Joan McCarter

“Trump’s name is in the Epstein Files but Kash Patel had FBI agents go through them and black out his name” is the kind of statement that will surely put out this fire

Happy Friday to everyone who might be concerned that he has possession of the nuclear codes, blames the messenger for tanking the economy & would gladly pardon a monster to save his own thin orange skin.

I just looked up Erika McEntarfer since the White House is portraying her as a Biden mole. This is laughable. She has a Ph.D. in Economics and spent 22 years as a government civil servant during Republican and Democratic administrations, including the first Trump administration. 🧵

This is how they managed statistics in the old USSR.

Doctors left Idaho after abortion ban, study confirms • Idaho Capital Sun Idaho lost more than a third of its practicing obstetrician doctors after the state’s near-total abortion ban took effect, a new study finds.

Idaho lost more than a third of its practicing obstetrician doctors after the state’s near-total abortion ban took effect, a new study published in a peer-reviewed academic journal confirms. #idleg #idpol

Bonus 170: Whose Judicial Overreach? Debunking the unpersuasive (and also rather unprovable) claim that the Supreme Court's behavior on Trump-related emergency applications is largely a response to lower courts abusing their own powers.

#SCOTUS's academic defenders are increasingly arguing that the justices' behavior in Trump-related emergency applications is a response to district court "overreach."

But those claims depend upon cherry-picking from or misrepresenting the examples—and ignoring the Court's own shirking of its rules:

Senate Confirms Conspiracy Theorist To Lead National Counterterrorism Center

Hey no big deal and all but... Senate Republicans just confirmed Joe Kent, a conspiracy theorist with alarming ties to white nationalists and far-right groups, to lead the National Counterterrorism Center. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Seeking transparency on the Epstein files, Senate Democrats invoke the ‘rule of five’ Chuck Schumer came up with a new way to force the Trump administration to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, but will the Justice Department comply?

Chuck Schumer did something ... good?

Huh.

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Brown and black tabby cat with white chest lying on cat bed with gray female cat sitting next to him.

I got a female kitten for my old boy after he lost his two dogs in the same year. He was ready to die—even stopped eating. The little girl changed everything! He’s 17 and tears around after her like he was 8.

Taken at face value, we have here a palm beach hotelier noticing that a local hedge fund manager—a guy who doesn’t run a publicly acknowledged competing hospitality business—keeps hiring the teenage girls out of his spa.

Did Trump Just Confess He Learned about Virginia Giuffre before Jeffrey Epstein Recruited Someone Else at Mar-a-Lago? - emptywheel Trump's latest explanation for why he cut off Jeffrey Epstein some time after 2004 -- that Epstein stole an employee, Trump told him to stop, and then Epstein did it again -- would be a damning confes...

Updated: Did Trump Just Confess He Learned about Virginia Giuffre before Jeffrey Epstein Recruited Someone Else at Mar-a-Lago?

www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/29/d...

jesus christ trump had a falling out with epstein because they were fighting over the supply of underage sex workers

Epstein hired a teenaged Giuffre out from under Trump in 2000. Trump didn't kick him out of Mar-a-Lago until 2007—a year after the FBI started investigating him for sex trafficking.

One step closer to necessary long-term reform of the Supreme Court by either limiting terms or adding justices. Bring it on.

Trump/Epstein is a full-on DC dumpster fire right now.

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Senate Dems Question Potential “Secret Side Deal” in Trump Paramount Settlement Trump has suggested that his $16 million settlement is worth twice as much as the publicly reported amount.

Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, and Bernie Sanders have launched an investigation into reports that Trump struck a secretive side deal with Skydance — the prospective owner of CBS — that includes millions of dollars worth of “broadcast transmissions” supporting right-wing causes.

Another sure sign that the fix is in.

Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Markus on X:

"We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case."

And says they're already in discussions with the administration.

In disturbing audio recording from 2006, sicko creep Trump says he has no “age limit” when it comes to having sex with young girls, but he would draw a line at “12-year-olds”.

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“Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit.”

Why is Trump asking for grand jury testimony?

1. Because he knows it’s unlikely to be released and then he can blame the judge

2. Because that testimony is restricted to charges against Epstein and Maxwell and is unlikely to name clients

3. Because it generates delay and confusion.

"A Pal Is A Wonderful Thing" - Why We Must Lean Into, Not Run From, The Epstein Scandal The"Trump" strongman brand is getting awfully wobbly

New essay - why we must lean into, not run from, the Epstein scandal 👇

www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/why-we-mus...

Although it must be said that another reason is that Trump is a huge pervert.

You have to watch this video about the upcoming 250th anniversary. Then imagine the Ford Administration releasing something like this in 1975 in anticipation of the bicentennial. A useful reminder of Trumpism’s outlandish and degraded authoritarian cult of personality.

I do think it's useful to remember that much of the bad stuff we see is not novel but a difference in degree, rather than in kind

And I have at least 2 reasons

One is that youre not insulting people by saying something is unprecedented, while the people for whom it is v much precedented are like 😐

Mike Simpson and Russ Fulcher did this.

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia WASHINGTON—Facing mounting backlash from his MAGA base over his perceived ties to the Jeffrey Epstein case, President Donald Trump reportedly encouraged his supporters Monday to simply move on from so...

Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia

If? No need to couch this. It is all part of the deal with the devil.

Media mergers were the poison that killed America, and breaking those companies up again is a requirement if we ever want to get it back.

Idaho farmer calls for new look at immigration policy amid raids President Trump’s immigration enforcement is being felt across the country. Arrests have gone up in every state and more than doubled in 38 states. The biggest increase is happening in Idaho, where IC...

"I'm trying to speak to the human heart," says #Idaho farmer Shay Myers. Immigrants "have made a difference both for themselves and to lift up and improve our country." to.pbs.org/3Iw1XmQ
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