In light of current reminders about how powerful rich men exploit and assault young women under the safety and guise of various forms of “employment,“ just wanna give a shout out to NYT for this gem last week where we learned about how #metoo *actually* ended harming the workplace. 🙄

1. Elected to non-consecutive terms 2. Rapist and child predator 3. Economic catastrophe in second term To continue the Grover Cleveland parallels, Donald Trump must be having surgery to have a potentially cancerous tumor removed from the root of his mouth on a rich friend’s yacht.

Fucking called it that this was what they were going to do

liberals and conservatives alike talk about defunding the police and decarceration as if these are extreme, radical, unthinkable ideas— but truly what is more extreme, radical, and unthinkable than what's happening *right now* in our police state.

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

Marge

More than anything else, the Epstein saga should show you that you have an absolute duty to intervene if you ever come across someone abusing a child, especially a teenage girl who *most* adults won’t stick up for.

The notion abusers need to resort to conspiracies and subterfuge is more comforting than the truth that many people will readily look the other way when confronted with sexual violence if doing otherwise would even slightly inconvenience them

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

so glad the child sexual abuse panic was squarely pointed at folks like me by the people actually doing it & the public was like “yeah, seems right—freaks did it. not the men with all the money & fighting to keep child marriage legal, the women that are legal to kill in 30 states if you’re nervous.”

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

yes, this is the actual purpose of policing.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.

it's a real shame there wasn't just a Democratic president with control of federal law enforcement for 4 years, otherwise it would be pretty fuckin outrageous that he didn't find this

Seen a few of the epstein emails now, all with different people and it's not the main issue here but is everyone illiterate

Mamdani has the chance to do the funniest thing ever on his first day

Anyway! This seems like important context.

it's the ultimate flex of power and privilege. they largely escaped consequences for abuse, so why be careful about what's in writing?

Trump did the thing, everyone knows he did the thing, and he's got an entire political party and associated media apparatus trying to cover up his clear involvement in the thing. One of the sickest, most sordid chapters in an especially sick and sordid period of modern American history.

The moral failing is on the elites in the GOP who’ve continually propped him up, and the elites in the DNC who’ve refused to make this a central issue until they were forced to this year. Imagine if the Dems had run on all of this in 2020.

These emails reveal that this is an issue of elite impunity, and you are blaming the public? Thats how we got here, man.

Happy "Jeffrey Epstein emailed the way a not particularly disciplined criminal defendant uses the jail phone" day to all who celebrate.

hmmmm

They thought they were going to get pretext to throw a bunch of liberals in prison bsky.app/profile/maya...

You have to understand what pieces like this from the NYT are and are not. They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today. They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.

The Sydney Sweeney bomb opening in 2000 theaters is the wildest thing about this drama. So many business masterminds are losing money betting big on things that only matter to right wing twitter users who will absolutely not spend a dime on anything that doesn’t have a picture of Donald Trump on it

Buying out vendors has proven to be one of the more effective things we’ve been doing in LA. My friends have built a network of vendors who they give cash assistance to but also hire for catering, they can work safely at events with lots of people and relatively lower risk.

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Hello @support.bsky.team why has @sarahkendzior.bsky.social been suspended without explanation?????

New on Knock: A multi-billion dollar real estate company is trying to use Ellis Act evictions to displace entire multi-generational communities and destroy RSO units in Mar Vista. The tenants have organized with their neighbors and promise to fight to the finish. knock-la.com/mar-vista-te...

Malcolm Harris and Bill McKibbon have books out this year rigorously interrogating our chances at surviving this century and saving ourselves. We quite literally do not have time for despair in this moment.

this is literally never not accurate

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

its cool how two of the biggest tech companies are also the global leader in enabling scams (Meta) and the global leader in fencing stolen goods and selling counterfeit ones (Amazon)

"We have to agree to cancel midterm elections because people need paychecks." "We have to agree to the camps because people don't have paychecks." And if that's where we are, the political process is already a lost battle. That's why Democrats caving is bad.

The problem with "we have no choice but to do this thing Trump and the GOP want because otherwise the government stays shut down" is that there's no limiting principle.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

A bunch of formerly affordable things like “hamburger” and “Playstation” are much more expensive than they were 5 years ago, but have you considered that you can buy a pair of shoes at Walmart that falls apart in three months and it, too, is still more expensive than it was 5 years ago?

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown

Few people care about this, I know. It's just another way that Black people are USED to grow the prison industrial complex by claiming that we do mainly want more cops. No nuance ever. Just more cops.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

The ICE budget is higher than all but about 15 militaries worldwide, and we’re seeing what kind of country that gives us. www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...

They should invent a California where you can afford to live