To fix the NYC subway system, shut down one line per year, flood the surface streets along that line with buses (and ban cars on those streets), and gut-renovate the damn thing. Should have done it during the pandemic.
Former prosecutor and Chief of the Conviction Review Unit at the Brooklyn DA. Current civil rights lawyer. I stand for the rule of law, for equal protection under the law, and for law and order. Democracy dies in cowardice. #Knicks #Yankees #Sunderland
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To fix the NYC subway system, shut down one line per year, flood the surface streets along that line with buses (and ban cars on those streets), and gut-renovate the damn thing. Should have done it during the pandemic.
Some new street art spotted in DC 🤣
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
I admit, I didn’t think it was possible, but this administration just jumped the shark.
@audacityofdespair.bsky.social I ran the Brooklyn DA’s Conviction Review Unit—the “nation’s gold standard”—for three years. I exonerated a dozen wrongfully convicted men during my tenure. I understand this problem from every angle. And I have an idea for a TV show that is right up your alley.
Long live Jim Hightower!
🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Still relevant
This guy is such a dumb coward.
Whoa. Spot on.
Steve Witkoff is a brown-nosing tool.
If the FBI had been allowed to do its job, the Minneapolis shooting doesn’t happen. Instead they were playing ICE agent. Trump has weakened us. Between this and the CDC nonsense, things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
You know, we could just impeach all these clowns.
The most important thing about the Cracker Barrel logo is the Epstein Files.
Chucking subway sandwiches at illegally deployed troops should be the primary mode of non-violent resistance. #bolognabrigade
Subway could start a campaign where if you buy a sub in any city with federal troops you get a free one to do with what you will.
Loving this subway sandwich story. Fuck around with the rule of law and find out. Imagine if all the protesters in all the occupied cities went to the protests “armed” with subway sandwiches and just pummeled the troops with them, and then the grand juries dismissed the cases?#thebolognaresistance
What a tool.
These people are such chickenshit cowards.
It is remarkable that Hamas has succeeded where no previous terrorist organization could in erasing international goodwill toward Israel. Netanyahu inflicted more damage on Israel than Hamas could ever have accomplished. And for what? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o...
I guess all the wack jobs joining militias 20 years ago because they thought the federal government was going to take away our civil rights were right after all.
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
I haven’t read the transcript, but I’m guessing the only thing it proves is how inept a prosecutor Todd Blanche is.
#istandwithsally
Prediction: Kash Patel is going to do some prison time eventually.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... Why should Newsom stop? He should do it more, while simultaneously conducting himself—almost schizophrenically—in his day-to-day work as Governor—with complete competence, which would further highlight what a completely inept fucking idiot our President is.
Is there a way to view the search of Bolton’s home as anything other than the President using armed federal agents to intimidate one of his chief critics? This is the most starkly un-American thing we have seen so far.
I said at the time that reality TV would destroy us, and I was right.
Stephen Miller has definitely been stuffed in a locker several times during his high school days.
Prediction: Pam Bondi will spend time in prison.
How fucking dumb we look to the rest of the world.
If memory serves, this is correct (the letting him out everyday part).
PHILLY DA @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social : “Let's not get lost in his silly distraction from the fact that he doesn't want to give up information on his own involvement in a pedophile ring. Did we all forget about that? Trump is the public safety emergency.”
Thanks for all the extra security in DC—can we see the Epstein files now?
Also, why don’t you just release the files, like you said you would do?
Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
With respect, this is a dumb take. From a procedural standpoint, there might be things wrong with the film (haven’t watched it in a million years). But the movie gets to the heart of why some of us do what we do. That’s what great filmmaking is about.
The Verdict is, without a doubt, the best movie EVER made about the legal profession.
This could be the official GOP campaign poster at this point. They know he lies. He knows they know. And they still clap for the lies like it’s the gospel truth.
The astonishing thing about Watergate, in contrast to today, is how the President was actually shamed into leaving office. Imagine that: shame.
I feel like maybe we should all be allowed to see Trump’s college admissions data. No doubt his going to Penn was purely merit-based.
Trump doesn’t give a shit about New York. He’s worried that Mamdani might actually hold the key to breaking the Trump spell. Candidates like Mamdani could attract these young voters who apparently voted for Trump because they can’t afford anything.
It drives Jonathan Turley crazy when I remind everyone that he is just Mike Lindell with tenure. So, please make sure not to amplify this message.👇 Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.
No, it’s not a safe space; you’re an idiot. Read Hemingway. I’m kidding. I love that interpretation.
Predictions: Gabbard will be indicted. Bondi will be indicted. Karoline (or however you spell it) Leavitt will be indicted. Hegseth will be dismissed, unceremoniously. Vance will lose his law license (and his wife). Stephen Miller will be tarred and feathered, and indicted. TBC . . .
