Barbara A. Serrano

Attorney in public service, Recovering Political Reporter and Editor, Ex-@latimes, Ex-@seattletimes, CA native, garlic capital, Giants fan, Go Bears!

[Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360]

The family of a man shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston is seeking answers. ICE said he was evading arrest. CNN's Ed Lavandera has the details.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

Alito retiring

https://t.co/cSL8AzJ1RD

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Roberta Kaplan, attorney for E. Jean Carroll:

"Today's Supreme Court decision affirms once and for all the jury's unanimous verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll. His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed and today's ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions."

[Glenn Kessler @GlennKessler__]

The @PulitzerPrizes decision to award @jkbjournalist a special citation for work she did exposing Epstein a decade ago is an unusual acknowledgment that the Pulitzer Board messed up badly when they ignored her work in the first place after a pressure campaign by Dersh etc.

[Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan]

6th term central #WA04 GOP Congressman Dan Newhouse will not seek re-election and will retire at end of his current term: “This decision comes with no reservations or remorse, only gratitude.”

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

President Trump did a whole lot of lying on "60 Minutes." Here's a fact check of 18 of his false claims to Norah O’Donnell, the vast majority of them previously debunked:

- It's not true grocery prices "are down"; Trump told this lie even after O’Donnell told him they're up
- It's not true there is now "no inflation" (it’s at 3%) or that it's "less than 2%" (it's at 3%)
- It's not true it was "my idea, which nobody, frankly, had thought of," to have AI facilities generate their own power on-site (they were already starting to do that while he was out of office, with Biden administration encouragement)
- It's not true “$17 trillion” is being invested in the US “right now" (this fictional figure is nearly double the White House's own wildly inflated "announcements" figure)
- It's not true each alleged drug boat "kills 25,000 Americans" (this figure plainly makes no sense given US overdose death totals)
- It's not true some recent former presidents invoked the Insurrection Act "28 times" (Ulysses S. Grant has the record because he invoked it on six occasions)
- It's not true Trump has ended "eight wars" (among other issues, his list includes two situations that weren't wars at all, one war still going full tilt in the DRC, and the Gaza conflict where killing also continues)
- It's not true the Kamala Harris interview Trump sued "60 Minutes" over aired "two days" before the election (it was more than four full weeks before Election Day)
- It's not true Biden gave Ukraine "$350 billion" (inspector general says the US had disbursed $94 billion through June 2025 and appropriated $93 billion more, including funds spent in the US)
- It's not true foreign countries pay his tariffs (US importers make the payments and often pass on costs to consumers)
- It's not true Trump inherited the worst inflation of all time (it was 3% the month he took office, same as now, and even the 9.1% Biden-era peak in 2022 was not close to the all-time record)
- It's not true the 2020 election was "rigged and stolen" (his usual lie) 
- It's not true the Presidential Records Act says he was allowed to have classified documents at his home post-presidency (it says all presidential records are to be in government custody the moment a president leaves office)
- It's not true Trump never instructed the Justice Department to go after Comey and James (he explicitly pressured the head of the department to do so in a social media post we all saw)
- It's not true Democrats are trying to give $1.5 trillion to illegal immigrants in the shutdown battle (even the White House's own disputed figure is a small fraction of that) or that Biden let in 25 million migrants (it's well under half that even if you count millions who were rapidly expelled)
- It's not true foreign leaders have emptied their prisons to somehow insert criminals into the US as migrants (Trump's own team has never been able to corroborate this story experts say is baseless)
- It's not true Nancy Pelosi flipped out after finding out his controversial 2019 call with Zelensky “was taped” (there remains no known US tape; what Trump released was a rough transcript, which bolstered rather than undermined Pelosi’s move toward impeachment)

Link for more details: https://t.co/TYsDd514Fk

[Josh Meyer @JoshMeyerDC]

Trump was specifically asked about Zhao at an Oct. 23 White House event and said he did know who he was, and that he pardoned him because people told him to. Read all about it here: https://t.co/q42VJ2yYBc @USATODAY

