An FBI whistleblower just admitted that the reason it took so long to find the guy that shot Charlie Kirk is because Kash Patel is using FBI issued planes for personal trips so much that when they actually needed one they literally couldn’t find an open place for roughly the first 24 hours.

A random bit of wisdom - the most hipster thing that a hipster can do is complain about the pretentiousness of other hipsters. I believe this makes me both the hipster apostate and hipster King.

The UK arrested the king’s brother over Epstein but the only person we have in jail over Epstein is a woman. And even then they gave her a therapy dog in minimum security for sex trafficking children. I guess GOP really does stand for “Guarding Old Pedophiles”.

Imagine claiming to love Jesus, then discovering that the government might build a concentration camp right next-door to your place of business - and your complaint is that people might see people in chains near your business. Not that they are in chains, but that people might see. /1

Have to say it’s an interesting feeling knowing that thanks to our corrupt and hyperpartisan Supreme Court and their crazy ass ruling on presidential immunity, Trump is held less accountability than actual literal royalty.

TIL that the actor that played Jim Gordan on Gotham actually has a degree in economics. He wrote a couple books where he repeatedly calls crypto "the biggest ponzi scheme in human history" and "just something that gives bros something to gamble on and criminals a way to get paid for their crimes".

Good morning. The Epstein files confirmed that the owner of Lifetouch, a company that specializes in handling school photos, was a pedophile friend of Epstein who used his company to help the ring scout for victims and later use your kids pictures to train AIs to make CSAM. /1

Bondi testifying about the DOJ‘s Epstein Fuckery right now. I bet a friend of mine that she would say something to the effect of pedophilia is OK when rightwingers do it. Right now she’s arguing that if they went after everybody in the files, the whole system would collapse. Close enough!

So apparently the rightwing media in Canada is trying to blame their recent mass shooting on trans people. Gentle reminder that makes no sense. We still don’t know anything about that shooter. The police have said that the shooter is a woman, but beyond that have not released anything to anyone. /1

It’s not the main sign, but a big sign at this regime is fascist is the constant need to sell itself as Strong yet perpetually the victim at the same time. The leader is a pedophile, it’s fine because they said so. At the same time having to listen to Spanish at the Super Bowl traumatized them.

OK, I gotta ask. We disagreed about how it should be done, sometimes a lot, but we all agreed that we want the world we give our kids to be better than the one we got. How did that change? And for once we can’t really blame Trump because he didn’t do it, he just made it more obvious.

An Update - earlier I talked about how Amazon is reporting that the Melania movie made about $7 million, which is the strongest showing for a documentary in over a decade, but there’s a big stacks of proof saying that Amazon is fudging the numbers as the movie is basically an ego stroke/bribe. /1

Well, looks like the Virginia map is gonna land, which will give Dems four more seats in the house. The thing you have to remember about GOP gerrymandering efforts is that they’ve already been at it for decades, so there aren’t very many more seats for them to take. Relatively speaking at least. /1

A few days ago Trump did do something on the promise to help with healthcare costs by unveiling a website called TrumpRx. Supposedly, he personally negotiated cheaper prices from drug manufacturers to be sold on the website. But of course, this is a lie. /1

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

Probably not the place that needs to hear this but remember when we said you have to vote for Kamala Harris in 2024 otherwise we may not have a free and fair election ever again? Trump is demanding that his allies in Congress rip the power to control their local elections away from the states. /1

Ammon Bundy, the guy who led an armed standoff against Feds in 2014, recently did an interview where he admits that as far as he knows everyone who was with him that day is now actively rooting for ICE. Something he claims he just utterly does not understand and that it scares him.

Sidenote about the Epstein files. I will admit I am genuinely shocked that from what we’ve seen so far Bill Clinton has definitely been to the island and partied, but the worst thing he personally did seems to be just hog the hot tub. I thought we would be launching him into the Sun by now.

Amazon is reporting that the Melania documentary pulled in about $7 million, which is the strongest showing for a documentary in over a decade. There’s a bunch of proof that Amazon is lying though. If you just count people that bought a tic and then actually went it may have broken half 1 million.

And just to top off all the awful shit ICE does, there is now confirmed reports of them giving the Saskatoon goodbye. That’s when cops release someone in a way that still puts their life in danger anyway. Putting the miles from civilization in freezing temperatures for example. /1

There’s a physics paper now going around, the author arguing that true AGI is impossible with current techniques. The short version of the argument is that true AGI requires so many bit erasure operations which require so much energy each - which is more energy then the human race can even produce.

Heads up folks, Ted Cruz was spotted on a plane to Laguna Beach. That means the upcoming winter storm is looking pretty serious. I know it’s an old joke and you’re probably seen it before, but I like it.

I will admit I’m genuinely shocked he’s still alive. Sure, his dad had a similar cognitive issue and he made it to 95. But his dad could be talked into actually doing some actual light exercise and eating something at least somewhat healthy. Fred wasn’t trying to survive on Fast Food and Uppers.

Elon Musk donated $10 million to Mitch McConnell‘s primary opponent, just in case the old man runs again. I want remind everyone that Mitch McConnell has historically been Trump‘s biggest enabler, he’s only relatively recently expressed actual misgivings on how far some things have gone. /1

A gentle reminder that we actually can prove that Mississippi is doing welfare fraud at least in order of magnitude higher than what they’re accusing Minnesota of, but since that’s a red state that voted for Trump he doesn’t care. Because he *likes* fraud, he just knows most other people don’t.

lol. Apparently some joker set it up so that if you enter “nazis.us” into an address bar it redirects you to the DHS website.

