This is a newspaper that published numerous stories about a 17 year old from Uganda checking a box on a college form that said “African American”

Kelly has a daughter who is soon to turn 15.

I think we all need to consider the possibility that, while Trump clearly was horny for kids, and obviously had no problem with what Epstein was doing, he was (at the time) smart enough to avoid raping them if anybody else might possibly know about it.

I love how this season of "South Park" -- maybe the best ever -- has incorporated complaints about the show being "too political" into the plot. Kinda similar to Tom Morello's situation. 98 percent of the time, "stop politicizing everything" comes from reactionaries who don't like to be called out.

its not a “prediction market,” its an easily manipulated gambling website being used by degenerates, divorced douche bags and 20 year old incels

Emily, this entire thread is simply emphasizing that we have Moved Beyond the Need for the New York Times. There is simply no way to reasonably defend their last decade of utter professional and ethical depravity.

Immigration. Foreign policy. Trade/tariffs. The economy. Epstein case. "Issues."

I worked for Wired in the '90s. In '99, I worked for a "futurist" consulting firm. The leaders of those organizations spewed this kind of shit all the time (usually more coherently than this, but still). They thought any "idea" they came up with was brilliant by definition, because it was theirs.

a mental object. i.e. mobject.

you'll never guess which side

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

One of the striking things in Epstein's emails is how fucking inarticulate he is, and how *every other billionaire is just as bad at communicating*. They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.

There are people in media who deserve some measure of respect but who are nevertheless part of the clan, so their first instinct is to find reasons to defend other clan members (often their friends). This is true even of some who regularly criticize the media for good reasons.

Will NYTimes Opinion keep soliciting vacuous essays from Larry Summers? Or perhaps just give him a weekly sex-advice column?

"The New York Times protected Epstein the right way." —Ezra Klein

Epstein and Ken Starr.

A mountain of evidence that all of Trump's claims about his "falling out" with Epstein was complete bullshit.

Theoretically produces.

it's easier for a lot of people, even people who consider themselves "high-information," to believe that Joe Biden defunded the police than that Republican policies actually have taken food and medicine from people while willfully exposing them to more pollution

It's been a deservedly disastrous day for the NYT.

Things to know about Epstein hugger Ken Starr: prosecuted Bill Clinton for lying about consensual (if inappropriate) sex, got fired from Baylor University for doing nothing about an on-campus rape epidemic.

I often think about my days on The Well, the ur-social media service, long before "Actually, it's hebephilia actually" became a cliche, when all the creepy, sweaty, "cyberlibertarian" nerds on there would make arguments like this, all with a gloss of "intellectualism." Also, in the Wired newsroom.

They should just trade out "All The News That's Fit to Print" for "When Will Things Get Back to Normal?"

That that it matters much in terms of how grotesque this is, but Kelly has a 14-year-old daughter. Maybe that's why she said 15.

I put my hand up to my mouth like a scandalized person at a country club when I read this

Changed this, but kept "the benefits known as SNAP."

I’m in!

This always makes me chortle. Not just with Clinton/Epstein, but with Clinton in general. They think liberals must all love him. Similar: when they used to assume that anyone who decried Fox News must have *loved* CNN. Because it was so liberal. (Some of them still do that, I'm sure).

we need AI photo disclosure laws YESTERDAY

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

By Not Ordering Transfusion, Doctor Risks Accident Victim's Life By Not Fueling Rig, Trucker Risks Delayed Shipments By Not Brushing Teeth, Area Man Risks Lasting Damage to Gums, Enamel

Just a straight-up asshole.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people): “i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

This is utterly grotesque.

Whenever I see Starr mentioned these days, I think immediately of Jeffrey Goldberg and Adrienne LaFrance, who decided several years ago to look past all the honest, sincere experts and talented, work-hungry journalists out there and publish Starr's Trump-impeachment musings in the Atlantic.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills: the emails from Landon Thomas has his New York Times signature block...he was employed by NY Times at the time. He was communicating directly with Epstein about Trump, and was given incriminating information about Trump. It's been in NYT's possession since 2015

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

There is a network of rapist bros who trade tips and best practices

can't overemphasize how cynical this is. he could have switched his vote anytime over the past months and made an actual difference; instead he waited till the exact moment he became irrelevant.

"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva

Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand

Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics

I've long said that Michael Wolff looks like he could be sitting in a high-backed Rococo chair with a gargoyle carved into the top, casually snacking from a bowl of freeze-dried baby parts. I wouldn't say that if I didn't think his personality comported.

What's really chilling is that it wouldn't even occur to these people that this is in any way sleazy. If someone pointed it out, they would understand it on an intellectual level, but they'd never really grasp it. Like: "according to so-called ethics rules...". And such people are everywhere.

Kinda weird how “raped children” is swiftly losing its impact as a character flaw.

NBC News: Ghislaine Maxwell gets her meals delivered to her and receives direct personal attention from the warden.

Trump is a liar. Tear gassing kids in peaceful neighborhoods makes no one safer. He cannot steal credit from our violence prevention and law enforcement efforts that have reduced crime for four years straight — long before his masked agents showed up. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...