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

HUGE: Politico is reporting that Indiana Republicans don’t have the votes to gerrymander the state like Trump wants. Vance has visited the state multiple times, threatened to primary these guys, and they’re still saying no. Shows how weak they are right now.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

With no shortage of horrible stuff happening, why does the tearing down of the East Wing resonate so much and bother so many? I've kinda struggled with it. @monacharen took a great whack at explaining it

https://t.co/c11Na3HeMl

[Axios @axios]

Most Americans say U.S. on wrong track on economy, immigration and more: poll https://t.co/QXUDDylJ3l

[Ken Kay @kenkay21]

We are at the "No More Kings" Event in Downtown Tucson. It is so ironic to have left D,C. where we had no voting representation and now to be in a Congressional district again with no voting representation. Mike Johnson, swear our Congresswoman in! #nokings #Tucson

[. @GregTSargent]

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics and have developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems must reckon w/Miller's understanding of the moment.

New piece:
https://t.co/l7VRjmSLzg

[Melissa Luck ☘ @MelissaKXLY4]

The man accused of breaking into the Washington State Capitol last night, causing damage on several floors is a former Gonzaga baseball player. Strange twist to a weird story: https://t.co/jXsv4S6s59

[Alex Parker @AlexParkerDC]

R.I.P. to the guy who made working the phones in a newsroom look glamorous and inspired a generation of journos.

[Melissa Luck ☘ @MelissaKXLY4]

Just broke a massive story, especially for those who have been in Spokane for awhile. The man known as the South Hill rapist could soon be released from McNeil Island. https://t.co/DjE4CqRTCE

[Tracy McClarnon @McclarnonTracy]

@Lawrence amazing interview! Thank you for letting her speak without interruption. God bless all of them, we hear their cries for justice.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: The California Highway Patrol will offer security protection to Vice President Kamala Harris after Donald Trump revoked her Secret Service detail.

RETWEET to thank Commissioner Sean Duryee for protecting Vice President Harris!

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

RETWEET if you support Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

[LynnZ @ZemanLynnZ]

Virginia Guiffre's statement to Ghislane Maxwell, read by Guiffre's attorney in court the day Maxwell was sentenced, June 28, 2022.

"Twenty-two years ago, in the summer of 2000, you spotted me at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, and you made a choice: You chose to follow me and procure me for Epstein.

Just hours later, you and he abused me together for the first time. Together you damaged me physically, mentally, sexually and emotionally. Together you did unthinkable things that still have a corrosive impact on me to this day.

I want to be clear about one thing: Without question, Jeffrey Epstein was a terrible pedophile, but I never would have met Jeffrey Epstein if not for you.

“For me, and for so many others, you opened the door to hell, and then, Ghislaine, like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, you used your femininity to betray us and you led us all through it. When you did that, you changed the course of our lives forever.

“You joked that you were like a new mother to us. As a woman, I think you understood the damage that you were causing, the price you were making us victims pay.

You could have put an end to the rapes, the molestation, the sickening manipulation that you arranged, witnessed, and even took part in. You could have called the authorities and reported that you were part of something awful.

“I was young and naïve when we met, but you knew that. In fact, you were counting on it. My life as a young person was just beginning. You robbed me of that by exploiting my hopes and ambitions.

“Ghislaine, the pain you have caused me is almost indescribable. Because of your choices and the world you brought me into, I don’t sleep. Nightmares wake me at all hours. In those dreams, I relive the awful things that you and others did to me and the things that you forced me to do. Those memories will never go away. I have trouble meeting new people without questioning if somehow they’re going to hurt me, too. There is not a day that doesn’t go by that I don’t ask why. Why did you enjoy hurting us so much?

“I worry every single day and night that you will get away with it and evade being punished. I will worry about that until you’re brought to justice. And what should that justice look like? Ghislaine, you deserve to spend the rest of your life in prison in a jail cell.”

She added, “You deserve to be trapped in a cage forever just like you trapped your victims.”

[K something (the constitution is antifascist) @leaferi]

BREAKING: In her first statement since being publicly fired for “reporting the numbers”, Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer states:

“I’m glad there was no window in the room. I highly recommend that my replacements stay away from rooms with windows.“