My wokest opinion (qualified by presumed number of eye rolls it would generate) is that consent is incredibly sexy and romantic.

A Chicago day care employee detained by immigration agents has been released, her attorneys say. Diana Santillana Galeano was detained last week at Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center.

This seems very performative and pointless

I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.

Sweetie, we have brunch at home. (I’m coping about the news cycle over the stove. Today it’s sweet oatmeal crepes)

Seems so unnecessary to lie about what happened when the reality is damning enough.

Gonna log off and drink wine

Feels like the OP was just applying Occam’s Razor here, rather gaslighty to call it conspiratorial mansplaining

One of the reasons people--myself included--are upset is the lack of transparency from the Times about this entire situation when they've gone on endless crusades against transgender people on flimsy evidence or ideological whim; we can also talk about the Mamdani/Columbia thing or Claudine Gay.

What’s a good article I can send a friend who wants to know more about the Times not running articles on Trump’s pedophilia when they had the chance?

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Dropping this the week of some more Epstein news is bananas.

The day Daylight Saving ended my little baby went on a poop strike that went on for 13 days. Breastfed babies are so wild, they go from pooping 3 times a day to twice a month just like that.

btw this morning when a person i know in federal government logged into their computer they got an email that said 'welcome back from the democrat-led shutdown ' lmfao

Every immigrant who works so hard to write emails that don’t give people cause to doubt their command of the English language are squinting at these semi unreadable leaked emails of America’s elites going “what the actual fuck is this shit.”

Little baby has strong orange cat energy: She’d regularly manage to get a couple of fingers free from the fold over sleeves, but is still sucking on the thumb that’s trapped in the fabric. Right now she’s sucking on her thumb while gripping two teething toys and pressing them into her cheeks.

Reminder - when turkey frying, things can go from "wholesome family cooking memory" to "traumatic family cooking memory" very quickly. A few precious decisions separate, "That's the year we fried the turkey!" and "That's the year we burned down the deck." Make good choices. Children are watching.

#RECALL: Tesla Powerwall 2 AC Battery Power Systems www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...

“If we make a big deal out of this Epstein stuff we may appear biased and overly eager to take down the sitting president—can’t have that. Let’s make sure we seem fair to both sides.”

Wild to watch playbook run cover for this particular Trump scandal

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

If you haven’t already (no judgement), cancel your Times subscription and subscribe to something better

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

Plenty of things to give Bluesky a kicking about regarding moderation and 'open' labellers, but the private school labeller now having an 'Epstein Connection' label also shows it can be extremely lmao.

Kind of mad none of the people who raised me taught me this, it was always, “so and so is a sex pest but he’s a brilliant xxx.” I know now that abusers will always put themselves first, serve themselves first, and whatever thing they’re amazing at suffers as soon as there’s a conflict of interest.

Just a couple of days ago, the Moral Avatar on the Charles (and Jeffrey Epstein pen pal) was trying to get an investigation launched against Harvard’s excellent student newspaper

This article is utterly damning for the New York Times and also for Vanity Fair and ABC, whose editorial teams were apparently intimidated into silence by a mix of legal and violent threats. Virginia Giuffre did not stand a chance against all this.

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

Almost a decade after “grab them by the pussy,” do we finally have enough proof that he is a nasty sex pest that should be shunned from society?

Stop me if you've heard this before: If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF??? They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???

Epstein advising Bannon about Kavanaugh? have all these awful guys been linked all along

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!) According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.

Honestly how are pharma companies not allowed to sue these people into the ground. I'm really asking.

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Did she wipe her hand on her dress after shaking hands with that man?

Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible

All his emails read like general anesthesia is starting to kick in

The Epstein files are clearly more damning than we assumed, which is saying something.

The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won

"BUT BILL CLINTON IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES" okay man arrest him too

On a completely irrelevant note, I hate the sentence structures in Epstein’s emails

BREAKING: Leaked emails between Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell allege that Trump was fully aware of his pedophilia: “i want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief etc." trib.al/rWqukO9

I really REALLY hope @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social publishes this 🌈

the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product

New from 404 Media: ICE plans to spend as much as $180 million on bounty hunters to physically locate and stalk immigrants. I spoke to multiple private investigators/skip tracers. Some horrified. Others said they will do this work. "Money is money." www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...

Good to see restaurant product developers turning to food cultures that know what they're doing, as opposed to VC-funded, influencer-touted SM darlings whose products taste like obfuscated laboratory-produced sadness.