Virginia Scharff
@vscharff.bsky.social
Historian, novelist, gardener, cook
Good morning!
Greetings and good morning it’s the Thursday farm rush hour with our donkeys and sheep
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Good morning!
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It’s wild how many of the ICE/CBP detentions are turning out to be illegal — and yet in the US system, there are no consequences for the agents and no recourse for the victims.
Judge rules mandatory detention of Chicago day care teacher by ICE is illegal
Judge rules mandatory detention of Chicago day care teacher by ICE is illegal
According to the ruling, Diana Santillana will be given a bond hearing in front of an immigration judge, who could order her released while her civil deportation case proceeds.
trib.al
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It’s wild how many of the ICE/CBP detentions are turning out to be illegal — and yet in the US system, there are no consequences for the agents and no recourse for the victims.
Watch this space.
Among Trump Voters - "Do you regret voting for Trump? If not, would you say you're disappointed or not in how he has handled his first few months of being President?"
Don't Regret/Not Disappointed: 68%
Don't Regret/Disappointed: 16%
Regret Voting For Him: 16%
Navigator / Nov 9, 2025
Don't Regret/Not Disappointed: 68%
Don't Regret/Disappointed: 16%
Regret Voting For Him: 16%
Navigator / Nov 9, 2025
November 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Watch this space.
He’s swimming in the sewer he built and flooded.
"The Jeffrey Epstein saga has a dastardly quality: The more anyone drawn into the morass tries to dig themselves out, the deeper they dig themselves in. The White House proved the rule yet again on Wednesday," writes Stephen Collinson | Analysis https://cnn.it/47ZKMTN
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
He’s swimming in the sewer he built and flooded.
Oy veh
REPORTER: Why'd it take so long to get sworn in?
GRIJALVA: *gestures at Johnson* That would not be my question!
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I really like this lady
GRIJALVA: *gestures at Johnson* That would not be my question!
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I really like this lady
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Oy veh
Verdad
Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Verdad
La la la, connect the dots 🎶
Jesus Christ. This email was less than a month before Helsinki
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
La la la, connect the dots 🎶
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WATCH: @raskin.house.gov explains the deal that would allow eight GOP senators lucrative lawsuits over phone record subpoenas:
"It's certainly the most corrupt provision authorizing financial self-dealing and plunder of the public passed by Congress in this century."
"It's certainly the most corrupt provision authorizing financial self-dealing and plunder of the public passed by Congress in this century."
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 AM
WATCH: @raskin.house.gov explains the deal that would allow eight GOP senators lucrative lawsuits over phone record subpoenas:
"It's certainly the most corrupt provision authorizing financial self-dealing and plunder of the public passed by Congress in this century."
"It's certainly the most corrupt provision authorizing financial self-dealing and plunder of the public passed by Congress in this century."
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As of 2011, Epstein was a Level 3 registered sex offender (highest-risk) with a lifetime registrant requirement in NY.
And a registered sex offender in Florida by 2008/2009. He was required to report all international travel.
But sure, visit the Southern White House.
And a registered sex offender in Florida by 2008/2009. He was required to report all international travel.
But sure, visit the Southern White House.
jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
As of 2011, Epstein was a Level 3 registered sex offender (highest-risk) with a lifetime registrant requirement in NY.
And a registered sex offender in Florida by 2008/2009. He was required to report all international travel.
But sure, visit the Southern White House.
And a registered sex offender in Florida by 2008/2009. He was required to report all international travel.
But sure, visit the Southern White House.
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"There is a lot more." Rep. Garcia shares the DOJ is hoarding files from federal Epstein investigations. "Photographs, possibly videos, they have information we need to actually bring justice to the survivors and to implicate the wealthy and powerful men that abused and raped children and women."
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"There is a lot more." Rep. Garcia shares the DOJ is hoarding files from federal Epstein investigations. "Photographs, possibly videos, they have information we need to actually bring justice to the survivors and to implicate the wealthy and powerful men that abused and raped children and women."
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
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Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
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Reminder that Ken Starr was canned by Baylor University for covering up multiple sexual assaults when he was the school’s president…
ngl It would be pretty funny if Bill Clinton turned out to be a total boy scout in this and that KEN STARR was the guilty one.
