Superb reporting. Certainly her last name made Comey’s departure inevitable. However, her knowledge of Ghislaine and by extension Epstein, is unsurpassed. Also very inconvenient and even more awkward had she been employed when Blanche decided to ask Ghislaine questions.
Re: Bill Pulte, who is rivaling Ed Martin as not only a tRump enforcer, but is also a major fuckup in his own regard...some really hanky-panky going on here involving a close associate of his and passing of confidential Fanny Mae mortgage-rate data to someone at Freddie Mac, causing much consternation with those in the housing industry...Fortune mag/AP reporters have the receipts:
The man is clearly leading a charmed life...keeps those "mortgage fraud" criminal referrals moving right along, overcoming his other step-in-shite moves.
Re: Epstein emails, courtesy of Zeteo, here's a link to a searchable database covering the 26000 Epstein emails just released by the Democrats in the House...super-useful for any deep-drillers out there:
Re: tRump's "war on narco-terrorists"...AP reporters actually went down to the Venezuelan coast where several of the murdered victims lived, and wrote up profiles of the men and their families. Essentially, the working poor who picked up extra money shuttling small payloads of drugs to Trinidad and other Caribbean islands. Not exactly the "brutal, terroristic, cartel drug overlords" described by tRump, Kegsbreath, and other regime figures to justify open murder. Read it here:
Thanks for the article on the hearing about Halligan and shenanigans!
Read your in-person account of the court hearing on TPM yesterday...solid bit of reporting!
This is great info. Please keep it coming.
Hegseth and his
Southern Spear
initiative. This sounds a
lot like war, so doesn't
congress have
something to say about
this, or are we now
doing really important
things by MEMO?
Thank you David for an
excellent newsletter
today. Josh Marshall has
been in top form with his
Newsletter of late.
Excellent work! Thank you for sharing Judge Currie’s role and actions in the Halligan cases — powerful
Superb reporting. Certainly her last name made Comey’s departure inevitable. However, her knowledge of Ghislaine and by extension Epstein, is unsurpassed. Also very inconvenient and even more awkward had she been employed when Blanche decided to ask Ghislaine questions.
Re: Bill Pulte, who is rivaling Ed Martin as not only a tRump enforcer, but is also a major fuckup in his own regard...some really hanky-panky going on here involving a close associate of his and passing of confidential Fanny Mae mortgage-rate data to someone at Freddie Mac, causing much consternation with those in the housing industry...Fortune mag/AP reporters have the receipts:
https://fortune.com/2025/11/14/trump-pulte-housing-confidential-information-fannie-mae-freddie-mac-data/
The man is clearly leading a charmed life...keeps those "mortgage fraud" criminal referrals moving right along, overcoming his other step-in-shite moves.
Pulte clearly lives by the motto, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
Re: Epstein emails, courtesy of Zeteo, here's a link to a searchable database covering the 26000 Epstein emails just released by the Democrats in the House...super-useful for any deep-drillers out there:
https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/search?collection=2283eeed70befac7
Re: tRump's "war on narco-terrorists"...AP reporters actually went down to the Venezuelan coast where several of the murdered victims lived, and wrote up profiles of the men and their families. Essentially, the working poor who picked up extra money shuttling small payloads of drugs to Trinidad and other Caribbean islands. Not exactly the "brutal, terroristic, cartel drug overlords" described by tRump, Kegsbreath, and other regime figures to justify open murder. Read it here:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-drugs-cocaine-trafficking-95b54a3a5efec74f12f82396a79617ea?mc_cid=5653ebb768
Addendum: NYT also has a reporter in Colombia covering this sordid story of high-seas killing:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/world/americas/trump-drug-boat-strikes-colombian-fisherman.html?nl=The+Morning