The nyt has “decided” the era of elitist-enabled predation is over (and even seems a bit wistful about it) It’s just one more way the nyt enables elite impunity: The club of predators has closed, it tells us, nothing to see here But the pedophile protection racket run by the WH tells us otherwise

Re-upping my Epstein essay from August as new information emerges today. Caution: disturbing descriptions of my and others’ sexual assaults. Release all the damn files. This is the ultimate test of this nation’s useless partisanship.

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/kris...

I should be transparent. The NYT has approached @mississippifreepress.org reporters and editors about potential reporting partnerships. We have declined to have those conversations. We know it’s a reader play and don’t want clubby NYT control/influence on our reporting choices for obvious reasons.

Rodney King Riot Videos Reveal a Lost Los Angeles

Agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter in a massive show of force. Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. But after the cameras were gone, federal prosecutors did not charge anyone. With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social & @blockclubchi.bsky.social

We’re still reporting on Kristi Noem, contracts at DHS, and the ad deal. If you have any information we should know, my email is [email protected] and I’m on the encrypted messaging app Signal (you can message me at js_kaplan.85)

matt yglesias' primary claim about politics is that to win elections, democrats should adopt the strategy which has given starmer a 13% approval rating in the UK

The closest thing #Florida has ever had to state media was an online outlet called, “The Florida Standard.” Now it turns out that Gov. Ron DeSastrous hasn't just dictated its content but he's also funneled $$$ to it. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/the-myster... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social

The nyt has “decided” the era of elitist-enabled predation is over (and even seems a bit wistful about it) It’s just one more way the nyt enables elite impunity: The club of predators has closed, it tells us, nothing to see here But the pedophile protection racket run by the WH tells us otherwise

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:

Chris Murphy: "He wouldn't be going through all of this effort to try to stop the release of these files if he wasn't seriously implicated in those files. This is most likely the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the country. We know that b/c Trump is going to these extraordinary lengths"

Chris Murphy: "The fact of the matter is if you don't put constraints on Donald Trump's illegality, this democracy isn't going to be here next November. It isn't going to be here in 2028. So Democrats, yes, have to draw firm moral lines in the sand right now."

CBS is the network that paid Trump $16m. CBS is the network owned by the Ellisons. CBS is the network that failed to push back in its 60 Minutes interview of Trump. Of course, CBS is asking questions like this to House Democrats.

Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.

Looks like Indiana's Republicans are telling Trump to eat shit and die when it comes to redistricting. I guess not every Republican is prepared to take orders from a 79-year-old man suffering from dementia www.cnn.com/2025/11/14/p...

Starmer’s regressive, bias driven policies have driven Labour to its lowest levels in nearly 40 years.

your weekly political data roundup is here: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-hits...

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly

In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: waffles and eggs, big cup of Folgers, then fire up the old laptop to get email dating advice from a convicted sex trafficker. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.

About this - there are so many quotes from powerful men, re: Epstein, where they say they weren't involved and had no idea how bad Epstein was. But even taken completely at face value, why do they never go on to say, "I no longer speak to the person who introduced us. He knew."

It certainly doesn't HELP that the New York Times feels this is the appropriate tone to strike in 2025, but even if they were to meet the moment the problem would be that the moment was in 2010. (from: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...)

There's no reflection, no stock-taking, no hint that it was, perhaps, their responsibility to know earlier. Just powerful people making excuses and repeating each others' excuses.

The Honduran-born Charlotte resident filed a police report after the officers let him go. Racial profiling, no warrant, no due process; but what else can one expect from a regime committing extrajudicial murder on the high seas? Trump's gotta go.

ICE/CBP broke Willy Aceituno’s window and violently abducted him, abandoning his belongings and his vehicle in Charlotte, NC. Willy is a US Citizen. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

'i'm into heterodox ideas in science' 'what heterodox ideas?' 'oh, you know the ones'

Don't be evil? "Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..." www.404media.co/google-has-c...

If Joe Biden had an MRI a month ago and we had no idea why it was done or on what body part and he claimed he had no idea about either of those things it would literally be all you heard about in the press but Trump just gets a huge pass b/c reporters treat him differently.

PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C. The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end. “We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.” current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS

16 Nov 2025 -- As US Bishops overwhelmingly vote to cut off all affirming care for trans patients getting medical treated in Catholic hospitals Pope Leo XIV meets and dines with trans Catholic activists during annual Church Jubilee of the Poor. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

My opinion: the nepo baby journalistic poseurs aren’t representative of the 99 percent of reporters who try to report the news fairly. Yet the poseurs are handed disproportionate space. In turn, these poseurs drive the broader culture of elite impunity. I’m thinking of a certain nyt profile ofc.

Polanski also nails the elite media that’s enabled the rise of fascism.

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

Texas A&M police says it has removed this trooper from his game day assignment following this:

Polanski also nails the elite media that’s enabled the rise of fascism.

Antony Jones, on Zack Polanski’s fantastic interview in CNN, Zack Polanski talks about leftist populism, a hopeful and positive alternative to Right-Wing rhetoric, he also calls Trump out on his spreading misinformation or fake news. youtu.be/eExrqh32_w0?...

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1

if i were a nepo baby who would be an anonymous chud if not for my daddy i might stay quiet about accommodations

This fellow, who was handed everything, loves being a self-righteous attack dog. He’s the epitome of the elite media that’s had a poisonous effect on the US.

Donald Trump is Joe Biden now POTUS's job approval on prices is where Biden's was during peak inflation in 2022-23. Voters say 2:1 that Trump has made the economy worse. Oh, and consumer sentiment among independents hit a new all-time low in November, www.gelliottmorris.com/p/donald-tru...

Can you imagine a woman of color, say a Black reporter, who was caught in an affair with a Presidential candidate THAT SHE WAS COVERING, getting completely rehabilitated less than a year later with a cushy new job and puff piece profile in the paper of record? Nope.

Can u imagine a preeminent Black columnist being fired for moderate social media posts that put Charlie Kirk’s killing into context, while a well-known white pundit lionized him and whitewashed his record? No need to imagine, it happened: Elite media enable elite impunity. Race is a v big part

Douthat is the embodiment of victimisation culture. Men are victims! White people are victims! Straight people are victims! It’s his gig now

I applaud the comic touch of the headline writers for calling this mishmash of conservative cliches, evidence-free assertions, and authoritarian dreams of micromanaging institutions about which the Trump administration’s “point person” has no expertise, a “Grand Strategy.”

It’s also important to highlight that tubal ligation is several dozen steps removed from using an abortifacient. This is a denial of care that would prevent the need even for hormonal contraception, and recommended by a doctor for the purposes of *preserving her life*

The caricatures of progressive candidates by moderate Dems just reinforce GOP talking points. Remember the viral story about high school students identifying as cats and demanding litter boxes in bathrooms? I heard that story first from moderate Dems who believed it. It was a made up right wing meme

Looked it up. Donohue, the author here, is the president of the Catholic League, & also an adjunct scholar with the Heritage Foundation. It has been his life’s mission to defend sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and he is using Kelly’s statements as a further justification in his argument.