I mean, at this point there’s only one answer to the question, “Why haven’t they released the Epstein Files??”
Finally, a united nation.
If Sean Duffy builds a nuclear reactor on the moon will it have any effect on releasing the Epstein files?
💙 THESE JUSTICES NEED TO BE REMOVED!!! 💙 👇👇👇👇
David Mamet is a douche. Full stop.
Also, millionaire and billionaire pedophiles. And golf cheats.
A friend of mine who lives in Austin saw this at a bar and said she had never been so offended by something she 100% agreed with.
Had the same thought the other day. Biggest redaction/Adobe text-editing operation in history. When they disclose the files in September and there’s nothing to see there, ask why they needed the extra six weeks. And listen to the anonymous whistle-blower FBI agents who leak the truth.
Trump is a cheater and a pedophile. And a loser. www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/d...
DOJ doing favors for convicted pedophiles now.
Amazing to think that all it would have taken to save our democracy was integrity, and that integrity was in such short supply. America, what happened??
I wonder how Cheryl Hines, the Marvelous Mrs. Measles, is doing. She must be so proud.
How do these people hold their heads up?
Who’s this guy making so much sense?
And why does the @southwestairlines.bsky.social app keep updating our boarding time to a time 30 mins in the past? It’s like they’re laughing at us.
👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾What He Said! 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾
How does @southwestairlines.bsky.social schedule a flight and then announce at the gate that they don’t have a flight crew? I don’t get it.
This idiot and his inane obsession with “windmills.” How fucking stupid can a person be?
Hulk Hogan, may he rest in peace, was a clown.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, American heroes.
Jerome Powell, American hero.
Trump realizes that a finding that there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone else with child sex trafficking does not end the matter, right? MAGA wants to know who was in Epstein’s locus who MIGHT have taken advantage of his services. Nothing short of releasing the files will satisfy them.
How far DOJ has fallen. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...
Pretty funny that MAGA supported Trump because they thought he was against child predators; turns out he’s a child predator. Fucking idiots.
We should criminalize lying by public officials or candidates for public office on matters pertaining to the public interest. Our knee-jerk belief that ALL speech must be permitted is misguided. It's the steady diet of lies over the past ten years that has brought us to the brink of collapse.
The Epstein birthday card is now public. (Trump can continue to pretend it's not real, but that's not the point.) The point: If the card were the worst thing for Trump in the files, why wouldn't Trump now make the Epstein files public? Conclusion: There are worse things for Trump in the files.
Integrity
@amtrak.com Bring back the overnight train from NYC to Portland, ME!!
This Obama red herring bit is weird. Is the bet that MAGA racism is stronger than MAGA objection to the rape of children? I mean—sad to say—I suppose it could be true.
Needless to say, if Trump’s DOJ is seeking to meet with Maxwell, that would be in service of the coverup not the truth, of collusion not investigation. Sen. Durbin and others should scream bloody murder about this.
Please, please stop posting pictures of sunset.
When coverups start to fall apart, the participants engage in frenetic activity to keep them going. Thus this morning’s frantic effort by DAG Todd Blanche to get to Ghislaine Maxwell.
The GOP is shutting down Congress to avoid revealing evidence that the President is a r*pist. This cannot stand.
Files can’t be blackmailed. Files can’t be extorted. Files can’t be pardoned. Files can’t be bribed. Nothing can substitute for the release of all of the Epstein files.
Oh man—we were literally partying in the streets and waving American flags from the fire escapes.
Democrats need to repeat this over and over and over in as many places as they can.
It must feel so bad for all these unqualified MAGA lawyers who find themselves in these supervisory federal prosecutor positions knowing that the rank and file know they're unqualified and despise them.
Every Democrat that knows they're not in the Epstein files needs to be clamoring for the files' disclosure. We are way past protecting the scumbag Democrats who ARE in there. This is a moment to expose Trump's hypocrisy that we won't get again.
Trump promised to open the Epstein files. Trump and his acolytes are now actively working to keep the truth from coming out. Time for MAGA to put up or shut up.
Anyone else anticipating some wag the dog action in our immediate future?
The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship. That's just a true statement about the world!
Also, “no evidence was discovered that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties”? That’s preposterous. I’ve initiated investigations based on a newspaper article.
Let me get this straight: We’re in this mess b/c a large segment of the population thought this guy would open the Epstein files, and now this guy’s errand boy in Congress is sending his colleagues home early to avoid opening those files? So we’re going to kick all these clowns out of office, right?
Cowards
Only possible conclusion: Trump supporters also support child rape.
How weak of a man are you if you are intimidated by everything that is different than you?
It's starting to feel like maybe the President is on that list.