It’s worth posting the full sketch youtu.be/AKE9W0O8bX8?...

Every Epstein email I've read today

Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

The thing about my Daily Beast tenure I'm proudest of? How we stayed on the Epstein story for years, when all of the uptown elites were rolling their eyes and telling us to go away.

And, here's Michael Wolff's take:

Oof. Here's the article that Ruemmler, former Obama White House counsel, dismissed: www.thedailybeast.com/how-did-trum...

I think the banal answer is: he’s very rich and powerful and good at networking and this how people act around very rich and powerful people.

Lots of people say: that’s because he’s blackmailing them, but I don’t think he’s blackmailing Kathy Ruemmler! I don’t think that’s what explains it.

To all the weirdos defending Megyn Kelly: 15 year olds are underage, and that is statutory rape. Pretty simple

Here's Landon Thomas Jr characterizing Nashville-based economist Art Laffer as Jeffery Epstein's "old pal." Thomas is the NYT journalist who tipped Epstein off about ongoing investigations.

so uh, what was Merrick Garland doing

This is so goofy lol

The turkey one especially gets me, since the bird was unknown to Europeans before colonization.

Fascists and missing the point of movies that reject fascism. It's hard to think of a more iconic duo.

@aselrod.bsky.social had a good piece on this today. I had a similar conclusion after reading it today - policy in Canada is not as different as we might hope.

The DIMBY administration bsky.app/profile/atru...

The America First solution to the housing crunch isn’t a 50-year mortgage. It’s 100+ million deportations. I wrote about the nativist dream of an idyllic, white, Christian America for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...

America is not full. But an array of right-wing activists and commentators want to deport tens of millions of people. For them, it’s not just about illegal immigration but the idea that not everyone can really become an American.

Wild that the guys most likely to say shit like this are also the most likely fellas to have a Roman statue avatar. The Roman Empire, famous for not allowing pure Italians to rule over them

anyways a propos of another banger from @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com, on what the positive goal of liberal politics should be: an open society www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...

Ah yes the American national mythology of nobody coming from overseas

Look these guys can join us at Buffalo Wild Wings but they need to stop saying weird shit like this

Historical note: Turkey was an acquired taste for English/Dutch/etc. immigrants to the American colonies, as were pumpkin, maize, and tomatoes. OTH turkey was traditional in Mexico as well as North America long before European colonization.

lebensraum

Food bringing people together is why Anthony Bourdain was the Joe Rogan of the left. bsky.app/profile/clay...

Doctors won’t tell you this but if you LARP food that you can’t assimilate to instead of eating it, the calories don’t count

These are American Nazis: Only white Christian people have the capacity to be "real Americans". Only white Christians, are real people at all. There is no question of "rights" for anyone else. Understand this, & everything ICE is doing becomes predictable. www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...

"Large parts of his base see deportation as the central tool for achieving progress—from housing affordability to crime to cultural renewal. For the furthest fringes of Trump's support, the real problem is a financing system controlled by Jews." www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...

These are deeply idiotic and odious sentiments, but also: what does it mean to "assimilate" to the Thanksgiving turkey? Like, you can just eat it?

What the fuck does it even mean that you “can’t assimilate” to a fucking turkey dinner? How do you “LARP” eating green beans? If you eat the dinner you eat the dinner. That’s the whole thing!

Those screenshots are bonkers

...and here's my own: bsky.app/profile/jess...

I just gotta say, that first screen shot with the still from Kingdom of Heaven… phew Massive “tell me you never watched Kingdom of Heaven without telling me you never watched Kingdom of Heaven” energy.

man, these people are absolutely koo-koo for another REAL AMERICAN FOOD NO FOREIGNERS COULD EVER APPRECIATE, Cocoa Puffs

on my mormon mission in Arizona I was fed Thanksgiving turkey by wonderful people who didn't even have papers

“Steve Ferguson(. . .) echoed this sentiment: ‘Want to instantly lower housing costs? Deport every last one of the 65 million illegal aliens living here as well as revoke the visas of the 55 million foreign nationals squatting here.’” www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...

the incandescent loser energy of Twitter fascists lmao

It is substantively not funny because of its implications, but “YOU CAN’T POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF COOKING AND EATING A FROZEN TURKEY THAT COMES IN PLASTIC FROM THE SUPERMARKET WITH THE HEART AND LIVER AND NECK IN A LIL PAPER BAG STUFFED UP ITS GAZOO” is really, really out there.

Seriously? How hard is it to cook or eat a turkey? My guy, my family of immigrants had no problem hosting Thanksgiving, including roast turkey with all the trimmings,* within 2 months of arriving on these verdant shores. *Except sweet potatoes, which remain controversial.

The most uniquely American tradition at my Vietnamese immigrant in-law's house is the pho that made from what's left of the Thanksgiving turkey.

Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in...’

Just learned this term and fuck it, proud paperwork American. I'm first generation American.

I remember going nuts last year when the New York Times straightforwardly described mass deportations as a way to address the cost of housing.

Hey you take that back and put some respect on the Bobbie

Yeah the premise of like every food travel show is how easily united we all are by a good meal.

assimilating to Thanksgiving is, like, the easiest imaginable thing

🧵 It's amusing looking at these clowns & trying to guess which wave of immigrants spawned them. Are they from Swedish colonies, New France, Nova Belgica, the later English/British dominion, post-Independence... '48ers, Ellis Island, Canucks who crossed the border?

Don't amend laws to build more housing more quickly. Simply take on the easier, achievable, orderly and peaceful goal of "Armenian Genocide but 100x larger."

I always wonder how these people reconcile German speaking divisions of the Union army during the civil war (“heritage Americans“), and Germans and Italians constituting a higher proportion of the white population than the WASPs. Then again, there’s nothing intelligent going on there.