Or won't, because they know it HAS to be obvious and over the top for the Mad King to even notice

tonight the government killed a story on cbs about the slave labor camp in a foreign country theyre illegally sending people to

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

Bari only pulled this program after the promos started airing, which means she probably got a phone call. So she's not just bad at her ostensible job of running CBS news, but she's also bad at her *actual* job of running interference for the Trump admin

People are responding to this like "well yeah the elites didn't actually care about Epstein, they just wanted the girls" And that was what I had always assumed, until those emails dropped. Many of his elite hanger-ons seem to actively respected his opinion, it was so strangely revealing.

Okay but plot twist, what if that guy is actually a car

He answers to Latinx Joe and Eileen Bailey

I love this for him

It's such a tell on all these people that they saw Epstein as the perfect embodiment of urbane decadence. He couldn't spell, he had little sex competitions with gutter misogynists, his interior design sense was awful, there is no evidence whatsoever that he was smart or funny

Never cared for boxing much before but I'm beginning to develop a taste for the sport

Finish him

There are people being paid by the federal government to sit around and think of increasingly outrageous posts to titillate Nazis on the 9th most popular social media site in the U.S.

Reflecting on winter solstice themes is a strange jaunt this year because we are in such a cold political winter right now. Not a time with a whole lot of flowers or sunshine or harvest to be had

Have to say that the Happy Hanukkah video from a Muslim mayor and a Jewish family has filled me with more genuine Christmas spirit than whatever deportation porn the ostensibly Christian people in power are doing at the moment

This is the sweetest thing and I hope they keep hanging out periodically

They are so bad at this

Got a really lovely handmade wood shelf off Marketplace but it definitely has been marinating in cigarette smoke for the better part of a century. Will this thing ever stop off-gassing or is this just how my hallway smells now

Wish me luck, I'm trying out Muppet Christmas Carol on the four year old

Now

IMO, One of The Lessons of this era has been: "If it's Too Centralized, It's too Easy for Bad Actors to Take Over". Decentralized systems are less efficient, but more robust (and harder to take over). 18th cent Federalism probably saved us on Jan 6th, tbh. We need MORE of it. Not less.

Thinking about that TNR Cassandra piece, as someone who was regularly mocked for my "alarmism" predicting coup/insurrection attempts in 2019 and 2020. It's a weird place to be, reflecting on sounding the fire alarm and watching the fire rage. Now we have to help people find the way forward.

It's darkly ironic that the "anti-globalists" have undeniably proved the value of globalized public health institutions (namely WHO) by rendering our national public health institutions wholly untrustworthy

In all seriousness it's interesting to see the implicit message behind certain Bicentennial era cookbook and interior design trends made explicit

Heritage American sounds like what you would call your grandparents if you were trying to sell them on Facebook Marketplace for a jacked up price

My paternal grandmother spent a long time making sure all our genealogy papers were set so I could join DAR and I am starting to think it would be very interesting for some of us to take these orgs over locally and use them to talk about the crimes of our ancestors

It's your birthday, Duane.

Oh man remember Brussels sprouts back then? Sad stuff

NPR really benefits from this, I am always endlessly mad at them but it's still less of a mental load than selecting my own background content

My nephew is 25 and is a functional, successful young man. He has multiple spinal fractures requiring implanted hardware and fusion. He can walk fine for short distances, he even lifts weights, but long airport distances cause severe pain. He still does it bc he doesn’t want these optics. Fuck this

Had to do some background research to figure out who the beaten asshole was. Do not regret it

It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.

Ma’am, women have been poisoning their husbands for centuries. Millennia. Until we have thoroughly deconstructed the cisheteropatriarchy, your job is to keep your mouth shut while your elders do the work of their ancestors.

See if the cat cosplay person who films their TikToks on OUR playground dressed like this and also gave the kids a turn on the swing sometimes, I wouldn't be as mad

Everything that they censored in the Epstein files is probably stuff that makes them look really good, and they are trying to stay humble

it rules watching right wing influencers realize, in real time, that they're losing the war on pedophilia while on the side of the pedophiles

I just don’t think this is going away people are going to play amateur sleuth with the redactions, people are going to invent brand new conspiracy theories, people are going to rightfully complain that they aren’t releasing everything there’s no out here

I keep saying: This country/dominant culture hates children. Absolutely hates them. Regards them as property far more than (vulnerable, in need of guidance and conscientious, respectful protection) full human beings

Honestly, it’s the perfect role for a VP. They’re usually the more partisan one and they usually need something to do. Imagine the joy of Tim Walz in a hard hat, behind the wheel of a wrecking ball

This studio awards-season email is really matching the current mood in a way I’m not sure they intended.

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

Can’t stop thinking about this. The Trump administration is essentially extorting hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care—without Medicare or Medicaid they’d go bankrupt. It’s akin to a backdoor ban even for people with private insurance, a proposal that wouldn’t pass Congress.

*taps sign* Any individual member of the House can force a vote on impeachments and anything impeachment-related.

Trying to club my seasonal affective disorder to death with Christmas decorations but it keeps poking its head through the sea of candy canes like some mood Krampus

In ways both big (blowing off the law to release ALL Epstein files today) and small (putting Trump's name on the Kennedy Center), today has a total "who's gonna stop me" vibe from the regime Maybe stop him?

Attacks on feminism are similar to attacks on vaccines. We begin to take for granted a world where women have rights and most children live to see adulthood, and then, over time, we begin to forget, neglect, and (now) reject the movements and innovations that brought us here.

Which so many trans people said was exactly what was going to happen

You know a thing that is very bad about this? This is the anti-trans playbook being played against women. Start with 'has the x movement failed the people it's supposed to help', then infantilize them, then make the case they can't be responsible for their own choices, then take their rights away

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

8 years later we still haven't forgotten your racist asses. There's no expiration date.

From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...