From the week before the inauguration.

Big tech was never a good neighbor.

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...

Abusers don’t compartmentalize that shit, they simply cannot be trusted

Kind of mad none of the people who raised me taught me this, it was always, “so and so is a sex pest but he’s a brilliant xxx.” I know now that abusers will always put themselves first, serve themselves first, and whatever thing they’re amazing at suffers as soon as there’s a conflict of interest.

My experience age 19 to 25 was before every professional biology conference or atheist/skeptic convention, people would warn me who not to be alone with because they would do bad things to young women The Venn diagram of people mentioned in the Epstein emails is nearly a circle Like, fucking duh

And I'm one of them! If you are outside the US and need a planetary scientist, please let me know!!

the point of camo for a soldier is to obscure their position from the enemy. camo in an urban environment is completely different, and this forest green or desert pattern is functionally useless. police only dress this way to project an image of power they should not have.

Today, Oklahoma is set to execute Tremane Wood even though a state panel recommended his life is spared

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

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It is never too late to disavow the terrible people in your field of endeavor that you had been defending. First rule of holes: put down the shovel.

The entire online cosmology community has literally watched in public for years as these elder statesmen of the field bullied me in public because I dared to say white supremacy and misogyny are harmful to people and the science we do ⚛️

"What Would Feynman Do?" is a fucking terrible ethical maxim. Feynman was a repulsive misogynist and a creep. Which seems to be very much what I'd expect from Krauss.

At what point does the New York Times get charged as organizationally conspiring to abet human trafficking of minors.

Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife. He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness

Release the documents because the victims have been demanding this for years. That should really be the bottom line here. RELEASE ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS (including photos and videos)

New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.

Seriously, this is just… The "ID"/facial recognition technology that this is based on has such a massive history of error and general bullshit as to be fundamentally no different from phrenology, and to the same ends and purposes. Claiming that it is in anyway "definitive" is just… so deeply wrong.

🙃trump's alleged 1994 rape of 13yr old Katie Johnson has no statute of limitations: N.Y. Penal Law § 130.75.

Meanwhile the NYT defamed me because … checks notes … I didn’t think the guy who backed psychological warfare and ran NASA while it purged LGBTQ people shouldn’t have a telescope named after him at the behest of a guy who has had it out for me because of an argument about Robert’s Rules 🤡

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

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"

This exact same reporter was ousted from the NY Times for soliciting a $30,000 donation from Epstein— and you're telling me that as an employer, the NY Times never bothered to circle back and review this person's correspondence with a convicted pedophile?

PUT AWAY YOUR WAR SCYTHE, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DEHYDRATION. AND YOU WILL WIN.

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?

I wonder how much they're all just lying to each other about who they know, how close they are, everything, like 14yos stalking about their girlfriend in Canada.

Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?

You can really see why this class of rich guy is so hopped up on AI and thinks we all desperately want it to write our emails.

Honestly I think there’s a non-zero number of “too powerful to fail” folks being shielded bc people on both sides got themselves into a kompromat sitch.

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

One of my earliest moments of radicalization was in 2005 when Larry Summers said that women biologically have less aptitude for science than men. Following that, scores of equally unimpressive people wrote pieces trying to explain or justify his remarks, when they should have called for his removal.

The thing about my Daily Beast tenure I'm proudest of? How we stayed on the Epstein story for years, when all of the uptown elites were rolling their eyes and telling us to go away.

What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday? What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators? Can we make this a thing?

Work out how to develop & act upon meaningful solidarity with other people or make your peace with suffering alone.

I'm seeing a few posts alleging that reporters knew about some of the new info in the most recent release of Epstein docs and conspired wittingly or otherwise to cover up the story. what's the basis for this and what are the chances that this aspect of things is going to be reported out?

I am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public

Do I think the Pope looks cool here? I do. Do I think it would be cooler if he stood up for our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings and smacked around the American Bishops who voted to deny trans care in Catholic hospitals today? Yeah. I do. WAY fucking cooler.

All the horrible men are horrible, it turns out.

along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president

so basically what happened was: ICE / CBP abducted ~1800 people from across the chicago area during june to oct, & did most of it without warrants. of those ~1800 people, only ~750 are still in the us & ~135 aren't eligible for release. the injustice of everything these people will never get back.

If so many elites weren't utterly derelict, cowardly, self-serving enablers and had some fucking ethics, the White House would probably still have its East Wing. Instead, we have a massive, unmissable wound where arrogance, entitlement, corruption, and misogyny have literally riven the White House.

I study tech’s capture of government data, and this is a new low even for me.

Carissa do you know the author? I don’t, but I find it very odd that this is written in a way that seems to borrow from the published ideas of everyone in our field without mentioning/citing any of us, or anyone at all?

It's clear D.C. police work with ICE. Because it's the seat of govt, MPD necessarily has relationships with every federal agency. The District has obfuscated the details about the relationship with ICE. This video + the testimony of police commanders underline that this is an active partnership.

This is an amazing fundraiser. It's direct help to people who need it, and it exists because of the generosity of people on social media. This one, I believe in so much that the more of you who give, the more I'll give. Seriously.

All means all. #ACAB

MPD works with ICE. This is a well-known fact in DC, despite anything that Mayor Bowser might claim. *ICE/Feds have been spotted riding along with MPD * ICE/Feds share a radio channel with MPD * MPD will sometimes escort ICE/Fed convoys through the city They work together.