Joe Conason

How did Epstein originally escape justice? As explained here, those upright GOP lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis, notably the late Ken Starr, cooked up a crooked plea deal with their former partner Alex Acosta -- later a Trump cabinet member. Many questions for Congress to probe.

Every senator who voted to confirm Hegseth should now call on him to resign. Until then their disgrace is as indelible as his.

Today @thenewrepublic.bsky.social, the grifting culture of the authoritarians: #Trump is just like his friends who once ruled the Philippines -- but the opportunities for a greedy US #POTUS are so much bigger. I've written about these crooks for 40 years and they're still stealing with both hands.

Trump smeared No Kings protesters as "terrorists." He frames fishermen as "drug smugglers" (and murders them). The actual enabler of #Hamas terrorists and global drug smugglers was Changpeng Zhao of #Binance -- pardoned by Trump after channeling $2 BILLION to a #Trump Family business.

What he did to the beautiful Bonwit Teller building so he could erect gaudy Trump Tower. It’s always the same with this vandal, only always worse

Which we will do in the public square of our town on Saturday afternoon. Looking forward to that

Kegseth has a lot to hide

Amazon.com (bless Jeff's heart) has slashed its hardcover price on The Longest Con by 60 percent! So grab this "prime" deal -- or gift the book to anyone who might benefit from "a sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise." www.amazon.com/Longest-Grif...

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