You know who’s not in the Epstein files? Undocumented immigrants Drag queens Trans people The poor, unhoused, marginalized and disabled The people you’ve been taught to hate weren’t involved in the sex trafficking ring. The billionaires were. The wealthy. The ruling class.

jerome powell's hobbies on his free time: playing the guitar, riding his bike kevin warsh's free time:

Amazing story. This man owes his release in part to befriending a guy in prison who was ALSO exonerated and then got out, started an investigations company, and did not forget his old friend’s wrongful conviction. But how painful to lose 33+ years of freedom

Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)

wealthy freak: he’s the smartest guy i’ve ever met the guy: buttre tost

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

Me: If I post any NSFW art I might lose job opportunities or even have my payment methods or bank accounts frozen Every third dude in politics and tech: Hello Mister Pedophile may I request passage to Nubile Redhead Beach it seemed ever so interesting. Best Regards Jeffrey Epstein: yea h / .,

Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

Netflix and Amazon are scooping up podcasts for streaming but do the deals fall under Reality TV or Talk Shows? Both have union protections but podcasts don't. TLDR: Streamers are buying talk shows at podcast prices & writers/actors/crews could suffer. New post: writingandwhatnot.com/blog/podcasts

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

and if called on it today, they say the left went too far and so this is justified backlash and so it’s our fault

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches cut diagonally taste better. What’s the science behind this

The very well-accepted term for "stripping the legal protections of a minority group and then sending a paramilitary force to carry them away" is "ethnic cleansing." They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.

If I was a billionaire I would not take trips to Crime Island. I would own The Simpsons arcade machine

Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.

I spoke with a forensic pathologist on the risks of shackling for long periods -- excruciating pain, bruising, cuts, permanent nerve damage, and a "very high risk" of developing blood clots that could become deadly. She described these flights as torture. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is so unhinged

ITS WILD THAT THEY ARE JUST DOING THIS CASUALLY MULTIPLE TIMES EVERY DAY

DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold. It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.

Hakeem Jeffries calls for a law against murdering people.

I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...

Think about it like this. This ICE agent was on camera and unmasked — fulfilling one of three "demands" Democratic leader Chuck Schumer just issued in order to agree to save Republicans and give DHS even more money. And he was still threatening to kill someone.

I forget who was it that said police in the US are talked about like a temperamental, easily-spooked large animal

Law enforcement officers have always been unmasked in this country until ICE started wearing them last year. *That* is the departure from norms. *That* is the step too far.

The great thing about this idea is that DHS already operates, via third party contractors, excellent re-training facilities to accommodate their entire force. It's perfect, really.

Abolish Ice? No! This fantastic essay details a pragmatic, workable and very conservative training program for current agents that will solve all its problems and address civilian concerns. Bravo!

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

This is SUCH an important point! Feckless liberals in leadership positions gave the impression that none of us cared about anything deeply except for our careers. Ordinary people are proving this wrong.

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Me and @machete.gay whenever Bill starts posting like this:

Andrea Pitzer, the scholar who wrote an entire history of concentration camps, has been very very clear about how in her literally expert opinion that term is entirely appropriate here

There is evil and then there is this

not surprising and yet still jarring to read ex-FBI agents describing how Kash Patel and Bongino reacted to Charlie Kirk's murder while running the agency. truly the content creator administration/podcast govt www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Going out on a limb, but I think it's bad for the world's richest man to have his own pet federal judge he can direct all his cases to.

Gaming doesn’t count as screen time. Gaming is books. Unless it’s on your phone - that is screen time. Movies are books unless they are Marvel, who produce screen time. Television is screen time.

"The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed,"

Millennials aren’t buying enough alcohol. Nobody wants my asbestos. My beanie baby collection lost value because people won’t buy them anymore.

boo-hooing aside, isn’t this just tautological? some things just… don’t catch on?

and here i was, eager to begin my weekend with a joyous Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil

Quietly repeating the words “Catholic stablecoin” over and over in hopes that they’ll stop sounding so insane

100%. If you want an alternative slogan you can go with "Abolish ICE before they kill again."

My racing thoughts are pulling into the lead.

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

The article says immigration agents took this kid's phone. And then the phone showed up for sale at a vending machine near an ICE facility? Did ICE agents STEAL and SELL this kid's PHONE? This obviously isn't the worst of what's described in the article. But it tells you something.

Remember who you are, American. Part of a nation that proudly went to war against the kind of fascists who embrace stupid white supremacist slogans like "one homeland, one people, one heritage"

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."