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<\/a><\/p>\nJoyce Vance: What Happens When The Government Loses Its Credibility: The Comey Prosecution<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nThe burden a defendant in a criminal case has to meet for a judge to make an order like this one is very high, because protecting grand jury secrecy is essential to protecting the integrity of the process. The Judge notes that a defendant has to show that \u201c\u2018particularized and factually based grounds exist to support the proposition that irregularities in the grand jury proceedings may create a basis for dismissal of the indictment,\u2019\u201d and that the \u201c\u2018burden [cannot] be satisfied with conclusory or speculative allegations of misconduct.\u2019\u201d That suggests that Comey\u2019s lawyers came forward with information of compelling significance.
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\n(Joyce Vance more…)<\/a><\/p>\nLaw & Crime: Letitia James pleads with judge for crucial discovery of Trump admin communications as she details ‘illegal and unethical’ origins of bank fraud case<\/a><\/h2>\nRawStory: ‘Meritless’: Trump’s CNN lawsuit over ‘big lie’ struck down by his own judges<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Washington Post: Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing<\/a><\/h2>\nThe de facto<\/em> Saudi ruler was branded an outcast after the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.
\n(Washington Post more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSteven Beschloss: Trump Excuses Murder and Blames the Victim<\/a><\/h2>\nSaudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman, culpable for the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi, enjoyed a warm welcome to Trump’s White House<\/p>\n
Karen Attiah: Jamal Khashoggi Will Haunt Mohammed Bin Salman Forever<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Saudi crown prince accused of ordering the murder of my friend and Washington Post writer gets the (blood) red carpet treatment.<\/p>\n
Jeff Tiedrich: \u2018things happen\u2019 \u2014 because bone saws, they\u2019re so unpredictable<\/a><\/h2>\n
![\"Jess](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a1c58967-c95c-41a4-b5d6-dff56aefa8c8_3024x3582.webp\" "\\"Jess")
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Jess Piper: Raise Your Hand<\/a><\/h2>\nLong story short, I tried to contact my State Rep for several weeks after he voted to ban abortion with no exemptions for rape or incest or life of the mother. I called and emailed and texted and sent DMs and tagged him in posts and even wrote a Letter to the Editor in our local paper to no avail.<\/p>\n
After several weeks, I had an idea \u2014 I asked my husband to call our Representative. My husband received a call from our Representative in 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
The call I had been waiting weeks to get.<\/p>\n
My Rep did end up calling me after my husband insisted, and this is the part that always elicits gasps and groans when I retell the story: my Rep told me 1) He didn\u2019t have to talk to me, and 2) He was calling me out of a favor to my husband.
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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RawStory: GOP sends ‘menacing texts’ to voters ordering them to un-sign petition: report<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nMissouri is one of a handful of Republican-controlled states that redrew their maps in a demand from Trump. However, voting rights activists responded by gathering signatures for a ballot measure to repeal it. If that measure qualifies, the altered map is automatically suspended until and unless voters approve it.<\/p>\n
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Texas Tribune: Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms<\/a><\/h2>\nLAWdork: Court blocks Texas’s mid-decade redistricting, finding it likely unconstitutional, with DOJ largely to blame<\/a><\/h2>\n“DOJ Asked Texas to Engage in Unlawful Racial Gerrymandering,” Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote for the 2-1 majority. Texas is appealing to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
Yunior Rivas: Trump DOJ\u2019s \u2018Ham-Fisted\u2019 Letter Key to Ruling Blocking Texas Gerrymander<\/a><\/h2>\nSlate: Republicans Are Suing to Kill California\u2019s Pro-Democratic Gerrymander. They Have a Huge Problem.<\/a><\/h2>\n
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ProPublica: How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America\u2019s Heartland<\/a><\/h2>\nEarly this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could\u2019ve been airborne.<\/p>\n
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Daily Beast: Trump Sends Unhinged Message to Americans Worried About Rising Prices<\/a><\/h2>\nLUCKY YOU!
