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Good way to start the week. But he’s going to get worse because it’s all unraveling and he’s no longer in control of the narrative.
"Trump is historically and deeply unpopular. it’s not just that people disapprove of him; they strongly disapprove of him. This is the biggest story in US politics. [It's] bad for Rs and getting worse."
On the pod @speechboy71.bsky.social is great on the big picture:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
On the pod @speechboy71.bsky.social is great on the big picture:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Explodes in Angriest Epstein Tirade Yet as Allies Visibly Panic
With Trump distracted by Jeffrey Epstein even as allies and advisers fret about the midterms, the author of a new piece on Trump’s standing decodes why his approval is hitting dangerous new lows.
newrepublic.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Good way to start the week. But he’s going to get worse because it’s all unraveling and he’s no longer in control of the narrative.
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
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Trump flipped on the Epstein files last night because he knew he would face more than a hundred Republican defections. They can vote for release all they want, but Trump will say there are ongoing investigations so his tiny hands are tied.
Trump now says House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide”
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Trump flipped on the Epstein files last night because he knew he would face more than a hundred Republican defections. They can vote for release all they want, but Trump will say there are ongoing investigations so his tiny hands are tied.
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the number of emails where he's like "I'm gonna force this woman to have sex with me in order to keep a career" is insane how is this creature not being dragged from his house and paraded in a public square
larry summers is genuinely, deeply misogynist in a way which is not even captured by his public contempt for women
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
the number of emails where he's like "I'm gonna force this woman to have sex with me in order to keep a career" is insane how is this creature not being dragged from his house and paraded in a public square
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EXCLUSIVE: “Alexis Wilkins, Patel’s girlfriend, has a security detail made up of elite FBI agents usually assigned to a SWAT team in the FBI field office in Nashville, where Wilkins spends time for her work.”
READ MORE:
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
READ MORE:
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Kash Patel's girlfriend being protected by FBI's SWAT team as security perk
Agents on a detail with the country singer would presumably be unable to respond or delayed in responding to other incidents, according to sources.
www.ms.now
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
EXCLUSIVE: “Alexis Wilkins, Patel’s girlfriend, has a security detail made up of elite FBI agents usually assigned to a SWAT team in the FBI field office in Nashville, where Wilkins spends time for her work.”
READ MORE:
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
READ MORE:
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
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Did Kash just finish cleaning up the files? apnews.com/article/epst...
In reversal, Trump says House Republicans should vote to release Epstein files
President Donald Trump said House Republicans should vote to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case, a startling reversal after previously fighting the proposal as a growing number of those in his own party supported it.
https://apnews.com/article/epstein-files-house-sex-trafficking-investigation-c46716743f6f65f2f3b74906365da58b?utm§source=onesignal&utm§medium=push&utm§campaign=2025-11-16-Breaking+News
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Did Kash just finish cleaning up the files? apnews.com/article/epst...
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A discussion sparked by a piece whose opening argument was that Larry Summers was the tragic, rational victim of a feminized woke mob
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
I mean
November 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
A discussion sparked by a piece whose opening argument was that Larry Summers was the tragic, rational victim of a feminized woke mob
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Congressional republicans have been spewing racist attacks on Mamdani for weeks and it’s almost never mentioned in our media. Not only that, the person leading the hate campaign—Randy Fine—is treated by the same media as a good faith expert on antisemitism. I wrote about this obscene double standard
Why is Mainstream Media Ignoring Overtly Racist Attacks on Mamdani from Congressional Republicans?
Non-stop Islamopbohic vitriol, threats of deportation, and virtually no coverage from CNN, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal or The Washington Post.
inthesetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Congressional republicans have been spewing racist attacks on Mamdani for weeks and it’s almost never mentioned in our media. Not only that, the person leading the hate campaign—Randy Fine—is treated by the same media as a good faith expert on antisemitism. I wrote about this obscene double standard
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this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
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right now george w bush is talking with dick cheney's ghost and asking "why the fuck didnt we do that?"
Awful: Trump's boat bombings are now being justified by a new legal memo that relies on WH's own determinations as evidence. Memo also says people can't be prosecuted for the killings. But that reveals WH knows there's legal vulnerability here, Ds tell me.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Boat Bombings Darken as Secret Memo Reveals Holes in Legal Case
A new White House memo argues that those carrying out the boat attacks can’t be prosecuted. Why? Because the White House says so!
newrepublic.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
right now george w bush is talking with dick cheney's ghost and asking "why the fuck didnt we do that?"
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Lutnick is the current Secretary of Commerce and Epstein sent this email three months before he died.
Epstein mocked Trump for “leaving his nose print on the glass” while watching young women, wrote that Trump knew about illicit activity tied to Mar-a-Lago, and visited “many times,” and noted Trump’s planned visit to his neighbor Howard Lutnick’s house.
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Lutnick is the current Secretary of Commerce and Epstein sent this email three months before he died.
