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Gotta wonder which jackal mandated that these files be released to the public as JPEGs? And via a âHouseGOPâ Gmail address?!? Why must everythingâeven deeply sensitive materials regarding the harm this vile criminal enterprise caused to over 1000+ girls & women âbe so Insultingly incompetent?
Rep Garcia said the only new disclosure was ~1000 pages from CBPâs log of Epsteinâs private plane flight locations from 2000 to 2014 & re-entry forms back to the US (Epsteinâs pilots flight logs from the same period have been public for years) Also the video www.thedailybeast.com/missing-minu...
Itâs a huge dump of different kinds of files & 𤯠HouseGOP went all in on inaccessibilityâso many ginormous files! Hope a media org is reformatting & removing the dupes using some terrible AI toolâ& that theyâll share! But if all thatâs new is video & audio of prior materials, the DOJ is trolling
98-99% has been public for many years. Till today, (new interview with Ghislaine aside) no new files had been publicly released by this admin. 1 to 2% is allegedly new. So it could be 300-600 pages out of 33000. All thatâs been new to me is audio & video files of previously released transcripts?
This is the first trove of documents the DOJ turned over to the House GOP.
More than 450 economists, including several Nobel Prize winners, have signed a letter condemning ârhetoric or actions that erode the Federal Reserveâs independenceâ in support of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, whom Trump âfiredâ based on unproven mortgage fraud allegations flip.it/.EATOP
Shockingly, the NYT called it out: bsky.app/profile/nyti...
On quick scan I concur with David: the remedies against Google are pretty weak tea, though still complex enough to require a "Technical Committee" that will probably pay for a lot of beach houses. Increasingly tough to believe muscular structural antitrust remedies will emerge from current statutes.
BREAKING: 5th circuit panel rejects Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to expel Venezuelan nationals, saying there has been no "invasion" or "predatory incursion." Majority Southwich (George W. Bush) Ramirez (Biden) Dissent Oldham (Trump) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, says he was denied a meeting with career intelligence workers because Laura Loomer objected.
The Anti-Trump Strategy Thatâs Actually Working flip.it/eNkZtF albeit in due time.
Seems more like itâs now that there are no laws? but itâs also kind of a hodgepodge of EOs, rule changes & selective enforcement of laws? Like the FDA approval + the EO about veteran mental health for Ketamine. And then Biden didnât manage to get the toothpaste back in the tube & here we are?
I totally agree abused children should be called children (& not for eg underaged women) in reference to child abuse. However, tho folks may not be aware, also, here many were 18+ when the abuse occurred. These trafficking & assault survivorsâ& this harmâmust not be erased or minimized either?
Youâve not seen all the psychedelic startups? Itâs more de facto than de jureâso venture capitalists & drug cos can profiteer in but BIPOC folks are still incarcerated? More here: Trump Orders âa Lotâ of Ketamine for VA www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/02...
In an attempt to avoid being forced to disclose the entire trancheâwhich is all but certain to failâHouse GOP surprises releases the first trove of Epstein files www.politico.com/news/2025/09... prior reporting indicates that 99% of these 33K pages are already public.
Trump says btw the U.S. has carried out a strike against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela www.latimes.com/world-nation... apparently we maybe just started a war with Venezuela?
Hundreds of staff at California national parks to unionize amid Trump turmoil More than 97% at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon parks voted to unionize as president enacts major cuts #solidarity www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Todayâs court ruling is what weâve been warning about for months: Trump is unlawfully using the military to terrorize Americans, including kids and hardworking immigrants â many of whom have contributed to this country and are part of American families.
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And itâs all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax â it's cruel.
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every Americanâs Health By Former CDC Directors William Foege, William Roper, David Satcher Jeffrey Koplan Richard Besser, Tom Frieden, Anne Schuchat, Rochelle P. Walensky & Mandy K. Cohen www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
𧾠In the wake of numerous reports of interactions with AI chatbots that resulted in deadly consequences, the Center for Democracy & Technology's Dr. Michal Luria says AI firms should stop designing products that pretend to be human.
NEW: Judge Sooknanan is back at it. She orders DOJ to file at fifth status report to address whether the two children discussed in its previous report have been returned to ORR custody. Status report due at 12 noon today.
Happy Labor Day!
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
The inevitable has happened: Disconnect is back on Ghost after trying Substack again. I didnât just ditch another US tech platform; I learned the Substack network isnât as helpful as it used to be, and certainly doesnât justify putting up with the platformâs support for Nazis.
US Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, who now cannot travel to the US for medical treatment, school, to visit relatives or do business www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w... Also today, the International Association of Genocide Scholars said đŽđą is commiting genocide www.bbc.com/news/article...
Says the pundit in the nazi bar!?!
Trump Just Made Burning the Flag a Little Easier flip.it/h1.KKi more abortions & abortion pills, more đşđ¸burning &, thus farâtho exponentially more terrorizing, cruel, lawless & costly in every way possibleâstill not close to exceeding the Deporter in Chiefâs record from a decade ago. Utterly putinous
Loading children up to fly them to Guatemala without a hearing to find out if they can be cared for by relatives in USA and whether they will be greatly harmed by the Deportation. These Trump MAGAS sink so low on the morality scale there is no bottom.
Sure? My point was that eugenics is the shared core tenet for those hateful groups & folksâ&, in contrast to some folks claims about RFK, this is neither new nor more complicated or sophisticated than eugenics. Suggesting it is not only inaccurate, but itâs how we got here & it helps their cause!
Bans Canât Stop the Abortion Pill nymag.com/intelligence... Now, because of lawsuits trying to ban these effective meds, âabortion pills are flowing more freely than ever before. Theyâre cheaper than ever before. & more people know about them than ever, partly thanks to the antiabortion movementâ
These MAGA justices are letting Trump get away with murder www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
What to Know About Zohran Mamdani and Democratic Socialism www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/n... this, but replace âMamdaniâ with âTrumpâ & âdemocraticâ with either ârepublicanâ or um ânationalâ.
My favorite sentence in the New York Times explainer on Mamdani and socialism.
Sure. But I think we are referencing different things. There are some journos & commentators who are claiming that actually it is more complicated & idk sophisticated than eugenics. It is not.
Kindly, BIPOC folks have been saying it for all of time. And along with so many folks who work in tech in academia, weâve literally been saying it for decades.
I feel you. Iâm convinced that the letter keys on my phone are now slightly more spaced out & itâs made me make endless typos ever since some OS update ages ago . And like the AI that refuses to stop âcorrectingâ what I am mistyping, I canât turn it off or fix itâŚor lol prove it!!
I donât think people can face that they have participated in passive eugenics with covid. Especially parents. Obviously I have no problem.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
I do not understand the resistance to describing these folksâbe it RFKjr, Trump,Thiel, Musk, Zuck, Altman or Epsteinâs bozo pals within & outside Trumpâs cabinetâas eugenicists. They donât even deny it! Nor do I understand why folks think it is deeper or more complicated?
Queen Elizabeth Ordered UK Chancellor to Tell Obama to âGo To Bedâ During His State Visit www.thedailybeast.com/queen-elizab... So who told Obama?!! Reading this I realize how severely I undervalued all the days that I got to not think about any POTUS at allâ& also the day this man wore a tan suit.
To be clear: this is not a defense or a justification or something that I want to think, let alone defend. But I am beyond dubious it wouldâve or couldâve changed any other wayâŚ.itâs still hard for me to believe it has!
Obvi I agree âI alone can fix thisâ is nonsense but, for better & worse, aside from this mobster felon potus (known for hating drugs but not as much as he loves corruption) I canât imagine any other US POTUS wouldâve unilaterally de facto decriminalized mdma, ketamine & đduring my lifetime or ever.
Itâs a great analogy because folks really bought that narrative (fucking Kissinger!). But, in hindsite, it was inevitable? And tho it was then viewed as politically risky & failure was possible, the potential upside was obvious & enormous. & in contrast, it was not thoughtless & purely corrupt?
Itâs always been these lawless cretins. Who else could?! Fun facts: 1) FBI informant Peter Thiel (who is never described as such) is why & howTrump decriminalized ketamine, MDMA,đetc. 2) Thielâs 1st job after law school was working for Bush 1âs Bill Bennett, literally creating the war on drugs.
Relatedly & again, Iâd obvi not choose this version of reality nor discount the depth & breadth of the harmâbut this is the 1st time in my lifetime that I think itâs possible & even probable that our appalling immigration policy will change during my lifetime. Unless of course none of us survive.
Even if Iâm mostly pro-legalization, Iâd have obviously chosen a different version of reality than this one & obvi Iâm not pro corruptionâbut is there really anyone who thinks our drug policy on psychedelics wouldâve changed so drastically with any President (or the GOP or Dems) other than Trump?