\nThe president told McDonald\u2019s execs the country would be \u201cbankrupt\u201d without him.<\/p>\n
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Jennifer Rubin: The Epstein scandal…er…Trump coverup scandal<\/a><\/h2>\nLast week, the \u201cEpstein scandal\u201d took center stage once again. But that terminology is such an antiseptic way to describe the fallout from a pedophile ring that victimized hundreds of children and<\/em> Donald Trump\u2019s gob-smacking efforts to cover up the extent of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Moreover, the present scandal is not about Epstein, but rather about other<\/em> men who may be named in the documents, the financial institutions that enabled Epstein, and most of all, Trump\u2019s role in perpetuating the conspiracy of silence and non-accountability.<\/em>
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBrian Allen: \u201cNational Security\u201d Blocks the Jeffrey Epstein Files \u2014 Here\u2019s What It Really Means<\/a><\/h2>\nSnopes: DOJ staffer told undercover date the department would ‘redact every Republican’ from Epstein files<\/a><\/h2>\n![\"Quiet](\"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4d904e58-da8a-4fba-a731-11416400fdf0_898x394.webp\" "\\"Quiet")
<\/a><\/p>\nJoyce Vance: “Quiet Piggy!”<\/a><\/h2>\nThat\u2019s how the President of the United States addressed a journalist who was just doing her job on Air Force One. Catherine Lucey, the White House correspondent for Bloomberg, asked Donald Trump about releasing the Epstein files. In response, Trump leaned forward, slashing an accusatory finger her direction and barked<\/a>, \u201cQuiet! Quiet Piggy,\u201d at her.
\n…<\/p>\nThe New York Times\u2019 Glenn Thrush noted<\/a> that, \u201cJust 217 minutes elapsed between Mr. Trump\u2019s command on Friday morning that she [Bondi] investigate prominent Democrats like Bill Clinton who were named in documents Congress obtained from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s estate and Ms. Bondi\u2019s announcement that she had referred the matter to the U.S. attorney in Manhattan.\u201d Why open a case after the July announcement that there was nothing left to investigate, which came in the wake of a thorough investigation by the SDNY, the successful prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, and the announcement that the investigation was closed? Why indeed.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a dodge, of course. Trump is safe in the knowledge that he could take the publicly popular position on release of the files, watch it pass the House and Senate, as it did tonight, and count on his lawyers at the Justice Department, with their newly refreshed investigation open, to decline to release files, or at least parts of them he wants withheld.
\n…<\/p>\n
I keep coming back to the Joseph McCarthy moment where the red-baiting senator was finally asked, \u201cHave you no decency,\u201d and his cult of personality burst. \u201cQuiet, Piggy.\u201d We shouldn\u2019t forget that the president of the United States uttered those words in this moment. At a time when women were fighting for justice, the man who cut himself out of the investigation into wrongdoing had that to say about a woman who was simply trying to do her job.<\/p>\n
Portland has reclaimed the frog as a symbol of its resistance to Trump\u2019s efforts to militarize the city. Perhaps women should claim the glamorous, sassy Muppet Miss Piggy, a known diva with a fierce karate chop, as their own symbol. Call a woman a piggy, and see how that goes for you, Mr. President. Enough demeaning of women. Signing the Epstein Files bill when it hits his desk, which Trump has promised to do, won\u2019t be enough. The files have to be released, no excuses. It\u2019s time to emulate the great Miss Piggy, who has never stayed quiet in the face of those who don\u2019t respect her.
\n(Joyce Vance more…)<\/a><\/p>\nDean Obeidallah: Trump trashing female reporters was despicable. The other reporters not standing up to Trump was inexcusable<\/a><\/h2>\nCorporate media failed us again<\/p>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 18, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nOn November 19, 1863, about fifteen thousand people gathered in Gettysburg for the dedication ceremony. A program of music and prayers preceded Everett\u2019s two-hour oration. Then, after another hymn, Lincoln stood up to speak. Packed in the midst of a sea of frock coats, he began. In his high-pitched voice, speaking slowly, he delivered a two-minute speech that redefined the nation.<\/p>\n
\u201cFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,\u201d Lincoln began. …
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\nThe burden a defendant in a criminal case has to meet for a judge to make an order like this one is very high, because protecting grand jury secrecy is essential to protecting the integrity of the process. The Judge notes that a defendant has to show that \u201c\u2018particularized and factually based grounds exist to support the proposition that irregularities in the grand jury proceedings may create a basis for dismissal of the indictment,\u2019\u201d and that the \u201c\u2018burden [cannot] be satisfied with conclusory or speculative allegations of misconduct.\u2019\u201d That suggests that Comey\u2019s lawyers came forward with information of compelling significance.
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\n(Joyce Vance more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
Law & Crime: Letitia James pleads with judge for crucial discovery of Trump admin communications as she details ‘illegal and unethical’ origins of bank fraud case<\/a><\/h2>\nRawStory: ‘Meritless’: Trump’s CNN lawsuit over ‘big lie’ struck down by his own judges<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Washington Post: Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing<\/a><\/h2>\nThe de facto<\/em> Saudi ruler was branded an outcast after the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.
