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Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

News you can use!

Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans

Impressively chaotic!

Minnesota! Guess what?!

My random food opinion is I don’t think it makes any sense for pepper to be as ubiquitous as salt. Because culinarily, salt enhances existing flavors and you should put it on essentially everything. But pepper is a very strong flavor! It changes the whole flavor profile! It’s not universal!

I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television

I would rather have been wrong about this.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

A penguin is a bird like a hot dog is a taco

“Have you brought the list?” “I have, O Great One.” “Has it been checked twice?” “Of course, sir” “Excellent.” “Do you require anything further?” “Bring me an elf, I’m famished.”

Every meaning of Hamster Ball is adorable or at least interesting

Brown: Autocrats don’t fear the disease or the babies dying from whooping cough — they fear the evidence of it, because evidence exposes their failures, demands accountability, and empowers the public.

No one tell Roscoe Conkling.

you’re never going to believe this. the woke left’s depraved war on christmas is escalating. sources tell me they’re planning to make the yuletide gay

Call your dog and catch them in an action shot

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss. We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money

Looking for new books for your kids? Here's some great new Indigenous authored books recommended by children's librarian Tracy Kampa! (She's got great taste!) www.kaxe.org/show/what-we...

Can't compete with @betsyhodges.bsky.social and @thematterickson.bsky.social's great work, but my buddy Doug and I had to get our 2 cents in on Death by Lightning. We add to the discourse by discussing how you can get amazing chutney at Chet's former home and reveal we're also into Franklin Pierce.

I saw "Signalgate" was trending on this platform and I swear to God, I thought the KSTP-TV @betsyhodges.bsky.social flap had resurfaced. 😉

What you think you know about Rosa Parks is almost certainly wrong. This thread is a good way to remedy that!

Team Bruuuuuce! The Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music has up to 40% of all merch through tonight! You know you have someone on your list you could finish buying for just on this site. Go do it!!

Whole bunch of puppies that need foster homes, including Ariel, whom I suspect of being, in fact, a guinea pig. www.thebondbetween.org/foster-dogs

The arc of the moral universe just paid too much for car insurance.

The arc of the moral universe just needs a minute.

The arc of the moral universe had some work done.

The arc of the moral universe is FINE, okay?

The arc of the moral universe wants uppies.

This is a good take. Also @betsyhodges.bsky.social and I are doing a show recap podcast that no one asked for podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

It’s pretty amazing that statue exists. Anyway @betsyhodges.bsky.social and I did a show recap podcast no one asked for podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Good Ole RFK Jr. and his sidekick OZ!!

President Trump has canceled 2 economic reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to hide his economic failures. President Trump and Treasury Scott Bessent continue to gaslight the American people that prices + inflation are down. Consumer sentiment is at one of it's all time lows in history.

I walked through the door with you, the air was cold But something 'bout it felt like home somehow And I, left my scarf there at your sister's house And you've still got it in your drawer even now Oh, your sweet disposition and my wide-eyed gaze We're singing in the car, getting lost upstate

The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely Hey, that's me and I want you only Don't turn me home again I just can't face myself alone again

@betsyhodges.bsky.social and I are doing a recap podcast no one asked for podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

I am @racketmn.com famous! The internet’s leading Chester A Arthur podcast, created and hosted by @thematterickson.bsky.social and me, got some love in the media! Thanks, Racket! Ours is a recap pod for #DeathByLightning through a Chet lens. racketmn.com/former-mpls-...

Episode 7 of Chet By Lightning is the one that features Chester Arthur biographer Scott Greenberger. @betsyhodges.bsky.social makes him pick a favorite Chet moment and we all speculate on a sequel. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

You’ve watched @netflix.com Death By Lightning and now you need a recap podcast that focuses on Chester Arthur wherein the 7th episode @matterickson.bsky.social and I *interview Scott Greenberger, author of *the* modern Chet biography The Unexpected President!*

And it’s awesome! And charming! Someone please tell Nick Offerman.

What world are we even in anymore?

Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him

If you also love the obscure interests of smart people, news eps are up of Chet By Lightning, the podcast where @thematterickson.bsky.social and I dissect all things Chester A Arthur related in Death By Lightning, the @netflix.com show about the Garfield assassination. WAY more fun than it sounds.

If your favorite obscure president has been Chester A. Arthur since the Chester A. Arthur Middle School Incident of 1997… and then Netflix drops Death by Lightning, what do you do? Obviously, you start a podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Fortunately, as researcher @betsyhodges.bsky.social points out, "The solution to the problem is good for all mayors... Our democracy depends on making sure we have access to women's genius." 🔗Read the report to learn the barriers women mayors are up against and how to address them: bit.ly/WMN-25

If your favorite obscure president has been Chester A. Arthur since the Chester A. Arthur Middle School Incident of 1997… and then Netflix drops Death by Lightning, what do you do? Obviously, you start a podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Two new women governors were just elected and they’ll face all the challenges of being “the first.” Real support means using your critical thinking to see the tools of sexism as they’re used. 🎥 From my @fox5dc interview → www.fox5dc.com/video/1738777 #WomenInLeadership #Democracy #GenderEquity