Irishbytch

If you don’t know Lina Khan, now is a great time to know about her. She’s now on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team. She’s also the former FTC Chair, only 36, & committed to leveling the playing field for everyday Americans. She is an absolute star. This is what hope feels like.

Fear and Loathing

After the Oval Office sign was installed outside of the door today, the memory care facility is almost complete.

TIL that when the Beatles first came to America there was still someone alive in the US who'd been born into slavery here

The fact that I'm only in my 40s and missed by only a decade or so being alive at the same time as a former American slave further brings home for me just how recent slavery was

OMG !

This is horrible , some of the blows could kill someone.

Halloween is 😤 serious 😤 business in this household

New poll…

Reminder: be sure to check out “The Last Republican” this weekend on demand. Be prepared to be a little dare I say, agitated

Trump’s Targeting of ‘Narcoterrorists’ Is a Crime in Itself Shoot first, ask questions when?

"The people in those boats may or may not have been criminals. The people ordering the strikes are." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-targ...

Teen boyfriend and girlfriend come trick or treating… boyfriend hears the game on my TV and asks “what’s the score?” Me: 3-1 Dodgers. Him: oh. Who do you want to win? Me: Toronto. Him: Yeah, we all do. Me: take more candy.

Tireless advocate for Santa Fe's unhoused, Chaplain Joe Dudziak, dies at 66 His death has left many in the homeless service provider circle reeling and concerned about the void Dudziak leaves behind.

A tireless advocate for Santa Fe's homeless population and the driving force behind Chaplain Joe’s Street Outreach, Joe Dudziak was found dead in his home Monday afternoon as first responders performed a wellness check.

Los Angeles Soars to 97 Degrees as Santa Ana Winds Raise Fire Risk Some areas near Los Angeles are under a red flag warning through Wednesday.

The temperature reached 97 degrees in Downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, and the unseasonably warm temperatures combined with low humidity levels and the arrival of Santa Ana winds are bringing a heightened risk of wildfires to parts of Southern California.

I take no pleasure in this. Most Black people in the U.S. live in red states. But it’s important to be truthful about the caliber of governance. And so much of this is the bad decisionmaking that results from racism. Like refusing Medicaid expansion. Underfunding public education.

Just take a moment. The whole thing is a scam. They are terrible at governing. Terrible. And all the noise is to distract from their fundamental incompetence in governance.

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Virginia Giuffre’s brother: Calling it a hoax is a complete disgrace to everything that my sister has worked for, everything these survivors have worked for and continue to fight for… And that feels very uncompassionate coming from somebody that’s the leader of our country.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

who told us about her? her VICTIMS, you disingenuous hack.

it takes a lot to gast my flabbers these days but even i can’t believe they’re seriously gonna try this revisionist history shit about a woman who aided and abetted in the rape of children.

BREAKING: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration's use of summary deportation for those who had previously been paroled into the U.S. — and warns the tactics used by the administration are beginning to resemble the countries these people fled. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

This Tuckahoe home won a $1.26 billion contract for an ICE detention center. The owner isn't talking. The company’s website is dated and largely accessible only via login.

how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...

REP. JONES: “The vote has not happened yet, but the Boring Company already set up this fence and told me I need to leave.”

A meeting on a free (taxpayer-owned) parking lot @govbilllee is giving Musk to build his Teslas-only tunnel is TOMORROW, but Jones is there, they already set up shop.

Senate Confirms Conspiracy Theorist To Lead National Counterterrorism Center

Hey no big deal and all but... Senate Republicans just confirmed Joe Kent, a conspiracy theorist with alarming ties to white nationalists and far-right groups, to lead the National Counterterrorism Center. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I still can’t afford it

Jeffrey Epstein files: Tracing the legal cases that led to sex-trafficking charges Questions persist about how Jeffrey Epstein, who once moved among the world's elite, was able to avoid federal prosecution for so long. A timeline suggests some answers.

Jeffrey Epstein: Timeline that led to sex-trafficking charges

www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...

How Did Scott Borgerson Get Mixed Up With Ghislaine Maxwell? (Published 2020)

This is interesting.
“His name was Scott Borgerson. Ms. Maxwell, according to her friend Christopher Mason, described him sometime around 2015 as a “Navy SEAL,” though he was actually a former Coast Guard officer.”
www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/s...

Second Whistleblower Backs Up Claims Emil Bove Told DOJ Lawyers To Defy Court Orders

NEW: A second whistleblower and former DOJ attorney has produced evidence that backs up allegations that Trump's court pick Emil Bove told DOJ attorneys to defy court orders, mislead judges and say "fuck you" to judges who rule against them, says whistleblower group. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Populism and polarisation come to Japan The long-time ruling party takes an electoral beating

Japan’s ruling party may try to install a fresher face after its loss in Sunday’s elections. But the prime minister, Ishiba Shigeru, has no plans to quit—even though his party has lost its majority in both the upper and lower houses of parliament

Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files Bondi told president at the meeting that Justice also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victims.

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.

Wondering if we will hear “I met him once. I heard he was a terrible guy but I didn’t know him.”