Andreas Duus Pape

Morally, it is unambiguous. Strategically, I would argue, it is unambiguous as well: Epstein seems like a very effective attack vector on our opponents and Dems cannot afford to have those who would undermine that attack because of fear of personal exposure.

i am pissed off that people are ignoring the courage & years of work by the epstein survivors & saying this focus on releasing the epstein files is all owed to trump’s biggest backer, elon musk. sorry. it’s the survivors’ work that brought allllll of this to light.

For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.

www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

Funny

Just had some MRIs, no I don’t remember how many or why but I do know it went better than any other MRI in history from a standpoint of medical

Of course, it was also political malpractice to downplay 1/6 but our D leaders did that too

So we’ll see.

More than anything, people want Dems to fight Lessons from Mamdani, Spanberger, and the fight over funding the government.

The two marquee winners from Tuesday night were different in many ways, but they had one thing in common: They fought.

And they both were willing to say discrimination is wrong with Mamdani going further to say, by me standing up for EVERYONE is how you know I'll stand up for you.

The crisis with the Democratic brand is twofold. Real failures that have largely been driven by a donor class sold into self-interest multiplied by purposely broken media/journalism/brains

What that looks like to normies is:
1. Dems don't fight
2. If the GOP were is bad as you say, Dems would fight

An aggressive, brave stance by elected Dems would implicitly roll that in. “We want all the files released, we don’t care who is exposed.”

I agree 100%. My concern is that there are Democrats who are dragging their feet on this strategy because they are afraid they would be implicated. I mean my feelings on this are simple: let them be exposed. But I worry that this is the reason Ds aren’t as on board.

1. Scandal politics win elections pretty often.

2. THIS scandal divides the GOP more than affordability or really anything.

3. If Dems want to win the fight (pry the files loose, rather than give up after Trump says no) they need to make a referendum out of it. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...

Rick Hunter!

It’s been a year to the day we bought (and then didn’t, for reasons we still don’t fully know) InfoWars. We’re still trying. In the year since, we built The Onion into one of the biggest newspapers in the United States. I’m so proud of this place. I’m proud we do hard stuff. Thank you for caring.

Agreed. This is not just a question of ethics or morality, but of strategy. Trump is vulnerable to the Epstein file revelations. We cannot have those on our side who would be compromised by those files, as they will work to undermine one of our most effective vectors of attack.

This is not just a question of ethics or morality, but of strategy. Trump is vulnerable to the Epstein file revelations. We cannot have those on our side who would be compromised by those files, as they will work to undermine one of our most effective vectors of attack, lest they be caught in it.

This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms:

✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.

Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀

If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

“These rich, powerful old men are like 11-year-old boys talking about the crush that they have, and they're asking Jeffrey Epstein for advice about this.”

@timmiller.bsky.social and Alex Wagner discuss how the Epstein emails reveal how sex, power, and insecurity warped the elite.

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

That fall, the girl moved to live with a family member in Texas, according to Ms. Wolf. She did not complete her senior year in high school. She continued to work for minimum wage in the food services industry. Ultimately, between the money she made from her interactions with men and in the food services industry she was able to save up enough money to get braces.

In this paragraph, we have a heartbreakingly bleak portrait of American society as it actually exists.

The problem of course is we have a political and economic system that has eliminated the downsides of insane behavior and risk taking. You can burn down the world and then shrug and walk away with billions. Seems like a problem

It's easy to get inured to the crazy, but this is Trump referring to the main exterior window of the East Room, a part of the White House that has been there since 1800, as "a knock-out panel," a construction term for a temporary part of a wall designed to be easily demolished to allow for expansion

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

I would argue that the email alone, plus public information about the relevant players, would be enough for a story. There have been many NYT stories about single, important emails.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."

Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...

What about someone saying they have a picture of the President in his kitchen with girls in bikinis and the NYT reporter declining to accept the picture? Isn’t that a story? That is a story NYT could have written any time after firing the reporter and searching his NYT email.

Well I have Rilo Kiley’s “Capturing Moods” from “The Execution of all Things” on repeat. Does that count?