Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

At last an AI tool I can get behind “Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.” antirender.com

Elon made the world's most un-sellable "truck." He hasn't developed a new car in years. He just shut down production of two models and he can barely sell the cars he is making. So now it's the pipe dream of "automation" keeping his meme stock afloat 🙄 #TeslaTakedown www.theverge.com/transportati...

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...

EPSTEIN SURVIVORS: “This is a betrayal of the very people this process is supposed to serve… This is not over. We will not stop until the truth is fully revealed and every perpetrator is finally held accountable.”

Personally, I think that anyone who was sending friendly emails back and forth with Jeffrey Epstein or attending events with him post-2008 should be thrown into an active volcano.

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching neighbours inform on neighbours from our apartment above.

A cabal of pedophiles conspired to destroy the US government from within by seeding fascist ideas into online forums, spreading conspiracy theories about the opposition based on their own actions, and devised an alternative currency to upend the global economy. Now they run the US government and CBS

"We can either tax you out of existence or we can launch you into the sun with a trebuchet. Your call!"

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

I'm really not able to process the depth of what PBPD had on him in 2005-2006, and how it all just went away. I've been a licensed attorney for 29 years. I tried more cases than I can count-- huge cases, bet the company cases. I've never read anything so airtight as this, and it's fucking shameful

And then there are things out of Epstein's trash pulls by the PBPD, like this note on a message pad reading "X works 4-9 Monday and Tuesday, leaves school @ 11:30 a.m." that just make your heart ache.

No wonder they wanted Twitter to be discredited and destroyed. Can you imagine the torrent this would have caused? Dismantling the only platform that ever effectively organised movements of resistance was done because they foresaw days like this

It rules how every other government worker is subject to incredible scrutiny for like everything but if you're a cop you can just do blatant fraud and everyone kinda just shrugs at it

I guess "white wealthy British and American grooming gangs" doesn't have the same ring to it

The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.

There was no justifiable reason to give grifting race baiter Konstantin Kisin a platform on the BBC. He holds no elected office or other position of responsibility. Now he is monetising the lies he told to a national TV audience. And we all paid for it. The BBC is so broken.

There should absolutely be some French Revolution-level, eat the rich style comeuppance for all these fuckers, but the fact that they figured out how to get the little guy on their side using Jesus and guns and transphobia… it’s just fucking appalling.

“Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous. We will not stop until the truth is fully revealed and every perpetrator is finally held accountable.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

I don’t know if I’ve ever read a judicial ruling that radiates this much righteous contempt for the executive branch in my lifetime: “Apparent also is the government's ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence.“ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

I'm guessing Darren Aronofsky had to use GenAI to create 1776 because of budget restrictions. Anyone who's seen Requiem for a Dream knows he's adept at making ends meet

In April 1976, in a café at Cambridge railway station, Douglas Adams bought some biscuits. We know this because he told the story so many times that it somehow opened up a wormhole in the space-time continuum, travelling both forwards and backwards and, intriguingly, sideways in time. (1/some...)

They all thought they were invincible

Jesus Christ

I'd draw a breath on this because the hit rate of claims like this is historically low, but it's perfectly plausible. Zhang served in the PLARF which was the source of the original corruption/personnel scandal that has enveloped the entire military leadership since 2022.

Watch the video as a recklessly driven cheap car careens around and a gang of armed thugs spring out to menace an innocent civilian, like a kidnapping or robbery or murder-for-hire. It looks like organized crime taking place in a third-world country, because it is.

I’m old and have a lot less at stake than many people. If I get arrested, I won’t lose my pension. If I get shot, I’ll lose 10-20 years of arthritis getting worse and worse. I have no reason not to rouse a little rabble.

1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

Thinking about how the victims of Savile & other British Celebrity Rapists did go to the police but for some reason the police only ever started investigating said cases once there'd been a documentary on the telly about it

Lag. The federal judiciary is catching up — this is a remarkable order, it's only three pages. I recommend reading it. I have, in all of my time practicing law, never seen a judge do anything like this:

And the complaint was touted by Bondi as having been done at her direction. In her zeal to score points with the President, she is racking up embarrassment after embarrassment. Latest of course is indictment of Don Lemon.

One of my favorite tidbits from this development is that not only did grass start growing in the desert for the first time, but that it grew so tall to the point it started covering the solar panels and becoming a massive issue, and the best solution was to just let sheep eat the grass.

Deep cuts at Amazon and the Post. Hey, at least Bezos could pay 75m for the Melania movie and cover Trump’s inauguration fees. What a brave and courageous man. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/b...

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

This is propaganda and won't make housing affordable when the medium house price in New England is over $500,000

Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

THIRTY FOUR THOUSAND

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

Omg. When I was in law school, it was easier to land a job at an elitemost law firm right after graduating than it was to get one as an AUSA. Now they’re begging to get DMs to fill open slots. Their capacity is gutted. And they’re facing a legal system that is turning more and more against them.

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

I remember a college professor of mine going on a rant about how the world was owned and ruined by “five old white men on yachts” And I remember thinking, well, it’s probably more that people don’t examine their own actions, it’s not like a couple of people control the world But you know what

The director of Melania movie

Multiple sources: Zhang Shengmin, Secretary of CMC commission for Discipline Inspection, might be dead. Sources say he died by suicide at home. If true, Xi Jinping will be the only remaining member of the CMC.

Bill Ackman went after academic plagiarism even though his wife had plagiarized in academia. David Brooks said Epstein Files weren't worth looking at while knowing he'd met with Epstein. Team Trump campaigned on releasing Epstein Files knowing Trump was Epstein's confidant. The hubris is endemic.

life is a series of clubs - if you’re in, your misdeeds are written off as mistakes and indiscretions and you’re afforded infinite grace, and if you’re out a single fuckup will ruin your life apparently the final form of this is pedophile club

I think what both the second Trump administration and the Epstein files have taught us is that there’s very little need of covertness or secrecy if everyone with power pretends you aren’t doing what you’re doing when you openly tell them what you’re doing

man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded

All the reporting of who’s showing up in the latest Epstein files release and how they interact with Epstein, even after his criminality was widely know, highlights how much elite class consciousness and solidarity are a thing, and how much they’re responsible for sorry state of the world right now.