One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Crime headline of the day.

Opens a job posting email... Hey, wait! I applied for this exact job six weeks ago! I was turned down for it a month ago because they went with a "candidate who better meets our needs"! Did they actually hire someone who left? Or did they not fill it at all because no one they wanted applied?

The painting of Washington in the background is by Edward Sachse or his company, from sometime circa the late 1860s. Sachse depicts the Washington Monument complete (it wasn't) but in its original design with a colonnade that was never built. Sorry. A little random nerdity.

The GOP is outraged that Jack Smith, with judicial search warrants, accessed the phone records of half a dozen GOP Senators who Trump and his people called on or around J6. Meanwhile, DHS is doing the same thing to thousands, or 10s of thousands, of people right now, without a real warrant.

Thanks for nothing, Robert. The whole of the Diamond bankruptcy was a ginormous fustercluck. Seriously, though. I didn't expect to get anything from my own claim, which was for untaken vacation time.

Judge Fred Biery: "Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issue d by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster. That is called the fox guarding the henhouse. The Constitution requires an independent judicial officer." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I want to .alt something happy

I realize that "hustle culture" is all the rage, but what about "sit in front of a cracking fire in a Scottish Highlands cottage whilst reading, sipping tea, and eating scones" culture?

At long last, we have created Solaris, the Tyrant Sun from Grant Morrison's classic comic seres "Don't Create Solaris, the Tyrant Sun."

It's the 2008 Crash. We are still living in the rubble of that. We are all poorer because of it.

Thinking of this in relation to Wilhoit's Law... The Mudsill theory rests on the elites needing the support of some percentage of the underclass, who believe themselves to be in the in-group, not realizing that they too are in the underclass and the law binds but doesn't protect them.

This is who runs this account

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Saturday. Again, every time someone says "Trump can't do that" the only serious response is "Yes, he can, until Congress removes him"

HAPPY BOSTON MOONINITE PANIC DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

I want to complain about a book I finished today, and I don't even know where to begin. That's all I have to say about that.

God took the wrong person from "Home Alone 2." It's really that simple.

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I can't think of anything more useless... #subskeet

I've been a working writer for twenty years, millions of words written and published, and I don't meet any of the qualifications. Not that I would take the job, but I was curious what they were looking for.

And, two hours later, they reject me again! One application, three rejections from Tate Access Flooring. In other news, I finished applying for a job with one of the colleges in Lynchburg, near my dad. No, not *that* one.

The third one down in the stack here looks like the old GameStop warehouse on I-83 north of York, PA. 🤔

I received a job rejection email today... ...two days after the company sent me a job rejection email. My hunch is, they have no idea what they're looking for. This is the third time I've seen the job listed in the last year. I ignored it the first two times, but needs must.

Corporations can write off business losses on their taxes, while Americans can’t write off the student loan debt for the degrees those corporations required them to have to work there. This is what a tax system written to uplift oligarchs and hold down workers looks like.

That was NOT who I meant when I prayed for the demise of the person in Home Alone.

Oh god Catherine O'Hara has died. What a timeless talent www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...

Jesus Christ. The "pivot" lasted about 15 minutes. Arresting a black journalist under the Ku Klux Klan Act for covering a pro-immigration protest at a Christian nationalist church led by an ICE officer is the perfect encapsulation of this administration's authoritarianism, racism, and trolling.

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

"Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't see you there. You think I'm wearing these 'blund man's glasses for fun?" 😂

I AM DRAGGING MY ANCHOR

Quite the review of the Melania movie here. 😲 "However, for those of us turned on by the intense humming of evil, it’s fantastically lubricious. ... You can whap it out and wank as if this were a Times Square cinema in 1972." www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-en...

I would hope that Democrats on Capitol Hill would take substantial political comfort in deciding to vote to eliminate ICE.

"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.

Ah, October 2024….

The people who need to see this won't watch this. But damn, this is good. Run this during the Super Bowl, and minds would explode.

Proud to hold beliefs and live my life in such a way that MAGA would consider me a "race traitor." I wouldn't want to be any other way.

“in theater” is a crazy way to describe minneapolis

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social I AM BEGGING YOU: Please lead a vote of no-confidence in Schumer as Minority Leader. It's a closed door, secret ballot conference vote. We cannot let this man, who is not made for this moment, be our downfall. He's not a bad man, he's just not up to History's moment.

A Reddit post made me think of late-90s Doctor Who Usenet fanfic earlier today, and as far as today's Internet is concerned it's like it never existed

Wow, the White House is so shaken by the turn in the public mood that they thought Chuck Schumer might actually rise up and "seize this moment" to get meaningful concessions. That's how panicked they are. They thought Chuck Schumer would do something.

Good riddance. Now, if only Mike Jones would follow...

This is the kind of thing I would have talked with my mom about on the phone. She would have opinions. I do like how the Eastern Shore, the upper bay, and Carroll went to the panhandle all kinda get hosed by this map.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

So vampires with a novel legal theory.

And, as a final testament to Alan Alda on his 90th birthday, let us never forget that he was not just a strong advocate for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, he was literally chairman of Men For The ERA & traveled the country for it for YEARS while starring in one of the top-rated TV shows

The 10th Amendment comes out of hiding again, does not see its shadow, and decides to stick around for a while.

Seems like a valid comparison to me. Give 'em hell, Tim!

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller

Trumpists believe that America is the greatest country in the history of the world because of our liberty and you deserve to die if you exercise that liberty. They are human in a manner of speaking, I guess.