The Democrats on the Committee are being very careful about redacting information about people who were groomed and abused by Epstein as minors. Doing it right takes time.

The GOP, in contrast, dumped 20,000 pages of poorly redacted messages last month because they don't care about victims.

Here's a version focusing just on recent history -- including 2025.

Remember that Trump said that he would bring prices DOWN on DAY ONE.

It does indeed boggle the mind that a group dedicated to purely partisan propaganda and which actively supports authoritarianism is given tax exempt status as a "public service organization."

Looks like a holder for four coffee cups.

They are called ICE agents.

An anecdote: While traveling in France this fall we met two different, entirely unrelated, American families who recently moved to France. What linked them is that both included a child adopted from a non-European country and both mothers feared for their daughter's safety in Trump's USA.

None of the leading Democratic politicians would refer to human beings as garbage, not even Trump. Instead, they will correctly call him a convicted felon, an adjudicated sexual predator, a grifter, and the biggest danger to American democracy and our freedoms since at least WWII.

While I hope you are correct, the reality is that for Trump to be held to account there must be major changes in the makeup of the Supreme Court. The hyper-partisan MAGA majority on the Court has granted Trump absolute immunity and the power to ignore the laws and the Constitution.

Trump doesn't negotiate. He bullies and rants in hopes that everyone will cower before his temper tantrum. I often wonder how long Republicans will put up with being treated like vassals with no identity beyond support for Trump.

Maybe more Republicans will wake up from their collective nightmare.

I think DHS has given ICE oversight, but the oversight they are giving is definitely does not include urging them to respect US law or basic human rights. ICE appears to have an active policy of using maximum violence at all times in the hopes of provoking reactions.

I have seen multiple reports indicating that you are correct that DHS is actively recruiting among various far-right groups/gangs in order to find people who agree with Trump's racist, un-American policies.

Just reposting my message from 8 days ago, when Trump began his latest campaign to dehumanize a group in order to normalize violence against them.
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