\n(Washington Post more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSteven Beschloss: Trump Excuses Murder and Blames the Victim<\/a><\/h2>\nSaudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman, culpable for the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi, enjoyed a warm welcome to Trump’s White House<\/p>\n
Karen Attiah: Jamal Khashoggi Will Haunt Mohammed Bin Salman Forever<\/a><\/h2>\nThe Saudi crown prince accused of ordering the murder of my friend and Washington Post writer gets the (blood) red carpet treatment.<\/p>\n
Jeff Tiedrich: \u2018things happen\u2019 \u2014 because bone saws, they\u2019re so unpredictable<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Jess Piper: Raise Your Hand<\/a><\/h2>\nLong story short, I tried to contact my State Rep for several weeks after he voted to ban abortion with no exemptions for rape or incest or life of the mother. I called and emailed and texted and sent DMs and tagged him in posts and even wrote a Letter to the Editor in our local paper to no avail.<\/p>\n
After several weeks, I had an idea \u2014 I asked my husband to call our Representative. My husband received a call from our Representative in 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
The call I had been waiting weeks to get.<\/p>\n
My Rep did end up calling me after my husband insisted, and this is the part that always elicits gasps and groans when I retell the story: my Rep told me 1) He didn\u2019t have to talk to me, and 2) He was calling me out of a favor to my husband.
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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RawStory: GOP sends ‘menacing texts’ to voters ordering them to un-sign petition: report<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nMissouri is one of a handful of Republican-controlled states that redrew their maps in a demand from Trump. However, voting rights activists responded by gathering signatures for a ballot measure to repeal it. If that measure qualifies, the altered map is automatically suspended until and unless voters approve it.<\/p>\n
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Texas Tribune: Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms<\/a><\/h2>\nLAWdork: Court blocks Texas’s mid-decade redistricting, finding it likely unconstitutional, with DOJ largely to blame<\/a><\/h2>\n“DOJ Asked Texas to Engage in Unlawful Racial Gerrymandering,” Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote for the 2-1 majority. Texas is appealing to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
Yunior Rivas: Trump DOJ\u2019s \u2018Ham-Fisted\u2019 Letter Key to Ruling Blocking Texas Gerrymander<\/a><\/h2>\nSlate: Republicans Are Suing to Kill California\u2019s Pro-Democratic Gerrymander. They Have a Huge Problem.<\/a><\/h2>\n
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ProPublica: How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America\u2019s Heartland<\/a><\/h2>\nEarly this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could\u2019ve been airborne.<\/p>\n
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Daily Beast: Trump Sends Unhinged Message to Americans Worried About Rising Prices<\/a><\/h2>\nLUCKY YOU!
\nThe president told McDonald\u2019s execs the country would be \u201cbankrupt\u201d without him.<\/p>\n
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Jennifer Rubin: The Epstein scandal…er…Trump coverup scandal<\/a><\/h2>\nLast week, the \u201cEpstein scandal\u201d took center stage once again. But that terminology is such an antiseptic way to describe the fallout from a pedophile ring that victimized hundreds of children and<\/em> Donald Trump\u2019s gob-smacking efforts to cover up the extent of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Moreover, the present scandal is not about Epstein, but rather about other<\/em> men who may be named in the documents, the financial institutions that enabled Epstein, and most of all, Trump\u2019s role in perpetuating the conspiracy of silence and non-accountability.<\/em>
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBrian Allen: \u201cNational Security\u201d Blocks the Jeffrey Epstein Files \u2014 Here\u2019s What It Really Means<\/a><\/h2>\nSnopes: DOJ staffer told undercover date the department would ‘redact every Republican’ from Epstein files<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/a><\/p>\nJoyce Vance: “Quiet Piggy!”<\/a><\/h2>\nThat\u2019s how the President of the United States addressed a journalist who was just doing her job on Air Force One. Catherine Lucey, the White House correspondent for Bloomberg, asked Donald Trump about releasing the Epstein files. In response, Trump leaned forward, slashing an accusatory finger her direction and barked<\/a>, \u201cQuiet! Quiet Piggy,\u201d at her.
