Wednesday’s tabs are full of whoooaaaaa …
The Justice Department will publicly divulge all of its eligible files on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein within the next 30 days, US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced. “We will continue to follow the law and encourage maximum transparency.” pic.twitter.com/dnGdNzkdIn
— New York Post (@nypost) November 19, 2025
Ed: Well, we’ll see. The bill does allow for some redactions to the material, but if Bondi grasps this moment correctly, she’d refrain from any redactions at all. Redactions will only fuel more demands for further transparency. It will be painful, but it will hasten the end of this scandal – and that would benefit both parties in the long run.
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NY Post: Days after her name appeared in a tranche of newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails, Goldman Sachs general counsel Kathy Ruemmler sent a company-wide message that some bank employees found tone-deaf.
Ruemmler wrote that “what and how you communicate reflects on you and the reputation of the firm” in a Tuesday memo reminding staffers to complete mandatory training — including a module on “communications at Goldman Sachs.” …
A September report in the Wall Street Journal claimed she was close to Epstein and was once even named the executor of his estate. And a 2023 WSJ story said Ruemmler “had dozens of meetings with Epstein in the years after her White House service and before she became a top lawyer at Goldman Sachs … [Epstein] also planned for her to join a 2015 trip to Paris and a 2017 visit to Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.”
Emails reveal that Ruemmler, a former Obama White House attorney who also referred to herself as Epstein’s lawyer in one email, had a friendly relationship with the disgraced financier.
Ed: The effects of the Epstein Light Grenade are not limited to politicians, clearly. The release of the files will likely shake up the financial sector, not to mention Academia at some point. Larry Summers may not be the only figure that ended up in higher ed that will get a mention in those communications.
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Raskin when talking about Trump: Esptein is a child s*x trafficking mastermind.
Raskin when talking about Plaskett: Epstein is a constituent. I have no idea what the ethical transgression is here. pic.twitter.com/DwY2i2UW0d
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 19, 2025
Ed: Aaaaand this is yet another aspect of Democrats’ strategic failure with going all-in on the Epstein files. Did it never occur to them that Epstein spent a lot more time and money cuddling up to the progressive ruling elite than the conservatives on the outside of those circles?
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Free Beacon: Plaskett, a member of the House Intelligence Committee and one-time rising star of the Democratic Party, was made aware of allegations about Epstein as early as October 2016, according to little-noticed news reports in the Virgin Islands press.
That contradicts Plaskett’s claim on Tuesday and in court filings to have discovered the bad news about Epstein after his arrest in July 2019.
In fact, Plaskett was publicly lambasted for—and publicly responded to criticism of—her relationship with Epstein years earlier. Plaskett challenger Gordon Ackley criticized the Democrat for taking $5,400 in campaign donations from Epstein, saying “it is disgusting that our congresswoman took thousands of dollars from a convicted pedophile.” Plaskett refused to disavow Epstein, who had been convicted of sex crimes involving minors in 2008 and lived at a Virgin Islands compound that had been dubbed “Pedophile Island.”
Ed: Plaskett is a disgrace. She will not be the only one who gets vaporized by the Epstein Light Grenade, but she may be the one with the least value to Democrats, and may be their best choice for a sacrifice to ‘prove’ their virtue in a scandal mainly of their own creation.
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Wow, Judge Smith absolutely slams Judge Brown, who wrote the majority opinion.
“The main winners from Judge Brown’s opinion are George Soros and Gavin Newsom. The obvious losers are the People of Texas and the Rule of Law,” Judge Smith writes.
“In 37 years as a federal judge,… pic.twitter.com/F2PveNjbNP
— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) November 19, 2025
“In 37 years as a federal judge, I’ve served on hundreds of three-judge panels. This is the most blatant exercise of judicial activism that I have ever witnessed,” he adds.
Ed: This is in the image, but in case you miss it, Judge Smith’s bitter joke that follows is a keeper: “There’s the old joke: What’s the difference between God and a federal district judge? Answer: God doesn’t think He’s a federal judge. Or a different version of that joke: An angel rushes to the head of the Heavenly Host and says, ‘We have a problem. God is having delusions of grandeur.’ The head angel calmly replies, ‘What makes you say that?’ The first angel whispers, ‘He’s wearing His robe and keeps imagining He’s a federal judge.’ Only this time, it isn’t funny.” This ruling will not last long.
