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November 9, 2025
Maxwell is being paid off for not talking about trump's relationship with Epstein
Ghislaine Maxwell's prison emails show she is 'happier' at minimum-security Texas facility
Maxwell, a convicted sex offender connected to Jeffrey Epstein, was moved to a less restrictive federal prison this summer. Congress is investigating allegations of special treatment.
Ghislaine Maxwell's prison emails show she is 'happier' at minimum-security Texas facility www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
— Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis (@jeffjarvis.bsky.social) 2025-11-09T12:47:55.142Z
Within days of her arrival at a Texas prison camp in early August, Ghislaine Maxwell gushed in emails to her friends and family over the cleanliness and safety of her new surroundings.
“The institution is run in an orderly fashion which makes for a safer more comfortable environment for all people concerned, inmates and guards alike,” wrote Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting minors to be sexually abused by her longtime confidant, the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell’s unexpected move to the all-women’s Federal Prison Camp Bryan, which houses inmates convicted of nonviolent offenses and white-collar crimes in dormitory-style quarters, drew immediate condemnation from current and former federal Bureau of Prisons employees. They said it was very unusual for prisoners with sex offenses on their records to be incarcerated in such an unconstrained setting, indicating Maxwell was receiving preferential treatment.
Maxwell, 63, had been in a low-security federal correctional institution in Tallahassee, Florida, following her conviction in December 2021 on federal sex trafficking charges. FCI Tallahassee is more restrictive than a camp like FPC Bryan, where inmates have access to work programs, recreation and other activities and are often serving shorter sentences. Maxwell was moved days after meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July......
Maxwell’s emails indicate she’s able to access the warden for help, including arranging visits and communicating with her lawyers. In an email Maxwell sent to one of her attorneys in September, she noted that she spoke with the warden when she had a problem receiving documents by a deadline in her appeal before the Supreme Court......
Patrick McLain, a Dallas criminal defense attorney who has represented women at FPC Bryan, said it would be unusual for any warden to get involved with inmates’ cases and that “no way” would he expect Hall to give his clients at FPC Bryan the same personal attention as Maxwell described in the emails.
“The institution is run in an orderly fashion which makes for a safer more comfortable environment for all people concerned, inmates and guards alike,” wrote Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting minors to be sexually abused by her longtime confidant, the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell’s unexpected move to the all-women’s Federal Prison Camp Bryan, which houses inmates convicted of nonviolent offenses and white-collar crimes in dormitory-style quarters, drew immediate condemnation from current and former federal Bureau of Prisons employees. They said it was very unusual for prisoners with sex offenses on their records to be incarcerated in such an unconstrained setting, indicating Maxwell was receiving preferential treatment.
Maxwell, 63, had been in a low-security federal correctional institution in Tallahassee, Florida, following her conviction in December 2021 on federal sex trafficking charges. FCI Tallahassee is more restrictive than a camp like FPC Bryan, where inmates have access to work programs, recreation and other activities and are often serving shorter sentences. Maxwell was moved days after meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July......
Maxwell’s emails indicate she’s able to access the warden for help, including arranging visits and communicating with her lawyers. In an email Maxwell sent to one of her attorneys in September, she noted that she spoke with the warden when she had a problem receiving documents by a deadline in her appeal before the Supreme Court......
Patrick McLain, a Dallas criminal defense attorney who has represented women at FPC Bryan, said it would be unusual for any warden to get involved with inmates’ cases and that “no way” would he expect Hall to give his clients at FPC Bryan the same personal attention as Maxwell described in the emails.
Maxwell is being paid off for not talking about trump's relationship with Epstein
November 8, 2025
President Trump wants new Commanders stadium to be named after him
Source: NBC Sports
This one was inevitable.
Don Van Natta Jr. and Adam Schefter of ESPN.com reports that President Donald Trump wants the Commanders to name their forthcoming D.C. stadium after him.
The possibility was percolating throughout the political maneuvering to get the deal done. And given that he has previously demanded that the franchise “IMMEDIATELY” restore the name it abandoned more than five years ago, naming the stadium after him could be viewed as a more-than-acceptable compromise.
