Clara Jeffery

Folks--especially folks like @gtconway.bsky.social who knows better--need to make clear this is a limited hangout.

WSJ claimed letter was in the materials REVIEWED by FBI. That would mean it's NOT covered by 6(e), and could be released right away.

The involvement of GJ is just a bid to get to no.

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

The concerns about Mr. Bove’s nomination aren’t frivolous. He was at the center of the Justice Department turbulence after Mr. Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal aliens without due process. At a March 14 meeting, discussing the possibility that a judge could block those removals, “Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts ‘f— you’ and ignore any such court order.” That’s according to a “whistleblower” letter by a former government lawyer. Testifying to the Senate, Mr. Bove didn’t exactly deny uttering such a thing. “I did not suggest,” he said, “that there would be any need to consider ignoring court orders. At the point in that meeting, there were no court orders to discuss.” What about floating that the Justice Department might tell the judiciary to eff off? “I don’t recall,” Mr. Bove said. Doesn’t this seem like something a top official would remember saying, or not? The whistleblower then released communications to back up his account. One is a text message from March 15, as Mr. Trump’s deportation flights to El Salvador were about to land. “Guess its find out time on the ‘f— you,’” the lawyer wrote his supervisor. The boss’s reply: “Yup. It was good working with you.” The Judiciary Committee’s GOP majority dismissed this evidence as “completely devoid of context.” That sounds like an argument by plausible deniability. The whistleblower made specific claims, and isn’t his account context?

The conservative WSJ edit page comes as close as it comfortably can to telling the Senate that Emil Bove is utterly unqualified to be an appellate judge.

www.wsj.com/opinion/emil...

We just went through a half-decade of sham censorship hearings in Congress, but it certainly seems like the government forced a comedian to get fired as a bribe to ensure a merger goes through.

Is that true? Let's have a hearing and find out.

for reals though the part that always gets me is that bill barr’s oss dad was the headmaster at dalton who hired Epstein to teach math when he didn’t even have a degree

Here's Colbert on July 14 making fun of Paramount for paying Trump $16 million. It's hard not to see CBS canceling his show through this lens.

"I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's big fat bribe."

If you missed the March 28th edition of my newsletter, FOIA Files, this is what it was all about

FBI Agents, FOIA Staff Pulling All Nighters Reviewing Jeffrey Epstein Files

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Mentions of WSJ’s Epstein story on:

Fox News home page: ❌
NY Post home page: ❌

@SenWarren on X: 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.

@warren.senate.gov: 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.

Democrats remain on X because they think they have greater reach. The numbers are all fake, though. Take a look at these identical posts from Elizabeth Warren.

X followers: 6.6 million
X reposts: 1,321
X likes: 4,489

Bluesky followers: 390,400
Bluesky reposts: 1,500
Bluesky likes: 3,600

Alligator Alcatraz isn’t meant for minors. A 15 year old ended up there anyway “Immediate action was taken to separate and remove the detainee in accordance with federal protocols,” said Stephanie Hartman, a spokeswoman for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, which ove...

Alligator Alcatraz isn’t meant for minors. A 15 year old ended up there anyway
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

"Each year I donate an autographed doodle... It takes me a few minutes to draw something, in my case, it's usually a building or a cityscape of skyscrapers, and then sign my name... I don't mind spending a little time for a very good cause."
-- Donald Trump, "Never Give Up" (2010)

Demanding release of letter is not maybe in Trump’s favor.

From two weeks ago.

Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

gift link to the WSJ story Trump didn’t want anyone ever to see

www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Of course. I’m just also saying there is no way to supply it.

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.

This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

I'm told today's Meta settlement coming out of Board's insurance fund (FT first reported), not the pockets of defendants Zuckerberg, Thiel, Andreessen, et al. — who now can avoid taking the stand for a sum that's been described to me as being in the hundreds of millions. It was a $8B investor suit.

All the podcast bros & shitty Rogan sycophants suddenly discovering their president was bffs with Epstein despite decades of proof, is really about them trying to get ahead to absolve themselves of how they helped vaporize the US constitution.

Colbert should just run for President. I mean, it worked for Trump when his show was cancelled.

that colton was not the only january 6th rioter trump pardoned who was also involved in child pornography might help explain some of the MAGA defenses of epstein

Daniel Goldman * @danielsgoldman Nice try @AGPamBondi. What about videos, photographs and other recordings? What about FBI 302's (witness interviews)? What about texts and emails? That's where the evidence about Trump and others will be. Grand jury testimony will only relate to Epstein and Maxwell. Attorney General Pamela Bondi @ ® @AGPamBondi • 1h President Trump—we are ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts. Donald J. Trump o @realDonaldTrump + Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval. This

Congressman Daniel Goldman, a former federal prosecutor, responds to AG Pam Bondi.

OK, if Trump says he’s going to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison, aside from its total state of disrepair—how are they going to supply the construction or operation?

From which Bay Area port would those materials and personnel be leaving? Forget about naval bases, none near.

This is literally what we reported would happen. www.status.news/p/skydance-c...

MAY EVERY DAY BE ANOTHER WONDERFUL SECRET

This is a meaningless trick. A court cannot violate rule 6(e), which prohibits public disclosure.

The shocking rise of one of the tech right’s favorite posters After he leaked Zohran Mamdani’s Columbia application data to the New York Times, critics called Jordan Lasker a “eugenicist.” A Mother Jones report shows there’s much more to his backstory.

1/ Remember the "eugenicist hacker" that got the NYT to bite on the Zohran Mamdani Columbia application leak?

@nlanard.bsky.social dug deep into his social and chat history, and it is so much worse than previously reported

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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.

Who would have guessed Rupert Murdoch would stand up to Trump while the billionaire owners of CBS News, the Washington Post, the LA Times and Facebook kowtow? www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

Now seems the time to repost this big story we did a few years ago... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No. Come on. There is plenty to chew on without this