President Trump said on Sunday that House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, saying “we have nothing to hide.” “As I said on Friday night aboard Air Force One to the Fake News Media, House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat ‘Shutdown.’ The Department of Justice has already turned over tens of thousands of pages to the Public on ‘Epstein,’ are looking at various Democrat operatives (Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman, Larry Summers, etc.) and their relationship to Epstein, and the House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legally entitled to, I DON’T CARE!” Trump said on Truth Social. All I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT, which is the Economy, ‘Affordability’ (where we are winning BIG!), our Victory on reducing Inflation from the highest level in History to practically nothing, bringing down prices for the American People, delivering Historic Tax Cuts, gaining Trillions of Dollars of Investment into America (A RECORD!), the rebuilding of our Military, securing our Border, deporting Criminal Illegal Aliens, ending Men in Women’s Sports, stopping Transgender for Everyone, and so much more!” Trump continued. “Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive and, if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our Landslide Election Victory. Some ‘members’ of the Republican Party are being ‘used,’ and we can’t let that happen. Let’s start talking about the Republican Party’s Record Setting Achievements, and not fall into the Epstein ‘TRAP,’ which is actually a curse on the Democrats, not us,” he added. Full post below: Axios noted: Trump’s apparent change of heart indicates that the vote on releasing the Epstein files would likely pass, as he faces backlash from some in the MAGA movement and has clashed over the matter with Republicans, including former loyalist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). Trump’s statement follows his announcement that he would instruct Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department to investigate numerous relationships involving Jeffrey Epstein. President Trump To Instruct Investigation Into Jeffrey Epstein Relationships – Includes Bill Clinton, Reid Hoffman & Others “Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures, I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him,” Trump said on Truth Social. “This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats. Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his ‘Island.’ Stay tuned!!!” he added. Full post below: More from the Associated Press: Lawmakers who support the bill have been predicting a big win in the House this week with a “deluge of Republicans” voting for it, bucking the GOP leadership and the president. In his opposition to the proposal, Trump even reached out to two of the Republican lawmakers who signed it. One, Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, met last week with administration officials in the White House Situation Room to discuss it. The bill would force the Justice Department to release all files and communications related to Epstein, as well as any information about the investigation into his death in federal prison. Information about Epstein’s victims or ongoing federal investigations would be allowed to be redacted. “There could be 100 or more” votes from Republicans, said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., among the lawmakers discussing the legislation on Sunday news show appearances. “I’m hoping to get a veto-proof majority on this legislation when it comes up for a vote.” Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., introduced a discharge petition in July to force a vote on their bill. That is a rarely successful tool that allows a majority of members to bypass House leadership and force a floor vote.

In the ever-sprawling discography of Jimi Hendrix, Axis: Bold As Love, the second of three of Jimi Hendrix Experience studio albums recorded and released during the guitarist’s lifetime, is often lost in the conversation. Almost like the middle child where, in this case, the first-born (Are You Experienced?) kicks the door down and sets a standard, and the youngest (Electric Ladyland) receives more warmth and attention, and zooms to the very top of the heap. Renowned journalist David Fricke notes in the booklet that’s part of the Bold As Love box set, the sophomore release from the Jimi Hendrix Experience is “a masterpiece still awaiting discovery,” adding that it’s “the one many people only know in passing, en route between the profound crossroads of Are You Experienced? and the extravagant, cosmic scale of 1968’s Electric Ladyland.” All the more reason this box set could very well change that perception. Expanded to five LPs or four CDs (depending on your preferred format), stuffed with extra studio and live tracks, the aforementioned booklet, plus a Blu-ray Disc comprising updated stereo, mono, and Atmos mixes, Bold As Love captures the Jimi Hendrix Experience as a tight-fisted power trio cooperative at the peak of their powers. Axis: Bold As Love was released in December 1967, just a few months after the Jimi Hendrix Experience debut Are You Experienced?. Like its predecessor, it was produced by Chas Chandler and was a commercial hit. Stand-outs like “Little Wing,” “Spanish Castle Magic,” “If 6 Was 9,” and “Castles Made Of Sand” are part of the Hendrix lexicon. If the weird and wonderful calling of “Exp” doesn’t lure you in, then you’re probably listening to the wrong record. Engineer Eddie Kramer once described the album as “more complex with a better sound, a more refined sound” adding that he and Hendrix employed effects and phasing, sonic