After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne. So ProPublica did. Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

Back when there were TV movies about suburban women losing their grip, they would style them like this in the scene where the family can no longer deny there is a problem.

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

The White House press corps sucks. you should back up your colleagues, even when they’re competitors

Khanna: "I don't want the DC swamp playing any games. They should pass this in the Senate. They should not amend it ... no amendments, no adding loopholes. Justice is long overdue."

Massie: "We fought the president, the AG, the FBI director, the Speaker of the House, and the VP to get this win."

Jeffries: "In 2025, this is what it's come to in America. Donald Trump is using the Situation Room to advance the coverup of the Jeffrey Epstein files. This is why Republicans are being rejected all across the country. These are both unserious and dangerous people at the same time."

whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight

“A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself,” @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes:

Lovely interview with the CEO of The Onion. english.elpais.com/technology/2...

It's corruption only it comes from the Corruptian Mountains of Eastern Europe, otherwise it is just a sparkling gold bar.

Cue the Roberts Court saying that it’s not a bribe if Trump didn’t officially ask for a gold bar in return for dropping tariffs.

Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”

Remember to tell them that they did this and they don’t get to run away now

that makes me feel physically nauseous

The “Epstein Files” saga shows that Republicans were only ever interested in using sexual assault as a pretext to smear political rivals and deprive LGBT people of their constitutional rights www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

"This kind of mutually reinforcing corruption is what one sees in failing societies and empires in decline" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/larr...

at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd. he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him. situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

12 far-right groups with extreme anti-LGBTQ positions that threaten civil rights - Advocate apple.news/Arahd0ap3QW-...

Do political science profs have to explain to their students that, for most of American history, it was actually borderline unthinkable that elected officials and their spokespersons would constantly talk like trashy reality show contestants?

So I guess the idea is that Ghislaine Maxwell got transferred to a country club prison that someone with her sentence would never go to and gets all sorts of perks but that’s completely coincidental, that just happened unrelatedly

pantomime for a congress that's too corrupt to function dominated by a right wing party in complete thrall to industry, but I'm sure Politico makes that clear to readers being a news outlet and all

i remain steadfast in my belief that the most parsimonious explanation for their decisions is they simply did not want to imprison donald trump. it was something they wanted to avoid more than just about anything else. it scared the shit out of them and led them to delay and ignore him far too long

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

The feds under Trump are doing "Black Helicopter" shit at a rate that exceeds the wildest fever dreams of the paranoid right wingers of the Tea Party era. We've got dozens of Ruby Ridges every day, and the body count will likely soon approach Waco. And most of Trump's victims did no crimes.

Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!

Mandatory comparison. Note, it was a choice to not include a four column wide photo of Trump looking like shit in his only press appearance yesterday when he refused to answer questions about Epstein.

Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently. This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.

What do we make of this email, sent from Epstein to himself a week before he was arrested with the subject line “List for Bannon Steve” with just a list of names.

The correspondence between a NYT reporter & Epstein is extraordinary. But the NYT also has questions to answer: it fired him for soliciting a donation from Epstein. Did it not conduct any sort of investigation? Or did it just decide to not make public?

Not that it matters anymore, but it’s important to point out that the White House did more to try and stop the release of the Epstein Files than to try and end the shutdown.

so uh, what was Merrick Garland doing

I find it highly ironic that the party that bemoaned the deep state and alleged the cover-up of pedophiles is now embroiled in defending the party that has the largest pedophile cover-up in American history.

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

One thing is for certain, nobody had Trump's number more than Jeffrey Epstein.

So Trump says he has to “bring in” foreign talent because American workers don’t have it. I also notice he says “No YOU don’t have it, instead of WE, Americas President is a literal foreign agent

Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."

Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.

Me, watching as children's motrin magically lowers Littler Girl's fever from 104.x down to 100.x, easing her very obvious discomfort and allowing her to get the sleep she desperately needs: "I don't think this is doing anything and maybe it's dangerous. Probably better for her to burn up?"

@radiofreetom.bsky.social wrote a whole book about "the death of expertise" and how unserious Americans falsely believe that they can and do know better, and JD Vance just... says it out loud...

Jeffrey Epstein said Trump was worse than gross. Jeffrey Epstein.

Short version: Trump: I'm dismantling the Constitution, building a paramilitary fascist army loyal only to me, blowing up the US economy for my billionaire cronies, and destroying the planet. Schumer: Okay, but you have to extend subsidies for corporate health care Trump: No Schumer: Okay

There were literally congressional hearings where whistleblowers in the insurance industry cried while discussing being forced by superiors to repeatedly illegally deny payment for lifesaving care in the run up to the passage of the ACA. That’s what republicans want us to return to.

Yeah, man, because putting all the people who need expensive care in one pool has never blown up in an unsustainable, out of control spiral every time it's been tried. Even going down this road should get you yanked by a huge hook or sucked down a trap door you didn't know was there.

Worth remembering that Donald Trump has known all along what he did in regards to his good friend Jeffrey Epstein and has probably spent thousands of hours worrying about what would happen to him when the world learned about it.

I'm not sure why the Biden administration didn't release the files when they were in power, but I am 100% sure that if they had Leavitt and all the other MAGA flaks would have howled that Biden was "weaponizing government" to "attack his political rivals" or something.

Will always be puzzled as to why Republicans hammered so hard on the Epstein stuff given that it was obvious that it would be a huge risk for their own guy Trump and Epstein were buddies throughout the height of his trafficking -- what did they think would happen? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

I have endured harassment on a scale your brain could not conceive of, for years, from every corner of the internet. Trust me when I say I can take it. Also trust me when I say IT SUCKS, IT AFFECTS YOU, AND BULLIES SHOULD FACE CONSEQUENCES, for the health of the community if nothing else.