You do not need to give even a moment's attention to Olivia Nuzzi

it turns out the Avelo ICE Air deportation flights are plagued with severe safety violations. excellent reporting from @gbrockell.bsky.social prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...

Which leaders of academic medicine are in the Epstein files?

"Health services are fine, and what you talk about is good,’ said one participant at a [Mound Bayou] organizational meeting. ;But for the love of God, can you share some food?’” --from OUT IN THE RURAL, by John Dittmer

stupid question from me -- I haven't read the abundance book and I'm not gonna, but do the authors address the fact that there is already a *great deal* of abundance, abundant billionaires (and even a trillionaire)? or is this abundance supposedly not accessible?

I miss it. Even though Twitter is (and was!) a cesspool. Nevertheless, I haven't been back.

the Forms are imperfect shadows of material reality. the highest mathematics is in truth the messy, approximate, finitary, constructive; the "purest" and most abstract math is the most fallen. HOWEVER working on abstract nonsense w/ no real applications is morally preferable in an evil society

"They tried to shut me up by deporting me." www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...

I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices

#inclinic "Yes, I know a lot of people who were taken. Someone just next door. A man of 80. They didn't let him take his medications along with him. So many people."

That’s how Mad Oreo Disease starts.

This screams “HEY EVERYONE! Get excited for eating the gunk and dust we scooped off the gears of the machinery!”

Metaoreos

Oreoboros

monolingualism sucks, English is overrated

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Priorities.

I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

"VFib flareup"!?

important update from the epstein files

I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc

hide in the library and read poetry be a nerd the rest of the time, have like 2-3 friends don't go to parties [worked for me!]

Don’t think this will work, Sam

NEW: The prosecutions of James Comey and Letitia James could be in jeopardy after a federal judge expressed significant doubt that President Trump's handpicked prosecutor was legitimately appointed. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

live laugh lurk in the shadows

Micha Brumlik ist gestorben ist. Das ist ein großer Verlust. www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...

Not recognizing assumptions, deficiencies in the data, and confounders is just bad statistics.

The thing about the "moderate to win" crowd is that they pose as Data Guys but very clearly have an animus toward the left that skews their analysis. When Trump won, they were all pathetically eager to say, "ah, the country is anti-immigrants xenophobes now, top to bottom, what can you do?"

Well, he's certainly stayed consistent on that point!

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.

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Donald Trump murdering Jeffrey Epstein to cover up his sex crimes, both candidates went to great lengths to hide their most dangerous secrets.

The succession is safe. I will not be implicated in the president’s pedophilia scandal because I am only interested in couches. by JD Vance

Donald Trump’s sex crimes raise new questions about Zohran Mamdani’s approach to law enforcement.

#inclinic "luchando. una batalla. nos estan persiguiendo. no es igual."

What’s it called when you’re a people pleaser, but you also hate people? I’m that.

Being right is so easy. It’s the everybody else being preachy about being right when they’re very wrong that is what makes me have to be most Christ-like, quotidianly

We've shared the stories. We've been sharing the stories for 19+ years. No one with the authority to do anything gives a shit. There's no accountability. There's no resolution. We have to live with this every day. And live with the risk that it can (and probably will) happen again.

QAnon: The powerful pedophiles have invented elaborate codes to secretly discuss their crimes that require decades of interpretation Actual powerful pedophile: Hey Jeff hope this email find you well last week was great so when we meeting up to do pedophilia again

Amazing how many criminals get together and decide the first order of business is emailing each other about the crimes every three minutes

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

3300 people. the federal government has disappeared over 20 people a day for almost half a year

Just by sheer chance we are always exactly one vote short of doing good stuff, and one vote over the line to do bad stuff.

As horrible as it is that Trump will live out his years without being held to account at all, it does help in depersonalizing our greatest political challenges. Even if the leader *isn't* an evil POS, people *still* shouldn't be kidnapped, tortured, murdered, starved, lied to, and deported.

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

I feel like “mad at Merrick Garland” is going to hit a whole new level.

As the Worm Turns: New Developments in Consensus Fabrication Remember when asking for (let alone demanding) a ceasefire was ipso facto antisemitic? Now it turns out that the left, supposedly, *didn't want* a ceasefire. I have seen this claim under the byline of multiple popular liberal posters.

ladies and gentlemen, we do not gottem

unfortunate that the democrats probably think the epstein spectacle is more damaging to trump than letting the material shutdown ride because their wonk-pilled cable-news-fermented brains have been triple truman show’d into a melodramatic dc politics hyperreality fantasia

“this is definitely the thing that will bring him down” wtf have you been asleep for the past decade

the president admitted to sexual assault on camera and it didn't matter