trademarks of the psychedelic era, to expand on the heavy blues and power of the band. Axis: Bold As Love was recorded at Olympic Studios in London. With Are You Experienced? in his rearview mirror, the Experience were already well into recording a follow-up. Newfound success allowed Hendrix to assert his full attention on becoming the world-class songwriter, guitarist, singer and aural architect he was born to be. The easy rolling groove of “Up From The Skies,” the album’s lone single, invites you in before “Spanish Castle Magic” drives a nail into the kaleidoscope and gives Hendrix ample room to paint the room with enough Day-Glo pans to cure vertigo. Thumbs up to bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell on “Wait Until Tomorrow” and “Ain’t No Telling.” They both stand out on the breaks, as well as provide a solid platform from where Hendrix was able to take aim and fire. From the tinkle of the glockenspiel to the tender vocal, sweeping notes, lifting leads, and a thousand smiles,” it’s hard to dispute “Little Wing” and its place as one of Hendrix’s greatest. To call it a ballad is an oversimplification of its significance. The guitarist was drawing lyrical influence from the likes of Bob Dylan and John Lennon, referencing “Butterflies and zebras… moonbeams and fairy tales” in casual, broad strokes that undoubtedly turned on the pop hipsters of the day. For that reason alone, it may well have served as a more effective single from the album than “Up From The Skies.” Nevertheless, it’s been heavily covered, notably by Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Sting, and has become a staple on Rolling Stone magazine’s annual “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” lists. So much for “All Time” when it comes to a change every year. After the bluesy wale of “If 6 Was 9” takes a bite out of your soul, the swing of “You Got Me Floatin’” revives your spirit with a catchy chorus and crunchy roundabout. “Castles Made Of Sand” is another trip through the daisy patch that serenades fragility. Redding leads the way on the Modish “She’s So Fine,” and Hendrix dips his wick into a well of technicolor “gold and rose” and “misty blues and lilac too” on “One Rainy Wish.” Once the shuffle of “Little Miss Lover” wah-wahs its way into your heart and mind, “Bold Of Love” slowly, stylishly finishes off the slab that would land on Top 10 charts on both sides of the Atlantic. The Bold As Love box set includes stereo and mono mixes of the original album, along with some 40 previously unreleased alternate takes of “Spanish Castle Magic,” “You Got Me Floatin’,” “One Rainy Wish,” “Up From the Skies,” “Wait Until Tomorrow,” along with the instrumental tracks for “Burning Of The Midnight Lamp” and “The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice,” which were packaged together as a Summer of Love single. Surviving early two-track demos of “Stone Free” and “Up From The Skies” from Regent Studios, plus performances from Top of the Pops, Dee Time, Hoepla, and a September 1967 concert in Stockholm, fill out the remaining LPs and CDs. The cherry on top is the Blu-ray disc. If you have a high-end system enhanced with an Atmos-compatible receiver and Blu-ray player, prepare for an immersive dive into Axis: Bold As Love. While it’s unfortunate a 5.1 surround mix wasn’t in the cards to appease that small group of audiophiles, the Atmos mix adequately taps into the space and subtleties Hendrix and Kramer conjured within the limited range of four-track recording technology. Years ago, Kramer only believed Electric Ladyland could be remixed into as multi-channel format. Turns out, he proved himself wrong by remixing Axis: Bold As Love with winning results. Altogether, the Bold As Love box set captures one of the most fertile periods of Jimi Hendrix’s life and holds nothing back. ~ Shawn Perry Purchase Bold As Love 

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In its efforts to find every anti-Trump story line it can, the PBS News Hour is touting members of the military who are seeking outside legal advice about whether the missions assigned by the Trump administration are legally justified, starting with the drug-boat bombings. Brett T. at Twitchy cracked: "It seems as though PBS got a press release from 'The Orders Project,' an outfit run by a former Army lawyer. We're sure it's nonpartisan." It's part of the National Institute of Military Justice, founded in 2020 to question the legality of military matters through pro bono legal consultations. Military service personnel have been seeking outside legal advice about some of the missions the Trump administration has assigned them. https://t.co/vFrl9tJg9a — PBS News (@NewsHour) November 14, 2025 Is it ideological? Well, they also have a "Trans Representation Project," touted as "a pioneering initiative dedicated to defending the rights of transgender, nonbinary, intersex, and other gender-diverse service members facing adverse actions due to their gender identity." So they are a beautiful fit for PBS, which is a press-release service for LGBTQ activism. The drug-boat bombings have been conducted without much public disclosure, so it's a worthy subject for journalist questions. But our first question is: Has this Orders Project ever protested a Biden military action, like droning a family in Afghanistan shortly after its withdrawal fiasco? Hitting the search engines says No.  