“That would be a beautiful name, as it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told ESPN by email.
An unnamed White House source told ESPN that the naming of the stadium after the president “will probably happen.”
Read more: https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/report-president-trump-wants-new-commanders-stadium-to-be-named-after-him
November 7, 2025
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/gender-passports-supreme-court-sex-birth-trump-rcna236029
Deadline Legal Blog-Supreme Court majority lets Trump administration enforce new gender policy for passports
Transgender and nonbinary Americans said they want passports “that allow them to travel without fear of misidentification, harassment, or violence.”
Repugnicans once again display their extreme hate and fear.
— (@yugenro.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T21:50:09.578Z
Supreme Court majority lets Trump administration enforce new gender policy for passports www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/gender-passports-supreme-court-sex-birth-trump-rcna236029
The Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority has agreed to let the Trump administration implement its new passport policy, which has been opposed by a group of transgender and nonbinary Americans.
“Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth — in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment,” the majority wrote Thursday.
The latest ruling in favor of the Trump administration came over dissent from the court’s three Democratic appointees. “The documented real-world harms to these plaintiffs obviously outweigh the Government’s unexplained (and inexplicable) interest in immediate implementation of the Passport Policy,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent, joined Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. She said the majority “has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification.”
Under previous government policy, transgender passport applicants could choose male or female to correspond to their gender identity or sex assigned at birth, and intersex, nonbinary and gender nonconforming applicants could choose “X” instead of male or female. The new policy restricts passport applicants to their sex assigned at birth and to male or female, following President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”......
Opposing the administration, the plaintiffs told the high court that they were only seeking “the same thing millions of Americans take for granted: passports that allow them to travel without fear of misidentification, harassment, or violence.” They said the administration’s preferred policy deprives them “of a usable identification document and the ability to travel safely.”
“Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth — in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment,” the majority wrote Thursday.
The latest ruling in favor of the Trump administration came over dissent from the court’s three Democratic appointees. “The documented real-world harms to these plaintiffs obviously outweigh the Government’s unexplained (and inexplicable) interest in immediate implementation of the Passport Policy,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent, joined Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. She said the majority “has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification.”
Under previous government policy, transgender passport applicants could choose male or female to correspond to their gender identity or sex assigned at birth, and intersex, nonbinary and gender nonconforming applicants could choose “X” instead of male or female. The new policy restricts passport applicants to their sex assigned at birth and to male or female, following President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”......
Opposing the administration, the plaintiffs told the high court that they were only seeking “the same thing millions of Americans take for granted: passports that allow them to travel without fear of misidentification, harassment, or violence.” They said the administration’s preferred policy deprives them “of a usable identification document and the ability to travel safely.”
November 7, 2025
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/halligan-james-comey-trump-indict-first-investigate-second-rcna242185
Deadline Legal Blog-Halligan keeps stumbling early in her attempt to prosecute Comey on Trump's behalf
In the latest mark against the Trump-demanded political prosecution, a judge observed an apparent rush to indict before fully investigating the case.
Halligan keeps stumbling early in her attempt to prosecute Comey on Trump’s behalf www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
— Nikki (@varivergirl.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T23:45:53.644Z
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/halligan-james-comey-trump-indict-first-investigate-second-rcna242185
The Lindsey Halligan-led prosecution of James Comey faced its latest rebuke Wednesday, when a federal judge said the government had taken an “indict first, investigate second” approach. It wasn’t the first time a judge has cast doubt on the Justice Department’s conduct in the case, still in its infancy, and it’s unlikely to be the last.
The critique came from U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick during a hearing in Virginia over the handling of evidence in the case brought by Halligan, whom the Trump administration installed to secure the indictment against the former FBI director over the objection of career prosecutors. The New York Times reported that the judge “seemed exasperated with the government’s approach, described the case as ‘unusual’” and said, “We are in a little bit of a posture of indict first, investigate second.” The judge ordered the prosecution to turn over grand jury materials by Thursday.....
