It's very odd that the Constitution has a very specific method for amendment requiring approval by broad swaths of the US population, yet 5 justices of the Supreme Court can simply alter its meaning by judicial fiat. Seems like a bad loophole to have.

Any reporter talking to Blanche or Bondi should fixate on: "Your redactions indicate that there were crimes and victims. How many predators have you positively identified from the documents and what is the state of the resulting investigations? When can the victims expect to see prosecutions?"

So fascists love brutality, not because it creates safety & security & plenty, but because it creates danger & uncertainty & lack. Creating something of value is a threat to those who create nothing and deliver only theft. But if you hold power despite creating nothing but pain, you dominate.

Epstein redactions aren't believable, and they are valuable to fascists specifically because they aren't believable. Fascists prefer lies to truth. Believing in a lie is preferable to believing a truth, if what you want is to dominate. Believing lies dominates truth. So they believe lies.

Charlie Kirk is the Horst Wessel of the trump administration. His followers are the new hitler youth.

Look who’s hanging out at TPUSA today: it’s Jack Posobiec, the long time cohost of Charlie Kirk’s podcast, posing between a guy wearing a shirt mocking Holocaust victims (Myron Gaines) and a MAGA guy who was (temporarily) kicked off Elon’s Twitter for circulating CSAM (Don Lucre). Very wholesome!

It blows my mind that there are right wing Jews attending this event who seem to have no idea what’s happening here. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.

There's an impeachment resolution against this guy in the House but it's not being talked about very much because "This lunatic is trying to kill your children" isn't a compelling enough political message I guess

When right wing American Christians start talking a lot about the Talmud, that is pretty much the definition of a situation that is “bad for the Jews” because none of this talk is coming from a place of earnest theological or literary curiosity.

Ben Shapiro is used to being around conservatives who make tasteless jokes about Jews, & assuming that’s as deep as the antisemitism goes. These deep cut tropes coming into wider circulation on the right now are the sorts of things people say who have had conversations about murdering lots of Jews.

remember when you could just find 20 years worth of culture articles and forum posts and find out a ton of stuff about any thing food concept etc like right away? it sucks so hard to not really have the internet anymore 😭

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

#AbolishICE is now the moderate position. #SendICEtotheHague is the progressive position.

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

NEW: Abrego’s lawyers have proof of Todd Blanche’s direct involvement in his prosecution - after lying to the court about it for months. substack.com/@muellershew...

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers. "These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."

This seems relevant here. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?

The greatest thing about what cbs news is doing right now is she thinks it’s cool and punk rock: she thinks putting an Epstein list member intellectual in a tv debate on “Socialism: Bad or What?” up against David Limbaugh is like making Sid and Nancy the hosts of the Johnny cash show

At this point it is factually proven that being a Trump supporter = being a child rape supporter. #MAGA #GOP #Trump #EpsteinFiles

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice will fail to publicly release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by a Friday deadline, violating a new federal law explicitly mandating that the trove of documents be turned over for public scrutiny. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

By 1:30pm today, Democracy Docket had already published that the DOJ files release was incomplete and violated federal law. Why did it take so many legacy media outlets until this evening to come to the same conclusion?

Me every new year

DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor. Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

We already knew the FBI had agents on overtime scrubbing the Epstein files of any mention that could harm that orange bastard, didn’t we? It was widely reported, weeks ago. What did we think would happen? They do this shit right in front of us, over and over.

WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer. Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump. Now, it’s gone.

My sense, beyond that Casten represents the clean energy industry, is that besides the handful of Dems voting with Republicans on all the bullshit bills, most of the moderate caucus hates people like Yglesias because they don't help do anything productive at all for Dems. These people don't win!

Sean Casten: -Won his first primary by 2000 votes -Won the general by 53-46 -Demolished progressive Marie Newman in a primary after redistricting He should be Yglesias' core supporter, instead he just called Matt a toddler when it comes to politics.

“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.

“The Trump administration’s policies work in tandem. It is harder for people of color to enter the workforce. It is harder for them to remain in the workforce. And if they are victimized by illegal discrimination, it is harder for them to do anything about it.” @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social

NEW: After months of the government telling the court under penalty of perjury that the US Attorney alone made the decision to charge Kilmar Abrego with a crime, there is now EVIDENCE tying Todd Blanche to the decision. More to come on Substack... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

‘But but… something something… Mamdani… intifada…something something’

“Do you think that Trump would be turning Washington into Pyongyang if he believed there was a chance that, during his lifetime, a future Democratic administration would swoop in and undo it all? Humiliating him? I do not.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The list of "masseuses" is completely redacted (victim information, makes sense), but…it is 254 entries long. www.justice.gov/multimedia/D...

These guys are so BAD at this. This is like dictators getting 99.9% of the vote. You don’t do that. You go for, like, 68%. Everyone KNOWS Trump is in the Epstein Files. You gotta leave his name in in SOME places. Choose the least bad, claim critics now overreacting. But we KNOW *THIS* is a lie.

JFK’s niece: h/t @jamiegangel.bsky.social

That photo’s not surprising.

Republican Elise Stefanik is OUT and will not be running for Governor of New York or for the House of Representatives next year.

Nazi rhetoric but “don’t call them Nazis”

fwiw I think “Bongino quit because of what he saw in the Epstein files” is a lot less likely than “Bongino was/is going to get blamed for the inevitable clusterfuck of the Epstein Files release”

“That is the most insidious corruption…Trumpism gets its defenders to insist terrible things could never happen…Until Trump does the thing. At which point these same people insist the thing which could never happen must happen. That it is right, good and necessary.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"uWu U hurt the feelings of my AI that I'm forcing on you involuntarily"--AI bro-xecutive

If it was a normal person, this is completely ignorable on a small Discord. That it is a C suite executive for one of the major AI players taking these actions makes it news.

I know Discord attracts drama, but the newsworthiness here is due to the bullying behavior by a major AI exec. It’s as much of a dick move as if the CIO of General Motors sent security goons to break up your aunt’s book club. It’s a clear abuse of power that deserves social disapproval.