Christopher Peters

A2S3 doesn't apply to breaking the law.

"None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to prevent a Member of the House of Representatives or a Senator from entering a facility... for the purpose of conducting oversight."

Section 527, Division C, Public Law 118-47 (138 Stat. 460, 619)

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.

What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?

I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

If you’re not using Claude Code, now’s the time to jump in!

Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking exhibition at British Museum says ‘Samurai’ explores over a thousand years of Japanese history related to the elite warrior class

> Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking new exhibition at British Museum says

www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/b...

Scrap Palantir UK contracts over Mandelson links, Zack Polanski demands ZACK Polanski has demanded that the UK Government scraps its contracts with Palantir, amid mounting questions over Peter Mandelson’s role in…

Get Palantir out of the UK.

Protect our NHS.

Protect our country.

www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...

Suddenly republicans have forgotten what the constitution says 🤷🏼 🇺🇸

Goldman Defense of Lawyer’s Epstein Ties Provokes Unease at Bank The top partners at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. were expecting to celebrate its soaring stock price and trading bonanza at their annual gathering in Miami this week. Instead, many are girding for a diffe...

> Ruemmler also leads the firm-wide conduct committee, is co-vice chair of Goldman’s reputational risk committee

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

At the same time the Epstein Files are reinforcing how protected sexual abusers really are, Neil Gaiman is using the nightmarish sexual violence allegations against him to market his next book. His DARVO defense is the first selling point. Rape culture is everywhere and unavoidable.

Unless you're a January 6th insurrectionist

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The nations of the world have decided that Israel-US-UK-EU's never-ending massacre of Palestinians in Gaza is acceptable. That it is acceptable to continue a genocide after agreeing to a ceasefire. Our technologically advanced global civilization is morally degenerate.

“People don’t understand what this job is,” he said, adding, “You cannot pick and choose, because among the very rich is a higher percentage of unpleasant and not very attractive people. Capitalism is a rough system.” In defending his pursuit of Mr. Epstein and candidly describing the burden of raising money, Dr. Botstein gave insight into how the need to attract dollars can appear to run headlong into an academic institution’s stated values. Mr. Epstein gave prolifically to many charities and universities, including Harvard and M.I.T., and the Wall Street Journal report showed that his network of contacts was wider than had been thought, including prominent figures like the linguist Noam Chomsky and Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury secretary and president of Harvard. Dr. Summers sought money for a poetry foundation, led by his wife, Elisa New, a Harvard literature professor. Mr. Summers declined to comment. “Would we accept money from Jeffrey Epstein today? No,” Dr. Botstein said, describing the former donor as a “monster” and “truly evil man.” “We had no idea, the public record had no indication, that he was anything more than an ordinary — if you could say such a thing — sex offender who had been convicted and went to jail.”

As more academic names keep coming up in the Epstein files, I keep thinking about this NYT interview with the Bard president from a few years ago, and wondering how many people were rationalizing in similar ways.

www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/u...

He was just an iid sex offender.

Minnesota is the best of us.

Oh look...

#collapse

Seeing how children everywhere are being affected by ICE is heartbreaking. You have kids being kidnapped and living in fear of that but also their friends living in fear of who won’t be at school the next day and why. People who support ICE don’t care about traumatizing kids en masse at all

This is an absolutely explosive claim. I’m not saying it didn’t happen but something more than a screenshot of a screenshot on Twitter should be required to make you accept something this serious as fact. Would love to see more reporting or the ID of the person making the original claim.

Of course, men can get pregnant. Males no, men yes. 🌟 Examples aren’t hard to find.

Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, report says An aircraft that crashed in November had a structural flaw that had been identified by Boeing 15 years ago, investigators say.

> Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, US safety board report says

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Citi Warns of Potential Economic Slowdown From Trump’s Credit Card Cap Citigroup Inc. Chief Financial Officer Mark Mason said the lender wants to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s affordability push but doesn’t support his proposed cap on credit card fees.

> Citi Warns of Potential Economic Slowdown From Trump’s Credit Card Cap

Love having a president that doesn't understand economics. 🤡

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This chronology shows that prosecutors contacted the Fed for information related to their investigation on Dec. 29, the same day that President Trump said this, "We're thinking about bringing a suit against Powell ... we're going to probably bring a lawsuit against him."

> Russia’s allies complain Putin was nowhere when it mattered most

Of course, he’s been weakened by all his bad and evil decisions.

He’s probably next.

www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

You are what you accept.

Statistics rant follows - feel free to tune out.

The Vaccine Efficacy scale is one of the silliest scales in the whole epidemiology. Formally it is just 1 - RR (relative risk), and while the RR is a personal fav of mine when comparing event rates, the 1 - RR is an idiotic Frankestein:

A bridge builder doesn’t need to denounce every evil in the world to be moral, but they better say something about the guy who keeps building bridges that topple over

An excellent thread on the geometry of memorization

Good point. Well, I guess we’d be sold out to fascism less.

Google co-founder and second-richest man flees California over tax Billionaires are loosening their ties with the state over fears that they could face a one-off 5% tax on their assets

> Google co-founder and second-richest man flees California over tax

He ain’t no Mackenzie Scott!

www.thetimes.com/us/business-...

Here's a graph of monthly Arctic sea-ice *thickness* from January, 1979 through December, 2025, with the 12-month running average in black.

Note the record low monthly thickness set just this last October (in red).