Twenty-three Republicans could end this presidency

Virologist Nathan Wolfe sought funding from Jeffrey Epstein to study whether sexually transmitted infections increased women’s sex drive. He planned to conduct this study among female undergraduate students.

In a crushing blow to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss, Kid Rock's alternative Super Bowl halftime show will air on Rumble and OAN, not CBS.

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

It’s important to realize that the subtext of Trump freaking out at Kaitlan Collins when she asks him what he’d say to the Epstein survivors is that she may in practice be asking what he’d say to the *Trump* survivors, and they both know that. A well worded question

It is time we wake up and take Trump’s threats seriously and literally. Based on past behavior, if anything, what he said is almost certainly an understatement of how far he is actually willing to go. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

Judge Simon here in Portland just granted the TRO in the ICE use of force case. The first three sentences are pretty haunting.

Christ, these people are pathetic. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A lot of the people had never been tear gassed before. I talked to someone in the center of the cloud who had never been gassed and had only been to big protests like No Kings. She said the march had felt like the exact same vibe, right up until she was gassed for the first time in her life.

While outrageous and anti-Constitutional, the thugs accomplished nothing except increase resolve that they are animals, and a cancer in society.

Anger management classes always seems like BS because the issues these guys have go way deeper. Guy got to feel the fear and inadequacy that rules his life.

Jesus this chart.

Yuuuuup…

Medical Examiner Officially Determines Alex Pretti’s Death Was a Homicide www.mediaite.com/crime/breaki...

Also, the culture of secrecy and the binding of people is precisely how you create an environment ripe for abuse. So good luck and God speed, current clerks. Remember you don't have to put up with shit.

The DOJ attacked a sitting federal judge using a leaked document as "proof" of bias. We filed a FOIA suit demanding that document. Now this executive branch agency wants to hide behind judicial immunity to avoid giving it to us. COUGH IT UP, PAM. www.lawandchaospod.com/p/doj-attack...

Something I picked up pretty early when I started studying sociology is that things that look like grand highly intentional conspiracies are so often just systems of power and incentive structures that connect people who have the same interests Which isn’t to say there are no conspiracies but

BREAKING on ft website: Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans www.ft.com/content/fdf7...

Canada's national newspaper this past week.

The Mayor of Portland, OR after ICE shot tear gas into a crowd “To those who..work for ICE: Resign..Through your use of violence and..trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. [G]o home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children”

On one hand I do not believe in the “he’s doing X to distract us from Y” narrative but on the other hand the whole Closing The Kennedy Center thing really does feel like a “How can I get everyone to stop talking about how I pooped my pants at the press conference”

Can you imagine how insecure & broken you’d have to be to possess billions of dollars & presidential power & still be so Goddamn fucking needy?

This administration’s treatment of a NATO ally is both incredibly disgraceful and contrary to U.S. national interests.

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

I recorded this today, in Portland, Oregon, at a huge march to the ICE facility in SW. The crowd was full of cyclists who had ridden there in memory of Alex Pretti; members of several labor unions; and ordinary citizens of every age, including this little girl. So of course ICE deployed tear gas.

What the f**k indeed

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Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

Each Epstein email has so many layers of slime people miss some. This email is Ken Starr, fired for covering up sexual assault, offering to help his former client Jeffrey Epstein's friend's sexual harassment charges by introducing him to Jed Rubenfeld, later put on leave for sexual misconduct. 1/

Have a lot of thoughts about this that I can’t share here, but I think a big part of ICE’s shittiness is a combination of laziness, incompetence, and misaligned incentives. This is a law enforcement organization whose culture is the Always Be Closing scene from Glengarry Glen Ross.

There is so much corruption in this one story. Not even mentioned in the summary, the $500M investment in World Liberty Financial came before the UAE won access to U.S. AI chips

We were cured of measles; and now it's spreading and will become a midterm election issue. Really bright, GOP.

If there comes a day when police put their bodies between the feds with guns and their targets, I will praise the police for doing so. I don’t expect to see that day. It might even be a dangerous escalation. But until that day comes … I assume they are helping the feds.

Thousands of protestors marched across Portland and enveloped the blocks around the ICE building Saturday. Protestors were met with large clouds of tear gas, pepper balls and flash bangs.

Quite appropriate as we begin Black History Month. Let us be clear, despite the Regime's attempt to redact it, Black History is American history. Thanks.

The "I'm super rich. I can do anything I want, no matter how wrong, perverse, harmful to others, or illegal anytime I want. And when I do I have the resources so that you will never, ever hear about it. So, trust me, any evidence you see of my criminality is fake' defense. Novel.

Bill has this exactly right; a military force of storm troopers acting lawlessly. Here in the U.S., not in a WWII German documentary.

Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

🤔 According to documents declassified by the US Department of Justice, the girls for Epstein's parties were supplied by the Krasnodar-based (Russia) Shtorm modeling agency, which was involved in organizing the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics.

And each of these racist attacks was repudiated and called out in history for the backwardness and callousness.

The director of Melania movie

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

It's always sad to see my silly jokes get so much more attention than the things I post that really matter. Please remember people are being horrifically abused in concentration camps - paid for by American tax dollars. It's why MN folks are protecting neighbors www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Would be curious from those who know DOJ history better to know how often historically the AG has personally signed an indictment.

Trump’s America 2026. Masked armed men in body armor arresting journalists in the night. We’re truly going back to the 1930s. My almost 90 y/o mom was right when she moved back to Austria this year: “I grew up under fascism, I don’t need to die under it” 😳

but don't call them Nazis

Weaponizing civil rights law against the very groups it was written to protect is a hallmark of neofascism. It’s meant to punish. And also declare loudly that they are above the law and will interpret it to mean whatever they want. This, in a nutshell, is why policy won’t stop fascism.

If you answer “No” you get an invitation to Mar-a-Lago