The GOP spent eight decades making fun of France for being weak, but they're the ones kicking in Elon Musk's door and prosecuting the people named in the Epstein files.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

Rest assured that AI uses the exact same thought and care with your work and school assignments. youtube.com/watch?v=HfAF...

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Just bought cookies from the crying Girl Scout who hates being out in a crowd on the sidewalk and hates selling things. I get you, girl.

The Epstein Administration

king in brown hoodie doesn’t have time for the Nazis who catch him on cam don’t give a damn he gave fair warning plenty of time for a goon to retract what he’d said caught hands instead

"You boy, what day is this??"

Remember during the debates when Hillary said it would be dangerous to have a President who could be easily manipulated with flattery? What a sillybilly she was. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Goodness. How out of character. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

👇🎯 @willbunch.bsky.social is right. The reason all the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from 1865 to now - is because there are never any actual legal, personal, & professional consequences for the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. That must change this time.

Huh. Trump's two favorite things. www.wired.com/story/crypto...

Cats watching luge: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTh9JGe6F/

This is as big a lie as the one about the 2020 election, probably even more dangerous because so many "normie" Republican officials glommed onto it to curry favor with Trump. Corporate media never exposed it, and an uneducated electorate remains confused.

“‘What Oligarchy Looks Like’: AI Giants Pledge to Pump $100 Million Into 2026 Midterms *** The goal of the PAC is to elect a Congress that will prohibit individual states from passing their own AI regulations.” 2/11/26 … 1/ www.commondreams.org/news/ai-supe...

"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?" Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...

AOC: We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and crashing, and I think it’s because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles through:

Of course Pam Bondi didn't answer well or even coherently. She doesn't need to. Republicans won't impeach her. She just has to generate a couple of usable clips for Fox News. That keeps the base, who won't absorb anything that the right-wing news ecosystem hasn't spooned down their throats.

Wow. I had forgotten about the "ensure domestic tranquility" part. Ha ha ha haaaaaaaa these sumbitches.

Hast du etwas Zeit für mich? Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich Von 99 Luftballons Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont Denkst du vielleicht grad an mich? Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich Von 99 Luftballons Und, dass sowas von sowas kommt 🎈🎈🎈 apnews.com/article/faa-...

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

....And the event has been canceled. Sorry, folks!

Betty, you're supposed to take TURNS.

I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

That exchange should be made as famous as possible. Put the equation Trump = Bondi = the position that child rape is unimportant and rich people getting richer is important into everyone's head.

What I have seen of Pam Bondi's testimony: Congressional Rep: The United States Department of Justice is and has been covering up horrific crimes. What the hell? Bondi: We should really be talking about how Mr. Trump is a business genius. CR: No. The crimes. Bondi: You're a stupidhead.

@raphael-pbl.bsky.social Thanks for the reskeet!

Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell

Angelenos! If you need some frivolity--and I am pretty sure you do--I am reading tarot cards this Valentine's Day at Cassell's diner, a charming LA landmark that just happens to make a kickass cheeseburger. 10-2! And brunch! Get in there! www.eventbrite.com/e/valentines...

@iommismom.bsky.social Thanks for the RT, Julie!

this all does make some very compelling points

@carlyjdubois.com Thanks for the RT, sweet Carly! How are you holding up?

@amagire.bsky.social Thank you for the RT!

Angelenos! If you need some frivolity--and I am pretty sure you do--I am reading tarot cards this Valentine's Day at Cassell's diner, a charming LA landmark that just happens to make a kickass cheeseburger. 10-2! And brunch! Get in there! www.eventbrite.com/e/valentines...

Donald Trump’s DOJ just tried—and failed—to indict me in front of a grand jury. We will continue to fight back against their rising tyranny. Don’t Give Up the Ship.

Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files www.thewrap.com/culture-life...

Folks, look, it’s easy to make fun of Kid Rock but it’s important to remember that it’s also hilarious.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

I keep thinking about Ted Cruz, who fervently backed Texas Republicans' partisan gerrymandering scheme, crying online about how mean it is that Virginia Democrats pulled off a partisan gerrymandering scheme. I know he has no principles, but Jesus Christ, man, have some self-respect and dignity.

The Karmic burden of being a Trumper lashes back in some amazing ways. Imaging spending your life not just defending a traitorous sexual predator, but along the way having to grit your teeth and pretend that you like Kid Rock and the Melania movie and the sleek styling of the Cybertruck.

When I first started reading about crypto a few years ago (Cannot recommend Number Go Up by @zekefaux.bsky.social highly enough), I would sometimes wonder why the people at the top were so reckless about possibly destabilizing real currencies. Turns out of course they were. Feature, not a bug.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

when i was a 16yo girl i thought i was an adult. coaching 12-17yo girls as a 28yo really hammered home how much i was wrong about being an adult at 16 and how obvious it is to actual adults that a 16yo is not an adult. if they say they cannot tell they are lying because they are a creep.

When I first started reading about crypto a few years ago (Cannot recommend Number Go Up by @zekefaux.bsky.social highly enough), I would sometimes wonder why the people at the top were so reckless about possibly destabilizing real currencies. Turns out of course they were. Feature, not a bug.

Whew, what a day! Time to take a big drink of soda and check my Bitcoin account.

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

Please, my magic bean, it is very sick

Uh-oh. It looks like a lot of Bitcoin holders have suddenly noticed that it's a Ponzi scheme for money laundering.

It seems Epstein in additional to his recreational child predation had a side gig of getting blackmailable images of rich and powerful men in so he could give them to Putin. Donal Trump, Jeffrey's bestie, slavishly does whatever Putin wants. I wish I could figure out if there was a connection.

The thing is, I know so many men who have NOT been mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein files. It feels like maybe it is pretty easy to not be associated with a known child predator thousands of times.