Why didn’t the Biden admin release the Epstein files?

I did not want to spend $50 on a giant playpen for my office (50"x50") and I don't like the idea of keeping him in a playpen for hours at a time, but in the last 30mins I've pulled him out from under my desk 2x, taken my headphone wire out of his mouth 3x, and unstuck him from between furniture 4x.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

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If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees. This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

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And another one... 😡 ⚛️ 🧪

Rodrigo Borja, who was president when i graduated (and is a descendant of Giovanni Borgia (yes, that one))

please rise for our national anthem

I need to take my brain out and put it in some rice or something

Cool how our fucked up for-profit healthcare system is something that indirectly subsidizes literally the entire world’s medical care

Here's a gift link for readers who say the original one doesn't work. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Holy moly: Seattle’s millionaire tax, passed last year, is expected to bring in $115 million in its 1st year, way more than the $50 million anticipated. The funds will go to the city’s new social housing developer publicola.com/2026/02/11/t... (Is NY Gov Hochul paying attention?)

The Epstein files reveal that Trump (73) had an affair with Madelyn Westerhout (29) during his first term. Epstein and Bannon referred to her as "Knee Pads" and wrote Trump seemed "much calmer" having her around. So calm he didn't go to Mar-A-Lago for Christmas with his family in 2019. #familyvalues

Yet Trump tells us that Bad Bunny’s show was “disgusting” for “children” and has removed the Pride flag at Stonewall, while his tops aides are engaged in adultery, screwing one another on a jet and in the residence of the Coast Guard leader, and flaunting it in front of everyone at work.

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

As another one falls, she may not be someone from the administration but the more people that fall the more will start falling from the administration as well. Already the calls for Lutnick to resign are coming from inside the house.

This man is a thief, coward and hypocrite. He argues the U.S. can't afford to protect workers from scammy corporations through the CFPB, but it CAN afford to pay millions and millions robbed from three different agencies to pay for his imperial guard. #stopvought www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

I know 1 thing for certain. A Kamala Harris appointed AG would not start talking about stock numbers when asked about the Epstein files.

In any other administration the married DHS chief having an affair with her married aide would be an enormous scandal. And with Trump’s Christian nationalist base you’d there’c be outrage (yet they’re frauds). But here, it’s just buried in the story. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

My silly habit of narrating everything with a song is extremely helpful with B. He doesn't really understand words yet, but he knows what the diaper changing song means. And the bottle making song. And the going to bed song.

Wild things happening in the Texas Republican primaries.

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I don't know who needs to hear this (Tankies) but Holodomor revisionism and denial is genocide revisionism and denial.

Must-read thread

I know a lot of people have remarked on it before, but it's still surreal to see it in the wild, how, to Tankies, the Soviet Union was both a workers' paradise destroyed by the CIA because it was proving communism works, and, also too, it was not communist at all, when discussing the Holodomor.

“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”

what

OUP had a policy change that they will no longer solicit or accept blurbs. I negotiated, saying my book was under contract before their policy change. They say it doesn't move book sales and delays publication. I need the blurbs to show prize committees the interdisciplinary nature of the book.

📣 BLURBS 📣 (that I had to argue with the press to obtain) & won't show up on the back of my book. You can see under "Reviews" what 4 scholars (2 historians, 2 political scientists) whose work I greatly admire said about my book: www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati... More info also at annaolaw.com

I've been going to these fancy conferences and just doing a gloves off thing for the last few months and I feel freer than a guy with five DUIs riding an ebike on a sidewalk.

Just going to note again, because somehow we've all completely retconned this and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, that pound-for-pound Biden had one of the most draconian border security regimes of any U.S. president ever, second only to Trump, *many of whose policies he inherited and kept*

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

There's just something very Russian-bottish about thinking you could retcon an entire parody group that was popular in the 80s and 90s, with 10,000 members, a radio show that's still on the air, events that still go on.

You can tell that the people harassing me with their "lore" that "The SubGenius is a real cult, a white supremacist one" know damn well that they are lying, because they never go after any other members. It's just me. They probably have other members in their social circles, even.

Ivan Stang has social media. You could totally go yell at him for "running a white supremacist cult." But you don't. Because you know you'd be laughed off the internet, everyone who follows him, and most Gen X people in general, would go "Look at these idiots who think the parody is real!"

PSA for anyone who didn't know this: I am not the only SubGenius on this website or on Twitter. If you don't believe something I said about the famous parody group, go ahead and ask literally anyone else involved, or anyone who just listens to the radio show or reads the books without joining.

WTAF?

As an ex-St. Louisan I love the choice of visuals. Especially the Gateway Arch just vanishing in the low clouds.

If there was ever going to be any proof that WikiLeaks is essentially dead, it's the Epstein files. Integrating this sort of data and making it searchable is right up the organization's old alley. The good news is that @ddosecrets.org and @dropsitenews.com joined forces with Jmail to do just that.

Notepad should not know what the internet is. If you have notepad talking to remote servers you're already like 10 steps into a "factors leading to" slide. What the heck are they doing over there

It’s like she’s doing a skit about herself.

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind." No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are included. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But […]

Leftists have been advocating for Universal Basic Income for decades. Every significant UBI trial has been an outstanding success. It's not The Left who are responsible for it not being in place when we desperately need it, but successive neolib govts refusing to take it seriously this entire time

WOOT!! I'LL BE APPEARING ON THE 'EPSTEIN FILES BOOK CLUB' PODCAST WITH ELISE HU AND WRITER JENA FRIEDMAN NEXT WEEK! It's prerecorded *but* you can submit a question to be answered on the air! To submit a question: email a *voice memo* (so it can be played on the air) NOT a text email.