Annie Karni • @anniekarni X.com My understanding is that the relentless pressure campaign that has included carrot, stick, good cop, bad cop, has made her even more dug in, suspicious and convinced there's a conspiracy at play. Manu Raju @mkraju • 1h I asked Rep. Lauren Boebert on Sept. 16 if there was "any way" she would take her name off of the Jeffrey Epstein discharge petition. "NO, " she told me

New York Times reporter Annie Karni on Rep. Lauren Boebert and the Epstein files.

Tom Barrack is more than just Trump's current ambassador to Turkey.

He is one of Trump's very closest confidants and biggest fundraisers. Barrack has been implicated in a lot of corruption scandals, and indicted for one of them, but not (yet) convicted.

More on him: www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/w...

1. The fact that a conversation took place in a SCIF does not, in any way, make it classified.
2. Why DID this conversation take place in a SCIF?

(The Sit Room is often used for meetings that have nothing to do with NatSec: WH has meeting-room crunch. Also: It's much smaller than you think).

This is wild, and as a lifelong proud-ish Upper WEST Sider, I offer it as humble proof that although God knows we have our faults, the Upper East Side is...hooboy. Not the same AT ALL. This really captures how the UES can sometimes feel like the largest gated community in NYC.

Upper East Side Moms Are Melting Down Over Mamdani A 35,000-person Facebook group devolved into panic and infighting after the mayoral election.

"The more-than-300 comments responding to that anonymous post are full of mothers looking for property in New Jersey or Florida, predicting that Mamdani’s promise to make buses free will lead criminals to rape and kill innocent passengers."

LMAO @ UES mommies crashing out

This appears to be what Summers is referencing with his "insight."

This is an example of why GOP base has wanted to release #EpsteinFiles: The files include lots of Dem-leaning rich guys, along with GOP ones.

What they don't understand:
♦️When it comes to Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Jaime Dimon & the rest: We're quite happy to let the chips fall where they may.

Bill Barr’s dad was also Epstein’s first boss!

Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.

Patel has taken only about a dozen personal trips since assuming the role of FBI director in February, a spokesperson told WSJ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

From a Bluesky post on which the author chose to disable quote-tweets (fair enough, and I wouldn't quote it if I weren't complimenting it: "Instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters.""

This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.

Serbian protesters vow to prevent real estate project linked to Trump son-in-law Kushner | CNN Thousands of protesters in Serbia symbolically formed a human shield Tuesday around a bombed-out military complex, vowing to protect it from redevelopment as a luxury compound by a company linked to U...

Thousands of protesters in Serbia symbolically formed a human shield around a bombed-out military complex, vowing to protect it from redevelopment as a luxury compound by a company linked to US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

It gives me a tiny jolt of pleasure to know that someday-- maybe not for decades, but someday-- we'll have a president who will take the claw-end of hammer to this.

Oh that's heartbreaking. I seriously recommend watching Anderson Cooper's grief podcasts and I know this will sound all kinds of wrong but a good piece of cake always works wonders for me.

INGRAHAM: “Why are people saying they’re anxious about the economy?”

TRUMP: “The polls are fake 🤥. The economy is the strongest ever 🤥. We have $20 Trillion coming in 🤥 . Largely because of the tariffs 🤥.”

Every sentence is a lie.

Prediction, and I'd bet money on this:
♦️She will not be able to bribe a single "high-profile journalist" to work for her.

Because however much of David Ellison's $$ she throws around, it won't be worth the reputational damage.

(Fox News doesn't count. Because the plan is to hire journalists).

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.

I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.

How badly do you have to have screwed up for Indivisible to say "Actually, no, divisible"?

More confirmation that the Dem surrender was orchestrated by Schumer.

Who needs to resign as Leader.
Like, today.

Did we check with Dem Senate leadership on this? Because, bear with me because this is some deep thinking, if we end same-sex marriage, voters in '26 will remember who did it and that could help us. How about if we nullify gay marriage in exchange for a floor vote on legalizing it? Just spitballing!

New Yorker headline: What Did Men Do to Deserve This? Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.” By Jessica Winter November 9, 2025

They obviously hire the internet's most skilled trolls & rage-farmers to write all the headlines these days

I know this, I know why they've done it, and here I am, falling for it

(if you must: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...)

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

Maybe Zohran Mamdani should have come out for ending the shutdown so Democratic Senators could have opposed it.

-Oct 18, more than 7 million Americans stand up and stand together.

-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.

-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."

The second one.

Nobody is idiotic enough to believe it.
Not even a US Senator.

“Make no mistake about it, the American people know who is inflicting this health care trauma,” Schumer said. “Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Americans will remember Republican intransigence every time they make a sky high payment on health insurance.”

Well, that's certainly one theory about what Americans will remember.

Senate Democrats had the power to do one thing: This shutdown. And this is what they did with it. Maybe this is some brilliant political calculus, in which case I'll happily eat my words. But right now, it feels like the beginning of the end of the party in its current form--and by its own hand.

Schumer's curse has always been that he is an average politician who believes himself to be a strategic genius.

Republicans treat Democrats in D.C. like chumps even before the vote.