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The next time someone tells you that America isn’t a sick & racist country, just remind them that this nation is willing to accept treason, rape, and child abuse from a white president but not healthcare from a Black one.

Don't get it twisted...we old women want to move abroad, too.

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs 2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads 3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James 4) IG and ethics officials are all fired. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

This is Carl. He was just woken up from a nap. Hopes for your sake the house is on fire. 12/10 (IG: grumpus.steve.carl)

GOP: “Dems are coming for your guns” Dems: “Republicans are coming for your children.”

People being willing to normalize pedophilia for Trump shows there's no line they aren't willing to cross.

Get ready for a heaping helping of cinematic turkeys this Thanksgiving! 🦃 The #MST3K Turkey Day Marathon is back and for the first time features episodes from Seasons 11 & 12 via our Double Troubled Features Marathon starting 11/27 at 3 am ET / 12 am PT on the MST3K channel.

NYT publisher Punch Sulzberger did indeed send his youngest daughter Cynthia to the exclusive Dalton, where Donald Barr had gotten the young Epstein a job. Epstein wouldn't have taught her - she would have been about 12. 3/

good summary thread for the insane epstein/sulzberger/michael wolff connection

Tearing your hair out? Trying not to? I can help. I'm a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and created a podcast with guided meditations and some psych information. #anarinya #guidedmeditation #meditation #therapy #psychology #psychologist

Not until: 1. Trumpers are purged & when possible, prosecuted. 2. There are constitutional amendments to limit executive & SC power. 3. The US signs onto the Rome Statutes and is under ICC jurisdiction. 4. MAGA politicians are purged, education & science are restored. 5. ICE, DHS are deleted.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Jeffrey Epstein: "I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body." When someone that despicable says that about you...Christ.

Sexual grossness must go with election-fraud grossness. It was Ken Starr's proteges Brett Kavanaugh & Alex Azar who stopped the recount of the FL presidential vote in 2000 - helped by Ted Cruz, who later stopped the 2020 electoral count to let the Jan 6 attack proceed. 5/ www.npr.org/2016/03/08/4...

Ken Starr, despite his long trail of sexual grossness, was a warrior for an also-gross sexual prudishness. He and Brett Kavanaugh went after Bill Clinton (another friend of Jeffrey Epstein and visitor to his island) for oral sex with an intern. Kavanaugh came up with the graphic sexual questions. 3/

The elite world Epstein traveled in is VERY small: Yale Law prof Jed Rubenfeld's wife Amy Chua, also a Yale Law prof, was the mentor of Yale Law student JD Vance. Ken Starr was the mentor of Yale Law grad Brett Kavanaugh, also accused of sexual assault but now seated on the Supreme Court. 2/

So, uh, the Jed Rubenfeld referenced here was disciplined by Yale Law for sexually harassing students. He's married to Amy Chua who among other things took to the pages of the NYT to defend Kavanaugh when he was under fire for sexually harassment. Ken Starr, well we know. This is just incredible.

Lulu is celebrating her 15th birthday! She’s still waiting to grow into those ears.

OH you mean the guy who refused to investigate sexual abuse among students when he was chancellor at Baylor was chummy with Epstein? NO I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT

Interesting duo to roll out tonight. James Comer beat up his college girlfriend and Jim Jordan covered for endless sexual assault cases.

What would really unlock the Epstein scandal is finding out why Acosta cut that insane plea deal. Epstein plead to soliciting a minor. Which is bad. But not nearly as bad as what he was doing. And so the world acted accordingly. Some times in ignorance, some times with greed and cynicism.

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

The emails are disturbing and yet not a surprise at all. This is who these people have been their entire lives. So here’s a kitty in a sleeping bag. #cat #kitty

Here's a particularly weird one where an unnamed sends Epstein a text that says "Tommy Robinson. !! good work" then almost exclusively and repeatedly talk about Goebbels and Kristallnacht for a while before pivoting to talking about blood drawing. drive.google.com/file/d/1BgrF...

Mentioned herein: Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Matthew Calamari (COO of Trump Org.), lots of Ken Starr, the particularly gross phrase "I was getting too soft; women are bad for the knees." Unknown sender but I think I can tell from context clues. Oh, and "I'm flying tonight with Hannity."

Why would Epstein know Trump's election prospects on Oct. 15? Maybe Russia. That month Epstein arranged for Trump advisors Peter Thiel & Tom Barrack to meet Russian Vitali Churkin. Russia fed hacked emails to WikiLeaks. Then Thiel's folks spun up Pizzagate: a conspiracy about a pedophile ring. 4/

One fascinating thing in the Epstein email drop is an exchange around Trump's election in 2016. It suggests a tense, ongoing relationship - and Epstein's dark contacts. Part 1: On Sept 23, Linda Stone jokes with Epstein that he'll get a cabinet position if Trump wins. Like Trump owes him one. 1/

Every morning when waking up.

I still believe Christine Blasey Ford and I still believe Anita Hill.

Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill

Something, something, don't report on Bush's warrantless surveillance until after the 2004 election, so as not to "interfere."

I had no idea that Analog, Asimov's, and MoF&SF had come under new ownership that is issuing predatory contracts to writers, including rights grabs for producing things like toys based on stories (seriously!) and putting the writer in the hot seat for out-of-court settlements they arbitrarily make.

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein

As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?" She did not respond.

PBS did us a solid and dropped the whole Epstein emails. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

We have some good neighbors.

Steve Bannon? The guy who Michael Wolff said coached Epstein with media training to try to make him seem sympathetic on TV interviews? That guy?

I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey

Epstein is asking this question in 2015 of a (now former) financial news journalist with the New York Times:

I'm making videos of my Guided Meditations for the Anarinya YouTube channel. ##meditation #mindfulness #guidedmeditation #therapy https://youtu.be/J46lx9oUOu4

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵 • May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses • OpenAI disagrees & can appeal "The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates" — German Music Rights Society

Jon Stewart "can't f**king believe" the Democrats caved so hard on the shutdown

Jeffries is whipping NO votes in the House on the shutdown deal. From Jake Sherman at Punchbowl: