Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Did anyone ever stop to think that maybe our president is grieving the tragic sudden passing of his close friend of many years? That was in 2019, it's really not been that long, 6 or 7 (ha, not intentional) years since a death is not too long to still be grieving, and it might be really hard for him

like Icarus before her, Tricia flew too close to the Goebbels www.reuters.com/world/us/dhs...

I feel like this has got to be the time when we see our common alliance against the elite, like it's gotta be now if ever, right

new clip from yesterday's new pod ep youtu.be/LNyd3b1bsCk?...

I would vote for her in a heartbeat, as has been true for a long time. I suspect that’s the case for many more Americans now than a year ago FWIW.

Untitled by Hans Hofmann, 1938 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137809

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

I feel like "woke" still sounds cool and has positive connotations despite a decade of attempts of people to use it in a negative and derogatory way

A lot of people throwing around the word "woman" quite recklessly when discussing the victims of Epstein's trafficking network of decrepit criminals. Maybe don't use that word if you're not sure the age of the victim.

i did a vid youtu.be/Vj5UxafN90Y

my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter. name a fucking high school after him.

I think about this post a lot

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Re: some of the more pathetic ideologues, the livestreamers/commentators/etc. who are really divorced from conscience and a sense of shame, who really lose touch with any ability to live among their fellow man – They need their audience far, far more than their audience needs their replaceable slop.

lol youtu.be/BSVEVKr2QSo?...

It's really so hard to process US political events, it's all so completely surreal and dramatized and hyperbolic, the explicitness is a defense mechanism, and it's breaking the brains of an increasingly small but passionate minority that still hold power enough for the elites to find them useful. Ah

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

Brief History of US Interventions in Latin America Since 1946 by Carlos Motta, 2005 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137307

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

They assume we must all be getting paid to rise up cos: A) they can't imagine a scenario where they would stand up for a stranger without financial incentive B) they received financial incentives or free passes to cause trouble C) there is insane funding behind them, and they draw small crowds

Portrait of Chess Players, 1911 Marcel Duchamp #art #arts #finearts #painting #luizsantosarts

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

New video youtu.be/5c6WrhyJp5c

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Some light reading www.newsweek.com/jonathan-ros...

one can take some heart in the notion that we are seeing, repeatedly, the platonic ideal of the imperial boomerang playing itself out. from the CIA child soldier shooting those national guardsmen to this iraq war veteran shooting a mom in the face - our ghoulish adventurism is exacting its fee

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

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hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison

woah interesting show alert youtu.be/crj6lHmKMb4

I feel like Christmas was really big this year?

watching a reaction video but fast forwarding through the reactions

Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.

All you have to do is sell your soul for elite world domination, and you could have this glint of cognitive dissonance in your vacant eyes.

I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me. I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.

Sorry for spreading misinformation. Correction: the world's richest man did TWO Hitler salutes from the presidential podium on Inauguration Day. And then one month to the day later, lifelong Goebbels Steve Bannon did at least one Hitler salute at the Conservative Political Action conference. Hm

Remember when the world's richest man did a Hitler salute from the presidential podium on Inauguration Day?

I think the fact that Stefan Mueller is talking more is a sign of how bad things are going. (Unless he's always been this vocal, tweeting and interviews and so on, and I just didn't notice.) Pretty sure that disgusting person would prefer to be able to lurk in the background rather than be apparent.

how insane was it to say “we tortured some folks” and then not only not do anything about it but keep everyone involved in polite society. what did we think was going to happen after that

This was a piece I wrote about when I knew the world would move on from his brutal murder. One of the most chilling moments I’ve experienced in my career was at a Time Magazine party, “honoring” Jamal. wapo.st/3WjFi0A

Every day, another shooting, more tea leaves to go through to find answers about this or that detail of the particular situation, more trees to get lost inside of so we don't notice the forest.

Bigotry of all kinds is fundamentally a type of category error, a fallacy, that makes it harder for people to understand the world around them.

In protest, Jimmy Fallon should do an entire episode where he silently stares at the camera, not uttering one word or interviewing one person. It'd be a powerful message about censorship, and incidentally the best episode of Jimmy Fallon.

Never trust anyone who says "antifa" There's a reason they don't want to say "antifascism"

imagine if you felt that bad any time there was a school shooting! or a war crime! because we do! & it's miserable lol