laughing it up with the worst president in us history, the one actively destroying democracy is a choice, a bad one.

Who among us does not remember Trump's 2024 campaign promise, "it will take me a year to set the table"

Rep. Massie:  “I've not seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files…Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide. But I haven't seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this DOJ.”

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) told CNN that he will not resign from Congress despite growing scandal surrounding an affair he had with a staffer who later killed herself by self-immolation. After all, what GOP member of Congress hasn't had an affair with a staffer who then lit themselves on fire?!

Rubin: "There is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI in in 2019 are missing [from the Epstein files]. What's the big deal? We can also confirm she is the same person who in a 2025 FBI presentation is identified as accusing Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15"

Also worth noting that the document detailed here came from a highly specialized DEA unit called the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces. The Trump administration defunded and shut it down in 2025.

Jeffrey Epstein was the subject of a DEA probe that spanned at least 5 years, heavily redacted document reveals A memo shows Jeffrey Epstein was the subject of a previously undisclosed U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency investigation targeting him and 14 others for suspicious money transfers possibly linked to illega...

The document described here is a big development that expands our understanding of Epstein's criminal activities, but remains too redacted. We know the Trump administration is covering up for Epstein's pedophile buddies. This is evidence they're covering up for drug cartels too.

I'll go one further. I'm not watching, but everything news (or meme) worthy will be on Kimmel & Colbert, both of whom are going live after the SotU to dunk on him in real time. You'll have more fun seeing all the highlights there. (Also, giving them great ratings would piss him right the fuck off.)

‘Can’t believe they’re making this political, all we wanted to do was sing Toby Keith’s xenophobic anthem, pound beers with Kash, giggle at Trump’s misogynistic joke, accept invite to the Oval Office & SOTU and then go back to our MAGA fam & mostly white NHL. What’s the prob?’

A whistleblower just disclosed that FBI experts were delayed by AT LEAST A DAY in deploying to investigate Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Why?

There was an FBI plane and pilot shortage… because Kash Patel was using them for personal flights.

Fact check: Donald Trump promised to lower prices on DAY ONE. That was 400 days ago and he'd done nothing to lower prices since then.

on ketamine

On irony

As it turns out, concentration camps? Not very popular.

Pam Bondi needs to answer for this.

Ahead of his State of the Union address, Trump’s woeful approval rating ‘amazes’ him At a White House event, the president, expressing a sentiment he rarely shares, said, “It just amazes me that there’s not more support out there.”

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

I have spoken to two people now who have told me that only part of their FBI interviews are in the released files, and the parts of their interviews that are missing include mentions of Trump. 1/

Andrew charged taxpayers for massage services when trade envoy, claim ex-civil servants Whistleblower former civil servants claim there was too little scrutiny of Andrew's costs as UK trade envoy.

Doesn't look like this story is going to have a happy ending for Andrew.

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: First grade girl recounts searching for father after ICE detained him In an MS NOW Exclusive, Antonia Hylton sits down with Annabella, a New Jersey first grader whose life was uprooted when her father, Adonay Rodriguez, stepped outside to pick up a food order and was de...

ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone.

She goes out looking for him.

"I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..."

www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

People hate us all over the world who didn’t last year, many laugh at us, most shake their heads and wonder what they hell we were thinking, and many fear what our unhinged maniac will do from one day to the next. Make Fear Great Again - the Republican brand. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Republicans continuing to use the fact that someone worked in a service industry job when they were younger as an insult. I guess we can’t all go to Oxford like Kennedy.

So basically Trump can post that he’s sending a hospital ship to Greenland for no reason, then do absolutely nothing to actually send a hospital ship to Greenland because it was all a lie, and not one single Republican gets asked about it. That’s where we’re at.

Democrats’ Latest Anti-Trump Tactic: Skipping the State of the Union Some 50 Democratic members of the House and Senate plan to forgo the annual speech in an unusual rebuke of a sitting president.

Dozens of congressional Democrats are preparing to skip President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, in an unusual rebuke of a sitting president.

Trump Angered by Fresh Slide in Polls as Even Fox Admits He’s Tanking As Trump rambles bizarrely about “fake” surveys amid some really bad polling news, a political scientist explains how his flouting of the Constitution is directly linked to his cratering public suppor...

Trump cratering in new polls:

CNN
Approval: 36-63
Among working class: 41-58
Independents: 26-73 (!!)

WAPO
Approval: 39-60
On immigration: 40-58
Tariffs: 34-64

On the pod, @juliaazari.bsky.social and I dig into how his abuses of power are backfiring badly for him:
newrepublic.com/article/2069...

GOOD TROUBLE: Call your dem members of Congress and tell them to boycott the State of the Union *unless* they’re one of the members escorting Epstein survivors.

I think the New York Times has become a psychology experiment in which they see how many times they can poke their remaining subscribers in the eye before they finally walk away

Trump is about to start a war he hasn't bothered to explain It's not even clear he knows why he wants to bomb Iran.

Trump is about to start a war, and he hasn't even tried to persuade the public that it's a good idea. Maybe it's because he's not sure himself why he's doing it.

My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-iran...

The Mad King Takes The Mic The state of the union is bleak—but there are signs of hope.

"But eventually the people see what is happening. Eventually they come to notice 'a long train of abuses and usurpations.' Eventually they say, 'Enough.' There’s lots of evidence they’re en route to decisively saying 'Enough' at the polls this November."
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“Keep it to the sexual side – everyone understands that bit – and certainly not go anywhere near the national security scandal,” Lownie on Andrew and the Russians

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...