Forest Walker

I keep coming back to this mind blowing @jvl.bsky.social observation.

A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold.

Where are my Originalists at?

From my @cato.org colleague Ilya Somin.

making the zoning and permitting process easier isn’t a “giveaway” to developers—it means that small, local builders can compete with the big guys who specialize in navigating the complicated bureaucracies we’ve created

Alexander said there are a little over 440,000 different ways to describe what you’re allowed to do on a piece of dirt in the states Prophetic has analyzed. Developers need to go through all of that information to figure out if they can build a single- or multifamily housing development on it.

with this AI, builders can figure out what they can build, where and how much at a much faster pace, making them more competitive with landowners. “If you have that much of an edge in your speed to decision, you effectively control your entire market, because before anyone else can decide, you’ve tied it up,” said Alexander.

the approval process for new housing is so complicated that DR Horton, one of the nation’s largest homebuilders, is using AI to speedread zoning codes—and beat others to development opportunities www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/d...

Letter from Epstein survivors to Congress:

"Your primary duty is to your constituents. Look into the eyes of your children, your sisters, your mothers, and your aunts. Imagine if they had been preyed upon. Imagine if you yourself were a survivor. What would you want for them?"

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.

Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Open bribery by a foreign leader. The exact scenario that the Founders feared.

"no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"

Stephen A. Smith: "Trump campaigned on the release of the Epstein files…So to then get into office and to suddenly walk around and talk about 'What's the big deal? This is not a real story.' Seemed very, very suspicious."

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Trump #EpsteinFiles #POTUS

This Epstein thing has his malignant narcissism dialed up to 10.

Release the Trump-Epstein files.

Everyone does know what's going on here, right? Should the Epstein evidence bill pass both the House and Senate, these criminals will say it can't be released because there is an active investigation. Never mind that a thorough investigation was completed, and the DOJ was prepared to try Epstein.

#Epstein

citizensimpeachment.com/release-the-...

New homes per capita over time

Tim Dillon: "[Trump] seems to not be doing anything good for anyone. This is the end of the Trump administration. This is the beginning of the lame duck presidency. It's obvious to everyone, even his most ardent supporters...Epstein's gonna suck the oxygen out of a lot of this."

Mark Epstein asked his brother Jeffrey in an email to ask Steve Bannon if Vladimir Putin has “the photos of Trump blowing Bubba.”

ok. Now do cars.

‘QUIET!’: Trump Explodes Mid-Flight as Epstein Questions Close In — Panic on Air Force One It lasted only a few seconds — but it may become one of the defining clips of Donald Trump’s week. Aboard Air Force One, somewhere between Washington and Palm Beach, the 79-year-old president snapp…

Trump snapped — literally yelled “QUIET!” at a reporter — as Epstein questions corner him mid-air. The pressure is boiling over.👇

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

I have read similar assessments but don't really know that much about it.

‘Not a Pedophile’? Trump’s 87-Year-Old Lawyer Sparks Outrage With Bizarre Epstein Defense Live on Air Alan Dershowitz has never shied away from controversy. But on Friday night, the 87-year-old attorney — once among the most celebrated legal minds in America — crossed into territory so unsettling t…

An 87-year-old Trump lawyer just went on TV to argue Jeffrey Epstein “wasn’t a pedophile” — and the backlash is volcanic. This interview is unbelievable.👇

Steve Bannon advised Jeffrey Epstein for years on how to rehab his reputation, texts show Pair devised responses to public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history, his treatment by the justice system, and his friendships with powerful people

Steve Bannon advised Jeffrey Epstein for years on how to rehab his reputation, texts show www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"If courts endorse the broad definition of 'invasion' advocated by the admin, dire consequences will follow.... the federal government could suspend the writ of habeas corpus and detain people (including U.S. citizens) at will." -- @ilyasomin.bsky.social on Cato's amicus brief in AEA case @cato.org

#Epstein

Not exactly fun fact: her gravestone at the end of the movie shows Christine was 16 at the time of the whole murder-kidnapping-arson-elopement imbroglio.

Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him

Marjorie Taylor Greene on Trump: “It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level.”