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<\/a><\/p>\nRachel Hurley: Start Here: Welcome to The GriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nYesterday, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s estate. Democrats on the committee cherry-picked three emails to release first, all mentioning Donald Trump. Republicans followed hours later with the full dump.
\n
\nThe White House immediately called it a hoax. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the emails \u201cprove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Technically, she\u2019s right. These specific emails don\u2019t prove Trump committed a crime.
\n…<\/p>\n
But let\u2019s be clear about something else. Even if these three emails that Democrats released don\u2019t prove Trump committed a crime, there are more than 20,000 pages in this document dump. And some of them are far more interesting …
\n
\n(Rachel Hurley more…)<\/a><\/p>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h4>\n![\"Pence\"](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Pence.jpg\" "\\"Pence\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\nRachel Hurley: How Did Jeffrey Epstein Know About Pence?<\/a><\/h2>\nIf there was one person I was not expecting to be in this Epstein Estate file dump, it was Mike Pence. But here we are.<\/p>\n
On July 14, 2016, someone sent Jeffrey Epstein an email. Just [these] words: \u201cgood call on pence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump announced Mike Pence as his running mate the next day, July 15. Which means Epstein knew before the public did. Someone had told him. And he\u2019d told other people. And he was right.<\/p>\n
This is what insider campaign knowledge looks like.
\n(Rachel Hurley more…)<\/a><\/p>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h4>\n![\"Epstein\"](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Epstein.jpg\" "\\"Epstein\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\nRachel Hurley: Why Was a Former Treasury Secretary Asking a Sex Trafficker About Trump?<\/a><\/h2>\nIn the 23,000 documents released this week, there\u2019s an email from July 2018, right after the Helsinki summit where Trump met with Putin. It raises a question worth examining.<\/p>\n
Why was Larry Summers asking Jeffrey Epstein if the Russians had kompromat on Trump?
\n(Rachel Hurley more…)<\/a><\/p>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h4>\n
\n\n- \n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nWe are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.<\/p>\n
That spin has been hard at work in the past few days over the economy. Trump is clearly worried that the Supreme Court is going to find that much of his tariff war is unconstitutional, as the direction of the justices\u2019 questioning in its November 5 hearing suggested. On Monday he claimed that the U.S. would have to pay back \u201cin excess of $2 Trillion Dollars\u201d if the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unconstitutional, and that \u201cwould be a National Security catastrophe.\u201d He blamed \u201cAnarchists and Thugs\u201d for putting the U.S. into a \u201cterrible situation\u201d by challenging his tariffs. Hours later, he increased the number to $3 Trillion\u2014the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the number was actually about $195 billion.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, White House officials suggested they would never be able to release October\u2019s jobs report or inflation numbers, blaming the Democrats. They did, however, claim that prices are \u201cbeginning to drop,\u201d citing DoorDash, the delivery platform, as their source.<\/p>\n
The administration has justified its violence against undocumented immigrants by insisting those they round up are violent criminals, \u201cthe worst of the worst.\u201d That claim is increasingly exposed as a lie, and Americans are pushing back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
![\"DHS](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DHS-post.webp\" "\\"DHS")
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Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson: The govt’s deranged social media presence<\/a><\/h2>\n“You see Trump administration accounts that look like they\u2019re literally run by Groypers,” Charlie Warzel tells us.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s safe to say that when the president of the United States is posting an AI-generated video of him dropping feces on Americans from a fighter jet, something is wrong.<\/p>\n
![\"finish](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/finish-the-fight-Tweet.jpg\" "\\"finish")
<\/a>But, as we all know, something has been wrong for a long time.<\/p>\nTrump\u2019s use of social media has always been disturbing and bizarre, even if it feels like things have gotten worse over time. Now, however, he\u2019s remaking government social media accounts in his own deranged image.<\/p>\n
Consider this recent Department of Homeland Security tweet that characterizes immigrants as a plague to be destroyed by ICE.
\n(Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: Frightening Wake-up for MAGA<\/a><\/h2>\nScandal, corruption, chaos, and cruelty define the Trump regime<\/p>\n
As the government reopens, five stubborn realities greet the Republicans, less than 10 months into Donald Trump\u2019s shambolic presidency:<\/p>\n
\n- The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has exploded with incriminating new emails<\/a> that undermine Trump\u2019s feigned ignorance about the pedophile ring and put Attorney General Pam Bondi in extreme jeopardy.\n
- The job market has crumbled<\/a>.\n
- The affordability crisis is getting worse, with health insurance costs set to skyrocket<\/a> absent a MAGA humiliating about-face.\n
- The rich and Trump-connected are making out like bandits.\n
- The increasingly decrepit president couldn\u2019t care less about Americans. (In fact, he\u2019s willing to maximize their pain<\/a>).\n<\/ol>\n
(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Excusing Abuse as Political Strategy<\/a><\/h2>\nMegyn Kelly and the rot within the GOP<\/p>\n
![\"Starving](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/starving-homeless-people-receive-food-from-volunteers-who-se-349762105-stockpack-adobe_stock-1600x1065-1.jpg\" "\\"Starving")
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Fix Homelessness: Springs Rescue Mission: More Than Food and a Bed<\/a><\/h2>\n“We gently incentivize them to improve their mental, physical, and spiritual health, as well as their prospects for employment and housing. These activities can be characterized as relief, restoration, and reintegration.\u2026Relief is something we do for<\/em> people. They\u2019re starving; we feed them. They haven\u2019t slept safely in weeks; we give them a safe place. Restoration and reintegration are things we do with<\/em> people. We help them make progress toward housing, health, and work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n(Fix Homelessness more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMarvin Olasky: Helping without hurting those who are homeless<\/a><\/h2>\n
![\"DoorDash\"](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DoorDash.avif\" "\\"DoorDash\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Marisa Kabas: WH claims ‘inflation tamed,’ per DoorDash stats. Company says that’s not in its report.<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nHamermesh explained that the DoorDash report is \u201chardly representative of what the average person buys each month,\u201d and was flabbergasted that the White House would extrapolate larger meaning from it. \u201cI’m quite sure as long as we don’t have the national information, these guys will cherry-pick information that makes them look good,\u201d Hamermesh said. \u201cAnd there’s always something that makes you look good\u2014even in a recession.\u201d
\n(Marisa Kabas more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
![\"Following](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2240457077-e1762467461368.webp\" "\\"Following")
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Intercept: Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention<\/a><\/h2>\nOne woman’s husband was taken from his job as an ambulance paramedic two years ago. She waited after the ceasefire, but he never came home.
\n(Intercept more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
![\"police](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/photo-1605256801685-06e9af2a74f2.jpg\" "\\"police")
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Patricia J Wentzel: My kid might get shot. I’m not calling 911.<\/a><\/h2>\nAlternatives to 911 in Behavioral Health Emergencies<\/p>\n
(Patricia J Wentzel more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
![\"Chief](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/aa468754-00b5-441f-b072-f49922be366c_1200x800.webp\" "\\"Chief")
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Chief Rick Myers (Ret.): I was a police chief in seven cities. Here\u2019s how ICE undermines local law enforcement.<\/a><\/h2>\nI was sworn in as a police officer in 1977, and since then, I\u2019ve led police departments as small as five officers and as large as over 1,000 employees in a major city. So I speak from a lifetime of experience when I say: You will not find a police officer in the US who opposes deporting immigrants who break the law. Why would we want immigrants who commit crimes here in the US?<\/p>\n
However, the overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants in the US fly below the radar, and don\u2019t break criminal laws; unlawful presence under Federal Law is not even a criminal violation, and unlawful entry for a first offense is a misdemeanor. Most lead normal lives and start families. They go to work, pay taxes, send money home to help people, and take jobs many American citizens don\u2019t want and won\u2019t do. If anything, they tend to be far more conscientious not to break the law, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n
At the start of Donald Trump\u2019s second term, the federal government said that ICE would prioritize going after the \u201cworst of the worst<\/a>\u201d, which again, police officers strongly support. Instead, we\u2019re seeing thousands of non-criminals being detained. Of course, ICE has the authority to detain anyone here in the country who is undocumented, but why not prioritize pursuing the hardened criminals first?
\n(Chief Rick Myers (Ret.) more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Independent: Trump admits he didn\u2019t have to tear down East Wing for ballroom, but just wanted to<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Ken Klippenstein: Trump Slaps Antifa With First-Ever Foreign Terror Label<\/a><\/h2>\nMove cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused “anti-Christianity,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Americanism”<\/p>\n
![\"Attorney](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img-4626.avif\" "\\"Attorney")
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
CNN: What to know about the judge’s key questions in the Halligan hearing<\/a><\/h2>\nemptywheel: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Seven Times 18-Minute Gap<\/a><\/h2>\nAbove the Law: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Day In Court<\/a><\/h2>\n
![\"A](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13dc-bomb-hpjm-jumbo.webp\" "\\"A")
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NY Times: Far Right\u2019s Fixation on Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Reaches F.B.I.\u2019s Top Ranks<\/a><\/h2>\nFor all his bluster, the F.B.I.\u2019s deputy director Dan Bongino played a central role in stoking expectations that the bureau would quickly find the suspects who planted pipe bombs.
