Spoiler alert. What you’re going to find out about Epstein is that he was simply a con man who figured out how to locate himself at the inevitable nexus of wealth, power, and depravity.

The rise of the tech oligarchy is not a coincidental convergence of personal, political, and business interests, write Ramya Chandrasekhar, Charlotte Ducuing, and Caterina Santoro. Rather, they argue, it is a phenomenon best understood within the broader logic of ‘finitude capitalism.’

For some reason today, I’m remembering a history teacher telling my high school class that while we couldn’t imagine it, when enough of the people who witnessed the Nazis died off, we would get another batch.

so many people need Medicaid and snap not because we have too many lazy thieves, but because we have a few thieves who are too good at it.

The cost of life is the things we’ve lost.

When trumpism implodes, we must be diligent to scour every quisling news organization from our journalistic conversation.

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They’re calling her Megyn. R Kelly now.

This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

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Let's talk about books and the public trust. 📚🧵 Something that is easy to forget, in these days of barcode-scanning / auto-adjust pricing on third-party platforms for pennies plus shipping: Booksellers are not merely people who sell some popular books in a competitive market.

I need you to listen to me right fucking now A 15 y.o. is a child. Do you hear me? Brain development is still happening & the neocortex isn’t fully developed Get the fuck outta here with minimizing what Jeffrey, Donald, & Maxwell et al did by saying,”it wasn’t a 5y.o.” They raped children Stop it!

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

The median age of all U.S. homebuyers is now 59 years old. Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.

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

it's (darkly) funny that the tech titans' politics are basically "we have no choice but to end representative government because my employees asked for a slight raise in 2020"

The most damning Epstein email is just the casual analysis of how absolutely depraved trump is. No self serving purpose in that, just a guy who knew he was evil noting how much more evil Trump was, maybe even a little jealous of it.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

As my 1 year comes to and end on this platform I am honored and grateful for those that have been become part of my circle. I’m honored and inspired daily by many that have become great friends and I have found colleagues from all over the globe. This has become my happy place and UR my tribe! 🔮

People who make primary source documents easily accessible to the public are the best Thank you @paulgp.com

Grateful to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for this shot of tempered hope tonight. “It looks more like a beginning to me than anything had looked in a very long time.” 🌱 Stick together, friends. Stay strong, and LOUD.

go.bsky.app/58kBmKD 47 has murdered 78 people on the ocean. The military is being used as a weapon against the US Citizens and immigrants. And we have our veterans fighting back. The oath they have makes their allegiance to the constitution. Follow and fight back

That feeling when you’ve drunk just enough to say exactly what you mean but not mean to say that.

If you try to help everyone else through tomorrow and hope you can make it through today, you’re doing it just fine in my opinion. We aren’t immortal, so why not be intransigent?

Just a reminder that they can’t kill us all. Our strength isn’t in our individual survival, it’s in our collective unwillingness to capitulate. If you keep freedom because I fight and die, some of that freedom is mine. I can live (and die) with that.

The rich are so greedy that the concept of everyone having enough is repugnant to them, even though that would mean no one would begrudge them more than enough. The disease of more.

Profit is the ability of ownership to extract benefit from the productivity of others.

There are no benevolent billionaires. zero. whatever some of them “give back” is a curated distribution of a fraction of what they pillaged.

VOTE DEMOCRATIC............ALWAYS

This post defines life

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent." --Epicurus

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In an unforgettable Veterans Day moment, former President Barack Obama surprised dozens of Korean and Vietnam War veterans as their Honor Flight landed in Washington, D.C. The veterans, fresh off their flight from Madison, Wisconsin, were greeted by President Obama himself.

Bingo. Kudos to the progressives who have started to run for seats as democrats.

SEATTLE!!! We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

Why Do People Vote For Trump? What's his appeal? His niece said it's because the Incontinent Autocrat hasn’t a single redeeming human value. How is that a good thing?

Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU. YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.

Critizing corporate Dems who play Vichy isn't "creating a circular firing squad". I will ally with just about anyone fighting fascism. This behavior tonight was a capitulation. It aids the fascists. We should be outspoken in our condemnation of this vote.

Nancy Pelosi got her caucus to vote for things that would cost them their seats and her the speakership… twice. Schumer can’t get his own whip to stay in line on an issue 80% of Americans support?

All of this

BERNIE ON THE *DEAL* with Centrist Dems: “That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.”

Just so you know, 8 senators didn’t sell the others out. The others got eight who aren’t up for election to sell us out.

Religion is a scam. It has always been used by the worst people (con men, psychopaths) to take advantage of people of low intelligence, the elderly & others who are susceptible, has been so for thousands of years & to keep the elite in power. #Discover #Grifters www.rawstory.com/tammy-faye-a...

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