/18 Hillary Clinton: "If this Committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein’s trafficking crimes, it would not rely on press gaggles to get answers from our current president on his involvement; it would ask him directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up […]

Linda Greenhouse on Chief Justice Roberts salty paragraph

BREAKING: NPR is reporting that DOJ withheld files that contained information about allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor. “More than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor” are being […]

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Can we all just agree that when somebody who wrote a third person bio for themselves on LinkedIn wants to connect, we write a third person explanation about our reasons for refusing the request?

I KNOW somebody in this community can win this money. “Fulu’s latest bounty is for Ring’s video doorbell cameras, meant to encourage hackers and tinkerers to disable software features that require the devices to send data to Amazon. The reward is a potential payout of $10,000 or more.” […]

Can we all just agree that when somebody who wrote a third person bio for themselves on LinkedIn wants to connect, we write a third person explanation about our reasons for refusing the request?

What a real democracy does to a president who leads a seditious insurrection. https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/asia/south-korea-yoon-suk-yeol-verdict-insurrection-intl-hnk

"What they don’t often tell you is how fun the resistance can be: the marches joyous and laced with adrenalized anger, people cheering the brass band that thumps its way down the block, chanting and pumping fists, belting out a ubiquitous profane call and response about ICE." […]

Reminder that the FBI Director got--and I believe still GETS--$$$ from Shein.

The New School was once a haven for academics fleeing fascism. While the Ivies and conservative schools got much of the media attention last year for caving to/ collaborating with Trump, the New School flew under the radar. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

There are still THREE MILLION DOCUMENTS in the Epstein Files that have not been released. #epstein #epsteintrumppedofiles #thetrumpepsteinfiles

It's somehow funny that people still believe it's immigrants who are dangerous and not billionaires. everyonehateselon_: Jim Ratcliffe blames immigrants so you don’t blame tax dodging billionaires like him. Don’t believe the lies.

Fucking love this guy.

ICE Is Crashing the US Court System in Minnesota https://www.wired.com/story/ice-crashing-us-court-system-minnesota/ Articles without Paywall: https://archive.fo/LZE64 #security #securitynationalsecurity #securitysecuritynews #politicspolicy […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be? […]

Everybody should have a big party on their 1000 week birthday when they are 19. A 2000 week birthday when they are 38. A 3000 week birthday when they are 57. And a 4000 week birthday when they are 76. Let's make that a thing; weeks are under celebrated increments of time.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

The Kennedy Center is an important national cultural resource, and I hate to see it being degraded like this, but, I have to say, whoever focused Trump's attention on it instead of more broadly consequential things has done the nation a great service.

New progressive US politician, who knows how to do comms - amusing and worth a watch:

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What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are? Surely the FCC won't rubber-stamp-approve this one??... ONE MILLION STARLINKS FUUUUCCCKKKKKK […]

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how […]

"I think the majority of Americans (including left-wing voters) have not fully grasped the fact that our standing in the world will not recover in our lifetimes. Even if we elected two full-term Democrats in a row, it wouldn't change the perception of the rest of the world. Because the rest of […]

Jim Jordan cuts off Jack Smith when he describes that they paid someone to analyze video evidence to show that people came directly from the Ellipse to attack the Capitol. Hope to hell some Dem follows up. [They can show it with Danny Rodriguez, who almost killed Michael Fanone.]

"China pitches itself as reliable partner amid Trump threats." Its Vice Premier said: "The world shouldn’t slide back into the law of the jungle, where the strong bully the weak": https://www.politico.eu/article/china-pitches-itself-reliable-partner-trump-threats-world-economic-forum-greenland/ […]

2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline #abolishice #reneenicolegood #ice #jonathanross #dhs #Minneapolis #JDVance #kristinoem #norepublicanseveragain #USpol

#bovino Inspired by the #gestapo look #ice #creepo

The Mullah's are toast. #iran

It also establishes persistence by setting itself up as a URL in the startup folder, so it automatically loads each time Windows launches. If the victim has taken the bait this far, the final payload is an obfuscated version of DCRat, a trojan able to establish remote access, log keystrokes,

Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren’t funding election deniers. So buy stuff from these ten companies....(the second half of the article) https://popular.info/p/five-years-later-these-10-corporations

Talked to my bud in #venezuela. State power is enforced by these armed goons on motorbikes called "#colectivos" Normally at times like this there would be forced demonstrations. There are not now. Lines yesterday at food stores and pharmacies. Stock market went way WAY up. Local authorities are […]

"But Russia and China, I mean they like this Big Tough Guys Doing Illegal Things foreign policy in principle, after all it means the end of the post-war (kind of) rule-of-law global order that they hate. But it is not like they actually want the US or Venezuela to succeed. The last thing Russia […]

WATCH: “Did you read the indictment? Fentanyl and the hit on Rubio you’re talking about aren’t mentioned.” @ayman.msnbc.com grills @repluna on the Maduro claims she’s making

In the #us? Watching #venezuela? #maduro #caracas #trump #regimechange #voting #vote https://rorshok.store/regime-change-begins-at-home

That #trump is an idiot and doesn't know who the real president of #venezuela is, is not news. But it's frustrating that real journalists, at least in the US, only talk about #maduro rather than Edmundo #González, the real president, who lives in #madrid#González He needs to be inaugurated very quickly. […]

Being aesthetically impaired I rarely post photos or art, but this… A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow, Poland | Marcin Ryczek

For those fishing around for some new year's resolutions, wear white socks. #happynewyear #resolution #newyearsresolution #newleaf #style #cool #improvement #simplesuperiority #whitesocks #blackshoes https://www.dapperclan.com/white-socks-with-black-shoes/

#epstein #trump #rape #testimony #evidence

Merry Christmas, my Mastodon Siblings!!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Want_to_Fuck_Ronald_Reagan

Nicely written.

Just watched the first full 60 Minutes segment I've seen since I was a kid fifty years ago. Save an offline copy. https://ia801703.us.archive.org/32/items/60minutes-cecotsegment/60minutesCECOTsegment.ia.mp4 #cecot #60minutes #cbs #trump #ice #ellison

We were out shopping at Barrington Mall today and I was surprised to see this big sign saying “Shopping is pointless” next to a photo of a happy woman in a field of flowers. My first thought was that it’s some surprisingly on point anti-commercialism messaging […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

https://open.substack.com/pub/newrepublic/p/a-new-report-reveals-the-real-reason This report is half right. It says that Dems wanted stronger more liberal candidates than they got, so they didn't vote. This is what the sponsor of the report wants so no surprise there. I agree that Dems don't […]

Multiple US career ambassadors, appointed during the Biden administration, have been directed by phone call to vacate their posts by January 15 or 16. No explanation has been given for these recalls.

Substack is supposed to be the intellectual underground, the alternative to mainstream media, and the place where independent thinkers can build audiences without depending on traditional gatekeepers. And in some ways it works. There are excellent writers on Substack producing work that […]