\n…<\/p>\n
For some of Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters, the case \u2014 an overshadowed sideshow to most Americans \u2014 is an important missing link that might prove the pipe bombs were an inside job by deep-state law enforcement and intelligence officials intended to discredit the far right.<\/p>\n
That, according their logic, would prove the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was not an attempt to overturn the election by Trump supporters, as hundreds of successful prosecutions overwhelmingly proved.<\/p>\n
The pipe bomb case was never likely to rival the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier, in scope, public interest or political importance. But both cases share a key characteristic: They spawned conspiracy theories that were promoted, to one degree or another, by Trump loyalists now occupying top positions in the F.B.I. and Justice Department.<\/p>\n
Mr. Bongino and his boss, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, promised to pursue investigations based on fictional or exaggerated premises<\/a>, pledging to reveal deep-state secrets and vowing swift vengeance on their enemies.
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nThe White House immediately called it a hoax. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the emails \u201cprove absolutely nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n…<\/p>\n
\n
\n(Rachel Hurley more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
GriftMatrix<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/a><\/p>\nRachel Hurley: How Did Jeffrey Epstein Know About Pence?<\/a><\/h2>\nIf there was one person I was not expecting to be in this Epstein Estate file dump, it was Mike Pence. But here we are.<\/p>\n
On July 14, 2016, someone sent Jeffrey Epstein an email. Just [these] words: \u201cgood call on pence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump announced Mike Pence as his running mate the next day, July 15. Which means Epstein knew before the public did. Someone had told him. And he\u2019d told other people. And he was right.<\/p>\n
This is what insider campaign knowledge looks like.
\n(Rachel Hurley more…)<\/a><\/p>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/a><\/p>\nRachel Hurley: Why Was a Former Treasury Secretary Asking a Sex Trafficker About Trump?<\/a><\/h2>\nIn the 23,000 documents released this week, there\u2019s an email from July 2018, right after the Helsinki summit where Trump met with Putin. It raises a question worth examining.<\/p>\n
Why was Larry Summers asking Jeffrey Epstein if the Russians had kompromat on Trump?
\n(Rachel Hurley more…)<\/a><\/p>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h4>\n
\n\n- \n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nWe are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.<\/p>\n
That spin has been hard at work in the past few days over the economy. Trump is clearly worried that the Supreme Court is going to find that much of his tariff war is unconstitutional, as the direction of the justices\u2019 questioning in its November 5 hearing suggested. On Monday he claimed that the U.S. would have to pay back \u201cin excess of $2 Trillion Dollars\u201d if the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unconstitutional, and that \u201cwould be a National Security catastrophe.\u201d He blamed \u201cAnarchists and Thugs\u201d for putting the U.S. into a \u201cterrible situation\u201d by challenging his tariffs. Hours later, he increased the number to $3 Trillion\u2014the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the number was actually about $195 billion.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, White House officials suggested they would never be able to release October\u2019s jobs report or inflation numbers, blaming the Democrats. They did, however, claim that prices are \u201cbeginning to drop,\u201d citing DoorDash, the delivery platform, as their source.<\/p>\n
The administration has justified its violence against undocumented immigrants by insisting those they round up are violent criminals, \u201cthe worst of the worst.\u201d That claim is increasingly exposed as a lie, and Americans are pushing back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson: The govt’s deranged social media presence<\/a><\/h2>\n“You see Trump administration accounts that look like they\u2019re literally run by Groypers,” Charlie Warzel tells us.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s safe to say that when the president of the United States is posting an AI-generated video of him dropping feces on Americans from a fighter jet, something is wrong.<\/p>\n
<\/a>But, as we all know, something has been wrong for a long time.<\/p>\nTrump\u2019s use of social media has always been disturbing and bizarre, even if it feels like things have gotten worse over time. Now, however, he\u2019s remaking government social media accounts in his own deranged image.<\/p>\n
Consider this recent Department of Homeland Security tweet that characterizes immigrants as a plague to be destroyed by ICE.
\n(Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: Frightening Wake-up for MAGA<\/a><\/h2>\nScandal, corruption, chaos, and cruelty define the Trump regime<\/p>\n
As the government reopens, five stubborn realities greet the Republicans, less than 10 months into Donald Trump\u2019s shambolic presidency:<\/p>\n
\n- The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has exploded with incriminating new emails<\/a> that undermine Trump\u2019s feigned ignorance about the pedophile ring and put Attorney General Pam Bondi in extreme jeopardy.\n
- The job market has crumbled<\/a>.\n
- The affordability crisis is getting worse, with health insurance costs set to skyrocket<\/a> absent a MAGA humiliating about-face.\n
- The rich and Trump-connected are making out like bandits.\n
- The increasingly decrepit president couldn\u2019t care less about Americans. (In fact, he\u2019s willing to maximize their pain<\/a>).\n<\/ol>\n
(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Excusing Abuse as Political Strategy<\/a><\/h2>\nMegyn Kelly and the rot within the GOP<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Fix Homelessness: Springs Rescue Mission: More Than Food and a Bed<\/a><\/h2>\n“We gently incentivize them to improve their mental, physical, and spiritual health, as well as their prospects for employment and housing. These activities can be characterized as relief, restoration, and reintegration.\u2026Relief is something we do for<\/em> people. They\u2019re starving; we feed them. They haven\u2019t slept safely in weeks; we give them a safe place. Restoration and reintegration are things we do with<\/em> people. We help them make progress toward housing, health, and work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n(Fix Homelessness more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMarvin Olasky: Helping without hurting those who are homeless<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Marisa Kabas: WH claims ‘inflation tamed,’ per DoorDash stats. Company says that’s not in its report.<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nHamermesh explained that the DoorDash report is \u201chardly representative of what the average person buys each month,\u201d and was flabbergasted that the White House would extrapolate larger meaning from it. \u201cI’m quite sure as long as we don’t have the national information, these guys will cherry-pick information that makes them look good,\u201d Hamermesh said. \u201cAnd there’s always something that makes you look good\u2014even in a recession.\u201d
\n(Marisa Kabas more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Intercept: Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention<\/a><\/h2>\nOne woman’s husband was taken from his job as an ambulance paramedic two years ago. She waited after the ceasefire, but he never came home.
\n(Intercept more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Patricia J Wentzel: My kid might get shot. I’m not calling 911.<\/a><\/h2>\nAlternatives to 911 in Behavioral Health Emergencies<\/p>\n
(Patricia J Wentzel more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Chief Rick Myers (Ret.): I was a police chief in seven cities. Here\u2019s how ICE undermines local law enforcement.<\/a><\/h2>\nI was sworn in as a police officer in 1977, and since then, I\u2019ve led police departments as small as five officers and as large as over 1,000 employees in a major city. So I speak from a lifetime of experience when I say: You will not find a police officer in the US who opposes deporting immigrants who break the law. Why would we want immigrants who commit crimes here in the US?<\/p>\n
However, the overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants in the US fly below the radar, and don\u2019t break criminal laws; unlawful presence under Federal Law is not even a criminal violation, and unlawful entry for a first offense is a misdemeanor. Most lead normal lives and start families. They go to work, pay taxes, send money home to help people, and take jobs many American citizens don\u2019t want and won\u2019t do. If anything, they tend to be far more conscientious not to break the law, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n
At the start of Donald Trump\u2019s second term, the federal government said that ICE would prioritize going after the \u201cworst of the worst<\/a>\u201d, which again, police officers strongly support. Instead, we\u2019re seeing thousands of non-criminals being detained. Of course, ICE has the authority to detain anyone here in the country who is undocumented, but why not prioritize pursuing the hardened criminals first?
\n(Chief Rick Myers (Ret.) more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Independent: Trump admits he didn\u2019t have to tear down East Wing for ballroom, but just wanted to<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Ken Klippenstein: Trump Slaps Antifa With First-Ever Foreign Terror Label<\/a><\/h2>\nMove cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused “anti-Christianity,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Americanism”<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
CNN: What to know about the judge’s key questions in the Halligan hearing<\/a><\/h2>\nemptywheel: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Seven Times 18-Minute Gap<\/a><\/h2>\nAbove the Law: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Day In Court<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
NY Times: Far Right\u2019s Fixation on Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Reaches F.B.I.\u2019s Top Ranks<\/a><\/h2>\nFor all his bluster, the F.B.I.\u2019s deputy director Dan Bongino played a central role in stoking expectations that the bureau would quickly find the suspects who planted pipe bombs.
