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[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Exclusive: (gift) The Palm Beach Cop who Jeffrey Epstein Couldn't Stop
“He was just a police chief of a small town up against a powerful man. Had the system listened to him, Epstein would have been cut off a long time earlier.”

Read more at: https://t.co/a5gZnQafav

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

The House Oversight Committee has released the transcript of its interview with Pam Bondi.

Bondi said Todd Blanche "oversaw the entire" Epstein investigation.

https://t.co/Mod22hDCYG

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

ANGIE CRAIG: I don't think you understand the difference between error rates and fraud rates. I honestly don't. SNAP has one of the lowest fraud rates of any program

BROOKE ROLLINS: You can't be serious when you say that

CRAIG: Your own data says that

[VoteVets @votevets]

BREAKING: Rep. Pat Ryan just got the House Armed Services Committee UNANIMOUSLY to force Pete Hegseth to explain every senior military firing within the next 5 days. Hegseth has fired 24+ officers without cause or explanation. Even Republicans want answers.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Trump, Musk and Rubio slashed aid and scoffed that it was woke nonsense. Now they're seeing that it not only saved one life every 10 seconds but also protected us from diseases like Ebola. Their actions constituted a security failure as well as a moral one.
More broadly, their fecklessness contrasts with the courage and humanity of doctors and aid workers in Congo and Uganda, lacking adequate PPE but still risking the virus to care for fellow humans.
Trump, Musk and Rubio might learn something from them. https://t.co/kPKj7fqJFZ

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Bryce Mitchell on Trump's White House UFC fight:

Our government is desecrating its role in society by entertaining sports. Our government is to protect and serve the people. Our tax dollars and resources are funding this operation. The government is supposed to protect us, not entertain us.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: Bessent Couldn't Name The Case.

Asked what ongoing litigation prevents him from discussing Trump's audit status, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the matter was tied up in court.

Then Rep. Linda Sánchez asked a simple follow-up:

Which case?

He couldn't name it.

Sánchez pointed out that the only litigation she was aware of involved the $1.8 billion DOJ fund and said that case doesn't address presidential audit immunity.

That's what made the exchange awkward.

The administration says litigation prevents answers.

Congress wants to know which litigation.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

1/ I’ve always thought that knowing history will follow “The Roberts Court,” the Chief Justice would have at least some measure of concern for the reputation attached to his tenure. I no longer believe that.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Translation: "Lewandowski is going to prison."

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

A court found Alabama's maps were drawn with "intentional race-based discrimination." The Supreme Court said: use them anyway. This is what the end of the Voting Rights Act looks like in practice. https://t.co/ZX42bXZ4WP

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: A lawyer active in lawsuits seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, and later represented the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing George Floyd, is the latest attorney to be hired by DOJ’s Voting Section. https://t.co/eJlU2JZObc

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Trump supporter Trent Prather has been arrested for possessing 42,000 files of child p*rn.

The children featured were as young as 4.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

NEWS: House Democrats just introduced the BLANCHE Act (Block Lawless Agreements and Nullify Corrupt Handouts and Emoluments Act) — to kill the IRS sweetheart deal shielding Trump and his entire family from federal investigation forever. https://t.co/fnJ4dl4tgM

[Manu Raju @mkraju]

Thom Tillis, walking into my live shot, makes news on two fronts.
He says he’s a NO on Trump’s immigration bill without amendment killing weaponization fund.
He warns he’s a NO on Blanche if any equivocation on J6.
If there is, “you don’t even have a (chance) of getting my vote”

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

Huh.

Turns out @SenTuberville was the voting fraudster right wingers were looking for. Just like @senrickscott was the Medicare fraudster.

https://t.co/IFDCI6tQBw

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Agriculture Sec @BrookeLRollins in November: "We have screwworm under control south of the border. Beef prices will come down by spring 2026"

Beef prices continue to rise, and screwworm is now in the US.

[Jim LaPorta @JimLaPorta]

Factual thoughts….@ScottPelley and @mhenryschuster were embedded with my Marine infantry unit in 2009—it was incredibly violent in Helmand. They told our story well. Years later, my unit suffered multiple suicides, they came back to cover that too. I wrote him when I was hired.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

Bondi told House oversight that Ghislaine Maxwell should die in prison. https://t.co/8JORBrxG8h

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "If we want to stop these spectacularly incompetent, loyalist nominees from getting confirmed in the Senate, we're going to have to stop relying on a few Republican senators to suddenly discover their courage and integrity. We're going to have to win the majority."