New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight. Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

UPDATE: Trump has begun demolishing parts of the White House to build his $250 Million ballroom, despite claiming they wouldn’t do that. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

It's been a busy weekend, so you might have missed this from Friday night's Dodgers-Brewers game. Ohtani is unreal. #baseball youtu.be/z24ee485ypg?...

Anytime you ask “why did the Times cover it this way?” or whatever corporate media it is, remember that influential moderates are the tool of the wealth class and are there to normalize whatever the wealthy want and create doubt regarding reform and change.

No Kings, Portland, Oregon

Imagine being the largest newspaper in Washington, DC with the motto "Democracy Dies in Darkness" and thinking to publish this today. You might think WaPo editors would look out the window and realize something more important is happening. But perhaps democracy already died over there.

So no terrorism then?

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

This is Idaho 💙

We love America. We just hate kings.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

“.. It’s to the point now where .. I could lose everything ... Being a small business owner isn’t worth it when your country turns on you,” said Jared Hendricks, the CEO of Village Lighting, a small business selling Christmas products. @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/h...

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

"In unison." Amen. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Tests from Consumer Reports found more than two-thirds of 23 popular protein products contained unsafe levels of lead.

there are a couple of ways to think about this, one is that no one should be running for their first senate race at this age, and the other is that if platner can’t beat her, he definitely can’t beat collins. i think he can. everybody needs to stop crying and start fighting.

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense. www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

"They know that in a functioning one-person-one-vote democracy, they could never pass the unpopular self-enriching policies they want. So they know they must focus on preserving and expanding the precedents that permit them to buy American democracy." 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx. The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake. And that’s why we’re fighting back.

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

every asshole on this website loudly braying that elections either won’t happen or won’t be fair in 2026 had better be buying an inflatable costume and sturdy walking shoes for this saturday, because if truly believe that, you’re not gonna like what the next step is

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

It is hard to believe that I memorized so many phone numbers until I remembered that we didn't have to memorize the area codes 😅

Shitty vibe reporting is not new — but its shoddy practitioners usually spell the name of person they are inaccurately sliming correctly. Breaking news: The Tiffany Network is now silver plate.

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

Trump is targeting our home, but city councilors and Portlanders are not sitting back. This Wednesday, we’re presenting our joint resolution, the Protect Portland Initiative, to safeguard our neighbors who are being targeted by this administration’s aggressive and unlawful agenda.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Today in #warravagedPortland, a couple thousand people - some of them naked - rode bikes in 53-degree rain to protest the Federal government's harassment of our city

Heavy rain and chilly temperatures meant many participants were clothed, but others were topless, bottomless, or only wore see-through plastic ponchos to stay dry. As they made their way through the city, you could hear chants. One of those: “I don’t see no riot here, why are you in riot gear?”

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Now ICE is attacking Chicago PD! Gassed them, why aren't these "federal agents" being held accountable for THEIR reckless violence⁉️ youtube.com/shorts/onCvj...

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Only one thing could top the honor of speaking at the No Kings rally, and that's the honor of speaking at No Kings 2. See you October 18th!

Weird how they say that vaccines are bad and the president is good but the president got two vaccines yesterday, I wonder how long it will take before he is forced to wear high heels or starts collecting model trains or whatever they think vaccines do besides save lives