\n…<\/p>\nThe New York Times\u2019 Glenn Thrush noted<\/a> that, \u201cJust 217 minutes elapsed between Mr. Trump\u2019s command on Friday morning that she [Bondi] investigate prominent Democrats like Bill Clinton who were named in documents Congress obtained from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s estate and Ms. Bondi\u2019s announcement that she had referred the matter to the U.S. attorney in Manhattan.\u201d Why open a case after the July announcement that there was nothing left to investigate, which came in the wake of a thorough investigation by the SDNY, the successful prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, and the announcement that the investigation was closed? Why indeed.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a dodge, of course. Trump is safe in the knowledge that he could take the publicly popular position on release of the files, watch it pass the House and Senate, as it did tonight, and count on his lawyers at the Justice Department, with their newly refreshed investigation open, to decline to release files, or at least parts of them he wants withheld.
\n…<\/p>\n
I keep coming back to the Joseph McCarthy moment where the red-baiting senator was finally asked, \u201cHave you no decency,\u201d and his cult of personality burst. \u201cQuiet, Piggy.\u201d We shouldn\u2019t forget that the president of the United States uttered those words in this moment. At a time when women were fighting for justice, the man who cut himself out of the investigation into wrongdoing had that to say about a woman who was simply trying to do her job.<\/p>\n
Portland has reclaimed the frog as a symbol of its resistance to Trump\u2019s efforts to militarize the city. Perhaps women should claim the glamorous, sassy Muppet Miss Piggy, a known diva with a fierce karate chop, as their own symbol. Call a woman a piggy, and see how that goes for you, Mr. President. Enough demeaning of women. Signing the Epstein Files bill when it hits his desk, which Trump has promised to do, won\u2019t be enough. The files have to be released, no excuses. It\u2019s time to emulate the great Miss Piggy, who has never stayed quiet in the face of those who don\u2019t respect her.
\n(Joyce Vance more…)<\/a><\/p>\nDean Obeidallah: Trump trashing female reporters was despicable. The other reporters not standing up to Trump was inexcusable<\/a><\/h2>\nCorporate media failed us again<\/p>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 18, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nOn November 19, 1863, about fifteen thousand people gathered in Gettysburg for the dedication ceremony. A program of music and prayers preceded Everett\u2019s two-hour oration. Then, after another hymn, Lincoln stood up to speak. Packed in the midst of a sea of frock coats, he began. In his high-pitched voice, speaking slowly, he delivered a two-minute speech that redefined the nation.<\/p>\n
\u201cFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,\u201d Lincoln began. …
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Washington Post: Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing<\/a><\/h2>\n
The de facto<\/em> Saudi ruler was branded an outcast after the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.
\n(Washington Post more…)<\/a><\/p>\nSteven Beschloss: Trump Excuses Murder and Blames the Victim<\/a><\/h2>\n
Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman, culpable for the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi, enjoyed a warm welcome to Trump’s White House<\/p>\n
Karen Attiah: Jamal Khashoggi Will Haunt Mohammed Bin Salman Forever<\/a><\/h2>\n
The Saudi crown prince accused of ordering the murder of my friend and Washington Post writer gets the (blood) red carpet treatment.<\/p>\n
Jeff Tiedrich: \u2018things happen\u2019 \u2014 because bone saws, they\u2019re so unpredictable<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Jess Piper: Raise Your Hand<\/a><\/h2>\n
Long story short, I tried to contact my State Rep for several weeks after he voted to ban abortion with no exemptions for rape or incest or life of the mother. I called and emailed and texted and sent DMs and tagged him in posts and even wrote a Letter to the Editor in our local paper to no avail.<\/p>\n
After several weeks, I had an idea \u2014 I asked my husband to call our Representative. My husband received a call from our Representative in 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
The call I had been waiting weeks to get.<\/p>\n
My Rep did end up calling me after my husband insisted, and this is the part that always elicits gasps and groans when I retell the story: my Rep told me 1) He didn\u2019t have to talk to me, and 2) He was calling me out of a favor to my husband.
\n(Jess Piper more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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RawStory: GOP sends ‘menacing texts’ to voters ordering them to un-sign petition: report<\/a><\/h2>\n
…
\nMissouri is one of a handful of Republican-controlled states that redrew their maps in a demand from Trump. However, voting rights activists responded by gathering signatures for a ballot measure to repeal it. If that measure qualifies, the altered map is automatically suspended until and unless voters approve it.<\/p>\n
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Texas Tribune: Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms<\/a><\/h2>\n
LAWdork: Court blocks Texas’s mid-decade redistricting, finding it likely unconstitutional, with DOJ largely to blame<\/a><\/h2>\n
“DOJ Asked Texas to Engage in Unlawful Racial Gerrymandering,” Judge Jeffrey V. Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote for the 2-1 majority. Texas is appealing to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
Yunior Rivas: Trump DOJ\u2019s \u2018Ham-Fisted\u2019 Letter Key to Ruling Blocking Texas Gerrymander<\/a><\/h2>\n
Slate: Republicans Are Suing to Kill California\u2019s Pro-Democratic Gerrymander. They Have a Huge Problem.<\/a><\/h2>\n
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ProPublica: How ProPublica Investigated a Bird Flu Outbreak in America\u2019s Heartland<\/a><\/h2>\n
Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could\u2019ve been airborne.<\/p>\n
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Daily Beast: Trump Sends Unhinged Message to Americans Worried About Rising Prices<\/a><\/h2>\n
LUCKY YOU!
