Forest and trees re Epstein documents, as of now. Trees: Controversies about particular documents. Forest: Virtually none of the key documents, ones that we know exist, the ones the victims and knowledgeable observers have been demanding to see, have been released. And so the coverup continues.

NEWS Russell Brand has been charged with one additional count of rape and one additional count of sexual assault. These charges are in addition to two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault, two counts of sexual assault, and one count of oral rape.

Treebeard went through a Freddie Mercury phase.

yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle

"We simply can't be sure that Trump actually likes underage girls! He snuck backstage at child beauty pageants to see them undressing and bragged about it multiple times, but this postcard is the ONLY thing to suggest it's true so it's irresponsible to believe it :/"

By its own admission, ICE now poses a serious threat to Americans’ free speech and privacy rights. bit.ly/3Kq348R

Abraham Lincoln, 1849: patents device for lifting boats over shoals Donald Trump, 2025: names class of battleships after himself, calls it the "golden fleet"

This keeps happening www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/a...

"back to the mines with you"

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

I hadn’t thought about 60 Minutes in forever, but then they started hiding the news, like a cool scavenger hunt.

Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down

Sorry, but there will only be one acceptably recognized USS Defiant.

The only reason people are still pushing for an Epstein list is because they don’t believe women in the first place. There’s literally no reason for any of this shit.

I’m sure Russia knows what we are going to do before the American people since they have so many people serving in the Trump admin sharing intel with them.

The worst art I saw this year: a giant Christmas tree in London’s wealthy Mayfair, on which all the ornaments are illuminated people, said by the commissioned artist to represent the world. I think about 90% white. But wait, it gets even worse—they’re all AI.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

hey this wound up in your hidden replies for some reason, just posting it here to increase traffic on the two-way street that is vital first amendment discourse

I hate CBS but someone is already cutting onions in here.

This is a great example of what historians do and what actual research looks like. I read this thread to my former graduate advisor, who taught European history for 50 years and who I now care for full time. He was guessing the next post before I could read it aloud. AI can’t replace historians.

okay but I did see Batman feeding all sorts of supervillain crime data into the Batcomputer and it spat out answers so surely they have the Historycomputer in the Historycave

(standing in the NARA reading room, “feeding” a raft of unpublished government documents into AI somehow, as the archivists are definitely applauding me, telling it to find the important stuff) “Look at me, I’m a historicalian!”

Trump is no longer making any pretense of sanctioning firms supplying the Russian military. He is shifting the US position steadily to a pro-Russian position, including support for Russian military operations in Ukraine.

the vice president is a klansman

Archives have already seen the results of this. Inquiries from historians and researches with fake sources and box/folder numbers. That they admit they got from asking ChatGPT and the like. It's embarrassing to witness.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Trump brought his criminal defense lawyer into the Justice Department to cover up the Epstein files. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.

Historians say "murdered by zoomer with incomprehensible politics" was one of the leading causes of death in the mid 21st century- to be exceeded only by "Climate, Miscellaneous"

Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI. I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.

I think I can explain.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

"You’re describing a dystopian hellscape. None of this could ever happen" - what every reliable Trump lickspittle would have told you if you neutrally described America in Dec. 2025 to them on the eve of Election Day in 2024. Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3MTvrwZ

What in the actual fuck?

I would like to propose the Elon Musk Shut the Fuck Up Bill for the 2026 legislative session

Bagehot gang

NO QUIERO HEAR ANOTHER SINGLE FUCKIN PALABRA ABOUT CIVIL DISCOURSE AVEC LOS FUCKOS

My God.

to celebrate Don Jr’s engagement here he is proposing to his first wife Vanessa in a mall jewelry store in exchange for a comped ring nypost.com/2004/11/12/t...

This really is, as Sara says, INSANE memory-holing: Minutes after FCC Chairman Carr told Congress that the FCC "is not" an independent agency (see video below via @atrupar.com), the FCC website started getting scrubbed to remove that description.

Teens: come get your hands sudsy in the name of science! Learn the actual chemistry behind bath bombs and soaps while making your own to take home. Free, ages 12-18. 🧪 Friday | 6-8pm | YDL-Michigan Register: ypsilibrary.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=214690

“Oil… oil… oil… oil… oil… oil…” TLDR: It was never about drugs

Abe: wtaf Teddy: ikr - in a room named after me! Abe: at least they didn't rename a bathroom after you Teddy: actually, that was pretty funny Abe: oh yeah, well remember the east wing Teddy: of course, I commissioned it Abe: well have I got some news for you

"disparage the political views"

My dudes. Stop calling her hun or sweetie or whatever. Call her the dark goddess that creeps into your dreams or the object of your eternal devotions or the hot, dark thing that keeps you up at night. Make her feel special, you dumb dick.

white male intellectuals will really have you thinking one of their own is indispensable despite proof of how much they suck, and despite the existence of so many others doing similar work and doing it better.