The Epstein coverup is unraveling at the moment. But the likelihood of Trump and Pam Bondi using bad-faith revenge investigations to slow disclosure—or, worse, the destruction of evidence—militates for raising the specter of the dread i-word. www.offmessage.net/p/maga-corru...

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

I don't want anyone to be shot, man. That's the whole point.

Max is right.

Anyway, my friends at Bluesky proper should start marketing this place with these kinds of quotes. It makes this website seem like the fucking Thunderdome when in reality it's a place where I post pictures of Viscous Brown Food-Like Substance On A Plate solely to unnerve people.

I just think it's worth reiterating that this content free, vibes-based, know-nothing grievance based approach to election analysis was the thing Nate opposed in creating 538! Like, he has literally become the thing he started his career to oppose. It's amazing.

live your life in such a way that millions of people don’t joyfully await your demise

A thing that I keep thinking about is this: Surely the White House can see what's happening everywhere on social media. If he was alive and well, wouldn't they immediately put a stop to all of these rumors with some kind of proof of life?

Reminder: J.D. doesn't have the juice. 🍊

We put the hearse in rehearsal, baby.

Can we still impeach him if he’s dead?

At the very least it’s fun to think of this as a sort of tailgate party before the big event

I’m awake for some reason and I just want to let everyone know that people are also discussing it in the Youtube comments for the Celebration by Kool & the Gang music video

Even if he dies we’re still going to need to see the Epstein files.

It is easier to imagine the president's death than to imagine Chuck Schumer effective

This isn't doomscrolling, it's schadenfeed.

It's like staying up late to see if Santa is real but we're hoping Santa's dead

Everyone on Bluesky is poised like we're waiting for the DVD logo to hit the corner of the screen

EPSTEIN Epstein Epstein Epstein CDC and FBI hollowed out of experienced servants to make way for pliant toadies. Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein January 6 Traitor Ashli Babbit receiving military honors. Epstein Epstein Epstein EPSTEIN

when it happens... I will be online ALL day. cancel my appointments. hold my calls. "what were you doing when you found out?" my grandchildren will ask. "the posts, children, I was reading the posts!!" I'll say, and we'll all crowd around my scrapbook containing the best ones

Reminder: J.D. doesn't have the juice.

I never actually read The Secret, but I am pretty sure this is a group project that we're all working on at the moment.

No one would have any confusion about what is happening if they saw it in another country.

so much of life is just learning to be angry in a productive way

I have been trying to tell anyone who will listen that right now we need a Teddy Roosevelt, an FDR, someone who is willing to break the robber barons and do the “unpopular” things the wealthy don’t want to see done but are necessary to claw back some power for those who don’t normally wield it

Trump tries to rewrite reality like it’s a bad tabloid story, but Epstein’s legacy haunts every chaotic move. No more sidestepping the truth. We demand Trump pay for his part in that nightmare before democracy burns to ashes.

Oh look, it's been a month, and this is more true now than it was then.

Trump is obviously to blame for turning armed feds against blue-city Americans. But it's reasonable for us to be angry at Dems, too: in a retrospective way for not pre-empting this, and in a prospective way for not standing up for us. It's why their own voters view them unfavorably in microcosm.

I walk back to my apt every night after votes. Other than Jan 6, I've never felt unsafe in DC. Then again, I don't hang out with Gaetz, Jordan, nor the convicted felon at 1600 Pennsylvania. But if that's your statistical sample I can see how you might erroneously extrapolate this way.

We heard that a constituent told you to impeach that “tinpot dictator” in South Lake Tahoe last week, @schiff.senate.gov. We’d love to change your position to ‘for impeachment’ on our position tracker - just let us know when you’re ready! Speak soon 🥰

Two things can be true: 1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; & 2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.

It’s not a distraction. It’s fascism.

We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years. The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

The American people don't want fascism and are ready to fight, but the organizing forces that are meant to inform and support the people are failing. We're going to have to save ourselves.

Erika McEntarfer, fired as BLS head by Trump …got her PhD in 2002 …has 47 publications …which have 1327 citations

Deleting a post about Israel “accidentally” killing international journalists because I missed that they had declared them terrorists. Everyone involved in this genocide needs to be sent to The Hague bsky.app/profile/yasm...

We all know what needs to be done: Impeach Convict Remove America deserves better.

"Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it." Albert Camus

And yes I totally agree with this. It’s been clear since January. Democratic leadership massively misreads their base. The D base is behind Dem leaders because they think D leaders are doing everything they possibly can to fight. But now they’re finding out the truth and are incredibly angry.

I mean, when you say it like that, it sounds bad. 🙁 IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE

Listen: reality arrives and keeps arriving. It does no good to deny it or wish that it wasn’t so. It *is* so. Accept that and organize a RESPONSE.

There are so many things which are insane about the Trump-Epstein scandal, but I keep coming back to Trump just thinking he could get away with making QAnon central to his movement, when he almost certainly committed crimes with Epstein. So much incompetence, corruption and malice rolled into one.

Bring Articles of Impeachment every week on a different factual recitation of bribery. We've got to get performative and stop with hoping for a successful hit otherwise.

Excellent advice. I try to re-read it at least annually.