Last month, the main jurist presiding over the Comey case in Virginia, U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, rejected the DOJ’s motion for a protective order that, he wrote, “would unnecessarily hinder and delay Defendant’s ability to adequately prepare for trial.”
It’s unclear if a trial will be necessary to resolve the case, which was prompted by Trump’s explicit demand. Comey’s challenge to the legality of Halligan’s appointment could lead to the case’s dismissal pretrial, as could his motion to dismiss based on vindictive prosecution and other issues. While rulings on those big issues are still pending — and we should learn more later this month on how they might fare — these initial stumbles don’t bode well for the prosecution.
The critique came from U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick during a hearing in Virginia over the handling of evidence in the case brought by Halligan, whom the Trump administration installed to secure the indictment against the former FBI director over the objection of career prosecutors. The New York Times reported that the judge “seemed exasperated with the government’s approach, described the case as ‘unusual’” and said, “We are in a little bit of a posture of indict first, investigate second.” The judge ordered the prosecution to turn over grand jury materials by Thursday.....
Last month, the main jurist presiding over the Comey case in Virginia, U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, rejected the DOJ’s motion for a protective order that, he wrote, “would unnecessarily hinder and delay Defendant’s ability to adequately prepare for trial.”
It’s unclear if a trial will be necessary to resolve the case, which was prompted by Trump’s explicit demand. Comey’s challenge to the legality of Halligan’s appointment could lead to the case’s dismissal pretrial, as could his motion to dismiss based on vindictive prosecution and other issues. While rulings on those big issues are still pending — and we should learn more later this month on how they might fare — these initial stumbles don’t bode well for the prosecution.
November 7, 2025
According to the betting markets, U.S. Government shutdown now projected to last 50+ days.
According to the betting markets
November 7, 2025
Denver airport seeks permission to pay air traffic controllers, sets up food and essentials pantry for federal workers
Denver International Airport has asked the FAA whether airport revenue could be used to pay air traffic controllers during the shutdown.
https://x.com/9NEWS/status/1986280148065243155
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/denver-international-airport-pay-air-traffic-controllers-food-pantry/73-5a85ffae-fcbb-4a99-800c-549f97b8f944
DENVER — Denver International Airport is working to help federal employees who are working without pay during the government shutdown.
DIA said in a release on Wednesday that it has submitted a request to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) asking whether airport revenue could be used to pay air traffic controllers. The airport said it has requested a waiver on any prohibition on utilizing its own revenue to support air traffic controllers and other federal employees as they conduct essential airport operations.
DIA said it will also request reimbursement from the federal government once the shutdown is over.
“This is a critical time for travel both here at DEN and around the country. Staffing issues are already being identified at a number of airports, impacting travel. As the shutdown drags on, air traffic controllers, in particular, are being stressed unnecessarily,” said Phil Washington, airport CEO. “As part of our airport family, it’s our hope that we can reduce the hardship on them by covering their wages during the shutdown, with reimbursement by the FAA later. We would love to be able to do more and provide wage support for all the federal workers at DEN, as they are all critical to our operation, but given the number of federal employees, we are only able to support controllers at this time.”
DIA said in a release on Wednesday that it has submitted a request to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) asking whether airport revenue could be used to pay air traffic controllers. The airport said it has requested a waiver on any prohibition on utilizing its own revenue to support air traffic controllers and other federal employees as they conduct essential airport operations.
DIA said it will also request reimbursement from the federal government once the shutdown is over.
“This is a critical time for travel both here at DEN and around the country. Staffing issues are already being identified at a number of airports, impacting travel. As the shutdown drags on, air traffic controllers, in particular, are being stressed unnecessarily,” said Phil Washington, airport CEO. “As part of our airport family, it’s our hope that we can reduce the hardship on them by covering their wages during the shutdown, with reimbursement by the FAA later. We would love to be able to do more and provide wage support for all the federal workers at DEN, as they are all critical to our operation, but given the number of federal employees, we are only able to support controllers at this time.”
