A young violinist was nervous about meeting with Jeffrey Epstein due to his 2008 child sex abuse conviction. Epstein reassured her by noting his friendship with @bardcollege.bsky.social’s Leon Botstein, and set up a dinner between Botstein and the musician. She soon became one of Epstein’s victims.

this series was great

president

that's... not an election?

“She overheard one immigration officer tell another that if she had been 10 years old, they would have been able to keep her separated from her mom.”

these people are sociopaths

this might actually help them with the public at this point

C’mon, Chuck. You’re fighting to “rein in” ICE? DEFUND ICE.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: "For example: targeting Somalis...We’re saying, 'We’re going to single out an ethnic group for different treatment in immigration court.' That’s the level of bureaucratic attacks on due process for the mass deportation campaign." youtube.com/shorts/Ox-id...

republicans presented mass deportations as their housing policy and the media was just like “thats their housing policy” with no further questions

“We should be able to denigrate and abuse “big accounts” because people follow them,” is …an unhinged proposition

"first they came for my property value"

(The church isn’t even named after him, and his skull isn’t even the most famous thing in there. That trophy goes to the Bocca Della Verità, the old Roman drain cover propped against a wall. Legend says if you put your hand in there and don’t tell la verità - the truth - it will snap shut on you.)

if everything else about this year wasn't batshit enough now we have a Brazilian slalom champion

I recommend reading about how the concentration camp was used by the British in the Second Boer War and you'll see why it is impossible not to use the term about what is happening here if you are being accurate and honest

On the heels of this post last night, I wrote about using the term "concentration camp" and why it matters.

4. Medical malpractice. Here’s why I say stopping this detention-to Texas pipeline is life of death. An 18-month old hospitalized after nearly dying of three simultaneous respiratory infections. When she returned to the camp, DHS withheld her meds. 23/ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Petition to add Mike Vrabel to the Reacher class of Very Large Highly Intimidating Oaf Everyone Likes

Italy and France being major rugby countries feels wrong somehow

NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found. The government keeps doing it nonetheless. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

lets be honest if they hadn't died in unrequited love and had got the families to sign on, the inevitable divorce between Romeo and Juliet would have been legendarily toxic

every single thing I ever learn about Madagascar is just additional evidence that I need to go visit that place as soon as possible

He clumsily read his speech from the page without hardly looking up and told everyone in the room to follow the US's lead or suck it. He accused Europe of managed decline by not being racist enough, and if it doesn't fall in line then America won't be there for it. Not sure how reassuring that is.

Did Mao design this

“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.” Sounds accurate to me.

This is the sort of busybody we need more of. The most relatable thing about the Patriots head coach is that he apparently chases down people in grocery store lots who leave their carts all over the place and makes them stack them in the designated area so employees don't have to go running around

I mean this is also why I never use real names in any of my irl stories. Or pictures. Though tbf I probably wouldn't be arsed to do pictures even if every one of you was a stand up wonderful member of society either

Hey do yall wanna know why you never see photos of my kids? Why yall don’t know their names? because some folk out here are not right in the head

wait so TSA isn't getting paid either

The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them

The default assumption should be that they’re lying

bruh

Lotta people were mad that the 1/6 trials started with the foot-soldiers, but leadership's cruelty can't reach the people w/o the willing participation of low-level thugs. Every single one of these hourly employees needs to be tried and imprisoned even if the leadership somehow escapes.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

one of america’s most cherished folk singers wrote an entire song about what a cruel criminal piece of shit donald trump’s father was all the way back in 1954 and somehow this basically never comes up in any story about the trumps, they have literally *always* been this way

You could call this a bug, but it looks a lot like a design feature. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/13/s...

she needed her binkie

are we sure this isn't satire

end qualified immunity and make cops carry personal liability insurance

I refuse to believe figure skating is real, this is all AI

we lucky this the USA because in India generational blood feuds start over what you did to that man's hairline

As a man with hair this coaching staff feels discriminatory

oh my god it's tomorrow

On a serious note, worth pointing out that most of the exposing of the reactor's flaws at the trial that were attributed to Legasov by the show were in fact done by Dyatlov irl. He was also the one who kept insisting that they put that the reactor was destroyed in the reports and was denied.

“This is a significant moment, and in many ways, it could possibly be our last bite at the apple this year in order to secure real reforms that reflect what so many Americans are outraged about.”

How to fix all city finances: make the police officers pay for doing this shit, not the city

There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Devil May Cry

If ICE still stands for "Immigration and Customs Enforcement" then why do Republicans want them anywhere near a polling location?