but for real i tried to capture what i felt going through these emails (on here & in the document hellscape). how it feels like a last nail in a coffin of some kind in terms of a rot in the heart of the elite. and proof that the truth is dumber than fiction www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I can't even fathom what January will look like, except probably very bad for the Trump regime. Absent a major black swan event, I don't see a path to power consolidation for them at this point. For a number of reasons, not just Epstein. (Thread)

It is high past time for the Democrats to go full-send on a rampaging, ferocious, fire and brimstone anti-corruption push. The people thirst for it.

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

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?

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

hey GOP is THIS impeachable, or nah (we fucking knew they had kompromat in December 2015)

MORE DOCUMENTS obtained by Oversight’s subpoena of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate include communications between Epstein and Steve Bannon, Larry Summers, and others. Take a look: oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Whoopsiedoodle. A #giftlink article.

The real James Bond has been in a cocoon in the East River since 1980. #jamesbond

What’s the difference between compromise and capitulation? Compromise trades concessions. Capitulation pays ransom to stop deliberate suffering, and teaches your opponent that coercion works. There are effective responses to coercive bargaining. What we saw was not one of them.

Essentially nobody on the D side thinks the actions of the 8 "bipartisaners" were anything but wrong, indeed stupid. But now - as the Trump Regime and its captive party are badly stumbling - is not the time to encourage a fracture in the opposition, and a descent into openly warring cohorts. 1/

Haven't updated this deck in over a year, so there are lots of changes - it is now surprisingly landfall themed, and some of the cuter +1/+1 counter themes from Cytoplast Root-Kin and Renegade Krasis have been cut as too cute and ineffective.

Is the shutdown over? Not yet. Last night's vote was only step 1 of 5. There’s still another 60-vote hurdle, amendments, and then the House. Nothing has reopened. Pressure matters right now, especially on: @kaine.senate.gov @rosen.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov @hassan.senate.gov

Put down the phone, monkey, it is naptime.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

I see everyone getting incredibly mad about this but… this is basically what the Dems have been asking for the entire time it’s a bad deal for the Dems! it’s super easy to say yes to! and we are over a month into a shutdown anyway because the response has been “you get nothing, good day sir”

The story I've been wanting to read is about the actual obstacles in Albany to Mayor-elect Mamdani's agenda, what the political dynamics are, and what might be the competition for any revenue increases. Our friends at @nysfocus.bsky.social told that story and we're proud to elevate it.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Love knowing that after yesterday's big wins, the only lesson that Gavin Newsom probably took away from it all was that what he really needs for the 2028 primary is a beard.

A bad moon rises over Brooklyn.

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

get in loser, we’re doing politics by regenerating civil society and its connections with political organizations blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Weird, it's almost like most of the pundits are all hanging out at a white supremacist's social club for angry incels and having their sense of what's "real" wildly distorted.

One way to think about the Mamdani campaign is that 14 years ago Mayor Bloomberg and Gov Cuomo worked to crush Occupy Wall Street - a social movement gesturing at what working class politics might look like in a country with a marginalized & disorganized left. Today, Cuomo and Bloomberg will lose.

I posted this as soon as I woke up because I very much want Dick Cheney Big Naturals to be the way as many people as possible find out that he’s dead

Now that they have finished winning the World Series, the Dodgers should finally release the Epstein Files.

made myself fully emotional last night thinking about how it's his first winter inside 🥺🥺🥺

I may have only had time for fifty words this morning as part of #NaNoWriMo, but those fifty words create a commitment for fifty thousand words more certainly than zero ever did.

All right, let’s do this! Sworn Soldier, book 2: WHAT FEASTS AT NIGHT by @tkingfisher.com

Michael Burry has tweeted for the first time in years, saying: Sometimes, we see bubbles. Sometimes, there is something to do about it. Sometimes, the only winning move is not to play.

Bailey is ready for Halloween! This year, he’s dressed as the person who doesn't cave to big media corporations or the president: Stephen Colbert.

I played the good guy game for a long time. And it's time we stopped showing up to a knife fight with a book report. The only way we fix ALL OF THIS is get enough votes to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Restoration Act which BANS partisan gerrymandering nationwide. There's no other path to that.

I am legally trapped.

Saw a rainbow over the Verrazano Bridge on my way home from work today.

Hope you enjoy #NoCuomo!, a pro- #Zohran "Gaston"/Beauty & the Beast #parody I produced+cowrote for @jfrejnyc.bsky.social! Share to replace hate+disinfo with humor+joy! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got majority of Jewish primary votes. We'll do it again! #LFG #NYC #Mayor #Election2025 #Cuomo #GOTV

Added bonus for everyone who votes in NYC tomorrow: special edition “I voted” sticker

This ain't great, tbh. Not the video, the video is a wonder, but the burst toast smell hanging over democracy...

Forgot today was Wednesday and thus we were watching for this number at 2pm. I expected the economic data was softening and we might see no change; was *worried" that Trump sycophancy might be taking the lead and we'd see a 0.5% cut instead. Trump's lackey had "forecast" 1.25% cuts by year's end.

Another day, another Commander deck update - this one a second draft of my Temur deck, built around Ureni, the Song Unending, with a light Proliferate theme to increase synergy.

A spitfire of truth by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social that all should read. “Poor people can be self-determined. They prove it every day, mostly by surviving while being poor in a country that is mean and nasty and hostile to them.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Been a while since I posted an update to this deck, I figured it's changed enough over the past six months or so to make showing it off again make sense. The entire combo is there in the Command Zone, no infinite mana, just "make Kenrith cheaper to activate."

Trico had the best day EVER. He was being a weirdo in the closet and we didn't stop him, just took a cute picture of him as he tried to climb inside... ...hours later, I noticed he'd gotten the top off the canister of cat treats we hide in the back of this closet and it was quite low on treats.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Ripley says good morning.