Tom Tilley

Southern California weekend storm looking increasingly powerful, with growing flood threat for LA Basin & beyond - Weather West Quite some whiplash: from record heat to record wet (and yet one more damaging wildfire before that happens) Well, the weather this year sure is doing its best to keep us on our toes! The last 2-3 weeks featured record (or near-record) warmth across most of California and Nevada, as well as a good portion

Okay, I did manage to get this blog post out before the (4pm PT!) livestream! 👀 There will be a considerable flood threat this weekend in some parts of SoCal as near-record moist airmass combines with other factors. Strong t-storms also possible. #CAwx

Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer's Story Gets Stupider - emptywheel Lindsey Halligan now claims that she got at least two indictments out of one grand jury presentment. And Pam Bondi thinks that's cool.

Imaginary US Atty Lindsey Halligan filed a "Notice Correcting the Record" this afternoon in the Comey prosecution.

I was pretty sure she was lying & spent about an hour spelunking documents to prove it. I should have just read @emptywheel.bsky.social instead!

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Academics who have advised a graduate student from China over the past years would be banned from federal funding. This would give the federal government one more lever to attack scientists. And how long before they expand the list of "hostile foreign" countries?

I mean...has *she* gotten worse? Her being first with the "it's not pedophilia it's ephebophilia" insanity seems like it's on-brand.

Let’s be clear: the hold-up isn’t on our side. This was his campaign promise—so he needs to go ahead and fulfill it. Release the files. All of them.

It's also not barely *legal* in most states.

First of all, a 15-year-old is not "barely legal." The age of consent in Florida is 18. So sexual behavior with a 15-year-old is rape.

Megyn Kelly is VILE trash for saying otherwise.

And Megyn Kelly is confessing to having insider information about what Jeffrey Epstein was up to but stayed silent.

At the same time the New York Times was running nonstop stories on Hillary's email server, they were sitting on this emails (and photos of Trump with Epstein victims, apparently).
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.

New piece laying this out:

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The political compass chart, with “technically, it’s ephebophilia” in the “libertarian / economic-right” quadrant.

In 2017, the sitting president had Thanksgiving with his old friend who had been convicted of sex crimes with a minor.

And we’re only learning about this now?

On Dec. 8, 2015, Jeffrey Epstein offers a NY Times reporter photos of Donald Trump and "girls in bikinis in my kitchen." Epstein tells the reporter that he "gave" Trump his "20 year old girlfriend...after two years."

When people looked into these type of rumors the Times smugly criticized them.

Exclusive: Trump administration holds Situation Room meeting over House effort to force release of all of DOJ’s Epstein files | CNN Politics Top Trump administration officials met Wednesday with a key GOP lawmaker about an effort in the US House to force a vote on releasing Justice Department case files related to Jeffrey Epstein, accordin...

Trump lured Lauren Boebert to an in-person meeting in the Situation Room, instead of calling her on the phone, because he knew all her electronic devices would be confiscated before entry, so she couldn't record anything embarrassing or incriminating.
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Trump pressures Boebert, Mace to back down on Epstein files If any GOP member were to remove their name, the petition would no longer have the necessary support.

Telling that Trump didn't even bother to pressure MTG.

It's a side quest for sure, but it suggests he feels she is truly done with him.

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NEW: The verdict is in! The jury decided the sandwich guy case on the merits! www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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?"

Todd Blanche would have had these emails before interviewing Maxwell. Why didn’t he question her directly about her exchanges? Why did he not follow up when she said things that were onviously a lie?? This shows that was a performance intended to dupe the public and benefit her (and Trump)

Grijalva: It has been 50 days since the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district elected me to represent them. 50 days that over 800,000 arizonans have been left without access to the basic services that every constituent deserves.

If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.

Epstein victim wrote "i dont want to come early to find trump in your house”

When you tell the ringleader of the pedophile conspiracy that, fine, you’ll see him but you don’t want to run into Donald Trump …

Isn’t this all evidence they’re trying to cover it up??

As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?"

She did not respond.

OVERT ACT 125 In additional furtherance of the conspiracy, DEFENDANTS met on November 12, 2025 to discuss ways to wield official government power to prevent further news of the child sex trafficking ring from becoming public.

This is a crock of shit. The ACA already prohibits federal dollars from being used to pay for abortion.

ACA plans which cover abortion even include a separate $1/mo fee which the insurance carriers have to be kept segregated from the rest of their revenue in a separate bank account.

I’m serious.

Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead

Also, the HHS Secretary sold cocaine in college and was a heroin addict for 14 years so it is RICH whenever they go after people for old drug offenses.

Once again, if you wrote a story in which the jetsetting corrupt FBI chief took a government plane to the "Boondoggle Ranch" an editor would tell you to get a different job, because you're not cut out for writing believable stories.

The sheer number of people Trump pardoned — 1,500+ — and the magnitude of violence many (most?) of them committed means it is statistically likely that a fair number will be revidivists, potentially for more egregious crimes. The pardons should be a top story EVERY DAY