No I'm not a pedophile but literally everyone I know, everyone I hang out with, everyone I do business with is a friend of Jeffrey Epstein

WaPo editorial board when TX imposes a legislative gerrymander: don't freak out guys! Not a threat to democracy! When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship. There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.

They scooped @katz.theracket.news and @marisakabas.bsky.social (and perhaps others) some 30 months after the fact, but yes, it’s true.

Just last week watched Sir Ian McKellen perform this live on stage in Chicago. Strongly recommend.

NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.

The reason is because they know that it works.

Republicans save their most histrionic umbrage for when Democrats adopt their tactics.

trans women playing women’s sports

so funny to see republicans complaining about this as if they have not been pulling this shit for 15 years.

BREAKING: As the Super Bowl gets ready to kick off in Las Vegas, someone just protected this video onto a building there! It’s the “P-do Bowl” featuring the men who are in the Epstein files the most. Hint: Donald Trump, Howard Lutnick and Steve Bannon are the all-stars of this game.

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON is, in my opinion, good. letterboxd.com/andrewmoxon/...

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

Private: you been in the shit, Sarge? Sarge: [faraway look] still got three pieces of popcorn kernel between my teeth, kid ... yeah, you could say I've been in the shit

Two ways to support the 100s of talented WaPo journalists that Jeff Bezos fired this week: 1) Support fired WaPo international reporters, who weren’t eligible to join @postguild.bsky.social: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t... 2) Support the WaPo Guild’s layoff fund: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

To be clear, the reason you need to sign the pledge and petition is to enable a D primary of Rosa DeLauro. Who IMO deserves a competitive primary because of this. bsky.app/profile/chri...

CT-3 includes New Haven and Yale University, by the way! Go here to pledge to sign the the pledge to sign the petition to demand a D primary! Right now they're at 789 pledges - they need a little over 4000 actual names on the petitions to get a primary, so help 'em out! damjanforct.com

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I’d wuther not.

Just unspeakably cruel

Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota

A real “threat level midnight” / “dwigt” scenario

Their argument is: rich white people are allowed to do whatever they want, and that includes pedo islands or rounding up the rest in camps. There is no contradiction, no hypocrisy, no argument that will sway them. The ideology is: power is moral

Saw the images shared by the temporary president, and yeah, there is just no way to overestimate how depraved and indecent republicans are; they will always go lower than any decent person can imagine. They're defending child rape now, just an army of morally bankrupt fiends, what else can we expect

Again pushing my modest proposal that it should be a Class A felony with a minimum sentence of 10 years per infraction for any employee or former employee of ICE to consume food.

I want people to understand this. For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence. This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.

This man is like Thanos mixed with Forest Gump. If there weren’t receipts for all of this I wouldn’t believe it

that's not all they should be afraid of losing

Never has "it's funny because it's true" been more apt.

Just own it, America, you elected a criminal racist piece of shit twice by some quirk in the Constitution, his entire financial life built off housing discrimination, his entire political life built off wanting to execute innocent teenagers and questioning the birthplace of our only Black President.

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

this is a phenomenal quote

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

The thing about saying that genAI will enable the marginalized to create art is that not only is it not true, literally just fucking look at art and music and writing, but it is saying that a handful of rich pedophiles should be allowed to control whether marginalized people can produce art.

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While I have a lot of people's attention: As some of y'all know, I volunteer at a women's shelter in Brooklyn. Over the time I've been there, a lot of women have approached me about starting a knitting/crocheting group. The Big Barrier to this is that there is no money for supplies. (cont'd)

One would hope that media outlets eventually understood that many of their readership woes stem from having no standards for conservatives. But the reality is that management prioritizes right-wing propaganda over profits, so they're not going to change.

If you won’t say this, you should not hold public office

OK. Let’s set a new opening position. New law that makes it a class A felony for Republican public officials to consume food. Each infraction is another 10 year minimum prison sentence. If they want to talk about abolishing ice, we can be willing to compromise.

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification. But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

This is why shunning is needed.

The glibness with which these people are dismissing what is, fundamentally, an extensive record of elite atrocities makes me think it’s better if I don’t finish this sentence

A lot of people don’t seem to even know the degree to which they are geared to automatically see abuse from the abusers’s point of view, to telling the abuser story. This drives a lot of the “paths to redemption” talk. Abuser culture sets an instinctive goal: restore the abuser.

It is also very telling that throughout the episode, the feelings/consequences they are trying to understand belong almost exclusively to the pedophiles, not to the victims. In fact, the word 'victim' only shows up in the transcript TWICE.

This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.

Final form:

The rings on Elon Musk’s marble bedside table, ghosts of past Caffeine-Free Diet Cokes is, as Henry Rollins puts it, my guardo camino.

Money can buy happiness. *Amassing* money won't bring happiness. If you had Elon's money, and gave it all away except for a few million, enough to do as you pleased, I think that would buy happiness for you and many others. The thing about buying that billionaires forget is, you have to spend.