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[David Schwartz @DavidSchwartz70]

JIMMY KIMMEL: "I propose that we should think about adding his name to the Epstein files... it will heretofore be known as the Trump-Epstein Files."

TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES it is.

Pass it on.
https://t.co/LGGRn3HvWB

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and crashing, and I think it’s because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles through:

– the redactions of perpetrators’ names
– withholding three million files
– the unexplained transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell into a cushy facility

And that’s even before digging into her history in Florida.

I think her thrashing and very erratic performance today point to the fact that there are real questions about her leadership of the DOJ and her role in this.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Sen. Klobuchar: Two American citizens killed. 5-year-olds and 2-year-olds deported to Texas only to legally return. Pulling an elder out of his house in his underwear and then telling us, 'oh, we had the wrong guy.' There must be accountability for all of the damage they did.

[Robin Kelly @RepRobinKelly]

I convened today’s hearing to confront what ICE has become under Secretary Noem’s command: a Gestapo police force.

Republicans handed ICE a $75B blank check in taxpayer money, and now those same taxpayers are being terrorized.

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem. Accountability cannot wait.

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

“I think we are one big step into dictatorship already.” Conservative historian Robert Kagan.

Robert Kagan: "Well, I think we are one big step into dictatorship already. It's not clear to me that any institution in the United States is really prepared to stand up to Donald Trump. It seems the only people who are willing to stand up to Donald Trump are average American citizens in Minneapolis and elsewhere, and god bless them for that, but the US Congress, both parties, are unwilling to really fight Trump. The Republicans have become the party of dictatorship. So I think we are one deep foot into dictatorship, and I am worried, as I have said and others have been pointing out, about whether we will even have free and fair elections in 2026, let alone in 2028. I think Trump has a plan to disrupt those elections and I don't think he's willing to allow Democrats to take control of one or both houses, as could happen in a free election."

[Chris Gloninger, CCM, CBM @ChrisGloninger]

Atmospheric scientist here. Let me tell you what was actually "slashed" today.

Slashed: The Endangerment Finding — a 200-page scientific review upheld by the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and reaffirmed by the National Academies of Sciences in 2025.

Slashed: The legal authority to regulate carbon from cars, power plants, and factories. All of it. Gone in one afternoon.

Now here's what you're "saving":

Yesterday Trump ordered the Pentagon — the largest energy consumer on Earth — to buy coal electricity.

Coal costs $69–$169/MWh.
Wind costs $27–$53/MWh.
Solar costs $38–$78/MWh.

99% of U.S. coal plants cost more to run than replacing them with brand-new solar or wind.

That's your tax dollars buying the most expensive electricity on the market. By executive order. While the Peabody Energy CEO stood in the room.

And the human cost of what you're "saving"?

460,000 American deaths linked to coal pollution in 20 years. Coal PM2.5 is 2.1x deadlier than other air pollution. (Henneman et al., Science, 2023)

All to protect an industry that employs 44,000 people total. Clean energy employs 3.5 million.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Rep. Torres on the SAVE Act: 69 million women who follow the traditional practice of changing their name after marriage do not have a birth certificate that matches their legal name. Republicans know this and want to use that to block them from voting. This is voter suppression

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

The president is overruling science to eliminate measures that protect us from pollution and environmental damage, mainly to benefit multinational corporations that have thrown money at his campaign, ballroom, and family.

It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Multiple Epstein victims tell NBC News that Pam Bondi intentionally un-redacted their names and other victims' names as a way to threaten them into silence!

“I think we all realize now that [the DOJ] really wanted to silence us, and [they] thought that [they] could scare us by putting our names out there.”

“It had a list of victims, and one was redacted. That makes no sense. This is a list of victims. That is INTENTIONAL!”

This is an impeachable offense. Pam Bondi needs to be impeached immediately!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @RedistrictAct and tell your member of Congress to vote no: https://t.co/Cc4JHKr73Q

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

The SAVE act is anti-American & anti-democracy. I’m furious that it passed the House.

Let’s be clear about what this legislation does, and does not do. It’s already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. Voter fraud is rarer than rare—and when it does occur, it’s often MAGA trying to illegally tip the scale.

What this legislation WILL DO is make it harder for American citizens—especially married women who’ve changed their last name—to vote in elections.

