Ben Black is Leon Black's son and is the current head of the US International Development Finance Corporation. H/t @horadam.bsky.social

Incredible the number of people who have adopted fascism as a political preference ostensibly in the mame of protecting children who are very enthusiastic about this.

The press, in its undying commitment to let Donald Trump destroy the republic, have made it a 3 day story.

A group of pediatricians wrote an op-ed detailing the traumatic, lasting effects kids in detention centers will endure: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

seeing this shit while donald trump is president is enough to melt my brain

They do not want AOC to win and see this as an opportunity to knife her

Is there one of these guys who isn't outwardly morally defective in every way?

You kidnap each one of them and bring them back to Minnesota.

A very detailed explanation of how FBI bamboozled a magistrate into authorizing a raid on Fulton County’s election offices by omitting critical information that would have totally undermined any probable cause claim. Pretty clear-cut case of calculated deception of the courts.

It's absolutely obscene how many leftists argued that libs would be the fastest to rehabilitate Trump yet we're in the middle of Trump 2.0 and they're making the case for how Trump 1.0 wasn't all that bad

Choosing to believe AOC is reading my posts like a child believes Santa reads their letters

RFK is on so much gear

A yellow what now

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

AOC/Manchin.

"Do you want the Epstein class to take To Kill a Mockingbird out of 8th grade because Scout is a tomboy?"

"Do you want the Epstein class deciding if your child looks enough like a girl to use the girl's room?"

Someone conduct a poll that asks "should the government inspect the genitals of children as they enter a public restroom" and use 85/15 "no" response rate to conclude that the public strongly supports trans rights.

funny that these people understand the importance of salience when it is an issue like immigration — "don't talk about it you don't want to raise the salience!" — but forget the word when it involves the rights of minorities. almost as if they are laundering their own views and prejudices as "data"

This is the sort of juicy story of government suppressing speech that Bari Weiss loves to cover! [No mention in CBS News or The Free Press]

His alleged mistress left her precious heated blanket on the other plane, so Corey Lewandowski demanded the pilot turn the plane around to go get it. When he refused, Lewandowski -- who has zero authority to fire anyone at any time -- tried to fire the pilot IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLIGHT.

This is directly related to the ability of the fascist state to actually wield & hold power & I really wish we talked about it more consistently in those terms. The actual implementation of fascist futures is what’s at stake here.

Republicans like Randy Fine want to make it a requirement that you diddle kids.

NYT: "Trump totally exonerated."

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

It's the most important issue with the greatest long-term effects facing the US: how many people from the Trump era, inside and outside the administration, are going to prison?

The main appeal of a President AOC to me is that she would not hesitate to have everyone prosecuted who needs to be. I am iffy on the others even Kelly.

I'm sorry but the idea that any Democrat, Gavin Newsom included, would conduct Operation Metro Surge is completely deranged. It feels like you're trying to gaslight us or something.

The response from democrats has to be making them pay.

My feeling on the NYT AOC quote is that the next dem should bankrupt the institution unless it becomes a liberal, partisan rag.

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines

They've never quoted Trump verbatim lol

This is also a wildly funny metric because no one who says this would deny the coalition realignment since the 1960s. Like, it didn't stop in the 1990s.

I’m proud of our common inheritance of ordered liberty and our heritage of killing Nazis when necessary.

/2 Anyway, this is what the Smoking Gun was reporting TWENTY YEARS AGO in 2006. It was horrifying then and it’s still horrifying and it unequivocally shows child abuse. www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...

i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.

I agree with Jake's sentiment here, but there's an even easier target for her if she wants to explain where Trump came from and it's the press and social media. It also has the benefit of being true.

I’m going diverge from this a little bit because there’s a small critique I want to make that has big policy implications - Americans weren’t traumatized by death, and I understand why we interpret it as death, they’re traumatized by a year+ interruption to their normal lives.

Ugh, I still love her but this is not what happened.

Somehow Musk was in the Epstein files talking about attending wild parties at the island, and is now still head of his companies and posting on Twitter that people investigate the Epstein files and that white people are the superior race.

Gives the game away to redefine "American culture" as "English-Scotts-Irish." There was never any point where that was the American culture; it exists solely as a mythical past invented by white nationalists to justify their actions. Heck, if you asked the Founders, they'd say, "you mean British?"

I'm pretty sure the redactions were legally supposed to protect victims, not the head of Medicare.

Not a novel observation to note that these traitors hate America. I hope democratic rhetoric recognizes it more going forward.

Ted Bundy, the serial killer did stuff like this. This is profound sociopathy.

Standard Republican

Trump met most of his cabinet members at one of Epstein‘s orgies apparently.

another guy who never protested before radicalized to the point of tears by watching masked ICE agents terrify children in his neighborhood the Republicans are not ready or mentally capable of comprehending the backlash they have generated