\n…<\/p>\n
For some of Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters, the case \u2014 an overshadowed sideshow to most Americans \u2014 is an important missing link that might prove the pipe bombs were an inside job by deep-state law enforcement and intelligence officials intended to discredit the far right.<\/p>\n
That, according their logic, would prove the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was not an attempt to overturn the election by Trump supporters, as hundreds of successful prosecutions overwhelmingly proved.<\/p>\n
The pipe bomb case was never likely to rival the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier, in scope, public interest or political importance. But both cases share a key characteristic: They spawned conspiracy theories that were promoted, to one degree or another, by Trump loyalists now occupying top positions in the F.B.I. and Justice Department.<\/p>\n
Mr. Bongino and his boss, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, promised to pursue investigations based on fictional or exaggerated premises<\/a>, pledging to reveal deep-state secrets and vowing swift vengeance on their enemies.
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated news excerpts & citations Rachel Hurley: Start Here: Welcome to The GriftMatrix Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s estate. Democrats on the committee cherry-picked three emails to release first, all mentioning Donald Trump. Republicans followed hours later with the full dump. The White House immediately called it a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6823,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions\/6823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a><\/p>\nRachel Hurley: How Did Jeffrey Epstein Know About Pence?<\/a><\/h2>\nIf there was one person I was not expecting to be in this Epstein Estate file dump, it was Mike Pence. But here we are.<\/p>\n
On July 14, 2016, someone sent Jeffrey Epstein an email. Just [these] words: \u201cgood call on pence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump announced Mike Pence as his running mate the next day, July 15. Which means Epstein knew before the public did. Someone had told him. And he\u2019d told other people. And he was right.<\/p>\n
This is what insider campaign knowledge looks like.
\n(Rachel Hurley more…)<\/a><\/p>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/a><\/p>\nRachel Hurley: Why Was a Former Treasury Secretary Asking a Sex Trafficker About Trump?<\/a><\/h2>\nIn the 23,000 documents released this week, there\u2019s an email from July 2018, right after the Helsinki summit where Trump met with Putin. It raises a question worth examining.<\/p>\n
Why was Larry Summers asking Jeffrey Epstein if the Russians had kompromat on Trump?
\n(Rachel Hurley more…)<\/a><\/p>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h4>\n
\n\n- \n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nWe are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.<\/p>\n
That spin has been hard at work in the past few days over the economy. Trump is clearly worried that the Supreme Court is going to find that much of his tariff war is unconstitutional, as the direction of the justices\u2019 questioning in its November 5 hearing suggested. On Monday he claimed that the U.S. would have to pay back \u201cin excess of $2 Trillion Dollars\u201d if the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unconstitutional, and that \u201cwould be a National Security catastrophe.\u201d He blamed \u201cAnarchists and Thugs\u201d for putting the U.S. into a \u201cterrible situation\u201d by challenging his tariffs. Hours later, he increased the number to $3 Trillion\u2014the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the number was actually about $195 billion.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, White House officials suggested they would never be able to release October\u2019s jobs report or inflation numbers, blaming the Democrats. They did, however, claim that prices are \u201cbeginning to drop,\u201d citing DoorDash, the delivery platform, as their source.<\/p>\n
The administration has justified its violence against undocumented immigrants by insisting those they round up are violent criminals, \u201cthe worst of the worst.\u201d That claim is increasingly exposed as a lie, and Americans are pushing back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson: The govt’s deranged social media presence<\/a><\/h2>\n“You see Trump administration accounts that look like they\u2019re literally run by Groypers,” Charlie Warzel tells us.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s safe to say that when the president of the United States is posting an AI-generated video of him dropping feces on Americans from a fighter jet, something is wrong.<\/p>\n
<\/a>But, as we all know, something has been wrong for a long time.<\/p>\nTrump\u2019s use of social media has always been disturbing and bizarre, even if it feels like things have gotten worse over time. Now, however, he\u2019s remaking government social media accounts in his own deranged image.<\/p>\n
Consider this recent Department of Homeland Security tweet that characterizes immigrants as a plague to be destroyed by ICE.
\n(Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: Frightening Wake-up for MAGA<\/a><\/h2>\nScandal, corruption, chaos, and cruelty define the Trump regime<\/p>\n
As the government reopens, five stubborn realities greet the Republicans, less than 10 months into Donald Trump\u2019s shambolic presidency:<\/p>\n
\n- The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has exploded with incriminating new emails<\/a> that undermine Trump\u2019s feigned ignorance about the pedophile ring and put Attorney General Pam Bondi in extreme jeopardy.\n
- The job market has crumbled<\/a>.\n
- The affordability crisis is getting worse, with health insurance costs set to skyrocket<\/a> absent a MAGA humiliating about-face.\n
- The rich and Trump-connected are making out like bandits.\n
- The increasingly decrepit president couldn\u2019t care less about Americans. (In fact, he\u2019s willing to maximize their pain<\/a>).\n<\/ol>\n
(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Excusing Abuse as Political Strategy<\/a><\/h2>\nMegyn Kelly and the rot within the GOP<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Fix Homelessness: Springs Rescue Mission: More Than Food and a Bed<\/a><\/h2>\n“We gently incentivize them to improve their mental, physical, and spiritual health, as well as their prospects for employment and housing. These activities can be characterized as relief, restoration, and reintegration.\u2026Relief is something we do for<\/em> people. They\u2019re starving; we feed them. They haven\u2019t slept safely in weeks; we give them a safe place. Restoration and reintegration are things we do with<\/em> people. We help them make progress toward housing, health, and work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n(Fix Homelessness more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMarvin Olasky: Helping without hurting those who are homeless<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Marisa Kabas: WH claims ‘inflation tamed,’ per DoorDash stats. Company says that’s not in its report.<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nHamermesh explained that the DoorDash report is \u201chardly representative of what the average person buys each month,\u201d and was flabbergasted that the White House would extrapolate larger meaning from it. \u201cI’m quite sure as long as we don’t have the national information, these guys will cherry-pick information that makes them look good,\u201d Hamermesh said. \u201cAnd there’s always something that makes you look good\u2014even in a recession.\u201d
\n(Marisa Kabas more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Intercept: Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention<\/a><\/h2>\nOne woman’s husband was taken from his job as an ambulance paramedic two years ago. She waited after the ceasefire, but he never came home.
\n(Intercept more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Patricia J Wentzel: My kid might get shot. I’m not calling 911.<\/a><\/h2>\nAlternatives to 911 in Behavioral Health Emergencies<\/p>\n
(Patricia J Wentzel more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Chief Rick Myers (Ret.): I was a police chief in seven cities. Here\u2019s how ICE undermines local law enforcement.<\/a><\/h2>\nI was sworn in as a police officer in 1977, and since then, I\u2019ve led police departments as small as five officers and as large as over 1,000 employees in a major city. So I speak from a lifetime of experience when I say: You will not find a police officer in the US who opposes deporting immigrants who break the law. Why would we want immigrants who commit crimes here in the US?<\/p>\n
However, the overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants in the US fly below the radar, and don\u2019t break criminal laws; unlawful presence under Federal Law is not even a criminal violation, and unlawful entry for a first offense is a misdemeanor. Most lead normal lives and start families. They go to work, pay taxes, send money home to help people, and take jobs many American citizens don\u2019t want and won\u2019t do. If anything, they tend to be far more conscientious not to break the law, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n
At the start of Donald Trump\u2019s second term, the federal government said that ICE would prioritize going after the \u201cworst of the worst<\/a>\u201d, which again, police officers strongly support. Instead, we\u2019re seeing thousands of non-criminals being detained. Of course, ICE has the authority to detain anyone here in the country who is undocumented, but why not prioritize pursuing the hardened criminals first?
\n(Chief Rick Myers (Ret.) more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Independent: Trump admits he didn\u2019t have to tear down East Wing for ballroom, but just wanted to<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Ken Klippenstein: Trump Slaps Antifa With First-Ever Foreign Terror Label<\/a><\/h2>\nMove cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused “anti-Christianity,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Americanism”<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
CNN: What to know about the judge’s key questions in the Halligan hearing<\/a><\/h2>\nemptywheel: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Seven Times 18-Minute Gap<\/a><\/h2>\nAbove the Law: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Day In Court<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
NY Times: Far Right\u2019s Fixation on Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Reaches F.B.I.\u2019s Top Ranks<\/a><\/h2>\nFor all his bluster, the F.B.I.\u2019s deputy director Dan Bongino played a central role in stoking expectations that the bureau would quickly find the suspects who planted pipe bombs.
