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Lopping off much of the Washington Post - particularly its esteemed sports section - days before the Olympics and Super Bowl is an emphatic way for ownership/management to tell the public that journalistic failure always was the plan

buddy there is an entire supreme court decision about how not illegal it is.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use a new congressional map that voters approved, delivering a major victory for Democrats ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

Y’all didn’t realize they were using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a mission statement, not a salutary motto

Tonight's 📽 A revisit to glorious late-period Hammer horror Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974, dir. Brian Clemens). Horst Janson and Caroline Munro lead a great cast including John Carson. It's brilliantly, thrillingly weird, stuffed full of beautiful frames, black humour, action and invention.

Light filtering through the trees in Christ's Pieces, a park in central Cambridge, watercolour and Indian ink, with a lady in a pink dress wheeling her bicycle. This one sold at an exhibition. #Cambridge #christspieces #watercolour

I've a couple of feeders in my garden. The pigeons have become regulars, hoovering up spilt seed. The feeders get refilled regularly, so that the pigeons now see me as their 'provider'. Every time I go into the kitchen, this is what I see. Yesterday - wet but hopeful! #birding #birds #funny #nature

So you won the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. You stacked the courts, the DOJ, HHS, the FBI, and everything else with loyalists. But you think you should be allowed total control of elections to make sure it's not "rigged". "Make America Stupid Again" because smart people dont like you. 🙄

Wow: This appears to be a draft statement written by Ghislaine Maxwell in which she addresses allegations made against her and Prince Andrew by Virginia Giuffre. Maxwell appears to confirm that the photo is real and admits that Epstein committed crimes—contradicting her sworn testimony.

Through out history the well-being of women and children has always been ignored. Modern society has done a better job of hiding it, that’s all.

The Epstein Files help me understand why this country doesn’t care about school shootings.

Y'all I'm sorry but these files are so pig disgusting. The level of depravity these people stoop to is beyond my imagination. They seem to be worse and worse every time. Fuck all of these people, they don't need to be "fired" or "relieved of their position/role" they need to be brought to justice.

We have one more week to force Congress to clean up DHS. And the fight to impeach Kristi Noem is far from over. So let’s push harder than ever!

One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals. When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.

Let’s have a moss break

Gun rights are sacred if we’re in the aftermath of yet another avoidable school shooting but grounds for summary street executions if you possess one in the District of Columbia. I don’t understand why anyone is confused.

The online fat-shaming of my pitty/pig/hippo is equal parts mean and accurate 🙄 Yes, I know she’s chonky, SHE knows she’s chonky. No, she doesn’t need a diet, she eats a moderate, monitored amount already. She’s fine, and she loves you Just know I have shared all your positive comments with her 😊

"The system sucks, this job sucks"

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

please watch:

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

A Dysart High School student who says she can see the warehouse from her neighborhood: “I get a pit in my stomach when I think about how in a few months I have to go to school knowing humans are screaming for help and not getting the rights they deserve.” It’s 11:15 PM.

A graduate from Dysart High School, the school across from the proposed concentration camp just spoke out against the facility, describing it as a “death camp.” They point out that Dysart High has a 60% Hispanic population. Another speaker said there are actually 9 schools in the nearby vicinity.

George Washington Carver developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils and cosmetics. #BlackHistoryMonth

Into the woods #trees #woodland #treeclub

China to become first country to ban hidden car door handles. This due to safety concerns after EV accidents where electronic doors reportedly failed to operate and trapped passengers inside. Sky News apple.news/A-SUXHfAvTiC...

I find the term "autism spectrum disorder" insulting because of its history. They are telling an entire minority neurotype that their brain wiring is the problem and imply that the world would be better if people like me were "normal" or didn't exist.

Bill Gates is a real sleaze. WTF happens to people when they get rich? It's like they are so bored that they will do anything to just feel something, even if it's awful and it hurts another human being. It means nothing to them.

With the currently released things about Bill Gates in the Epstein files (he had sex with the women and girls Epstein provided and asked Epstein for antibiotics to secretly give to his then-wife to treat the STI he gave her) how are we feeling about the Gates Foundation funding ... anything?

this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway

All these redundancies days after we learn the Post’s billionaire owner paid $40m for rights to Melania Trump documentary.

Just awful situation facing colleagues at the Washington Post. Horrible news for many of them. Particularly feel for sports team that has been entirely shuttered, with some people told they were being made redundant while in Milan ahead of the Olympics. Shitty thing to happen.

couple notes here since people are surprised the Olympics are on: —opening ceremony is Friday —no medals given out until Saturday —a handful of events have prelims today/tomorrow/Friday —first USA athletes tomorrow (mixed doubles curling and women's hockey)

One of the best examples of ancient #polychromy that I know of is this terracotta thymiaterion - incense burner - in the form of a group of colorfully dressed women sitting around a wellhead. The iconography reflects a local cult, perhaps of Demeter and Kore. 🏺 1/ 4th c. CE. #MetMuseum 📸 me

This Black & Yellow Rockfish has its nose right up to a rock scallop. I've a number of rockfish doing this, they appear to be waiting for shrimp to blunder out in front of them. There are 22 species of rockfish off of California and the Black & Yellow is said to be more active at night.

Gabbard held this up for 8 months with a truckload of excuses from executive privilege to "It's too classified for Congress." They have FINALLY transmitted the whistleblower report to Congress. www.cbsnews.com/news/intelli...

For those keeping score at home:

Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible

I usually hesitate to post obituaries but this one, of my literary agent, Georges Borchardt, born in 1928, is so unusual that it deserves to be widely shared. An incredible 20th century life www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...

We need to strike “illegals” from our language. It’s a slur and anyone using it to make arguments about who is the “right kind of person” to deport is fascist.

“I'm all for removing illegals, but snatching dudes off lawn mowers in Cali and leaving the truck and equipment just sitting there? Definitely not working smarter,” writes one forum user. www.wired.com/story/inside...

Yes, FBI? I’m calling to report a murder.

Cameras up!

always lovely to be consistently reminded that one’s educational and/or professional success may have hinged on how fuckable you were perceived as 🤮

The enshitification of America continues…

We need blue state governors and AGs to band together and to fight off Trump's illegal efforts to take control of the midterms. It demonstrates how scared he is that the will of the people will prove how despised he and his GOP regime are. A clip from my latest short video:

Nobody who's been incidentally mentioned or revealed to have had only trivial interactions with Epstein has suffered any consequence worse than being mildly embarrassed, at most, and they have been the focus of little if any media coverage.