Update from @apnews.com: #Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday, a U.S. official said, turning the ship into Iranian territorial waters in the first-such interdiction in months in the strategic waterway.

brian is doing the lord's work going to every media outlet and just saying "it's usually illegal to kill people"

Truly a battle of wits

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

A reminder that it was *checks notes* two days ago that they were telling us we couldn't possibly change Prime Minister because it would spook the bond markets

Surprised how much more irritated I am by the prospect of aborting my planned heat pump installation than the prospect of higher income tax loss. I suppose with the latter, I’d at least feel I’m paying into something and can understand why. Former is just a panicking government taking something away

"Trying to raise large sums with lots of tax changes that we hope no one will notice, although it actually just infuriates everyone. We thought it would work last year, but it didn't. It never does. But... It might work for us this year."

Just a bad government

“I’m a Grok guy” is the single most embarrassing phrase ever uttered in the course of human history.

Oh yeah, a real ghost nose for paedos

"S&P Global warned that a third of Oracle’s revenues will be tied to a single customer by 2028, referring to its reliance on OpenAI... “That is a huge liability and credit risk for Oracle. Your main customer, biggest customer by far, is a venture capital-funded start-up"" on.ft.com/43wiTBk

Time for the UK government to deploy its new AI advisor I think:

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

Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein. So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Bill Gates adviser to Epstein in 2017: "He wants to talk to you but his wife won’t let him...He loves you.”

Michael Wolff tried to get a Daily Beast reporter fired for ... ... accurately reporting on "a series of previously undisclosed meetings between Wolff and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein." www.breakermedia.com/p/media-s-bi...

The FBI Agents Association released a blistering statement saying, “Director Patel has disregarded the law and launched a campaign of erratic and arbitrary retribution.” Many senior agents have retired, robbing the bureau of its most experienced leaders.

"narco-terrorist" as a phrase is so phenomenal. combining the two biggest, decades-long foreign policy failures since the end of the cold war. i'm sure it'll work.

So the new goon state acronym is… MAAA?

What kind of fucking idiot political operation are these people running? Weeks of debilitating speculation over *everything*. And it’s still unclear what they’ll do. Christ, just stop leaking shit for ten minutes and govern

AI is killing the college essay as more professors ditch robot-written papers for in-class exams. So now even fewer students are being taught to write well (an energy intensive task!). Students lose out, bc good writing = good thinking: a training of the brain towards structure, style & substance.

The mythical media trump—who knows anything about what he's talking about—is on a collision course with the sudden need to pretend to know nothing at all about a story that he's had lots of help trying to forget.

The Times literally pulled their top Clinton reporter off the beat to join several other reporters to pore through the mind-numbing trivia from John Podesta's inbox, resulting in zero stories of any substantive or prurient interest

Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...

Cool, so only people who don’t have the money to buy a heat pump (net of the government grant) will get the grant. Sounds like this is going to crater the industry. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Michael Wolff, Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein taking time out of their day covering up the world's most famous pedophile ring to complain about Ta-Nehesi Coates.

“Ultimately, between the money she made from her interactions with men and in the food services industry she was able to save up enough money to get braces.”

Even with ceasefire in Gaza the IDF continues its urbicide. Israel argues it is all terror infrastructure. Some analysts say 'Israel could be violating the laws of war, which prohibit the destruction of civilian property by an occupying power.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @godin.bsky.social

Put him on the register

Looks like JD Vance is going to need to change religions again.

I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago

Every journalist briefed by No 10 re Streeting knows who did it but now maintains the fiction it’s not clear who did. Treating government as a political campaign feeds journalists but it is bad government eg the huge number of leaks re Budget options has chilled the economy.

Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"

🚨 An example from newly-released files showing how consultants sought to influence Google search results — burying articles about Jeffrey Epstein being a "billionaire pedophile" or having a "diary of his under-aged victims" & then boosting articles about his philanthropy

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.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

Trump spent 2017 Thanksgiving with Epstein *while he was President*

This one stuck out to me from early 2017. 2025: youtu.be/w3LKEvXpWqg?...

I don’t mean to be glib but this is probably a more damning indictment of American elite culture than the Iraq Invasion.

Ken Starr signed an email to Jeffery Epstein with "hugs"

Lutnick is the current Secretary of Commerce and Epstein sent this email three months before he died.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Photo editor on point, this is the Leslie Nielsen “nothing to see here” gesture

Even Boebert is seized enough of her position to look beyond Trump, though he has over three years left. A tiny, weird little glimmer of Montesquieu here

Burning unholy amounts of actual money that could be used for actual things, to build a useless edifice of total crap

Epstein asking who would be with Acosta at his confirmation hearing:

Larry Summers commiserating with Epstein about the unfairness of holding men accountable for sexual misconduct. In 2017.