BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...

Empty the prisons, turn them all into art centers, and provide counseling to the ex-inmates. Every case has the option of transformational justice.

Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely

Don't miss the alt-text!

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"

Good era to be a vegetarian. (But wash your “triple-washed” greens!)

Look, we know Trump & MAGA are unashamed misogynistic creeps… so there’s gotta be something waaaaay worse in those files.

the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”

Oh hey — you know that big Chicago raid where Stephen Miller said the building was “FILLED” with gang members? @propublica found 0 evidence of Tren De Aragua, the men weren’t charged with any crimes. 🤔 (sound familiar Tennessee?) All for show. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

The family of a Colombian fisherman killed in a US military strike hired an American lawyer to file suit. “This is murder, and it is destroying rule of law," said Dan Kovalik, representing the family of Alejandro Carranza.

Starmer isn't Britain's worst ever prime minister, but he is Labour's worst ever prime minister and it's not even close

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Women who throw girls under the pedo bus to protect predators make me wish hell was real.

Billie Eilish calls out Elon Musk for not using his wealth to aid humanity and resolve global issues: “f***ing pathetic p***y b**** coward”

You realize his guilt when the most litigious guy on the planet isn’t making lawsuit threats.

I think there's a subconscious societal desire for evil to be cunning and born of genius. If evil is brilliant and devious, we have an excuse to have been fooled. If evil is stupid and obvious, then the public ceases to be collectively helpless, and has an obligation to speak out or resist.

honestly one of the most striking things about epstein's emails is the fact that the man, described in many places as "a genius," is essentially subliterate

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

Hope everyone at B.U. helps him regret being a repulsive asshole.

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Solidarity!

its not a “prediction market,” its an easily manipulated gambling website being used by degenerates, divorced douche bags and 20 year old incels

The other 30% have a delusion that they could be the 1%.

I'd been watching him on Insta & as soon as I saw his name in an email it blew an East Wing sized hole in my trust. Fuck that guy for not publishing that stuff immediately; we might not be in this mess. Nail him with accessory charges.

Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????

Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”: wapo.st/448fDw6

Alderman Sigcho-Lopez was right to call out Pritzker today about the state police arresting protesters. Pritzker responded that the state police are protecting protesters, and that just isn't true. State cops have arrested and brutalized protesters to facilitate ICE operations. That's reality.

Let's talk about books and the public trust. 📚🧵 Something that is easy to forget, in these days of barcode-scanning / auto-adjust pricing on third-party platforms for pennies plus shipping: Booksellers are not merely people who sell some popular books in a competitive market.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

What’s going through your head as the Chief of Staff as you watch the President make personal calls to prevent the release of information about a child sex trafficking operation?

BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva signs the Epstein discharge petition, serving as the 218th vote to force the bill to the floor for a full vote of the House.

Honestly, I hope Karoline Leavitt enjoys this week. She's earned it.

IDK about y'all but I needed a dose of Rumi: Why are you ravaged by a single thought, dragged down, sinking inward, heavy with sorrow? Piece by piece I stitched you together. Why has one doom-ridden thought torn you into a hundred pieces?

Michael Wolff over on Instagram divulging stuff in dribbles when he coulda produced this email years ago.

I once worked for a guy who said to me, by way of dictating a letter, "Tell that &%$#& lawyer he's a &$*@#&$ and he can kiss my %&$. OK, go make it nice." And I suspect that's what these people did most of the time. But had to do the more personal stuff themselves.

The central question in American politics is simple. Do you stand with forgotten Americans or the Epstein class? That's it.

There’s real irony in this: lawmakers can’t get back to DC to vote to reopen the government because flights are canceled, thanks to the same shutdown they caused.

By way of contrast, my very un-Irish New-England-bred late mother once said to me, attempting a burn, “You look like a starving rock musician!”

I had to check to see if this was real. It’s only the start of a tweet, but it’s real. And the rest of the tweet isn’t better because they’re lying about there being any threat. This is about the viral video you’ve probably seen with the drive-by pepper spray.

McGovern: Seriously, we were worried. We actually started handing out missing person posters. Nobody has seen you for eight weeks. But, hey, I'm glad that you are ok. I'm glad you survived your nice, two-month paid vacation

/ because he objected to the Defense Department reimbursing travel costs to female soldiers for abortions. Johnson closed the House for weeks, violating Art. 1, sec. 5 of the Constitution. We need to change rules that let a single senator or representative block the normal work of government.

Breaking News: House Democrats released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein alleged that Donald Trump knew of the convicted sex offender's conduct and “spent hours at my house” with a victim.

Wild. Every other administration dating back to Eisenhower could pull it off. 🤡

This is what "getting your ass kicked" looks like. And this is through October with a refreshed Model Y and the new 3-row Model "YL".

"What's the point of standards?" is a leader with a crush on mediocrity.

With everything else going on, I didn't catch that Sam Altman's addiction to lying might finally be catching up with him. Liar Liar pants on fire... so many pants & so many fires that they could fuel all the extra data centers.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are. www.latimes.com/california/s...