You may have heard that Scott Adams, of Dilbert, died this morning. Officially, prostate cancer. But unofficially? Because he went rightwing crazy bananas, and for the first couple months of his cancer diagnosis he tried to treat it with a horse dewormer instead of “liberal” medicine. /1

So South Korea’s version of Trump, down to having an attempted violent coup to take over the government, is currently on trial and it’s just been announced that the death penalty is on the table. South Korea knows an important historical lesson that our own top Democrats still can’t figure out. /1

Quick question - have we tried telling them that climate change is real and a plot by the lizard people who want to illegally immigrate to the surface and take our jobs?

So it turns out they found an unpublished story by Tolkien. The story - has a theme. Techbro Fascists: Let's name our newest Torment Nexus after another Tolkien magical thing to give it nerd cred and mystique. Tolkien: FUCK TECH, FUCK CARS, AND FUCK YOU FOR RIDING THEM!

@schumer.senate.gov GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY, CHUCK.

So basically what Russia did to Ukraine we’re now doing the Venezuela, over Oil. While directly dropping hints that we want do the same thing to Mexico and remembering that not so long ago we were still threatening to do this to Canada and Greenland. Somehow “told you so” doesn’t cut it.

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in 2026.

Shout out to the guy I just had an argument with trying to claim that Tim Walz possibly funneling money towards Somali scammers that were on paper running daycare centers is bad, but Trump selling presidential pardons for 2 million pop is fine. Zion Don is a cute nickname for him. /1

The Atlantic just put out an article where it’s suggested that Charlie Kirk’s last words could unify the country. When he was shot he was trying to blame trans people for mass shootings, and deflecting to a race argument when pointed out that this doesn’t make sense. Yeah, I’ll pass.

You know the stereotype that all Republican voters are old, racist, or both? Looks like there’s something to that. A recent poll by the conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute found out about a third of Republican voters under the age of 50 will openly admit to being racist if asked. /1

Heh. Remember the Democrat lawmaker they caught flat out taking bribes that was offered a Trump pardon? Trump just flat out admitted that he expected the guy to switch parties in exchange, and he didn’t. Which led to an angry rant about loyalty last night. lol. Dope.

They finally caught the guy who planted most of the bombs planted around DC during Jan 6. Officially we don't know the whole story or why he did it, but a big clue just got leaked. Get this - the bomber? He believed that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.

My Thanksgiving weekend related hot take - Black Friday, just as a concept, is disgusting. We just spent the day being thankful for what we have and not 24 hours later we are greedy piggies trying to get more shit we don’t need. But I will grant that part of that is just the timing. /1

Several members of Congress that were also military vets released a video pointing out that military members take oaths to the constitution and not any one particular person, and as such it’s actually their duty to disobey an order if they think it’s unlawful. Guess how Trump took it. /1

Well, that’s exciting. The Epstein Transparency act passed in the house, 427 to 1. Apparently, both Johnson and Trump’s thought Thune would sit on it for a while and make some changes to the house would have to vote on it again at a later date. Nope. The ETA passed the Senate 100-0 today too.

A few hours ago Trump changed his mind and said the Republicans should vote to release the Epstein Files. Could be because his allies think they have scrubbed enough, but I think it’s more likely it’s just the files are going out Tuesday either way and this way it looks like he’s still in charge.

Plot Twist - So in one of the new release emails, Epstein implies that Trump actually gave someone referred to as “Bubba” a blowjob. Bubba is a common nickname for Bill Clinton, but allegedly Ms Maxwell also owned a horse by that name at the time. There’s a conundrum. Which way is funnier?

Just a reminder - A big step forward to end the shutdown happened last night. But I still don’t think it’s gonna happen anytime soon because anything the Senate passes has to also go through the House and at this point the House can’t officially meet without also releasing the Epstein files.

Well, it is Extra Life Game Day. The one day a year where I come out of my cave to try to raise some money for children’s hospitals. I will be trying to keep everyone up-to-date on games and events as they transpire. Game on, be cool. www.extra-life.org/participants...

As we start to talk about hurricane Melissa, I want to remind people of the old legend that hurricanes of female names average having higher death tolls because of unconscious sexism leading to people taking them less seriously than they should. It’s actually kind of true, but there’s a caveat. /1

>The Maine senatorial candidate has a skull and crossbow themed tattoo that is rumored to be Nazi adjacent. Drama ensues. “Oh come on, let’s at least hold off judging until we’ve actually seen the tattoo.” >Pics happen. It totally is a Totenkopf. “…Huh. Well, you are right. Carry on.”

Well, unless they make a deal a few major assistance programs run out of money at the end of the month including SNAP. Meanwhile, construction has started on the new Whitehouse ballroom nobody but T wanted. If this were happening in a novel I’d call the writer a hack.

www.extra-life.org/participant/... Thought I'd try to do something positive with social media for a change. I'll be tossing this page up once in a while. I'm doing a charity thing to raise money for children's hospitals. Basically a walkathon, but instead of walk a mile it's game for an hour. /1

In response to No Kings protests yesterday, Trump used the official White House social media to post an AI video of himself wearing a crown, flying a plane, and dropping poop on protesters. Basically he argued that they’re wrong by admitting they are right and just saying it with stank on it.