Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh

Not very often you see a new product that feels like major religions should issue edicts specifically forbidding it

Just in case any of you are wondering....

A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9

The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

About one in five Americans say they would like to leave the U.S. and move permanently to another country if they could. This heightened desire to migrate is driven primarily by younger women. (Gallup) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251113-top...

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According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally. Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

It's the fees that were holding me back

one can always count on megyn to find the most shopworn, repulsive take and and make it her own

It doesn’t seem out of the range of possibility for a horse to be a gov official anymore and I wish that kind of thing had remained strictly in “wacky history”

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

HELL YES

Wasn’t expecting the Epstein scandal to blow up the New York Times but sure, why not

Wisconsin Republicans are introducing a bill that mandates women use ‘catch kits’ when they have a miscarriage or abortion at home—forcing them to bag up their pregnancy tissue and bring it to the doctor as medical waste. jessica.substack.com/p/wisconsin-...

We wouldn't even have to be *that serious* of a country given everything he did leading up to the release of that video. He scammed charities, openly discussed banging his own daughter, laundered money for the mob, called for the execution of innocent boys. And that's before he ran!

Again, I know Vance is a convert and who knows what the customs of the savage Scots-Irish are but someone needs to explain to him that it’s unusual for the Bishop of Rome to criticize your personal behavior this frequently

Seriously, this. How many reporters were at the premises for that dinner? How the f–– did no press notice this — and if any journalists _did_ notice, how did this go unreported?

There is absolutely no person whose presence in that conspiracy could possibly make me say "they're too important to prosecute" or whatever. Give them a trial, because due process is important, and once they're found guilty, we can have a parade between the courthouse and the prison.

This is the fight I wanted to see from religious groups, it's telling the ones that aren't fighting against this in their way. At least the Catholic Church is pushing back. And the have far more sway to do so

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Republican legal icon and Clinton scourge Ken Starr signs off a touching note to Jeffrey Epstein with "hugs." Amazing.

I wish I lived in a world where online bullying wasn't a core characteristic of the government.

This is true! and as someone who has done a bit of federal criminal law the plea Epstein got from Acosta was just fucking baffling

Have long thought Epstein as a means of bringing down Trumpism was overrated, & I’m afraid that’s still true, but I’m just going to enjoy today believing that damn, maybe this really is the beginning of the end of this nightmare. Back to the long struggle tomorrow.

People really need to stop framing it is a question of getting more evidence. I mean, sure, that too. But we know. We all know. The president of the United States raped children. Say that. When they get mad at you for saying it, say it again and treat them like an idiot for pretending they doubt it.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

they can have James Bond just be a sentient jar filled with teeth and plasma

Is this bad? I mean, offhand, I'd say it kind of seems bad. {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Beards: something no American warriors have sported while decimating an enemy.

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

Did Michael Wolff ever report on these?

Dec 2015: Epstein to Wolff: 'Trump knew, what should I do?' Dec 2015: Wolff to Epstein 'blackmail him!' Mid-2016: Wolff gets full access to the Trump campaign and then White House. Hmmmm

deadbeat dad to cybertruck driver to chat gpt user pipeline

No matter how you feel about the shutdown deal, Democrats will be saying over the next year "Donald Trump was willing to starve kids and ruin your holiday travel in order to keep your healthcare costs high" and theyll be 100% correct in saying that

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Fucking pedo

Repost with an iconic fictional band.

Everything sucks, but at least we're all excited about the sky again for a moment

This one made me laugh

I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

This was the same shareholder meeting where he said this, by the way

Ope! putting Pi on my syllabus for next year

There is a zero percent chance that Elon Musk knew who Joyce Carol Oates was before last weekend

🧵20 TERRIBLE TAKES OF THE TRUMP ERA: A THREAD🧵 Donald Trump in 2015: “[John McCain is] not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” (We could fill all 20 spots with Trump quotes, but we won’t, I promise. Moving on …)

Elon: "Grok, give me the name and a summary of some famous books"

Edmund Fitzgerald—the ship’s namesake—lived for a decade after Gordon Lightfoot’s song came out. If I were Fitzgerald, I would have released my own cover version. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...