Silverman on Security

Which of course suggests that something strongly indicating or saying outright that the body is behind the weed whacker in the garage (proverbially speaking) is in the Epstein files. And given her history, the only thing that could corroborate her claim is the evidence in the files themselves 3/

is her saying that she didn't see Trump do anything "concerning" makes clear that the primary purpose was a defensive one. I mean she basically is saying HEY I DEFINITELY DID *NOT* SEE A DEAD BODY BEHIND THE WEED WACKER IN THE GARAGE which means she definitely did 2/

When Todd Blanche met with Ghislaine Maxwell, I think it was a toss up whether the endgame was to go on the offensive (i.e., have her point the finger at Dems) or defensive (have her "exonerate" Trump). She may still do the former, but the fact that the *first* thing that has come out from that 1/

Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack The identities of confidential court informants are feared compromised in a series of breaches across multiple U.S. states.

"The hack ... is feared to have compromised the identities of confidential informants involved in criminal cases at multiple federal district courts. ...

"It is not immediately clear who is behind the hack, though nation-state-affiliated actors are widely suspected."

Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack The identities of confidential court informants are feared compromised in a series of breaches across multiple U.S. states.

NEW: "The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident."

👇🏼!!!!

Yes. And finally we’ve got someone in the right position doing legal Counter-Guerrilla Warfare+Counter-Political Action to make space for others (the Texas Democratic state legislators) doing their own Counter-Political Action+Civic Action.

Remembering when Richard Spencer smugly tweeted “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” and people mostly just made fun of him for media illiteracy and not for reflexively going with that instead of like Skrewdriver

The central tension of conservative media is they’re all failed theater kids but every time they encounter the queer or avant garde touches that form the foundation of theater they get so mad they start crying

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. Each panel shows the same thing: Two women walking through a hilly park as they argue. The two are staying at least six feet apart from each other as they talk. The woman in front is wearing a jacket with rolled-up sleeves, black tights with holes in them, and a striped shirt. She has a pink streak in her black hair. The woman behind is wearing a skirt with a pattern of exclamation marks, a white collared shirt, and has wavy hair falling to a little below shoulder level. She’s wearing glasses. PANEL 1 PINK is talking calmly while, behind her, GLASSES waves her arms and talks in an argumentative fashion. PINK: So when an eleven year old trans kid is prescribed puberty delaying drugs, that could spare them decades of suffering! GLASSES: But what if a boy likes dolls, so his parents decide he’s a girl and force him to change sex? That’s why we must outlaw puberty delaying drugs! PANEL 2 Pink isn’t yelling but she’s speaking passionately, waving her hands as she talks. Behind her, Glasses has her hands in her pockets and is listening without much expression. PINK: I’ve never seen a real case like that. That would be awful. But if a case like that happened, it’d be one in a million. On the other hand, there are definitely trans kids who need this treatment. PANEL 3 Pink turns back a bit to talk directly at Glasses as she asks Glasses a question. Glasses, hands still in pocket, replies calmly. PINK: So how many trans kids would you sacrifice to prevent one hypothetical non-trans kid being forced into delayed puberty? GLASSES: All of them. PANEL 4 Pink has now turned all the way around, looking a bit horrified, and holding her palms up in a “let me just explain this” gesture. Glasses has stopped walking, has folded her arms, and has raised her voice, with an angry expression. PINK: I don’t think you understand – we could be talking about a hundred thousand- GLASSES: I said all of them!

"Which Kids Matter"

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#transphobia

You've got Nick Frost and Papa Essiedu out here trying to go "oh no I support trans people I just also love money and don't care where it comes from or who it helps make richer" with the new show meanwhile those 3, during the height of Covid, went "nah, fuck her" at full volume

That's the MINIMUM

When the three actors who have the longest history with Harry Potter and the most to gain from sustaining their relationship break ranks solely to support trans people and their right to exist and motherfuckers like HUGH LAURIE and MICHELLE GOMEZ can't even work up the guts

God what a hellworld

Honestly, with hindsight, Radcliffe, Watson and Grint's public statements where they sided with trans people, expressed their support with no caveats, and willingly blew up any chances at future ties to the franchise has only gotten more and more noteworthy as more actors are revealed to be cowards

🧵

anyhow if your response to being duped by ai is “yeah well it’s real enough to me” i think there should be some kind of societal penalty if we are gonna have any shot at getting through this era

yesterday @davidjroth.bsky.social used the phrase “their brains were defeated by their phones” and i genuinely think we’ve lost like meaningful swaths of some generations to this

👇🏼!!!!!

Pete Buttigieg Doubles Down on Comments About the “Fairness” of Trans People in Sports “I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."

"I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."

He's talking about bigots, let's not mince words.

Screenshot of a WhatsApp chat with "The Mama." There's a photo of a sculpture with a tiny purple duck on its stand and the caption underneath says "Duckie!!" My reply: "Hahahahahahaha!!! What year did I hide those? 2023?" The Mama: "Yes, I think so. i count 82 so far. 18 to go"

In 2023 (we think), I was house-sitting for my parents and hid 100 tiny ducks all over. It didn't take them long to find the obvious few, but to this day, they're still finding them.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling for this Duckie!! timeline cleanse.

#DoomscrollingBreak

Yes.

the thing i don't get about this is that sure, you're some groyper who thinks the posters look cool. but, like, you must know that the nazis lost, and they didn't just lose, they lost to the people they *deemed inferior*: a polyglot nation of shopkeepers on one front & russian peasants on the other

This is no accident. Remember, DHS did the same thing a few weeks ago. They love using Nazi imagery.

@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level. JOIN.ICE.GOV 06 Aug 25 [Young man and old man in ICE gear]

Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944 [Young man and old man sharing a rifle]

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

Like this is clearly not an endorsement nor a specific prediction but simply an amateur math guess that if you have X people with Y guns and make their lives unfathomable hells Z number of times then statistically you will eventually see at least one instance of all those variables becoming relevant

Finding a severed hip and leg in the yard a month after my own government told me I was on my own and let dozens of little girls die rather than spend money they already had, and then seeing them swing into action about...seizing more power via gerrymander?

In a state where everyone has long guns?

Yeah this would probably radicalize me in ways I dont want to fully contemplate if I was in this man's position

Truly a perfect illustration of what a MAGA libertarian paradise actually looks like: rotting corpses on your property from a horrible disaster and nobody gives a shit.

“Nobody came”: Hill Country flooding survivors recount anguish, neglect during emotional hearing Residents told state lawmakers about what they’ve lost and the hardships they’re experiencing almost a month after the July 4 disaster devastated the region.

The MAGA-led response to the Texas floods is going great - so great that locals are still finding rotting human body parts in the debris that no one in government appears to care about picking up:

I'm not sure what the most pathetic part of this is, the obsequious ass-kissing or the fact that it's clearly working