US media has decided to pretend that the Epstein-Nassar Letter Epstein sent just before he died merely had a "crude reference" to Trump. NO. It was a clear, unambiguous allegation by Epstein that Trump *regularly sexually assaulted* "young, nubile girls." Our media is BROKEN.

Would like to redact this whole goddamn year tbh

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

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Happy Epstein Files Day to those who celebrate. Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "Give me Head" pin, which is how we will all feel when we see how redacted they are. collabs.shop/cbc95h

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program. (Published Dec. 2024)

This would be an excellent time for politicians to stop demonizing universities.

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Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...

"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

NYC, PLEASE call your New York City Council member and DEMAND they vote to censure Vicky Paladino immediately. Find your council member here: council.nyc.gov/districts/ Also, follow the @nycprogressives.bsky.social. They're on the job here.

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)

In a powerful moment, Ana Navarro just delivered the strongest rebuke of Donald Trump’s Rob Reiner post we’ve seen yet. This is a must watch.👏👏👏👏💙😎

I’m going to put this image out here to combat the ugliness of this day…because it captures the pure joy that emanated from his great big smile. RIP Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner💔

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Rob Reiner would want you to make art about everything that is happening in whatever voice you have in whatever way you can

Hungary rejects fascism, millions call on the corrupt Orbàn regime to fall. #3E

Historians many years from now will look back and wonder why we did not as a nation receive over 70% of his public statements as shockingly obvious signs of a profound mental illness The level of systematic self-delusion this man displays on a daily basis is beyond anything most of us will ever see

100!!! Happy birthday Dick Van Dyke

This story still seems to be bothering President Trump: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Jana Sanchez, a co-founder of G.T.F.O. Tours—which helps aggrieved U.S. citizens start new lives in the Netherlands—describes herself as an “escaping-fascism doula.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The app lets people anonymously share the locations of immigration agents but Apple removed it from its app store under pressure from the Trump administration. Now, the app's developer is suing. n.pr/3XDeFVc

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

Under Trump’s leadership, electricity costs are going up nationwide. 17% in North Carolina. 15% in Georgia. 13% in Pennsylvania. 12% in Michigan. And Republicans are doing nothing about it.

UPDATE: The 6-year-old boy separated from his father last week after an arrest by ICE is in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, according to a spokesperson for Congressmember Nydia Velazquez. buff.ly/2SkkcxK

This is especially rich given much of Pennsylvania which will be affected by this are poor and whit areas. They hate black people so much they will vote for stuff that will actually kill them instead of, you know, letting blacks have stuff that will allow them to live.

NEW: DOGE is far from dead, contrary to recent reporting. Instead, its operatives have “burrowed into” federal agencies “like ticks.” Here’s what the DOGE crew is up to now: From @makenakelly.bsky.social @telliotter.bsky.social

The Durutti Column: The Return of the Durutti Column review – fragile classic that echoes far beyond its time

thankful today for this memory. note nypd enthusiastically tearing through Barney's backside towards the end youtu.be/vh45HDnnGEw?...

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this fucking humans Shirt. Call me a species traitor if you want, but I'm with the cat on this one. collabs.shop/lmfasw

U.S. layoffs have soared to 1.1 million through October, the highest since the Great Recession. Tech, retail, and logistics firms are slashing jobs as A.I. reshapes work and the economy loses momentum. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

I was just thinking about contributing to the "charity" Feeding America. Until I discovered that the salary for its CEO, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, was approximately $949,866 in 2024, with her total compensation being $1,113,502. Apparently, feeding America isn't her top priority.

I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired. If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

I cannot tell a lie--this was fun to write. (Please note that it was conceived, written, edited, and closed well before recent events involving the mizzdeedzz of zzertain journalizzts.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...

Roses are red, violets are blue

I wonder if this is how the ancient Greeks felt just watching their lives get absolutely rag-dolled time and time again by their assigned cast of useless idiot gods

Screw AI. If I want to know something then I will learn it the old fashioned way, by staring at the tree of wisdom until it grants me the ancient knowledge I seek. I hope today's Low Quality Ad, the PlantPico Tree of Wisdom, provides you answers to all of life's mysteries. collabs.shop/0qbokd

Pallets of overstock, returned, and undelivered-mail packages are an indicator of just how much stuff there is in the retail ecosystem.

JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

I guess one way to distract people from your friendship with a sex criminal is to claim that you are friends with a political murderer.

Rep Al Green from Texas is reintroducing articles of Impeachment against the criminal Donald Trump. Green tried earlier this year but all other reps were too chickenshit to back him. Support him this time. Call your reps & tell them to join him. #3E #EndImpunity

Seen on a bridge over 95 in Maryland. No Fascists No King

A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows some major warning signs for President Trump and Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections as Americans want the president to focus on lowering prices. n.pr/4phc0w1

wrote about the president’s flagrant and destructive corruption in a column that references street fighter, the simpsons, machiavelli, and a host of revolutionary-era americans (gift link)