My favorite photos from the Olympics are of this Italian figure skater Daniel Grassl. He looks absolutely insane in so many of them. It's great.

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

Vaguely recall how Biden admin emails to Twitter were the biggest attack on free speech ever. There was a whole twitter files thing about that. Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?

The mainstream media seems to be adopting Trump’s spin that, if there’s no evidence he visited the island, he never sexually abused minors. There are lots of indications and evidence he sexually abused minors with Epstein in the U.S.

A good reminder that when Bari Weiss and her ilk talk about getting rid of “woke” ideology or bias, what they really mean is replacing one ideology with another, and the new bias is much stronger than whatever it’s replacing.

If and when we finally end this horrific criminal Trump regime, there will be immense pressure from centrist pundits and politicians to move on and let the Republican Party off the hook for their huge part in this. We cannot allow that to happen, or it’s the end of the US.

This is really, really dark. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

That the NYT still writes this stuff when everyone knows that Musk is full of horseshit (including the reporters at the NYT!) is honestly shocking at this point. They think you're stupid. They know he never does anything he promises but they write it anyway. Utter trash.

It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards

The kickoff rule postscript is 🤌

I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.

“During my tenure, difficult decisions have been taken in order to ensure the sustainable future of The Post.” —Will Lewis

A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.

Kid Rock looks like Tim Heidecker as Mike Lindell as Kid Rock, what the hell am I looking at here

Senile shit for brains finally admits the motivation for his attempted coup in 2020.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

"Jeffrey Epstein partied with Trump's closest advisers including Wilbur Ross, Rudy Giuliani, and Steve Mnunchin at dinner hosted by David Koch just TWO MONTHS after his release from prison" (h/t @arkancrow.bsky.social): www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Every time I think my opinion of Bari Weiss can’t go any lower … What kind of person/boss/“journalist” looks at the email exchanges between Attia and Epstein and thinks it’s not a huge fucking problem?

Of all the things in the history of the world that definitely did not happen - this is the pinnacle.

Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates: “Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

The guy on the right is New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, photographed at the Kennedy Center premiere of “Melania.” #GoSeahawks!

I guess this didn't make it into the documentary.

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The latest batch of documents really appears to show that the worst that people imagined is true - there was an international conspiracy of ultra wealthy and powerful men to traffic and sexually abuse young girls - and the media is reacting with a yawn.

I’m not seeing nearly enough emphasis in the Times about the latest Epstein documents. There should be a front-page story about Musk. He’s been caught dead to rights seeking a “wild party” with Epstein. There should be a front page story about the latest on Trump, putting aside the unverified tips.

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

Whoa. This is from an FBI email with the subect "Re: Epstein - Cellmate Interview" Here are the summaries provided by the FBI agent.

You can’t look at videos like this—snow cascading down, temperatures feeling like they’re in the negative, and people out there anyway, making their voices heard—and not believe in America.

The few interesting things about Melania—like why she knew Jeffrey Epstein before Donald, what her “modeling” career really entailed, her "arrangement" with Donald, what she thinks about Donald’s constant cheating, and if she really hates Ivanka and Christmas—are omitted from the film.

Brad Karp, chairman of Paul, Weiss, settled with Trump only six days after getting Trump's crazy demands. No fight at all. The New Yorker, baffled, thought the issue might be that a Paul, Weiss partner had worked for Robert Mueller. But maybe it's all even simpler. 2/ web.archive.org/web/20251105...

Chaya Raichik, who runs the social media account Libs of TikTok, has spent the days following Alex Pretti’s killing doxxing ordinary working people — teachers, nurses, school board members — for speaking out against federal immigration officials or expressing sympathy for Pretti.

Repeating myself: all the billionaires with weird politics are trying to create a world where they can be pedophiles without risk of sanction

NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite -- Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge futurism.com/future-socie...

Chuck Schumer is going to introduce a non-binding resolution requesting that federal agents wipe their feet on the doormat before storming into a journalist's home at 2am to arrest them for angering the president.

I can't believe I would ever say this combination of words but: "The deal's off. Release Don Lemon right now" is literally the only correct option Democrats should be considering right now. How is there nuance to this. They're kidnapping journalists you useless fucks.

Any reporter or politician who was fooled even the slightest by Trump’s “change in tone” on the ICE invasion of Minneapolis needs to be drummed out of their profession. @nytimes.com @schumer.senate.gov

This is so unhinged

If you're a journalist listening to Homan BLOVIATE about law and order right now and your immediate question isn't *what gives YOU the authority to speak about crimes and "law and order" when you accepted a $50,000 bribe and keep avoiding any accountability?* then you are ridiculous.

“An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package.” newrepublic.com/article/2057...

It is frankly a little bizarre to me how little the press & Dem leadership view of Trump’s actions seems to be through the lens of the rather obvious idea “Guy who somehow got reelected after staging a failed coup is very likely to try another coup.”

I need a job and I would not take a job working for Bari Weiss. If you are a commentator who cannot see what the play is there, I'm not sure you should be offering commentary.

The extent to which residents of Minneapolis are more civic, courageous, and patriotic than business elites, conservative luminaries, and Republican members of Congress, is really, really striking. It’s a lesson not to be forgotten. It’s one that would not have surprised Hubert Humphrey.

He had a syringe. A syringe filled with…idk (urine?) The President of the United States has incited this kind of action against a sitting, Black woman member of Congress. Where is the “tone down the rhetoric” brigade?

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

So close, NYT! Just take out the "Appear to" and you're doing real journalism! (And even this is better than usual.)