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What an important point by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social back in February and ever more relevant.

"Pam Bondi was Florida's attorney general 2011-2109 ... So questions should be asked about why she didn't take up the [Epstein] case -- or launch a probe -- when she was attorney general in Florida."

I just heard a guest say on MSNBC that Trump likely doesn't have a case in his Wall Street Journal libel case unless he gets Judge Cannon. Everyone nodded and agreed. And it struck me that we've now reached the point where brazen corruption is just expected and accepted as a part of civic life.

Law school isn’t hard enough.

House Republicans Dangle Possible Vote on Epstein Files, After Voter Backlash

Fun times for Magic Mike www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

That’s not sufficient for a conviction, probably, but it’s not “no evidence.”

This weird column is emblematic of the sort of special pleading that dominates mainstream coverage of trump. There’s a ream of propensity evidence, extensive opportunities, and a growing sheaf of chummy statements from Trump evincing detailed knowledge and winking approval of Epstein’s crimes.

This Stephen Colbert monologue from Monday night, followed by a bit about the MAGA contingent calling for Trump to release the Epstein files, is the reason why Paramount fired Colbert and canceled his show.

That, and the Midterm elections are coming up, and he would continue to go after Trump.

Fascinating and bizarre to see a scandal finally begin to stick to Trump, and it’s one we’ve known the broad strokes of for years and years.

One last thing on this for the moment: Scorched Earth Conan was incredible TV for a few weeks, and Scorched Earth Conan's enemy was fucking Jay Leno. Scorched Earth Colbert should be really good TV.

“I never wrote a picture in my life.” bsky.app/profile/jswe...

this is kind of a weird statement for a 'fact checker' tbh

And a hurricane

I don’t think I’m gonna survive them installing Gutfield in his place

In the annals of convincing denials

I think it’s our patriotic duty to go into the comments of every conservative influencer on IG/TikTok/YouTube right now and ask where the Epstein files are and how they can support an elite pedo cover-up.

The MAGA dam is breaking.

The little white lights sticking out the side twirl around in a fairly silly fashion imo

A tesla cybertruck equipped as a police vehicle

Riverhead, NY. Hadn’t seen this before.

I didn’t start out thinking there was some genuinely incriminating info about Trump in the DOJ files on Epstein but I’m definitely changing my mind!

Fifth Avenue killing would bypass murder laws

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

For everyone who has ever asked, on seeing my Baltimore homicide charts, "How did they do that?"

“Common sense will tell us, that
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us. And that guac is extra.”

I am quite sure—maybe unreasonably sure—that these are terrible investments that will come to nothing or nearly nothing, and I only wonder how much piled up wealth they will consume in the end.

Republicans Vote Against Releasing Jeffrey Epstein Files

Despite widespread anger in the MAGA world, House Republicans blocked an effort seeking to release the Jeffrey Epstein files

If you don't have time to read Julie Brown's acclaimed book, Perversion of Justice—she's the journalist for the Miami Hersld who doggedly followed the Epstein case—this short article in Rolling Stone lays out some of the sneaky ways he avoided accountability.

Free link.
https://archive.ph/cMvaS

Mike Davis is one of the most important operatives involved in choosing and confirming Republican-appointed federal judges and Supreme Court justices in the last decade or so.

Assuming we manage to pull out of the collapse into fascism, this may be the most enduring part of Trump’s legacy. Gutted agencies can be rebuilt; EOs can be reversed. But it’s hard to imagine the rest of the world relying on U.S. stability as it did in the postwar order anytime soon.

US consumer prices increase as expected in June U.S. consumer prices picked up in June, likely marking the start of a long-anticipated tariff-induced increase in inflation that has kept the Federal Reserve cautious about resuming its interest rate cuts.

US consumer price index rose to 2.7% in June, likely marking the start of a long-anticipated tariff-induced increase in inflation reut.rs/44vqTDv

The guns at Sumter, the marching armies, the fugitive slaves, the fugitives as "contrabands," spies, servants and laborers; the Negro as soldier, as citizen, as voter- these steps came from 1861 to 1868 with regular beat that was almost rhythmic. It was the price of the disas- ter of war, and it was a price that few Americans at first dreamed of paying or wanted to pay. The North was not Abolitionist. It was overwhelmingly in favor of Negro slavery, so long as this did not interfere with North- ern moneymaking. But, on the other hand, there was a minority of the North who hated slavery with perfect hatred; who wanted no union with slaveholders; who fought for freedom and treated Negroes as men. As the Abolition-democracy gained in prestige and in power, they appeared as prophets, and led by statesmen, they began to guide the nation out of the morass into which it had fallen. They and their black friends and the new freedmen became gradually the leaders of a Reconstruc- tion of Democracy in the United States, while marching millions sang the noblest war-song of the ages to the tune of "John Brown's Body": Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord, He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,

How did a human put this paragraph together (Du Bois, Black Reconstruction)

It is not in numbers, but in guacamole, that our great strength lies; yet our present numbers are sufficient to repel the force of all the world

Earnest boys back up