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[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: CNN Just Highlighted A Pretty Devastating Number.

84% of Americans say the Epstein files reinforce their belief that powerful people are rarely held accountable.

Think about that.

Not 84% of Democrats.

Not 84% of Republicans.

84% of Americans.

The breakdown was even more striking:

- 82% of Republicans
- 80% of Independents
- 90% of Democrats

Prediction markets have reportedly lowered the odds that Todd Blanche becomes Trump's next Attorney General.

The Epstein controversy isn't creating distrust.

It's validating distrust that was already there.

And now it's starting to affect people connected to the administration.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: ABC News Just Published Some Pretty Stunning ICE Data.

The administration says it is targeting the "worst of the worst."

But according to ABC's analysis of government data, only 3% of the more than 400,000 people detained by ICE between January 2025 and March 2026 had a violent felony conviction in the United States.

ABC reports that ICE apprehended more than 4,800 U.S. citizens and deported over 2,000 of them during the first eight months of 2025.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Carol Leonnig: “…what we were hearing last night…was that the Ohio Organizing Collaborative…one of its offices in Cleveland was targeted and raided by FBI agents yesterday. In addition to that, what we learned was that a series of FBI agents were fanning out across the state…to interview people and approach them at their homes, who had worked as volunteers registering voters, or as canvassers for the collaborative, and those interviews, if you can call them that, were conducted often WITHOUT warrants…So FBI agents were essentially just going into people’s homes and saying we’d like to ask you a few questions, which is NOT how the FBI normally investigates these kinds of matters…their great concern is that this is part of a larger Trump administration effort to basically target swing states and to target pro democracy organizations who might register Democratic voters, or help them register to vote, and question and sow distrust in those swing states in the integrity of the elections.” 😳

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

SEN. KELLY: How many times have Vance and Rubio been to Ukraine? Zero. Has Trump been to Ukraine? No.

He invited Putin to United States, but he still failed to send anybody at high level in his government to visit Ukraine. Have Kushner or Witkoff been to Ukraine? They have not.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

DEAN: You're under oath. When will you comply with the law and release all the Epstein files?

BLANCHE: We have complied with the law

DEAN: There are 3 million more documents. And you know what you said to me? 'They include another guy named Epstein.' Nobody is buying it

*the time of the gentlelady has expired*

DEAN: I beg your pardon? How do I get cut off 2 minutes into this? What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

SEN. @RonWyden: “Trump has set the new high water mark for public corruption… everybody in 🇺🇸 is subject to IRS audit except the Trumps. I take it as an admission of his own guilt when it comes to tax cheating. Trumps have stuffed every dollar they can into their pockets.”

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

In America today, we rank 34th out of 35 countries in childhood poverty and millions of children are food insecure.

Maybe, just maybe, my Republican colleagues would consider holding a single hearing about how we improve the lives of American kids.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WTF?! A federal judge explicitly asks a DOJ lawyer if the President can legally fire staff just to create an "all-white" executive branch.

The lawyer stammers and refuses to answer. A completely chilling and unprecedented moment in an American courtroom.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! DOJ argues in court that firing a top prosecutor is valid even if driven by political motives.

Critics warn this stance demands absolute personal loyalty to the President, completely shattering the foundation of the rule of law.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Imagine the worst thing you can say about Joe Biden is that he got old while carrying the weight of the country on his shoulders.

He beat Trump when no one else could. He gave America and the world a fighting chance. He rebuilt the economy, passed historic legislation, stood with our allies, and restored dignity after four years of chaos and incompetence.

Yes, he believed he still had more to give. That is not a moral failing. That is a man who loved his country and did not want to walk away from the fight when his nation needed him. In the end, he didn't fail the country, we did, because we fully knew the stakes.

History will be much kinder to 46 than the pundits ever were. That I know.

I’ve got his back. How about you?

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 TRUMP VOTERS MAD ABOUT DATA CENTERS: “My entire community is gonna to break ranks (and vote for @jamestalarico). All of us. We’ve had enough… Trump doesn’t care about us.”

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Congress issued a legally binding subpoena, and Pam Bondi chose not to comply. Instead of appearing for her sworn deposition she sat for a voluntary interview where DOJ attorneys repeatedly stepped in to block answers. That is not accountability.

The American people deserve the truth, survivors deserve justice, and Congress deserves answers.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: A Kenyan court has reportedly BLOCKED the Trump administration’s plan to send Ebola-exposed Americans to a quarantine facility in Kenya instead of bringing them back to the United States.

And the reaction from Kenya was basically:
“Absolutely not.”

Because from their perspective, the U.S. was attempting to offshore a deadly public health risk onto another country while avoiding the political fallout at home.

[Natasha @Natasha_Brynn1]

11 months ago today, Rep. Melissa Hortman was murdered by a right-wing extremist.

RETWEET to honor her life 💙

[Rep. Zoe Lofgren @RepZoeLofgren]

My Republican colleagues called a hearing on threats to the Supreme Court’s legitimacy, so I decided to read just a few examples of the $2.4 million in gifts Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted from his ultra wealthy allies:

[Meanwhile in Ukraine @MeanwhileInUA]

Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.

Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."

That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.

Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.

Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rubio says that US-led peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine "were not fruitful." Not fruitful?

​Let’s look at the facts: your negotiators visited Russia seven times, and Ukraine zero times. You demanded concessions from Ukraine before negotiations even began, and throughout the entire process.

You pressured Ukraine by cutting off weapons support entirely, constantly badmouthing us, and showing up at our doorstep waving Russian "peace plan" you demanded we sign immediately.

​And now, after Ukraine stands more firmly on its feet without your support, you realize you can't pressure us anymore. So your excuse is that you are tired and leaving?

​How about, for once, you actually support the victim, which is Ukraine instead of terrorist Russian regime? Send your team to Kyiv, support our fight, and apply real pressure on aggressor.

Sanction Russia and seize their shadow fleet instead of handing out sanction waivers. Do that, and maybe negotiations will magically become "fruitful."

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Graham Platner: “We just spent $50B in two months on the war in Iran and I haven’t heard a single question of where it came from. But the moment you say Americans deserve to see housing costs come down, or energy costs come down, the moment we have to talk about healthcare, suddenly we have to pull our pockets out and pretend like we’re paupers”

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

The tech billionaires expected him to fold. The vote was deadlocked 2-2. But Texas County Judge Shane Brassell cast the tie-breaking vote to pause a massive data center and protect his town's water. A masterclass in local resistance: https://t.co/3qwJKayRGW

[Senator Mazie Hirono @maziehirono]

8 years ago, Trump ripped up the JCPOA — a deal that prevented Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

Now, this regime has chosen Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, neither of whom has relevant experience, to try to negotiate the same deal Trump killed in 2018.

It's ridiculous.