\n…<\/p>\n
For some of Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters, the case \u2014 an overshadowed sideshow to most Americans \u2014 is an important missing link that might prove the pipe bombs were an inside job by deep-state law enforcement and intelligence officials intended to discredit the far right.<\/p>\n
That, according their logic, would prove the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was not an attempt to overturn the election by Trump supporters, as hundreds of successful prosecutions overwhelmingly proved.<\/p>\n
The pipe bomb case was never likely to rival the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier, in scope, public interest or political importance. But both cases share a key characteristic: They spawned conspiracy theories that were promoted, to one degree or another, by Trump loyalists now occupying top positions in the F.B.I. and Justice Department.<\/p>\n
Mr. Bongino and his boss, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, promised to pursue investigations based on fictional or exaggerated premises<\/a>, pledging to reveal deep-state secrets and vowing swift vengeance on their enemies.
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated news excerpts & citations Rachel Hurley: Start Here: Welcome to The GriftMatrix Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s estate. Democrats on the committee cherry-picked three emails to release first, all mentioning Donald Trump. Republicans followed hours later with the full dump. The White House immediately called it a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6823,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions\/6823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(Rachel Hurley more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
GriftMatrix<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/a><\/p>\nRachel Hurley: Why Was a Former Treasury Secretary Asking a Sex Trafficker About Trump?<\/a><\/h2>\nIn the 23,000 documents released this week, there\u2019s an email from July 2018, right after the Helsinki summit where Trump met with Putin. It raises a question worth examining.<\/p>\n
Why was Larry Summers asking Jeffrey Epstein if the Russians had kompromat on Trump?
\n(Rachel Hurley more…)<\/a><\/p>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h4>\n
\n\n- \n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nWe are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.<\/p>\n
That spin has been hard at work in the past few days over the economy. Trump is clearly worried that the Supreme Court is going to find that much of his tariff war is unconstitutional, as the direction of the justices\u2019 questioning in its November 5 hearing suggested. On Monday he claimed that the U.S. would have to pay back \u201cin excess of $2 Trillion Dollars\u201d if the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unconstitutional, and that \u201cwould be a National Security catastrophe.\u201d He blamed \u201cAnarchists and Thugs\u201d for putting the U.S. into a \u201cterrible situation\u201d by challenging his tariffs. Hours later, he increased the number to $3 Trillion\u2014the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the number was actually about $195 billion.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, White House officials suggested they would never be able to release October\u2019s jobs report or inflation numbers, blaming the Democrats. They did, however, claim that prices are \u201cbeginning to drop,\u201d citing DoorDash, the delivery platform, as their source.<\/p>\n
The administration has justified its violence against undocumented immigrants by insisting those they round up are violent criminals, \u201cthe worst of the worst.\u201d That claim is increasingly exposed as a lie, and Americans are pushing back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson: The govt’s deranged social media presence<\/a><\/h2>\n“You see Trump administration accounts that look like they\u2019re literally run by Groypers,” Charlie Warzel tells us.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s safe to say that when the president of the United States is posting an AI-generated video of him dropping feces on Americans from a fighter jet, something is wrong.<\/p>\n
<\/a>But, as we all know, something has been wrong for a long time.<\/p>\nTrump\u2019s use of social media has always been disturbing and bizarre, even if it feels like things have gotten worse over time. Now, however, he\u2019s remaking government social media accounts in his own deranged image.<\/p>\n
Consider this recent Department of Homeland Security tweet that characterizes immigrants as a plague to be destroyed by ICE.
\n(Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: Frightening Wake-up for MAGA<\/a><\/h2>\nScandal, corruption, chaos, and cruelty define the Trump regime<\/p>\n
As the government reopens, five stubborn realities greet the Republicans, less than 10 months into Donald Trump\u2019s shambolic presidency:<\/p>\n
\n- The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has exploded with incriminating new emails<\/a> that undermine Trump\u2019s feigned ignorance about the pedophile ring and put Attorney General Pam Bondi in extreme jeopardy.\n
- The job market has crumbled<\/a>.\n
- The affordability crisis is getting worse, with health insurance costs set to skyrocket<\/a> absent a MAGA humiliating about-face.\n
- The rich and Trump-connected are making out like bandits.\n
- The increasingly decrepit president couldn\u2019t care less about Americans. (In fact, he\u2019s willing to maximize their pain<\/a>).\n<\/ol>\n
(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Excusing Abuse as Political Strategy<\/a><\/h2>\nMegyn Kelly and the rot within the GOP<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Fix Homelessness: Springs Rescue Mission: More Than Food and a Bed<\/a><\/h2>\n“We gently incentivize them to improve their mental, physical, and spiritual health, as well as their prospects for employment and housing. These activities can be characterized as relief, restoration, and reintegration.\u2026Relief is something we do for<\/em> people. They\u2019re starving; we feed them. They haven\u2019t slept safely in weeks; we give them a safe place. Restoration and reintegration are things we do with<\/em> people. We help them make progress toward housing, health, and work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n(Fix Homelessness more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMarvin Olasky: Helping without hurting those who are homeless<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Marisa Kabas: WH claims ‘inflation tamed,’ per DoorDash stats. Company says that’s not in its report.<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nHamermesh explained that the DoorDash report is \u201chardly representative of what the average person buys each month,\u201d and was flabbergasted that the White House would extrapolate larger meaning from it. \u201cI’m quite sure as long as we don’t have the national information, these guys will cherry-pick information that makes them look good,\u201d Hamermesh said. \u201cAnd there’s always something that makes you look good\u2014even in a recession.\u201d
\n(Marisa Kabas more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Intercept: Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention<\/a><\/h2>\nOne woman’s husband was taken from his job as an ambulance paramedic two years ago. She waited after the ceasefire, but he never came home.
\n(Intercept more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Patricia J Wentzel: My kid might get shot. I’m not calling 911.<\/a><\/h2>\nAlternatives to 911 in Behavioral Health Emergencies<\/p>\n
(Patricia J Wentzel more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Chief Rick Myers (Ret.): I was a police chief in seven cities. Here\u2019s how ICE undermines local law enforcement.<\/a><\/h2>\nI was sworn in as a police officer in 1977, and since then, I\u2019ve led police departments as small as five officers and as large as over 1,000 employees in a major city. So I speak from a lifetime of experience when I say: You will not find a police officer in the US who opposes deporting immigrants who break the law. Why would we want immigrants who commit crimes here in the US?<\/p>\n
However, the overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants in the US fly below the radar, and don\u2019t break criminal laws; unlawful presence under Federal Law is not even a criminal violation, and unlawful entry for a first offense is a misdemeanor. Most lead normal lives and start families. They go to work, pay taxes, send money home to help people, and take jobs many American citizens don\u2019t want and won\u2019t do. If anything, they tend to be far more conscientious not to break the law, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n
At the start of Donald Trump\u2019s second term, the federal government said that ICE would prioritize going after the \u201cworst of the worst<\/a>\u201d, which again, police officers strongly support. Instead, we\u2019re seeing thousands of non-criminals being detained. Of course, ICE has the authority to detain anyone here in the country who is undocumented, but why not prioritize pursuing the hardened criminals first?
\n(Chief Rick Myers (Ret.) more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Independent: Trump admits he didn\u2019t have to tear down East Wing for ballroom, but just wanted to<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Ken Klippenstein: Trump Slaps Antifa With First-Ever Foreign Terror Label<\/a><\/h2>\nMove cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused “anti-Christianity,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Americanism”<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
CNN: What to know about the judge’s key questions in the Halligan hearing<\/a><\/h2>\nemptywheel: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Seven Times 18-Minute Gap<\/a><\/h2>\nAbove the Law: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Day In Court<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
NY Times: Far Right\u2019s Fixation on Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Reaches F.B.I.\u2019s Top Ranks<\/a><\/h2>\nFor all his bluster, the F.B.I.\u2019s deputy director Dan Bongino played a central role in stoking expectations that the bureau would quickly find the suspects who planted pipe bombs.
\n…<\/p>\n
For some of Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters, the case \u2014 an overshadowed sideshow to most Americans \u2014 is an important missing link that might prove the pipe bombs were an inside job by deep-state law enforcement and intelligence officials intended to discredit the far right.<\/p>\n
That, according their logic, would prove the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was not an attempt to overturn the election by Trump supporters, as hundreds of successful prosecutions overwhelmingly proved.<\/p>\n
The pipe bomb case was never likely to rival the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier, in scope, public interest or political importance. But both cases share a key characteristic: They spawned conspiracy theories that were promoted, to one degree or another, by Trump loyalists now occupying top positions in the F.B.I. and Justice Department.<\/p>\n
Mr. Bongino and his boss, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, promised to pursue investigations based on fictional or exaggerated premises<\/a>, pledging to reveal deep-state secrets and vowing swift vengeance on their enemies.
