Alex Pretti's parents keep a box crammed with 200 letters and cards that have poured into their Denver home since their son was shot and killed by immigration agents. "He's my first born," Susan Pretti said. "He's the one that made me a mother. There was no reason he should have died that day."

#epstein #bondi #Epsteinsurvivors #trump

The gynecologist listed in the Epstein files is why the rest of us are losing access to abortions. That’s precisely where trump got his ‘post-birth abortion’ story.

Breaking on MSNOW right now: the DOJ is tracking the search histories of Congresspeople in the unredacted Epstein files, and Pam Bondi is using those search histories in her Burn Book today. This is surveillance of Democratic lawmakers as the review the Epstein files, and it is chilling.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has the power to hold the men in the Epstein files accountable.  But she’s doing the opposite. She’s protecting them.

BONDI: You didn't ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein BALINT: Weak sauce BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution-- BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*

My night last night: Me: *lays down* OK. Time to sleep! Body: nah. Me: come onnn. Body: nope, not gonna. Me: aww, come on, I've got meetings tomorrow! Body: pfft. Sucks to be you. Me: pretty please? Body: no. Alarm: 5:45 AM, bitches! Time to get up!

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

FYI: Elon Musk committed a felony in Minnesota the day his company started disseminating child sexual abuse material. Minnesota is not the only state with this law. And I believe there is a same/similar federal law.

Apparently someone ran onto the field at the super bowl? People have been calling him a streaker, but the man was wearing pants! You can't be a streaker and wear pants, you coward. Go nude or don't go at all.

I needed to read this. Saving this post so I can re-read it whenever I need a pick me up.

As more and more information comes out, in increasingly convnced that all Republicans are either Epstein's co-conspiriters, or they're complicit in Epstein's crimes. There is no in-between. I will never trust a republican again.

I, too, saw all three Lord of the Rings films when they first came out in theaters. I saw Return of the King in the theater thrice. ...my Freshman year of High School is now the year in the grocery store they say if you were born on or after this year, we won't sell alcohol to you.

Now we learn the billionaire owner of a bridge that will compete w/the new Canada-MI bridge met with Lutnick right before Trump issued his threat to shut down the new bridge. The Trump admin is a lawless mafia gangster extortion racket existing to enrich oligarchs at our expense.

Let’s put that another way: 962,000 times they redacted his name, Which is against the law passed by Congress. 962,000 redactions. They released sensitive information about victims, even ones who were not public, and nude photos, but they had time for 962,000 redactions to protect Trump.

Jamie Raskin Reveals Trump’s Name Shows Up in Unredacted Epstein Files ‘More Than a Million Times’

I felt a nudge against my calf. There, slightly translucent, was Smudge, my loyal companion for 20 years. Tears spilled from my eyes as I reached for him. He swiped at my hand, ghostly paw passing through my hand. It was then I realized I was blocking the way to his favorite spot: the windowsill.

Rep. Lieu: “Howard Lutnick must resign… The Epstein Files new release shows that not only did Howard Lutnick lie to the American people, he went into business with Jeffrey Epstein, he visited Epstein Island, and Howard Lutnick did this knowing how evil Epstein was.”

As someone who has been working on the same manuscripts since *consults notes* 2007, 2018 and 2020, respectively, I try to tell myself this every day. Art is not a race. I am not worthless because I wasn't published by the time I was 30. Or 35. It is not a race. IT IS NOT A RACE. Also, fuck AI.

Now THIS is service journalism

"Why don't victims come forward?" *meanwhile a volunteer crew of angry dudes starts combing through every aspect of the survivor's entire life to find "evidence" that could be used to discredit the allegations no matter how irrelevant*

YES!

Unidos somos América.

Keep seeing the misinformation that this was Liam on here--has been reported that it was not

Birnam Wood has come to Dunsinane

One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show

HELL YEAH SEAHAWKS!!!! Now I know it is not the fault of this generation of players, but the Patriots cheated and that bad karma led to this loss. Which is only fair because the Patriots are a bunch of cheater cheater pumpkin eaters and I will never not hold that against them.

I feel the "I don't understand Spanish but I understand dancing!" In my soul. I understood every fourth word but still danced along and loved the show. So good.

Me, a non sports ball fan: oh, cool, the Super Bowl - there will be food and fun commercials and I love Bad Bunny.... Me, a born and bred Pacific Northwesterner: GO SEAHAWKS! Those Patriots are a bunch of cheater cheater pumpkin-eaters! Don't let them win this time! Rrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

Bad Bunny: God bless America, *all* the Americas. Damn that is going to make MAGA maaaaaaaddddddd.

And these words on Bad Bunny’s football held up to the camera at the end: “Together We Are America.”

the set design and choreography was so beautiful that it was irrelevant that I’m a dummy who can’t understand Spanish

I flipping love Bad Bunny so much. My Spanish is terrible but I still love his music. Also, was that Pedro Pascal I saw?? I gotta watch this again.

what a shot

This powerful PSA from Epstein survivors will air during the Super Bowl. “Stand with us.” ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼 [World Without Exploitation]

Happy Benito Bowl Day for all who celebrate! It's also the Superb Owl day. Check out this owl! Aren't they superb? www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

"Anyone? ....anyone?"

I need some sort of profitable side hustle. Or I need to learn how to do that rich person thing where you take money and turn it into more money...Actually their thing is to just inherit money which I can't do because everyone in my family is poor. Maybe I can make my cat an influencer...

The man has dementia. He needs to be removed via the 25th amendment immediately.

OK, I'm having too much fun with these: Two sea captains from rival nations must go to war, despite their unstoppable attraction. Fleeted Rivalry.

Two men have a strong attraction for one another but refuse to acknowledge it and refuse to go to therapy to gain the tools that would allow them to admit they are attracted to one another and live happily ever after. Untreated Rivalry.

Two rival goat herders pine for each other while wearing tight leather overalls and feathered caps in late 19th century Bavaria. Bleated Rivalry.

"No, I didn't get your email, could you resend it?" Deleted Rivalry.

I'd watch it.

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

How many of those girls would've been the next Ursula K. Le Guin? How many manuscripts comparable to The Lathe of Heaven or The Left Hand of Darkness were trunked because of men like this?