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Politics, intl relations, psychology, etc. Making sense of a world that doesn’t Smith College BA, MSW | LSE #AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath

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I want to say I’m the latter, but I’ve had far too many mystical experiences to be able to continue to make that claim honestly.

At this point, I think ghosts (and communications from the dead) are probably some kind of cross-dimensional phenomenon.

Maybe we’ll understand it someday—or maybe not.

20.11.2025 04:54 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Trust your gut.

20.11.2025 03:28 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.

23.02.2025 03:40 — 👍 4026    🔁 735    💬 80    📌 38
(C) would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary;

(C) would jeopardize an active federal investigation or ongoing prosecution, provided that such withholding is narrowly tailored and temporary;

(E) contain information specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and are in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order.

(E) contain information specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and are in fact properly classified pursuant to such Executive order.

Two relevant causes for potential redactions or withholding of information are active federal investigation and national security.

The full text of the act is available here:
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

20.11.2025 02:04 — 👍 24    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

I don’t care if information implicating Democrats is revealed, but I do care if information implicating Trump and his allies is withheld.

It’s impossible not to suspect the latter will be happening, given how strangely and suddenly everything shifted.

20.11.2025 01:32 — 👍 361    🔁 73    💬 12    📌 0
Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged by the Trump Justice Department in 2019 (Not the Democrats!), was a lifelong Democrat, donated Thousands of Dollars to Democrat Politicians, and was deeply associated with many well-known Democrat figures, such as Bill Clinton (who traveled on his plane 26 times), Larry Summers (who just resigned from many Boards, including Harvard), Sleazebag Political Activist Reid Hoffman, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (who asked Epstein to donate to his Campaign AFTER Epstein was charged), Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, and many more. Perhaps the truth about these Democrats, and their associations with Jeffrey Epstein, will soon be revealed, because I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! As everyone knows, I asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to pass this Bill in the House and Senate, respectively. Because of this request, the votes were almost unanimous in favor of passage. At my direction, the Department of Justice has already turned over close to fifty thousand pages of documents to Congress. Do not forget - The Biden Administration did not turn over a SINGLE file or page related to Democrat Epstein, nor did they ever even speak about him. Democrats have used the "Epstein" issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories, including THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL TAX CUT BILL, Strong Borders, No Men in Women's Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEl, stopping Biden's Record Setting Inflation, lowering Prices, Biggest Tax and Regulation Cuts in History, ending EIGHT Wars, rebuilding our Military, knocking out Iran's Nuclear capability, getting Trillions of Dollars INVESTED in the U.S.A., creating the "HOTTEST" Country anywhere in the World, and even delivering a HUGE DEFEAT to the Democrats on the recent Shutdown Disaster. For years our Great Nation has had to endure RUS…

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged by the Trump Justice Department in 2019 (Not the Democrats!), was a lifelong Democrat, donated Thousands of Dollars to Democrat Politicians, and was deeply associated with many well-known Democrat figures, such as Bill Clinton (who traveled on his plane 26 times), Larry Summers (who just resigned from many Boards, including Harvard), Sleazebag Political Activist Reid Hoffman, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (who asked Epstein to donate to his Campaign AFTER Epstein was charged), Democrat Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, and many more. Perhaps the truth about these Democrats, and their associations with Jeffrey Epstein, will soon be revealed, because I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! As everyone knows, I asked Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to pass this Bill in the House and Senate, respectively. Because of this request, the votes were almost unanimous in favor of passage. At my direction, the Department of Justice has already turned over close to fifty thousand pages of documents to Congress. Do not forget - The Biden Administration did not turn over a SINGLE file or page related to Democrat Epstein, nor did they ever even speak about him. Democrats have used the "Epstein" issue, which affects them far more than the Republican Party, in order to try and distract from our AMAZING Victories, including THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL TAX CUT BILL, Strong Borders, No Men in Women's Sports or Transgender for Everyone, ending DEl, stopping Biden's Record Setting Inflation, lowering Prices, Biggest Tax and Regulation Cuts in History, ending EIGHT Wars, rebuilding our Military, knocking out Iran's Nuclear capability, getting Trillions of Dollars INVESTED in the U.S.A., creating the "HOTTEST" Country anywhere in the World, and even delivering a HUGE DEFEAT to the Democrats on the recent Shutdown Disaster. For years our Great Nation has had to endure RUS…

🚨 Trump:

“I HAVE JUST SIGNED THE BILL TO RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!”

20.11.2025 01:24 — 👍 77    🔁 12    💬 13    📌 7

I would take more delight in how stupid they are if we didn’t have millennia of human history testifying to the fact that stupidity and ruthlessness is a dangerous combination.

19.11.2025 18:30 — 👍 157    🔁 35    💬 1    📌 1

Loomer has since deleted this reply and replaced it with several pretending she understood the joke, which somehow makes it all even more embarrassing.

