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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness - Mark Twain 🌻

[Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd]

BREAKING: NYT’s “Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files” is remarkable.

The paper reports Trump’s top aides held repeated Situation Room meetings as Epstein fallout spiraled into a major political crisis. JD Vance allegedly warned: “This is a huge problem,” pushing to release more files to “rip the bandage off.”

Most surreal detail: aides reportedly worried a searchable DOJ Epstein database would surface an unverified, secondhand allegation from previously unsealed court records claiming Trump had a “predilection for nipples” and had aggressively flicked and sucked a woman’s nipples, leaving them “red and swollen.” The claim came via emails from Epstein accuser Sarah Ransome relaying what another woman allegedly told her. NYT notes it was never substantiated, and Ransome later retracted separate claims out of fear.

One official reportedly warned: “They’re going to make a huge scene of this,” while another called it “surreal” discussing nipples in the White House Situation Room.

Dan Bongino allegedly exploded at Pam Bondi: “You fucked this thing up from the start,” later warning: “This is going to be President Trump’s Iran-contra.”
@nytimes Free link🎁👇

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

"A society that can’t blush is a society in danger. A people who can’t be embarrassed by corruption will eventually be governed by the corrupt. A nation that stops caring about honor will eventually be led by people who don’t possess it."

https://t.co/IzkgblgyPq

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

New York Times investigative journalists Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman are this generation's Woodward and Bernstein.

This story is Trump's Watergate and it's about to EXPLODE:

Vice President JD Vance, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, former Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, White House Counsel David Warrington, FBI Director Kash Patel, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, and former Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich converted the hallowed Situation Room — America's nerve center for real threats and decisive action — into a pedophile protection racket, where top officials huddled to cover-up the Epstein files scandal and protect a president who used to rape children for fun.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

‼️ This is Trump’s Watergate Moment.

For months the Vice President, White House Chief of Staff, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, Kash Patel and other top officials colluded in the Situation Room to break the law and BURY the Epstein investigation.

This is what went down ⬇️

[Jonathan Swan @jonathanvswan]

Some very unusual stuff happened in the White House Situation Room last summer. Adapted from @maggieNYT and my forthcoming book, "Regime Change" - gift link: https://t.co/mxkrYAwqFV

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 DAMN.

Jon Ossoff says Trump is rushing to build his legacy while he's still alive.

His explanation?

Because he doesn't think history will do it for him.

🔥 "He's building a monument to himself because no one will honor him when he's gone."

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Jimmy Kimmel: We have the right guaranteed by the Constitution to criticize and satirize our leaders. This is a right that I took for granted until last year when the FCC delivered a very unpleasant surprise. But then I watched as millions of people objected because they refuse to allow our freedoms to be bulldozed like the East Wing of the White House. We will not stand by when comedy and journalism are censored and criminalized.

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

President Trump’s second term has been marked by his hostility toward late-night comics.

So, how have the hosts reacted? Not by relenting in their skewering of Trump. In fact, they’ve turned up the heat, according to a Post analysis. https://t.co/fOjxiRkZ85

[OddTodd @T_Manzana27]

Idgaf if you hated this guy or watched him religiously, any show getting canceled by a President is Anti American

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Boycott CBS.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Stephen Colbert on the cover of Rolling Stone throughout the years.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

That’s a lot of anger

[VANITY FAIR @VanityFair]

‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ is officially a late show, as in no longer with us.

Colbert signed off after getting absorbed into a metaphorical (and literal) black hole, and delivering this statement: “Paramount strongly believes in covering both sides of any black hole that is swallowing everything we know and love, and coverage must also include the positive aspects of the insatiable emptiness” https://t.co/G3391YKIJ8

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

In a 1:52am post on Truth Social, Trump said "Colbert is finally finished at CBS," adding, "thank goodness he's finally gone!"

That's the president cheering the loss of American jobs, since roughly 200 people are out of work due to the cancellation of "The Late Show."

[Variety @Variety]

#StephenColbert ends "The Late Show" with a joyous performance of the Beatles classic "Hello, Goodbye" alongside Paul McCartney.

They were also joined by Elvis Costello and Jon Batiste, as a parade of staffers danced across the stage while the house band transformed the ’60s tune into a New Orleans-style celebration.

https://t.co/P8GgwBohIK

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

“Fear always works when greed is stronger than character. So the integrity of CBS was torched in exchange for money, access and regulatory peace. The sale moved forward. The conscience of the institution moved backward.”

https://t.co/qeWx1KG4Rq

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

On September 11, 1974, a ten-year-old boy named Stephen Colbert lost his father and two of his closest brothers, Paul and Peter, when Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashed into a cornfield hillside just three miles from the Charlotte, North Carolina airport. Only 13 of the 82 people on board survived. In a single afternoon, the youngest of eleven children in a warm, intellectually curious Catholic household went from a boy surrounded by laughter and big family energy to a kid sitting in a suddenly very quiet, very dark home with only his grieving mother for company. The two leaned on each other in a way that most people never experience. Lorna Colbert held herself together not out of bitterness, but out of a fierce, quiet love, and Stephen watched that and absorbed it into his bones. He later said his mother was never bitter, just broken, and that her example became the blueprint he carried for the rest of his life. For years, though, the real weight of the loss stayed buried. He floated through prep school detached, unbothered by the things other kids cared about, because nothing felt quite real anymore. It wasn't until he went off to Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia that the grief finally cracked through, and it hit him hard. He dropped from 185 pounds down to 135 during his freshman year, barely eating, barely functioning, consumed by a sadness he had held at bay for nearly a decade. But something remarkable happened on the other side of that collapse. He found theater. He found improvisation. He found that making people laugh was actually a way to connect with human suffering rather than run from it. He transferred to Northwestern University, stumbled into the world of Second City, and slowly built himself into one of the most empathetic, genuinely funny voices in American media. He later reflected that losing his father and brothers gave him an awareness of other people's pain that allowed him to love more deeply and connect more honestly with what it means to be human. That is not a small thing. That is everything. Via Chronicles Through Lenses

[Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @BrentHBaker]

12:53 AM ET. The end. The final 90 seconds of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Cooper says it's sad "to see Stephen sign off; to see so many who work on that show now out of work; to see a President who can't take a joke go after anyone who can make one."