did not come from the DOJ's Epstein Files. They came from Epstein's estate. Pam Bondi is still protecting Trump at all costs. Today's release by Democrats was aimed at undermining her efforts. And to make it harder for Donald to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell.

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

President Trump's memo on national security and domestic terrorism (NSPM-7) has dangerously broad sweep. "There's a whole swathe of civil society that could easily be designated and basically shut down," says the Brennan Center's @faizapatel.bsky.social.

In advance of Trump shutting down SNAP, this is a way you can help your neighbors.

Here are the actual court documents. Virginia Giuffre May 2016 Deposition: www.documentcloud.org/documents/70...

“Don’t be fooled by those in Epstein’s circle who say they didn’t know what he was doing. Epstein … took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch — scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care.”

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Social movements are more likely to have success when three factors are present: elite conflict, shifting public opinion, and elite blunders. Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

Biden's domestic agenda was 100% correct. The problem was his inability to sell it, due to old age and lack of understanding of mass communications in the '20s. (Also, his foreign policy handed Trump the election.) Efforts to force Dems back into a '90s-'00s agenda are both wrong and unnecessary.

!! ALERT - Federal investigation into the death of convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was marred by significant lapses www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Cc...

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

We can't settle for Republicans’ promise of later negotiations. Because every time this Administration says something, they go back on their word. If Republicans need Democratic votes, they need to keep health care premiums from skyrocketing for the American people.

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief at No Kings Day 2.0 on October 18. There are currently over 2,000 events planned nationwide. More details here: https://www.nokings.org

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

Great column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

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Final nail in the argument for budget shutdown. Dems must refuse to negotiate unless part of the deal is revisions to ICA and APA that would prevent this nonsense. Send a "special message" back to the scotus 6.

A story that’s attracted surprisingly little attention in our media: Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges www.bbc.com/news/article...

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2 When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline. 109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.

Okay so let’s say a few countries may have the Epstein files or the blackmail: France, UK, Russia & Israel. The last two likely hung it over Trump’s head plus bribes; now enter the Ukraine war; the UK invites Trump over, shows him what MI6 has, he changes position again.

The perfect restaurant does not exist… hold up. All potato menu! @darthbluesky.bsky.social pack your bags.

In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal. The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024. Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.

Today, due to the recent spread of (false) narratives about trans perpetrators of mass shootings, I decided to look up search stats for the term “trans shooter.” The term was hardly used at all before May 2022, when the shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde happened.

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

Brain power is free LLM power is expensive Use your brain

People willing to put their bodies on the line for a good cause are rare and immensely valuable to that cause

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyartchallenge #art #painting 13/20 Skull of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette - Vincent van Gogh (1885-86)

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This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

“The FCC decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the constitution.” George Carlin, 1988

This anti-free speech they're trying is another fire. 2 months from now, it will be put out. Either by it blowing back on them. Or by lawsuits. Or by the Supreme Court. BC destroying the constitution won't turn us into a dictatorship, it will embolden Democrats to fight back dirty. 🧵👇🏼

Fact is: free speech attacks will fall flat in the U.S. Judges know this. Lawyers know this. Even the Republicans in Congress know this. But the threats still do the job to 1. Distract 2. Intimidate 3. Drain our resources Hypocrisy is the biggest strategy Blatant hypocrisy demoralizes MORE. 🧵👇🏼

If an authoritarian party is governing in ways that suggest it doesn't care about how the next election will play out, perhaps we should more seriously consider that they don't expect there to be another election that could remove them from power.

Obama: So we have to extend to people during their period of mourning We can also at the same time say I disagree with the idea that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake I can disagree with the suggestion that my wife or Justice Jackson does not have adequate brain processing power.

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