Weird they dragged in Hillary Clinton when there's another First Lady right there in the White House who actually knew Jeffrey Epstein.

It will surprise nobody that last night, Tony D. introduced CBS’s report on her testimony by saying that her appearance “is the latest sign that a public reckoning over Epstein’s abuse…is only growing.” Oh, and that report made zero mention and showed zero images of Donald Trump.

When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.

One thing I appreciate about The Pitt is its thoughtfulness in using the real-time format to reframe the tropes of the medical drama. The past two episodes' painstaking account of a sexual assault exam is a remarkable example.

I've expanded on this thought in the below post. Platner isn't doing well in spite of things like the Totenkopf, but because of it. They're part of his appeal. In a climate where people see and present Jews as the ultimate string-pullers, antisemitism is viewed as proof one will not bow to power.

Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.

So it’s the ads for junk food that make us fat, Bernie? Not the food deserts & insane price of fruits/veggies? In any case, diet & exercise have been researched to death as ways to lose weight & data shows neither is very successful. At some point you have to accept that fat ppl have always existed

This is a particular kind of anti-fatness that shows up on the left: the "hold corporations accountable for creating fat people" stuff. Yes absolutely, corporate accountability across the board, within & beyond food industries. Just stop mobilizing animus against fat people to make your point.

(1) Casey Means is a dreadful nominee and should not be confirmed. (2) I don't have any desire to defend for-profit advertising of any kind. (3) "Obesity is a national crisis" as a message both relies on and perpetuates bias against fat people.

Pay for however many newsletters you want, please, give all those writers money But you can't replace a whole journalism ecosystem with a series of freelancers, you just can't. There also needs to be support for serious papers, magazines, online newsrooms, and nonprofit reporting

I’m so fucking angry at the thought of fascists taking over my stories

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Again, the ongoing claim that the 2026/8 elections are going to be just fine, because the authoritarians don't have the power to stop the actual voting, overlooks all the ways that competitive authoritarian regimes put their thumbs on the scales of democracy short of outright cancelling elections.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

I’m not sure we can donate to small independent media our way out of the reality that the media and arts landscapes are controlled by an authoritarian and his friends. I’m as supportive as anyone else but this seems like a critical problem that goes beyond that.

Yes. Investigative reporting is so unglamorous, yet so important. We get all up in arms about op-eds but the real worth of these media outlets has always been in their reporting.

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

We’re well and truly fucked now

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

This all makes more sense given that yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Cuba shooting the Hermanos al Rescate plane down. Apparently there are "flotillas" going to Cuba to pick up relatives. Doesn't seem that this incident was a US military action.

Students feel like they can’t enroll in majors like Af-Am Studies and WGSS because they’re getting messages from all sides that they’re not remunerative. And yet they desperately want the knowledge, so classes are full. That seems to be the situation everywhere.

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

I am not exaggerating when I say I think this might be the greatest timeline cleanse I have ever seen.

Welp Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Cuba shooting down the Hermanos al Rescate plane that had entered Cuban airspace www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ummm, very curious about how distribution to only the Cuban private sector is gonna work...

This notion that Black people need to suffer with dignity, *for our dignity,* needs to die.

Feels like there are two separate conversations 1. what happened in that room 2. what ended up being broadcast. The first is a nuanced complicated convo about racism and disability. The second is not.

wowwwwww, this just keeps getting worse for BBC/BAFTAs what in the actual fuck were they thinking??

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 "Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest faculty distinction — and remaining on leave until that time"

all accusations are unverified, once verified they aren't accusations anymore. adding "unverified" in front of the word makes it sound like the FBI concluded it didn't happen which .. is not true!

This is the singular legacy of the Biden administration, the failing that preceeded all subsequent failings. What good there was (and there was real tangible good!) will have to be excavated from a legacy of failing while in power to punish the plotters and beneficiares of an attempted coup.

I started reading Klosterman's Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs earlier this year cuz several people I follow believe it's a sort of pop culture bible. I really liked the first chapter and since then it's felt low-key sexist to me. Any other women out there who don't absolutely love it?

Today I’m proposing a ban on assault rifles, high-capacity magazines, binary triggers, firearms without serial numbers, and more.

So WTF are the Dems gonna do about this horrifying cover-up? Boycotting SOTU sounds like an appropriate reaction to me.

@poniewozik.bsky.social there seems to be an imposter account masquerading as you

God how I wish Oakland had a leader who decided to do this with the dumping/trash

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

“Federal judge denies Trump administration's motion, keeping Haitians' protected status in place.” #TPS status for Haitian immigrants “remains in legal limbo. The Trump administration already submitted an appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.” www.wosu.org/politics-gov...

Huge thank you to Will for writing this and including our letter to alumni. Alumni, students, faculty, and staff can sign the pledge here: forms.gle/bTbjekEdzKgK...

I swear, cops (including ICE officers) are the biggest fucking pussies on the planet

Painful to read this and think about the 2021 coup attempt, which was as blatant as it gets. An utter failure of US elites to seize the moment when everybody saw the threat right in front of their eyes. If we have history books in the future, they will be unkind.

This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

Sen. Warren was a professor of commercial law and bankruptcy law at Harvard (where she was the highest paid professor). She is one of the leading scholars in those fields. No one in Congress has her expertise on money and debt. If Warren says the tariff money is owed, it is.

If I had a dollar for every time in my life a marginalized white person thought that it was their place to teach me a lesson about a perceived transgression by doing something anti-Black this is a white supremacist move by the way, to turn to the leaver of power available to you

As a Black man with Tourette Syndrome, the Public Advocate has some thoughts on BAFTA, Pt. 1: Hear about his experience with Coprolalia, his thoughts on how BAFTA mishandled the moment, and the need for care for all who are harmed: Full video: youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs

A thing that is sticking with me is that last week the president accused Supreme Court members of being under foreign influence. When asked for evidence he gave none. I know we say all the time “this would have been a big deal 15 years ago” but like still, sit and think about this.

In his acceptance speech for award for best screenplay, Ryan Coogler said “when you look at a blank page, think of who you love” and I dunno, that really moved me so I wrote it down and sat it on my desk to look at while I work

Let’s talk about the insult to injury: the BAFTAs snubbed Delroy Lindo for his role in Sinners (let’s not forget he’s London-born, it was a slam dunk nomination). THEN he was subjected to a humiliating slur while presenting onstage. And the BAFTA folks haven't even apologized directly to him and MBJ