Trump & Epstein were named as co-defendants in a lawsuit accusing them of raping 13 year old Katie Johnson. She ended up dropping the lawsuit after receiving death threats for her & her family. This is not new evidence. This cannot be covered up. #PedoPresident

It is positively dumbfounding to me that literally ANYONE still has Alexa in their homes, neverminded that they're lining up to buy literal surveillance sunglasses

I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...

Before you rush to congratulate her for ANYTHING…

What the spat between Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene tells us about the disarray in the Democratic Party.

Folks, a famous author isn't ever going to contact you out of the blue to offer you literary services. It's always a scam. Also, speaking as an at least semifamous author, you wouldn't want any services we did offer, we're just barely handling our own shit, much less anyone else's.

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

The Epstein Emails: The Russian Connection open.substack.com/pub/craigung...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Very alarmed to see that Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior for spurious and dishonest reasons. It does not bode well for this platform, which I find very disappointing. You can read about what Sarah experienced here. What’s this about @jay.bsky.team?! substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

DHS agents investigating sexual crimes against children have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown. A probe into the black market for Iranian oil sold to finance terrorism has been slowed down because of the shift. And efforts to combat human smuggling have languished.

Interesting video that explores a problem with VFX-filled filmmaking: the focus on 'good enough' surface level plastic visuals vs. the physical, haptic reality of old-school films that encourages the audience to round out the reality of a photographed world with ALL our senses via our imagination:

More evidence that these doofuses are clueless. Such fucking idiots.

Truth Social is absolutely amazing today.

New York City billboards are displaying the president’s 91 felony charges.

as someone who really thought there wasn’t much there for the longest time I cannot draw any conclusion other than “they are monumentally terrible” at this point

You heard him, MAGA. Socialism is his idea.

Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files

I’m gonna disagree with this one. What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why. We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.

If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.

my entire fucking adult life, republicans have been proposing absurd fantasies of health care to desperately avoid anything that even remotely might lead to the straightforward solution of single payer

My 2022 article on ghostwriting scams: a little dated now but still current: writerbeware.blog/2022/01/24/h... You can see the other pieces I've written by clicking the Ghostwriting Scams tag on the Writer Beware blog. Angela Hoy's Writers Weekly has also been reporting on this type of scam.

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.

“FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members, exempting them from passing polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information…” www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

“Following the arrival of the U.S. Border Patrol in Charlotte Saturday morning, hundreds of protesters gathered at First Ward Park in the afternoon and marched through uptown, delivering a clear message to federal agents: ‘Get out’...” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

Shameful and outrageous

Nothing to worry about, just the chief regulator of the media pressuring a television network to fire a critic of the president.

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

Jesus fucking Christ

A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education. This is updated regularly!

The only person whose standard of living has improved during this Trump term is Ghislaine Maxwell.

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Massie: "I would remind my Republican colleagues who are decided how to vote, Donald Trump can protect you in red districts right now by giving you an endorsement, but by 2030, he's not gonna be the president and you will have voted to protect pedophiles if you don't vote to release those files."

"Jeffries concluded, 'Pulte knows what he is doing is lawless... Accountability is coming. The statute of limitations is five years. Every single corrupt sycophant, including Bill Pulte, who continues to disgrace the law will have to answer for their actions'...” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Playing the fascist playbook to a tee, except (1) they’re moving much faster, and (2) they’re stupider.

"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents. They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..." abc7.com/post/ontario...

"If you’re thinking that the president just likes to say the word 'trillion' without any meaningful connection to reality, you’re not alone..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

All the stuff that’s being released about Epstein now is due to the House subpoena of the Epstein estate The executors have had all these documents for years, and knowingly kept them secret We don’t even know who the beneficiaries of the estate are! They’ll get at least $100 million.

i am pissed off that people are ignoring the courage & years of work by the epstein survivors & saying this focus on releasing the epstein files is all owed to trump’s biggest backer, elon musk. sorry. it’s the survivors’ work that brought allllll of this to light.

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

"'Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia,' he said Rhodes added that he’d like to see Trump 'order us all to come together in our counties under his command'...” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Ghislaine Maxwell Conceals Escape Tunnel Behind Pinup Poster Of Shirley Temple

In Northfield, Minnesota, masked ICE GOONS violently abducted a father. The Goons smashed a car window, beat and dragged the man at gunpoint, while his teenage son filmed the incident and begged them to stop. The father has not been seen since. (November 11, 2025)

Before anyone gets too carried away here.

there are almost a million kirkland glass grenades in circulation headed into the biggest season of the year for sparkling wine, proceed with caution as you approach the thanksgiving table folks

@anntelnaes.bsky.social He is amassing his army