James Downie

NBC: "DOJ says names of two associates Epstein wired $100k and $250k to should stay secret." The payments were made shortly after the Miami Herald began publishing @jkbjournalist.bsky.social's investigative series: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Bloomberg: "US factory activity shrank in August for a sixth straight month, driven by a pullback in production that shows manufacturing remains bogged down by higher import duties." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

CBS/YouGov poll: – 57% oppose deploying the National Guard to DC – 58% oppose deployments to other cities – Just 36% on independents support deployments Pundits who are imagining a hypothetical voter should stop claiming that voter would support these deployments: www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-n...

This is the bathroom from a house that gets eliminated immediately on "House Hunters."

@lyz.bsky.social immediately comes to mind, though she just moved to Patreon.

NYT confirms an underlying current of recent SCOTUS dissents: Kagan "has mostly concluded that to be effective, she must be careful about rocking the boat. But in recent months...Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, has started warning the public that the boat is sinking." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

Just to be clear, neither Trump’s hand-picked FBI Director, the CIA nor military counterintelligence want Tulsi Gabbard anywhere near their counterintelligence operations. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

The DEA said it made 171 "high-level arrests" of Sinaloa Cartel members. "A Globe Spotlight Team investigation found that many of the DEA’s targets in New England were...addicts, low-level dealers, shoplifters, and people living at a homeless encampment." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/29/m...

Given that Mexico rightly considers ramen a stadium concession, I have high hopes for the fajita ramen.

Lex does incredible work and you should follow them.

Absolute mystery why Jeffrey Epstein picked this guy out as someone without moral principles.