Steve Downes

Republicans come in three categories:

PEDOPHILE - more and more are qualifying daily under this category

PEDOPHILE FRIENDLY - those who actively cover for Pedophiles

PEDOPHILE ENABLER - those who still support and offer aid and comfort to pedophiles

I'm late Gen X and all I'm saying is Millennials got fucked harder than anyone else. They were raised on post 9/11 American media and government and it's just been an endless stream of shit. And I'm not even talking about the 09 collapse. The wars, watching guns shred schools, social media insanity

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

• ~3.2M Afghan refugees are currently in Pakistan
• ~3–4M Afghans are estimated to be in Iran
• Afghanistan already has ~6M+ internally displaced people
• Gulf states host ~30M+ migrant workers

If multiple fronts destabilize at once, even small % moving becomes major regional migration event.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

This!!! 👇

Trump: "This is the Golden Age of America."

I literally snorted out loud. The CEO's office is right nearby. Oops.

"My fellow Americans, when I last spoke to this chamber twelve months ago, I had inherited a country that was on the brink of economic collapse under the weight of all the jobs it kept adding."

the State of the Union is— oh who gives a fuck, really was anyone surprised by any of this?

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Why the longest-ever State of the Union address was the most inconsequential Amid Trump’s lies and xenophobic rants, people struggling to pay bills and make ends meet are unlikely to be moved

Amid Trump’s lies and xenophobic rants, people struggling to pay bills and make ends meet are unlikely to be moved

Chimpanzees have culture. Do they also have cultural heritage worthy of protection? @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social and I argue they do in our new paper, because their cultural practices create value.
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The Ethicist | I bet my immigrant wife $1000 that ICE wouldn't deport her. Do I have to pay up, given that she is now in El Salvador?

David Brooks: America Needs a Mass Movement -- Now

essay by a guy whose entire media career has been built on hippie punching wondering why more people aren't helping the hippies topple the fascists

To: Jeevacation[jeevacation@gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:53:33 PM Subject: Re: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence wrong; one; my very best PhD student was female; smartest woman I ever knew; she has decided to quit being a professor and is now an accupuncturist; that is the point; no matter how smart, she wanted to be liked or some such crap; also she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/ On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Jeevacation wrote: > It's the tail of distribution , no really smart women ---none > Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:15 AM, roger schank • t > wrote: » intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed >> behavior); (this is why you have the absent minded professor » caricature) >> it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what >> others are thinking and feeling about her >> >> hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why >> another woman hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag

Note how Schank also takes credit for his former PhD student's brilliance, saying "she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do."

This is the logic that allows men to justify exploiting women's intellectual labor for their own gain.

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Misogyny is the default setting:

C. Obviously. No further discussion.

The felon has stocked his entire administration with wannabe celebrities not public servants.

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: First grade girl recounts searching for father after ICE detained him In an MS NOW Exclusive, Antonia Hylton sits down with Annabella, a New Jersey first grader whose life was uprooted when her father, Adonay Rodriguez, stepped outside to pick up a food order and was de...

ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone.

She goes out looking for him.

"I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..."

www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

If I was pope which I am not because I’m merely a nasty woman with an opinion , I’d excommunicate JD Vance

US citizen shot and killed by federal immigration agent last year, new records show Shooting death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, in Texas was not publicly disclosed by Department of Homeland Security

An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public.

It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests.

What else is the regime hiding from us?

Breaking: The Olympic gold-winning U.S. women's hockey team DECLINES Trump's invitation to his State of the Union address after he was caught on video mocking them.

The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.

This is a test run, for when they use coercion to force all trans people into conversion therapy. Want rehab for your broken leg? Or insulin for diabetes? You'll have to detransition. transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Docs from July 2021 vs Oct 2025 seem to show that ICE eliminated over a dozen exams previously required by ERO officers, including:

- Judgement Pistol Shooting
- Determine Removability
- Encounters to Detention
- Detention to Removal
- Criminal Encounters

UK talking heads are blaming “autism“ for the rapist former prince Andrew’s behavior. Ohhhh now he has autism huh. Well guess what? Rape is rape and treason is treason you fucking buffoons. Also I don’t believe you.

The fact that we are two Supreme Court votes away from being a full-fledged dictatorship shows that our judicial system is working.

by Noah Feldman

America graciously accepts Denmark’s offer to send mental hospital ships just keep telling yourself it’s all perfectly normal

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Notes on the continuing unraveling of Mike Lee in this post for those who follow.

We have to stop yelling at Trump and start focusing on the Republican lawmakers who are allowing a deranged pedophile to burn down the nation.