November 7, 2025
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-makes-overdue-discovery-new-word-called-affordability-rcna242345
MaddowBlog-Trump makes an overdue discovery: 'They have this new word called affordability'
After Democrats scored election victories, the president started talking about “affordability.” Unfortunately, his assessment is rooted in nonsense.
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— The 🇺🇸 Headline Bot (@us-headlines.bsky.social) 2025-11-06T18:44:29.514Z
Trump makes an overdue discovery: 'They have this new word called affordability'
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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-makes-overdue-discovery-new-word-called-affordability-rcna242345
Donald Trump spent years publishing assorted messages to the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, but he literally never wrote a tweet that included the word “affordability.”....
The day after Democratic election victories, Trump assured the public, “Affordability is our goal.” That was followed by a related online rant: “2025 Thanksgiving dinner under Trump is 25% lower than 2024 Thanksgiving dinner under Biden, according to Walmart. My cost [sic] are lower than the Democrats on everything, especially oil and gas! So the Democrats [sic] ‘affordability’ issue is DEAD! STOP LYING!!!”
Whether the president understands this or not, Walmart lowered the cost of its Thanksgiving dinner by reducing the number of items included in the package and replacing brand-name products with value products. It was not, in other words, the result of the White House’s awesomeness.
As for the idea that the underlying issue is “dead,” the president seems to know better. Consider his exchange with Bret Baier during the Republican’s Fox News interview Wednesday night.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1986210995375890740
.......By Trump’s reasoning, GOP officials and candidates have struggled because they haven’t talked about the cost-of-living challenges facing American consumers. That might make him feel better, but the underlying issue isn’t rhetorical, it’s practical.
Republicans can use “this new word” all the time and it won’t change the fact the party, with total control over federal policymaking, has failed spectacularly to address one of the key issues that elevated them to power in the first place.
Democrats scored election victories, not by mentioning “affordability,” but by shining a light on the GOP’s substantive failures on the issue and offering an alternative.
The longer Trump fails to understand this, the more often he and his party will suffer political and electoral consequences.
The day after Democratic election victories, Trump assured the public, “Affordability is our goal.” That was followed by a related online rant: “2025 Thanksgiving dinner under Trump is 25% lower than 2024 Thanksgiving dinner under Biden, according to Walmart. My cost [sic] are lower than the Democrats on everything, especially oil and gas! So the Democrats [sic] ‘affordability’ issue is DEAD! STOP LYING!!!”
Whether the president understands this or not, Walmart lowered the cost of its Thanksgiving dinner by reducing the number of items included in the package and replacing brand-name products with value products. It was not, in other words, the result of the White House’s awesomeness.
As for the idea that the underlying issue is “dead,” the president seems to know better. Consider his exchange with Bret Baier during the Republican’s Fox News interview Wednesday night.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1986210995375890740
.......By Trump’s reasoning, GOP officials and candidates have struggled because they haven’t talked about the cost-of-living challenges facing American consumers. That might make him feel better, but the underlying issue isn’t rhetorical, it’s practical.
Republicans can use “this new word” all the time and it won’t change the fact the party, with total control over federal policymaking, has failed spectacularly to address one of the key issues that elevated them to power in the first place.
Democrats scored election victories, not by mentioning “affordability,” but by shining a light on the GOP’s substantive failures on the issue and offering an alternative.
The longer Trump fails to understand this, the more often he and his party will suffer political and electoral consequences.
November 7, 2025
President Obama's tribute to Nancy Pelosi
https://x.com/BarackObama/status/1986475370363687393For almost four decades, Nancy Pelosi has served the American people and worked to make our country better. No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed – and I will always be grateful for her support of the Affordable Care Act. She made us proud to be Democrats, and will go down in history as one of the best speakers the House of Representatives has ever had. Nancy, thank you for your leadership and your friendship. Michelle and I wish you and Paul the best in this next chapter.
November 7, 2025
The White House made a whole video about arresting Sandwich Guy like he was El Chapo
I remember this video
https://x.com/JacobRubashkin/status/1986519384664297694
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