PRAISE FOR THE EXPECTANT MOTHER DISINFORMATION HANDBOOK:
"Robert Guffey’s The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook is
weirder than parthenogenesis, weirder than the Republican Party,
weirder than the fetishizing of pregnancy that suffuses our culture,
weirder than all the back issues of Weird Tales combined. You
will laugh, gasp, and scratch your head in pleasurable bemusement. I
can’t recommend this tongue-in-cheek tour de force too highly."
—James Morrow, award-winning author of Only Begotten Daughter and Behold the Ape
"Here
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imp with plenty of money, I’d sneak copies into every OB/GYN office and
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—Christine Morgan, award-winning author of Spermjackers from Hell and Lakehouse Infernal
"We've
got plenty of people who think that they know best--better even than a
given pregnant woman. We don't need more of them, but we could damn well
use more examples of them turned into buffoons just like we get to see
in the Handbook [...]. [The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook]
is often weird, often funny, frightfully well written, and it gives us
that unique satisfaction that only fiction can provide by putting the
bastards into a magic circle of their own disinformation and locking
them away. Isn't it sweet to think that they'd stay there."
Here's a sneak preview of my debut comic book, THE UPSIDE DOWN MAGICIAN #1, created in collaboration with Nadim, a supernaturally talented artist based in Canada. Visit Nadim's website by clicking HERE.
THE UPSIDE DOWN MAGICIAN is an ongoing comic book series about ultraterrestrial paintings, sentient houses, Hieronymus Bosch, government agents, secret societies, and many other concepts that are currently beyond human comprehension. Check back in the near future for information about how to order issue #1! For a brief peek at the Greatness to come, check out the video below...
From Gary Fields' and Lindsay Whitehurst's 11-20-25 Associated Press news article entitled "Judge Orders Trump Administration to End National Guard Deployment in DC":
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to end its monthslong deployment of National Guard troops to help police the nation’s capital.
U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb concluded that President Donald Trump’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., illegally intrudes on local officials’ authority to direct law enforcement in the district. She put her order on hold for 21 days to allow for an appeal, however.
District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued to challenge the Guard deployments. He asked the judge to bar the White House from deploying Guard troops without the mayor’s consent while the lawsuit plays out.
Dozens of states took sides in Schwalb’s lawsuit, with their support falling along party lines.
Cobb found that while the president does have authority to protect federal functioning and property, he can’t unilaterally deploy the D.C. National Guard to help with crime control as he sees fit or call in troops from other states.
From Edward Helmore's 11-27-25 GUARDIAN article entitled "Suspect in Washington DC National Guard Shooting Had Ties to CIA, Agency Confirms":
The suspected shooter of two national guard members in Washington DC on Wednesday worked with CIA-backed military units during the US war in Afghanistan, the agency has confirmed.
The alleged gunman, identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, came to the US in September 2021 under an Operation Allies Welcome program that gave some Afghans who had worked for the US government entry visas to the US. He was granted asylum in April this year, under the Trump administration, Reuters reported.
Lakanwal’s ties to the Central Intelligence Agency, which worked alongside US special forces in Afghanistan, were confirmed by the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, to media outlets.
The New York Times reported that the shooting suspect had worked for several US government agencies in Afghanistan, including CIA-backed units in the southern province of Kandahar, a stronghold of the Taliban.
The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, said those CIA-backed units included counterterrorism squads known as the “zero units”, which were involved in combat missions to seize or kill suspected terrorists.
“The Biden administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the US government, including CIA,” Ratcliffe told Fox News digital, adding that Lakanwal’s involvement with the agency was “as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation”.
The two victims in the attack were named as Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Andrew Wolfe, 24. Both are members of the West Virginia national guard .
Beckstrom succumbed to her injuries on Thursday evening, Donald Trump said [...].
Both Beckstrom and Wolfe had both been sworn into service less than 24 hours before they were ambushed at a bus stop by the suspect [...].
Following the shooting, Donald Trump ordered 500 additional national guard troops to Washington DC.
1) From Anthony Blair's 11-24-25 NEW YORK POST article entitled "Politician Named Adolf Hitler Set to Win Election in Southern African Country":
A politician called Adolf Hitler is set to win a local election in his home country, but claimed his father had no idea about the Nazi leader’s significance when he named his son.
Adolf Hitler Uunona, 59, is poised to win a second local election in the southwest African country of Namibia on Nov. 26, holding his seat in the north of the country after previously receiving 85% of the vote in 2020.
