Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”

Exactly! If Democrats need to focus on affordability, just ... focus on affordability. Don't constantly give lectures about how other people with the exact same job as you need to do it differently.

These people always pitch themselves as savvy Real America Whisperers but constantly talking about how Republicans are right and Democrats are annoying is abysmal electoral strategy. Talk about how minorities aren't a threat, billionaires are!

"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..." Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Through every shutdown in history, the government has still provided economic data to the American people. They aren’t doing it this time because the numbers are fucking terrible.

Hold up

imagine if Joe Biden had an MRI but couldn't explain why

#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1917: Imprisoned suffragists are subjected to brutal beatings, torture and abuse by guards at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia. The event galvanized public support for the women’s suffrage movement and led to the women’s release two weeks later. /1

🚩Republicans, aware they are going to lose, are attempting to cast doubts about the election. They tried to overturn the will of the voters in 2020. They are at it again.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article.... Out of gift articles this month b/cause Trump's corruption is so frequent! Trump is using "OUT OF COURT" CORRUPT LEGAL SETTLEMENTS (FUNDED BY TAXPAYERS) to reward supporters! In 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Trump will direct the DOJ to settle.

Follow the money in disinfo. Facebook, by it’s own reports, collects some 15 billion in ad revenue for products that are scams. This stuff fuels the misinfo economy because it feeds into identity (eg survivalist grift) while gathering the gullible into one place.

When you look at how misinformation is monetized it usually boils down to supplements and other scams. Infowars sold BS vitamin and supplement packages for everything from weight loss to ED. Throw in reverse mortgages and gold scams and you have the largest advertisers for Fox Primetime.

Sounds great. But also hard. Why not attack the financial underpinnings of misinformation vectors by targeting the grift economy? The key moment in unleashing misinfo/disinfo on society was the 1994 passage of DSHEA which allowed people to essentially scam supplements without consequence.

HOLY COW. Basically, as folks note in the comments. Halligan allowed the court reporter to believe they were done for the day but then called the Grand Jury back. There is no judge, etc at these. So very likely she reconvened with no court reporter. I can't see how charges stand if that's true.

I don't think it gets mentioned enough that Bovino is a member of the civil service. He is not a political appointee. Yet he still engages in constant open partisanship while in uniform and with a DHS flag behind him.

2023: "They're taking advantage of a 16-year-old MINOR!! I have a daughter close to that, if you come near her as a 31-year-old man, we're going to have a SERIOUS PROBLEM!!" 2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."

when i think back to the free speech “debates” and campus moral panics of the last ten years i feel incandescently angry all of it was in bad faith and fake! they were lying the whole time! now it’s 100x more oppressive and censorious than it ever was before but we don’t have to question that

In Male Fantasies (1977), Klaus Theweleit read personal letters of Freikorps members to show how the violence at the core of fascist masculinity escalates as their fear of losing control grows. They get more extreme when confronted with potential “feminized” accountability for violent domination.

“The American people should ask themselves just what the president meant when he concluded every issue of Time Pedophiles with the motto ‘Three cheers for molestation, and may every historical era be another wonderful secret!’”

@codyjohnston.bsky.social used the example of "semi-loaded nachos" to describe the issue ("if I'm selling pizza, and those guys are selling fully-loaded nachos, and I want to get the most customers, I should stop selling pizza and sell semi-loaded nachos!")

So we have this whole elaborate story from the mods with this super complicated methodology about who gets backed by what PAC or whatever and it's all just totally tangential to reality or voters winning or anything. It all looks like a big CYA for the Harris strategy. She moved right. She lost.

this is exactly the kind of thing that Kate Manne describes as "himpathy"—the tendency of people to identify with [white] men in positions of power, especially in cases of sexual assault.

Remove the Regime happens 11/20-11/22 in D.C. We know that most of you can't travel to D.C. (and that's okay)! To maximize the impact, we are organizing call-in campaigns on 11/20 while those in D.C. are physically knocking on Congress's doors, and again on 11/24 to keep the pressure on.

Being a Republican definitionally means being cool with child rape

JFC

Literally the perfect metaphor.

I want to repost this in the sky, humongous.

Just one example of the thinking we'd like to see change. These ads got around $4M each in AZ and OH. Party brands are open source. Everyone gets a say. But it's possible the image of the party might improve if we stop spending millions of dollars each cycle telling voters how wrong we are.

You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters

By the way! The basic point I make here is made in much more depth, with more quantitative rigor, in this Way to Win post. (Way to Win quite obviously has the best of this argument & yet they have trouble getting any attention or traction among MSM outlets. Odd, that. Quite odd. The oddest. Hmmm.)

Priorities.

Look, I know it *sounds* like Dr. Duchesne is just a crazy racist. But akshually, he's a crazy racist anti-human mad scientist! I checked out his twitter. He looks forward to AI fusing w/ humanoids to make homo sapiens--and race--irrelevant before the new robot ubermenschen.

What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation

It reminds me of this quote from the person who called every single person in Maxwell’s black book: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Certainly looks like Epstein was working with the Russians to influence (read: blackmail / influence / coax) Trump to do Moscow’s bidding.

Oh well I rest assured thenn

Driving in traffic is a dull and unpleasant chore and the only way Americans can escape having to do it all the time is by moving to one of three very expensive cities. This is bad and we should fix it.

I know it's always been the same fucking guys but it's ALL THE SAME FUCKING GUYS

Adding this to point out that the NYT is now on the record saying "editors *discovered* his failure to abide by our ethical standards" (emphasis mine) This strongly suggests a termination for cause, which typically involves an internal investigation. So, what else did his editors "discover"?

This is disgusting. Why do the old white men get off on torturing women?

68%!

It’s wild how many of the ICE/CBP detentions are turning out to be illegal — and yet in the US system, there are no consequences for the agents and no recourse for the victims.

James Baldwin: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."

The whole war on “woke” and “cancel culture” was contrived to protect the worst people in our society and make it possible for them to keep doing despicable things to other people.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle. Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger. Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.

Ah yes, the soft rollout of the, ‘Well, she was 15 when Trump allegedly raped her, so was she really a “child?”’ defense. Also, the answer is yes. Yes, she was. Also, rape is rape so …

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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret