“I’m feeling elated,” Epstein survivor Maria Farmer said. “... I think it’s going to make all the difference for everyone. It proves that power can be toppled.” New piece w/ @justinrohrlich.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/epst...

As the WSJ noted... Ruemmler's "Epstein ties began to show. She gave a heads up to several Goldman executives before the Daily Beast published an article in November 2020 revealing she was in the courtroom at Epstein’s 2019 arraignment." www.wsj.com/finance/gold...

5+ years after The Daily Beast started asking questions about her relationship with Epstein. www.thedailybeast.com/what-was-cli...

If there’s any group of people that comes out looking better from the Epstein files, it’s woman journalists. @jkbjournalist.bsky.social and @tinabrownlm.bsky.social of course, but also @kbriquelet.bsky.social and ex-Page Six editor Emily Smith who wrote articles in 2018 that got under Epstein’s skin

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

genuinely stunning image

Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.

Sounds like another extremely bad situation in Minneapolis this morning.

@kbriquelet.bsky.social broke the story for The Beast of the secret Epstein charity funneling money to Harvard in *2019*. archive.ph/urSDo/again?... Better late than never, I guess. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

To absolutely no one's surprise... Ghislaine Maxwell told DOJ Trump never did anything concerning around her: Sources - ABC News abcnews.go.com/US/trump-adm...

I'm so sorry to Virginia, her family, and other survivors of predator Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

I've lost count of how many times I've had to verify "This is not the Onion." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

If you wanna read a thing that just published that might make your piss boil, this new @rollingstone.com item from @andrewperez.bsky.social with an assist from me, might do the trick sadly: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Apparently we’re going to have an “explosive disclosure event” in four weeks where we meet literal extraterrestrials, according to a UFO lobbyist quoted secondhand at the new age conference. Everyone set your calendars for aliens

The ironic thing is, the charges against Eric Adams were only meant to be preliminary -- the first of many. And the stronger case, many believed, concerned the illegal donations coming from China-connected organizations. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Same day.

How it started: How it’s going:

Updated just now with a new lawsuit just filed focused on CFPB disbandment. www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...

Free speech baby

I voted for Trump. But when he said he was going to wreck the economy, I didn’t know that he really meant that he was going to wreck the economy.

Email sent to all CFPB staff this morning: "Please do not perform any work tasks."

1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

I just want to go back to the time when every single song on the radio was by the goo goo dolls

I don't think people realize how complicated the federal government is and how much institutional knowledge matters and how it's currently being run by people who are just like "Fuck it, that sounds fun"

Russell Vought—an architect of Project 2025 & new OMB director—is now also the acting leader of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. www.npr.org/2025/02/08/n...

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

With immigrants and labor under attack, I created this starter pack of labor & immigration reporters. Give them all a follow go.bsky.app/4JJcYdi

She has been saying this for a while now in defense of RFK, and it never stops getting more ridiculous -- that you can just scarf down pounds of magical European pasta and never gain weight because they don't use the same pesticides we do. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Bernie Sanders grilling RFK Jr for selling anti-vaccination onesies is the energy I needed today.

Elon’s attempt to flex his gamer skills ended in a fiery crash of credibility. Gamers are calling it “truly pathetic” and “embarrassing.” Who was all this for? thebarbedwire.com/2025/01/28/e...

Trump’s plan bears a striking resemblance to one sent by Elon Musk sent to Twitter (X) employees in 2023, before laying off around 80 percent of the company’s workforce. The two memos even have the same title — “Fork in the Road.” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-buyo...

These people would love to do away with child labor laws. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

As a seasoned DC journalist, I only plan to capitulate to Trump until he provides quotes for my next book, due in Spring of 2027.

Anyone feeling whiplash? This is the second time — in six days — that a Trump policy hits a brick wall with a federal judge. www.notus.org/courts/judge...

The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.

it’s almost like journalism has long since been overtaken by a media industry centering the perspectives of the establishment as the default for ‘neutrality’ & any deviation from that ruse gets you fired & shunned. even if you do speak up you can only go so far within their ‘decorum’ boundaries.

New, heartbreaking story by me for @thecut.com Will My Baby Still Get Birthright Citizenship Under Trump? x.com/pbmelendez/s...

NBC News laid me off Thursday, as part of a move away from investigative projects to more breaking news. That’s an unfortunate shift, at a time when investigative reporting is so vital. I’m now looking for new opportunities to do that work and will be at NICAR to connect in person.

"They want to end worker rights and return us to the Gilded Age." Trump moves to fire members of EEOC, NLRB boards, breaking with precedent. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“He enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Puppy killer Kristi Noem is in NYC and participated in an ICE raid in the Bronx for 1 person early this morning www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-ice...

Some people didn't listen to Bad Religion in their youth and it shows.

New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...

It is vital that we give big ai trillions of dollars and let them burn through billions of cubic feet of natural gas per day so that students are able to get a passing grade without having to learn anything

the bratz tribute to david lynch is so moving

"Instead we trawl the dopamine deserts of the same social media apps, looking for loud noises and bright colors to puncture the malaise. We have near-unlimited access to information and somehow fail to be curious about any of it." - @helennnholmes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/m...

Sure is a bad time to be a person who cares about things.

JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon: If tariffs are a little inflationary, "so be it. Get over it."

Just made a donation to Wikipedia. I encourage you to do the same if you can donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

One thing before tomorrow: Use your local libraries. Get your card. Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks. Recommend titles for purchase (usually online). Attend promoted activities. Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires. Tell your kids that libraries are good. They are. 📚