5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

It’s raining in Vegas

The fact that Megyn Kelly minimized raping 15 year olds and wasn't immediately canceled from every platform, including @siriusxmprog.bsky.social and YouTube, tells you EVERYTHING that is wrong with right wing media and this country in general.

Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.

Looked it up. Donohue, the author here, is the president of the Catholic League, & also an adjunct scholar with the Heritage Foundation. It has been his life’s mission to defend sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and he is using Kelly’s statements as a further justification in his argument.

‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ looking to add AI-generated short form content “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI"

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Zac Segal, Boston U runner and Young Republican alerted ICE to a car wash in Allston MA which had immigrants working - he said they were taking US jobs. ICE raided the car wash. All detained had legal status according to their lawyer. Segal was born and schooled in London. 🙄

Mind-blowingly rare first editions of esoteric books that I got to hold yesterday (courtesy of Justin Sledge), #1 of 5: Meric Casaubon’s “A True and Faithful Relation” (London, 1659), the legendary OG account of the Enochian magic of John Dee and Edward Kelly.

I don’t think that just releasing the Epstein files is enough anymore. I reckon the death of Epstein in custody now needs reinvestigated. There’s rot here that goes way beyond what most of us imagine

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

I am annoying the hell out of my very small circle of close friends by obsessing over the feral cat I’m trying to convince to move in with me. It is occasionally an adequate distraction from The Horrors, but it’s also just how I’m built. Here he is snoozing in his outdoor shelter.

All I have to say about the Nuzzi profile is that at the end of it she jokes about how she destroyed her life. In fact she did not do that. She has a book, a magazine job, this lovely profile. People’s lives are being destroyed by this administration, however, including by -well, you know.

Cozy pals hibernating during this chilly season. 🐻🐸🍁

When I’m not making art, I’m in my cave watching my silly little vampire movies 🎥 #digitalart #charcterart #illustration #artsky

Eilish blasted Musk in an expletive-laden Instagram story, suggesting he could use his wealth to help end various world crises.

Zeteo Scoured 26,000 Epstein Docs. Here’s What We Found You can search and review the emails here. Read what Epstein said about Trump, and his emails with Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, and Larry Summers. From @premthakker.bsky.social and @micahflee.com: zeteo.com/p/epstein-26...

For groundbreaking synthetic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' birthday, enjoy her in her home studio with cats and friends

They’re all just looting the treasury now

Actual groomers are running the government and suddenly she doesn’t have anything to say

Employees of a minimum-security prison camp in Texas, where convicted child-sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is serving time have been terminated, Maxwell’s lawyer said Friday. https://cnn.it/4pbaX0G

NEW: The Nevada Supreme Court has revived the criminal case against the Trump 2020 fake electors, ruling that AG Ford was correct to bring the case in Clark County. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Donald Trump has asked his employees on the Supreme Court to overrule lower court orders demanding that he fulfill his duties to feed Americans who are due SNAP benefits AND He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.

there is a buried lede as well that RFK's run was a deliberate ratfuck of Dems in the mold of Kanye 2020 from jump and there was never a question of him joining the Trump campaign but it's buried deep.

there is actually a story in this revolting Nuzzi piece if you sandblast away the lies about a hot young woman being "in love" with a guy old enough to be her grandfather who looks like a catcher's mitt and sounds like an evil muppet

Nice job senate republicans you fucking clowns

"Olivia Nuzzi loved him. She loved the man who is on the top five list of the most repugnant people on the planet. She loved the man who is dismantling access to modern medicine for everyone."

X-Files S1E8 Ice - A prescient warning about the dangers of brain worms. Fun fact: The arctic research station is an old Molson brewery.

This number is completely made up. There are not 30 million undocumented immigrants. The most recent estimates are around 14 million, of which roughly 8 million people have been here for over a decade. Vance is not a fool. He knows this. DHS produces official estimates. They don’t say 30 million.

The Nevada Supreme Court handed a victory to Democratic state prosecutors who charged the state’s pro-Trump “fake electors” from 2020.

AI BOOM SHOWING FAMILIAR BUBBLE SIGNS, BCA SAYS BCA Research says today’s AI surge is mirroring past booms that later collapsed. Their review of railways, electrification, the dot-com era, and oil cycles highlights the same patterns: tech adoption is slower than expected,

"We looked into the public awareness of this story we're actively suppressing and the data suggests we're suppressing it."

🚨Megyn Kelly in 2023 re Russell Brand: “You’re 31 years old & you have sex allegedly w a 16-year old?… She was a minor. Just because you can’t be prosecuted for it doesn’t mean it’s right.” Kelly yesterday re Epstein: “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old & a 5-year-old” @motherjones.com:

📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.

Worth 1,000 words. This picture is so revealing about so much about this “administration.” Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…

NEW: DHS invoked the “national emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign. We found that a firm with deep ties to Kristi Noem secretly benefited from the deal.

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

Nostalgic for 2016 when we thought it was a pee tape instead of the Hell footage from Event Horizon

I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast

Dear God Maybe this occurred to everyone else already, but I just realized that the tech bigwigs sided with Trump because they had become so Roko's Basilisk-brained They treated Trump like their imagined future malevolent A.I., and now we're all fucked

For those that don't know, the Silicion Valley Rationality cult and Roko's basilisk where spawned from a website called LessWrong, which was created by Eliezer Yudkowsky, who also wrote the infamous: "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality"

Penske Media (owners of Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline) have rolled out the red carpet for far right wing extremists podcasters, making it easier for the weird zealots to promote their hateful dogshit for Golden Globe award consideration.

This article in the Nov 13, 1868 Sacramento Union finds life in the small valleys of the otherwise barren Nevada desert, which it calls the "American Sahara." t.co/TGdDp8KZY6 "For nearly one hundred and fifty miles... there is little variation of scenery."

Finally fixed the eye that’s been bugging me for a year and a half. Much happier with it now.

I need to make $666 in the next week to make sure my accounts dont get overdrawn when all the bills come out lmao, this year is fucking diabolical.

PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY