Tom Withers
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Father, lawyer, struggling triathlete.
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"Defendants violated their fundamental obligations as trustees and, in Defendant Grenell's case, as an employee. ... Defendants' actions wasted the trust property, including by expending resources to unlawfully deface the Kennedy Center's building and its website ...."
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
"Defendants violated their fundamental obligations as trustees and, in Defendant Grenell's case, as an employee. ... Defendants' actions wasted the trust property, including by expending resources to unlawfully deface the Kennedy Center's building and its website ...."
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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The Epstein Files: My Observations (Free) jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-epstei...
The Epstein Files: My observations
Nothing to See Here
jkbjournalist.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Epstein Files: My Observations (Free) jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-epstei...
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Gift link to analysis of Epstein files. But yesterday was the legal deadline to produce all of it, not just to start a rolling production. The statute does not permit “good try.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
6 Takeaways From the First Batch of the Epstein Files
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Gift link to analysis of Epstein files. But yesterday was the legal deadline to produce all of it, not just to start a rolling production. The statute does not permit “good try.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
The doctoring of the Epstein files is another building block of truth that Republicans, lead by trump, are the party protecting pedophilia.
December 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The doctoring of the Epstein files is another building block of truth that Republicans, lead by trump, are the party protecting pedophilia.
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Julie Brown: “They didn’t even release the victim interviews…It’s clear that the Department of Justice is not only thumbing its nose at the public’s demand for transparency and accountability, it is not taking the crimes committed against children seriously.”
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
The Epstein Files: My observations
Nothing to See Here
open.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Julie Brown: “They didn’t even release the victim interviews…It’s clear that the Department of Justice is not only thumbing its nose at the public’s demand for transparency and accountability, it is not taking the crimes committed against children seriously.”
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
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I don't do much looking back at my own writing, but I've been thinking about this piece a lot today. From tenderly protecting Trump from criminal consequences to enthusiastically helping him dismantle the administrative state, Roberts owns it all.
The worst chief justice of all time
Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I don't do much looking back at my own writing, but I've been thinking about this piece a lot today. From tenderly protecting Trump from criminal consequences to enthusiastically helping him dismantle the administrative state, Roberts owns it all.
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Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
December 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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"When power fears the light, truth is the only torch left standing."
We have never seen a presidency as criminal, lawless, and corrupt as the fascist authoritarian Trump regime. No other presidency is even close. 😳👇
We have never seen a presidency as criminal, lawless, and corrupt as the fascist authoritarian Trump regime. No other presidency is even close. 😳👇
December 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"When power fears the light, truth is the only torch left standing."
We have never seen a presidency as criminal, lawless, and corrupt as the fascist authoritarian Trump regime. No other presidency is even close. 😳👇
We have never seen a presidency as criminal, lawless, and corrupt as the fascist authoritarian Trump regime. No other presidency is even close. 😳👇
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Yup.
December 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Yup.
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This.
It can happen to anyone.
That’s where we are.
It can happen to anyone.
That’s where we are.
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
This.
It can happen to anyone.
That’s where we are.
It can happen to anyone.
That’s where we are.
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.
December 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.
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Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
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The American people deserve to feel protected by their president. Not attacked by him.
December 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The American people deserve to feel protected by their president. Not attacked by him.
It will be interesting to see what machinations Alito and Thomas will go through in order to conclude that birthright citizenship is not guaranteed by the 14th amendment.
December 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
It will be interesting to see what machinations Alito and Thomas will go through in order to conclude that birthright citizenship is not guaranteed by the 14th amendment.
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Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”
December 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”
Why aren’t the Congressional Democrats hounding the hapless republicans? This administration has the most incompetent cabinet members in history. We should be ridiculing that incompetence daily.
trump has never made a reasoned, rational decision in his life. call him out for it.
trump has never made a reasoned, rational decision in his life. call him out for it.
December 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Why aren’t the Congressional Democrats hounding the hapless republicans? This administration has the most incompetent cabinet members in history. We should be ridiculing that incompetence daily.
trump has never made a reasoned, rational decision in his life. call him out for it.
trump has never made a reasoned, rational decision in his life. call him out for it.
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The President has said that he has already picked his new Fed Chair. In this segment of #TheProfessorIsIn, we answer the question: What are the stakes? How will this decision affect YOUR life?
December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The President has said that he has already picked his new Fed Chair. In this segment of #TheProfessorIsIn, we answer the question: What are the stakes? How will this decision affect YOUR life?
You know, the Dem leadership should be shadowing trump’s lies at his cabinet meetings, impromptu press conferences on planes, anytime he speaks because he spews provable lies. We should bang the drum of his lies every time he speaks because #trumplies just like he sweats. It is a part of his being.
December 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
You know, the Dem leadership should be shadowing trump’s lies at his cabinet meetings, impromptu press conferences on planes, anytime he speaks because he spews provable lies. We should bang the drum of his lies every time he speaks because #trumplies just like he sweats. It is a part of his being.