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated news excerpts & citations Rachel Hurley: Start Here: Welcome to The GriftMatrix Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s estate. Democrats on the committee cherry-picked three emails to release first, all mentioning Donald Trump. Republicans followed hours later with the full dump. The White House immediately called it a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6823,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions\/6823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a><\/p>\nRachel Hurley: Why Was a Former Treasury Secretary Asking a Sex Trafficker About Trump?<\/a><\/h2>\nIn the 23,000 documents released this week, there\u2019s an email from July 2018, right after the Helsinki summit where Trump met with Putin. It raises a question worth examining.<\/p>\n
Why was Larry Summers asking Jeffrey Epstein if the Russians had kompromat on Trump?
\n(Rachel Hurley more…)<\/a><\/p>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h4>\n
\n\n- \n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nWe are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.<\/p>\n
That spin has been hard at work in the past few days over the economy. Trump is clearly worried that the Supreme Court is going to find that much of his tariff war is unconstitutional, as the direction of the justices\u2019 questioning in its November 5 hearing suggested. On Monday he claimed that the U.S. would have to pay back \u201cin excess of $2 Trillion Dollars\u201d if the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unconstitutional, and that \u201cwould be a National Security catastrophe.\u201d He blamed \u201cAnarchists and Thugs\u201d for putting the U.S. into a \u201cterrible situation\u201d by challenging his tariffs. Hours later, he increased the number to $3 Trillion\u2014the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the number was actually about $195 billion.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, White House officials suggested they would never be able to release October\u2019s jobs report or inflation numbers, blaming the Democrats. They did, however, claim that prices are \u201cbeginning to drop,\u201d citing DoorDash, the delivery platform, as their source.<\/p>\n
The administration has justified its violence against undocumented immigrants by insisting those they round up are violent criminals, \u201cthe worst of the worst.\u201d That claim is increasingly exposed as a lie, and Americans are pushing back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson: The govt’s deranged social media presence<\/a><\/h2>\n“You see Trump administration accounts that look like they\u2019re literally run by Groypers,” Charlie Warzel tells us.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s safe to say that when the president of the United States is posting an AI-generated video of him dropping feces on Americans from a fighter jet, something is wrong.<\/p>\n
<\/a>But, as we all know, something has been wrong for a long time.<\/p>\nTrump\u2019s use of social media has always been disturbing and bizarre, even if it feels like things have gotten worse over time. Now, however, he\u2019s remaking government social media accounts in his own deranged image.<\/p>\n
Consider this recent Department of Homeland Security tweet that characterizes immigrants as a plague to be destroyed by ICE.
\n(Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: Frightening Wake-up for MAGA<\/a><\/h2>\nScandal, corruption, chaos, and cruelty define the Trump regime<\/p>\n
As the government reopens, five stubborn realities greet the Republicans, less than 10 months into Donald Trump\u2019s shambolic presidency:<\/p>\n
\n- The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has exploded with incriminating new emails<\/a> that undermine Trump\u2019s feigned ignorance about the pedophile ring and put Attorney General Pam Bondi in extreme jeopardy.\n
- The job market has crumbled<\/a>.\n
- The affordability crisis is getting worse, with health insurance costs set to skyrocket<\/a> absent a MAGA humiliating about-face.\n
- The rich and Trump-connected are making out like bandits.\n
- The increasingly decrepit president couldn\u2019t care less about Americans. (In fact, he\u2019s willing to maximize their pain<\/a>).\n<\/ol>\n
(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Excusing Abuse as Political Strategy<\/a><\/h2>\nMegyn Kelly and the rot within the GOP<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Fix Homelessness: Springs Rescue Mission: More Than Food and a Bed<\/a><\/h2>\n“We gently incentivize them to improve their mental, physical, and spiritual health, as well as their prospects for employment and housing. These activities can be characterized as relief, restoration, and reintegration.\u2026Relief is something we do for<\/em> people. They\u2019re starving; we feed them. They haven\u2019t slept safely in weeks; we give them a safe place. Restoration and reintegration are things we do with<\/em> people. We help them make progress toward housing, health, and work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n(Fix Homelessness more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMarvin Olasky: Helping without hurting those who are homeless<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Marisa Kabas: WH claims ‘inflation tamed,’ per DoorDash stats. Company says that’s not in its report.<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nHamermesh explained that the DoorDash report is \u201chardly representative of what the average person buys each month,\u201d and was flabbergasted that the White House would extrapolate larger meaning from it. \u201cI’m quite sure as long as we don’t have the national information, these guys will cherry-pick information that makes them look good,\u201d Hamermesh said. \u201cAnd there’s always something that makes you look good\u2014even in a recession.\u201d
\n(Marisa Kabas more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Intercept: Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention<\/a><\/h2>\nOne woman’s husband was taken from his job as an ambulance paramedic two years ago. She waited after the ceasefire, but he never came home.
\n(Intercept more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Patricia J Wentzel: My kid might get shot. I’m not calling 911.<\/a><\/h2>\nAlternatives to 911 in Behavioral Health Emergencies<\/p>\n
(Patricia J Wentzel more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Chief Rick Myers (Ret.): I was a police chief in seven cities. Here\u2019s how ICE undermines local law enforcement.<\/a><\/h2>\nI was sworn in as a police officer in 1977, and since then, I\u2019ve led police departments as small as five officers and as large as over 1,000 employees in a major city. So I speak from a lifetime of experience when I say: You will not find a police officer in the US who opposes deporting immigrants who break the law. Why would we want immigrants who commit crimes here in the US?<\/p>\n
However, the overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants in the US fly below the radar, and don\u2019t break criminal laws; unlawful presence under Federal Law is not even a criminal violation, and unlawful entry for a first offense is a misdemeanor. Most lead normal lives and start families. They go to work, pay taxes, send money home to help people, and take jobs many American citizens don\u2019t want and won\u2019t do. If anything, they tend to be far more conscientious not to break the law, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n
At the start of Donald Trump\u2019s second term, the federal government said that ICE would prioritize going after the \u201cworst of the worst<\/a>\u201d, which again, police officers strongly support. Instead, we\u2019re seeing thousands of non-criminals being detained. Of course, ICE has the authority to detain anyone here in the country who is undocumented, but why not prioritize pursuing the hardened criminals first?
\n(Chief Rick Myers (Ret.) more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Independent: Trump admits he didn\u2019t have to tear down East Wing for ballroom, but just wanted to<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Ken Klippenstein: Trump Slaps Antifa With First-Ever Foreign Terror Label<\/a><\/h2>\nMove cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused “anti-Christianity,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Americanism”<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
CNN: What to know about the judge’s key questions in the Halligan hearing<\/a><\/h2>\nemptywheel: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Seven Times 18-Minute Gap<\/a><\/h2>\nAbove the Law: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Day In Court<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
NY Times: Far Right\u2019s Fixation on Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Reaches F.B.I.\u2019s Top Ranks<\/a><\/h2>\nFor all his bluster, the F.B.I.\u2019s deputy director Dan Bongino played a central role in stoking expectations that the bureau would quickly find the suspects who planted pipe bombs.
\n…<\/p>\n
For some of Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters, the case \u2014 an overshadowed sideshow to most Americans \u2014 is an important missing link that might prove the pipe bombs were an inside job by deep-state law enforcement and intelligence officials intended to discredit the far right.<\/p>\n
That, according their logic, would prove the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was not an attempt to overturn the election by Trump supporters, as hundreds of successful prosecutions overwhelmingly proved.<\/p>\n
The pipe bomb case was never likely to rival the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier, in scope, public interest or political importance. But both cases share a key characteristic: They spawned conspiracy theories that were promoted, to one degree or another, by Trump loyalists now occupying top positions in the F.B.I. and Justice Department.<\/p>\n
Mr. Bongino and his boss, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, promised to pursue investigations based on fictional or exaggerated premises<\/a>, pledging to reveal deep-state secrets and vowing swift vengeance on their enemies.
