Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department

Sounds like a distraction from the day’s news to me—but serious nonetheless www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

It’s amazing that the House passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. But even though the bill bans redactions for embarrassment or political reasons, it still includes several exceptions that could allow key names to be withheld:

Now we see what the gig is: Will DOJ release the files or will they claim their lopsided investigation into only Democrats (despite Bondi’s July statement that the evidence didn’t support any additional prosecutions) means they won’t release anything.

That they have lived with this trauma & pain for so long is truly heartbreaking. How anyone can support protecting the perpetrators any longer is hard to believe & a complete disgrace!

#Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊

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The Senate has ended business for the night, so even though they agreed to fast-track the bill requiring the release of the Epstein files, it won’t be sent to the Trump until they’re back in session which won’t be until at least next Wednesday.

Despicable.

Epstein Bill Passes as Top Official Circulates Plan to Block Transparency Official document warns of "National Security Concerns"

The Epstein files bill passed, but Speaker Johnson is circulating a plan to block transparency on "national security" grounds. Read the full document:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/epstein-bi...

Yay! A federal judge has again halted Trump’s attempt to shut down Voice of America. Judge Paul L. Friedman blocked Trump’s August order canceling the union’s collective-bargaining agreements.

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This little piggy has no intention of staying quiet. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

I heard this in the moment and frankly thought Trump said "Peggy" and assumed there was a reporter there with that name. A completely shocking comment.

Tennessee judge blocks Trump's use of National Guard in Memphis but gives time for government appeal A Tennessee judge has blocked the use of the National Guard in Memphis under a crime-fighting operation by President Donald Trump.

Thank you! A Tennessee judge blocked the deployment of the National Guard in Memphis, siding with state and local lawmakers who argued that Gov. Bill Lee exceeded his constitutional authority by sending troops to the city.

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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.

The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.

The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.

Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.

A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro

www.propublica.org/article/andr...

If Donald Trump wants to release the Epstein files, he could just release them, instead of green-lighting the House resolution.

And it's not as if he cares whether he has statutory authority to do a lot of what he's been doing.

But he needs a law for this?

"This is the most important book like this since I think All the President's Men," @gtconway.bsky.social says of @carolleonnig.bsky.social and @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social' book Injustice.

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"There's this huge chasm between what the Department of Justice's mission is supposed to be in a pure form and how it actually countenanced Donald Trump."

@gtconway.bsky.social, @carolleonnig.bsky.social and @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social discuss how the DOJ failed in prosecuting Trump.

Wow.

lordy.

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re-upping this today -- if you haven't read it yet, it is really worth a look:

The right to vote means nothing if citizens can be silenced by database errors, federal overreach, or fear.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly shared state voter-registration data with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), despite earlier assurances to state election officials that the information would only be used for routine voter-list maintenance. Beginning in May 2025, DOJ

On any other day, Trump hosting de facto Saudi ruler MBS at the White House would be the only thing on the newscycle

Saudi Crown Prince Is Held Responsible for Khashoggi Killing in U.S. Report (Published 2021)

Trump tells MBS, who was complicit in the murder of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, it’s an “honor to be your friend” during a WH visit. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/u...

Speaker Johnson says he has "national security concerns" about releasing the Epstein Files.

"Declassification should always rest and always has rested with the agency that originated the intelligence. Why? So that they can protect their critical sources and methods."

C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time

"Experts have called the possibility of losing elimination status for measles 'deeply embarrassing' for a wealthy country with the medical resources of the United States..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...

Trump gets a question on this, asks the reporter who she’s with & says fake news, then talks about business deals before claiming MBS played no role in Khashoggi’s murder (speaking of fake news…)

In normaler times, this is front page, above the fold, all caps behavior by an American president

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me