Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals. This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.

As alternate history scenarios go, this is a real doozy.

This album always hits me like an emotional metric fuckton of bricks.

He bemoans that he was unable to trap Clinton, "“Clinton was NEVER EVER there, never,” Epstein wrote. about his island. And expressed his frustration that he never able to even met Al Gore. Hats off to Al Gore.

I cannot say I disagree with this at all.

If you grew up in this area, this list of names will quite clearly resonate with you. If you didn't, picture every important news person from your hometown coming together to speak up.

“Actually, he only raped teenagers” is a hell of a thing to say out loud.

Not to go all "with great power comes great responsibility" on y'all, but ... there are a couple of things in this work that anger me to my core more than just about anything else. The first is when someone in a position of power could help those who need it and chooses not to.

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

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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.

These ICE guys are clowns, albeit very dangerous ones. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/i...

The difference between Dems and GOP is Dems want all child sexual abusers/traffickers in prison and the GOP only wants the Dems in prison

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

*in chicago* alone

Can everyone who sent emails to or received emails from Jeffrey Epstein be, at the very least, fired and shunned?

once you've been to bajor you'll never stop wanting to beat gul dukat to death with your bare hands.

I cannot read the Epstein emails. It will do bad things to my brain. It will either do something or it won’t, but my thinking about it will accomplish nothing.

Me, literally every time the aurorae are visible.

No aurorae visible from here.

Your windshields should be absolutely covered in a sticky mess of bug splats/insect carcasses every time you drive across open country forcing you to stop periodically at gas stations to use their wet squeegees to try and clean up your view of the road at night

The first woman to serve with the elite SEAL Team Six as a troop commander has had her orders revoked just days before she was supposed to take over a new command.

Fuck Indiana.

Is this good? It doesn't seem good. "Walgreens will no longer give many of its retail workers paid vacation time for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays, as the company looks to cut costs under new owners."

My new desk chair had wobbly arms which annoyed the hell out of me and I kept trying to tighten them but nothing worked. Started to shove a shim into the gap and realized I could use a rubber washer... and now, it's like a new chair. What else in my life have I "half fixed" when I could have fixed?

Just moments ago, detainees transported from ICE’s Broadview facility this morning were loaded onto an Avelo Airlines plane in Gary, Indiana.

What a conservative thing to say. “What’s the point of standards?” Why should she live by anyone else’s rules, in other words.

And while you can get to something close to objective truth by taking the average of several different subjective, biased, attempts to tell ths truth, you can't get there by taking the average of truth and falsehood.

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Anyone who spends $1000 on shorts (especially ones that look like cutoff sweats) should immediately forfeit all their money.

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I would say this is how every Democrat should be talking but pretty much every Democrat is on board with the imperial project so

Touching grass isn't enough, I need to be reminded of the timelessness of the human need to create beauty and connection.

Coming to you from the Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago.

At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.

Somebody explained dibs to them and they got scared.

In case you wondered, there's probably exactly one person who has licked the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

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One of the biggest differences between Republicans and Democrats is that the Republicans view their radical wing as a tool, while the Democrats view theirs as a threat.

Texas censorship news.

Live your life in such a way that someone writes this lovingly about you.

Understand that he's talking about distances of ~50 miles apart here.

It could happen today.

Thank you, Kyle.

On today's timeline: dog thoughts.

Holy shit

So I know the Edmund Fitzgerald has become a bit of a meme in recent years, people love the song (correctly) and it's a huge deal in the Great Lakes. But as someone who grew up in northern Michigan in the 80s, I thought you all might find it interesting to hear about how it affected us.