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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could ‘Take Him Down’

The question everyone is asking right now is this: NYT had deep access into all of this in real time and reported none of it. Why? In consequence, no NYT reporting on this subject is trustworthy.

“By Ross Douthat and Bret Stephens”

Gumbo weather. Okra goes in at the end.

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

I write my columns sitting in a New Haven café, eating waffles and lattés served by comely young immmigrant waitresses. Here’s how women ruined my workplace.

by Ross Douthat

Please share!

Your turn.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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Of course the president can’t subvert the Constitution by lying that there’s an emergency. If lying that there’s an emergency is a magic loophole granting the executive branch the powers of Congress, there’s no point to Article I.

The fact that this is even a question is a sign of degradation.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

is that good

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

A drunken tourist attacked and beat a trans woman in Thailand. A crowd formed up and chased him and proceeded to beat him to a pulp. He was left screaming in agony.

The Thai people do not mess around with protecting their trans women.

Here’s Why Trump Has Been Flirting With a Third Term Trump cannot be president again. But he and his loyal followers have every reason for wanting to make people think he can.

As Elie Mystal writes
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

Trump trolls ‘No Kings’ protests with obscene AI video and mulls invoking Insurrection Act: Live updates Trump posts AI video showing him dumping brown liquid on to demonstrators after nearly 7 million took part in nationwide protests against him https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/no-kings-protest-trump-today-live-updates-b2847817.html

Trump posts a fake video of himself flying a ‘King Trump’ jet over protesters. President Trump has posted a fake video on social media that showed him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid on protesters. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/trump-fake-video-no-kings.html?smid=url-share

Steve Bannon: “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”

Media: "We cannot with certainty identify this mysterious brown substance."

The mass suicides by ordinary citizens in the last days of Nazi Germany Historian Florian Huber's book examines how civilians took their own lives in greater numbers than military and government officials as the Third Reich collapsed Soviet Army officers observe the bodies of women who committed suicide in a Vienna park at the end of World War II. CORDON PRESS / YEVGENY KHALDEINULL

Someone asked what happened to the casual Nazi at the end of WWII. The people who supported the Party

The answer? Suicides and murders. If they weren’t beaten to death or shot in the streets, they killed themselves

There’s a book called Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself by Florian Huber about it.

John Roberts: Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.

Brett Kavanaugh: Totes.

*immigrants being profiled by ICE enter the chat*

Roberts Court: Yeah but I didn't mean like that. The cops can definitely still arrest you because you're brown.

Kav: *chugs beer in agreement*

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

Really hard not to see last year quite clearly as a Black woman being nominated for the first time and the response being the return of Jim Crow.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

One thing I am glad this did (might not be accessible in the UK alas unless you have Means) is just absolutely go in on that nonsense "does it really count as starving children if the children are also sick for other reasons?" thing the Free Press did.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

Every ICE agent is a monstrous goon familiar to all of history and every neighbor protecting neighbors from ICE is braver than the troops chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.