\nThe president told McDonald\u2019s execs the country would be \u201cbankrupt\u201d without him.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Jennifer Rubin: The Epstein scandal…er…Trump coverup scandal<\/a><\/h2>\n
Last week, the \u201cEpstein scandal\u201d took center stage once again. But that terminology is such an antiseptic way to describe the fallout from a pedophile ring that victimized hundreds of children and<\/em> Donald Trump\u2019s gob-smacking efforts to cover up the extent of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Moreover, the present scandal is not about Epstein, but rather about other<\/em> men who may be named in the documents, the financial institutions that enabled Epstein, and most of all, Trump\u2019s role in perpetuating the conspiracy of silence and non-accountability.<\/em>
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBrian Allen: \u201cNational Security\u201d Blocks the Jeffrey Epstein Files \u2014 Here\u2019s What It Really Means<\/a><\/h2>\n
Snopes: DOJ staffer told undercover date the department would ‘redact every Republican’ from Epstein files<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nJoyce Vance: “Quiet Piggy!”<\/a><\/h2>\n
That\u2019s how the President of the United States addressed a journalist who was just doing her job on Air Force One. Catherine Lucey, the White House correspondent for Bloomberg, asked Donald Trump about releasing the Epstein files. In response, Trump leaned forward, slashing an accusatory finger her direction and barked<\/a>, \u201cQuiet! Quiet Piggy,\u201d at her.
\n…<\/p>\nThe New York Times\u2019 Glenn Thrush noted<\/a> that, \u201cJust 217 minutes elapsed between Mr. Trump\u2019s command on Friday morning that she [Bondi] investigate prominent Democrats like Bill Clinton who were named in documents Congress obtained from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s estate and Ms. Bondi\u2019s announcement that she had referred the matter to the U.S. attorney in Manhattan.\u201d Why open a case after the July announcement that there was nothing left to investigate, which came in the wake of a thorough investigation by the SDNY, the successful prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, and the announcement that the investigation was closed? Why indeed.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a dodge, of course. Trump is safe in the knowledge that he could take the publicly popular position on release of the files, watch it pass the House and Senate, as it did tonight, and count on his lawyers at the Justice Department, with their newly refreshed investigation open, to decline to release files, or at least parts of them he wants withheld.
\n…<\/p>\nI keep coming back to the Joseph McCarthy moment where the red-baiting senator was finally asked, \u201cHave you no decency,\u201d and his cult of personality burst. \u201cQuiet, Piggy.\u201d We shouldn\u2019t forget that the president of the United States uttered those words in this moment. At a time when women were fighting for justice, the man who cut himself out of the investigation into wrongdoing had that to say about a woman who was simply trying to do her job.<\/p>\n
Portland has reclaimed the frog as a symbol of its resistance to Trump\u2019s efforts to militarize the city. Perhaps women should claim the glamorous, sassy Muppet Miss Piggy, a known diva with a fierce karate chop, as their own symbol. Call a woman a piggy, and see how that goes for you, Mr. President. Enough demeaning of women. Signing the Epstein Files bill when it hits his desk, which Trump has promised to do, won\u2019t be enough. The files have to be released, no excuses. It\u2019s time to emulate the great Miss Piggy, who has never stayed quiet in the face of those who don\u2019t respect her.
\n(Joyce Vance more…)<\/a><\/p>\nDean Obeidallah: Trump trashing female reporters was despicable. The other reporters not standing up to Trump was inexcusable<\/a><\/h2>\n
Corporate media failed us again<\/p>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – November 18, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nOn November 19, 1863, about fifteen thousand people gathered in Gettysburg for the dedication ceremony. A program of music and prayers preceded Everett\u2019s two-hour oration. Then, after another hymn, Lincoln stood up to speak. Packed in the midst of a sea of frock coats, he began. In his high-pitched voice, speaking slowly, he delivered a two-minute speech that redefined the nation.<\/p>\n\u201cFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,\u201d Lincoln began. …
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