*Bursts through wall like Kool-Aid Man* ALEXANDER V. SOUTH CAROLINA NAACP (2024)

Someone must stop these low-wage servants from buying all the houses!

The funniest thing about Twitter these days is that right wing dipshits still think their content is being suppressed by some unseen liberal forces. Elon Musk has owned the site for over three years now.

The damage done by treating Trump's victory as some sweeping mandate in the first eight months of his term really was massive, but ending that collective delusion - i think with the help of last week's elections - really is having profound impacts.

Even if it were true, "taking jobs from Americans" is not a criminal offense that calls for committing human right abuses against said person and potentially renditioning them to third countries with poor human rights records "This person is undocumented" does not mean "this person has ZERO rights"

"Meritocracy"

Reading through the Epstein emails is galling for a number of reasons, one of which is that the richest and most powerful people in our nation are all functionally illiterate and incapable of constructing a grammatically correct sentence.

Strap in: The backtracking to excuse pedophilia is only just beginning to ramp up. We're about to hear a whole lot of reasons from the right why raping children is akshully ok. Prison. All of them.

GIMENEZ: If there was something in there that implicated President Trump, Biden would've shown it to us when he had control of the files C: Then why is this White House fighting to not release them? G: Uh, look, uh, like I said, I, I, you know, I don't know why there's, there's a fight but uhh uhh

Bill Gates adviser to Epstein in 2017: "He wants to talk to you but his wife won’t let him...He loves you.”

New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a federal judge to dismiss the felony charges against her, arguing Trump and his political appointees at the DOJ are selectively and vindictively prosecuting her. https://bit.ly/487Ympi

Buried in here: UMC pastors in Chicago told me they were going to keep doing this for a wide spectrum of Methodists who have legal battles amid the ongoing mass deportation effort in the city — immigrant families, pastors who have been arrested, etc. Some serious denominational solidarity here.

Confirmed: Katie Wilson will be mayor of Seattle, ousting the incumbent from his left. And Erika Evans will be the new city attorney, ousting the GOP city attorney after promising to take the office in a more progressive direction. What do progressives' win mean for law enforcement? NEW IN BOLTS:

Some good news! Judge Matthew Kennelly orders GRANTS Ramiro Cabrera's Habeas Corpus petition & says he must be released or have a bond hearing by Nov. 19. Cabrera has been in custody since Oct 3, when ICE picked him up while setting up a tent for his family business in a Crestwood parking lot.

Just completely shameless. Other admins get away with being lying hypocrites because they're careful to hide/muddy their acts first. These people do everything openly and brag about it, then just pretend they didn't, but only when it's inconvenient for them. They'll be right back at it tomorrow.

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Anyone surprised that Republicans are fleeing the motte of "pedophile" to the bailey of "ephebophile" hasn't been paying attention. Here's @djgrothe.bsky.social, who ran the James Randi Educational Foundation, defending Epstein & his rapists in exactly that way 14 y ago skepchick.org/2011/04/lawr...

What makes people furious is of course how the NYT uses its own wide discretion about what to pursue, what to beat the drum on, when to have qualms about running with something, and when to just put it out there. There’s the rules, and then there’s the rules about when you apply the rules.

Matt Gaetz rapes a vulnerable teenager, quiets her with money, ruins his own career There I fixed it

You really have to be working overtime to write this post.

Trump is more personally culpable for the high cost of housing than any undocumented immigrant ever could be.

Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."

NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."

⭕️ NEW: Shelter Conditions in Gaza Near Collapse as Winter Storms Approach, While Israel Allows Only 5% of Agreed Shelter Aid Gaza’s already thin humanitarian line is about to snap. Civil defense crews in Rafah are warning that incoming winter storms... Photo: Mohammad Al-Sawalhi/CNN (Dec. 2024)

notable but not surprising that Fetterman chose Fox & Friends as the place to promote his new book

For every surveillance state to function, there must be a critical mass of people who willingly act as snitches to further the regime's ideology. I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer

It shouldn’t take 50 years to buy a house. We should not normalize that.

Lol

Epstein's only on-paper client as a financial manager was Les Wexner, founder and CEO of Victoria's Secret

“I am a full-time college student from a low-income family, and I rely on these benefits to buy groceries — as do many of my close friends.​“

And you can do it on the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, which has accounted for $2 billion of the $5 billion the Trumps have made this year for their own cryptocurrency venture. Oh, and thanks to a pardon from Eric's dad, the founder of Binance won't have to serve time in prison.

Some of the rules that apply to Ghislaine Maxwell’s fellow inmates at Bryan simply do not appear to apply to the late-Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous right-hand woman. https://cnn.it/3LAuWaI

Regular reminder that Christy Romer was right and Barack Obama should have listened to her instead of Larry Summers: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Obama fervently believes in the household analogy and it was epically disastrous both economically and politically in a way that we still haven’t wrestled with as a country & Democrats certainly haven’t as a party, in part bc that would require rethinking their rose-colored views of Obama himself:

The Justices speaking, dressing, and acting like Fox News talent probably deserves more attention than it's received.

Today, Oklahoma is set to execute Tremane Wood even though a state panel recommended his life is spared

As almost every self-described American "conservative" watches on blithely as Musk's DOGE team Hoovers up tons of private data about every US citizen with which they will do God knows what, a flashback to this "conservative" pamphlet from 1963 is instructive. Conservatives hate big brother, right?

Normal person in a liberal constitutional democracy: "The state should be judicious in how it uses physical force and these actions seem like overreaches." MAGA: "Any state actions that constrain MY behavior or the behavior of people like me is tyranny, but it can do whatever it wants to THEM."

If we were allowed to talk about "white supremacy" in the US, then it would be pretty obvious why what happened in Chicago is acceptable to large numbers of people while Ruby Ridge & Waco (and my imagined scenario) are evidence of gubmint tyranny. The state can't do that to people who look like me!

Ruby Ridge & Waco were not easy situations for the feds to resolve. But they were at least *situations* that merited some sort of response. A bunch of non-criming, undocumented people living in an apartment building which was also occupied by many legal residents and citizens was not * a situation*.

If the Biden administration had sent federal agents to do a law enforcement operation 10X milder in a white suburban neighborhood in order to apprehend a serial pedophile and violent domestic abuser who happened to be a white Christian pastor, the MAGA crew would have reduced the country to rubble.

Can we all agree never to book Larry Summers on another news show, ever again? Unless the topic is "What Did You Know and When Did You Know It?"

Raskin: "The DOJ hasn't released any of these emails that mention Trump's name & identify his role in all these activities. Those came from the Epstein estate. So this is a demonstration the govt is deliberately withholding the info everybody is actually looking for & could be damaging to Trump"

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.

Johnsonitis is going around

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

Government career lawyers reluctant to defend obvious abuse of presidential power.

Just checkin' the facts!

My "Epstein's death was a 'Murder on the Orient Express' stituation" theory really racking up support this week.