Itâs always been these lawless cretins. Who else could?! Fun facts: 1) FBI informant Peter Thiel (who is never described as such) is why & howTrump decriminalized ketamine, MDMA,đetc. 2) Thielâs 1st job after law school was working for Bush 1âs Bill Bennett, literally creating the war on drugs.
Speaking of NYT failures: The other day NYT (led by right wing propagandist Devlin Barrett) went thru hoops to normalize the investigation of John Bolton. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/28/k...
An aside: journalism exists in an attention economy where demand drives editorial decision making. If you find something you enjoyed, learned from and that moved you, share and share widely -- even four days late. I, and others, don't get to keep doing this stuff if no one reads it.
Exclusive: The Justice Department gave some senior career attorneys a choice: They could either quit or go to a new Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group. Six months later, all of those attorneys have left DOJ. âThe assignment was a sham,â one said.
Usually, when Switzerland makes it into the NYT, itâs about a major bank collapsing. This time, though, itâs the countryâs quite peculiar housing co-ops (âGenossenschaftenâ) that make headlines. Theyâre no panacea, but certainly worth exploring as part of the solution to the housing crisis
âMeanwhile, wildfire officials were still trying to get control of the Bear Gulch fire. The number of personnel working on the blaze was listed at 303 on Friday, down from 349 on Thursday.â
Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM đ§Şđď¸
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romneyâs presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Iâm really sick of the courts finding this administration broke the law in some unprecedented way, but they get to keep doing illegal things for a few months as a little treat. Theyâre defaulting to rewarding lawbreaking.
Thief warns of 'embarrassment' if burglary ruled illegal
AUTHORS!! đŁ If AI trained itself on your book, you can be part of A class action lawsuit now. More here: lithub.com/did-anthropi... Spread the word, please!!
US to revoke visas for PLO and PA members ahead of UN General Assembly 2025 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-says-it-will-deny-plo-and-pa-members-visas-un-general-assembly
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
âMeta had allowed users to create publicly available chatbots of child celebrities, including Walker Scobell, a 16-year-old film star. Asked for a picture of the teen actor at the beach, the bot produced a lifelike shirtless image. âPretty cute, huh?â the avatar wrote beneath the picture.â đ¤˘
This far right power grab is global
What if there's a bird flu pandemic, given the sorry state of affairs in US vaccine policy and public health infrastructure? "We are fucked" Whole interview here: open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...
Public media stations in rural đşđ¸ say emergency-alert funding is in jeopardy after CPB shutdown Congress appropriated $136 million for a Next Generation Warning System, where CPB would fund equipment like backup generators for public radio & tv stations flip.it/uAljiP what could possibly go wrong?
The Pentagonâin direct violation of federal lawâ Is Reinstalling a Portrait of Confederate General Lee on a horse, being led by an enslaved man, in West Pointâs Library flip.it/E-_Y2N & lawsuit. It is wild how much time Trumpâs admin dedicates to suing & being sued in comparison to governing.
bsky.app/profile/dear...
How else will they avoid hiring undocumented folks, journalists, Democrats & anyone else not MAGA enough? ICE agents arenât political appointeesâthere is no question ICE applicants are subject to intrusive background checks, as well as biometrics & ongoing drug testing.
And yes, while it is true that ICE has lowered the bar/decreased the qualifications/requirements for applicants & cut back on their training, ICE agents arenât political appointees. So, by law, being a felon or a domestic abusers is a disqualification, not a qualification? bsky.app/profile/dear...
Mexico suspends postal shipments to United States over tariff confusion www.politico.com/news/2025/08... Welcome to the de facto embargo? #loligarchy
130k apps sounds like loadsâbut, with higher standards, ICE needs 500k to hire 5k. & what signals failure more than trying to FORCE FEMA workers to join ICE? With lower standards, ICEâll get more apps (& predictably more corruption, violence & lawsuits), but even fewer will pass background checks!
ICE, who claims 130k have applied, slashed their 18-to-20-week training course to 8 weeks (6 days a week), waived Spanish requirements, vehicle-pursuit courses & more www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... Worth noting: this sounds like success, but by the numbers, this means recruitment is failing!
