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President Donald Trump’s culpability in connection to convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is not dying down this week with the release of roughly 3.5 million new files on Friday, according to Raw Story.Included in the documents were multiple tips sent to authorities regarding abuses and behavior of Trump at the height of the president’s friendship with Epstein. One such tip involved a witne

New York Times Columnist Jamelle Bouie says President Donald Trump likes to project the image bullying strength at all times, whether it’s against Democrats, critics, or the news media. But the president’s effort to steamroll independent media on Thursday may number among the recent examples of overreach that’s currently knocking Trump off his spin.“One point I’ve tried to make over the last year is that the Trump administration has a starkly unsophisticated vision of power,” said Bouie. “Where a subtler president might cajole and persuade, President Tr

“Jim Acosta Show” host Jim Acosta says it’s good that independent reporter Don Lemon has good lawyers in his corner, because he predicts lemon will be using them against President Donal Trump after his Thursday arrest.Even conservative media slammed the Trump administration’s “dictator”-style arrest of Lemon for covering a protest at a Minnesota church. On Friday, CNN host Jake Tapper

MS NOW “The Weekend” hosts Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Daniels raked President Donald Trump for using his own government-appointed zealots to wrangle $10 billion from U.S. taxpayers.“President trump has filed yet another lawsuit, this time targeting his own government,” said Capehart. “On Thursday, Trump announced he is suing the IRS and the Treasury Department over the alleged leak of his 2019 tax return and is seeking $10 billion in damages.”The complaint alleges the agencies failed to prevent leaks by former IRS employee Charles Littlejohn, who has pled guilty and is serving a five-year prison sentence. If

President Donald Trump appears blind to consumers’ rocketing electricity costs, reports the Washington Post. If anything, the president appears willing to make consumers pay even more for their monthly power bills to protect his favored industry.“On energy policy, the administration’s most obvious sin has been picking losers,” reports the Post. “It has attempted to halt construction for offshore wind developments, even some that were nearly complete, and suffocated massive solar projects with red ta

While critics deny Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s claim that the 3.5 million files the Trump administration released on Friday were all the department had, others are too busy lambasting the malicious clumsiness of the release.Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller and Bulwark editor Sam Stein say the administration’s stuttered, idiotic drip of information was curated specifically to hurt certain people and

Independent journalist Don Lemon was arrested this morning. So was Georgia Fort, also an independent journalist. Both covered a January 18 church protest in Minneapolis. It’s unclear what they’ve been charged with. It’s also unclear whether the federal agents who arrested them had the authority to. The US Department of Justice went to one judge. He said no. Then to another. He also said no. Then it went to a court of appeals. That panel said no, too. The

Democratic Rep. John Larson of Connecticut is an irreplaceable leader in the fight to expand Social Security. As the top Democrat on the Social Security subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee, he combines deep policy expertise with passionate advocacy for Social Security’s 67 million beneficiaries and its 185 million contributors.Rep. Larson’s signature legislation, the Social Security 2100 Act, would increase Social Security’s modest benefits for everyone. It also includes additional targeted increases for the most vulnerable. And it is paid for by requiring millionaires and billionaires, who currently stop paying into Soci

More than a month past the deadline set by legislation passed last year, the US Department of Justice on Friday released over 3 million more pages of files related to convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, but one Democratic lawmaker who has led the push for the disclosure emphasized that the exact contents of the files must be determined to tell whether the release is simply another “cover-up.”“What are we looking for? The FBI statements,” Khanna (D-Calif.) told MS NOW. “We need to see whether the 302 forms are being released. That’s where the survivors mention who the other rich and

There is something deeply unsettling about Abraham Lincoln’s famous phrase “four score,” meaning 80 years. It’s roughly the length of a human life, but is also the interval at which the United States repeatedly collides with crisis and is forced to decide, again and again, what kind of nation we will be.Historian Neil Howe explores this pattern in his book The Fourth Turning Is Here, arguing that every 80 years America reaches a sort of breaking point that ultimately hits on major issues like democracy or autocracy and oligarchy.What typically triggers those moments, histori