Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...

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Lots of people saying that they're pulling back from Chicago because it got cold, but it's not really that cold or snowy, yet. I think they're pulling back because they keep losing in court and don't have the resources (yet) to fully occupy anywhere long term.

Some excerpts that stood out to me from District Judge Jeff Cummings' order today, compelling the release of at least some people found to have been detained in violation of a prior consent decree limiting how and when federal immigration agents can carry out warrantless arrests.

"don't worry, he's just into 15-year-olds" perhaps not as exculpatory as you think Also 15-year-olds are not "barely legal." They are minors.

Maligning basic, safe OTC medications that most people have to resort to, like acetaminophen and ibuprofen, is part of a larger scam to blame people for their health problems (or their children's health needs or problems), so that the administration can claim people don't deserve care or support.

HE WAS RUNNING A CATCH AND KILL OPERATION FOR AN ELITE CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING RING OUT OF YOUR OWN OFFICES AND IT IMPLICATED THE PRESIDENT DIRECTLY

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

I agree, reconstructing what existed is a failed idea from the start. We can't go back, we have to go forward. But we have to build what we can right now because we won't have the time, resources, or ability if we fall into a power vacuum/civil war/government collapse. And ffs way less hierarchy!

One of the things that's very difficult to really take to heart about MAGA conservatives is that you can't get them on hypocrisy about their children because they really don't give a fuck about their kids

i do think that certain reporters clamoring to tell people that epstein's private emails to and about influential/powerful people aren't actually newsworthy are possibly betraying their own class interests

2 years of genocide denialism, lying about WMDs to justify the Iraq invasion, numerous editorials over the years pushing the most vile ideas, constant sexism, homophobia, and transphobia, and now helping to cover up child sex trafficking by the most privileged people in society. What journalism?

Media literacy is low overall but it’s also very high among a lot of people now and we’re not stupid enough to believe that ~the rules of journalism~ - especially at powerful institutions like the NYT - are real anymore. They obviously put their finger on the scale or let up when they want to.

People who did not grow up here will never understand the tears that just erupted seeing TOM SKILLING's name on this

I think after the events of the past week we’re past the point of “why are you blaming the democrats rather than THE REPUBLICANS!?”. It’s clearly both parties and it’s clear they’re in cahoots.

This is giving former NYT reporter confessing “I’m one of the people who knew about those NYT emails“ vibes

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

Dealing with my oldest's school this year has me worrying about exactly this kind of situation. It's why we're trying to create a paper trail and why my kid has been amazing at following the rules and giving no openings, so far. It's bad enough dealing with bullies, but when they're protected... 🤬

A middle school boy created deepfake AI CSAM of his fellow classmate, a 13 year old girl. The girl pleaded with the school but they did nothing and instead put her on a bus with the perpetrator. She ended up hitting him and was expelled but nothing happened to the boy. www.wsaw.com/2025/11/12/g...

Fuck every single person associated with Epstein. Yes, that includes Noam Chomsky.

That's why I have an unwavering faith in direct democracy. People want to do right by each other, but systems of concentrated power allows those decisions to be made by the most depraved among us. Everyone counts. Everyone's voice needs to be heard, without qualification, for society to thrive.

This is not disconnected from the Epstein thing. Epstein could go on as long as he did because women are considered to have no value.

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.

Revolution and rebellion are difficult for all the obvious reasons: power imbalances, lack of resources, entrenched structures working against you. But it's also extremely difficult because it means going against your own society. We are social creatures and that's an existential threat to us. But,-

these are the same people that want to repeatedly inspect your childs genitals btw

Housing First approaches to homelessness, that prioritize getting a stable roof over people's heads before addressing trauma from the streets & other issues, prove to lead to long term stability. Rounding every homeless person up for forced mental health care which is incarceration is not the way!

Stop taking madness out of your equation when you talk about homelessness. It's very transparent to us. You have no solidarity with the mad in any aspect of your life & the only way you can feel sorry for a homeless person is if you think they're "normal" like you.

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

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"In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery…To expect science to be impartial in a wage-slave society is as foolishly naïve as to expect impartiality from manufacturers on the question of whether workers' wages ought not to be increased by decreasing the profits..."

“Guys if we just pass laws saying all our crime is legal no one can ever try us for them” - Germans circa 1942 and also apparently US Senate in 2025

I cannot stress enough that you should not in any circumstances be using an AI-generated summary when you are signing contracts of any kind DocuSign scrambling onto the anxiety-fuelled AI slop festival.....

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

It is an obvious fact that capitalism will end at some point. It continues to confuse me that people don’t want to advocate for an equitable economic organization of society as the next form our economy takes. (Not really dont tell me why Im aware of ideology propaganda and false consciousness)

It really does shine a harsh light on the fact that almost the entire US media apparatus is complicit in the worst crimes of the powerful and wealthy. From war mongering to trafficking children, is clear that they have helped cover up and accomplish innumerable unspeakable crimes at every level.

I know parentis ass isn’t on this shit

so, uh, where were these files when biden was president and democrats controlled the house and the senate?

You’re allowed to mourn the softness you lost by hardening your heart to protect it from the world

Wait so ibuprofen is “useless” and not “necessary safe and effective”. Tylenol causes autism (sure they retracted that but they’re still telling pregnant people not to take it) They’re trying to ban hemp products. They really seem to want people to suffer in pain.

Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves

Release the documents because the victims have been demanding this for years. That should really be the bottom line here. RELEASE ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS (including photos and videos)

I almost forgot to unfollow Teen Vogue

The soft pedaling language being used to describe the men in the Epstein files is enraging. They didn’t “have sex with underage girls”. They raped them. Sex implies consent. The survivors deserve better than this. Use the correct language. Say what these men did.

You know maybe Bluesky would have a functioning system to tell people why they were suspended if they didn’t spent effort making a system to hide all the posts that made them feel bad in their replies

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

Hmm it seems that all the people who rule over us, in government and the private sector and academia, are evil pedophiles.

It's the same party. Stop pretending the Democrats and the Republicans are two different entities. They are both the system that runs the U.S. and it's a system that upholds white supremacy and corporate greed. Some of you are truly too smart to not get this and I'm starting to question your motive.

sweet mother of resist lib fuck, people are actually out here retconning the Dems caving in the senate as a 10D chess move to get Epstein to happen. this was ALWAYS going to happen. the house couldn't do anything without swearing her in, which activates this trap card. good lord.