In 2018/9 my friend had a falling out with a mentor because he requested she go some event where all the academics and scientists who got money from Jeffrey Epstein showed off their work and at which he would be present. She was not willing to be in a room with him, others thought this was silly

America has invented something truly unique in the context of the modern state: civil service as a precarious job. The Shutdown Is Over. But for Federal Workers, the Anxiety Persists. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Will the center for american progress quietly jettison larry summers or not

this didn’t get nearly enough attention yesterday. senators surrendered to protect the filibuster

We already know conclusively that abusing adult women doesn’t violate our norms. We are well on our way to demonstrating just as conclusively that sexually abusing girls doesn’t violate our norms, either.

Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.

Defending a man against multiple credible sexual harassment accusations does not protect you from also being sexually harassed by him, I'm sorry to say www.yahoo.com/news/article...

this gets reposted a lot, but truth be told trump has never really wriggled out of anything. what actually happens is that other people passively or actively support him

Not sure who won the shutdown but certainly the American people lost and continue to lose. We need national affordable healthcare (like VA healthcare for all)

A reminder that stupid, delusional, sad people are in fact quite dangerous

Also most voters have just never thought remotely seriously about policy. “Should we get rid of illegal immigrants? Well, of course; they’re illegal!” There’s nothing deeper than that going on until they start seeing what that actually entails.

Re Landon Thomas, one has to wonder how many *current* NYT reporters are doing stuff like this. This is really bad.

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The emails actually reveal him crossing the line for *years*. The 30 grand donation was just when he got caught.

How do I get to the parallel universe where these emails were released 10 years ago? Because I bet they're having a lot more fun than we are.

House Dems on oversight releasing these emails and controlling the narrative is the kind of shit republicans always do but they have to make shit up and mischaracterize their source material. The House Dems have proven my thesis that this can be done effectively without lying. Well done.

Shines bright, red, horizontal spread— checks out

If these are the marching orders the admin's given their media influencers, the facts must be real bad.

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

Moderna is working on an mRNA vaccine to prevent EBV. But since RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer who has decided on mRNA vaccines as a focus of his rampant disinformation efforts, it is likely that Americans won’t be able to access this vaccine for a very long time, even if effective.

One disgusting thing in all of this is we’re waiting to see if there is some evidence that’s so vile & incontrovertible even Republicans won’t be willing or able to sweep it under the rug. He’s already been proven to be a rapist, but that’s clearly not enough for them to do their jobs & stop him.

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.

I don’t know at this point if there is enough evident to say “the New York Times, institutionally, was a co-conspirator with Epstein” but it’s basically beyond doubt at this point that at least one employee of the paper were co-conspirators and used their position at the paper to help affect that

Does rich people include Andrew Ross Sorkin? Cause he owns a $4 million dollar apartment

If you are also a scientist, sure. If you aren't, like these guys, you should probably shut the fuck up and let the people whose opinions matter talk.

Maybe I’m being overly suspicious, but do you think “the fix is in” and there are Heritage Foundation/Project 2025-approved candidates already lined up to fill these positions? HF/P2025 made no secret of their plan to recruit & vet MAGA lawyers to stock the mid-level ranks at many federal agencies.

the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), Fogarty International Center (FIC), and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Applications for NIMH are due by Friday. The remaining 5 (NIGMS, NICHD, NICDR, NHGRI, and NLM are due by 11/21 2/3

I’ve been watching the fallout at the other place today and it’s not the Epstein emails that are breaking them, it’s him telling Ingram there weren’t enough talented Americans so we need HB1 visas. THAT was their final straw. Their racist xenophobia trumps all, apparently.

Rep. Thomas Massie says the House parliamentarian has assured him that the signatures on the Epstein discharge petition are locked in and cannot be removed. The petition has to “ripen“ for 7 days of Congress being in session. Then a vote, unless Trump & Johnson have a new trick.

Ok, frustrated sarcasm out of my system: there’s a deeper depressing point here. NYC crime is hitting historic lows. By the NYPD’s metrics, it’s likely never been safer. But our coverage of crime is so appalling that the richest safest ppl in the city are losing it over free buses.

No kidding. Feeling pretty resentful about all the time and care I put into every professional email to write clearly and articulately only to see how illiterate and crass the so-called "betters" are.

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill

Again, maybe what the takeaway we should have from political reporter after political reporter not just getting chummy w ppl like Trump or Epstein (or RFK Jr 👀) but actively running interference for them—either in their coverage or privately—is that its an industry full of ppl that are Bad Actually™️

One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.

All I can think is were Democratic oppo researchers catatonic for the last 10 years?

catch and kill

Really not sure this is the best time to be traveling around the country for the Adjudicated Rapist. www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/p...

All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism

lol there’s a guy sitting outside the senate with a sign that says “Trump never gets Wordle”

can't overemphasize how cynical this is. he could have switched his vote anytime over the past months and made an actual difference; instead he waited till the exact moment he became irrelevant.

yes, let's do that

I had the opportunity to review the work experience and skills of numerous people who were laid off or fired from public health jobs by Donald Trump. I want every taxpayer to know that the US has lost an immeasurable number of the smartest, most experienced, and hardworking people on the planet.

🚨 Doesn't get much clearer than this: "Republicans are running a pedophile protection program." -Leader Jeffries And there you have it. #StopJohnsonsEpsteinCoverup

As I've said, we're in a federally mandated relationship with the worst person you know. That's fucked up.

Links 11/12/25 Links for you. Science: The lobsters are moving north Here's what happens to your body when clocks 'fall back' an hour Serious mental illness tied to increased risk of long COVID Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities…

Email is from 2015. Why did Landon Thomas not spill his guts TEN YEARS AGO about what he knew about Trump & Epstein? Oh. He was busy trying to get $$ from Epstein. (Let the filthy, opportunistic enablers burn, too.) www.businessinsider.com/new-york-tim...

Holding all pedophilia & trafficking horrors temporarily in abeyance— what always scandalizes me the most is finding out that the rich& powerful are functional illiterates with no grasp of spelling, punctuation or grammar. Like, it GENUINELY offends me. Mark Cuban's posts are C- student posts, too

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 hope (for me anyway)–and it's just hope–is that the people who could stop him will finally be *shamed* into stopping him. Hasn't worked so far though.