I wrote about Thomas's jurisprudence of cruelty in my book Tainted Witness. He has been making this case against the 8th Amendment for a long time. Oh, and Anita Hill warned us.

This reporter has found NINE rioters who molested children. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-jan-6t...

Republicans were against forgiving student loans for nurses and teachers but they are fine with Trump giving your money to child molesters.

“We have made a technology that creates nothing but will ensure you have no future while we get richer and richer wait why are you boooing?”

Well, I think Elon and Trump have been on the same flight logs before

Hey, pals in #18thc lit studies, this story is made for us, esp those of us who write about "forgers" like Thomas Chatterton & William Henry Ireland. 👋to @jacklynch000.bsky.social "As the genuine philology medal does not exist, his medal cannot be a forgery." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

🗣️ TONIGHT! @madelinevosch.bsky.social is in town to chat about her memoir, UNDEAD, with @lgilmore.bsky.social at @portersqbooks.bsky.social. This is at the Cambridge location. There’s still time to RSVP before 7!

Come to the Cambridge launch of Madeline Vosch's stunning new memoir! It is a story about surviving suicide, an argument about the conditions necessary for life to flourish, and a meditation on all sorts of undead, resurrected, and risen beings.

Her bravery, my god. Swalwell drugged, raped, and choked her to unconsciousness, she says. I believe her.

“If there are rumours that you’ve sexually abused a child, waging an expensive, unpopular, illegal war, let alone one whose opening salvo kills more than a hundred little girls, seems a strange bid at reputation laundering.”

Today! Hope some folks turn up!

Whoa, they lost Gorsuch.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

“‘Shame has to change sides,’ Gisèle Pelicot said, sitting through the long public trial of the many men who cheerfully raped her drugged body. It would be good if courage changed sides too.”

This is thorough and merciless and more applicable to American domestic affairs than you might expect. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"

The Epstein files show that patriarchy is a political, economic, and social form. Male bonding has always been the base of patriarchy. Men are guaranteed and ENJOY power through their primary connection to each other. One form of this connection occurs through sexually abusing girls.

From the Department of War Crimes

In lawyer-ese this translates to “We’re pretty sure that if we delay this until after graduation everyone will forget about it.” www.thedailycatch.org/articles/eps...

Superbly clear case for why Bard should demand Botstein’s resignation by the indispensable @katemanne.bsky.social

I don't love that the Labor Secretary's sex pest husband is an anesthesiologist.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

#VisibilityBrigade #america #usa #ICE #CivilLiberties #DueProcess #GovernmentAccountability #PeacefulProtest #icecampskill @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @rosaliewong.bsky.social @karenb4good.bsky.social @emmatk.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @roberthubbell.skystack.xyz #epstein

They literally dragged a minor employee out of a Target as he was wailing that he was a US citizen, roughed him up in their car, and then dropped him off bloodied and bruised in the freezing cold a couple of miles away, so miss us with this.

Dear lord bsky.app/profile/tyle...

Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick needs to RESIGN; he LIED about his contacts with Epstein; had continued relationship with him. Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations www.politico.com/live-updates...

STL Post Dispatch front page

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Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.

The (Episcopal) Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

According to Gilmore, “this isn’t merely an administrative failure, but a ‘paradigmatic instance of institutional silencing.’ Institutional silencing takes the form of “managed visibility,’ in which the public sees only parts of the Epstein files but far too much about the women he preyed upon.”

Like I said, I’m just glad Chomsky found someone he loved as much as Pol Pot. I worried he might never love again.

So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?

Wild: (Microsoft) Xbox Live banned Epstein for being a sex offender in 2013, but Microsoft founder Bill Gates kept making appointments with him

new CBS contributor Peter Attia

I talked with @mariaramirez.bsky.social about MeToo as context for her important reporting on Julio Iglesias.

This superb essay by @benwurgaft.bsky.social makes me want to talk to everyone about the problems with utilitarianism.

Something worthy has emerged from social media. @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social has given us a beautiful memoir.

@ronanfarrow.bsky.social included this story in Catch and Kill. @katemanne.bsky.social and @borowitzreport.bsky.social discuss Katie Johnson's (a pseudonym) credible allegation that Trump raped her when she was 13. Content warning for child rape.

“The emails offer a window on that ugly world and the people in it who prefer to consider themselves untouchable," Leigh Gilmore, the author of “The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women," told me.

NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation. “It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said. www.propublica.org/article/andr...

Can we please never hear from Larry Summers again.