Will Lewis is resigning as WaPo CEO, former Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio is the paper’s new acting CEO and publisher, per memos to staff

Among other things, how does Leon “Epstein Island” Botstein think he’s going to raise money anymore? His whole schtick was a pious, faux-profound plea to our better angels, and now that argument has been laughably undermined by his own behavior.

Bard College must remove Botstein immediately!

New documents show that @bardcollege.bsky.social president Leon Botstein purchased a $51,615 rare watch; Botstein says he bought the watch on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein. But when Epstein’s accountant demanded that Botstein pay for the watch, Botstein did so. I guess out of the goodness of his heart.

One question I have is that if Bard President Leon Botstein, Jeffrey Epstein’s friend, thinks that college rapist boys are similar to Nazis, then why does his school treat them so leniently? www.huffpost.com/entry/bard-c...

Hard to overstate the extent to which Leon Botstein’s personal scorn for feminist anti-rape politics permeated Bard College’s culture while I was there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

What’s great about JD Vance is that unlike Miller, he doesn’t *want* to be hated. You can tell it eats at him that he is the object of universal scorn—that yet again he has given up everything in search of love, and found only contempt. This is what he deserves.

It occurs to me that Leon Botstein is good at cultivating exactly the kind of ego gratification that Epstein sought out: an appearance of worldly, old-money educatedness with none of the demands or rigor of actual substance.

Bard College President Leon Botstein appears in the Epstein files more than 2,500 times, including arranging travel to Epstein’s island, hosting a visit with “girls” to campus and telling the child sex predator, “I miss you.” Sarah Trafton reports: www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...

Not now, Olivia Colman.

I wrote about all the men who flocked to Jeffrey Epstein's inbox to talk about sexual abuse allegations with an expert. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Epstein said he was ‘asked everyday’ for advice on #MeToo: ‘So many guys reaching out to me’

“Is it too obvious to say that of course the right only values family as a system of ownership and property, only values motherhood as a way to push women from public life… only values babies & births when they are white babies and white births, meant to reproduce the nation as they imagine it?”

"The people tearing these loved ones apart are often the very same people who have spent so much of the past several years lecturing the American people, and in particular American women, about the importance of parenthood and family," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social.

Sucks to be ruled by a senile klansman.

I wrote about ICE’s kidnappings and the question of “family values.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I do think that the elite reactionary centrist and right wing pundits’ turn to “Jeffrey Epstein did nothing wrong” is more or less the logical conclusion of the post Me Too “wokeness” and “cancel culture” panic.

Republicans are the party of separating and destroying families | Moira Donegan

Dating myself but I'm old enough to remember that even before 2017 raping underage girls was considered "illegal" and "uncool."

The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

i will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list

Need a word for the Soon-to Previn and Ghislane Maxwell types—women who build their identities around their sexual appeal to men and have to make more and more ostentatious rejections of feminist sex politics as they age out of those men’s sexual desire.

People who kind of seem like they would be in the Epstein files bravely coming forward to declare that they’re in the Epstein files and it’s fine.

the Barbara Kruger mural the chase is happening in front of reads: "WHO IS BEYOND THE LAW? WHO IS BOUGHT AND SOLD? WHO IS FREE TO CHOOSE? WHO DOES THE TIME? WHO FOLLOWS ORDERS? WHO SALUTES LONGEST? WHO PRAYS LOUDEST? WHO DIES FIRST? WHO LAUGHS LAST?"

I have one follower who occasionally likes my posts, and the notification shows me their little profile picture circle. My god, I think, that’s one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen. So I click on the picture to see it larger, and realize that it’s a photo of Elaine Benes.

Like Trump himself, Tate is useful for channeling the misogynist id of the political right, and I do think these sentiments are driving the recent claims from some elite right wing corners that the Epstein scandal is overblown.

It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Actually starting to feel very allergic to the claim that Epstein's crimes are a function of his class. His money obviously increased the scale of his abuse and granted him additional impunity, but to say that wealth was the genesis of his depravity feels like willful blindness to gender.

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

I understand the reasons why it’s more jarring and consequential to see it happen among billionaires, but the kind of shrugging disinterest or impishly approving encouragement of sexual abuse among Epstein’s circle is the same dynamic that happens in less powerful milieus.

Roughly half a million women in the US exited the workforce in 2025, and 42% of those who voluntarily left cited their caregiving responsibilities as the main reason, according to a recent survey from Catalyst. www.hr-brew.com/stories/2026...

What the public does not understand about these retaliatory cases is that what is on trial is the ability for men to abuse their power against women without consequence. When women lose defamation lawsuits for speaking up, men win the right to abuse with impunity

Truly I have a right to be so much crazier and more embittered than I am.

Me Too did not go far enough

To my view, this exchange further undermines Wolff’s claims that his relationship with Epstein was that of journalist and subject. Here, Wolff shares the pitch for funding from an accused man with Epstein, and offers commentary indicating a shared ideological commitment against the Me Too movement.

If “judge me by my enemies” is a thing, this is pretty good evidence that you’re pissinging off the right people

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

NEW EPISODE. Over on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, @adriandaub.bsky.social and I discussed the murder of Alex Pretti, gender in ICE and its resistance, and fantasies of masculine heroism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

In fact eroticized exploitation, abuse, domination, and violence are in fact normative parts of male heterosexuality—they’re largely constitutive of how men define themselves as men. The big feminist and queer intervention in sexual politics has been to say that this is corrosive and unnecessary.

There were no black people in the ancient world. Black people were actually invented in the 1960s for purposes of white people’s moral edification. Few know this.

ok that's enough of that for today

yeahhhhh

ProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers www.propublica.org/article/alex...

The priest at my church got beat up at an anti-ICE protest on the peninsula this week, and when he showed up for Mass today with a black eye all the church ladies swooned like they had seen a Backstreet Boy.

Happy St Brigid’s Day! St Brigid helped spread Christianity in Ireland, becoming the abbess of a powerful convent. When a nun came to her, pregnant and scared, St Brigid laid hands on her belly, prayed, and induced a miraculous abortion.

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.