Jeffrey Epstein emailed Tom Barrack, an old friend of Donald Trump and the current U.S. ambassador to Turkey, asking him to “send photos of you and child — make me smile.”
Newly released private emails show how closely tied Epstein was to Trump’s circle of advisers.
"I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body.”
- Jeffrey Epstein,
2017 Epstein Emails
Just to note. January 23, 2019 there was a vote to reopen government (HJ RES 28, roll call vote 46) when the govt had been shut down for 30 days.
Mike Johnson voted “no” on that.
They didn’t seem to mind shutdowns then
Yes, release the Epstein files!!!
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When Josh Hawley objected to the budget bill's cuts to Medicaid, I asked whether he was for real or his "populism" was just a pose.
And now we have the answer! He supports the bill, the largest Medicaid cuts in history. 16 million will lose their coverage.
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6:05 am.
Hour 21 of fighting this awful tax scam.
Been up all night, but not going to give up anytime soon.
The health care of 17 million Americans is too important not to fight for.
🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care.
I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out.
Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
I’m tired of my Republican colleagues telling me in private how they feel about this terrible bill… it’s time to vote like it.
Actually what Americans just saw today was a prominent Republican US Senator announce he is quitting because he knows this budget is going to hurt millions of people and he was repeatedly threatened by the president and his cult for telling the truth about it.
Lisa Murkowski and John Thune deserve this. Trying to exempt Alaska from odious parts of this bill to buy her vote is overruled by parliamentarian. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
President Biden here at #mnleg for Speaker Hortman lying in State
My favorite hate mail today: "Your rag should go out of business. I wouldn't line the bottom of a birdcage with it." It was all I could do not to reply: "That's good, because we are a digital outlet."
Bet DC hasn’t had more people praying for rain than today since the Brits burned the Capitol
“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.”
--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
BREAKING: Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) was forcibly removed in handcuffs from a press conference in Los Angeles after attempting to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem questions.
Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
What happened to Senator Padilla in California today is outrageous. Senator Padilla is a respected leader of great dignity and he has every right to ask a question of Secretary Noem without being slammed down and handcuffed.
I know MAGA is celebrating and cheering this assault on Senator Padilla, but this won't play well across the nation. They don't realize it because it's a right-wing echo chamber, but ICE agents terrorizing family members, kids, communities, Senators, and now Trump throwing a military parade?
Senator Alex Padilla of California was removed by force from Kristi Noem’s presser and handcuffed for his free speech. This is what a fascist regime does that rejects the laws of the US. It should horrify every American. Let’s stop pretending we are approaching authoritarian rule. We are there.
This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.
President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" makes you pay more for health care, or you lose it.
The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers.
That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.
“He’s not a strongman. He’s not even a leader. He’s a man throwing a tantrum because the world won’t revolve around him.”
Trump’s allies are turning on him—Musk, Barrett, Powell—and he’s losing his grip.
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If only Christian charity were as easy as accessorizing.
You can tell that the One Big Beautiful Bill* is truly beautiful because they’re holding the hearing after midnight
* Yes, that’s actually the name
Just a few weeks ago people were pitching Cory Booker as a front runner for the 2028 Dem presidential nomination.
Tonight he was the only Senate Dem to vote to confirm Jared Kushner’s convict dad as ambassador to France.
Sheesh.
Bold statement coming from the most incompetent administration we’ve ever seen.
Happy tariff capitulation day to all who celebrate.
