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I think a $46 million opening for a $90 million movie is better than an $8 million opening for a $40 million movie, and yet

The director of Melania movie

Order to release Adrian and Liam Arias is a real barn burner storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?

It is unfortunate and not the fault of this reporter that the current default at media companies is people are encouraged to frequently rotate passwords and rely on biometrics. If you are going to encounter federal LEO or report on them: turn off biometrics.

Mayor Mamdani names criminal justice reformer Stanley Richards as NYC’s new Department of Correction commissioner Richards is the first formerly incarcerated person to lead the city’s jails system @gothamist.com @wnyc.org gothamist.com/news/mamdani...

Danielle Martin was known to be considering a run for the Ontario Liberal leadership, and is instead running in a by-election for the federal party, which is somewhat indicative of the shape of the provincial one at the moment.

I promise you, even if someone is your mentor and friend, you should have the ability to say they made a mistake in FUCKING COMMUNICATING CASUALLY AND ALL FRIENDLY WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN NOT WRITE AN EIGHT POST THREAD ON HOW WE SHOULDNT JUDGE

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

We didn’t think the leopards would eat the resale value on our houses.

this handful of independent journalists (my former colleagues at Motherboard) do more impactful journalism than 75% of the corporate tech press on a fraction of the budget

As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”

DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.

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They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney

to the left, sergey brin at the airport protests, 2017. to the right, sergey brin at the Starlight Ball following the inauguration, 2025.

We need to shut down the word "performative" until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Of course adopting symbols of protest and resistance is performative! Performance is a core strategy for mass movements!! That's why the call them demonstrations!!!

If this was even hinted at by a Democratic administration, Republicans would be putting videos on social of performatively nailing posterboards of the Second and Fourth Amendments (in olde tyme script, naturally) to their office and home front doors, dutifully rebroadcast by Sinclair, Fox etc.

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.

I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”

Jeff Epstein calling Elon an idiot for not grokking “people in town for the UN” was an innuendo for “I, Jeff, am trafficking girls for diplomats and the powerful. Would you, Elon, a powerful man, like in on the action?” and then having to explain it to him might be my fave thing in the files so far

Bari Weiss' spouse Nellie Bowles, who was a New York Times reporter at the time, was apparently friends with Epstein's publicist Masha Drokova -- who arranged for a friendly meeting between the two in 2018. Bowles and Epstein also engaged in chummy email correspondence during that time.

When you look at the Wikipedia of an old white guy whose books you read in college there is an unfortunately high probability it will look like this

I’m sure others have noticed this exchange between Michael Wolff and Epstein about exorbitant price Rybolovlev’ paid to Trump for his the Palm Beach Mansion and suspicious trades with MBS - but how many have twigged that Rybolovlev is part of the current Ukraine negotiating team?

I asked the ISED chatbot for the number of offices it has in Canada (not in the website) and it didn’t not understand the question. It was a death-loop of uselessness.

i logged into my X account to retrieve my old tweets questioning him about Epstein and Maxwell, and found this: I 100% promise you I did not delete these tweets myself.

new CBS contributor Peter Attia

Meanwhile, at a school and university near you, AI tools that have yet to be tested on the types of students and subjects you teach are being rolled out to/in them without robust discussion and analysis. It's a major, shameful failing of the management of education systems.

Elon Musk, September 2025: “Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED”

Donald Trump’s threat to decertify Bombardier jets nothing more than sour grapes: expert

Reporters! Every time a politician talks about Heated Rivalry, please follow-up with a question about declining arts and media funding in Canada.

A lot of discussion of Ukraine's military contribution to a united Europe, but there are also a lot of lessons to be learned from Ukrainian emergency response and civil defence

Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky

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"we need to be Vikings - wait no not like that"

Barely a few hours after President Donald Trump named him as the next nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh was revealed to be in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.

Seth Rogan said it perfectly. #CatherineOHara #RIP

All I am saying is if I had inflicted a plague of bigoted grifters onto my country and had gotten filthy rich doing it, I would be at a fucking minimum out there calling them out and helping take them down.

Noodling around the new Epstein releases; as before it’s interesting to see the concentric rings of academics (esp. Physicists, Philosophers, and Cog Sci types), from direct ongoing connection to JE, to grubbing for money/clout, to chattering-class brokerage via eg the Brockman/Matson hype channel.

Makes a lot more sense now

Scoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...