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated news excerpts & citations Rachel Hurley: Start Here: Welcome to The GriftMatrix Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s estate. Democrats on the committee cherry-picked three emails to release first, all mentioning Donald Trump. Republicans followed hours later with the full dump. The White House immediately called it a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6823,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions\/6823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(Rachel Hurley more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
GriftMatrix<\/a><\/h4>\n
\n\n- \n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nWe are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.<\/p>\n
That spin has been hard at work in the past few days over the economy. Trump is clearly worried that the Supreme Court is going to find that much of his tariff war is unconstitutional, as the direction of the justices\u2019 questioning in its November 5 hearing suggested. On Monday he claimed that the U.S. would have to pay back \u201cin excess of $2 Trillion Dollars\u201d if the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unconstitutional, and that \u201cwould be a National Security catastrophe.\u201d He blamed \u201cAnarchists and Thugs\u201d for putting the U.S. into a \u201cterrible situation\u201d by challenging his tariffs. Hours later, he increased the number to $3 Trillion\u2014the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the number was actually about $195 billion.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, White House officials suggested they would never be able to release October\u2019s jobs report or inflation numbers, blaming the Democrats. They did, however, claim that prices are \u201cbeginning to drop,\u201d citing DoorDash, the delivery platform, as their source.<\/p>\n
The administration has justified its violence against undocumented immigrants by insisting those they round up are violent criminals, \u201cthe worst of the worst.\u201d That claim is increasingly exposed as a lie, and Americans are pushing back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson: The govt’s deranged social media presence<\/a><\/h2>\n“You see Trump administration accounts that look like they\u2019re literally run by Groypers,” Charlie Warzel tells us.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s safe to say that when the president of the United States is posting an AI-generated video of him dropping feces on Americans from a fighter jet, something is wrong.<\/p>\n
<\/a>But, as we all know, something has been wrong for a long time.<\/p>\nTrump\u2019s use of social media has always been disturbing and bizarre, even if it feels like things have gotten worse over time. Now, however, he\u2019s remaking government social media accounts in his own deranged image.<\/p>\n
Consider this recent Department of Homeland Security tweet that characterizes immigrants as a plague to be destroyed by ICE.
\n(Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: Frightening Wake-up for MAGA<\/a><\/h2>\nScandal, corruption, chaos, and cruelty define the Trump regime<\/p>\n
As the government reopens, five stubborn realities greet the Republicans, less than 10 months into Donald Trump\u2019s shambolic presidency:<\/p>\n
\n- The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has exploded with incriminating new emails<\/a> that undermine Trump\u2019s feigned ignorance about the pedophile ring and put Attorney General Pam Bondi in extreme jeopardy.\n
- The job market has crumbled<\/a>.\n
- The affordability crisis is getting worse, with health insurance costs set to skyrocket<\/a> absent a MAGA humiliating about-face.\n
- The rich and Trump-connected are making out like bandits.\n
- The increasingly decrepit president couldn\u2019t care less about Americans. (In fact, he\u2019s willing to maximize their pain<\/a>).\n<\/ol>\n
(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Excusing Abuse as Political Strategy<\/a><\/h2>\nMegyn Kelly and the rot within the GOP<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Fix Homelessness: Springs Rescue Mission: More Than Food and a Bed<\/a><\/h2>\n“We gently incentivize them to improve their mental, physical, and spiritual health, as well as their prospects for employment and housing. These activities can be characterized as relief, restoration, and reintegration.\u2026Relief is something we do for<\/em> people. They\u2019re starving; we feed them. They haven\u2019t slept safely in weeks; we give them a safe place. Restoration and reintegration are things we do with<\/em> people. We help them make progress toward housing, health, and work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n(Fix Homelessness more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMarvin Olasky: Helping without hurting those who are homeless<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Marisa Kabas: WH claims ‘inflation tamed,’ per DoorDash stats. Company says that’s not in its report.<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nHamermesh explained that the DoorDash report is \u201chardly representative of what the average person buys each month,\u201d and was flabbergasted that the White House would extrapolate larger meaning from it. \u201cI’m quite sure as long as we don’t have the national information, these guys will cherry-pick information that makes them look good,\u201d Hamermesh said. \u201cAnd there’s always something that makes you look good\u2014even in a recession.\u201d
\n(Marisa Kabas more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Intercept: Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention<\/a><\/h2>\nOne woman’s husband was taken from his job as an ambulance paramedic two years ago. She waited after the ceasefire, but he never came home.
\n(Intercept more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Patricia J Wentzel: My kid might get shot. I’m not calling 911.<\/a><\/h2>\nAlternatives to 911 in Behavioral Health Emergencies<\/p>\n
(Patricia J Wentzel more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Chief Rick Myers (Ret.): I was a police chief in seven cities. Here\u2019s how ICE undermines local law enforcement.<\/a><\/h2>\nI was sworn in as a police officer in 1977, and since then, I\u2019ve led police departments as small as five officers and as large as over 1,000 employees in a major city. So I speak from a lifetime of experience when I say: You will not find a police officer in the US who opposes deporting immigrants who break the law. Why would we want immigrants who commit crimes here in the US?<\/p>\n
However, the overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants in the US fly below the radar, and don\u2019t break criminal laws; unlawful presence under Federal Law is not even a criminal violation, and unlawful entry for a first offense is a misdemeanor. Most lead normal lives and start families. They go to work, pay taxes, send money home to help people, and take jobs many American citizens don\u2019t want and won\u2019t do. If anything, they tend to be far more conscientious not to break the law, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n
At the start of Donald Trump\u2019s second term, the federal government said that ICE would prioritize going after the \u201cworst of the worst<\/a>\u201d, which again, police officers strongly support. Instead, we\u2019re seeing thousands of non-criminals being detained. Of course, ICE has the authority to detain anyone here in the country who is undocumented, but why not prioritize pursuing the hardened criminals first?
\n(Chief Rick Myers (Ret.) more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Independent: Trump admits he didn\u2019t have to tear down East Wing for ballroom, but just wanted to<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Ken Klippenstein: Trump Slaps Antifa With First-Ever Foreign Terror Label<\/a><\/h2>\nMove cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused “anti-Christianity,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Americanism”<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
CNN: What to know about the judge’s key questions in the Halligan hearing<\/a><\/h2>\nemptywheel: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Seven Times 18-Minute Gap<\/a><\/h2>\nAbove the Law: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Day In Court<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
NY Times: Far Right\u2019s Fixation on Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Reaches F.B.I.\u2019s Top Ranks<\/a><\/h2>\nFor all his bluster, the F.B.I.\u2019s deputy director Dan Bongino played a central role in stoking expectations that the bureau would quickly find the suspects who planted pipe bombs.
\n…<\/p>\n
For some of Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters, the case \u2014 an overshadowed sideshow to most Americans \u2014 is an important missing link that might prove the pipe bombs were an inside job by deep-state law enforcement and intelligence officials intended to discredit the far right.<\/p>\n
That, according their logic, would prove the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was not an attempt to overturn the election by Trump supporters, as hundreds of successful prosecutions overwhelmingly proved.<\/p>\n
The pipe bomb case was never likely to rival the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier, in scope, public interest or political importance. But both cases share a key characteristic: They spawned conspiracy theories that were promoted, to one degree or another, by Trump loyalists now occupying top positions in the F.B.I. and Justice Department.<\/p>\n
Mr. Bongino and his boss, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, promised to pursue investigations based on fictional or exaggerated premises<\/a>, pledging to reveal deep-state secrets and vowing swift vengeance on their enemies.
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated news excerpts & citations Rachel Hurley: Start Here: Welcome to The GriftMatrix Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s estate. Democrats on the committee cherry-picked three emails to release first, all mentioning Donald Trump. Republicans followed hours later with the full dump. The White House immediately called it a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6823,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions\/6823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 13, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\nWe are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one.<\/p>\n
That spin has been hard at work in the past few days over the economy. Trump is clearly worried that the Supreme Court is going to find that much of his tariff war is unconstitutional, as the direction of the justices\u2019 questioning in its November 5 hearing suggested. On Monday he claimed that the U.S. would have to pay back \u201cin excess of $2 Trillion Dollars\u201d if the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unconstitutional, and that \u201cwould be a National Security catastrophe.\u201d He blamed \u201cAnarchists and Thugs\u201d for putting the U.S. into a \u201cterrible situation\u201d by challenging his tariffs. Hours later, he increased the number to $3 Trillion\u2014the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the number was actually about $195 billion.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, White House officials suggested they would never be able to release October\u2019s jobs report or inflation numbers, blaming the Democrats. They did, however, claim that prices are \u201cbeginning to drop,\u201d citing DoorDash, the delivery platform, as their source.<\/p>\n
The administration has justified its violence against undocumented immigrants by insisting those they round up are violent criminals, \u201cthe worst of the worst.\u201d That claim is increasingly exposed as a lie, and Americans are pushing back.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson: The govt’s deranged social media presence<\/a><\/h2>\n“You see Trump administration accounts that look like they\u2019re literally run by Groypers,” Charlie Warzel tells us.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s safe to say that when the president of the United States is posting an AI-generated video of him dropping feces on Americans from a fighter jet, something is wrong.<\/p>\n
<\/a>But, as we all know, something has been wrong for a long time.<\/p>\nTrump\u2019s use of social media has always been disturbing and bizarre, even if it feels like things have gotten worse over time. Now, however, he\u2019s remaking government social media accounts in his own deranged image.<\/p>\n
Consider this recent Department of Homeland Security tweet that characterizes immigrants as a plague to be destroyed by ICE.
