Joe In Absurdistan

'The Epstein scandal is astonishing by the scale of the complicity and rape culture at the top of society' The philosopher Marc Crépon, who specializes in the forms and effects of violence, analyzes the public response to the sex scandal in an interview with Le Monde. He warns against the risk of disregard...

The Epstein case exposes a system of using and exploiting young girls, reduced to the status of sexual objects and made available to the powerful.

www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

From the Dept of Unintended Consequences

Unseriousness during serious times.

USDA lost 24,000 workers under Trump, hurting critical resources for farmers The Trump administration's federal workforce cuts shrunk U.S. Department of Agriculture agencies that inspect produce, provide conservation resources and collect data on crops and livestock. It's crea...

GOLDEN AGE

Trump's federal workforce cuts shrunk U.S. Department of Agriculture agencies that inspect produce, provide conservation resources and collect data on crops and livestock. It's creating longer wait times for farmers seeking federal services and programs

www.kcur.org/environment-...

Angry fliers threaten to boycott ‘Trump Airport’ | Letters to the editor More and more readers sound off about the planned renaming of Palm Beach International Airport for President Trump.

"...Our feckless Florida legislators, in their infinite wisdom, have approved renaming PBI for a convicted felon, an inveterate liar, a man who has pardoned the insurrectionists who attacked our Capitol on Jan. 6, who uses the Presidency as his personal ATM."

www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/02/24/f...

The Real State of the Union: Millions of Americans Are Just Disgusted Yes, we’re angry about what Donald Trump is doing to our country. But even more than that, we’re heartsick over the countless ways in which he is destroying this nation.

Understatement.

newrepublic.com/article/2068...

Watch ICE Agents Pepper Spray, Body Slam an 80-Year-Old Man in California ICE agents don't care if you're a frail senior citizen; they'll still delight in the opportunity to inflict some physical punishment.

"...this incident is just a perfect illustration of the way that agents of ICE seemingly can’t stop themselves from making every situation they enter that much worse. "

www.jezebel.com/ice-attack-o...

Nancy Guthrie is still missing. Trump-Epstein survivors are still waiting for justice. The DOJ is still protecting pedophiles. The cost of living is through the roof. And this lowlife creep is living it up at taxpayers’ expense.

Keep looking - there's bound to be an answer.

This N.J. Trump voter’s husband was detained by ICE: ‘I thought they’d focus on criminals.’ Sandra Hafraoui, who identified as MAGA and voted for Trump three times, now says the president's immigration policy has "ruined our lives."

The couple paid a $15,000 bond for his release just before Thanksgiving. Abdellatif spent 108 days detained — from Aug. 11 to Nov. 26 — after ICE agents arrested him at Newark Liberty International Airport. His Moroccan passport remains in government custody...

www.nj.com/mosaic/2026/...

The Data Lords Are Taxing Our Water and Power to Build Their Castles | Common Dreams Data center dukes and barons appropriate land and resources while indirectly taxing the middle and lower class through higher utility bills.

Data center dukes and barons appropriate land and resources while indirectly taxing the middle and lower class through higher utility bills.

www.commondreams.org/opinion/data...

Thought this was weeks away.

Woman Who ‘Credibly Accused’ Trump of Sex With a Minor Reportedly Had Her Records Removed From Epstein Files Accusations by a woman who "credibly accused Donald Trump of having sex with a minor he met through Jeffrey Epstein," were reportedly removed from the files.

"...sometime between 1983 and 1985, Trump forced a 13 year old girl to give him oral sex when she was in her early teens,” Olmsted wrote. “When the woman bit down on Trump’s exposed penis, he allegedly punched her in the head and kicked her out. "

news.yahoo.com/articles/wom...

A con job for the ages.

Supreme Court Justices' lives at risk due to 'incredibly dangerous' Trump move: attorney Supreme Court Justices may be fearing for their lives after Donald Trump's response to their legal smackdown, according to a Jan. 6 investigator.Temidayo Aganga-Williams, an attorney who served as an ...

Tha MAGA members of the Supreme Court brought us to this place.

www.rawstory.com/supreme-cour...

All pregnant migrant girls sent to Texas shelter where abortion is banned: report Children as young as 13 are ‘trapped’ in a state with no access to abortion, lawyers and advocates say

A policy of promoting human misery.

“It’s not a coincidence that the Administration is sending young pregnant girls to be detained in a state where abortion is banned,” according to Liz Wagner, federal policy counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

She was supposed to be dropped off with her mom by the flight attendant accompanying her. But she said was intercepted by immigration officers who took her into a room to be interrogated while her mother was taken to be questioned in a separate room.

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