I once went on a school trip to another country that was so marked by mass sexual harassment that it feels in retrospect like a hallucination. You could not get into the elevator at the hotel we were staying at without some drunk foreign businessman making remarks.

The NYT aligns itself with the fake conservative medical organization posing as the American Academy of Pediatrics rather than the real AAP, to the point where the AAP has to publish papers countering the misinformation spread by the NYT. The NYT says social contagion is a thing, when it's not.

Doubly crazy because not only is Iran a war of choice—one that doesn't happen if the 2024 election goes the other way—but also the reason things got here is Trump chose to renege on the JCPOA in 2018. This isn't the inevitable march of history. It's the election and foreign policy of one guy.

I think Platner is actually a very talented political communicator and that this talent is tied to a dude who is either Nazi-adjacent or a stone cold dipshit with horrendous instincts - or both - is Not Great

11 years now that we've all had to think about this cruel shithead every day

I know this isn't the most important thing, but how the hell is this country going to host the vast majority of World Cup matches starting in *looks at calendar* a little over three months?

Genuinely wild how this administration isn't even *trying* to make a case for this war

This seems like a good explanation of why it's important that Congress retain war powers - not to be a rubber stamp, but ideally to have the representatives of the people determine whether it's in the best interest of the people.

I'd say the reason it seems more like flailing or distraction than typical fascist warmongering is that they haven't even tried to make a case to the MAGA base.

The administration has made no attempt to inform the public of why the Iran strikes are necessary, and the timing is suspicious, so the public has every right to *assume* it is a Wag the Dog operation.

The NPR/MSNOW/NYT report about missing Epstein files were about one specific set of allegations by the accuser who originally met Epstein in Hilton Head, SC. CNN was then reporting that several other FBI interviews were missing. Now The Atlantic reports that these contain other Trump allegations.

Who knows why anything is happening at this point, but before I woke up in the middle of a war today, I was thinking that the general presentation or framing of Trump's role in the Epstein matter is misleading. He, like Epstein, owned a modeling agency. He may have had his own parallel operation.

We still don't know what the whistleblower report on Jared Kushner said. And he's right in the middle of this mess, trying to make money from it.

I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both 5 Calls can help you make the call: 5calls.org/issue/iran-i...

I keep thinking about how the National Guard was redirected to picking up trash in DC parks....

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee, and other Democrats spoke out amid former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's testimony on Jeffrey Epstein to give an update on what they have learned thus far. www.ms.now/ms-now/watch...

Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

I just love all the trans people in my life and want them to be safe and happy!!!!!

After looking at the 302 about the Hilton Head victim's interaction with Epstein, I was thinking that the general narrative here, as harrowing as it is, doesn't really capture the horror of what the man did.

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I remember people having trouble assimilating Sarah Kendzior's view during Trump I that we had an "international crime syndicate masquerading as a government." (And these days I have a lot of blueanon muted as a grift.) But... it really is a pretty good encapsulation of what's going on?

I do think people should see it as a broader problem of the billionaire class, rather than this one dude, but boy did he have a lot of shady operations going.

Me before reading article: It's seriously worrying that we've started to blame everything on Epstein, this strips other people and ourselves of accountability and ignores other damaging factors. Me after reading article: Welp.

This is unspeakably cruel and dangerous for trans people in Kansas and the precedent it sets for other states.

I remember posting about Uncle Luke's interview before the 2016 election. (And the Michael Gross stories, and the Mother Jones piece on his modeling biz.) That Trump is unfit to be president has been so evident for so long. And yet we had to go through 10 years of this shit anyway.

Nice nod to Sollenberger in the Josh Marshall piece about the missing files:

Leah Litman:

McLaughlin brought up the similarity of the NPR Trump accuser story to the Katie Johnson affidavit. I wondered if they were the same story - but the Johnson episode is supposed to have taken place ten years later. There are reasons to be skeptical of the K.J. account, but Kate Manne explored it:

Breaking: Richard Axel, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and professor, just announced that he was resigning as a co-director of a flagship neuroscience institute at Columbia University because of his friendship with Jeffery Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...

Just noting that Elizabeth McLaughlin characterized this NPR/MSNOW/NYT story as "the strongest evidence that we've had so far that the FBI and the DOJ are engaged in active cover-up of child sexual assault by the president." Seems good to state it as strongly as possible!

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 "Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest faculty distinction — and remaining on leave until that time"

There's also this question.

The one interview that is in the files is awful. I would not exactly recommend reading it because it is graphic. But if you want to get an idea of what our president may have been involved in, it's there.

I see the NYT is now reporting the missing files

Sollenberger, in his reporting, suggests that the victim in the missing interviews seems be the same one who got a settlement from the Epstein estate, a girl originally from South Carolina: www.islandpacket.com/news/local/c...

The DOJ appears to be withholding files from a survivor making allegations about the President. We need answers and must investigate.

How is Botstein still hanging on at Bard?

More detail about the Trump accuser's missing interviews: www.youtube.com/watch?v=slsX...

At the time of the most recent file dump of Epstein files, there was a collection of unverified tips, some of which related to Trump. The thing is, the FBI may have conducted interviews (known as 302s) with some of the people offering tips. There was a question whether we could see those 302s.

This is the MSNOW report on the missing FBI interviews with the witness who accused Trump of assault: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_gF...

This is the NPR story on the missing 50 pages related to the Trump accuser who appears to have been interviewed by the FBI: www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

I've said before that the thing that seems to work with normies is to point out the NYT position on trans people aligns with the fake hate organization with 200 members trying to pass itself off as the American Academy of Pediatrics - instead of the position of the 67,000 doctors in the real AAP.

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

This is anti-vaxx logic. It is not "naive" to accept the conclusions of experts in technical fields.

For The New York Times to choose to publish Jesse Singal today, of all times, is a choice to attack trans people, to make them even more vulnerable while they are already under attack. It is an appalling abdication of the Times’s journalistic duties.

We have a culture of impunity in this country, but we could begin to fix that at the state and local level.

If you cheered on the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson - and you live in NY - you could call your reps and demand accountability over here.

Ryan Goodman was saying that the NYPD investigated Leon Black as one of Epstein's co-conspirators, but also Jes Staley, the former head of Barclays, who was at JP Morgan beforehand. The Staley part of the case seems to be a point of overlap between the active UK investigations and nascent ones here.

"Directed to Stand Down" What I discovered in the Epstein files on FBI/SDNY telling NYPD/Manhattan DA to back off Epstein investigations. At the time, Manhattan DA had reached out to a victim who'd just come forward. 1/2 Full video in second link