\n(Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: Frightening Wake-up for MAGA<\/a><\/h2>\nScandal, corruption, chaos, and cruelty define the Trump regime<\/p>\n
As the government reopens, five stubborn realities greet the Republicans, less than 10 months into Donald Trump\u2019s shambolic presidency:<\/p>\n
\n- The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has exploded with incriminating new emails<\/a> that undermine Trump\u2019s feigned ignorance about the pedophile ring and put Attorney General Pam Bondi in extreme jeopardy.\n
- The job market has crumbled<\/a>.\n
- The affordability crisis is getting worse, with health insurance costs set to skyrocket<\/a> absent a MAGA humiliating about-face.\n
- The rich and Trump-connected are making out like bandits.\n
- The increasingly decrepit president couldn\u2019t care less about Americans. (In fact, he\u2019s willing to maximize their pain<\/a>).\n<\/ol>\n
(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Excusing Abuse as Political Strategy<\/a><\/h2>\nMegyn Kelly and the rot within the GOP<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Fix Homelessness: Springs Rescue Mission: More Than Food and a Bed<\/a><\/h2>\n“We gently incentivize them to improve their mental, physical, and spiritual health, as well as their prospects for employment and housing. These activities can be characterized as relief, restoration, and reintegration.\u2026Relief is something we do for<\/em> people. They\u2019re starving; we feed them. They haven\u2019t slept safely in weeks; we give them a safe place. Restoration and reintegration are things we do with<\/em> people. We help them make progress toward housing, health, and work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n(Fix Homelessness more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMarvin Olasky: Helping without hurting those who are homeless<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Marisa Kabas: WH claims ‘inflation tamed,’ per DoorDash stats. Company says that’s not in its report.<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nHamermesh explained that the DoorDash report is \u201chardly representative of what the average person buys each month,\u201d and was flabbergasted that the White House would extrapolate larger meaning from it. \u201cI’m quite sure as long as we don’t have the national information, these guys will cherry-pick information that makes them look good,\u201d Hamermesh said. \u201cAnd there’s always something that makes you look good\u2014even in a recession.\u201d
\n(Marisa Kabas more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Intercept: Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention<\/a><\/h2>\nOne woman’s husband was taken from his job as an ambulance paramedic two years ago. She waited after the ceasefire, but he never came home.
\n(Intercept more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Patricia J Wentzel: My kid might get shot. I’m not calling 911.<\/a><\/h2>\nAlternatives to 911 in Behavioral Health Emergencies<\/p>\n
(Patricia J Wentzel more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Chief Rick Myers (Ret.): I was a police chief in seven cities. Here\u2019s how ICE undermines local law enforcement.<\/a><\/h2>\nI was sworn in as a police officer in 1977, and since then, I\u2019ve led police departments as small as five officers and as large as over 1,000 employees in a major city. So I speak from a lifetime of experience when I say: You will not find a police officer in the US who opposes deporting immigrants who break the law. Why would we want immigrants who commit crimes here in the US?<\/p>\n
However, the overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants in the US fly below the radar, and don\u2019t break criminal laws; unlawful presence under Federal Law is not even a criminal violation, and unlawful entry for a first offense is a misdemeanor. Most lead normal lives and start families. They go to work, pay taxes, send money home to help people, and take jobs many American citizens don\u2019t want and won\u2019t do. If anything, they tend to be far more conscientious not to break the law, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n
At the start of Donald Trump\u2019s second term, the federal government said that ICE would prioritize going after the \u201cworst of the worst<\/a>\u201d, which again, police officers strongly support. Instead, we\u2019re seeing thousands of non-criminals being detained. Of course, ICE has the authority to detain anyone here in the country who is undocumented, but why not prioritize pursuing the hardened criminals first?
\n(Chief Rick Myers (Ret.) more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Independent: Trump admits he didn\u2019t have to tear down East Wing for ballroom, but just wanted to<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Ken Klippenstein: Trump Slaps Antifa With First-Ever Foreign Terror Label<\/a><\/h2>\nMove cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused “anti-Christianity,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Americanism”<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
CNN: What to know about the judge’s key questions in the Halligan hearing<\/a><\/h2>\nemptywheel: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Seven Times 18-Minute Gap<\/a><\/h2>\nAbove the Law: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Day In Court<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
NY Times: Far Right\u2019s Fixation on Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Reaches F.B.I.\u2019s Top Ranks<\/a><\/h2>\nFor all his bluster, the F.B.I.\u2019s deputy director Dan Bongino played a central role in stoking expectations that the bureau would quickly find the suspects who planted pipe bombs.
\n…<\/p>\n
For some of Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters, the case \u2014 an overshadowed sideshow to most Americans \u2014 is an important missing link that might prove the pipe bombs were an inside job by deep-state law enforcement and intelligence officials intended to discredit the far right.<\/p>\n
That, according their logic, would prove the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was not an attempt to overturn the election by Trump supporters, as hundreds of successful prosecutions overwhelmingly proved.<\/p>\n
The pipe bomb case was never likely to rival the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier, in scope, public interest or political importance. But both cases share a key characteristic: They spawned conspiracy theories that were promoted, to one degree or another, by Trump loyalists now occupying top positions in the F.B.I. and Justice Department.<\/p>\n
Mr. Bongino and his boss, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, promised to pursue investigations based on fictional or exaggerated premises<\/a>, pledging to reveal deep-state secrets and vowing swift vengeance on their enemies.
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
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\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nAaron Rupar and Thor Benson: The govt’s deranged social media presence<\/a><\/h2>\n“You see Trump administration accounts that look like they\u2019re literally run by Groypers,” Charlie Warzel tells us.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s safe to say that when the president of the United States is posting an AI-generated video of him dropping feces on Americans from a fighter jet, something is wrong.<\/p>\n
<\/a>But, as we all know, something has been wrong for a long time.<\/p>\nTrump\u2019s use of social media has always been disturbing and bizarre, even if it feels like things have gotten worse over time. Now, however, he\u2019s remaking government social media accounts in his own deranged image.<\/p>\n
Consider this recent Department of Homeland Security tweet that characterizes immigrants as a plague to be destroyed by ICE.
\n(Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: Frightening Wake-up for MAGA<\/a><\/h2>\nScandal, corruption, chaos, and cruelty define the Trump regime<\/p>\n
As the government reopens, five stubborn realities greet the Republicans, less than 10 months into Donald Trump\u2019s shambolic presidency:<\/p>\n
\n- The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has exploded with incriminating new emails<\/a> that undermine Trump\u2019s feigned ignorance about the pedophile ring and put Attorney General Pam Bondi in extreme jeopardy.\n
- The job market has crumbled<\/a>.\n
- The affordability crisis is getting worse, with health insurance costs set to skyrocket<\/a> absent a MAGA humiliating about-face.\n
- The rich and Trump-connected are making out like bandits.\n
- The increasingly decrepit president couldn\u2019t care less about Americans. (In fact, he\u2019s willing to maximize their pain<\/a>).\n<\/ol>\n
(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJess Piper: Excusing Abuse as Political Strategy<\/a><\/h2>\nMegyn Kelly and the rot within the GOP<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Fix Homelessness: Springs Rescue Mission: More Than Food and a Bed<\/a><\/h2>\n“We gently incentivize them to improve their mental, physical, and spiritual health, as well as their prospects for employment and housing. These activities can be characterized as relief, restoration, and reintegration.\u2026Relief is something we do for<\/em> people. They\u2019re starving; we feed them. They haven\u2019t slept safely in weeks; we give them a safe place. Restoration and reintegration are things we do with<\/em> people. We help them make progress toward housing, health, and work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n(Fix Homelessness more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMarvin Olasky: Helping without hurting those who are homeless<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Marisa Kabas: WH claims ‘inflation tamed,’ per DoorDash stats. Company says that’s not in its report.<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nHamermesh explained that the DoorDash report is \u201chardly representative of what the average person buys each month,\u201d and was flabbergasted that the White House would extrapolate larger meaning from it. \u201cI’m quite sure as long as we don’t have the national information, these guys will cherry-pick information that makes them look good,\u201d Hamermesh said. \u201cAnd there’s always something that makes you look good\u2014even in a recession.\u201d
\n(Marisa Kabas more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Intercept: Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention<\/a><\/h2>\nOne woman’s husband was taken from his job as an ambulance paramedic two years ago. She waited after the ceasefire, but he never came home.
