"don't worry, he's just into 15-year-olds" perhaps not as exculpatory as you think Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.

Every location has a picket line in front of it. Don’t cross the line.

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

a “Space Force”, if you will

Here is a Jeffrey Epstein email chain in 2015 where he says he "gave" Donald his former girlfriend and also: "would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen."

This isn't a new phenomenon. People forget this stuff, but the Times' original coverage of Donald Trump stealing protected federal records (very clear felonies) was unbelievably restrained in comparison to their first shots in the Email-ghazi Saga. www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

For literally every second of her 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton was a retired civilian with no official powers or capacities pursuing an elected office. Compare how tirelessly NYT dogged her over *nothing* to how little attention they give the incumbent POTUS. bsky.app/profile/did:...

This isn't just a systemic failure from a mistaken outlet. This is something they pursued on purpose with reckless abandon for nearly two years. It's a story that they essentially fabricated and then used to relentlessly smear a political candidate they disliked. bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

The New York Times **HAD EMAILS IN ITS POSSESSION** tying Donald Trump directly to Jeffrey Epstein's global elite pedophile cabal conspiracy –– in the middle of a 2016 election where a global elite pedophile cabal conspiracy was a HUGE topic –– and they didn't publish one word it for a decade.

I described this in the abstract yesterday, so thanks to Politico for providing a clear example today I guess.

This is like the people who use AI to summarize books so they can say they read 100 books yesterday or whatever. Who are you doing this for? No one else cares. The point of a hobby is to have fun. Why would you ruin that for efficiency or productivity?

From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"

Sports betting is a plague and it needs to be regulated into extinction.

Saying, "we didn't suspend her because she researched authoritarian states, we suspended her because she talked about her research"....that's a bizarre distinction. If you suspended her because of something else, it would be useful to know.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

Just a real “season finale” feeling to all kinds of news today, isn’t there

I don't write book reviews very often, but I was lucky enough to get an ARC of Cat Sebastian's After Hours at Dooryard Books. One of the best books I've read this year, by a great author at the top of her game. Need to be reminded about finding joy when the world is on fire? this is for you

Oh goodness, Murder by Memory was named one of Amazon’s Best SFF Books of 2025! Short books about sapphic sleuths in space FTW: www.amazon.com/amazonbookre...

When the Moon Hits Yours Eye is on two Amazon "Best of 2025" lists: In the Top 20 for Science Fiction and Fantasy, and also the general Top 100 Books of the Year. Not bad for a book about the moon turning to cheese.

Congrats also to @alixeharrow.bsky.social, @ericheisserer.bsky.social, @amalelmohtar.com, @nnedi.bsky.social, @robertjbennett.bsky.social, @emilytesh.net, @yumewrites.bsky.social, @oliviawaite.com, @rfkuang.bsky.social and the others in the Top 20 SF/F category! It is a very good year.

Recently I talked to a woman who had been raped about cross examination. She went into a catatonic state for 15 mins, then asked me to hold her hand, and then began to cry. We discussed whether she should refuse to give evidence - even though it would mean he got off. And now this 👇🏻

Some men want to rape and dissociate themselves from the label. The study in the UK showed men admitted rape when you didn't use the word. If you used the word they denied it. Therefore, it's so important people use the right language

I find it hard to believe they wanted any of it out, if they did they wouldn't have shut down for 40 days and been willing to risk annihilation at the polls just to prevent it

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years

“But her emails” was just another confession disguised as an accusation, it’s so incredibly obvious now.

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Brilliant story line!

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

The fact that Trump is calling Mace and Boebert today pleading with them to remove their names from the Epstein petition at the last minute tells you everything you need to know about how incriminating the info in the files is to him and his cronies.

“The U.S. government started making pennies in Philadelphia in 1793 when the city was the nation's capital.” The last penny: U.S. Treasurer ends copper-clad cents in Philly Mint visit after 232-year run share.inquirer.com/A4bvpK

A fun exercise is thinking about how far down the presidential line of succession you'd have to go before you find someone who isn't involved in committing or covering up the most heinous crimes known to man. You have to impeach everyone until you get there

JFC this is shocking but not surprising. Johnson wouldn't reopen the House if he was going to be forced to release the files. The coverup continues.

It wasn't the Senators who were suffering. They were concerned about the people in their States who were suffering. I honestly don't know if that's proper or not. And I don't know if waiting longer would have changed Republican minds.

#Aurora Nevada City, CA

The Aurora Borealis is amazing

From the US naval academy in Annapolis Maryland Aurora @capitalweather.bsky.social

Aurora visible in Chicago!

Pretty good aurora visible from our back porch in Chicago!

The world would be a better place if we all spent more time looking at cool stuff in the sky.

Hints of the aurora in Boston tonight, even with the city lights (best captured by phone camera)

Aurora tonight in Massachusetts!

it is insane that this is real

Reno, Nevada 6:31 PDT 39.4° N, 119.8° W #Aurora

Aurora in the woods!