At least 30 individual or corporations who have given over $116M to Trump and his super PAC have received regulatory favors from the Trump White House. That includes Big Tobacco companies, Pharma giants, and crypto moguls like the Winklevoss twins. Pay-to-play corruption.

Folks: If someone asks a question you don't like, you can ignore them. Or say: you can't answer it right now. If you feel compelled to physically accost someone or call them "piggy," you're TELLING ON YOURSELF. You're showing that the question makes you feel bad--personally. Why would that be?

An important piece of reporting. Even congressional Republicans wanted to include appropriations-bill language to protect Congress's power of the purse. But Russ Vought has pressured them to cut the language, and the House Republicans rolled over. www.notus.org/congress/mar...

He make the most amazing friends.

Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.

Indiana's Senate voted today to adjourn by a vote of 29 to 19, with 19 Republicans joining the chamber's 10 Democrats to defy the governor's wish that the state re-gerrymander asap. indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/11/18/r...

In Trump land, there’s no reason to hide the grift.

I envision only a few pages here and there will be released with the rest held back for "legal" reasons.

Why has some $4 bn flowed from Saudi Arabia into the coffers of the Trump and Kushner family businesses? You need to read this to understand why.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune reportedly just said he plans to move the Epstein bill "fairly quickly" through the Senate, and it's "unlikely" it will be amended. Mike Johnson said a few hours ago he talked to Thune + was "very confident" the Senate would amend the bill, if it came up at all. 🤷‍♀️

The House overwhelmingly approved a bill demanding that the Justice Department release all files related to its investigation into the convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. Follow for the latest updates ⬇️

Imagine being such a cretin. Smearing a man who was brutally murdered and dismembered. Another brazen example of the soullessness of Donald Trump. Trump has done and said many outrageous things. This is on top of that list. "Things happen." Exactly what Jesus would have said.

Garcia: Trump has the power to release the files today. He does not even need a vote. He continues to defy the subpoena of the oversight committee to release all the files. What is Donald Trump hiding?

President Trump threatened ABC’s license after an ABC News reporter asked about the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a White House meeting with Saudi Crown Prince MBS. https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/trump-abc-saudi-arabia-khashoggi-response

MAJOR NEWS: Federal judges, including a Trump appointee, just BLOCKED Texas Republicans from using their new gerrymandered congressional map in 2026, ruling it was likely an illegal racial gerrymander. TX must revert to its 2021 map as Trump’s redistricting power grab collapses.

Trump was right. There is a corrupt autocrat emptying his prisons and letting criminals pour into America’s streets. It’s him.

Who's next? apnews.com/article/larr...

“How is it that NO ONE in the press corps stands up when Trump slanders a reporter?” Just got this from a reader of @columjournreview.bsky.social

The Saudi crown prince is set to meet Trump at the White House today. In 2018: Mohammed bin Salman was branded a pariah after the CIA concluded he approved the killing of Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, he’ll receive a lavish welcome.

This won't be the last. Before you know it, polio will be back. Anti-vaxers, vaccine deniers, put all of us in danger. Our children and grandchildren most of all.

We need to keep supporting science, vaccines, and other forms of research.

He's proposing this again today: 1. Take money away from insurance companies. 2. Give that money to the people. 3. The people can then buy their own insurance. 4. From, presumably, companies that sell insurance. 5. Which are also known as "insurance companies."

US judge finds evidence of ‘government misconduct’ in federal case against Comey A US judge on Monday found evidence of “government misconduct” in how a prosecutor aligned with Donald Trump secured criminal charges against former FBI director James Comey uk.news.yahoo.com/us-judge-fin...

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FBI assets currently exist primarily to serve Kash’s social life and calendar. www.ms.now/msnbc/news/k...

Like clockwork. ⏰ @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/11/17/c...

What has been done to the files? I wonder how many documents have been shredded.

The U.K., which controls some territories in the Caribbean, operates an intelligence network in the area. In a major break between longtime allies, it has stopped sharing this intelligence with the U.S. government. trib.al/zRXFsxa

Video: Federal Agent Arrested For Assault In Riverside County After Detaining Unarmed 17-Year-Old At Gunpoint

I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served. F that!

Trump now profits from 22 foreign developments, several tied to gov land or state-linked partners. That gives foreign officials leverage over him. Our assessment warns when executive decisions overlap with private revenue streams, democratic checks weaken. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

Trump said he was going to cut federal spending, yet renaming DoD may cost up to $2B. Autocratic movements use spectacle, not strategy, to consolidate control. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

"'Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia,' he said Rhodes added that he’d like to see Trump 'order us all to come together in our counties under his command'...” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

President Donald Trump has issued two pardons related to the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, including for a woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents. n.pr/4oJel3b

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After 232 years, the United States has produced its last penny in a cost-cutting move. The last one was minted in Philadelphia Wednesday.

In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.

Trump is planning a strategy session between GOP leaders and the leadership of Germany's Neo Nazi Party, the AfD, who are being invited to Washington for this purpose. AfD is a joint funding project between Peter Thiel, Elon Musk... and Vladimir Putin. www.politico.eu/article/larg...

Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence! It gets even darker than that. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2032...

Dan Bongino—an ex–Fox News pundit with a résumé full of failed campaigns and conspiracy rants—was made deputy director of the FBI without a polygraph or traditional vetting. Kash Patel just handed him a waiver. National security shouldn’t be a loyalty program. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Um, no he is not.

Ruh roh

Sooooo dementia sleepy Joe Biden is actually a mastermind who framed Trump by adding evidence to the Epstein Files. Which are a hoax, but are being investigated. After trump closed the investigation in July, and said there was no client list.

They keep arresting people but have no charges that they can bring against them. These are illegal arrests.

Of course he hasn't. He is desperate to get her out of the way so she can't be compelled to testify against him.

The intro to Judge Rita Lin's 76-page opinion holding that the Trump admin's pressure campaign against the University of California system is coercive and retaliatory in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...