NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

At what point do other countries start sanctioning us?

As legal scholars know, the US Constitution empowers the President to unilaterally decide on the use of military force by spinning the "Wheel of Airstrikes."

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

This short thread by @chanda.blacksky.app is very much worth a read, especially in light of learning once again that high-status political and academic men (eg Larry Summers) can be dangerous pigs and that it’s a constant professional BURDEN to women in the same field, especially women of color. ⬇️

"Imagine how much more aware people would be about White House corruption if news stories stopped saying 'Trump said…' and instead said, 'Trump, a convicted felon, said…'" As @markjacob.bsky.social notes here the conventions of political reporting are helping obfuscate Trump/MAGA criminality:

John Oliver reacts to Megyn Kelly seemingly downplaying Epstein's sex crimes by arguing that “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old.”: “Look, I am clearly no stranger to sharing upsetting numbers with my audience, but please do kill me if I ever start doing pedophile math”

what it would look like if we had uk-style liberal tabloids in america instead of this buttoned down approach

The corruption runs deep and we must demand full accountability. www.rawstory.com/jef... 2/2

Steve Bannon, Trump's top ally, promised Jeffrey Epstein protection from justice, texting he would send him "somewhere beyond extradition." This is a direct link between Trump's inner circle and the shielding of a child sex trafficker. 1/2

Doctor here— normal brain scans do not have unidentifiable regions that may be attributed to a parasitic infection. Hope that clears that up.

i think the synthesis so far of the LA/DC/Chicago experiences is: 1) vulnerable people should hide and wait it out to whatever extent they can 2) other people should help them do that, financially and otherwise 3) other people should also get loud 4) not violent though

Jeff Bezos received a quarter of a million from his parents in 1995 to start his online bookstore idea.

The only two sentences that matter: “The president could order the release of the entire Epstein document trove at any time, vote or no vote. So far, he’s declined to do so.” www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Every single one of them has to face voters in under one year. Remind them.

The press contact for FACE THE NATION is [email protected] if anyone wants to explain to them why people might care about a massive pedophile sex trafficking ring that apparently implicates the president and several other powerful men.

the “critics” are objectively correct

Priorities.

I refuse to believe that Larry Summers' expertise and skills are indispensable in any way. Please find another economist and policy expert, @americanprogress.bsky.social. There are loads out there.

Charlotte is about 1,350 miles from the Southern border 🇲🇽 and some 620 miles from the Northern border 🇨🇦

he is is angry that we have begun to discover the extent of his involvement with Epstein & the little girls. He’s angry that ppl aren’t buying his “it a hoax’ line. He’s angry that his poll numbers are truly terrible. He’s angry to find himself a lame duck prez. So maybe he’ll attack Venezuela

i am pissed off that people are ignoring the courage & years of work by the epstein survivors & saying this focus on releasing the epstein files is all owed to trump’s biggest backer, elon musk. sorry. it’s the survivors’ work that brought allllll of this to light.

please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures

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I appreciate the honesty and candor with women grad students facing this. I do hope that there's also a discussion with the male grad students and academic colleagues about knocking it the fuck off.

My teenagers can’t get a ticket to the Running Man remake on their own, but sure, they’re consenting adults when it comes to sex. There’s not enough pepper spray in the world for these creeps

At a minimum this ought to be Larry Summers forever drummed out of polite society, you don't get to ask Jeffrey Epstein for advice on how to groom your students and still get invited to parties.

I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.

OOOOOHHHHHH

Large crowds of protesters have begun gathering outside the White House demanding Trump’s resignation because of the ongoing Epstein scandal.

Ditto to @harvard.edu. No one needs Summers. Fire him now.

You don’t hate the press enough.

Nothing to worry about, just the chief regulator of the media pressuring a television network to fire a critic of the president.

It almost makes you wonder what would happen if Charlotte police treated off duty ICE agents the same way-faces covered with masks, dragging them out of their cars, breaking windows, throwing them to the ground and arresting them while they screamed “I’m a citizen”

Open bribery by a foreign leader. The exact scenario that the Founders feared. "no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"

Americans really have no idea how badly things are going or much of what is actually happening outside of the increasingly sealed American unreality state. The increasingly clear collapse of collective sense making is breaking containment fully.

NYTimes was also aware a staff writer was a close friend of Epstein - who had been offered incriminating photos of a Presidential candidate - and chose instead to spend the next decade on totally unjustified, frankly delusional, propagandized coverage of trans people and their doctors as “predators”

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

Here’s a Look at What the FBI’s Epstein Files Would Reveal An index from an 8-year-old #FOIA lawsuit shows the FBI is withholding bank & phone records, photos, comms w/foreign govt agencies & other revealing material related to its 2006 investigation www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

lol VERY predictable.

a 50 year mortgage is more like debt peonage or renting from the bank. Why not 75 year mortgage?

The irony here is painful. Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name. But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased. Exactly how disabled people often are.

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

The hell he is. Straight into the dumpster with this creep.

Oh, my band nerd soul is just squealing with delight at this.