True story. Via @xkcd.com

The Biden years were great. We got the Chinese Balloon Crisis and Big Boat Stuck in Canal. With Trump we get war with Venezuela and every American elite was texting the world’s biggest pedo.

the idea of changing the law is so dead in america that the idea that something might be banned by statute rather than by arguing that it is already banned (in terms of water use, in terms of copyright) seems completely alien

Has anyone written anything interesting about the simultanous fracturing of the postliberal right on the "openly anti-Semitic/ not sure about that" axis and the "pedocon/ actually committed anti-pedo" axis? As far as I can tell these don't particularly map onto each other, do they?

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

petro is so beast

Being evil ages you

So funny how the WSJ is the only paper of record doing actually investigative reporting on the administration

My wife, who was born and raised in Germany, can confirm every word of this. She once said to me: "The problem with your country is that you have no sense of collective shame."

I wish him all the best in his recovery, which should be done at home and without the stress of serving in the Senate

"The looming ban would shutter 95% of Nebraska’s THC shops in the coming years, costing hundreds of jobs and effectively wiping out an industry that, advocates have said, contributes $139 million a year to Nebraska’s economy." Pete Ricketts voted for this.

At the same time the New York Times was running nonstop stories on Hillary's email server, they were sitting on this emails (and photos of Trump with Epstein victims, apparently). bsky.app/profile/data...

Honestly, there really is a touch of Greek tragedy in that crazy Republicans had the clearest view that "the upper echelons of society are dominated by pedo cults" but were too in denial about "and most of them are Republicans" and the latter made them catastrophically wrong they elected King Pedo.

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

It’s funny that Harvard has been a consistent target for reactionary campaigns, and not one has been dedicated to ousting Larry Summers, an openly political figure who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein; meanwhile, it’s a fine-toothed comb for *checks notes* Black women.

PBS did us a solid and dropped the whole Epstein emails. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.

what a miserable thing. what overwhelming moral rot

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

It really is funny how common "military action in the near abroad to distract from domestic troubles at home" is in the authoritarian playbook It has a success rate of like 5% and a backfire rate probably north of 50

Every single time! Epstein will write: "porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no" and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying: "You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

And this is pre-Epstein emails.

Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle. Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger. Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.

How did all those experienced politicians and seasoned generals end up losing to a kid who was only 19 years old when he first showed up on the scene? Because they were all like this. Maybe with a big dose of lead poisoning to boot, which we're also still working out of our system.

Whats so unnerving, among many other aspects of the whole sordid Epstein miasma, is how incestuous the world of these elites are. Everyone knows everyone. The personal, social, and professional spheres all overlap.

America has long feared it would suffer the same fate as the Roman republic, but never quite truly appreciated how utterly absurd Roman elites had become by the time of the late republic.

It’s darkly amusing that Detective Comics Comics’ Legion of Doom turned out to be a more accurate view of how the world worked than the most sophisticated communist propaganda.

it's becoming clear the epstein was a manosphere guru for the richest and most influential losers alive

If the US system remains trapped in an endless knife fight between a party of good government and a party of nihilistic governance then Europeans need to accept that the US will no longer be a stable partner long after Trump is gone

“It’s all true.”

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill

*sickos dot gif* but it’s the pope looking through the window

You see Trump working the phones and realize White Housers are looking at this morning's emails and thinking, who cares abuot those nothingburgers we need to flip boebert so the bad stuff doesn't come out.

Kevin Kiley introducing a bill to ban partisan gerrymandering at the national level and desperately trying to become a Reasonable Bipartisan after Newsom deleted his district shows how you *acutally* uphold norms btw: you impost costs for breaking them

Today & tmrw, European Parliament will adopt its 1st report calling on EU & members to step up response to attacks & harassment by autocratic Govts against their nationals beyond their borders. #TransnationalRepression is a major threat to freedoms in the EU. www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/agen...

American media: new Epstein emails allege Trump knew about Epstein’s sex crimes Foreign media (El Pais, FT): Trump spent hours alone with Epstein’s sex trafficking victim

why the fuck didn’t any of this stuff come out when Biden was president

From Thomas Jefferson to Grover Cleveland to Donald Trump, America has a long tradition of electing pedophiles to the presidency.

Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!

its 9 am and so far today we have learned that jeffrey epstein was advised to blackmail donald trump who spent lots of alone time with children at epsteins house

The President’s a pedophile.

Also it’s bizarre to report this as “Epstein alleging Trump knew of his conduct.” Seems like the more notable thing is that Trump was engaging in that conduct.

Good morning. Brush your teeth and get the crust out your eyes before you argue with these people.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

For anyone who doesn’t get what this is about, APM’s Sold A Story podcast miniseries it’s excellent Basically, the literacy education methodology used in a huge number of U.S. school districts especially since the late 1970s, is badly flawed, and now we no read good