Alex Blackwood

Was that the guy from yesterday who opened by saying he was likely twice your age and had more "post-nominals"?

Auction it off for charity!

Another name to look for in the Epstein files.

The Selloff Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Tainted Homes Before his second arrest and death in 2019, the convicted sex offender owned a property empire stretching from Paris to New Mexico. All of it has since been sold.

Epstein's real estate. Interesting about his association with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, his next-door neighbor.

Several of Mr. Epstein’s victims have said the mansion was outfitted with a network of hidden video cameras. In the massage room were paintings of naked women, a large silver ball and chain, and shelves stocked with lubricant, according to photos reviewed by The Times. Mr. Epstein regularly directed teenage girls — some recruited from middle schools in Queens — to massage him while he was naked. Sometimes he masturbated in front of them, according to court records and interviews with victims. Sometimes he raped or assaulted them. No surveillance cameras were visible in the photos of the massage room.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

Since Mr. Epstein’s death in federal custody in 2019, which was ruled a suicide, many mysteries about his life have remained unsolved. How did he amass a nine-figure fortune? And why did so many powerful men continue to fraternize with him long after he became a registered sex offender?

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Lair

Look inside Jeffrey Epstein's 7-story townhouse, check out the mementos.

🎁

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Lair

🎁

Exclusive: Trump team withholds $140 million budgeted for fentanyl fight Threats to $140 million in funds for public health departments battling fentanyl overdoses comes as some experts see the addiction safety net unraveling.

That ballroom money's got to come from somewhere.

Florida reports 21 cases of E.coli infections linked to raw milk The Florida Department of Health said on Monday that there have been 21 cases of Campylobacter and E. coli infections linked to drinking raw milk in the state, including six children under 10.

reut.rs/3IZfu6F

The 21 infections from raw milk include 6 children under 10. Like don't get to make an informed choice about these ridiculous risks.

Generational harm from measles, now completely preventable from a safe and effective vaccine that anti-vaxxers are trying to take away.

I’d be happy to outlaw gerrymandering. I think it’s ridiculous for politicians to draw their own maps, but I’m not for unilateral disarmament when Republicans are trying to rig the midterms. We need to fight back or risk being locked out of power for a long, long time.

Tomlinson: On Trump’s command, Abbott will end democracy in Texas President Donald Trump needs the Republican primary elections to determine who stays in power.

Gov. Greg Abbott promised this week to end democracy in Texas, one way or another. Abbott is promising to overturn 51 elections. He will stop at nothing to deny millions of Texans representation in D.C. #txlege @houstonchronicle.com www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...

They look like they were just talking about you when you walked in.

this is true - if AI actually saves you time at work, it's either because you've been assigned a task that isn't actually important (not something most employees can fix on their own, but good to be aware of) or because you lack a job-related skill (something you can in fact address).

I'd like to hope this era will someday be looked back on as the final, ultimate proof that coddling little privileged white boys and telling them that they're perfect geniuses leads to nothing but ruin, death, and horror.

Watters: Do you think it’s smart for all headlines to say Democrats ran away from the job?

Nellis: Do you think it's good for the headlines to say Republicans are so worried about losing the mid-terms that they decided to rig the maps?

Do you know how tough you have to be as a Texas Democrat?

There's an interesting problem in digital preservation, which is that preservation only exists actively. Only the things you actively move to new formats, survives.

Community is probably the same way: it has to be actively maintained in order to outlive whatever spot it's currently in.

NEW: Minnesota just ranked the third best state to have a baby. That’s no coincidence.

We’re expanding paid leave and child care, delivering a nation-leading child tax credit, and investing in public schools. We’re putting families first and it’s making a difference.

New cure for cancer just dropped.
(Death. The cure is death.)

x.com/LifeNewsHQ/s...

I was hunting for a vintage Jefferson Golden Hour Mystery Clock, until I wondered if they might be radioactive. Why, yes, yes they are.

youtu.be/nAJJTZVo2SY

Greg Abbott: "Texans don't run away from a fight"

Texans who ran away:

men out there committing crimes against humanity instead of going to therapy

What it takes to earn recognition for "extravagantly awful writing" from a long-time copy editor:

Right-wingers are so insecure and covetousness that after they gathered public goods, land, economy and education for themselves they wanted the one thing we had: the story of oppression.

They want this more than anything else b/c of the powerful narrative & culture we created from it.

Abbott just issued arrest warrants for the Dems who fled the state.

Rep Jasmine Crockett: unbothered.

“You have a lot of intelligent attorneys that serve in the Texas House, and so they know there’s nothing he can do outside of the Texas jurisdiction.”

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

How Jeffrey Epstein united our divided nation.

Will there be any international conferences in the US after this year?