A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on whether officials would use that investigation as a reason to decline to release additional documents.
Anyone want to take bets?
“Foregone convulsion” is my term for a decision which never required a start, much less a conclusion.
Thus ensuring, we can hope, an even more rapid retreat from the scourge of Christian Nationalism.
Corruption, rape, starvation and gestapo raids aren’t holy, no matter how you “position” them.
What could possibly go wrong???
Trump considering executive order to preempt state AI laws | Reuters
Nov 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is considering an executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on artificial intelligence through lawsuits and by withholding federal funding, according to a draft of the order seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
The move, which is likely to face pushback from states, shows how far Trump is willing to go to help AI companies overcome a patchwork of laws they say stifle innovation
The Senate voted 99-1 against an effort to block AI laws earlier this year. An initial version of that measure would have blocked states that regulate AI from the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program, known as BEAD.
State lawmakers and attorneys general from both major political parties rallied against the measure at the time, calling it harmful to their ability to protect state residents from fraud, deepfakes and child abuse imagery.
The issue took on new life after Trump on Tuesday threw his weight behind a proposal by Republicans in Congress to add a similar provision to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Crazy as a loon
Former Hill staffer charged for allegedly staging her own violent assault
A former congressional staffer has been charged for allegedly staging her own violent assault, for which she paid someone $500 to slice dozens of cuts into her body, according to prosecutors.
Natalie Greene, who once worked for GOP Rep. Jeff Van Drew, according to his office, is now facing charges of conspiracy and making false statements to law enforcement.
The Justice Department alleges that on the night of July 23, Greene’s co-conspirator — a woman who was not named in the criminal complaint — called 911 to report that she and Greene were attacked by three men in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. The co-conspirator claimed that the attackers referred to Greene by name and knew that she worked in Van Drew’s office.
The Justice Department does not mention Van Drew by name in the complaint, calling him “Federal Official 1,” but the congressman’s office told CNN that Greene was once employed in his office.
When law enforcement officers responded to the scene along a trail in a nature preserve, they found Greene “in a wooded area,” crying and screaming with her hands and feet bound with zip ties, and dozens of cuts on her body, including her face and chest, according to court documents. Two messages were written in black marker on her body: “TRUMP WHORE” on her stomach and Van Drew “IS RACIST” on her back.
Investigators said in the complaint that Greene claimed the men who allegedly attacked her said they had a gun and “threatened to shoot her.” She told authorities she was held down while the men cut her and wrote on her body.
The Justice Department said the investigation revealed that Greene had paid “a body modification/scarification artist” to make the cuts to her body before the staged attack.
FBI agents went to the artist’s studio, and according to the complaint, obtained a receipt showing Greene had paid $500 for the cuts to be made on her body.
Law enforcement officers also found zip ties similar to the ones used to bind Greene’s hands and feet, in her car, court documents said. Her co-conspirator’s phone had also been used to search “zip ties near me” two days before the incident, the Justice Department said.
GOOD
House unanimously rebukes Thune on data seizure payouts - Live Updates - POLITICO
Every House Republican voted to overturn a provision that was seen as an unseemly payout to their Senate colleagues.
11/19/2025, 9:03pm ET
The House unanimously voted 426-0 Wednesday night to claw back language in last week’s government funding bill that could award some GOP senators hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for having their phone records unknowingly obtained by former special counsel Jack Smith.
The language, which was quietly slipped into the shutdown-ending package last week by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, drove bipartisan outrage in the House. Even outspoken critics of Smith — including House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who is leading an investigation into the Biden-era probe — supported the effort to repeal a politically toxic measure that was quickly branded as a taxpayer-funded windfall for a select few
As either Rep. Garcia or Raskin said on MS NOW the other night, the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena is not constrained by the existence of an ongoing investigation. The committee, at least, should get the files one way or another. If Bondi continues to withhold them, Comer and the other Repubs on the committee will begin to feel the heat from their base. Also, the estate is still providing material to the committee, which members of the committee can make public. Trump, the DOJ, and Repubs in Congress who want to make the public’s preoccupation with the Epstein saga go away may only stoke public interest by continuing to drag their feet.
Does anybody believe that Kash, Pam and 1,000 FBI agents didn’t redact every instance of Trump’s name before he decided to release the files?
My assumption (which could be wrong) is that they didn’t need to. Whatever was in the files that led to the prosecution and conviction of Epstein and Maxwell was in the hands of AG Barr during the first Trump administration.
I find it hard to believe that anything truly damaging about Trump – something other than that they were known to hang out together – remained in those files when they were handed over to the incoming Biden administration in January 2021.
Again, I could be wrong, but I believe this whole drama with Trump withholding the files is that he can’t afford to deflate the belief of his base that there is criminal evidence against Dems in the files. What’s about to be released with heavy redactions is not going to please anyone.
Anyone who was not already assuming that this was baked into all of Trump’s plans - just simply has not grasped that we are dealing with a relentless deranged psychopathic habitual liar.
Trump is a rabid animal - and encounters with a relentless rabid animal - can only go a few ways …
none of those involve “live long and prosper” - if the rabid animal gets to wander free.
Because that’s … how the process works?
Congress passes a bill.
The President signs it.
Unless the President vetoes it instead.
Then and only then do both chambers of Congress have the option of voting to override the veto.
Come on, folks. Just because the other side is shitting all over the rules doesn’t mean that we should, too.
If they are only going to investigate Democrats then surely they can release the documents only involving Republicans.
I shouldn’t laugh. But - someone had to look up “zip ties near me”? They couldn’t just walk into the nearest CVS, supermarket, or convenience store?
Perhaps we’re not dealing with the sharpest tools in the shed here.
Texans can’t count that high unless you find one with eight million fingers.
Not saying that didnt happen because I’m certain they scrubbed them but thats a big secret to keep with that many people.
