Holy shit

every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”

NYC property taxes can be low because NYC has a resident income tax. It's not comparable to other cities.

In re the Great @radiofreetom.bsky.social Debate ("Is America fascist already or just on a dangerous path?"), if this were a fascist state, Trump would announce, "Hell Yes I banged teenagers at Epstein's place" - as a warning to anyone with a teenage daughter that it could happen to her, too. 1/2

This is good news. The ICE agent is arrested on state charges, so the Convicted FElon & the Regime can't do anything to stop this. They can try but it will be illegal. ktla.com/news/local-n...

Fuck MTG, but what Raskin is saying is if some disheartened crazies want to make the Dems the majority in the House, come on over.

Meanwhile... standingathwartyellingstop.substack.com/p/trump-admi...

Yeah, that’s what really set America apart — we were the first and only nation in history to put a religious angle on wars.

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

The Viceroy and the Emperor will NOT be pleased

this is how the unpopular lame duck era starts: first the ambitious sociopaths announce they want to be next, then everyone else starts to pivot toward protecting their own careers

Immigration raids at churches. Is this really who we are as a country? Does this really make us any safer or stronger?

Demand Congress support the discharge petition that will force a vote on extending ACA tax credits:

In 2024, Trump ran against the FBI. He promised to let hundreds of violent criminals out of jail, make anti-immigration the top priority, curb efforts to counter foreign influence operations, and transform DOJ into a personal revenge organization. Then Americans voted for him, a convicted felon.

ICE agents should be refused service by absolutely everyone, all the time. Just completely ruin their day, every day.

Be like the kitty!

Can’t do regime change with the forces the US has positioned near Venezuela. Lacks the occupation force to install a new regime. Can’t dismantle narcotics organizations either. (And for the conspiracy theorists — can’t steal oil either.) But can do a bunch of bombing and regime destabilization.

At some point, incompetence and deliberate indifference to the law reaches a point where it is indistinguishable from deliberate misconduct. This is why you don’t hand a complex matter to someone who has never presented to a grand jury before.

I as one of the very few who opposed Larry Summers’ demand-driven explanation for the 2020s inflation (COVID was a very underrated supply-shock, too). This wasn’t quite the downfall I’d hoped for him, but I’ll take it.

From @propublica.org: stories of the Venezuelans, none of them criminals, who were picked in a made-for-TV raid on an apartment building in Chicago that used blackhawk helicopters and military tactics

Again, you can be a tyrant and brutalize your own people; Trump is fine with that so long as you do his bidding.

I just posted a 20-post thread that is not about sematics. It's about the practical changes you'd have to make if America were fascist RIGHT NOW. It does not have footnotes. I appeal to myself as authority like the overbearing professor I once was.

Weird how many racists like to self-identify themselves as racists.

...and this will *not* work politically. "It's all the Democrats" was their schtick when they took office. It fell apart in months. That Humpty Dumpty isn't being put back together.

This is also more evidence that Epstein was a Trump supporter. Sure he said Trump was a terrible guy in private but we all know how little that means. He advanced Trump's agenda and like other "respectable Republicans" used his rep to sane-wash Trump.

FTR, she doesn't.

Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.

This is why the progressive left in Canada needs to care a hell of a lot more about national security and defense than they currently do. We purport to care about health care. We need to be serious about the full range of threats to public services.

The thing is…either of these supposed “outs” will just make him more unpopular, thus weakening his political power.

In this climate the last thing you want is to make it a Democrat thing.

I know Bessent presents himself as a Smart and Serious Person but he is an utter clown who knows next to nothing and is willing to say virtually anything in service of his cult leader.

"Businesses from Wall Street to main street are struggling to comply with President Donald Trump’s byzantine tariff regime, driving up costs and counteracting, for some, the benefits of the corporate tax cuts Republicans passed earlier this year" share.google/XqyzMKvnuOTf...

“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...

This, from the people who said sending artillery shells to Ukraine would leave us unable to defend Taiwan.

"he had this wonderful system for doing the garlic. He used a razor and he used to slice it so thin that it would liquefy in the pan with just a little oil. It was a very good system."

Healthcare idea: What if we pretend not to understand concepts like “risk” and “insurance,” then assume every individual’s annual healthcare costs are equal to the national average, and give people less than that? Anyone think of this yet?

I'm a science teacher by trade. This anti-market stuff is just like the anti-evolution or anti-vax folks I encounter. "YOU may not believe in evolution or germ theory or "science," but trust me, it believes in you" You may not "believe" in supply and demand. But trust me, it believes in you.

No mention of his Maduro stole an election and oppresses his own people. open.substack.com/pub/standing...

Let’s just be honest. Trump wouldn’t be acting this way - using all the power he has to suppress the Epstein files - if this wasn’t the biggest scandal in presidential history.

These people are in their own little bubble. They have no idea how unpopular their cruelty is.

What - and I can’t empathize this enough - the fuck?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

“Trump Admin deprioritizes Child Sex Abuse” may seem a little too on the nose but here we are.

"Homeland security investigators worked approximately 33 percent fewer hours on child exploitation cases from February through April compared to their average in prior years" A tragic shift with real consequences - just one horrifying example:

DHS is diverting money appropriated to fighting terrorism and child trafficking to deportations. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

I've frequently said this at various points, and the response from some is "His back isn't against the wall. He is the president. He always comes out on top, and he knows it." Yes. He is the president until he's not. But his fatal flaw is he really does care what people think, and he panics.