To be fair, the Catholic League has never had a problem with pedophilia

Also not for nothing but some of the historically biggest "[x] is a sideshow, we need to focus on kitchen-table-economy-issues we never quite narrow down" people have been people like Larry Summers! Cannot help but wonder if there's not a degree of moderate-pundit-class-solidarity informing this.

It feels like post-Clinton in the 90s the media decided only things Democrats do are scandals, no matter the scale. I’m not sure if pundits are reacting to that or just steeped in the same bullshit

Yeah. It's not, like, unbecoming or anything! It's literally how electoral democracy is supposed to work. You avoid having absolute fucking monsters in power by... their opponents running around screaming about how they're monsters!!

"My opponent was friends with history's greatest pedophile, and probably also did child sex crimes himself" is like

Manna from heaven????????????

made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow

Just the fact the trump is ending some tariffs under pressure is a complete admission that his claims intentionally misled America about the fact that Americans, indeed, pay them.

It’s a huge L for him. The question is whether the major social platforms controlled by his allies and enablers will say so.

Right but in the "separate smart kids from dumb kids" schema there's no point in *finishing* college. You've already demonstrated that you're one of the brilliant elect by getting admitted to Harvard/Stanford etc. bsky.app/profile/pete...

They are, they just aren't really different than the lectures at my less-selective state school were (except our classes were much smaller) bsky.app/profile/esou...

Someone replied that they don't see a difference between "teach and measure learning" and "reward kids that work hard" but to me sort of the difference is that schools ask kids to do a lot of dull busywork designed to discipline them for what bosses imagine desk jobs will be like, rather than teach

The trend of elite universities putting their lectures online for free was pretty useful for dispelling the idea that kids at like Harvard we're getting some kind of secret extra-good education that everyone else didn't (these schools have other advantages of course) bsky.app/profile/root...

ya it was enough of a thing 25 years ago that there was a subplot in the first few episodes of THE SOPRANOS about it (Meadow buying drugs to have the energy to complete her many extra-cirrculars she had signed up for solely to burnish her college applications to elite schools)

Yes. As competition for the slots at the top schools has become more cutthroat, the proportion of kids who are getting in basically by being willing to "cheat the game" more aggressively is increasing. Probably bad news for society if our elites are being drawn from these same schools!

…written wrong, but won’t tell you why; it’s hard to explain to people who never had it); suddenly, I’d realize I’d erased it so many times there was a fucking hole in the paper. I’d look at the clock and I’d spend so much time doing it it was almost midnight and no homework had gotten done…

I don’t talk about this that much but when I was young I had severe OCD that went unaddressed much longer than it should have. For a while, it wrecked (among other things) my gpa; for instance, I’d keep rewriting over and over my name at the top of my math homework (b/c the brain tells u it is…

nyck harbor should be allowed to fight this guy on national television

How much you want to bet he refers to them as "boy"

pos

Notice how the cop runs into the injured football player at the football game and...yells at him?

what the actual fuck is wrong with American journalists?

A point of this reporting is to underscore how not just wildly scandalous Trump’s wide ranging coverup of the Epstein files is right now, but that his coverup has hit a new level of blatant political corruption and abuse of power.

Genuinely, historically atrocious in ways too many get numb to

here's something i never thought i'd say:

hell. yeah, bon jovi

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May my friend @sfdirewolf.bsky.social rest in power. I will especially miss texting with her about Star Trek.

We were lucky, all of us, to have Alice and her warmth and enthusiasm.

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I know this is old man yells at cloud but there is something in the constitution about this

No human was more obnoxiously down w/ every mindless & dishonest aspect of the MAGA movement & the bullshit they had to shovel to keep Trump a thing than Marjorie Taylor Greene. But now she’s discarded like a snot rag cuz she didnt just STFU & go along w/ every single lie. Cult needs an intervention

Beleaguered Trump Emerges From Hiding to Beg ‘Give Me a Break’ Over Epstein Trump tried to redirect the media’s attention to other powerful figures whose names appear in Epstein’s emails.

“‘Sir, if there’s nothing incriminating in the files—‘ she began before Trump cut her off, shouting, ‘Quiet! Quiet!’”

What is the old man hiding?

www.thedailybeast.com/beleaguered-...

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

CLOSER

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California Is Revoking Licenses of 17,000 Immigrant Truckers Amid Federal Pressure | KQED The commercial licenses expire in 60 days, but labor groups contend that the courts have temporarily frozen the federal rules restricting which foreigners can drive trucks.

If the Teamsters were worth a shit, weren't labor aristocracy and weren't aholes that shit on indy and immigrant truckers, the whole country could be shut down over this.

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