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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Nov 12, 2025, 08:10 PM 19 hrs ago

Michael Cohen - The House Of Lies Falls Today [View all]

Today marks the start of something truly rare in Washington: accountability with teeth. The kind that makes powerful people sweat, lobbyists squirm, and the MAGA leadership wish they’d never picked up the phone when Mar-a-Lago called. Because today, fifty days after her election win, Adelita Grijalva is finally being sworn in as the newest member of Congress—and her first act will deliver the 218th and deciding signature on the discharge petition to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Let that sink in. After years of secrecy, obfuscation, and powerful people pretending they “barely knew the guy,” the truth might finally see daylight. And it’s not thanks to MAGA Mike Johnson. It’s in spite of him.

For the last seven weeks, Speaker Johnson—a man who confuses piety with power—delayed Grijalva’s swearing-in under the flimsiest pretext imaginable: a government shutdown. He claimed it was a procedural issue. He claimed it was timing. He claimed, absurdly, that it wasn’t political. But when someone in Washington insists something “isn’t political,” you can bet your bottom dollar it’s entirely political.

Grijalva herself said it plainly: her outspoken support for releasing the Epstein files delayed her arrival in Congress. And she’s probably right. Because once she’s sworn in, Johnson loses control of a secret that could expose some of the darkest corners of the political and financial elite—including, perhaps, a few familiar names who like to bloviate about “family values” while hiding their moral rot behind a Bible and a flag pin.

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/the-house-of-lies-falls-today

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