Dan Friedman
@dfriedman33
Covering lobbying and corruption for Mother Jones. Signal: danfriedman.67
Peter Thiel has resumed funding House Republicans. Thiel talks about stuff like like stopping an "Antichrist," maybe in the form of Greta Thunberg, from creating socialist world gov. But maybe Thiel just wants to stop Democrats from subpoening Palantir? motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
I listened to this because I am on it talking about Epstein, but @jessa_crispin's Michael Douglas argument is more interesting. I wound up wanting to mount a qualified defense of Disclosure's watchability, aside from its dumb Michael Crichton politics. wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/a…
RIP Ozzy. you consumed an inspirational amount of drugs
RIP Ozzy. you consumed an inspirational amount of drugs
Probably everyone should get off twitter, but Lee in particular needs a break. apnews.com/article/mike-l…
A GOP senator not being able to spot a fake, loaded with typos... good stuff here
Sen. Mike Lee tweeted (and appears to have deleted) what he appears to believe is a resignation letter (??) from Powell
Sen. Mike Lee tweeted (and appears to have deleted) what he appears to believe is a resignation letter (??) from Powell
Trump doesn't have to actually pardon her. He can just dangle one, as he arguably has already, and make her incentives clear.
Ghislaine Maxwell Pardon Watch starts now.
Do you know why some are circled? I do.
Epstein’s "little black book" totals 97 pages, containing 1,571 names and roughly 5,000 phone numbers. At least 38 names are mysteriously circled, including Donald Trump's. “I got my hands on a copy,” writes Leland Nally. “I made close to 2,000 phone calls.”…
Do Trump comments about Schiff cause underlings to carry out vendettas? Good Q! Look at William Pulte, Trump loyalist who heads Federal Housing Finance Agency, which has now "found" supposedly illegal conduct by two Trump foes, Letitia James and Schiff: newrepublic.com/article/198074…
Young's commentary came as he is weighing the adminsitration's decision to arrest/seek to deport student activists with pro-Palestinian views. He wondered whether Trump's comments about people like Adam Schiff and Elon Musk cause underlings to carry out his vendettas.
Breaking: U.S. Attorney Alina Habba told her staff that she will depart the office next week after failing to secure enough votes for the state's seventeen U.S. District Court Judges to remain beyond her initial 120-day term. newjerseyglobe.com/national/habba…
Who'd have guessed Rupert Murdoch would stand up to Trump while the billionaire bosses of CBS, the Washington Post, the LA Times and Facebook roll over?
The internet is fun again, for the moment. news.artnet.com/art-world/dona…. Trump, in his denial, told WSJ, "I never wrote a picture in my life."
I spent a while browsing old newspapers for celebrity doodles last week! maybe it's slightly relevant now
“I never wrote a picture in my life”
I know this doesn't matter but a lady in ohio solicited doodles from celebrities to auction for charity and in 2004 she said that trump was always literally the first to send in his drawings