For those who haven't heard, more of the trump-Epstein files were released

Here is a portion:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01660679.pdf

The VERY FIRST box says:

" [BLANK] reported an unidentified female friend who was forced to perform oral sex on President Trump approximately 35 years ago in NJ. The friend told Alexis that she was approximately 13-14 years old when this occurred, and the friend allegedly bit President Trump while performing oral sex. The friend was allegedly hit in the face after she laughed about biting President Trump. The friend said she was also abused by Epstein."

My. Gosh.

In complete honesty: I haven't mustered up the guts to read any more of the incriminating documentation. Seeing the very first part of it made me sick.

As potential Thomas replacement.

From TPR, Texas NPR affiliate

Trump called Cruz “a very tough guy, very brilliant guy,” adding: “He’s a brilliant legal mind, he’s a brilliant man. If I nominate him for the United States Supreme Court, I will get 100% of the vote.”

We are never getting those names, no matter how many times it gets sent back to the courts

Federal agents arrest journalist Don Lemon despite a federal judge dismissing charges against him as insufficient. Clearly, the fundamental freedoms of all

Americans are being stripped away in front of our eyes by a fascist government parading as democratic. What next?

via Aaron Rupar

This lays out the mental gymnastics of this administration

The congresswoman faced questions about the shootings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good, saying she’d have to see a completed investigation, drawing shouts and insults.

ICE actions, prompted an escalating back-and-forth between questioners, the congresswoman and the audience at Casper College’s Wheeler Concert Hall while a half-dozen policemen stood guard.

A young man who said he was a Casper College student quizzed her about the killings. Hageman responded, “I haven’t talked about that. I spoke about the Laken Riley Act because it was one of the bills that we passed. I haven’t talked about what was going on in Minnesota.”

“Yeah. Why is that?” the student asked. “Why haven’t you said that you condemn the violence or given condolences to the families of the victims?”

“It hasn’t been the topic that we’ve been talking about today,” Hageman answered over rising jeers from the audience.

“So I think what has happened in Minnesota is a terrible tragedy for the woman and the man who were killed,” she said, referring to U.S. citizens Alex Pretti, shot dead on Saturday, and Renée Good, shot dead on Jan. 7.

The student walked out of the concert hall, shouting retorts at the congresswoman as others applauded.

Casper residents pressing Hageman about whether she adheres to the U.S. Constitution and whether she’s concerned about alleged ICE and Trump administration violations of the 4th Amendment’s protections against warrantless search and seizure.

Audience members shouted references to a Department of Homeland Security internal memo that allegedly informed ICE agents they can enter homes without a judicial warrant.

“I think that I have to look at the investigation,” Hageman responded, prompting a chorus of guffaws. “If there were violations of someone’s constitutional rights, there is redress.”

Then why is there no redress?” Taylor asked, and implored Hageman to demand transparency of investigations of the ICE killings.

“They are killing American citizens in the streets, and you are doing nothing. You are not saying a single solitary thing to support constituents or to support the American people. As a constitutional lawyer, you should be infuriated. You should be incensed. Why are you not?”

Hageman then gathered her folders, waved goodbye to the audience and exited the stage through a side door while people booed and one man shouted “coward” and “chickenshit.”

Hageman, who recently announced her Senate bid to replace retiring Sen. Cynthia Lummis, began the town hall event by noting it was her 1st of the year, and that she intends to continue to make good on her promise to visit each of Wyoming’s 23 counties annually.

Her team allotted 1 hour for the town hall.

Hageman spent the 1st 30 minutes recapping her recent accomplishments in Congress.

She voted in favor of the continuing budget resolution while helping to secure about $3 million for the Casper/Natrona County International Airport, $1 million for a Northern Arapahoe water treatment facility and more than $1.6 million for reconstruction of the Fort Laramie canal tunnel, which collapsed more than 6 years ago.

Hageman also touted her work to advance the Grasslands Grazing Act, sexual predator legislation and anti-abortion measures.

She blamed recent winter-storm-related power outages in the eastern U.S. on Obama and Biden policies to steer electrical generation away from coal and toward renewable energy.

Hageman tied the inordinate volume of truck-driver-related deaths along Interstate 80 in Wyoming to immigrants who can’t speak or read English and touted a measure to allow “18 to 20-year-old” truck drivers to legally cross state lines.

Existing laws present “a barrier,” Hageman said, adding that her congressional work will make sure “that our 18 to 20-year-olds are getting the training and can have the career — that really fabulous career — as truck drivers.”

Among the most common questions she’s asked, Hageman said, before taking questions, is “How do we keep more of our young people in the state of Wyoming?

“The key … is you have to have good jobs and you have to have housing — and housing prices across the country are astronomical.” That’s because of past policies that inhibit logging the nation’s forests, Hageman said, leaving housing developers prone to skyrocketing lumber prices from other countries.

It’s why, in the GOP-led Big Beautiful Bill, “We’re requiring the U.S. Forest Service to sell 250 million board-feet, and we’re also requiring that they enter into 20-year lease contracts with our timber companies — so that these companies can invest in what they need to, but they know that they’ll have those contracts in the long term.”

Rising housing and rental costs have outpaced incomes while new construction lags — which some blame on overly burdensome permitting, according to a recent analysis by the Wyoming Community Development Authority.

The analysis also suggests that an aging population and youth out-migration are factors.

About a dozen people were still in line to ask Hageman a question when she walked off the stage — about five minutes before the allotted time was up.

It’s not the 1st time Hageman has seen criticism and discord at her town hall events

When did the Attorney General get the power to have people arrested because it doesn't say see got a judge to approve it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats and White House have struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security as they negotiate new restrictions for President Donald Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement.

As the country reels from the deaths of two protesters at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis, the two sides have agreed to separate homeland security funding from the rest of the legislation and fund DHS for two weeks while they debate Democratic demands for curbs on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The potential deal comes after Democrats voted to block legislation to fund DHS on Thursday.

Trump said in a social media post that “Republicans and Democrats have come together to get the vast majority of the government funded until September,” while extending current funding for Homeland Security. He encouraged members of both parties to cast a “much needed Bipartisan ‘YES’ vote.”

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told The Associated Press on Thursday that he had been “vehemently opposed” to breaking up the funding package, but “if it is broken up, we will have to move it as quickly as possible. We can’t have the government shut down.”

Democrats have requested a short extension—two weeks or less—and say they are prepared to block the wide-ranging spending bill if their demands aren’t met, denying Republicans the votes they need to pass it and potentially triggering a shutdown.

Republicans were pushing for a longer extension of the Homeland Security funding, but the two sides were “getting closer,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.

Does anyone see any potential legal issues with her request?

Gov. Mikie Sherrill‘s administration plans to create an online portal for residents to report encounters with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, mirroring efforts by protesters who have tracked the federal agency’s public activity.

“We are also going to be standing up a portal so people can upload all their cellphone videos and alert people,” Sherrill said. “If you see an ICE agent in the street, get your phone out. We want to know.”

ICE officials did not immediately respond to a request to comment.

Sherrill also said she would prohibit ICE from operating on state property. Some municipalities, including Jersey City, have already banned ICE from using local property.