The member of the left-wing Swapo party previously spoke about his infamous name after coming to global attention following his win in the Ompundja constituency.
His father “probably didn’t understand what Adolf Hitler stood for. As a child, I saw it as a totally normal name,” the politician told German newspaper Bild in 2020.
2) From Haley Brown's 11-27-25 NEW YORK POST article entitled "Adolf Hitler Easily Wins Election for Fifth Time in Southern African Country":
Adolf Hitler Uunona, a Namibian politician who shares his name with the infamous Nazi dictator, won re-election for his local seat for the fifth time in a row, according to Euro News.
The 59-year-old cruised to re-election despite his unfortunate name and has no plan to change it.
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PRAISE FOR CRYPTOSCATOLOGY:
"Whether you believe or disbelieve in deep and hidden
conspiracies, Robert Guffey's droll yet thought-provoking book Cryptoscatology should be required
reading. From the valid to the invalid, from the provable to the
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topics in conspiracyland.They are all
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Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy
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"Robert Guffey's book, Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory As Art Form,
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way of thinking about all arcane knowledge and speculation. The author
asserts that myth is at least as important as fact, if we would only
realize it, especially since we are inventing the myths that sustain our
world view, our strength, and our endless curiosity about what lies
beyond the cartoon called Reality."
--JON RAPPOPORT, author of The Secret Behind Secret Societies
PRAISE FOR CRYPTOPOLIS & OTHER STORIES:
"The stories in Cryptopolis
feel like the bloody, star-filled lovechildren of Burroughs and Delany,
with each tale ostensibly one part of a greater whole; abstract limbs
and organs tethered together by strained flesh. Cryptopolis
will take readers on a hallucinogenic journey through worlds fractured
by time and place—slipping through liminal dimensions with seamless
abandon to unveil unsettling illusions and heartbreaking realities—and
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--Philip Fracassi, author of Boys in the Valley
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Anton Wilson...if Borges had a lovechild with Lovecraft, which was
subsequently adopted by Kafka...you might get Cryptopolis.
I think too that Clark Ashton Smith would admire this collection.
Written with the obsessive precision of a mysterious staircase
descending into the abyss,Cryptopoliswill take you to strange epiphanies..."
--John Shirley, author of The Feverish Stars
"Once
upon a time, weird and speculative fiction had an underground full of
stories that were not written as calling cards or as film treatments or
as extended internet memes. Guffey's tales resist genre gentrification;
they move into your mind to turn it into a punk house squat!"
--Nick Mamatas, author of Move Under Ground and The Second Shooter
"In Cryptopolis & Other Stories, Guffey's free-ranging intellect meshes wonderfully with his command of the language."
--JohnOakes, author of The Fast
"Guffey
brings together 25 horror shorts that swing wildly between terrifying
mindtrips and gritty realism. Throughout, Guffey’s blunt prose lends a
sense of normalcy to the fantastic as his cast of losers from all walks
of life face the cruelties of their existence—sexual violence, drugs,
war, parenthood, and poverty [...]. Though not for the faint of heart,
this bizarre and over-the-top collection is sure to thrill devotees of
weird fiction."
--Publishers Weekly
"Cryptopolis may end up being a gateway drug into Robert Guffey’s work. I don’t use that term spuriously. So many of Guffey’s stories in Cryptopolis
have a hard-bitten edge and gritty feel to them that I could see him
crafting a metatext about an author whose books are physically
addictive. Across the collection’s twenty-five stories and vignettes,
Guffey displays a range of interests and foci with such depth and heart
that I wouldn’t be surprised if he became one of my favorite modern
writers [...].
"Affect,
the experience of emotional response, seems to be at issue in every one
of Guffey’s offerings. From the opening eponymous story (which is the
only outright Lovecraftian story in the collection), with its resonances
of love as a torturous paralytic, to the last, 'Esthra, Shadows, Glass,
Silence,' a parable of alternate lives and lost possibilities, the
emotional response drawn from the reader appears to be the crux of every
piece. These stories are engines designed to make the reader feel."
--Géza A. G. Reilly, Dead Reckonings
"If
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can’t even describe is looking at you. He starts talking in an even
voice. But his words are chopping reality to pieces, and when he puts
the pieces back together again, and you see the new picture, you feel a
need to call the police. But then you realize you’re in a new place
where the last people you want to talk to are the cops. What do you do
now? You’re on your own. You better have strong resources. Very
strong."
