Please remember the initial claim was that Trump wasn’t in the files at all

hot take i think we should ban sports gambling before someone gets shot

publicly imploding, visibly both exhausted and defeated, and our senate gave him a release valve; i simply cannot stop thinking about it. even if they held out for just one more week instead of forcing a panicked weekend vote.

When newspapers couldn't just link the documents

no idea how you'd study this without running into a correlation is not causation problem but i wonder if every extra few minutes you spend driving to the polling place increases the odds you're going to vote for republicans by 1%

The mods here seem like dipshit tyrants (it's Jack-era twitter after all), but we're on like the third moral panic over "WHY WAS THIS PERSON SUSPENDED" and it turned out they posted something like "I will commit murder using a gun to kill you with"

I generally like More Perfect Union, and to be fair, MOST of their content is not like this, but I know the exact video this is referencing. They had another similar one about ranchers who were "betrayed" the other day. Sometimes I see their stuff & say "I'm supposed to feel sorry for this idiot?!"

Disappeared? People talking like this about social fucking media? Touch grass is cliche but I'm guessing some people need more than a 72 hour break for their own well being. There are people in this country actually being disappeared every day.

i hate it when politicians hand over their office to an anointed successor, but let's be honest: she's only doing this to distract from her voting for the Republican bill to reopen the government on their terms

KEEP HONKING I'M LISTENING TO THE HONEYED LIES OF MY TREACHEROUS VIZIER

Catherine Cortez “I hate Muslims” Masto versus Brian “posts on BlueSky about fighting, then voted for the Republican bill in March and disappeared” Schatz

a crossing guard being killed by a driver the day before we yank speed cameras out of school zones is super on the nose

Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit

apart from the obvious racism here--trying to legislate or moralize about where people "ought to" live is the last or only resort of people who have given up actually trying to address the housing crisis. There is no good reason to stop migration, and no real way to stop it except by brute force

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”

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

i will not be satisfied until all of these people are rotting in prison

what

It rocks - absolutely so - how much Trumpland elites in recent weeks really thought or at least kept saying they thought Trump had survived the Epstein stuff and the worst was over and it was no longer prominent in the media and politics anymore and that the admin had gotten a handle on things….

LA: - black mayor - majority non-white DC: - black mayor - majority non-white Chicago: - black mayor - majority non-white Charlotte: - black mayor - majority non-white

You wonder if there's ever any self-reflection, ever a moment of thinking, man, that was rough, that I had to say that as part of my job, that just sucked

they’re saying on the news goku is sick. they’re saying he ate a box of sunmaid raisins and they’re poison for him like for dogs. the camera cut to the weatherman for the forecast and he can’t keep it together. everyone in this town loves goku

jd vance 2015: has anyone seen #Archer? #ThatsHowYouGetAnts lol! jd vance 2025: I'm not saying it's necessarily good to be molested - no one is saying that - but if you are going to be molested, obviously you'd want the President of the United States to do it. Why do we pretend otherwise?

This really encapsulates all of it, doesn’t it? Transphobia is so reinforced by propaganda, that if you were *assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein as a child,* the kind of people who raped children alongside him will make the story that you’re a lying slut and you’re the disgusting party for being trans.

Today is the 9th anniversary of the day Maggie stole an entire pecan pie and got drunk from all the sugar. Happy Purloined Pecan Pie Day from our family to yours!

Epsteins actual financial advice must have been like “u ned 2 itimize ur diductshins”

Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it. Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators. Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.

JD Vance is basically Millard Fillmore in the 21st century, and not just because he's an unpopular second-banana to a president who might die

everyone keeps dancing around it but JD Vance keeps trotting out the “immigrants are taking our housing“ because it’s a nativist blood libel he’s engineering alongside eg “they eat our pets” but, more specifically, it is to legitimize the dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population.

Demi overheard a British woman in Japan. From bigsofttitty.png ep 352 - I crave release

"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!

People have been way too kind to Perez honestly. I see people praising her all the time but she’s legitimately just awful.

both were elected in part because they were probably the most experienced politicians in the running and were considered relatively inoffensive to the party nominating them. and they both fucked up catastrophically in different ways

thinking about it now: i've said it before but the argument gets more reasonable by the day that joe biden should be (and will be) historically viewed similarly to buchanan for his complete inability to respond appropriately to trump during his term. he had one job and he fucked it up.

jd vance post: erm mom can you pick me up? liberals are trusting the word of *checks notes* jeffrey epstein?? trump post: "THE CORRECT TERM FOR THE PRESIDENT IS EPHEBOPHILE NOT PEDOPHILE" - THE GREAT MARK LEVIN ON FOX NEWS

seems like the republican defectors on this bill were neither bullied into submission yet or had some redemption arc. They just kinda transformed into some of those coked-out background characters from The Chair Company. I can't say what their deal is, but they keep the plot moving

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

If nothing else comes out of the backlash to Trumpism, let it be a renewed commitment to small-r republicanism. This should be embarrassing. It should be shameful. You are a free citizen of a free republic, act like one for God's sake.

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

Also, just a reminder, anyone emailing Epstein regularly after 2008 knows he's been convicted of felonies related to sex with minors.

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.

trump currently putting up george w bush circa 2007 numbers when it comes to approval

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

POTUS gave a convicted child sex abuser favorable treatment, and dangled the prospect of a pardon, so she would tell lies about if he was implicated in her crimes. That's not speculative or circumstantial, it's a cold hard proven fact, in and of itself more than enough to demand removal from office.

You can't describe the failure to release data as an understandable flop due to the world's most powerful government failing to operate in the most basic capacity. This shit sounds terrible on paper, actually