What’s crazy if that in this country we now need a judge with balls of steel to have the courage to affirm something as obvious as that. And the guy will probably recieve death threats for doing so.

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

john yoo, the guy who put the "we" in "we tortured some folks"

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

decided to drop her a line myself

When I found out they edited out the Free Palestine comment and not this, it gave up the whole game didn't it

OK but calling punning a "crying sin" is pretty good.

Kash Patel is going to make history as the first FBI director to get medically evacuated from Burning Man

Everyone at National Review is a Giant Fucking Loser Theory remains undefeated

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

Ok, but you do realise that “eating the moldy hot dog” in this scenario is not when you cast the vote, right? Being dissatisfied with the candidates for office is one thing, but choosing not to vote just means you’re letting other people choose what you are going to eat

so there’s this bullet-ridden front door to the illinois black panther HQ in the basement at the dusable museum and i was thrilled to notice it’s on loan from a famous chicagoan—any guesses who?

my opinion about whether democrats should aggressively gerrymander every possible house seat is the same as my opinion about taking a knife away from a guy who has spent the last thirty years stabbing people to death with it

"The Crime of Witness" by Fintan O’Toole in @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social "The videos that expose the administration’s mendacity about its own use of extreme violence against peaceful dissent are themselves products of the courage to show up [and] see for yourself." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

“western civilization” in this construction should be juxtaposed *against* the american tradition.

lol you truncated: "The worst part I raised concerns about needing validation in November and got told I was slowing down innovation."

And towards women who didn't change their names.

That post is still up by the way.

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

"The Post, the Times, Axios, and Politico combined don’t reach 100 million monthly viewers, and that includes people who aren’t paying. Two hundred million was delusional." This post by @parkermolloy.com is loaded. Read it. 1 of 2 www.readtpa.com/p/jeff-bezos...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Lazy artist with repeating shapes

Brown was first to break Epstein story 20 years ago

The wrong Elmo

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

It would if you asked it to write it in the voice of Will Lewis

Keep pushing Norm.

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Imagine how far they were able to toss him

I bring you this from the pen of Dylan Byers at @puck.news so you can see how adult-in-the-room punditry works. When at the last minute Bezos shocked everyone by killing the Post's endorsement of Kamala Harris, signaling a new openness to Trump, and enraging core audiences...that's now a "squable."

I just learned about “ICE fishing”, in which white people put Mexican flags on their cars to draw attention and get stopped by ICE to have a conversation and waste their time. I might get one of those and a Chinga la Migra sticker too…

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

He has no qualms lying under oath. He doesn't want the discovery phase of the lawsuits.

That's Trump. I am just going to assume every redacted name is Donald trump until proven otherwise. If he wants to clear it up, he's welcome to unredact the files.

Roy Cohn's six rules. 3. Trump uses the legal system as a weapon, not a recourse for justice. Lawsuits are instruments of intimidation, not for dispute resolution. He uses it to punish, harass, & to silence. The expense & stress of litigation is the point, not the legal outcome.

I am glad that he changed his mind, but a writer who cannot see fascism coming until it arrives should consider how much he has to offer his readers. It is a sorry weatherman whose main contribution is to describe in detail the rain outside your window.

NYT headlines: When DeSantis went on book-banning educator-harassment campaign in Florida: “DeSantis Takes on the Education Establishment, and Builds His Brand.” when Alabama Republicans defied a Supreme Court ruling: “Alabama Lawmakers Decline to Create New Majority-Black Congressional District.”

What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.

It’s quite deliberate. Sanewashing.

he definitely just showed him the old deal with a new date on it

This is the kid’s review

Chuck Schumer has internalized the idea that Trump represents real America and he doesn't, so he feels the only way he can also get real America to support him is if he shepherds Trump through his own madness. That is an appalling state of affairs for an opposition party.

Would you like to see the media turn on him? He simply needs to acknowledge that taxing the wealthy is a good idea. Other than this, the media (controlled by the wealthy) would never have an issue with this clown.

Similar- Leavitt said again just yesterday that trump reduced drug prices by 500%. Do they not know this makes them look like idiots, or don’t care? No reporter able to ask about this?

Kinda like how he thinks stealth aircraft are literally invisible.

Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.