Me, heading into the week like…

Yeah, dude, if you’re 22 and she’s 16, that’s coercion AND predation.

Teacher professional development

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Dammit, Melville, why you gotta be so on the nose

imagine being hit on by gross old Larry Summers when you just wanted professional advice and then finding out he was getting advice on how to hit on you from Jeffrey fucking Epstein one of the grossest things I’ve ever read

Lol

It's a revealing moment... J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost. The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.

The stupidest timeline, etc., etc.

Pupdate:

Yesterday at the hearing of the Oversight Committees of the RI General Assembly, #RhodeIsland could see that RIDOT Director Peter Alviti does not know basic things about the agencies he runs, & has no plan for oversight of the private contractors he relies on. Time for him to go.

How I feel when I try to chat with the automech NPCs in The Outer Worlds 2. @bethesdastudios.com

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

This is me at 15. I’m a child. I’m a CHILD.

There is more to this than the obvious corruption. I suspect it is the latest attempt to withhold the incriminating Epstein files. If DOJ has an open, ongoing investigation into Epstein again, it can use that fact as a pretext for withholding any documents, lest it undermine the case. So shady.

Hell yeah it is. And Dishonored 2. I’m playing them again on my handheld…

jfc

NEW: Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts www.propublica.org/article/kris... w @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

The man who runs this company will earn one trillion American dollars. “It’s a meritocracy”

Bishop Susan Collins is “concerned” Yes, it’s a rebuke, but it’s milquetoast and pointless.

Wag the Dog

1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs 2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads 3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James 4) IG and ethics officials are all fired. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

Scrapped plan to build golf courses in #Florida state park came directly from office of Gov. Ron DeSastrous, says lawsuit by fired whistleblower. www.tampabay.com/news/environ... via @maxchesnes.bsky.social

Rep. Jim McGovern woke up today and said "the mic stays with me," and he has been reading everyone to filth ever since. I'm so here for it.

Just a reminder: the Epstein Files won’t save us from fascism.

Lawyers: they’re just like high schoolers! When was a HS teacher, my students used every one of these excuses when they cheated.

It’s like they all woke up yesterday and realized how health insurance works

Silence = Complicity

Evergreen…

This story now includes video, released by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, of the baby being exposed to chemical irritants fired by federal agents from their convoy into the car she was riding in with members of her family near 26th Street and Ogden Avenue in Cicero.

I like to respond, “No, I don’t use it, because I’m not a fucking idiot.” That usually works.

And these are self-inflicted wounds intended to hurt people to promote white supremacy and corporatism. It’s so infuriating.

ICE facing fierce backlash after video apparently shows unconscious man clutching child during arrest

Perfection. Watch to the end.

“Three days after immigration agents raided an Allston car wash, the lawyer representing the nine workers who were detained says he still has not been able to contact some of his clients — or even confirm where they are being held.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/07/m...

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

Hahahahahahaha

Hero

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

Did women ruin the workplace

Cannot. Stop. Laughing.

Weekend at Donnie’s

Trump also just released the guy who lied to the FBI about the Bidens taking bribes. He has ties to Russian intelligence — and Trump’s businesses. Again: The law does not apply to them. newrepublic.com/post/202897/...

New slogan just dropped: TRILLIONAIRES SHOULDN’T EXIST

This is how any decent human being would respond when another person is in distress.

Heartbreaking. I’ve asked subscribers to send me screenshots of their premium increases, and I can’t even tell you how many emails I’m getting like this. Folks can’t pay these rates. This family is in TX, but it’s happening everywhere. Congress MUST extend the ACA tax credits.

This is true but nobody wants to hear this horse race bullshit from an elected official. This spin makes it sound like Murphy is mostly concerned with branding. The better message is simply: we are fighting for you and the recent elections show that people want us to keep fighting.