Quick question what the fuck was Merrick Garland doing for four years

Look a lot of people were at the Lucifer Foundation's annual Billionaire Vision Brunch in 2011. I didn't talk to all of them. Some of us just find the work the Lucifer Foundation does to be interesting.

lol a month ago I saw that headline and said This sounds like some shit that a guy who’s in the Epstein files would say. Lo and behold!

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

edging with billionaires

David Brooks thinks it's unfair to call these people "the Epstein class."

So... The Hunger Games, then??

NYC isn’t just surveilled -- it’s searchable. The NYPD’s Domain Awareness System aggregates camera feeds, license plate scans, DNA data, and police records into a single dragnet accessible to officers in real time. S.T.O.P.’s new report explains why this system is unconstitutional and dangerous.

Every squishy center-leftist who had “legitimate concerns” about some youth transition needs to face facts: there was no counterparty you could negotiate on the margins with. The other side wants trans people not to exist. It’s that simple.

People are not upset because they think every single member of the American elite is a mass rapist. They're upset because elites downplay and excuse mass rape while obscuring their ties to the rapists — *precisely the thing Brooks did in his column.*

Lmaoooo yeah he was there to tell people to stop being perverts. Shook his head the whole time

Criminal conviction. Thousands of green card holders lose their status every year because of prior conviction.

Saw the notifications. The dead include: - A 39-year-old undocumented Nicaraguan man released by the Trump admin in 2018 - A 41-year-old Haitian man who entered legally through CBP One in 2023 - A 46-year-old Eritrean green card holder - A 56-year-old Bulgarian man who at one point had a green card

It's unfair to call me part of the Epstein Class says the guy in the Epstein files.

Quoted in this piece but my main point is how do people who are so mediocre get the chutzpah to talk about standards? This person is a spokesperson and seems to have a poor grasp of English, describing federal employees as “federal bureaucratic” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.

In the 90 minutes since I posted this, I've gotten two more death notifications. ICE has a responsibility to take care of these people, something they are clearly disregarding. This is beyond horrifying. We must ensure dignity and humanity for detained people in this country.

The deafening silence from the UK's "official" Jewish institutions on Nigel Farrage's antisemitism demonstrates how morally bankrupt they are. So far the Board of Deputies, JLC, chief rabbi and CST have yet to say one word. Pathetic doesn't begin to capture it. www.jewishnews.co.uk/jonathan-fre...

Someone asked on NGL if they could support my move and if I preferred Canadian, US dollars or something else. I mostly need help with packing, cleaning, planning things for my Mom to do on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and other tasks. Here's my Venmo if that is easiest:

Future Forward's TV ads appeared to be put together by people who had never edited video before, using what appeared to be recordings made by pointing a camera at a screen playing a video instead of, you know, just using the video, and so forth they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on them

Metaphors getting ever more didactic bsky.app/profile/zach...

Note that Brooks hung out with Epstein 3 years after Epstein had pleaded guilty to solicitation of prostitution and procuring a child for prostitution. I don't think this makes him look any better! bsky.app/profile/chri...

Texas widow receives immigration approval letter months after husband's death in ICE shooting The approval letter would've allowed Miguel Garcia to move forward with obtaining a visa or green card

The reason you don’t disclose is that you know it looks bad and you hope it never comes out.

I do not regret to inform you that Mamdani has been burden-pilled

Goodemorning Gonzobongos! I hav arizend!

Please Do Not Release Any More Epstein Files, They Are Not Important, by A Guy In The Epstein Files

WE COULD HAVE HAD BEN WIKLER AS LEADER

I fear people don't know what it means to be part of a minoritized group. not being listened to/believed is a universal experience of minoritization

hell, I think it's perfectly reasonable for someone *not to have known who Epstein was* in 2010. It wasn't a massive story then! But you've got to disclose that you met him *when you write about him now*.

I was curious about this. TBD it seems.

Surveillance boosters and people who sell cameras are shameless in that any tragedy is an argument for more cameras. The actual number is irrelevant, rather it’s seen by them as an opportunity to increase the existing number until every square inch of the earth is blanketed.

Just heard Somali blood libel at the gym, not great!

Nobody involved in US or Israeli politics even questions the idea that Israel has a right to maintain direct military rule over 33% of its population indefinitely, and that is why there is simply no way to even begin a constructive dialogue on this.

@strayliotta.bsky.social saw this and thought of you…and MJ

oh I got cats

18 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- ACLU will challenge the Trump admin's attention to weaponize the Medicare/ Medicaid to force hospitals to stop providing GAC. "These gratuitous proposals are cruel and unconstitutional attacks...,” said Chase Strangio, Co-Director of ACLU's LGBTQ Rights.

When cruelty becomes routine, language does not merely reflect violence, it prepares the ground for it. The endpoint of such brutalizing rhetoric is the normalization of state terror, and the steady march toward persecution, prisons, and torture. To ignore this is not neutrality; it is complicity.

Trump's response to Reiner's death is not simply self-absorption run amok; it is the moral signature of a political culture in which cruelty is normalized, public life is stripped of ethical considerations, and suffering becomes raw material for spectacle and punishment.

I gotta say I find a lot of the edgy anti-lib posting these days to be more banal and hackneyed than anything else. This isn't 2012, guys.

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

This this this. And if you, the public, cease to care, why should the President?

*Free speech guy meme* I think it's reasonable to get upset when a would-be tyrant defaces symbols of the republic.

"really punchable face" a person with a Cloud Strife avatar says of NYT columnist David Brooks

one of the stranger parts of US intellectual culture is people desperate to convince themselves that they're dangerous radical dissidents while writing for, for instance, the New York Review of Architecture or working as tenure-track professors.

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The Department of Health and Human Services has cut millions in dollars in grants from a leading children’s health association after the group criticized RFK Jr’s unscientific policies. The grants terminated jeopardize initiatives on topics such as infant death prevention.

New space supremacy executive order dropped "developing and demonstrating prototype next-generation missile defense technologies by 2028 to progressively and materially enhance America’s air and missile defenses pursuant to Executive Order 14186 of January 27, 2025 (The Iron Dome for America);"

And, really, what else is the point of government?

History will record this administration‘s absolute OBSESSION with people’s genitals