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Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."

"Ghislaine Maxwell is a monster... the victims that I have talked to, those that have survived Jeffrey Epstein, are horrified at the treatment that Ghislaine Maxwell is now getting." @robertgarcia.bsky.social reacts to reports of former Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell's cushy prison conditions.

"[Trump] is only going to get worse. A personality like his, a malignant narcissist, they don't go away."

@gtconway.bsky.social warns people should still take Trump's presidency seriously, even after Tuesday's electoral thrashing.

"Trying to follow Trump tariff policy is like trying to grab a pig on LSD."
Former Senior Correspondent for Business Insider, Linette Lopez, underscores nature of President Trump's tariff decisions amid his anger with a Canadian ad.

Farmer John Boyd Jr. reacts to Trump's beef deal with Argentina and his tariff wars.
"The President of the United States sold out farmers...we are not doing great. Farm foreclosures are up, farm suicides are up, farm bankruptcies are up, and all of this happened...within the last 10 months."

Chicago homeowner describes the fallout from a dramatic immigration raid on his private property where construction workers were targeted: "I spent most of the day cleaning up that blood"

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) REJECTS Treasury Secy. Bessent's claim that he's also feeling pain from tariffs as a soybean farmer:
"Watching a guy who's worth a half a billion dollars cosplay as a soybean farmer is really, really insulting to the soybean farmers in Wisconsin and throughout the Midwest."

Stephanie Keith, whose photos of immigration detentions at 26 Federal Plaza are at the center of NY Magazine's latest cover story, shares her experience:

"You can't let the emotions of what's happening take you away from your focus...it's only really afterwards that you breakdown"

In video provided exclusively to MSNBC's The Weekend: Primetime, immigration agents are seen attempting to pull a man out a window of a Chicago home. Agents also jumped a fence into the locked backyard and manhandled people doing work. Hear from the homeowner tonight on The Weekend: Primetime.

Fmr. Rep Max Rose: Americans "are generally infuriated with a ruling class, i.e. the Trump Administration, that is not only making a mockery of everything they hold dear, but is also acting like they're utterly stupid."

@congressmanboyle.bsky.social: "Every American is going to see their health care costs go up" if government shutdown continues.

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social: "Are you ANTIFA?"

Protester: "I'm a teacher."

@crampell.bsky.social asks @gtconway.bsky.social if he's worried he's next on Trump's retribution list:
"No. Let him try."

FIRST ON MSNBC: Jack Smith breaks his silence for first time on Trump investigation YouTube video by MSNBC

Fmr. Special Counsel Jack Smith makes his first public comments on his investigations into Trump, speaking exclusively with @msnbc.com’s Andrew Weissmann. MSNBC legal analyst Mary McCord and former federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou join The Weeknight for analysis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk2u...

“There was clearly an enemies list…he has absolutely weaponized the Department of Justice.”
Former Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin reacts to MSNBC reporting that John Bolton could soon face a complaint or indictment as Trump goes after his perceived political enemies.

When will Donald Trump's retribution tour end? @michaelcohen212.bsky.social has a prediction:
"I don't think you can stop it."

"It's not about doing it the right way. It's about trying to portray this point of view... the easiest thing we can do is vilify groups that we hope people don't know personally." @cristela.bsky.social debunks the Trump admin's claims that they want immigrants to come in the "right way."

Ayman: "Do you think [Eric Adams] did anything well as mayor of this city?

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: "I think he spoke the truth when he called Andrew Cuomo a liar and a snake."

"Would Miranda be a Mamdani supporter?"
"Sex and the City" star @cynthianixon.bsky.social, an activist and supporter of NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, weighs in on the race after Eric Adams suspends his campaign.

Former Secret Service Special Agent Evy Poumpouras' advice for cooling down the rhetoric: "Get that phone out of your kid’s hand."

@sarajacobs.house.gov on why Trump has the worst resume for the Nobel Peace Prize, despite his promise to change course on U.S. foreign policy.

Trump has "at every turn, instead of actually doing what needs to be done in order to solve... these really tricky conflicts, he has done the opposite."

"What I always find interesting is whatever Trump was accused of, that's what he accuses everybody else of...it's always projection."
Retired Judge Shira Scheindlin weighs in on the FBI's search of Trump's former National Security Adviser John Bolton's home and office.

"There's a lot of questions related to what [Jeffrey Epstein] was doing with the money he had and the financial crimes that I do believe took place."
Investigative reporter Barry Levine urges that there is more to uncover about the Epstein case by digging into his vast financial network.

"This is how Donald Trump is going to steal the next election."
@robertgarcia.bsky.social warns the GOP gerrymander power-grab is a crisis for democracy and goes way beyond Texas.

"It's unhinged... this to me is very much 'trust the plan.'"
@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social unpacks a mysterious post by Dan Bongino as Epstein conspiracy theories come back to haunt the Trump Administration.

@leahlitman.bsky.social responds to a 2021 speech by JD Vance where he called for an aggressive attack on American universities and quoted former president Richard Nixon, saying professors are the enemy:
"It is no accident that they are targeting these schools."

"It was pure hell": A Texas educator was forced to resign during the 2020 anti-CRT backlash. Now the Republican-backed school board member who led the charge against him was just voted out of office.

“I went through the immigration system myself…to be honest, I really saw it along time ago.” Comedian Mo Amer on how he’s not surprised at the detainment of students like Mahmoud Khalil based on his experience.

Mahmoud Khalil’s message to his newborn son: “I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction.” In a new letter, detained pro-Palestinian activist wrote profound first words to his two-week old son as he remains inside a Louisiana detention facility.

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social: "The fact that we don't know if she even believes in these sort of medical norms is how we're in trouble." Molly Jong-Fast and @cameronkasky.bsky.social discuss Trump's controversial surgeon general pick, Casey Means.