If you’re discovering (or rediscovering!) Purple Rain thanks to the Stranger Things finale, you’ll want to hear the incredible true story of how the song came to be, through 10-second glimpses over the entire epic track: anildash.com/2014/07/25/i...

"we're here to inspect your daycare center"

I went to all 10 of the daycares Nick Shirley featured in his viral video. I got inside 4 and found children. Lots of children: www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...

Not to mention, Dems have said that if Voter ID were free and easily accessible for everyone, no problem. But it isn't. For ex: Some don't even have birth certificates, there can be costs involved, literally getting to an agency for an ID, infirmities, age, etc. = Just some of the obstacles.

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Random reminder that Jim O'Neill (guy on the left) worked directly for Peter Thiel for nearly two decades until joining this administration.

Funny how the loudest people screaming “release everything” suddenly go quiet when the documents point straight at their guy. This isn’t a conspiracy, it’s testimony, records, and a pattern they don’t want anyone looking too closely at.

When Trump tried to pressure MTG into not revealing the names of some of the men who abused the victims of Epstein’s trafficking network, Trump reportedly told her: “My friends will get hurt.”

We need to otherize weird right wing billionaires like the smear campaigns they fund against minorities do. Musk leads a baby breeding cult and Thiel wants to suck up the blood of young people. They’re fucking weird and more people need to know.

Gold is now over $4500/ounce, and the oversimplified but still correct reason is that investors don’t trust the US dollar or American assets and debt instruments anymore. It’s ominous in terms of the US economic picture—but the good news might be the eventual withdrawal of capital support for MAGA.

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

Axios has learned the White House has begun managing the DOJ's account on X to respond to posts highlighting mentions of Trump in the Epstein files. In typical administrations, there is a wall between the White House and what is supposed to be an independent Justice Department.

I'm boosting this separately now, apart from my #EpsteinFiles thread. Read every word. As I always say, If @willbunch.bsky.social wrote it, you should read it.©

This is a form of sexualized assault on a woman.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Truly a mystery.

Bari Weiss is not and never has been a journalist. She is and always has been a propagandist. Her being a lesbian is sometimes read as giving her a liberal valence, but she is and always has been illiberal.

Many of us in the MECFS community started warning in 2020 that COVID was going to be a mass disabling event. It was, and it continues to be.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

“The tens of thousands of pages made public omitt[ed] some of the most closely watched materials, including FBI interviews with victims and internal Justice Department memos on charging decisions.” apnews.com/article/epst...

If the coverup makes Trump look this guilty, just imagine what the documents contain.

Thinking today about this sentence: "Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a 9 percent increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office."

Every so often it hits me. Ongoing. 🇺🇸 government 2025: Pedophiles Nazis Wars/war crimes Murders Racists Grift Rapists Bigotry Sadism Violence Fraud Destruction/defacing properties Fascism Theft Cruelty Election rigging/cheating This is real, it's horrifying, a nightmare. Keep fighting all of it.

They voted for this We will never ever let them forget this when it's over

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The law is EXPLICITLY written to prohibit redactions on this ground: “No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.”

Wow—the complaint above dated 1996 was made by Maria Farmer:

This entire thread is grim. Content warning.

In the relationship between Trump and Epstein, “Female bodies were currency.” Offering my last gift link on this because it’s worth a read in full: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Democracies tend to name notable pieces of infrastructure in honor of political leaders who have passed on. Guess what kinds of governments name them for current political leaders?

“If you describe a threat and give evidence to support why you believe there is a threat, you are not an alarmist in a pejorative sense. You are a realist sounding the alarm.” With full AltText:

The reporters and staff at ProPublica have done great work to build the outlet into a trusted public interest media brand. Is @propublica.org management trying to make it into another untrusted content aggregator and purveyor of AI slop? Why?

The theory of the West Wing operating as a memory care facility is growing on me, tbh.

Isn't it obvious where this is heading? The Billion Dollar Ballroom.

Excluding covid, the unemployment rate is at its highest level in over 8 years. The labor market is deteriorating particularly quickly for young workers, who are facing a 10.6% unemployment rate.

I am so sick of this man and the constant chaos and cruelty. He creates the former because he is empty inside and indulges in the latter because it makes him feel something. I cannot wait for him to be gone from our lives.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Reporting has repeatedly shown that getting impeached is Trump’s biggest fear. So one has to wonder why Pelosi is uninterested in doing things that Trump is scared of.

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

This is a unifying theme in human health: Many chronic conditions arise from common roots but express in different ways. Mental health diagnoses are often linked: people with schizophrenia are much more likely to have bipolar disorder. There's a *spectrum* of psychopathology.

Breaking: Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to announce on Monday that California has hired two former CDC leaders who accused the Trump administration of abandoning scientific standards. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

"The congresswoman said her son "always carries" his passport with him. "

Since we're discussing the two Brown Students who survived earlier school shootings, Mia Tretta and Zoe Weissman, remember that Kylie Ossege survived the Oxford School shooting and the MSU one, and Owen Robinson survived the MSU school shooting at the FSU one.

My thoughts are with all those affected by the horrific antisemitic terror attack on a Hanukkah event in Australia in which at least 11 people were killed. Seen below is Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43-year-old Muslim father of two who risked his life to disarm one of the gunmen and was also shot and injured.

Brown University confirms two dead victims and eight others in critical but stable condition following a mass shooting on campus.

ICE has taken Chinese dissident Guan Heng into custody and is threatening to return him to China. Guan Heng risked his life to film the Uyghur concentration camps—the same camps Secretary of State Rubio opposed when he sponsored the “Uyghur Force Labor Prevention Act” as a US senator.

As lawyers, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were involved in bringing this travesty of a case to SCOTUS, and they have now all joined Clarence Thomas—who voted with the majority here—as justices of the court.

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

66% support either a single national government program or a mix of government and private programs. The total goes up to 92% if you include support for the continuation of Medicare and Medicaid. Only 7% said there should be no government involvement of any kind in health care coverage.

House Dems on the oversight committee have received 95,000 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. They just released 19 of them, featuring people like: Donald Trump Bill Clinton Steve Bannon Bill Gates Larry Summers