20.11.2025 01:06 — 👍 138    🔁 37    💬 3    📌 1

⚠️ Sitting US senators and representatives are publicly communicating to the members of the US military and intelligence communities that they should not obey illegal orders:

19.11.2025 20:10 — 👍 448    🔁 186    💬 12    📌 6
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Clinging to trees, screaming for help: Lawsuits paint heartbreaking picture of girls’ last moments at Camp Mystic | CNN Weeks before 8-year-old Eloise “Lulu” Peck was carried off by the violent Texas floods that swallowed Camp Mystic in a surge of darkness and debris, she had suddenly begun to fear the forces that woul...

In a story that brought me to tears, perhaps the most chilling words were these:

“Camp Mystic has announced plans to partially reopen next summer for its 100th anniversary.”

I imagine they tell themselves it’s what God wants.

Content warning for detailed descriptions of child suffering and death:

19.11.2025 22:08 — 👍 131    🔁 42    💬 14    📌 3
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Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

20.11.2025 00:30 — 👍 3830    🔁 1019    💬 176    📌 437

the bricks are alive at this day to testify it;
therefore deny it not.

19.11.2025 18:57 — 👍 693    🔁 172    💬 7    📌 9

“You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge.”

~ George Carlin

19.11.2025 19:13 — 👍 175    🔁 50    💬 0    📌 0

Epstein’s brother on CNN just now says the doctor who did the autopsy after Jeffrey Epstein died in prison told him he was killed.

20.11.2025 00:23 — 👍 717    🔁 282    💬 36    📌 14

None of us would know what we do about the Epstein network—much less have reached this point—without the courage of the survivors and the years of tireless investigation and reporting by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social.

19.11.2025 17:27 — 👍 164    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 1
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White supremacist wants more control over women after girlfriend disappears Police are seeking the public's help to find Élora Patoine, who was last seen in June.

I’ve listened to him talk about it. Chilling stuff.

www.newsweek.com/white-suprem...

20.11.2025 00:16 — 👍 27    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0

She was developmentally disabled. He left her beside the road without a phone or supplies in the middle of the wilderness. And that’s what he admits. He says she wanted him to. She has not been seen or heard from since.

20.11.2025 00:02 — 👍 43    🔁 4    💬 6    📌 0

Between this and her adult relationship patterns, it is hard not to make inferences about her family-of-origin dynamics—and the picture is making me increasingly uncomfortable.

19.11.2025 19:58 — 👍 162    🔁 16    💬 5    📌 3
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Fox News Media Believes Programs With Religious Themes Will Keep Viewers Under Its Tent Fox News Media is investing more heavily in programming with religious themes in a bid to keep viewers seeking out content across media platforms

Fox News going all-in on the religious part of Christian nationalism is not a great sign for the survival of secular democracy.

Fox tries to frame this as being market responsive, but the move fits with the outlet’s destructive history of being politically manipulative.

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

19.11.2025 19:44 — 👍 80    🔁 32    💬 10    📌 4
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Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.

SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.

Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.

19.11.2025 23:22 — 👍 5502    🔁 1978    💬 283    📌 465

“The content is still obviously delusional to anyone reading it. It’s just organised crazy. But the real danger is the internal effect on the user. The AI provides coherence and validation, stabilising the narrative they’re caught in.”

Thread:

19.11.2025 14:36 — 👍 42    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

LMAO:

“The main winners from Judge Brown's opinion are George Soros and Gavin Newsom. The obvious losers are the People of Texas and the Rule of Law. I dissent.”

19.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 46    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0

We’ll be chasing the high from that World Series forever, lol.

19.11.2025 22:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

*nodding*

It’s incredibly self-righteous for them to imagine they should be granted a supervisory position with respect to any child ever again.

19.11.2025 22:26 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Management refused little girls’ requests to evacuate to higher ground, saying the water would recede.

Counselors were seen “flashing SOS on their flashlights, begging the Camp for help.”

All of this negligence on top of housing the youngest girls in cabins nearest the river on a flood plain.

19.11.2025 22:22 — 👍 66    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 1
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Clinging to trees, screaming for help: Lawsuits paint heartbreaking picture of girls’ last moments at Camp Mystic | CNN Weeks before 8-year-old Eloise “Lulu” Peck was carried off by the violent Texas floods that swallowed Camp Mystic in a surge of darkness and debris, she had suddenly begun to fear the forces that woul...

In a story that brought me to tears, perhaps the most chilling words were these:

“Camp Mystic has announced plans to partially reopen next summer for its 100th anniversary.”

I imagine they tell themselves it’s what God wants.

Content warning for detailed descriptions of child suffering and death:

19.11.2025 22:08 — 👍 131    🔁 42    💬 14    📌 3

Miller also characterized the video as a call for “insurrection” on his X account.

19.11.2025 21:25 — 👍 38    🔁 11    💬 5    📌 0

Influencer troll accounts on X and their minions largely drove this entire dynamic:

19.11.2025 14:50 — 👍 46    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 1

LMAO:

“The main winners from Judge Brown's opinion are George Soros and Gavin Newsom. The obvious losers are the People of Texas and the Rule of Law. I dissent.”

19.11.2025 21:00 — 👍 46    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0

I don’t know, but I would imagine there is something more happening than what we know from publicly available information.

19.11.2025 20:53 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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