Trump and the DOJ are covering up for powerful world leaders who are named in the Epstein files—including themselves. From the glimpse I’ve seen in the files, it’s much bigger than we ever imagined. We won’t stop until the truth comes out and justice is served.

Surpised anyone is surprised about this: it is so obviously a manufactured, weaponized, moral panic wedge issue designed to split the left, and it has been enormously successful. Anyone witnessing the bot swarms on The Other Place couldn't have thought otherwise.

This drawing of an approaching storm (around 1913) shows Paul Henry's consumate skill with charcoal, the location is likely to be the village of Dugort on the island of Achill on the west coast of Ireland.

Are we sure this isn't some kind of omen?

I was born and raised in Gorton and Denton, and I absolutely guarantee you Reform won't put it first. They won't even put Britain first. They'll put Russia first. We LITERALLY jailed one of them for doing that.

Another takeoff! #redtailedhawk #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Sue Gray shunted aside for Morgan McSweeney Karen Pierce dispensed with in favour of Peter Mandelson Competent, experienced, and highly qualified women replaced by mediocre men (no doubt legends in their own heads and at their own dinner tables) Results? All too predictable

Choose carefully.

Elite child abusers don't change.

Carol Carter:

🆕 Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @oregonstate.edu, @iiasa.ac.at & PIK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you keep company with people like this, don't expect your messaging to work They may not even be playing on your side

It’s a death cult. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

Bring back firing squads for anyone involved. Don’t care who.

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"Every accusation is a confession"

Looks like they won't be finding the bodies after all

I hear it’s almost time for some superb owls! Here’s one from 1508 by Albrecht Dürer.

Some good political news for once. Makes me like Portuguese people even more.

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

I fucking despair at the damage this socipath is doing

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

In a touching tribute to his mentor, Morgan McSweeney has resigned in disgrace.

For anyone who needs cheering up... here's Britain's smallest bird having a bath today in a woodland puddle. 😁😍🐦❤️ #birds 🪶

I’m thinking of another wronged woman today. Sue Gray. Downing St began to fall apart after an experienced dedicated civil servant was ousted for Morgan McSweeney. She opposed Mandelson’s appointment.

Unfortunately the calibre of people who built the NHS is not matched in the current parliamentary Labour party. What is Keir Starmer's vision, actually? That needed to be the focus all along, not the naked pursuit of power and then lacking the first fucking clue what to do with it once you get it.

You can't expect me, with all your talk about superb owls, not to remind you of Louis Wain's 1904 "The Cat's Nightmare" (hint, that nightmare is owls).

Newsflash, Keir: nobody gives a shit. Now can you please get on with doing what people elected you to do?

Self-regard is not the same thing as genius. There seems to be some considerable confusion about this.

Oh, and journalists: please stop referring to McSweeney's faction in the Labour Party as "moderates". They are anything but.

This series of articles by Peter Oborne is so spot on - withering about McSweeney - and his obsessive focus on party politics, scheming and tactics, at expense of policy conducive to the national interest - and in process ultimately ruining Starmer’s govt.

USA is now a kakistocracy in toto. The fact that there is no functional mechanism to remove this man from office shows the USA is defunct as a democratic entity.

Watching The Pale Horse, 2020 Agatha Christie adaptation. Rufus Sewell is a bit of a Gen X sex symbol, but he's a terrific actor, and he has such an INTERESTING face, which for a screen actor, must be like hitting the motherlode.

Precipitating collapse to turn a fast buck far preferable to doing business in a pro-social way. And screw the little guy. Two sociopaths being honest for once. Let's put this on the side of a bus.

We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Let's all remember the bravery of Virginia Giuffre, who spoke up about these monsters. This is a very powerful interview Katie Couric conducted with Amy Wallace, Virginia's collaborator on her memoir. A great example of women advocating for each other. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AraB...

Brilliant by Amelia Gentleman about the masculine culture in which Epstein and co. operated. Reminds me of the end of The Godfather when Kay (played by Diane Keaton) is excluded - the doors literally closing on her. They're gangsters, the lot of them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

So much of the knowing reaction by the men in the Epstein files can be summed up in the phrase "the bitches wanted it, really". Even the failure of the FBI to investigate, the focus on the political angle rather than the abuse angle, is "the bitches wanted it, really".

the man who owns Palantir, a key contractor to the US intelligence community. Under US law, Thiel, as a holder of high level security clearances, was required to report this contact to USG. It does not appear he did so.

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

This is a kimono from the "Symphony of Light" series by Japanese artist Itchiku Kubota, created using the tsujigahana dyeing technique. Kubota, a renowned textile artist, transformed traditional Japanese garments into works of art.

My taxes already pay for everyone else's children, so fuck off, you creepy natalist shit.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

MAGA in tweeds.

The US president indulges in horrific racism online. And the BBC report on this outrageous behaviour? I can’t see a word about it on their site. Am I missing it?

Trump has just posted a video of the Obamas pictured as monkeys. This should hit headlines. We warned you about him years ago, but many made him a friend, defended him, salivated and gave him football shirts. Our thoughts are with black people everywhere and my own family. I am sorry. I am so sorry.