Update from the Manosphere

Not only is he "in the Epstein files" but apparently he's the main character

You'll ignore this, but every time you tweet angrily about crap like that Nuzzi piece you're confirming NYT editors' intuitions/incentivizing more of it. The entire intellectual/journo model here is, "Does this person get people angry? Yes? OK they're provocative/get talked about. Write about her."

If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

In public: Trump wrongly insists prices are down In private: he's plotting how to flip flop on his own reckless trade policies because prices are too high. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

The Trump admin is an organized crime operation that has control of the US government.

As Mark Hertling predicted, Venezuelan armed resistance would be highly decentralized - and so very hard to break. The country is quite large, with widely varied terrain, and Maduro has for over a decade been preparing for an asymmetrical war with the US. In short, another dumb & disastrous war.

This is the same administration that has ordered the return of a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery--one which celebrates the "loyal slave" narrative as represented by the images of the "faithful mammy" and a body servant (slave) in Confederate uniform. 🗃️ www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p...

Top trading partners have gone to war with each other in 1870, 1914, 1939, 1941, 1980, 1990, I could go on. It may well delay or obstruct such a decision, but by itself alone it wouldn’t stop it. Trade entanglements are not a magic tool to prevent war. Norman Angell was wrong in 1910, still wrong.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

they want to stamp out the entire profession of public health for a generation. same day they announce they’re closing the CDC museum

These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.

so, no actual audit or report of what doge cut exactly?

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵

Me pidieron un comentario sobre Keiko y las elecciones

This is academic censorship, full stop.

Hayes: It’s weird that everyone just stopped applying those two things to the situation we’re in now, where they elected who also is on an accelerated aging schedule. I mean, his nickname for Joe Biden was “Sleepy Joe.” He literally fell asleep at a White House event the other day.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Exhibit A:

hard to think of something that makes me as psychotically angry as red light scofflaws

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

"American girls have to sell sex to the nominee for attorney general of the United States to get braces" sounds like Soviet propaganda

@ryanlcooper.com FTW

Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.

Also most voters have just never thought remotely seriously about policy. “Should we get rid of illegal immigrants? Well, of course; they’re illegal!” There’s nothing deeper than that going on until they start seeing what that actually entails.

Just a couple of days ago, the Moral Avatar on the Charles (and Jeffrey Epstein pen pal) was trying to get an investigation launched against Harvard’s excellent student newspaper

In 2017, the sitting president had Thanksgiving with his old friend who had been convicted of sex crimes with a minor. And we’re only learning about this now?

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?

New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing. However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.

One way to stop sex trafficking rings on private islands is to make sure no one has enough money to buy a private island

ME FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS: look, i know it's a useful shorthand, but i don't think there's any such thing as a literal "epstein list" in the sense of a list of names JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN AN EMAIL TO HIMSELF:

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

I think this helpfully confirms the notion that the end of the filibuster was a big motivator for the eight Dems.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

NYC cops retire after 20 yrs at 50% salary. Pension am't calculated on final yr. Say a boss makes $150k with lots of OT at protests, he makes $230k. Retire now? Pension = $115k. 2026, under ZM, OT goes away, income = $170k. Retire next year? Pension = $85k. He must retire after highest year. Now.

They lionize Woodward who had Trump in a knowing lie about COVID in February 2020 and saved it for 2021 for his book. That's their -hero-

Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.

the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

I take no pleasure in this, but it will be interesting watching academics who study the US have to start looking to the "area studies" for tips on data gathering...

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

“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein

Reposting this…for reasons.

The pandemic-era practice of giving students their own laptops and tablets has remained, with most students now learning on computers or tablets during the school day. And 81% of of elementary school teachers said students at their school receive devices for use in class by kindergarten.