Kel O'Connor

Wasn’t Clooney one of the people that pushed Biden out?

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

@oliviawrites.bsky.social Olivia!!! Just saw your writeup in PW!!! So proud❤️

Apparently, the testimony of 40 minors was not enough to convince then U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta (later a Trump appointee) to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein.

This is one of the biggest cover-ups of our generation. @oversightdemocrats.house.gov won't stop until the truth comes to light.

And we have dvds

This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

This is exactly the correct take.

YouTube video by WIRED We Tracked Every Visitor to Epstein Island | WIRED

Another link to the vid.

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My own anecdotal experience is that if you can make a woman laugh, feel valued, and also make feel like her concerns are actually being listened to and (when requested) addressed, the female gaze when it comes to physicality is... forgiving.

And there it is: photo albums, images and videos of victims.

This isn’t going away.

Mystified as to why DOJ’s withholding of the Epstein files so upsets Trump’s base?

It’s simple.

👉 A third of MAGA Republicans are QAnon.

👉 QAnon teaches that government, media, and financial elites are Satanic sex-trafficking pedophiles.

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The GOP passed a budget that will eviscerate health care in rural areas. They delayed much of the impact for after the midterms, hoping the public will think any discussion of the impending collapse is hyperbolic.

Local reporters have a chance to do service journalism that'll make a splash too.

This is human trafficking...right?

ICE's unsustainable operational tempo combined with the quota pressure, their obvious fear of regular citizens and overall lack of training will inevitably lead to them shooting and killing people.

But let's be clear that ICE kills Angelenos every day. Deporting refugees is murder.

Asheville, NC MLK Jr. Park #NoKingsProtest

law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it

Alma Bowman is a 58 year old disabled woman who spent 30 months in ICE detention witnessing atrocities against women.

When released, she worked with the government as a whistleblower to raise awareness of the inhumane practices in detention centres.

Now ICE has her again 🧵

Members of the military who believe their orders are unconstitutional should call the GI Rights hotline at
1-877-447-4487

Since Governor Pritzker and I came into office, we have been focused on replacing fiscal chaos with strength and stability. For the seventh year in a row, we are delivering a balanced budget to working families without sacrificing responsibility or compassion. I am grateful to everyone who worked long hours to get this across the finish line and in doing so, helped affirm that Illinois is willing to do the work to make our communities safer, happier, and more prosperous. No matter what chaos or reckless policies ooze out of the Trump Administration, the people of Illinois know that their leaders are capable of working together to hammer out differences, cut through the noise, and do right by the working families of this state.

For the seventh year in a row, we are delivering a balanced budget to working families without sacrificing responsibility or compassion.

Hey remember when the President of Harvard had to step down because Christopher Rufo found a citation error in her thesis?

Musk and Trump will be responsible for more death’s than the Khmer Rouge through the destruction of PEPFAR alone is something I think about constantly.

WTF

"The children are being used as bait" Thousands of kids are stuck in immigration facilities—with no end in sight.

Read the whole story:

Meanwhile, in Canada…