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Ace of Spades: She was Wonkette with a more aggressive agent.
She recently had a fall from grace — a brief and shallow fall from grace — when her former finance, the damp liberal cuckold Ryan Lizza, revealed that she had been having a torrid “digital affair” — which is a nice way of saying “sexting and dirty pictures with mutual masturbation” — with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while writing a piece about him. And, liberals spat: as she was writing unfavorably about his then-opponent, Joe Biden.
The left hissed that this breached journalistic ethics but may I ask: what journalistic ethics? What the fuck are you even talking about?
Yes, she had a conflict of interest in that she had an emotional attachment to the subject she was writing about and therefore a bias against his political rivals.
Which she did not disclose.
This is true of the entire media, which has been having an equally torrid “digital affair” (and often, a physical one) with the Democrat Party for decades.
Ed: This is the smartest observation I’ve yet read on L’Affaire Nuzzi. It goes on at length, so be sure to read it all.
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Grifting opportunist expresses interest in new grift: News at 11 https://t.co/X72eXSY3fk
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) November 19, 2025
Ed: This is the same man who self-identified as Antifa, no?
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Deanna Fisher at Victory Girls: Well, well, well, how the tables have turned on the Democrats.
The single-minded insistence that the Epstein Files were going to be President Trump’s Waterloo… hasn’t turned out quite like they planned so far. We’ve already known that none of the Epstein survivors have implicated President Trump – or Bill Clinton, for that matter – but Democrats were going for it anyway. After all, what was there to hide???
And then Democrats lost control of the runaway train. Trump said fine, you pass the discharge petition and I’ll sign it. The House passed it. The Senate passed it. It was a done deal. Except now, two sitting Democrats have some ‘esplaning to do.
Ed: Like I’ve written repeatedly, this whole campaign by Democrats is either a practical demonstration of FAFO or an object lesson in being careful what you wish for. Probably both. However, we should also take care to not overdose on schadenfreude at this stage either, because I’d bet that everyone will have reason to regret releasing the files.
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“The preliminary injunction entered by the district court is overbroad…The practical effect is to enjoin all law enforcement officers within the Executive Branch.” Big win for President Trump in Chicago. Courts cannot supplant the President’s immigration enforcement tactics. https://t.co/5nzbpDBTqo pic.twitter.com/pHIeGXJcW1
— Eric W. (@EWess92) November 19, 2025
Ed: See above for the joke from Judge Smith about the arrogance of federal district judges.
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Mediaite: President Donald Trump meets Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Donald Trump secured the release of a U.S. citizen who had been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia over tweets criticizing the kingdom.
On Wednesday, the family of 75-year-old Saad Almadi released a statement announcing his release. The family credited Trump — who met with Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman the day before — for making the Almadi’s freedom possible.
Ed: Almadi had been imprisoned four years ago, then detained in Saudi Arabia on house arrest since 2023. I’ll leave it to readers to draw their conclusions about the timing in relation to US administrations.
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Well we certainly can’t have dirty old buildings getting power-washed without a federal judge saying it’s okay. A building being cleaned without the approval of some braindead, unelected idiot with a law degree would be the end of democracy. https://t.co/7mafnVkmSS
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 19, 2025
Ed: Lotsa little gods around the judiciary, no?
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Jennifer Sey: Here’s the thing: No one wants to be fat. No one.
All the body positivity bullshit was just that: bullshit.
No one wants to be obese. No one even wants to be chubby with arm dangles. No one wants their belly hanging over their pants. No one wants to have trouble chasing their kids around. No one wants to have 3 chins. And I can assure you — no one in Hollywood who has to spend all day around size 0s who eat nothing but lettuce leaves wants to be fat next to those people. No one.
Schumer never thought she wasn’t fat and she never didn’t feel shame about it.
Ed: I think Schumer should be proud of her work to deal with her weight. I’ve struggled with mine my entire adult life, and everything Jennifer writes applies to me as well, including the use of GLP-1 medication and the way it works for me. The real point is that people who are overweight or obese are people first, and their body shape is subordinate to their humanity. However, we should stop pretending that obesity is a health-neutral status. It most certainly isn’t, and the “body positivity” nonsense is just that.
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I am formally inviting Sydney Sweeney to be my official spox and speak freely on my behalf 👍 pic.twitter.com/8Eo8cpU2j6
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) November 19, 2025
Ed: Wait! Me first!
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