made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow

3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

Devastating piece on the human toll of Kavanaugh Stops. Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

“Quiet! Quiet!” 😬

Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence! It gets even darker than that. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2032...

A dozen New York Times stories later:

quite a hill to die on this late in the war

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

She has produced no work of substance! Her 'achievements' in journalism are all just gossipy details she got through personal access. She also had relationship with a source while covering his political rival and lied about it until confronted! She should be treated like Stephen Glass.

The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.

This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing

Fun (terrifying) fact: Moose are so gigantic, they don’t have any predators…except for orcas. In winter/scare months, moose will dive for vegetation and orcas will eat them! www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on KOSA on December 9th (originally scheduled November 18th). Also, KOSA is being included in a package of dangerous bills (COPPA 2.0, Sammy's Law, App Store Accountability Act, etc.). Contact your Senators and Representatives ASAP!

OLC's not dodging the modern reputation of laundering policy into legalities. The combatant immunity portion seems straightforwardly wrong; as stated by the ICRC, there are limits to combatant immunity, and even csrrying out war crimes on orders is outside the scope of immunity.

Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is why the Justice Department should be removed from the Exec branch & placed under the federal judiciary. And yes, there's a pathway to do that without resort to the constitutional amendment process. I'll have more to say about that in a future piece.

Wrote about Epstein, the misogynistic culture that protected him, and the banality of evil when it comes to harming women and children. He was not a unique man. open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

as I said before, everyone keeps dancing around the fact that this is open nativist blood libel. This is how you legitimize mass dispossession, en masse, of an entire sub-population of a nation. And this is now an institutionalized belief in ostensibly the most powerful org in international finance.

Immigration ✨ IS A GOOD THING ✨

#SaveSpeech if you are in the EU you should be FURIOUS with your leaders for pushing this through in such an undemocratic manner. continue to raise your voices and contact your representatives. demand that Chat Control be put down for good.

Yeah it’s doing the NYT thing where the writer wants you to read between the lines to discover his quietly devastating critique but: a) that is obnoxious, say what you mean b) it accepts as facts numerous things of which there’s no evidence, including that she is a good journalist

"When media allies such as Megyn Kelly publicly try to finesse the differences between having sex with a 5-year-old and having sex with a 15-year-old, that’s not a good sign." Good from @mjtoma.bsky.social noting that this one really is different from all the others: newrepublic.com/post/203207/...

For years, MAGA influencers demanded the release of the Epstein files. Now that 20,000 documents have been released, many raising questions about Donald Trump, they're shrugging. www.wired.com/story/maga-w...

'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean. A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here

Hey friends, read up the thread for details. If you know of specific attorneys who might be willing to be hired to represent Kara, get in touch with Deviant Ollam with contact information. They have been working for months to try to find her representation.

Looks like we’re going to war with Venezuela to distract from the Epstein files.

he’s crashing out

bringing up Epstein and peddling obvious lies about your ties with him is certainly a choice

Trump is demanding that GOP side with him over Epstein's victims, Rep Ansari tells me. She had a harrowing exchange with one victim who recounts how her mom had cancer and he exploited that. Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds: newrepublic.com/article/2031...

U.S. visas can be denied for obesity, cancer and diabetes, Rubio says. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

The funniest thing about Twitter these days is that right wing dipshits still think their content is being suppressed by some unseen liberal forces. Elon Musk has owned the site for over three years now.

Oh shit, I got him

what

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

CHOTINER: So you had reasons for visiting the island? SUMMERS: Is butiful plce CHOTINER: Is that buttiful or beautiful? SUMMERS: 51 % of 1. Wmen or seenery, nt shr wich.

takes an unbelievable level of failed skill checks to be a loser if you're rich. you have unrestrained time and resources to hone any skill in the world and to verifiably support your local community but instead you're a selfish spineless blight on society. no excuse for it

Pedocon theory

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

My NSPM-7 coverage has for weeks been met with smug assurances that there's no law for domestic terrorism. Well, the Trump admin just designated Antifa groups as Foreign Terror Orgs - for which there is a law: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...

It is blindingly obvious he did, and even the pretense that he didn’t would mean he has no credibility to whip votes and so he isn’t a viable leader either way.

Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book is one of the most cursed documents ever compiled in this miserable, dying country. It's 97 pages and contains the names, numbers, and addresses of a considerable cross-section of the global elite. And, yes, Trump's name is in it.

Graham Platner is running for US Senate as a progressive Democrat. He also had a Nazi tattoo for 18 years. Is he a Nazi? Is he a government plant? Or is he just a shady, lying little PR disaster who will only damage the Palestinian cause? skepchick.org/2025/11/grah...

Anyone surprised that Republicans are fleeing the motte of "pedophile" to the bailey of "ephebophile" hasn't been paying attention. Here's @djgrothe.bsky.social, who ran the James Randi Educational Foundation, defending Epstein & his rapists in exactly that way 14 y ago skepchick.org/2011/04/lawr...

a lot of these people try to spin their retrograde attitudes about gender as a form of women's empowerment by appealing to the idea that femininity has been undervalued. but they don't want to elevate the status of femininity, they just want women to be more feminine so they can undervalue them