@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
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LOL @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social had me today at "geraldmandering." Insightful AND funny.
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04.08.2025 18:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thanks!
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Keep the two distinct in your head.
03.08.2025 22:57 — 👍 7413 🔁 1704 💬 80 📌 49Thank you, Kelly!
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Quote from Jonathan Larsen's reporting on recruiting and employment at Mar-a-Lago at the time it hired Virginia Giuffre and other underage girls. "Even the club knoew what Epstein was doing. A Mar-A-Lago source in 2007 told the NYPost that Epstein "would use the spa to try to procure girls." Poring through decades-old depositions, lawsuits, and even help-wanted ads, it's hard not to see why."
Really great reporting here by @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social on the recruitment and hiring practices at Mar-a-Lago around the time that it hired Virginia Giuffre and other teenage girls, which was also when #Epstein was using the club as a hunting ground.
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You inspired me to dig up what we knew about Mar-a-Lago at the time.
Trump basically created a perfect hunting ground for Epstein and Maxwell:
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It's not surprising Trump presented young female workers as sexual objects.
Even today he can't seem to reconcile whether his ostensible rift with Epstein was over professional poaching or personal predation.
Trump himself implied just last week that he doesn't see a difference:
And once the spa attendants were hired, they had to wear a uniform appropriate for the position.
The employee handbook said if you didn't have a uniform, mini-skirts were "not permissible."
So, what was the uniform they gave Giuffre, which she was wearing when Maxwell spotted her?
...The woman named in that ad was fired in 2001.
She claimed age discrimination. Not just against her.
"It has always been known through the club that Mr. Donald Trump wants young, attractive people working for him."
This is Trump's fired HR manager in her 2004 complaint.
I found a Mar-a-Lago job listing for "spa attendants" -- the same job Virginia Giuffre was hired for.
"College students encouraged to apply."
But not just any college students...
NEW FROM ME: How come no one's asked Trump WHY Epstein and Maxwell chose his upscale resort to hunt for vulnerable girls?
It turns out that court records and even help-wanted ads from the time offer plenty of answers...
It’s crazy that the only place I’ve been able to go on and talk about how bad this complete dismantling of free speech/civil liberties online is, is Infowars 😰 The rest of the media is still feeding the exact moral panic about social media that these horrible laws are predicated on.
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01.08.2025 15:28 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Anyone out there happen to be a constitutional scholar with particular background in foreign-policy issues?
01.08.2025 11:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks, Joe.
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once again, @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social puts it best:
Trump Is Fucking Social Security Through the "Back Door"
Treasury secretary says Trump accounts for babies are "a back door for privatizing Social Security"
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Motherfucking wind farms…
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The Epstein case epitomizes the corruption of the Trump administration
It deserves all the attention it is getting
I’ll be on with Chris Hayes tonight at 8pm on @msnbc.com to discuss our latest FOIA push at @democracydefendersfund.org to get the answers the public deserves
Scary news about Substach…
29.07.2025 23:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1JD Vance utopia brought to you by JD Vance clones…
29.07.2025 15:40 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Hey Pittsburgh/SWPA people: I am looking for former teachers to interview for a story this week. Can anyone help me find one or more former teachers?
29.07.2025 01:55 — 👍 3 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Completely unsolicited plug: Rick Veitch is selling remarques of his file copies on Facebook. I already got a good one but he puts up several a day and they’re of really wonderful, important comics that he worked on. Terrific little slice of history and a chance to support the guy who made it.
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This is CBS. And Viacom. TBS. MTV..corporate communists recreating pre-Great Depression conditions. Why's Colbert getting fired? Jut look at it.
CBS isn't news. It's 1 corporate division in a maze of COIs & greed. A quarterly statement. Shareholder value. THIS is CBS www.blueamp.co/p/stephen-co...
10 Reasons for MAGA to Hate "Superman" open.substack.com/pub/thefucki... "(It’s worth noting that filming of Superman wrapped a year ago. Gunn wasn’t trying to demonize Trump; Trump’s just acting literally like an on-screen villain.)" @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
27.07.2025 19:11 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0"Our “heroes” today are often preening bullies who act on impulse, doling out the “justice” of might makes right. It’s infantile and embarrassing.
So what a shock to have Superman, born in the medium most associated with kids, arrive to challenge all of that childish bullshit."