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Reminder that Ken Starr was canned by Baylor University for covering up multiple sexual assaults when he was the school’s president…
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All of the times I’ve wondered what Putin had on Trump, and now we find out Jeffrey Epstein was talking to Putin’s ambassador about Trump.
Jeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into Trump
Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.
www.politico.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
All of the times I’ve wondered what Putin had on Trump, and now we find out Jeffrey Epstein was talking to Putin’s ambassador about Trump.
Excuse me? Is this part of why Epstein threatened the Trump team with what happens when “your fixer flips?”
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Excuse me? Is this part of why Epstein threatened the Trump team with what happens when “your fixer flips?”
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This is so big, seriously, the biggest scandal we’ve ever seen‼️👀👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This is so big, seriously, the biggest scandal we’ve ever seen‼️👀👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
An important side note about today's Epstein/Trump revelations.
They show that Todd Blanche's questioning of Maxwell was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump.
Either way, he is not fit to serve as Deputy Attorney General.
They show that Todd Blanche's questioning of Maxwell was either (a) completely incompetent; or (b) intentionally crafted not to elicit facts incriminating Trump.
Either way, he is not fit to serve as Deputy Attorney General.
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
Jesus
NEW REPORT from ProPublica finds that Fox News manufactured riots fit for air, using old footage or footage that was not of Portland, for months leading up to September.
It was so convincing that the network apparently prompted Trump to send federal forces to the Pacific Northwest. trib.al/koDwQMR
It was so convincing that the network apparently prompted Trump to send federal forces to the Pacific Northwest. trib.al/koDwQMR
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Jesus
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Since this administration loves to charge people with making false statements (see, e.g., Comey, James), I assume they will be charging Maxwell for lying to Blanche and the FBI agents who interviewed her, right?
Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Since this administration loves to charge people with making false statements (see, e.g., Comey, James), I assume they will be charging Maxwell for lying to Blanche and the FBI agents who interviewed her, right?
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EPSTEIN BREAKING NEWS: importantly, emails written in 2011, before Trump was president, and between close confidants, with no known reason to lie to each other about Trump.
It explains why Trump has done everything NOT to release the material. If it were not damning, you would want its release.
It explains why Trump has done everything NOT to release the material. If it were not damning, you would want its release.
It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States.
Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
EPSTEIN BREAKING NEWS: importantly, emails written in 2011, before Trump was president, and between close confidants, with no known reason to lie to each other about Trump.
It explains why Trump has done everything NOT to release the material. If it were not damning, you would want its release.
It explains why Trump has done everything NOT to release the material. If it were not damning, you would want its release.
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These are surely the actions of an innocent man with nothing to hide
It is instructive to see where Trump sees the need to exert political leverage. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Trump Ramps Up Pressure on G.O.P. to Thwart Epstein Vote
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
These are surely the actions of an innocent man with nothing to hide
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The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
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If Trump has nothing to hide, he'd tell Pam Bondi to release the Epstein Files like they all promised.
Mike Johnson would have sworn in Adelita Grijalva yesterday.
Ghislaine Maxwell would be sent back to Florida prison instead of being pampered in Club Fed in Texas.
And...
He's guilty as hell.
Mike Johnson would have sworn in Adelita Grijalva yesterday.
Ghislaine Maxwell would be sent back to Florida prison instead of being pampered in Club Fed in Texas.
And...
He's guilty as hell.
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
If Trump has nothing to hide, he'd tell Pam Bondi to release the Epstein Files like they all promised.
Mike Johnson would have sworn in Adelita Grijalva yesterday.
Ghislaine Maxwell would be sent back to Florida prison instead of being pampered in Club Fed in Texas.
And...
He's guilty as hell.
Mike Johnson would have sworn in Adelita Grijalva yesterday.
Ghislaine Maxwell would be sent back to Florida prison instead of being pampered in Club Fed in Texas.
And...
He's guilty as hell.
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Trump bragged about grappling women by the pu**y & barging into rooms of partially dressed, young pageant contestants. A jury concluded he assaulted E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room. So nothing that’s in the Epstein emails is a surprise. It’s just confirmation.
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Trump bragged about grappling women by the pu**y & barging into rooms of partially dressed, young pageant contestants. A jury concluded he assaulted E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room. So nothing that’s in the Epstein emails is a surprise. It’s just confirmation.