--Jon Rappoport, author of The Secret Behind Secret Societies
Readers of my book CHAMELEO will be well aware of the fact that San Diego, the military town of all military towns, is a nexus of seemingly "random" violence and parapolitical High Strangeness. Here's yet another data point in that regard...
This is a brief excerpt from KESQ's 11-27-25 news report entitled "FBI: Suspected D.C. Shooter Has San Diego Connection":
The man suspected of shooting two members of a West Virginia National Guard unit in Washington, D.C., has a connection to San Diego, the FBI chief said today.
According to a CBS News report, FBI Director Kash Patel said, "a search warrant had been executed at the suspect's last known address in Washington state. Based on what was found at the address, law enforcement was able to find people associated with him in San Diego."
"During that process, we seized numerous electronic devices to include cell phones, laptops, iPads and other material that is being analyzed as we speak,'' Patel continued, according to the report. "... Interviews were conducted and are going to be continue to be conducted, and we will go anywhere in the country or the world where the evidence leads us.''
In an emailed response Thursday, a spokesperson for the FBI's San Diego office did not provide further details about the case, and referred media outlets to "remarks made during the (earlier) press conference."
On Wednesday afternoon, a man shot two members of the West Virginia National Guard "in an ambush-style attack'' in the nation's capital. Twenty-year-old Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and Pfc. Andrew Wolfe, 24, remained in critical condition after undergoing surgery, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Thursday.
The shooter is believed to have acted alone.
Federal authorities identified the suspect as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who entered the United States in 2021. According to ABC News, sources said Lakanwal applied for asylum in 2024 and was granted asylum in April under the Trump administration.
I've catalogued many examples of High & Low Strangeness in San Diego (especially centered around Camp Pendleton) in previous CRYPTOSCATOLOGY posts. These are just a few of them:
The latest episode of THE WARPED REALITY PARANORMAL PODCAST features an interview with Yours Truly! Topics covered in Part One of this two-part interview include Freemasonry, the impending semiquincentennial
of the United States, James H. Billington's Fire in the Minds of Men, Paul Laffoley, Albert K. Bender, Orfeo Angelucci, the Clarion Writers Workshop, the Central Intelligence Agency, Charles Fort, The Skeptical Inquirer, Israel Regardie, Dr. Jose Delgado, Physical Control of the Mind, Philip K. Dick, Jim Thompson, the NCIS, Ray Wise, electronic warfare, lethal "nonlethal" weapons, the Havana Syndrome, and much, much more! Part One focuses on my 2015 book, CHAMELEO: A STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY OF INVISIBLE SPIES, HEROIN ADDICTION, AND HOMELAND SECURITY. Part Two, scheduled to drop next week, will focus on my latest book, HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS THE WORLD: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CINEMA OF OCCULTED TABOOS.
Mind Control, Invisible Spies, and Hollywood Conspiracy Part 1:
I
highly recommend checking out the 11-16-25 episode of THE FARM PODCAST, "Breaking the Fourth Wall," in which Steven Snider interviews Joshua Cutchin about his latest book, FOURTH WALL PHANTOMS. Here's Snider's synopsis of the show...
For this outing, we explore Mr. Cutchin's latest work, the unbelievable Fourth Wall Phantoms: Reflections on the Paranormal, Narrative, and Fictions Becoming Fact. The subject of fiction influencing and even transforming reality is one near and dear to my heart. It was a pleasure to unpack this topic with Josh. Over the course of this discussion, we touch on everything from Slenderman to Mothman, the Dogon conception of language, Neoplatonism, the CCRU, and so much more.
From Seth Stern's 11-23-25 THE INTERCEPT article entitled "The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine":
Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment in response to a July 4 noise demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, during which a police officer was shot.
There are numerous problems with the indictment, but perhaps the most glaring is its inclusion of charges against a Dallas artist who wasn’t even at the protest. Daniel “Des” Sanchez is accused of transporting a box that contained “Antifa materials” after the incident, supposedly to conceal evidence against his wife, Maricela Rueda, who was there.
But the boxed materials aren’t Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, or whatever MAGA officials claim “Antifa” uses to wage its imaginary war on America. As prosecutors laid out in the July criminal complaint that led to the indictment, they were zines and pamphlets. Some contain controversial ideas — one was titled “Insurrectionary Anarchy” — but they’re fully constitutionally protected free speech. The case demonstrates the administration’s intensifying efforts to criminalize left-wing activists after Donald Trump announced in September that he was designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization” — a legal designation that doesn’t exist for domestic groups — following the killing of Charlie Kirk.
