Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

You genuinely have to wonder if people like this are smart enough to even know the ~basic plot points~ of this book, considering the fact that Nabokov kinda sneakily hides the fact that its titular character is dead ~on page 2~ without ever explicitly spelling it out to the reader.

one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.

here is the New York Times explicitly acknowledging that Olivia Nuzzi actively helped donald trump win the 2024 election and having no problem whatsoever with her doing it

the extent to which journalists will circle the wagons around even members of the profession who have serially violated every professional ethical standard possible is astounding

Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject

I just love that we have a website run by Republicans who switched to being Democrats which reviews genre fiction and links to TV Tropes

do people understand that what Kelly is communicating here, and this is gross and I'm just going to spell it out anyway, is that "a fifteen year old, unlike a 5 year old,is anatomically obviously a female,and therefore,Jeffrey Epstein was straight and thus not gay, the only kind of real perversion"

It is morbidly fascinating that the GOP members most likely to meaningfully break away from Trump are the Qanon True Believers and the more “respectable” pre-Trump guys are 100% gonna take up an explicitly pro-pedophilia stance in the near future

I hope this coming out will prevent Gaetz from running for or winning other political office. I think he's thinking about florida governor, which would be horrible. 1

"A guy [world-famous billionaire pedophile sex trafficker] emailing a reporter about old [barely legal "jailbait"] girlfriends [whom he claimed he "gave" to the president of the United States] or saying someone [the aforementioned president of the United States] is 'dirty' is not a whole news story"

“The New York Times doesn’t think a couple of emails is newsworthy” they think you’re stupid.

This is flat out false. The 2011 email between Maxwell and Epstein, which confirms that Trump spent HOURS in Epstein's home with one of Epstein's victims, is news in and of itself

Perfect example of political media operating under the post-truth standard that (1) distorts the facts until the parties look approximately equal, and (2) holds “do MAGA voters care?” as a higher standard than “is it true?” or “is it important for the public to know about this?”

"Epstein offered to send reporters pictures of Trump with 'girls in bikinis in my kitchen'" is a news story all on its own and required nothing more than access to the NYT's own email servers

The worst people online that you know will find unhinged and stupid ways to defend Chomsky being Epstein's friend btw.

If you showed the Founders the typical modern Voter-to-Elected-Representative Ratio for this country, you'd give them aneurisms. And I don't even mean just for the House. I mean for just your standard *local election.*

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey

Hard not to suspect that the thing that kept Epstein's documents secret and any actual co-conspirators safe is that every single person who has ever attended an East Coast gala has, at some point or another, sent Epstein an email that was like "SUBJECT: So sorry for the witchhunt against you"

cool that the business community embraced trump so that he could (checks notes) randomly eliminate markets, demonize products, and destroy the economy.

no see using these photos would be beneath the Times, which would never take material from a dubious source, unless it was, say, hacked documents showing that a guy born in Africa had put 'African-American' on his application form for a university he didn't get into. You know, something important.

Ever notice how all philosophical conversations about cognition, causality, and context seem to at some fundamental level just be rhetorically motivated in trying to decide the best way to justify throwing someone in prison?

a lot has been written about how elected republicans are no longer the people who use right wing media to rile up the base, they are the most rabid consumers of that media themselves sometimes that has very funny results

My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!) According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.

We’re in this position because the Comey letter was considered newsworthy but this wasn’t.

Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is NYT: but her emails

i am pretty much a "fuck chuck" absolutist at this point since he has coordinated these atrocities

Fuck, that person I know who keeps trying to get me to join my local DSA lookin' like they've got a reallllllll good point right about now.

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

This seems significant

Masterclass in the drivel of law-school-brain. "His decision is supported by history and law." "Really? So this has happened before?" "No." "So... does the law explicitly say he can do this?" "No." "How is it supported?" "Well, I mean, who's gonna stop him?" theconversation.com/house-speake...

Reminded of how Lionel De Rothschild was elected three times in a row to the British Parliament, but was barred from being sworn in because he wouldn't renounce Judaism and swear a Christian oath. Except, this time, the Christian oath is a MAGA one, I guess. With a new messiah to come with.

im straight up gonna be a third worldist by the end of this admin.

"Republicans are keeping the government closed, starving kids, and making you miss your Thanksgiving flights because they want your healthcare costs to go through the roof" is actually a pretty effective message for Democrats

The United States does not need to be "molded" into a guarantor of Jewish security. It ~IS~ the most successful guarantor of Jewish security in this or any time before it. Even at its lowest points, the US has done more for our people than any peer.

Because they view themselves as not reigning Trump in for the sake of preventing criminality or for the sake of The Law as written, but instead reigning him in for the sake of "the system working." And to them, "the system working" = cutting off any and all threats to Republican rule.

"Mamdani recognizes Pakistan." When has Zohran Mamdani done anything to officially "recognize" the right of Pakistan to exist? "I know this because his mom is accused of being an apologist for it." What even is this argument???

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

never going to let anyone from across the pond lecture me about how far left europe is compared to us, ever ever again

I think, particularly after yesterday‘s elections, this BS is why the public is so ripshit and furious mad at the GOP. It’s not even just policy, they don’t like the ICE stuff, but what they absolutely HATE, is the rule by decree from the White House. They want elected representatives making laws.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Yeah I think the big secret to understanding politics is not overthinking it

What we know, 12:10am [Now in 2 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House —Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win supreme court —ME vote-restricting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —Krasner & Bragg win

Good. But it's time for canonical penalties for collaborationists. Vance is a Catholic. Homan is a Catholic. Rubio is a Catholic. Leavitt is a Catholic. They all have bishops and who have a responsibility they must exercise on pain of damnation if they shirk it. Or perhaps Leo has to do it himself.

republicans are the soft men that good times created

At this point I think it is fair to assume that anyone under the age of 30 who is a staffer for a right-wing think tank or Republican member of Congress is groyper-adjacent unless explicitly proven otherwise.

the more untenable your worldview becomes and the more revolting it is to educated people in polite society, the more your think tanks are going to end up selecting for kids who *like* that it is revolting and transgressive and intolerable to polite society.

it is not remarked upon enough that these guys just genuinely and sincerely hate america and hate americans