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Since No One Else Seems to Care, Let’s Remember Epstein’s Survivors They've already told us everything we need to know...

As everyone … scrambles for further evidence of Trump’s connection to the prolific pedophile and sex-trafficker, what’s been—once again—lost in this discourse is the hundreds of women who survived the horrors Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their moneyed friends inflicted upon them.

and as far as responsibility goes, i think ferritor should be held criminally liable for the laws he broke while doing DOGE's work and referred for crimes against humanity

what ferritor needed was moral education — and the limits and boundaries that come with it. he needed to learn that he had obligations beyond his own interests & personal advancement. he needed to learn that he had duties to other people. his parents fostered his brilliance at the expense of a soul.

bare minimum of what should be expected from a response to what’s happening from an elected Dem of any standing tbh

People can bicker about “oh Dems have drawn maps to their advantage in the past too” or w/e, but the reality is that the federal government is working, openly, to cement Trump’s…

"Curt Snurkler, 58, an undecided voter, says both parties have gone too far. 'We need a third party in this country,' says Snurkler, who owns an illegal slave ship operating in the West Indies, and until last year was the Executive Director of the Heinrich Himmler Society in White Fist, Idaho."

U.S. Factory Orders Declined in June New orders from U.S. factories contracted 4.8% month over month to $611.7 billion in June. Orders have dropped for two of the past three months.

Oh man, who's he gonna fire this time? Math? Maybe he'll fire math.

It isn't a coincidence that conservative outlets are publishing more and more pieces like this one. As abortion bans drive the maternal death rate up, they need to make women dying seem palatable—positive, even!

Liz Warren to her absolute credit shows up on CNBC and is willing to call everyone a stupid piece of shit in a way that even Bernie would refrain from

elizabeth warren constantly trolling cnbc with her appearances gives me life. its a hostile booking i endorse.

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.

Dog if we’re playing the gerrymandering game we need to go big or home. I want every district in New York State running into New York City so that every single one is blue. Not a single Republican from California. Every seat in Illinois runs through Chicago.

This is incredible

US government now adopting Trump’s trick of not paying its employees. While paying others billions to do nothing until their resignation kicks in.

Texas governor threatens Democrats who left state to prevent congressional map vote – US politics live Greg Abbott says he will try to remove Democrats unless they return to allow vote to take place on redrawing the US House map to favour Republicans

Do you know which state has the largest number of Black residents?

TEXAS (nearly 4 million)

Trump’s demand that TX redistrict & the Republican legislature’s acquiescence is an attack on Black representation. Stand with Texas Dems.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Texas House Democrats offer a brief response to Gov. Greg Abbott's threat of arrest and expulsion: "Come and take it."

let’s have a crisis of femininity, as a treat

The president is a notorious sex criminal who
-operates a kidnapping ring that sends innocent people to foreign torture prisons
-wrecks the economy with illegal tariffs
-extorts universities and businesses
-ignores congress and the courts and rules like a king
What else do you need

"We will impeach and remove the president for his many crimes" seems like a good midterm election pitch to me idk

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has a plan to overhaul college education — by embedding its artificial intelligence tools in every facet of campus life. If the company’s strategy succeeds, universities would give students A.I. assistants to help guide and tutor them from orientation day through graduation. Professors would provide customized A.I. study bots for each class. Career services would offer recruiter chatbots for students to practice job interviews. And undergrads could turn on a chatbot’s voice mode to be quizzed aloud ahead of a test. OpenAI dubs its sales pitch “A.I.-native universities.”

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

"80 million jobs were added in june, very nice very nice. 300 million jobs added in july, even better. but this month mr president, 2 billion jobs were added," I confidently declare, doing the easiest job in the world so i can own a home in a walkable neighborhood

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

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I agree with this to a point but I still think even in my most despondent moment I couldn't buy into the core philosophy of the manosphere which is

I don’t want a left Stephen Miller, I want strong civic institutions and healthy media environment to say “what the fuck” to any right or left psychopath.

There are no WHITE Dem Stephen Millers.
If y’all would listen to Black activists, we’d get somewhere

5/x the reason the Dems "don't have a Stephen Miller" is because MAGA welcomes ruthless ideologues like Stephen Miller and promotes them. Dems only promote people like Cuomo and Emanuel who are ruthless against the base in the interests of fake bipartisanship.

This thread

Lashing Out Over Russia and Jobs Data, Trump Displays His Volatile Side The president had been on something of a winning streak. But when faced with facts and foes that wouldn’t bend to his will, he responded with impatience and disproportionate intensity.

Trump’s firing of the labor statistics chief is described by the New York Times as a display of “disproportionate intensity.” Get serious, NYT. He’s not just throwing ketchup against the wall — he’s on an autocratic campaign of fraud against the American people.

David’s expertise goes farther back in time than mine, but I can tell you that a very common joke among gilded age/progressive historians is that there is *always* a masculinity crisis happening.