Giuliani, Eastman, Cheseboro, and Powell are all unindicted co-conspirators in Trump indictment for the election crimes. Smith kept them off to streamline the case, with it always seemed future plans to indict. A total whitewash. Possibility remains of state charges, esp in Georgia. What a travesty.

Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Gets New Owners, Leadership and Seeks to Mend Reputation Investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds have taken a controlling stake in the company behind Pegasus, and former Trump official David Friedman has been named executive chairman.

"NSO Group, the Israeli company behind Pegasus spyware, says a group of investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds has acquired a controlling stake in the firm, which has named a former Trump official to lead an effort to restore its battered reputation."

Judiciary Committee Dems wrote to Trump that Maxwell "is preparing a 'Commutation Application' for your Administration to review, undoubtedly coming to you for your direct consideration. The Warden herself is directly helping Ms. Maxwell copy, print, and send documents related to this application."

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term.

In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

The answer Sen, Shaheen is that since America elected the Black man to be president, the official position of the Republican Party is “not to work together with Democrats to address the problems that are facing this country.”

These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen

Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.

I know this sounds mean but if you think that this is a coincidence you're more than a bit of a mark. If Kaine had been up next year, it would have been Warner, if Slotkin was retiring, Peters, etc.

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working.

We need new leaders in the Senate.

This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame:

Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever

It was totally working. They were going to have to blow up the damned filibuster.

Okay, anyway gongshow of this aside, a very important note:

there is another cloture vote! 4 days, because Rand Paul is going to draw it out. The squishes have no spines, at all, and this goes two ways. Incandescent anger, especially at Kaine and CCM/Rosen.

Tuesday’s elections were NOT about the Democratic Party.

They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.

Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.

80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.

Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?

So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate

The fact that none of the 8 Dems are up for re-election in 2026 is a pretty good sign @schumer.senate.gov engineered the surrender

So condescending. He should have retired years ago. He has let the team down repeatedly. He has nomidea despite his protestations how to use power.

This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that — even if it did on Jan. 19.

Kinda funny the Dems did the shutdown largely as a show for the base and now people are madder than before lol

Governor Kathy Hochul * @GovKathyHochul ... Ending the shutdown shouldn't come at the expense of health care for tens of millions of Americans. This deal paves the way for devastating premium hikes that will drive up costs for New Yorkers. Count me out.

Interesting that NY gov Kathy Hochul felt compelled to put out a statement against Dems' deal to end the shutdown

Silver lining is Mike Johnson has to come up with new reasons not to release the Epstein files

So @schumer.senate.gov really thinks we don’t understand that he orchestrated this by getting senators not up for re-election to vote yes?

I thought the shutdown was the fight, did I get that wrong

It’s not left v. center or progressive v. liberal or anything like that. It’s fight v. don’t fight.

A leader would not have lost eight colleagues tonight. This happened because you let it happen or because you’ve totally lost control of the caucus in one of the most important moments since you’ve been Democratic leader. Either way, it’s on you. You need to step down. We need someone who can lead.

Would love to see some reporting on how the airline lobby put on the pressure.

GRANTING PARDONS FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES RELATED TO THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION .....• - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation. Acting pursuant to the grant of authority in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential electors, whether or not recognized by any State or State official, in connection with the 2020 Presidential Election, as well for any conduct relating to their efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Blection. This includes, but is not limited to: • Mark Amick • Kathy Berden • Christina Bobb • Tyler Bowyer • Joseph Bxannan • Carol Brunner • Mary Buestrin • Darryl Carlson • James "Ken" Carroll • Brad Carver

Robert Cheeley • Kenneth Chesebro • Hank Choate • Jeffrey Clark • Vikki Consiglio • Nancy Cottle • James DeGraffenreid • John Downey • John Eastman • Jenna Ellis • Boris Epshteyn • Amy Facchinello • B111 Feehan • Carolyn Fisher • Harrison Ployd • Clifford Frost • Kay Godwin • Edward Scott Grabins • Stanley Grot • Rudolph Giuliani • John Haggard • Scott Hall • Misty Hampton • David G. Hanna • Mark Hennessy • Mari-Ann Henry • Durward James Hindle III

• Burt Jones • Anthony T. Kern • Kathy Kiernen • Timothy King •Trevian Kutts • James Lamon • Cathleen Latham • Jesse Law • Stephen Lee • Michele Lundgren • Meshawn Maddock • Michael McDonald • Mark Meadows • Shawn Mechan • Robert Montgomery • Daryl Moody • Samuel I. Moorhead • Loraine Pellegrino • Sidney Powe11 • James Renner • Bileen Rice • Mayra Rodriguez • Mike Roman • Rose Rook • Kelly Ruh • Greg Safsten • David Shafer • Marian Sheridan • Ray Stallings Smith III

4 • Robert F. Spindell Jx. • Shawn Still • Ken Thompson • Pam Travis • James Troupis • Kent Vanderwood • Kelli Ward • Michael Ward • C.B. Yadav This pardon does not apply to the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. The Attorney General, acting through the Pardon Attorney, shall administer and effectuate the issuance of certificates of pardon to eligible applicants. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of November, in the year of our lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.

Trump’s pardon attorney Ed Martin claims Trump is pardoning his Georgia co-defendants and other “alternate electors.”

Note: Trump’s Georgia co-defendants are charged under state law. The president can’t pardon people for state crimes.