Rajan Narang

Larry Summers (World Bank/Clinton admin/Harvard president/Obama admin) yukking it up with Jeffrey Epstein about women being dumb and society coming down too hard on perverts makes me wonder how all women are not constantly Becoming The Joker

I hate the "wow can't believe you didn't know X was always like this" genre because a) I think a lot of people simply lie about what they knew, b) changing your opinion of someone in response to new evidence is good, actually, and c) it is often said even when the person did in fact know previously.

Me: I like robots.

*hears this ad*

Me: Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

6d Listen to this article Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses. About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals. Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot and ran into the yard, said the pastor, who did not want to identify himself or his church.

The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time, the pastor said. They attempted to grab others, too. "Right now, everybody is scared. Everybody," he said. "One of these guys with immigration, he say he was going to arrest one of the other guys in the church. He pushed him." Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken. Some yard workers fled into the surrounding woods when officials arrived, including 15-year-old Miguel Vazquez.

Here’s a story for every national news outlet:

In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.

“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

We are witnessing a comprehensive governmental assault designed to produce fear and terror among millions of men and women who have through their presence in our nation been nurturing precisely the religious, cultural, communitarian and familial bonds that are most frayed and most valuable at this moment in our country’s history. This assault seeks to make life unbearable for undocumented immigrants. It is willing to tear families apart, separating grieving mothers from their children, and fathers from the sons and daughters who are the center of their lives. It embraces as collateral damage the horrific emotional suffering that is being thrust on children who were born here, but now face the terrible choice of losing their parents or leaving the only country that they have ever known.

Looking at Charlotte tonight, and thinking back to Cardinal McElroy’s homily from several weeks ago. adw.org/news/wdmr-ho...

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

It would sure be nice if more of our species could evolve beyond “needing to literally have a bad thing happen to them personally before they’re capable of even *starting* to grasp that it’s also bad when it happens to other people”

There are certain jobs in adulthood where you're not be able to have extra time and scores should reflect that when testing for those qualifications. However when we are talking about 8 year olds learning to read and do math, you give them accommodations.

Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.

The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...

Oaklanders were pretty upbeat about the city in the mid-2010s and then starting in 2019 with the affordability squeeze and the covid crime wave people really felt things were going bad. The trajectory appears to have finally reversed towards a positive direction.

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

The good news is that there’s still some professional solidarity in America. The bad news is that it’s among journalists not only excusing but actually applauding each other’s vast ethical failures

Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

A masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Sept 19 2025 Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility

An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon

ICE vs the clergy

A deep dive on how Mr. Populism himself, Steve Bannon, was Epstein’s legal and media coach — “devising responses to the gathering storm of public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history.”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.

Horrifying

I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices

What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".

Latino US citizens racially profiled by federal immigration agents in Chicago: ‘I felt like a piece of trash’ The Tribune spoke to U.S. citizens and green card holders who have either been questioned or detained during Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz.

For two months, the U.S. government has been racial profiling as masked federal agents hunted for immigrants throughout Chicago. They’ve repeatedly snatched up U.S. citizens while traumatizing communities. “I felt like a piece of trash.” Here is our story www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...

One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.

Dude laid out the greatest hardware store sales pitch of all time imo

Sam Altman Tweet: “Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it's supposed to do!”

AGI any day now

Replacing their amoral cynic enablers with true-believer psychos is lowkey one of the biggest mistakes these people ever made

Most 40-point games after turning 30 years old

Steph Curry: 44
Michael Jordan: 44

As usual Trump himself flails disastrously through a scandal, if the pattern of previous scandals holds it will be the political media and friendly judges on the courts who clean it up for him

I was worried that he was washed and instead he reminded us that a good vet stays ready

No, trump voters did not "vote for" a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. This is the type of rhetoric they want you to use. It legitimizes them.
Most marginal voters voted for lower prices, and now that they see what Trump's doing with power, his approval is 39% www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-trump...

People who think mass deportations are a housing affordability strategy have no place in the YIMBY movement.

"But there is no need of gods nor secret conspiracies to
drive men towards the most absurd catastrophes.
Human nature alone is quite sufficient."

—Simone Weil, Let’s Not Fight the Trojan War Again

Oh my Steph doing Wemby DIRTY lmao