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These are surely the actions of an innocent man with nothing to hide
It is instructive to see where Trump sees the need to exert political leverage. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Trump Ramps Up Pressure on G.O.P. to Thwart Epstein Vote
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
These are surely the actions of an innocent man with nothing to hide
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"just in" lol. how they break that one open. i've always found this the most appropriate image asset since melania is right there in the center of the picture.
JUST IN: Trump not weighing pardon for Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, White House says
Trump not weighing pardon for Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell
A petition to release the Epstein files is expected to have enough signatures Wednesday evening.
trib.al
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"just in" lol. how they break that one open. i've always found this the most appropriate image asset since melania is right there in the center of the picture.
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The impacts of Trumpism go far beyond what AAM captured in this useful-but-quickie survey.
White supremacist ideologies are again the default across the sector; university museums have suffered budget cuts as schools have responded to Trump threats, punishments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/a...
White supremacist ideologies are again the default across the sector; university museums have suffered budget cuts as schools have responded to Trump threats, punishments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/a...
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The impacts of Trumpism go far beyond what AAM captured in this useful-but-quickie survey.
White supremacist ideologies are again the default across the sector; university museums have suffered budget cuts as schools have responded to Trump threats, punishments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/a...
White supremacist ideologies are again the default across the sector; university museums have suffered budget cuts as schools have responded to Trump threats, punishments.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/a...
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Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
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NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Yep:
"Caving as they were winning the fight, and as Trump abuses power to hurt regular people (withholding SNAP benefits, canceling flights) supposedly as 'punishment' for the shutdown, sets a nightmare precedent."
"Caving as they were winning the fight, and as Trump abuses power to hurt regular people (withholding SNAP benefits, canceling flights) supposedly as 'punishment' for the shutdown, sets a nightmare precedent."
Yup, and the damage isn’t so much in the story as in the proof of weakness. Trump now knows he has new torture tools to make Dems do what he wants. It’s why at least one of the 7 capitulators oughta be run out of office now, mid session. Get that number down to 6. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Yep:
"Caving as they were winning the fight, and as Trump abuses power to hurt regular people (withholding SNAP benefits, canceling flights) supposedly as 'punishment' for the shutdown, sets a nightmare precedent."
"Caving as they were winning the fight, and as Trump abuses power to hurt regular people (withholding SNAP benefits, canceling flights) supposedly as 'punishment' for the shutdown, sets a nightmare precedent."
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November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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"Democratic capitulators whose seats would be filled by Democratic governors in the event of vacancy (Durbin, Fetterman, Kaine, King) should be under immense pressure to resign mid-session. Now, even. Or in Kaine’s case, after Abigail Spanberger is sworn in. If your senator fits that bill, get loud"
Thoughts on Dems throwing a game they were winning. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
16 Thoughts On The Dem Shutdown Cave
Another disgrace, and a new path forward.
www.offmessage.net
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"Democratic capitulators whose seats would be filled by Democratic governors in the event of vacancy (Durbin, Fetterman, Kaine, King) should be under immense pressure to resign mid-session. Now, even. Or in Kaine’s case, after Abigail Spanberger is sworn in. If your senator fits that bill, get loud"
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This is most directly about the fake electors (none of whom face any federal charges anyway) but the actual wording of it is much broader: it's effectively a full and complete blanket pardon for anybody who had anything to do with trying to steal the 2020 election, not just the Jan 6-ers.
The language of this pardon is extremely broad.
It includes “all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential
electors…”
It includes “all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential
electors…”
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
This is most directly about the fake electors (none of whom face any federal charges anyway) but the actual wording of it is much broader: it's effectively a full and complete blanket pardon for anybody who had anything to do with trying to steal the 2020 election, not just the Jan 6-ers.
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Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
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I was interviewing a healthcare worker in Uganda, trying to explain a very specific trans policy in the state of Utah, but I didn’t know if they’d know what Utah was, and they said…
“You’re talking about the state where Charlie Kirk was shot?”🙃
“You’re talking about the state where Charlie Kirk was shot?”🙃
Media consumption observation from two months in two countries in Africa: Everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) I talk to about international news has heard of Charlie Kirk, while no one heard about the Louvre burglary
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I was interviewing a healthcare worker in Uganda, trying to explain a very specific trans policy in the state of Utah, but I didn’t know if they’d know what Utah was, and they said…
“You’re talking about the state where Charlie Kirk was shot?”🙃
“You’re talking about the state where Charlie Kirk was shot?”🙃
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A leader would not have lost eight colleagues tonight. This happened because you let it happen or because you’ve totally lost control of the caucus in one of the most important moments since you’ve been Democratic leader. Either way, it’s on you. You need to step down. We need someone who can lead.
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 AM
A leader would not have lost eight colleagues tonight. This happened because you let it happen or because you’ve totally lost control of the caucus in one of the most important moments since you’ve been Democratic leader. Either way, it’s on you. You need to step down. We need someone who can lead.
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New York. We gave the country some hope electing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and then @schumer.senate.gov shit all over it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
New York. We gave the country some hope electing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and then @schumer.senate.gov shit all over it.