Caroline

[The Intercept @theintercept]

One top military officer provided a plausible explanation, behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, The Intercept has learned. In the briefing, a high-ranking officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff stated that some of the people killed by the U.S. military may have been the victims of human trafficking.

[Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 @TaraSetmayer]

SPOTTED in Times Square this morning:
A brutal depiction of Elon Musk and Grok’s child p*rn problems ahead of the SpaceX IPO tomorrow.
WOW

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

NEW: Ken Paxton backed the DOGE cuts that weakened screwworm defenses and put Texas cattle at risk. https://t.co/5IwnvPhvSU

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

It dropped so quickly from the news but we shouldn't forget that Trump outright pardoned a murderous narcotrafficker who used the resources of a foreign government he controlled to smuggle cocaine and other drugs into the United States for years.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

Just when Trump thought the Epstein files threat was in the rear view mirror, Maggie Habermsn and Jonathan Swan come a knocking on the door of public consciousness again.

Their upcoming book ‘Regime Change’ rips of the festering scab that has grown over the open wound of Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

The regime are going to find this reporting very difficult to brush off as lies and a hit job. It’s just another in a growing list of damaging political threats Trump is unable to fend off.

Thanks to the New York Times for the clip.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/jUrKBSubl4

[Subi-doo 🐸 @suzamaroo]

On today’s episode of MAGA are the dumbest (with a b) people on the plant: We have a MAGA influencer committing a crime and then making a video about it.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

BIG excerpt out from new @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan book “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump”...apparently WH staff were terrified about the release of a document alleging Trump had a "predilection for nipples" and abused those of an Epstein victim

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

New Yorker exposé of Andrew Tate is even more horrifying than what we already knew. According to it, he raped and beat a 15-year old girl and bought her off with teddy bears. Tate was promoted by Tucker Carlson, Don Trump Jr., and Musk suggested he should be UK prime minister

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

That’s called a bribe.

[Carla ‘Bluechecked’ Marinucci @cmarinucci]

@anneapplebaum @ErinGoBragh360 @NewYorker And the legacy of CA’s @RichardGrenell — aside from his horrid mismanagement of the Kennedy Center— will be his public support for these creeps. @RogerJStoneJr tweeted that in Romania, Grenell “secured the release of the Tate brothers because there was no evidence against them.”

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The details about the Tate brothers in this @newyorker profile are as sick as anything you will ever read. They are rapists, pornographers, traffickers - and heroes to the "conservative" MAGA movement
https://t.co/Zv2l52b9Id

[alex bronzini-vender @alexbronzini]

Unbelievable that the Washington Post opinion page would print something this straightforwardly false

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) faked a phone call for roughly 90 seconds after being asked about Speaker Mike Johnson’s comments regarding potential Social Security cuts.

The phone's screen remained visible, with his cheek inadvertently tapping different parts of the display.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Polymarket, the prediction market that promotes itself as a "truth machine," is sponsoring posts from far-right influencers on X that push election conspiracy theories.

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

I found 8 posts by @Milajoy that were paid partnerships (sponcon) with Polymarket including several that cast doubt on election integrity in LA.

What is Polymarket attempting to accomplish? And can you help me find other political influencers paid by Polymarket or Kalshi?

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

CENTCOM said the pilots shot down were rescued at 7:33 PM ET within 2 hours after they were shot down. Trump boarded the helicopter from Bedminster to go to the Knicks game at 6:57 PM ET. So he was on his way to the game after they were shot down and before they were rescued.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Hey DOGE and NEWSMAX, can we get an update here?  

Turns out preventing a flesh-eating parasite from invading U.S. livestock wasn’t government waste…

[Tom Bonier @tbonier]

This dipshit discovered that SQL server at one point replaced blank date of birth fields with a default of 01/01/1900, so he harassed an 86 year old woman.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

.@SenTedCruz the guy who didn’t defend his wife and who left Texas as an brutal Snow storm was arriving to Texas, talking about the meaning of “masculine”…🤣🤣🤣😆😅😇hello?