A reminder that Mitch McConnell isn’t a passive bystander to today’s authoritarian rot but one of its chief architects: years of bad-faith obstruction, court packing, and power-at-any-cost politics paved the road for the fascist capture now unfolding.

Here's Soon-Yi Previn, wife of Woody Allen, who was groomed by Allen as a teenager, defending Anthony Wiener and saying the 15-year-old girl he preyed on should "feel ashamed of herself" for manipulating him into a sexual relationship.

DOOM sends thoughts and prayers to Mitch McConnell during his recovery. May he receive just as much care and compassion as he has given to the rest of the world.

Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else. newrepublic.com/post/206088/...

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Death, taxes, and being disappointed by Chuck Schumer.

Who is the audience here? Cause i saw a lady get murdered and i want it ripped down to the studs!!!

@slate.com could you remove the paywall. More people should be able to read this.

Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865. Y’all. He identified every one of them. njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...

Still astonished at how many powerful white men are just fucking disgusting. It’s not enough to be rich. It’s not enough to be powerful. They have to destroy & defile children to get off. They have to dominate & control the innocent and weak. They are all twisted & perverse. REPULSIVE🤮

i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here. everyone should have some goddamn humility.

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month. Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.

I’m actually quite moved by how swiftly she pivots away from her own grief and trauma - real and justified though it is - to remind us not to take our eyes off the women who were assaulted

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

THOU SHALT NOT PROTECT PEDOS!!! WHY THE FUCK IS THIS SENDER’S NAME REDACTED?!?

Sadly, this is NOT satire.

Donald Trump has been telling us that if he doesn't like the outcome of the elections he will seize ballots. He wants Republicans to take control of voting. He wants to take over elections in Democratic states. People should be concerned and we all need to be ready.

Anna is living the meme (not the dream)

When you’ve lost the Cato Institute.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

He literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.

Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at VA hospital in Minneapolis, was killed by officers of the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol last month. He is being memorialized nationwide, but chaplains at VA facilities in MA have been barred from mentioning his name -- or even counseling nurses. bit.ly/SilencingVAc...

The great @willbunch.bsky.social with a damn sound argument against the farcical notion that federal immigration agents can be “reformed.”

Aliya Rahman was on her way to a doctor's appointment when she was violently detained by ICE. She’s a U.S. citizen with a disability. Listen to her powerful testimony.

Damn

I was late, so I turned on tonight's Bainbridge Island Council meeting in time to hear deputy mayor Kirsten Hytopoulos giving a speech about how "density is a gift to development" and that the city is already "drowning in people of a certain income level" and doesn't need more market rate housing.

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

A man emailed a lead DHS prosecutor handling an Afghan refugee's deportation case, asking him to consider the man’s life was in danger from the Taliban and to "Apply principles of common sense and decency.” Hours later, DHS filed a subpoena. Days later, agents showed up at his door. trib.al/HhiJwrW

Dear America: "Do not go gentle into that goodnight. Rage, RAGE against the dying of the light."

🌲 Meet Dawn Rasmussen, a lifelong Oregonian and advocate for working families, running for Congress in Oregon’s 2nd District (OR-02)! 💪 It’s time for leadership that listens, cares, and delivers for Eastern Oregon.

My coward Congressman Cliff Bentz has got a lot to answer for.

Five Democrats (and at least two other Republicans) are vying to unseat Oregon Rep. Cliff Bentz in this year's midterm election.

oh hey that's rabbi mordechai liebling on the left

It was set to drive off the cops who were aiming to kill more people. If all I got is a match and they got guns on me I am absolutely setting something on fire rather than die.

Not in the Epstein files: - trans people - migrants and asylum seekers - people who arrive in small boats - benefits claimants In the Epstein files: - rich white guys who tell you (or pay people to tell you) to hate the people above

That’s right. The city cannot collaborate with the occupiers.

The guy who donated the Harvard Chan School of Public Health worked with E*stein: www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

This is a mask *very* specifically associated with Atomwaffen and Nazi Terrorgram (as OP notes downthread)

holy shit

Republicans: We believe in free market capitalism The Market: Cool. We can make money selling gender affirming shapewear. Republicans: NO. NOT LIKE THAT!

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell spent more than half the money he raised in his campaign for Minnesota governor last year buying copies of his autobiography.

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

Taking the "inclusivity" line at face value, the right lost its mind and threw a big tantrum. But truly, it wasn't *really* about inclusivity. It was about membership numbers and money. Scouts filed for bankruptcy in 2020 because of all the sexual abuse lawsuits they had to settle.

WOW: State leaders say NH Governor Kelly Ayotte lied about her knowledge of ICE's plan to build a giant human warehouse in the state. Documents obtained by @aclu-nh.bsky.social show the state government has known for weeks about the Merrimack facility bc ICE is actively pursuing legal approval.

Exactly. You gotta be the worst scum to go, "Child rape? Just child rape? Like, only once? Yes, yes, that's what I did." The second worst scum are those who know that fact and still want to be friends with him.

NEW: After Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez got clowned on by a national audience for voting to give ICE $10 billion, her Dem challenger doubled his entire previous quarter of fundraising in just 10 days. www.theburnerseattle.com/post/marie-g...