(🧵) This thread from a retired journalism professor who helped usher in the era of metajournalism in the 2010s—and has written a book on the relationship between Trump and Epstein as part of his NYT-bestselling Proof Series—explains how to report properly on the Trump-Epstein Scandal.

Here we go.

Former models for Donald Trump's agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally "It's like modern-day slavery."

Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.

In NYC, criminals posing as ICE agents tied up a restaurant worker and bagged their head.

Trump’s policy of militarized, masked raids doesn’t stop crime. It encourages it.

Real ICE agents must identify themselves and stop turning law enforcement into a tool of fear. Public safety isn’t a costume.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

In southern Brazil, as communities clean up after the recent tornado, WCK-provided meals are bringing comfort & connection. Our partner, Route Foodtruck, served Brazilian-style hot dogs. First responders & neighbors shared a meal, while kids took extra to bring home. #ChefsForBrazil

A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

Raskin on Trump commuting Ghislaine Maxwell's sentence: "It seems overwhelmingly likely that that is in the process and that's all part of this very sweetheart deal she got to be switched out of a real prison in to a prison camp, and even there basically be treated like a guest at a Trump hotel."

NOTE: Oklahoma is scheduled to execute Tremane Wood on Thursday afternoon (Nov. 13).

The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board recommended clemency on a 3-2 vote, but Gov. Kevin Stitt has not acted on it.

The U.S. Supreme Court also has not yet acted on Wood's stay of execution request.

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

I am shocked but delighted all at the same time. I did not think Mikey would allow this to move forward

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.

So much work remains to be done.

It’s Time to Pivot to 2026 Election Security Don’t underestimate how Trump and his allies will attempt to control the outcome of the midterms.

"It is no stretch to imagine ICE agents snatching people from voting queues and thereby deterring U.S. citizens who speak with an accent or have dark skin from exercising their right to vote." No benefit of the doubt for these guys anymore. www.thebulwark.com/p/its-time-t...

“One thing we can do is elect candidates who know how to communicate & cut back in this toxic political environment (to) MSNBC. “New media is completely polluted, and the air is dirty. I figured out a way to breathe in that environment, and we need to elect candidates who understand how to do that.”

Who Didn’t Suffer During the Shutdown? People Flying Private.

We were among the first to call out this lie. Trump and Duffy need to come clean. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/t...

Ill believe it after the fact. Anything that can happen to block her, will.

When Trump was in his 50s, he said his daughter got him to promise not to date anyone younger than her. She was 17.

Jeffrey Epstein was taken off suicide watch by high-level psychologist The financier who was being held on federal sex-trafficking charges died by suicide on Aug. 10 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

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Trump was president and ultimately responsible for the federal prison system when Jeffrey Epstein died in custody in 2019, supposedly of suicide. Epstein had been on suicide watch, but was taken off the watch 2 weeks before he died.

Donald Trump to Howard Stern: It’s okay to call my daughter a ‘piece of ass’ | CNN Politics Warning: This story contains graphic language.

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Trump said in a radio interview in 2004 that it was OK to call his daughter Ivanka a “piece of ass.” Two years later, he said in a TV interview that “if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”

To Preserve Records, Homeland Security Now Relies on Officials to Take Screenshots

DHS has stopped using software that automatically captures text messages and is now manually taking screenshots. We're suing to ensure that DHS is following the Federal Records Act and preserving text messages.

They will never voluntarily #releasetheepsteinfiles they will have to be leaked

Using this post to once again hype my feed of independent and nonprofit journalism.

Read and share their work, and if you can, financially support those who are important to you. Journalism is expensive. Accountability journalism even more so.

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland.

How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president.

www.propublica.org/article/port...

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