I bet Sean Penn’s character also thought the things HE was going through were One Battle After Another

Fidelio made, fidelio kept

The thing about Marjorie Taylor Greene betraying her mafia is she actually WANTS to eat egg noodles with ketchup like a schnook

Time to dust off this oldie but goodie

I actually think a more important version of this would be to cut it off at like 2014 or early 2015, before Trump was a frontrunner. He’s still the most commonly mentioned person during the period when nobody can say there was any political reason to mention him

Among other things, because of sloppy comma placement, Trump's most recent Epstein post accuses this man of being a Democrat.

Getting suspended for death threats, even if they're jokes, is good actually

Weird not to lead with the item most people will immediately glom onto: they let her have a pet puppy.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

A really important point. You can't "solve"misinformation without understanding the ways beliefs function as identity markers more than attempts to represent reality accurately gone awry.

It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility

(worth pointing out that the Nazis committed many of their worst atrocities when it became clear they weren't going to be in power forever.)

2024: Sleepy Joe 2025: Sleepy Pedo

having a hard time affording a home huh well that's because joe biden let all these refugees from guatemala and el salvador financialize the housing market

One caution I'd offer as everyone goes through these emails is that *Jeffrey Epstein* (of all people) saying something in an email does not automatically make it true!

HUNT: Do you think President Trump is a lame duck? SEN. KENNEDY: Well, he can't run again. Yes.

Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.

Grindr profile or official State Department policy?

Someone named Daniel Siad tells Epstein in an email that the owner of Noah Models used to "scout for Trump." Noah Models was featured in this 2011 PBS documentary, about 12, 13 year old girls being scouted in Siberia for international modeling, and the predatory results.

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

Chat is it a good idea to physically invade the pope's hometown

If you’re just checking in the president of the United States had some horrible pedophile billionaire version of the climax of Mean Girls happen to him

Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?

If recent events have caused you to lose trust in The New York Times, might I suggest a subscription to @us.theguardian.com.

CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret

I wish Charlie Kirk were alive to have to defend this

One of the coolest things about #TeslaTakedown is that it's not just about "sending a message." It's about attaching a stigma to driving a certain make of car, which is the one source of profit for a financial bubble that props up the most powerful racist alive. It's protest as direct action.

pretty crazy to be guilty of numerous sex crimes and then spend your whole life trying to make sure that everybody has to think about you all the time

Stop me if you've heard this before: If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF??? They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???

NYT: But our emails

One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.

At this point, maybe we should call them Trump Files with a little bit of Epstein thrown in

Here’s what is interesting about this answer: It is not a “no.” bsky.app/profile/just...

just how fuckin bad are the rest of those files

UPDATE — Here are the at least 11 congressional Democrats, 11 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 6 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:

I don't say this to "work the refs" or whatever but to open your eyes into the way the decision-makers in the media have not been and are not on our side, the side of truth and integrity etc. They like Trump and want him to win. Situation now is dramatically worse than in 2016.

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”

🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes. Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.

If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?

Kurt Vonnegut's passage about Armistice Day in "Breakfast of Champions" always hit hard. He wrote this to make sure everyone knew what we lost when we changed the name of the holiday to Veterans' Day. www.loa.org/news-and-vie...

Regular reminder that when we are mad at Ross Douthat and/or the institution of the New York Times, we are actually mad at AG Sulzberger. Sulzberger is the reactionary centrist marketer who has essentially full control over who works at the Times and what is written about there.

Ppl need to understand what's happening here. The GOP response to the shutdown was: You're gonna cave, or we're going to hurt vulnerable people by shutting off SNAP. The Dems, unwilling to let that happen, caved. Having watched that, the GOP is now saying: "Give us what we want on abortion or ..."

if you voted in Seattle you gotta make sure your ballot counted now

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell