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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

It’s pretty simple.

When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.

Important to remember: If the worst of the Epstein stuff had already been released, there would be no reason for Trump to keep fighting it. If he’s trying to stop it, there’s a reason why.

For me Apple stops after an episode unless I choose to go to the next one. Hulu was the main culprit for me with that. I fell asleep once and for ages got notifications that the rookie was back on while never having seen an episode.

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

It’s crazy to remember that Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008, not a single one of these people have even half an excuse

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

That fall, the girl moved to live with a family member in Texas, according to Ms. Wolf. She did not complete her senior year in high school. She continued to work for minimum wage in the food services industry. Ultimately, between the money she made from her interactions with men and in the food services industry she was able to save up enough money to get braces.

In this paragraph, we have a heartbreakingly bleak portrait of American society as it actually exists.

She was 17 and a high school junior in Florida. She was working at McDonald's. And she was living in and out of a homeless shelter. Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for "companionship" with young women looking to make money. What followed would set off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of one of the men she would encounter, Representative Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican. Mr. Gaetz was investigated by the Justice Department for child sex trafficking but never charged. Following the election last year, he was President Trump's first choice to serve as attorney general. He subsequently resigned from Congress, and then withdrew from consideration as attorney general under a storm of scrutiny.

Horrific account of the now young woman who was exploited by former Congressman Matt Gaetz when she was just 17-years-old.

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Trump’s first nominee for Attorney General of the United States

Ironically you can see this very dynamic in the Epstein emails themselves, where the power elite all email each other absurd rumors and semi-literate political scuttlebutt and theorizing. The boys’ club exposed in those messages is the same one that controls the brains of the top Times editors.

chat, is this good?

Feds deployed tear gas on the Far South Side even after cops told them they had no gas masks, sources say The agents deployed gas, smoke and other riot-control chemicals against residents and officers, including Chicago Police Department Deputy Chief Dan O’Connor, who had asked them not to use the gas, la...

Chicago's Far South Side devolved into chaos when residents confronted Border Patrol agents who rammed a car to make an arrest.

The feds ultimately used tear gas to flee, despite a Chicago police leader offering to clear a path and warning that cops didn't have gas masks.
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William Golding from his 1962 essay “Fables” on the intended meaning of his “Lord Of The Flies”.

There’s real irony in this: lawmakers can’t get back to DC to vote to reopen the government because flights are canceled, thanks to the same shutdown they caused.

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

Scammy text appeal seeking donations for the "No Kings Act" which will be "500% MATCHED"

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This is chilling. The President is asserting authority to kill completely outside of the law. And plans to keep at it.

We are not at war, and he is ignoring the criminal laws that actually apply (eg, murder).

No limiting principle stops him from doing this to others he labels "terrorists."

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This also reveals the lie at the core of this fascist takeover of our cities. If there were actually hordes of dangerous immigrants terrorizing cities, not only would Tech Bros be asking Trump to invade, Trump and his goons would insist on the invasion to “protect us”

It’s all a lie.

Ask him every day until he "has time to get the details."

A key function of Congress is to oversee the executive branch. Every time Mike Johnson pulls this simpering act, he's abrogating his oath as Speaker.

That’s a trillion dollar increase in two months.

The main story of Caribbean boat strikes—now up to nine, in both Atlantic and Pacific, killing at least 30 people—is the lawlessness, domestically and internationally, and how it’s terrible strategy if they’re really targeting drug traffickers, which they might not be, or at least not careful about.

You need to see this…

Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.

Seems like a great moment for some magazine to do a big spread of photos of the East Wing throughout its history, driving home exactly what kinds of spaces have been taken from the people.

Trump destroying Eleanor Roosevelt‘s legacy (the east wing) feels a little on the nose.