wyrd dad

I think it is Bridges’ personal shirt - he wears it in The Fisher King too.

Take it national.

What is El Hulk?

Screenshot of an Associated Press article headline. Text reads: "New details of Jeffrey Epstein's death and the frantic aftermath revealed in records obtained by AP BY MICHAEL R. SISAK AND MICHAEL BALSAMO Published 12:30 AM EST, June 2, 2023"

Excerpt from an Associated Press article. Text reads: "Nearly four years later, the AP has obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents related to Epstein's death from the federal Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom of Information Act. They include a detailed psychological reconstruction of the events leading to Epstein's suicide, as well as his health history, internal agency reports, emails, memos and other records."

Excerpt from an Associated Press article. Text reads: "The documents also provide a fresh window into Epstein's behavior during his 36 days in jail, including his previously unreported attempt to connect by mail with another high-profile pedophile: Larry Nassar, the U.S. gymnastics team doctor convicted of sexually abusing scores of athletes. Epstein's letter to Nassar was found returned to sender in the jail's mail room weeks after Epstein's death. "It appeared he mailed it out and it was returned back to him," the investigator who found the letter told a prison official by email. "I am not sure if I should open it or should we hand it over to anyone?" The letter itself was not included among the documents turned over to the AP."

Found the Associated Press article where the existence of this letter was first disclosed two years ago, in response to a FOIA request

It's definitely real

apnews.com/article/jeff...

kinda weird how liens are harder to enforce if you insist on being paid in a paper check and not direct deposit, and always go to the bank and cash it instead of ever letting money hit your bank account

real weird. definitely nobody do that. too weird.

I’m so sorry. He was so great and should have been in everything over the course of a long career…

Overall, this big @nytimes.com investigation identified $500m+ that was donated to Trump-backed groups AFTER the election from 346 donors.

It found that more than half of the donors have benefited in some way from actions by Trump or his administration. (gift link)

Goodbye, Windex!

Franchising, and publicly traded companies, would be viewed with intense scorn in a just society.

Fuuuuuuuuuuck this!

The Hairpin Ladies first

A full archive of The Hairpin (iykyk). [thehairpinarchives.com]

ending solitary confinement is the necessary first step in imagining a justice system that truly serves justice, that serves the people. Solitary Watch helps people whose humanity the current system tries to destroy. at the end of the year, consider helping them in their work.

He coulda, shoulda been in everything. Nervy, vulnerable, verbally dexterous…what a loss. I’m so sorry for you and for all of us.

YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

You Are Now Under The Protection Of The Hingelord

I’m so glad Dem leaders circled the wagons to protect Cuellar in his 2022 primary. What an asset to his district and America.

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

"The project—[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Fascist activist Bari Weiss, recruited to align CBS News with the goals of American Nazism, again heeds the instructions of her boss.

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

Agreed!

An interesting moment to revisit the world waking up from history…

Me to a trans person: You watching I Love LA?
The most vile asshole you've ever seen: The toilet.

By my estimation, "trans equality activists" basically includes any trans person who doesn't want to be considered less than human by their government, so I'm sure this is gonna go well.

STOP CALLING IT AN IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN! TAKING CITIZENSHIP FROM EXTREMELY VETTED NATURALIZED CITIZENS IS NOT A CRACKDOWN! IT'S BETRAYAL.

Meritocracy may be a mirage, but blaming Black people for your own professional disappointment is a pretty reliable indicator of mediocrity

Hi, I'm the CEO of Glorbo, the company who enjoys near unprecedented goodwill in our field, I'm here today to talk to you about our pivot to using the Magic 8-Ball powered by children's bones that everybody hates, I've given myself psychosis listening to the 8-ball aaaaeeeeeiiiiooouuuu