Andreas Duus Pape

I am calling for an INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL to investigate/prosecute/incarcerate the Epstein Class and their enablers for their massive international:

1.) Crimes against humanity including murder
2.) Corruption
3.) Espionage
4.) Failure to do their duties to protect

No leniency. No pardons

you monster

besides the obvious - actually finding concrete ways to stand up to Trump - the supposedly unpopular social issues on which Dems are supposed to ‘moderate’ are a great way for Dems to show that fight

standing up for people because you believe it is right, not because of the polls, codes as strong

fight/don’t fight remains the biggest divide in the Dem party and the data points in only one direction: fight

“we aren’t the other guys” can be a winning message when the other guys are in charge, but - as Labour is finding out - it sure doesn’t keep your voters engaged after you win

70% of voters say the Dem Party is too weak
40% say it is too progressive

So why is the money & energy in Dem spaces so tilted 2 moderation? Why is every "smart" analysis about how the party has been taken over by "groups"?

How does that win over the 70%?

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

FWIW, I think that in this moment, Dems should probably be more combative.

But I wonder how much of the claim that "fighters win" is hindsight bias. We look at folks who won and then assume they must have fought harder for it. But ...

New poll: Democrats' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak Americans, including swing voters, see the Republican Party as 20 points more extreme than Democrats — and the Democrats as weak and ineffective. So why would the *Democrats* moderate?

Today's @gelliottmorris.com post is really eye-opening with respect to Dems' optimal midterm strategy ... www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

so as another major media organization is handed over to the republican party, its time for me to remind you there are almost no left leaning investments in media. meanwhile the harris campaign (and biden and others!) spend billions on waste during elections so consultants get rich.

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Hillary Clinton: "It then got quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and Pizzagate"

Next CoCo seminar by Amanda Goodrick on March 4th (fully online)

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

“What kind of administration releases naked photos of victims, and then protects the perpetrators?”

#TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinAdministration

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

DOJ to Review Whether Epstein Files About Trump Were Improperly Withheld The Justice Department didn’t release notes from several interviews a woman gave to FBI agents in 2019.

NEW: WSJ now confirming my reporting that the DOJ is withholding at least three FBI interviews with a woman who told the FBI that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a child
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Unmasking Academe’s Gilded Boys’ Club The Epstein files reveal an elite, chummy, and venal scholarly network.

I’m quoted quite a bit here so perhaps I’m biased but I feel this is a good run down of what the Epstein files tell us about how power works in academia. with some good commentary from @jessicacalarco.com, too:

YouTube video by Face the Nation Watch: Abigail Spanberger's full rebuttal to Trump's State of the Union

Dems should pay close attention to what Spanberger developed here: A forceful anti-Trump politics that speaks to people like grownups about ICE, grasps the political/cultural significance of Minneapolis, and doesn't shrink from defending immigrants and democracy:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcN0...

No Kings includes Kong

That drop is more than the entire NSF budget.

Certainly would be consistent with history

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.

For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2069...

We went out to visit California City Detention Center and found a whole new fleet of vehicles waiting in the lot.
@lataco.bsky.social

Schumer is having a club soda with his MAGA friends right after.

Yes, that’s allegedly what it says in parts of the Epstein files his AG is illegally withholding

This guy gets it.

Massie goes full beast mode today.

Gets on the house floor, shreds the DOJ and starts naming names from the Epstein files.

Pivot

McConnell engaged in strategic speech, to distance himself from Trump’s insurrection and the justice that was sure to follow. When it turned out that there was nothing that would make D leaders fight he abandoned that position

Biden’s strategy was to restore normalcy by setting a good example. That strategy was flawed from the beginning and utterly failed.