After being kidnapped by 15 âagents,â ICE movedLA high school senior Benjamin Guerrero-Cruz to an out of state detention center (& then back to Adelanto) without warning or his parentsâ knowledge. www.latimes.com/california/s... TIL ICE is only required to inform family about a loved oneâs death
Socialism Is Right Here In Trumpâs đşđ¸ Rejoice! www.thedailybeast.com/socialism-is... are Polymarket & Kalshi taking bets on which co Trump will nationalize next? Maybe Tesla, Palantir, OpenAI, Meta, Coinbase, Boeing, Anduril or Kalshi? If thereâs a Trump on a companyâs board, are they exempt?
O'Neill is a "longevity guy" and is buddies with Bryan Johnson and... "He has also supported the libertarian idea of creating new geographic zones, possibly at sea, in which residents can live by their own rules (including, notably, permissive regulatory regimes for new drugs and therapies). "
America Is putinously Cutting Off the Five Eyes. flip.it/YbIre7 Despite our face. Afterall why wouldđşđ¸share intel with our allies about our shared enemy? Trump wanted to gift Putin some Alaska, but, in exchange for idk not releasing (hacked) Epstein files, is this what Vlad extracted? #SPECTRE
Does It Matter Trump Is Confused by Magnets? flip.it/1jaGh5 đşđ¸ is now "heavy into magnets nowâonly from a national security standpoint. But we have a much more powerful thing & that's tariffs. We're going to have a lot of magnets in a pretty short period of timeâ At Reason, does anything matter?
"Researcher who has distorted voter data appointed to Homeland Security election integrity role" www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from âThereâs no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselvesâ to âIf you type anything we donât like, weâre calling the cops.â Either way, they take zero responsibility.
After 22 years, Typepad is shutting down with one month's notice. Go back up your old blogs, old-school blogger friends. everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08...
In case you missed it in the comments:
Trump's Intel stake sparks cries of 'socialism' from his party, but he vows more deals are coming flip.it/ntLwXT the Trump doctrine is extortion; Boeing, Palantir, Anduril next? Or Alphabet, Meta & Microsoft?
Mexico suspends postal shipments to United States over tariff confusion www.politico.com/news/2025/08... Welcome to the de facto embargo? #loligarchy
CDC erupts in chaos after ousted chief Susan Monarez refuses to resign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
Every day, another piece of nauseating news hits my gut in a way I thought Iâd become immune to, reminding me that the decline towards fascism takes place through the actions, not just of the fascists themselves, but of weak humans who choose short term self-preservation over courage and conviction.
They don't feel shame, but they care deeply about status. Wanting to be liked--or at least envied--is their Achilles heel. We can use that against them:it's cheap, non-violent & effective. Social shunning of elites supporting Pinochet helped bring down the Chilean dictator: it can work here too.
When Mamdani says it, itâs socialism. When Trump does it, itâs genius. flip.it/_QGEhL
When Mamdani says it, itâs socialism. When Trump does it, itâs genius. flip.it/_QGEhL
In Funniest Twist, Trump Now Wants to Nationalize Lockheed Martin flip.it/ODDtNV & since the Trump doctrine is extortion, maybe take 10% of Palantir? What are the words the GOP uses for when government takes over a private company? Itâs the same words they use to demonize Obamacare?
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimesâassaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justiceâthey can be prosecuted.
Watching Loomer harass & demonize individual Muslim government employees simply for being Muslims while the Democrats & 'liberal media' say nothing is a reminder of how mainstreamed & normalized anti-Muslim bigotry is in the US, across the spectrum. Imagine if these were Jewish or Black employees.
Full story here. From Mayor Daniel Biss: "This vendor has failed to follow state and local data protection laws. With constant attacks from the federal government and other far-right actors, we will not sit idly by while our peopleâs data is shared inappropriately."
NEW: More than 199,000 federal workers have left their jobs or have been forced out by the Trump admin since Jan. 2025, per a new report. Thatâs nearly 10% of the entire federal civilian workforce. âWeâre seeing the arson of our government." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
DC!! đŁđŁ
Feels like the bigger story is that accurately pricing in the cost of maintaining many rural areas is indistinguishable from trying to depopulate them
A 1955 writer casually dropping a âGermans tended to go along with Nazis just like your all-American wife goes along with segregationâ is both the answer and the question for âhow we got hereâ
I really donât remember blue books ever being anyoneâs âworst nightmareâ but I guess they gotta make a story about trying to save teaching suspenseful
Beginning to get emails like this from small overseas businesses I've ordered products from in the past. I guess this is freedom.
theyâre just charging everything maximally and honestly if the goal is to reduce convictions in the District this is probably a great plan