Dave Weigel

Does Trump's alleged letter to Epstein "sound like" Trump? An investigation. On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report about President Trump's relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

1. Trump says that the letter to Epstein is fake because the letter is "not the way I talk."

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the letter is "not at all how he speaks or writes."

JD Vance said the same thing.

Does the letter sound like Trump?

I investigated.

Right, it's a very simple journalistic term of art (we have this, no one else does) that they're too dumb to get right (must mean nobody is allowed to see it without a subscription)

Still thinking about this illiterate line in the Trump WSJ lawsuit

Opinion | The Benson Boone Crumbl Cookie and Our Ultraprocessed Culture I want to make it stop, and my earnest admonitions about the emptiness of American materialism are not working.

“I hate raising my kids in this cultural moment, in which many creative triumphs are treated like branding opportunities and no prominent person ever turns down easy money,” @jessgrose.bsky.social writes.

Classic case of a coffee table being too low

It’s mostly that. It’s just funny that Tulsi stayed quiet as they danced all over the Ukraine rationale she had for endorsing Trump, but are now letting her go on Fox to lob treason charges against Obama.

Sorry, but the Trump admin giving more arms to Israel and Ukraine while throwing Tulsi a “you get to talk about Russiagate again” bone is very, very funny.

I def started getting them when I was in NY last month.

More of a plays guy than musicals guy, wife took me to “Yellowface” last year and it rocked

Does anybody else get nonstop “Operation Mincemeat” ads on Meta products? Seems like a fine musical but Instagram is now 2 friend pics for every 1 video of a woman in a suit singing “SO YOU DREAMT OF BEING A PILOT”

16. The Article was published in The Wall Street Journal as an exclusive.' However, since publication, Defendants have widely disseminated it to hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

WSJ claimed the Trump–Epstein article was an “exclusive.” But what if I told you they fully intended to show it to people? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Photo of a bulk bin at a supermarket, the label on which reads "Once Again Tamari Almonds"

/host introducing the musical guest for their second song on SNL voice

the thing is i don’t think it’s about engagement on the sites as much as it is what gets quoted by journalists. tweets get used in stories and skeets mostly do not. tweets make news on a regular basis, so yes they have greater reach. if journos would leave x the pols would follow imo

I know what rock bottom feels like. At the height of my Lego addiction I bought the Stranger Things Lego.

YouTube video by Mathieu OZZY OSBOURNE - Shot In The Dark - Official (Remastered, 4K, 60 fps, best quality)

Bumpin’ that youtu.be/jxXTJyghWlg?...

🟡 Semafor Americana: The new normal | Semafor In this edition: Andy Beshear embraces a “normal” strategy, Democrats jump on the Epstein bandwagon, and Zohran Mamdani is off to a slow endorsement hunt.

It's AMERICANA time! As ever, you can subscribe (for free) or read the whole thing online (for free) or take screenshots without linking ($5000 per screenshot). www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

It's my last day at The Post. Allow me to commemorate my tenure there by noting that, at different points, I irritated Donald Trump¹, James Comer², and the Russian government.

¹ From Marty Baron's book.
² From Comer's. 99% of this is false, true to form.

DOJ Finally Reveals Sale Price for Seized Wu-Tang Clan Album When the Justice Department sold Once Upon a Time in Shaolin it concealed the sale price citing “trade secrets.” Now, after a four year FOIA battle, the DOJ finally disclosed the price.

FOIA Files is back!

When DOJ seized Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin from Martin Shkreli and then sold it 3 yrs later the agency concealed the sale price citing “trade secrets.” Now, after a four year FOIA battle, I finally got DOJ to reveal the price
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

Jimmy Fallon taking L’s even when he’s completely uninvolved lol

Holy shit www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Y_...

Not gonna lie, this hearing didn’t exactly help the “the American experiment in self-government is going great, actually” crowd.

This piece doesn’t *only* focus on the discord because the religion dynamic is important, but this thing was pure 2025-style partisan chaos.

How Sam Altman Outfoxed Elon Musk to Become Trump’s AI Buddy With his rival out of the way, OpenAI’s CEO has a clear path to press for the company’s goals. He is leaving the Democratic Party.

“Altman doesn’t consider himself a Republican, but has told people he could see himself voting Republican in the next election.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-...

Yeah, I don't always agree with Dan, but there's a media tic of using "feud" to describe one-way fights started by Trump.

Even God cannot hear us here My mother called me which is a rare enough thing so I was already like uh oh who died and she said Luke in a tone of voice I hadn’t heard in a long time and my heart sank. She had just gotten a call f...

My mother called me which is a rare enough thing so I was already like uhoh who died and she said Luke in a tone of voice I hadn’t heard in a long time and my heart sank. She had just gotten a call from someone claiming to me be who sounded like me she said www.welcometohellworld.com/even-god-can...

We at Louisville Public Media just lost $376,000 due to Congress passing the rescission bill last night to claw back funds from public media across America. Today we’re asking those who value our work to help make up those funds in an emergency drive so we can maintain the staff/services we provide:

A+ reference

BIM exercises commence in 40 seconds

CBS to replace "Late Night with Stephen Colbert" with "The National BIM Hour."

This is literally what we reported would happen. www.status.news/p/skydance-c...

And I’d gladly stand UP
Next to you
And defend her still today