This is the sort of juicy story of government suppressing speech that Bari Weiss loves to cover!
[No mention in CBS News or The Free Press]

Just straight up killing children in red states now...

You can't make me afraid. Immigrants. They commit crimes 10x less than citizens. I don't fear them.
Drugs? Oh please, you want to tell me it's ok to buy 10 gallons of vodka but not a joint? I don't fear them.
The only thing I truly fear in 2026 are the Evangelical Christians and their faux leader.

The wealthy are always so GD worried some poor people are gonna commit some small time fraud. Meanwhile, big corporations are committing HUGE afraid. Just look at defense contractors.

Why? Because we have all been taught to see the wealthy as virtuous and to see the poor as lazy and unworthy.

This right here. People whine so much about poor people potentially committing fraud while turning a blind eye or even celebrating rich people's fraud

even my favored structural reforms are just finding ways to brute force a less destructive republican party, whether that is ending as much as possible the electoral bonus for representing rural areas or making multi-partyism more viable.

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Right.

If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply.

I want to make sure this is very clear.

I remember these felony crimes either.

If the president of a sovereign nation can be picked up for a delayed felony trial in another nation what’s protecting Trump?

Still can’t get over how much Rubio’s body language and demeanor have changed from a decade ago. If this were a movie about a politician who sold his soul for power, the actor playing Rubio would be panned for his ham-fistedness.

If kidnapping a foreign president isn’t enough to get him out of office, why would the Epstein files be a silver bullet?

::taps sign::

WORLD Iraqis Celebrate in Baghdad Streets APRIL 9, 2003 • 12:00 AM ET HEARD ON MORNING EDITION By Anne Garrels Listen + PLAYLIST Related NPR Stories Expanded coverage In Baghdad, security forces desert the streets, replaced by looters, and government officials have disappeared. Hundreds of Iraqi civilians take to the streets, cheering U.S. soldiers and ripping up posters of Saddam Hussein. And with the help of a U.S. Marine vehicle, a crowd of Iraqi citizens topples a giant statue of the Iraqi leader. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.

< Back WORLD Iraqis Rejoice at Saddam's Capture DECEMBER 14, 2003 • 12:00 AM ET By Ivan Watson Audio for this story is unavailable. News of the capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. troops sets off celebrations across Iraq, as citizens in Baghdad play loud music and fire into the air. The former dictator was found in a camouflaged hole near a farmhouse outside of Tikrit. Hear NPR'S Ivan Watson.

People being like, "But Venezuelans are happy about Maduro being gone!" have the memories of goldfish. IN 2003, the narrative was that Iraqis celebrated the U.S. invasion and capture of Saddam.

Whether they were happy or not, invading Iraq was still the wrong thing to do.

finally, we're living through precedented times

No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

an “inherent power” to respond to an “imminent” attack is just a license for aggressive war on the president’s whim

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.

The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

It's amazing how one dictator Maduro is somehow under the jurisdiction of US law despite never killing an American but war criminal Netanyahu is somehow not under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court despite killing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza.

LOL. 33% of America is trash, but you can draw a straight line from one man to Trump, and that man is the Australian Rupert Murdoch. Perhaps Australians should STFU here

This month, your rightwing uncle demands
1) Turn away refugees
2) Tax cuts for the richest
3) Be cruel to trans ppl
4) Defend the Confederate flag
5) More prisons
6) More executions
7) More guns
8) No healthcare for "illegals"
9) Hate anything "woke"
10) Keep Christ in Christmas

“There are no more files, case closed.”

Six months later after Rep. Massie & my Epstein Transparency Act.

“There are a million files.”

The condescension and moral preening are getting all the glory in this email, but don’t sleep on the new head of CBS News declaring that the last 7 days were a “slow news week.”

Screenshot of a post on X by “Republicans against Trump” (@RpsAgainstTrump) stating: “So Kash Patel lied under oath. That’s a crime.” The post quotes Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25), who claims Kash Patel testified earlier in the year that internal files contained no credible information that Epstein trafficked young women to anyone other than himself, and says DOJ later released internal emails referring to “10 co-conspirators.” Below the quoted text is a video thumbnail showing a man speaking at a hearing and a partially visible document with redactions.

Time for Patel to answer for his lies.

Don't tell us to be merry when our community is still in crisis. Reality doesn't take a holiday.

I don't know if the reputation of the US amongst allies can ever be recovered, regardless of who is in the White House or who controls Congress.

“.. We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said .. as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

An enraging trend right now, from CBS to the CDC, of people actively undermining institutions, then taking the reins of those institutions and claiming they need to rebuild the trust they helped destroy. (Also, people already trusted 60 Minutes.) bsky.app/profile/just...