Holy shit! Aaron Parnas stumbled upon a page in the Epstein files that contains Katie Johnson's testimony about the time Trump raped her when she was 13-years-old. 😳👇

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Most unhinged administration.

Just off the top of my head: No Dobbs. Citizens United would’ve been overturned. Partisan gerrymandering would’ve been declared unconstitutional in Rucho v. Common Cause. The SCOTUS wouldn’t be rehearing Louisiana v. Callais to gut the VRA by declaring racial gerrymandering constitutional.

This is historically inaccurate on two counts: (1) In pre-Enlightenment Europe, only the aristocracy routinely married off teenage girls. Commoners generally married in their 20s. (2) Few adults dropped dead in their 30s/40s. The life expectancy distribution was bimodal (early childhood and 60+).

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

raise your hand if you are not, in fact, in the Epstein files

this is where i am at: THERE IS NO ONE ELSE. do you want to outsource your military policy to steven miller? no? how about the dc blob? also no? THEN LEARN WHAT THE FUCK HOW TO MILITARY www.breakingbeijing.com/p/there-is-n...

Only took me a few weeks but here is a list of books to introduce one to all things military. My latest⬇️

This chart seems to suggest a striking pattern: Kevin Warsh's speeches are consistently hawkish, except when Trump is President and about to appoint a new Fed Chair. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Under no circumstances should someone who once wrote a column called "The Redistribution of Sex," which floated the idea of government-paid sex workers being given to incels, be asked to opine on the conduct of those who visited Epstein island. www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/o...

The Romans had an appropriate postmortem punishment for evil men like this: Damnatio Memoriae. All your statues were destroyed, your name chiseled from all monuments, all public records of your existence erased. In death the narcissist would be utterly forgotten except as an object lesson.

it's so cool that literally every human involved in this is busily and frantically trying to backstab every other human involved, and i hope that they all meet with success in this, specific, endeavour

In case it wasn’t ALREADY blatantly clear!

Wow! “More than 2,000 people are homeless in KC at any one time. In the last 7yrs, that population has risen 170%. And among those who are chronically homeless in KC, 95.7% are living outside without any kind of shelter, according to the U.S. HUD. That’s the highest % of any major city In the US.”

If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.

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The refusal of journalists to put these issues in context when interviewing Trump and Congressional Republicans is one of the biggest failures of Modern American journalism.

So you won the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. You stacked the courts, the DOJ, HHS, the FBI, and everything else with loyalists. But you think you should be allowed total control of elections to make sure it's not "rigged". "Make America Stupid Again" because smart people dont like you. 🙄

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

"Charlie Kirk’s assassin didn’t kill just one man; he destabilized the entire Trump coalition by removing a pivotal person who had been holding it together. In doing so, the killer helped unshackle dark forces—chief among them anti-Semitism—that now threaten to overtake the conservative movement."

That is bc while they are institutionally powerful deep down they are weak pathetic fools which is why real empathy developing frightens them and threatens their idea and illusion of power

Denaturalization as criminal punishment is not a thing in American law, it's unconstitutional under any circumstances. It can only be done in the narrow case of somebody who fraudulently obtained the naturalization itself. Otherwise they are no different from natural-born citizens who commit crimes.

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Blame them

1. Google it. Figure it out. We've been here for a year now. There is PLENTY to read! 2. Just stop! 3. Thread!

I say this from a place of love, but it would actually be better for both Americans & visitors if countries refused to come here for the World Cup & the Olympics. When governments start to repress & target their own citizens, international reaction is a key way of trying to shape government behavior

everyone knows the grid is a natural monopoly, what the cato institute presupposes is...maybe it isn't? heatmap.news/energy/consu...

I just have to point out that you have to seek admission from every federal court you want to argue before. Yes, some of them you can waive into, but some of them you can't. This will not work.

More specifically, he's lying that the SAVE Act is "voter ID." It creates a requirement at the time of *registration* to vote which is deliberately calculated to make traditional voter registration drives impossible. It is not what people usually think of and many states have, ID check at the polls.

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

The problem is America is founded on such people so they feel now shame. Look how they enslaved people and had breeding farms. Look at how they did Jim Crow. Look at how the vast majority of states allow child marriage. Ever looked into the flds/lds/mormon cults or other such cults in America? 1/

Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.

extraordinary piece from Hillary Clinton: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I read this, and I almost regret it. What do you even do with the knowledge that Epstein wanted and was trying to engineer societal breakdown via far right populism bc he thought it would benefit his sex trafficking business?

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Hobbes vs Anarchism existentialcomics.com/comic/640

I have never been an admirer of Chomsky despite attending some of his public lectures out of curiosity. Good to be vindicated.

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DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

“The main event is this: the world is building optionality away from U.S. policy and platform dependence. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it — because it’s showing up in procurement decisions, supply chains, defense budgets, and capital flows”

"lesser of two evils". if you are referring to the last presidential election, and you say this, you really have not been paying attention. just because YOU do not personally agree with some of the stances of a politician does not make them evil. you are creating a false equivalence.

Today for Black History Month my focus is: The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. If you never heard of them, that’s the point. These brothers did the unglamorous work that changes real life: organizing labor in a country built to ignore them. www.nps.gov/pull/learn/h...

Apart from the thorough takedown, it is also a great piece of writing. That's why the Biden-Harris administration mattered. I think Judge Reyes was nominated in 2023.

The Trumpists will continue to escalate. But in Minneapolis, we can see the limits of MAGA’s assault. Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not. My new piece for @zeit.de - and some thoughts, since it is in German (gift link):

yeah it's extremely funny because the people who are extremely insistent that their politics are revolutionary spend all their time trying to not to get in trouble which ensures that that existing power structures literally have to exert no force at all to pacify them

No, the state of american politics is one party told you they were going to stab you to death, the other party said “Get in my car, let’s escape,” YOU told that party FU & FO and ran towards the party with the knife. Now you’re bleeding out and blaming the party with the car as you die:

You wanna read a paper called "The Political Economy of Shitcoins"? Of course you do. @mcopelov.bsky.social and I are at your service. Full paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Blog post: tompepinsky.com/2025/08/08/c... More below 1/

IMO, issue would be less the absence of a “safe harbor,” & more the absence of an LoLR, and it is possible (& less of a stretch than a sole $ alternative) to have a multi-hub system where real and financial spillovers from each hub are synchronized w. its spokes and each hub has its own fiat LoLR.

The bargain of being hegemon was that you would shoulder the enormous cost of the enforcing international order at the much larger benefit of defining that order With elite gatekeepers disempowered by the internet, the people who understand this don’t have the power to keep it alive.