Sanchez was first indicted in October on charges of “corruptly concealing a document or record” as a standalone case, but the new indictment merges his charges with those against the other defendants, likely in hopes of burying the First Amendment problems with the case against him under prosecutors’ claims about the alleged shooting.
It’s an escalation of a familiar tactic. In 2023, Georgia prosecutors listed “zine” distribution as part of the conspiracy charges against 61 Stop Cop City protesters in a sprawling RICO indictment that didn’t bother to explain how each individual defendant was involved in any actual crime. I wrote back then about my concern that this wasn’t just sloppy overreach, but also a blueprint for censorship. Those fears have now been validated by Sanchez’s prosecution solely for possessing similar literature.
From Robin Levinson-King and Eloise Alanna's 11-14-25 BBC.com article entitled "At 16, I Was Experimented on by the CIA and Now I'm Suing":
The first thing Lana Ponting remembers about the Allan Memorial Institute, a former psychiatric hospital in Montreal, Canada, is the smell - almost medicinal.
"I didn't like the look of the place. It didn't look like a hospital to me," she told the BBC from her home in Manitoba.
That hospital – once the home of a Scottish shipping magnate – would be her home for a month in April 1958, after a judge ordered the then-16-year-old to undergo treatment for "disobedient" behaviour.
It was there that Ms Ponting became one of thousands of people experimented on as part of the CIA's top-secret research into mind control. Now, she is one of two named plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit for Canadian victims of the experiments. On Thursday, a judge denied the Royal Victoria Hospital's appeal, paving the way for the lawsuit to proceed.
According to her medical files, which she obtained only recently, Ms Ponting had been running away from home and hanging out with friends her parents disapproved of after a difficult move with her family from Ottawa to Montreal.
"I was an ordinary teenager," she recalled. But the judge sent her to the Allan.
Once there, she became an unwitting participant in covert CIA experiments known as MK-Ultra. The Cold War project tested the effects of psychedelic drugs like LSD, electroshock treatments and brainwashing techniques on human beings without their consent.
Over 100 institutions – hospitals, prisons and schools – in the US and Canada were involved.
At the Allan, McGill University researcher Dr Ewen Cameron drugged patients and made them listen to recordings, sometimes thousands of times, in a process he called "exploring".
From Will Sommer's 11-24-25 NEW YORK TIMES article entitled "QAnon Isn’t So Thrilled About the Epstein Revelations":
A day after the House passed a bill to order the Justice Department to release its Epstein files, Jon Herold, a QAnon promoter who broadcasts under the name Patel Patriot, seemed disappointed that more of Mr. Epstein’s crimes might be revealed. “All the awful things that people are saying, I hope it’s not true,” Mr. Herold said. “I don’t want to see any of it.”
Given that the conspiracy theory doubles as a cult of personality built around Mr. Trump, this sort of reaction isn’t particularly surprising. But the new emails do suggest the conspiracy theorists were right about Mr. Epstein’s significance — albeit not in the ways they thought [...].
Mr. Epstein should matter to QAnon because he was a rare example of the supposed sex-trafficking cabal’s machinations coming out in the open. While Mr. Epstein was mentioned relatively rarely in QAnon before his 2019 indictment, his mysterious death propelled QAnon recruitment and provided endless alleys for its amateur internet sleuths to explore.
But Mr. Trump’s long friendship with Mr. Epstein has always been awkward for QAnon believers to explain. Why was Mr. Trump, supposedly the ultimate avenger of abused children, videotaped palling around with Mr. Epstein? Why was he calling a known sex trafficker who paid dozens of girls, some as young as 14, to have sex with him, a “terrific guy?” Why did he appoint Alex Acosta, the prosecutor in Florida who helped give Mr. Epstein a sweetheart plea deal in 2007, to his cabinet?
The traditional QAnon explanation for the pair’s closeness has been that Mr. Trump was getting close to Mr. Epstein just to bring more publicity to his crimes. It’s not the most compelling argument, even by QAnon standards, and it’s looked even shakier as more Epstein emails about Mr. Trump have come out [...].
QAnon’s retreat from the Epstein story is striking because there remain real questions about Mr. Epstein that could make for a rich vein of new theorizing. How exactly did Mr. Epstein get so rich? Why were so many wealthy, powerful men friends with him? Why did he move so easily through the global financial system?
But for most QAnon believers the priority is protecting Mr. Trump at all costs. Even if it means no longer asking questions. Even if it means letting the moment they finally got something right pass them by. Even if it means continuing to thirst for a storm that will never come...
