Ground Branch.

Mighty interesting that these legacy media outlets want to act as apologist for a disgraced and deceased child predator. Whatever could that be about? Whomever could they be running interference for?

I'm trying hard not to go tin foil on this but let me ask, what is the regular tax paying voting American citizen *supposed* to make of the Epstein files if not that there was a child sex trafficking network w/ intel agency connections catering to elites that operated with tacit government approval?

Why did the American audience apparently hear different audio of JD Vance's appearance at the Olympics than the audio heard by the rest of the world? NBC denies muting. But it's part of overall disturbing developments in the US corporate media world.

What kind of #yakuza betrays his own gang, escapes to Cambodia, and tries to revive dog fighting as a sport in Japan? This guy. The most ruthless, and maybe the smartest yakuza boss in post-war Japan. Maybe he’s finally dead. His victims hope so. tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/the-high-p...

X is a health threat for anyone who uses it and I'm not sure there's any safe level of exposure. It's like mercury or lead, but faster acting. Bill Ackman, for example, shows us what X toxicity does to humans at a high level. It has completely liquified his brain and hollowed out his skull.

Nothing untoward here...

Tonight we have an interview with a Task Force Orange/ISA/Titan Zeus/etc tactical SIGINT dude. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Hq...

God LinkedIn is depressing.

Twenty years of post-9/11 wars broke society's idea of positive masculinity and made American men believe being an "operator" was the only viable signifier of manhood. The problem was that most men weren't willing or able to do that job. But the need to prove masculinity remained. So we get this.

scream.

this is how the British press talked about Mussolini lol

Jesus Christ.

The privatization of public funds, right before your eyes. It's like watching the Spanish Royal Family in action a century ago.

If anything on this is even remotely accurate, than all I can say is put me in the game coach. Scorch the earth.

TBH, Fair Harvard’s been grifting the USG with worthless, $35k, “Certificates in Strategic Awareness” handed out to barely literate GS-14s for a quarter century. Directionally correct even if he’s a drunken bigot.

When you look up your troll and realize you got got because it's a 66 year old chiropractor in Waterbury. Two guys who used to troll me on Twitter took their own lives. Made me realize I should not be communicating with these people at all.

It's clear they are slow rolling these emails to try to contain the damage. Even the press seems to be trying to keep everyone calm to maintain the status quo. If people really understood what was happening here the country would tear itself apart.

Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

with the Washington Post being gutted, the NYT is now effectively America's only paper of record. Which is bad because this is how they act

Reviewing video from Fulton County elections raid. Taken aback by the dismissive & sneering attitude from FBI agents toward the cop politely asking to see the warrant. Looked him up: He's an immigrant w/ a doctorate in philosophy. His thesis? "Force by police officers toward African Americans."

While some have argued that Trump's threat to rig the 2026 election is unrealistic and overblown, there's a 100% chance he's going to try. We're way too nonchalant about that.

it is a testament to how fucked up this milieu is that the following sentence is just a minor part of the story, mentioned once as an aside

On social media & in videos, people bleep out words like sexual assault, rape, etc because they rightly or wrongly think their content would get taken down for saying it. I'd like to see some academics break down why we pretend we are not saying words, but say them, and think there is meaning there.

Adam Curtis voice: ...but what if the elites were dumb?

👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it. What? x.com/sethharpesq/...

Going to be interesting when this stuff goes to trial and the government tries to argue that no ICE agent wakes up in the morning plotting to kill someone.

How this isn't front page news in America I can only attribute to collusion.

Which way western man? Ioan Culianu had some interesting theories about imagination and social change, and how it takes place as ideas settle in the human mind slowly and then dramatic change happens suddenly and surprisingly. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioan_Pe...

Proud of how this one turned out. You can pre-order the book today.

“To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn’t care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet.” ― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

"This is how men behave." Every single MAGA pedophile thinks he's completely normal

I figured Israel was somewhere in the mix, but now that we're seeing how involved he was with Russia...yeah, I think he was just running a pay to play blackmail operation for whoever footed the bill.

The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

The thing about the legacy media, and even the internet itself, is that it is going to get to the point with propaganda, disinformation, and AI slop that no one pays attention to it anymore. It's like Reader's Digest or something. It's there but its vestigial of something that no longer exists.

I watched The Killing last night for the first time. Kubrick being a genius captured something. Watching this movie so closely replicates the experience of reading a noir novel it's amazing. youtu.be/c0Odg-GY40w?...

A cute new twist—incorporating the ever-growing cultural influence of “Sicario”!—on “I’m so mad that the media isn’t covering this thing [that I learned about from the extensive media coverage]”

They've also fundamentally misunderstood what political power is, how to attain it, and how to use it. They talk a good talk, but then wait for someone to give them permission.

Sacking The Washington Post probably has Bezos high-fiving his yachted authoritarian friends, all thinking they’re noble Centurions putting a knife into some loudmouth Senator under cover of darkness and saving Rome in the process. They fail to appreciate that they actually wrecked an aqueduct.

> @governor.ny.gov

pivoting my newsroom to appeal to a group that not only does not read the news but has spent the last five decades becoming inurred to the idea that they are an enemy to the people that must be eradicated

Fiction is more real than the real. We have to go to the fiction just to know what is real, so we can imitate it.

I feel like we are in the middle of the biggest scandal in American history and the only reason why people aren't setting cars on fire in the streets is because this is so big it is hard to digest.

Current vibe

“The Polish government has formed a special task force to examine links between Poland and the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal in the United States, as well as a potential connection to Russia’s KGB.” Excuse me while I pack for Poland.

Resign now, because I'm really uninterested in watching all these people go on a rehabilitation tour after the smoke clears in a few years. We're gonna get Netflix specials with ICE agents whining about PTSD and shit.

Read the emails. Attia is a shameless piece of shit. He was way more involved in Epstein's activities than you would think based on his white washed account.

Nationalize his assets.