\n(Intercept more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Patricia J Wentzel: My kid might get shot. I’m not calling 911.<\/a><\/h2>\nAlternatives to 911 in Behavioral Health Emergencies<\/p>\n
(Patricia J Wentzel more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Chief Rick Myers (Ret.): I was a police chief in seven cities. Here\u2019s how ICE undermines local law enforcement.<\/a><\/h2>\nI was sworn in as a police officer in 1977, and since then, I\u2019ve led police departments as small as five officers and as large as over 1,000 employees in a major city. So I speak from a lifetime of experience when I say: You will not find a police officer in the US who opposes deporting immigrants who break the law. Why would we want immigrants who commit crimes here in the US?<\/p>\n
However, the overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants in the US fly below the radar, and don\u2019t break criminal laws; unlawful presence under Federal Law is not even a criminal violation, and unlawful entry for a first offense is a misdemeanor. Most lead normal lives and start families. They go to work, pay taxes, send money home to help people, and take jobs many American citizens don\u2019t want and won\u2019t do. If anything, they tend to be far more conscientious not to break the law, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n
At the start of Donald Trump\u2019s second term, the federal government said that ICE would prioritize going after the \u201cworst of the worst<\/a>\u201d, which again, police officers strongly support. Instead, we\u2019re seeing thousands of non-criminals being detained. Of course, ICE has the authority to detain anyone here in the country who is undocumented, but why not prioritize pursuing the hardened criminals first?
\n(Chief Rick Myers (Ret.) more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Independent: Trump admits he didn\u2019t have to tear down East Wing for ballroom, but just wanted to<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Ken Klippenstein: Trump Slaps Antifa With First-Ever Foreign Terror Label<\/a><\/h2>\nMove cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused “anti-Christianity,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Americanism”<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
CNN: What to know about the judge’s key questions in the Halligan hearing<\/a><\/h2>\nemptywheel: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Seven Times 18-Minute Gap<\/a><\/h2>\nAbove the Law: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Day In Court<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
NY Times: Far Right\u2019s Fixation on Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Reaches F.B.I.\u2019s Top Ranks<\/a><\/h2>\nFor all his bluster, the F.B.I.\u2019s deputy director Dan Bongino played a central role in stoking expectations that the bureau would quickly find the suspects who planted pipe bombs.
\n…<\/p>\n
For some of Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters, the case \u2014 an overshadowed sideshow to most Americans \u2014 is an important missing link that might prove the pipe bombs were an inside job by deep-state law enforcement and intelligence officials intended to discredit the far right.<\/p>\n
That, according their logic, would prove the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was not an attempt to overturn the election by Trump supporters, as hundreds of successful prosecutions overwhelmingly proved.<\/p>\n
The pipe bomb case was never likely to rival the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier, in scope, public interest or political importance. But both cases share a key characteristic: They spawned conspiracy theories that were promoted, to one degree or another, by Trump loyalists now occupying top positions in the F.B.I. and Justice Department.<\/p>\n
Mr. Bongino and his boss, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, promised to pursue investigations based on fictional or exaggerated premises<\/a>, pledging to reveal deep-state secrets and vowing swift vengeance on their enemies.
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n<\/center><\/p>\n
\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated news excerpts & citations Rachel Hurley: Start Here: Welcome to The GriftMatrix Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s estate. Democrats on the committee cherry-picked three emails to release first, all mentioning Donald Trump. Republicans followed hours later with the full dump. The White House immediately called it a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6823,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions\/6823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>But, as we all know, something has been wrong for a long time.<\/p>\nTrump\u2019s use of social media has always been disturbing and bizarre, even if it feels like things have gotten worse over time. Now, however, he\u2019s remaking government social media accounts in his own deranged image.<\/p>\n
Consider this recent Department of Homeland Security tweet that characterizes immigrants as a plague to be destroyed by ICE. Scandal, corruption, chaos, and cruelty define the Trump regime<\/p>\n As the government reopens, five stubborn realities greet the Republicans, less than 10 months into Donald Trump\u2019s shambolic presidency:<\/p>\n (Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n Megyn Kelly and the rot within the GOP<\/p>\n “We gently incentivize them to improve their mental, physical, and spiritual health, as well as their prospects for employment and housing. These activities can be characterized as relief, restoration, and reintegration.\u2026Relief is something we do for<\/em> people. They\u2019re starving; we feed them. They haven\u2019t slept safely in weeks; we give them a safe place. Restoration and reintegration are things we do with<\/em> people. We help them make progress toward housing, health, and work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n (Fix Homelessness more…)<\/a><\/p>\n … One woman’s husband was taken from his job as an ambulance paramedic two years ago. She waited after the ceasefire, but he never came home. Alternatives to 911 in Behavioral Health Emergencies<\/p>\n (Patricia J Wentzel more…)<\/a><\/p>\n I was sworn in as a police officer in 1977, and since then, I\u2019ve led police departments as small as five officers and as large as over 1,000 employees in a major city. So I speak from a lifetime of experience when I say: You will not find a police officer in the US who opposes deporting immigrants who break the law. Why would we want immigrants who commit crimes here in the US?<\/p>\n However, the overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants in the US fly below the radar, and don\u2019t break criminal laws; unlawful presence under Federal Law is not even a criminal violation, and unlawful entry for a first offense is a misdemeanor. Most lead normal lives and start families. They go to work, pay taxes, send money home to help people, and take jobs many American citizens don\u2019t want and won\u2019t do. If anything, they tend to be far more conscientious not to break the law, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n At the start of Donald Trump\u2019s second term, the federal government said that ICE would prioritize going after the \u201cworst of the worst<\/a>\u201d, which again, police officers strongly support. Instead, we\u2019re seeing thousands of non-criminals being detained. Of course, ICE has the authority to detain anyone here in the country who is undocumented, but why not prioritize pursuing the hardened criminals first? Move cites NSPM-7, saying four European Antifa groups espoused “anti-Christianity,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Americanism”<\/p>\n For all his bluster, the F.B.I.\u2019s deputy director Dan Bongino played a central role in stoking expectations that the bureau would quickly find the suspects who planted pipe bombs. For some of Mr. Trump\u2019s supporters, the case \u2014 an overshadowed sideshow to most Americans \u2014 is an important missing link that might prove the pipe bombs were an inside job by deep-state law enforcement and intelligence officials intended to discredit the far right.<\/p>\n That, according their logic, would prove the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was not an attempt to overturn the election by Trump supporters, as hundreds of successful prosecutions overwhelmingly proved.<\/p>\n The pipe bomb case was never likely to rival the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier, in scope, public interest or political importance. But both cases share a key characteristic: They spawned conspiracy theories that were promoted, to one degree or another, by Trump loyalists now occupying top positions in the F.B.I. and Justice Department.<\/p>\n Mr. Bongino and his boss, Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, promised to pursue investigations based on fictional or exaggerated premises<\/a>, pledging to reveal deep-state secrets and vowing swift vengeance on their enemies. <\/center><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" curated news excerpts & citations Rachel Hurley: Start Here: Welcome to The GriftMatrix Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 documents from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s estate. Democrats on the committee cherry-picked three emails to release first, all mentioning Donald Trump. Republicans followed hours later with the full dump. 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\n(Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nJennifer Rubin: Frightening Wake-up for MAGA<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Jess Piper: Excusing Abuse as Political Strategy<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nFix Homelessness: Springs Rescue Mission: More Than Food and a Bed<\/a><\/h2>\n
Marvin Olasky: Helping without hurting those who are homeless<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nMarisa Kabas: WH claims ‘inflation tamed,’ per DoorDash stats. Company says that’s not in its report.<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nHamermesh explained that the DoorDash report is \u201chardly representative of what the average person buys each month,\u201d and was flabbergasted that the White House would extrapolate larger meaning from it. \u201cI’m quite sure as long as we don’t have the national information, these guys will cherry-pick information that makes them look good,\u201d Hamermesh said. \u201cAnd there’s always something that makes you look good\u2014even in a recession.\u201d
\n(Marisa Kabas more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nIntercept: Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Intercept more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nPatricia J Wentzel: My kid might get shot. I’m not calling 911.<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nChief Rick Myers (Ret.): I was a police chief in seven cities. Here\u2019s how ICE undermines local law enforcement.<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Chief Rick Myers (Ret.) more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nIndependent: Trump admits he didn\u2019t have to tear down East Wing for ballroom, but just wanted to<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nKen Klippenstein: Trump Slaps Antifa With First-Ever Foreign Terror Label<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nCNN: What to know about the judge’s key questions in the Halligan hearing<\/a><\/h2>\n
emptywheel: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Seven Times 18-Minute Gap<\/a><\/h2>\n
Above the Law: Lindsey Halligan\u2019s Day In Court<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nNY Times: Far Right\u2019s Fixation on Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Reaches F.B.I.\u2019s Top Ranks<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n…<\/p>\n
\n(NY Times more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Project 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
DOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n
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