From Anand Giridharadas' 11-23-25 NEW YORK TIMES opinion-editorial piece entitled "How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails":
As journalists comb through the Epstein emails, surfacing the name of one fawning luminary after another, there is a collective whisper of “How could they?” How could such eminent people, belonging to such prestigious institutions, succumb to this?
A close read of the thousands of messages makes it less surprising. When Jeffrey Epstein, a financier turned convicted sex offender, needed friends to rehabilitate him, he knew where to turn: a power elite practiced at disregarding pain.
At the dark heart of this story is a sex criminal and his victims — and his enmeshment with President Trump. But it is also a tale about a powerful social network in which some, depending on what they knew, were perhaps able to look away because they had learned to look away from so much other abuse and suffering: the financial meltdowns some in the network helped trigger, the misbegotten wars some in the network pushed, the overdose crisis some of them enabled, the monopolies they defended, the inequality they turbocharged, the housing crisis they milked, the technologies they failed to protect people against.
The Epstein story is resonating with a broader swath of the public than most stories now do, and some in the establishment worry. When Representative Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, speaks of an “Epstein class,” isn’t that dangerous? Isn’t that class warfare?
But the intuitions of the public are right. People are right to sense that, as the emails lay bare, there is a highly private merito-aristocracy at the intersection of government and business, lobbying, philanthropy, start-ups, academia, science, high finance and media that all too often takes care of its own more than the common good. They are right to resent that there are infinite second chances for members of this group even as so many Americans are deprived of first chances. They are right that their pleas often go unheard, whether they are being evicted, gouged, foreclosed on, A.I.-obsolesced — or, yes, raped [...].
What the Epstein class understands is that the more accessible information becomes, the more precious nonpublic information is. The more everybody insta-broadcasts opinions, the dearer is the closely held take. The emails are a private, bilateral social media for people who can’t or won’t post: an archipelago of single subscriber Substacks. And in the need to maintain relevance by offering edge, a reader detects thirst and swagger, desperateness and swanning [...].
Sometimes these people give the impression that their minds would be blown by a newspaper. Mr. Kuhn wrote to Mr. Epstein: “Love to get your sense of Trump’s administration, policies.” And while it may seem strange to rely on Mr. Epstein for political analysis when you can visit any number of websites, for this class, insight’s value varies inversely with the number of recipients. And the ultimate flex is getting insider intel and shrugging: “Nthg revolutionary really,” the French banker Ariane de Rothschild wrote during a meeting with Portugal’s prime minister.
Nomadic bat signals get things going, and edge keeps them flowing, while underneath a deeper exchange is at work. The smart need money; the rich want to seem smart; the staid seek adjacency to what Mr. Summers called “life among the lucrative and louche”; and Mr. Epstein needed to wash his name using blue-chip people who could be forgiving about infractions against the less powerful. Each has some form of capital and seeks to trade. The business is laundering capital — money into prestige, prestige into fun, fun into intel, intel into money [...].
This class has its status games. One is, when getting a tip, to block the blessing by saying you already know. Another is to apologize for busyness by invoking centrality — “trump related issues occupying my time.” When an intro is offered, the coldest reply is “no.” The ultimate power move is from Mohamed Waheed Hassan of the Maldives, whose emails ended: “Sent from President’s iPad.”
From Raheem Hosseini's 11-21-25 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE article entitled "A California Woman Accused Both Epstein and Trump. Did She Ever Exist?":
It is still not clear who Katie Johnson was, or if she ever existed — though someone professing to be her contacted me in 2016 when I first reported on the lawsuits. Yet, thanks to emails released last week by Republicans on the House Oversight Committee, we now know that Epstein was at least aware of her accusations.
In April 2016, Epstein forwarded a Reuters reporter’s request for comment about Katie Johnson’s lawsuit to several people, including attorney Alan Dershowitz and former White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler. To Tom Barrack, a Trump campaign adviser who is now the president’s ambassador to Turkey, Epstein wrote, “nuts but i thought you guys should know.” To journalist Michael Wolff, Epstein wrote, “here we go.”
In November 2016, two days after Trump’s election, Epstein forwarded a Daily Mail story about the lawsuit being withdrawn in New York federal court to several friends and associates.
New York Times financial reporter Landon Thomas Jr. responded, “You called it,” and asked Epstein about his stock portfolio [...].
To some child safety advocates, speculating about the unknowable can distract from what is known.
More than a dozen women — from pageant contestants to Mar-a-Lago guests to former employees — have publicly accused Trump of sexual misconduct. Trump has denied all accusations.