On his LinkedIn page, Frank described the subject as "the risk military members face with assurances of immunity when the subject matter includes the commission of atrocity crimes." Anchor Amna Nawaz began with the softball: "Tell me about the calls you have been receiving specific to those U.S. military strikes on boats. How many calls and what are people asking?" He said some officers have questioned "the new military activities in the Caribbean," so Nawaz followed up: "In other words, pressure to get on board with the decision to carry out the strikes. Is that what you're saying?" The flavor of all this is they're looking for heroes who will disobey this commander-in-chief.  She also asked, "there's a DOJ memo that basically says soldiers would be immune from prosecution if involved in these boat strikes, how do you react to that?" This is where the "atrocity" talk came in from Rosenblatt: "For example, if a service member relies on DOJ immunity, that doesn't mean that a state may not prosecute them for any crimes they commit, or if they travel to another country. If there are allegations that they have committed atrocity crimes, then other countries are — could invoke their own universal jurisdiction and put them before the national courts of another country." Nawaz also questioned domestic deployments, of the National Guard being ordered to protect citizens in big cities with crime problems. "And then related to the National Guard deployments, you told my colleague earlier you're also fielding calls related to that. What are those questions?" Rosenblatt replied:  We're getting an appropriate level of curiosity, because anybody who's been following the courts, it's like watching a tennis match right now, back and forth every day between a district court enjoining the president's actions and a court of appeals lifting that, and the Supreme Court acting on their emergency docket. So when people are being told or to anticipate a deployment to an American city, they do have some questions about this. And we just try to help them figure out what's right for them, to help them feel better about what they're doing or where they need to raise questions, to ask the right questions of their leaders to make sure that they are remaining compliant with their — not only their legal obligations, but so that there's no moral injury later on that they don't do something that they knew was wrong at the time. This is a curious argument, since liberals usually complain that the National Guard members stand around a lot, which doesn't sound like a "moral injury" question. 

In what is the least surprising turn of events, former Univision anchor Jorge Ramos has once again devoted column space to the promotion of the false religion known as “democratic socialism”, and of its loudest proponents. In this instance, of course, the column is in promotion of New York City’s flashy new Mayor-elect: Zohran Mamdani. The first giveaway is the column’s title: “Mamdani, the Anti-Trump.” So advanced is Ramos’s Trump Derangement Syndrome that he is now promoting communists on the basis of their opposition to Donald Trump. He smiles! He eats! He dances! Mamdani is everything that Trump is not: Young – he’s 34 – a socialist democrat, Muslim immigrant and with a much more generous vision of what a ruler should be. Mamdani looks outside, to the other, while Trump sees only himself. Mamdani is almost always smiling. Trump almost never. That reminds us that elections are won by proposing a better future, not just by attacking the bad side of your opponent. He reminds me of the slogan, “Happiness is coming” that Chileans used to push out dictator Augusto Pinochet during the 1988 plebiscite. There is only the contrast with Trump. This is all that matters for Ramos. When it comes to Mamdani’s ideology? The column offers little analysis in terms of this except to regurgitate a quote from an earlier interview: Asked about his brand of democratic socialism, he paraphrased Martin Luther King when he said, “There must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God’s children in this country.” It means nothing to say that New York is the best city in the world, he added, if you don’t have enough money to live there. This is nothing new for regular readers of this byline. Here’s how Ramos soft-sold “democratic socialism” in 2019 JORGE RAMOS: So what, exactly, is democratic socialism? It’s the idea that democracy and the economy work best when there is a strong social safety net- one that provides people with universal access to education and healthcare, one that protects workers and the environment. Democratic socialism believes that people can participate best in a democracy when their basic needs are taken care of. Democratic socialism is different from traditional socialism. Traditional socialism calls for a state-run economy with no free-market capitalism. In practice, traditional socialism often ends in authoritarian disaster. Think of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and North Korea. They all call themselves “socialist countries”. This is what older generations think of when they hear the word “socialism”: poverty, repression, and lack of individual freedoms. But younger generations tend to think of socialism as a system of basic guarantees, protections, and rights for all workers, children, the elderly, and the environment. Most democratic socialists aren’t advocating for a government takeover. They simply want a level playing field for everyone to succeed. Not much has changed. Ramos continues to soft-sell socialism and to fawn all over socialists. He did everything in his power to normalize Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to his viewers at Univision, to the point of servility, and now does the same for Mamdani. Unfettered from corporate restraint, Ramos is now free to be as openly leftist as he wants to be. He has proven his viewers right for ultimately distrusting him, and proven Univision right for cutting him loose.  

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