Michael Brown's Memoirs Reveal a Lost FEMA

The journalists waxing nostalgic over Epstein's NYC sex trafficking parties are the same ones also freaking out about Mamdani and they're all in the fucking emails chatting with the guy a decade after his conviction.

Literally exactly what the Founders worried about. Exactly.

Ethiopia has confirmed that the cases of hemorrhagic fever identified in Jinka town are Marburg virus disease. There have been several Marburg outbreaks in the past couple of years, the largest occurred in Rwanda in the fall of 2024. There are no approved vaccines and therapeutics for Marburg.

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

it's basically impossible to argue with this, they have won significant policy concessions, and there's no reason to think they'll stop pushing now that Labour have opened the door for them

Trump is not tough on crime. He reassigns expert law enforcement in areas like child sex trafficking (imagine that) to immigration enforcement where their skills aren’t as relevant, making us more vulnerable to crime

Inconvenient facts for malign (often foreign) influencers who try to portray my home city as a lethal no go zone. After more than half a century living here, I’ve never felt safer And kudos to Fraser Nelson for his work on this

COP30, the annual global climate summit, is happening right now in Brazil, and the U.S. is noticeably absent.  @govjayinslee.bsky.social will join me at 11a.m. EST to explain why America's leadership vacuum is not just bad for the climate, it's a win for China.  #Velshi

This is a terror campaign directed at the nation's brown people, but everyone will pay the price in the long run. I'm not sure why the "mass deportations now" signs at the RNC didn't register with the public, but we're experiencing exactly the horrors we were promised during the campaign.

They’re all just looting the treasury now

Think about how many people have been locked out of academia, politics, and any position of power while these criminals get to live it up.

Daily beatings. Sexual abuse. Denial of food and water. Isolation from the outside world. Venezuelans imprisoned in El Salvador for four months describe the torture they suffered after being forcibly removed from the U.S.

"We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves." -Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Epstein was convicted in 2008. This dump of emails shows him *over a decade later* in constant communication with damn near everyone with any degree of power. There are emails from 2019, 11 years later, over decade later.

Strutting around the Home Depot Parking lot. The crisis of masculinity in its most cartoonish version.

Trump’s thugs have come to my state to kidnap people/put them in concentration camps Anthony Lewis, Superintendent of Durham Public Schools, sent around a really wonderful letter to all parents explaining how DPS would handle any of these thugs coming to any public school What a time we live in 😢

“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE. But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:

indeed, for every academic abuser and enabler: i promise there’s an amazing grad student out there who is doing work that’s as good or better. we’ve let the myth of the lone genius guy carry on too long. it’s caused so much harm, in so many ways.

thinking about this interview from 2024 of incredibly smug Labour strategists telling Democrats to abandon immigrants and move to the center

Trump living it up, bedazzling everything, lining his pockets, freeing his criminal allies while out on the streets his goons terrorize entire communities feels like something from dystopian fiction.

For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

CBP tackles and detains a man walking minding his own business near the Compare Foods on South Boulevard. Can’t get more Kavanaugh Stop than this. esan0714 on TikTok.

Here’s a story for every national news outlet: In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property. “Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

Homan to Pope: shut up and dribble

Hurricane Melissa: a real-time case study of colonialism’s legacies which shows why climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice via Natricia Duncan www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

I got a tip a few months ago that ICE was planning to use tribal airports for ICE flights. I spent a few hours scouring flight data, found no evidence of this, and let it go. But perhaps they all just said no? If anyone has more info, hmu on signal at gbrockell.44!

Go with Operation Hot Beef Injection

bro hit the flying knee like he was Tony Jaa

Steven Seagal-ass administration

JD Vance's steady assertion of hostile claims against Greenland, which rarely ever rate a mention in US newspapers, are front page news across northern Europe.

These are the fascists the democrats continue to pander to and capitulate with at the highest levels of government. This is what the democrats in the senate voted for

are men ok

Update: DHS got back to me about this. The spokesperson called questions about the faith leaders' remarks "a ridiculous line of questioning." She then claimed that "if you watch the video, you can clearly see rioters attacking police" — but did not specify which video she was referring to.

the professors in the emails being all chummy with epstein is pathetic and enraging.

The US embassy is warning residents about increased bear activity in Japan, and just like that we have another social predicament in which a bear is the obvious choice.

This is an important new line being crossed. Trump isn't just pardoning the act of attempting to overthrow the government on January 6: he's pardoning *those people* for committing crimes generally. He may be creating a group of (federally) legally untouchable people.

See Also: Dana White's entire UFC tenure. This whole thread Q.E.D.

Operation Husky Farmboy.

imagine being hit on by gross old Larry Summers when you just wanted professional advice and then finding out he was getting advice on how to hit on you from Jeffrey fucking Epstein one of the grossest things I’ve ever read

It’s still so upsetting I have people claiming it is conspiracy theory to say this is happening

do you know WHY actors and athletes are so well compensated today that it’s hard to look at them as “labor” because they organized and negotiated for it

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins plans to make all SNAP recipients reapply and prove "that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.” The 'genuinely disabled' The 'literally vulnerable' They keep moving the goalposts. They were never going to fund SNAP. It's eugenics:

Epstein’s War

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

No way it's Gio Reyna!

He looks like he just entered a bachelorette party