Maximillian Potter
Writer-editor @protectdemocracy.org
Contributing Editor @vanityfair.com
NYT & WSJ Best Wine Book: “Shadows in the Vineyard” amzn.to/2H5ikFW
Ghost in some memoirs.
Facts are facts.
My opinions are my own.
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- **The judge added that, “Agent Exum’s text messages provide insight into his perspective of the shooting. They bear on his credibility. They provide insight into how others within [Homeland Security] leadership and within other government entities responded to the shooting.”**
- The feds say the release of a Border Patrol agent's texts could "sully" his reputation. But a judge says they're fair game, partly because Homeland Security has shown "zero concern" for the rep of Chicago's Marimar Martinez. UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/2026/02/06/f...
- And while those gazillionaires insist over and over that they reinvest their untaxed/tax-break/tax-avoidance gains/steals into the economy as “job creators” … turns out some of the most obscenely wealthy “invested” in Epstein, little girls and got a great big private-club kick out of it.
- This line is of questioning of Blanche reveals what connects everything this administration does with the Epstein Files, a truism about the 1%-er social circuit and donor-class that exists nationally, yes, but also in and around every city and state, clinking glasses around elected leaders …
- Once you’re in the club, you’re expected to ignore even obvious signs of grotesque, abusive, even criminal behavior. Your membership/access to the power and wealth is transactional: your loyalty and even co-conspirator participation in exchange for continued membership. You must be “polite.”
- Incapable of shame. Only the best people.
