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?

After Trump returned to office in January, plastic surgeons across Washington, D.C., have seen a spike in patients seeking bolder, more obvious cosmetic work, to achieve what one doctor called a “Mar-a-Lago face" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Boualem Sansal : le président allemand appelle son homologue algérien à gracier l’écrivain et propose de l’accueillir

This is going to happen a lot. “The recent introduction of generative AI means that we no longer have any control over how big tech companies are using our information... The big tech companies are the ones gaining from all the hours of work we have put into making and running our website, not us.

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I find the upsurge in NYTimes subscriptions story very very plausible. This in a year the newspaper was criticized and boycotted more than ever. Most competitive offer costs $51 a year for subscription. Or $1 a week. It’s a pocket change for wealthy donors who would like to keep it going.

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Also we want the Binance treatment - preemptive presidential pardons for anything we do to make money of this miserable technology.

"Why didn't the rest of the Democrats do that? It kills me." @mehdirhasan.bsky.social asks New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social about bringing a case against Donald Trump, which she won, and how he’s going after her personally now.

If Zohran hadn’t won, the DNC & pundits would highlight women from the Navy & CIA and moving right of the RNC on war as the only path in 2026/28. They’d gloss over the Gaza genocide (or worse.) Bc of Zohran & his supporters, AIPAC is weakened & Israel support is a liability to win Dem office. 🙏🏾👊🏽🇵🇸

City Council President Mary Sheffield will be Detroit’s newest mayor and the first woman to lead the city.

A late night call I missed: Democrats have flipped back the sole city council seat the GOP has in the Bronx. Republicans had flipped this council seat in 2023, and it was their first seat in the Bronx since the early 1980s.

Georgia Democrats had not won a statewide race that wasn't for a federal office since 2006. They won two races tonight, both against GOP incumbents. The margins? 62% to 38% in both.

Democrats have successfully defended three seats on the all-important Pennsylvania Supreme Court. This means the court will be controlled by Ds through the midterms, and almost definitely through 2028 as well. My story on the result: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

4/4 Obviously his political aspirations goes beyond being mayor of New York.

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"Adan" proudly shows us huge boxes of strawberries he's harvested in Vista CA. He shares, "It's hard work harvesting strawberries since you're bent over all day long." #WeFeedYou

Penge in southeast London has become a graffiti hotspot — but a fast-food franchise owner threatened legal action over one man’s mischievous design ⬇️

It's peak season in WA State cherries. Workers are paid piece rate and earn $4.50 per 22lb bucket. (The same as they earned in 2022). If they work super fast they can harvest 50 to 60 buckets in a 9 hour day during this very short peak season. #WeFeedYou

50 y ara old! ❤️

I bet there are Democrats out there who hope that ICE will arrest and deport Mamdani by an unfortunate mistake.

Yuck 🤢 🤮 “In fact, New Yorkers should be worried that he would lead Gotham back to the bad old days of civic dysfunction, and Democrats should fear that he will discredit their next generation of party leaders, almost all of whom are better than this democratic socialist.”

NYers, remember during the Brexit era, to oust Jeremy Corbyn from Labor, some of the establishment MP formed an alternative party to prevented him from a win. After the election they returned and regained the party. 1/2

Mamdani wins the primary with hearty support from the Jewish left, cross-endorses with Brad Lander, wins the Upper West Side, wins Dan Goldman's district, gets Jerry Nadler's endorsement The NYT:

The action lays bare the administration's attempt to exert its will over immigration enforcement, and a growing anger at federal judges who have blocked executive branch actions they see as lawless.

It's the easiest fucking thing in the world: Democrats voted for Mamdani. Democrats should endorse him instead of looking like feckless fucks beholden to billionaires. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/n...

Amazon buying farmland, "de-watering" it to lay cable, creating energy demand double what state currently needs, getting $8 billion in tax breaks. All for whatever Anthropic's next AI model is going to be. This will never be worth the tradeoff.

After 26 years, Sex And The City finally gets race right! What an achievement 🚽🎉 Next in line, Seinfeld?

Back to square one.

Capitalism is the algorithm. jacobin.com/2025/06/spot...

This morning Israeli forces again attacked Palestinians waiting for food. They killed 16 people & injured dozens more. And what's the UK govt doing while Israel murders starving people trying to find food? Its helping Israel do it.

A remembrance/tribute to Joshua Clover, written by some of the @ucmarxistinstitute.bsky.social faculty: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/j...