I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.

Charlotte's black sheriff, who was elected in 2018 and who has not cooperated with ICE, is one of the black sheriffs being targeted by the GOP in North Carolina. boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

I think November might not actually exist in any real temporal reality. Like, 11/15? No. It was October 31 yesterday and tomorrow is December 1. That's how this works.

men have been losing presidential elections for 250 years and we still let them try

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

I’m a dyed-in-the-wool conservative who just wants to go back to the good old days: 90+% marginal income tax rates. A time of great patriotism and very strong strength!

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

Hundreds and thousands of nothing burgers... SO MANY ... wild how many, really... is it getting smoky in here, or is that just me?

CLOSER bsky.app/profile/getm...

Mentally girding my loins for church with parents tomorrow. This season, if your pastor starts talking about how old Mary was when she saw the angel... run. Yes, some will.

This memo is almost an admission of legal *vulnerability* for those carrying out bombings. “It signals fear that what they’re doing is illegal and that they could possibly be subject to criminal action under US law and international law,” Rep Adam Smith tells me. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2032...

The Only Two Teams That Matter cn child rape www.patreon.com/posts/143621...

From her account on FB (text in alt tag).

I play video games way behind the latest, so I just put in Fallout 3 for the first time, new to me, and one of the opening slides is about the USA annexing Canada and, given everything, maybe I should just go to bed now instead.

Republicans kept saying Donald Trump was the new Reagan, but little did they know it was Nancy...

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor? Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark? Now available for free! Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room! Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!

Can't wait to "just asking questions" this into the ground.

Sneakers forever.

Today woulda been my mom’s 93rd birthday. This is the stuff that made her famous. #goldsmith #goldjewelry #goldgarlic #gold #garlic

Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New installment on the AO3 #monsterfucker tag.

that is the birth control hammering method - as proven by the chuckle

An anti-abortion protester has shot someone outside of a South Carolina Planned Parenthood. My source says one person was injured and taken to the hospital—and that the protester was arrested. More soon.

So is this a thing now? Account starts with reskeeting a few democracy things, builds a tiny history and then quickly starts churning AI and fake girl stuff? This is why I never follow anyone back automatically. I wait and see and assume all of you are bots, sorry.

A guy down the street is mowing the grass and SOMEONE has Big Feelings about his damn audacity.

Man, look: The regularity with which Trump defends his relationship with Epstein by noting that he never went to Epstein's island makes me think 1) that the island is where the really heinous shit went down and 2) that Trump knows that very, very well.

He probably has to report that to his son.

How did she keep herself from saying "please don't touch me" then? More control than me.

He 'has a country to run!' into the ground.

I seem to be growing autumn in a single pot.

CHOTINER: I see that emails are a big part of your election reporting over at the Times? NYT: Yes our job is to shine a light on candidates for voters. CHOTINER: Yet you got an email from a notorious pedophile about candidate Trump? That implicated him in sex trafficking? NYT: well hold on…

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”

i will bet you 1 million dollars AI isnt allowed cause theyre gonna use it to train AI

2023: "They're taking advantage of a 16-year-old MINOR!! I have a daughter close to that, if you come near her as a 31-year-old man, we're going to have a SERIOUS PROBLEM!!" 2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."

Eventually, Luke Wilson and Billy Bob Thornton both wandering around rural Bumfuck will run into each other. There will be a reckoning. There can be only one. So, we have that to look forward to.

Old enough to remember when raping children was a dealbreaker in politics.

I really want to see this dataset in a graph database. Nodes are people, links are emails, go nuts.

This is super bad for US citizens, especially on the left of the spectrum. Gives this authoritarian administration potentially the power to surveil & go after US citizens on spurious "funding of FTO" grounds. This whole antifa boogeyman is being fully weaponized. So dangerous.

"I'm being shadow banned!" "No, two thirds of your audience just lives on an old Windows Vista machine in a repurposed call center in St. Petersburg."

Now that I'm in FL, I haven't turned on the heat yet, but I did commit the sin of socks with flip flops today, so, winter is slouching towards, I suppose.

Tradwifery is a clarion call for MAGA to address the dry well of economically disadvantaged women to be taken advantage of and no one can convince me otherwise

It seems like it's not a coincidence the government is cutting funds for housing homeless people today. The gender dynamics are odd, because many people directly impacted will be older men. But then, a lot of women, young men, and children do things they otherwise wouldn't to secure housing.

I will add, it's causing a schism in the MAGA influencer sphere & coalition in general. There are a lot of loosely MAGA types (think Joe Rogan) who are openly mad about this. If it only peels 5% of Trump voters away that's big for 2026. It also gives license for some GOP to defy Tump. That's new

Not sure “He was raping teenagers, not raping children” lands with the qualifier impact Megyn Kelly intended.

It is pretty insane that the whole QAnon crowd and large sections of MAGA and the Tea Party movement were convinced Hillary Clinton ran a paedophile network, based on… no real evidence at all. But now we have hard evidence of their hero Trump hiring Epstein and… crickets