Simply put, Republicans know they’re going to lose the next election, so they’re trying to rig the system. For the sake of democracy, we can’t let that happen.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Epstein survivor Marina Lacerda just made clear that she and other victims feel betrayed by Attorney General Bondi’s testimony today. Wow.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Karoline Leavitt: "We're moving on from [the Epstein files]."

The rest of the world: "No--we're not. Ever."

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The MAGA crowd doesn’t know that the infrastructure bill was passed under the Biden administration with a bipartisan majority and the republicans who voted against it take credit for it. They are truly gullible.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump’s BIGGEST LIE about his Epstein relationship was just exposed in the unredacted Epstein files that Rep. Jamie Raskin just viewed. https://t.co/802Dvxh6Af

After peering behind the curtain, Jamie Raskin isn’t mincing words: the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files looks less like transparency and more like a cover-up.

Raskin told reporters he had just returned from a bleak DOJ satellite office — “four computers in the room” — where Judiciary Committee members are being forced to review supposedly “released” Epstein documents under tight constraints. Congress went there for one reason: to make sure the Epstein Files Transparency Act was honored, victims protected, and perpetrators exposed.

What he found was the opposite.

“There are hundreds and hundreds of pages where identifying information about victims is right there, including people’s names,” Raskin said, calling it a “dramatic departure” from the law’s most emphatic requirement. Survivors’ privacy, he warned, has been compromised—either through “spectacular incompetence and sloppiness” or, as survivors fear, a deliberate warning to others thinking about coming forward.

At the same time, Raskin said the files are riddled with mysterious redactions shielding people who are clearly not victims. Names of “co-conspirators, accomplices, enablers, abusers, rapists” appear to have been blacked out simply to avoid “embarrassment, political sensitivity, or disgrace.”

When pressed, Raskin gave a striking example: Les Wexner—a public figure whose name has appeared elsewhere—was inexplicably redacted. Even more troubling, Raskin described an email chain involving Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell that summarized conversations between Epstein’s lawyers and Donald Trump’s lawyers during the 2009 investigation. That passage—reporting Trump said Epstein was a guest at Mar-a-Lago and was never asked to leave—was redacted “for some indeterminate, inscrutable reason,” Raskin said, noting it appears to contradict Trump’s public claims.

Raskin emphasized the scale of the problem: DOJ has released 3.5 million documents while withholding 3 million more. Members have reviewed only a handful. “There is no way” Congress can vet these redactions before Attorney General testimony, he said—especially with just four computers.

His conclusion was blunt: “I think the Department of Justice has been in a cover-up mode for many months.” The path forward, Raskin argued, runs through the survivors—public hearings, full release of the files, and only one kind of redaction: the names of victims.

Anything else, he warned, deepens the nightmare.

Please like and share to spread the news!

[Governor Wes Moore @GovWesMoore]

This week, I learned that I was uninvited to this year’s National Governors Association dinner — a decades-long annual tradition meant to bring governors from both parties together to build bonds and celebrate a shared service to our citizens with the President of the United States. My peers, both Democrats and Republicans, selected me to serve as the Vice Chair of the NGA, another reason why it’s hard not to see this decision as another example of blatant disrespect and a snub to the spirit of bipartisan federal-state partnership.

As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not.

What makes it especially confounding is that just weeks ago I was at the White House with a bipartisan group of governors, working with the administration on reforms to lower energy costs and strengthen grid reliability. We proved in that moment what’s possible when we stay focused on outcomes over politics.

As Governor of Maryland and Vice Chair of the NGA, my approach will never change: I’m ready to work with the administration anywhere we can deliver results. Yet, I promised the people of my state I will work with anybody but will bow down to nobody. And I guess the President doesn’t like that.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Donald Trump has attacked USA Olympic skier Hunter Hess on social media, calling him a “real loser” for expressing concern about the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ICE.

RETWEET if you stand with Hess against Trump!

[Houston Parents & Teachers United @TxEdHouston]

@krassenstein No More Illegal Redactions.
No More Delays.

https://t.co/3AZ1HPNl3E

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: on this Super Bowl Sunday, Epstein Survivors have just released this PSA:

“Stand with us.  Tell Attorney General Pam Bondi IT’S TIME FOR THE TRUTH”

Please share everywhere!