Meiselas: Here's audio of Maria Farmer, one of Epstein's victims, who came forward early on…She speaks about an incident where she was going to Epstein's office building. Trump was in the office building, she says, and Epstein tells Trump, “That one's not for you. Yours is in the other room.”
🚨 #BoycottParamount 🚨Paramount just canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert—a move that reeks of political obedience, not business. This isn’t just entertainment—it’s the silencing of satire.📢 As Timothy Snyder warned: “Do not obey in advance.”Refuse the script. Turn off Paramount.
Remember Stephen Colbert, who looked at corruption and called it what it was, right up until they took his microphone away.The show must go on, they say. But sometimes, the show just ends.newrepublic.com/article/1981…
The timing of CBS’s announcement has sparked immediate suspicion among critics and media watchers. Many see the decision as yet another example of corporate media preemptively silencing voices critical of Donald Trump.open.substack.com/pub/beinglib…
Trump’s EPA just fired hundreds of scientists – the ones who make sure our water is safe to drink and our air is safe to breathe, and who study the impacts of wildfire smoke and PFAS on our health.eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p…
“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/202…
It doesn't seem like "prisoner swap" is the correct term for returning people, some of whom seem to be US citizens, who were kidnapped off American streets.
Dramatic changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could drive drugmakers from the market, threatening access to shots, experts say.“If (Kennedy’s) unstated goal is to basically destroy the vaccine industry, that could do it.”By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.
Epstein’s "little black book" totals 97 pages, containing 1,571 names and roughly 5,000 phone numbers. At least 38 names are mysteriously circled, including Donald Trump's.“I got my hands on a copy,” writes Leland Nally. “I made close to 2,000 phone calls.” http://www.motherjones.com/politics/202…
“At one point, he says the toilets stopped flushing. When staff failed to fix the problem, detainees were forced to remove human waste — by picking it up with their hands and moving it elsewhere themselves — to use the bathroom, all with little to no privacy.”
Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com
Concerned family members are desperate for answers after they say a disabled U.S. veteran and citizen was taken during a federal immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo.
Democrats get stuck in a “stupid doom loop in which our pollsters say: ‘Well, climate’s not one of the top issues that voters care about,’ so then we don’t talk about it.”from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org
“Israeli Settlers Kill American Citizen in Occupied West Bank, Family Says”Israelis continues to kill US citizens with impunity. Whatever happened to ‘America First’ (Trump) or ‘If you harm an American we will respond (Biden)?
“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”www.newyorker.com/news/annals-…
They're batting a 0.000 on these baseless detransitioner lawsuits. They got the headlines they wanted though and they'll kick the detrans person to the curb like refuse after their cases fail.
• “In 1983, a request came in for a presidential telegram congratulating Trump on the grand opening of his eponymous tower on Fifth Avenue. A lawyer in the counsel’s office wrote ‘NO’ and explained internally that it would be inappropriate because it was a ‘commercial’ venture.
• In 1984, Trump requested that Reagan attend a gala to honor Vietnam veterans in New York City and said he would schedule it for any day that worked on the president’s calendar. The White House said no.
• In 1988, the New York Board of Trade gave Trump an ‘outstanding executive’ award. The head of the group sent the White House a letter asking if POTUS could come. ‘Advanced word is that Mr. Trump will have some stimulatingly interesting comments to make during his talk at the dinner,’ he wrote. The scheduling office never seriously entertained the idea.
• Around the same time, Trump sent a glossy pink invitation to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue inviting the president and first lady to an 11 p.m. LaToya Jackson concert at his Atlantic City casino. This was ignored.
• Back in 1983, Trump snagged a picture with the president during a photo line at a White House event. The president, not paying close attention, signed it ‘Reagan Reagan.’ Five years later, Trump included the image in his book The Art of the Deal. An aide in the social secretary’s office noticed the mistake. She sent an apologetic note and a corrected picture – signed with an autopen.
Trump appears to have embellished his relationship with the former president in multiple interviews over the past year (2016). During an interview with Good Morning America in August 2015, he said of Reagan, “I have great respect for him. I helped him. I knew him. He liked me and I liked him.”
“I didn’t know him well,” Trump later admitted to The Wall Street Journal, insisting, however, that friends told him Reagan was a fan. “He felt very good about me,” Trump said. “Frankly, he liked my attitude.”
Reagan’s son Ron, a political analyst noted for his liberal views, said in a recent radio interview that his father “didn’t know Donald Trump and wouldn’t have cared for Donald Trump.”
“My father would not have known Donald Trump if Trump stood up in his soup,” Ron said.”