Maurits van der Veen

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Not only was the Times obsessed with Hillary Clinton's emails while ignoring emails about Donald Trump sent to its own reporter, but since then it has constantly attacked anyone who dared look into questions of Trump's character. All with sanctimony.

Now we know it was all a big lie.

Can none of these millionaires sex criminals write in full sentences? Have you heard of paragraphs? Punctuation? No wonder ChatGPT sounds like a genius to these clowns.

Harvard grads can call the Harvard Alumni Association and politely let them know they won't donate to the school as long as Summers is working there. Their number is 617-496-0559.

Once again, if you wrote a story in which the jetsetting corrupt FBI chief took a government plane to the "Boondoggle Ranch" an editor would tell you to get a different job, because you're not cut out for writing believable stories.

Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.

In “Notes on Being a Man,” Galloway writes, “The deliberate transfer of wealth from the young to the old in the United States over the past century has led to unaffordable and indefensible costs for education and housing, and skyrocketing student debt, all of which directly affect young men.” He could have said “young people,” unless college bursars and landlords run a discount program for the ladies which I haven’t heard about.

This paragraph is devastating, fuck off Galloway.

What Did Men Do to Deserve This? Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”

Favorite sentence of the day:
"One imagines a podcast studio attached to a well-appointed gym where a bunch of white guys are discussing “Abundance” over beta-alanine smoothies and doing pistol squats to the theme song from “Pod Save America.”"

@winterjessica.bsky.social in the New Yorker

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.

We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.

We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader

The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.

The Biden administration was fully complicit in genocide, and anyone who served in it should be held accountable.

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Gerrymandering is counter-majoritarian

FPTP single member districts in a country w/ our urban/rural population distribution are counter-majoritarian

Seniority-driven committee structures shaping agendas can be counter-majoritarian

~Every single institution we have is counter-majoritarian

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin.

How times change.

Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.

"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

On Election Day, the president announces that he will defy a court order so as to deprive millions of Americans of food.

For the love of God, can just one interviewer push back on this insanity?

There are people seeking political asylum in America. They were not taken out of mental asylums in other countries and brought here.

It's a big mistake with big ramifications, but no one wants to correct Our Special Boy.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Running gag goes meta as Johnson says he knows nothing about Trump knowing nothing

After two years of a genocidal campaign, the first and only officers arrested in Israel were the military prosecutors investigating war crimes.

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Every shutdown in my lifetime has happened because of Republican leadership. But this one is particularly cruel because the option they’re presenting is either vote to make health insurance unaffordable or keep this shutdown going that is defunding childcare and SNAP.

LLMs are racist snd sexist because the material they’re trained on is racist snd sexist and they’re owned and operated by racist, sexist billionaires.

Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.

Chuck Schumer is beneath contempt. A man whose Islamophobia is so strong he refuses to unambiguously support his own party's nominee for mayor of the largest city in his own state (& the US).

Since Islamophobia trumps Schumer's party identification, should he really be minority leader?!

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

252 (25 July). 18-year old US citizen recording violence by ICE is told “You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.”

Agents were "bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.”

US citizen detained after federal agents show up at Ontario Stater Bros. store A U.S. citizen was detained after federal agents showed up at an Ontario Stater Bros. Markets store. He says he tried explaining to the agents that he's American, but they ignored him.

251 (22 July). More racial profiling of and violence against US citizens:

Angel Pina was chased & violently detained by ICE agents.

"I told them where I was born, I had an ID, I had a social, I had a birth certificate… the ICE agents… they didn't care about none of that."

Florida paying for illegal immigrants to self-deport on commercial flights EXCLUSIVE — The state of Florida and Border Patrol are allowing illegal immigrants encountered during traffic stops to self-deport to their country

250 (23 July). Florida is "allowing illegal immigrants encountered during traffic stops to self-deport… through an initiative funded by the state’s taxpayers"

(This is an escalation of the existing "voluntary self-deportation" scheme announced in May: www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-off...)

Winooski Superintendent Detained, Questioned by Border Officials | Seven Days Superintendent Wilmer Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was questioned for hours at a Houston airport as he returned from a visit to Nicaragua with his husband.

249 (22 July). US citizen detained at airport for hours.

"They falsely stated that I, a U.S. citizen, have no Constitutional rights at a point of entry, and officers became increasingly agitated as I continued to assert my rights regardless.”

Former Afghan interpreter for U.S. military detained by ICE after routine immigration appointment Zia’s arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betra...

248 (22 July). "An Afghan 🇦🇫 immigrant who helped U.S. troops deployed into the war against the Taliban was arrested and detained by federal immigration agents last week… after a routine appointment related to his pending green card application."

www.wbur.org/news/2025/07...

‘Like Dogs in Here’ — Videos Expose ICE Lockup Inside 26 Federal Plaza An analysis of ICE data by THE CITY shows that dozens of people have packed into locked rooms and increasingly held for days inside a Manhattan building the feds say isn’t a detention site.

247 (22 July). Poor conditions at 26 Federal Plaza, a detention facility ICE insists is not a detention facility, though people are held there for days.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/22/v...