Separate juries have found Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in 1996 and defaming her by denying it, awarding Carroll a total of $88.3 million in damages.
Trump’s first choice for attorney general, former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, withdrew over allegations that he sexually exploited a minor. Gaetz was the only member of Congress to vote against an anti-human trafficking bill that Trump signed in his first term.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, who will be in charge of releasing the Epstein files, was Florida’s chief legal counsel when Epstein received a knocked-down charge of soliciting prostitution, the Palm Beach Post reported.
Trump’s immigration crackdown has redirected federal agents who investigate child sex crimes, the New York Times reported this month. Federal prosecutions for child sex trafficking fell during Trump’s first term, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, including under the laws used to charge Epstein in 2019.
“Let’s say policing actually worked,” said Kate D’Amo, an expert on sexual labor and exploitation at Reframe Health and Justice. “If at any point anybody on the right actually cared about this, they’d be pissed.”
University of Pennsylvania political science professor Marci A. Hamilton, founder of the Child USA advocacy organization and a national authority on the clergy abuse scandal, said the Epstein saga is prompting people like her to re-explain what cover-ups look like. When Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said last month that he supported the release of “credible information” regarding Epstein, Hamilton said Johnson was invoking the Vatican playbook for shielding pedophile priests.
“That is the buzzword of the bishops. That’s how the bishops were able to cover up as much child sexual abuse as they did,” she said.
Goldman said Meagher brought him the Katie Johnson lawsuit motivated by a desire to keep Trump from being elected president. “But as we know now, he can almost do worse things and this never seems to affect him,” Goldman said.
Epstein expressed a similar sentiment in February 2016. Thomas, the Times reporter, emailed Epstein saying, “The stories you could tell …” about candidate Trump. To which Epstein replied, “Actually I don’t think he/voters would care.”
From Edward Helmore's 11-22-25 GUARDIAN article entitled "Politicians Shocked by Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Surprise Resignation Announcement":
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s surprise resignation from Congress late on Friday, saying she refused to be a “battered wife” following her public fallout with Donald Trump, has been slammed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic congresswoman and Greene’s frequent sparring partner.
“She’s carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement on her Instagram account, and criticized her voting record on healthcare.
Greene abruptly resigned from Congress, effective 5 January, in a 10-minute video post outlining her unhappiness with Republicans on issues including the public release of the Jeffrey Epstein files in the government’s possession, US financing of foreign conflicts, Trump’s decision to potentially back a candidate against her, and the cost of living and healthcare.
After her service to Trump, she said she objected to being “expected to defend the President against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me”.
“I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better,” Greene said.
But Ocasio-Cortez said Greene “is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she’s STILL voting with them to gut healthcare … ”
Greene voted in the summer for cuts to Medicaid and the reduction of enhanced tax credits for the Affordable Care Act, but then in October criticized the ACA cuts as premiums soared.
Ocasio-Cortez also repeated some of her criticism of shares bought by Greene earlier this year before Trump said he was pausing tariffs. Greene has denied any impropriety in her stock trading.
To read the entire article, click HERE. Meanwhile...
ACT 3:
The Trump & Mamdani Comedy Hour
(or)
"You Can Just Say Yes"
(or)
"We Agree on a Lot More than I Would Have Thought"
ACT 4:
From Nicholas Kerr's 11-23-25 ABC NEWS report entitled "Trump’s Accusations of Treason Draw Bipartisan Rebuke":
President Donald Trump's comments accusing Democratic lawmakers of "seditious behavior" following a video encouraging members of the military to refuse "illegal orders" have drawn criticism across party lines.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, one of the six Democrats featured in the video, told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz on Sunday that she believed Trump's attack, threatening the punishment of death for sedition, is "a tool of fear."
"He's trying to get us to shut up because he doesn't want to be talking about this," Slotkin said. "In fact, I would argue that one of the things that he's been doing by repeating it and talking about it is trying to distract us from the big stories of last week, which were the [Jeffrey] Epstein files and then the economy."
Republican Rep. Michael McCaul also sought to distance himself from the comments, telling Raddatz, "I don't speak for the president in terms of hanging members of Congress."
"I would tone down the rhetoric and tone down the theme here," McCaul added.
The White House and Trump have denied Trump was threatening death upon the lawmakers, who have military or national security backgrounds, but the president's attacks have continued despite the lawmakers reporting they've experienced a deluge of threats and have had to increase their security as a result.
On Saturday night, Trump again referred to them as "traitors," asserting the individuals "SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW" rather than defending themselves to the media.
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