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Literally graduated from Yale Law School.
The AMA strongly opposes Florida’s plan to end all vaccine mandates, and urges Florida to reconsider. This unprecedented rollback would undermine decades of public health progress and place children and communities at increased risk. spr.ly/63328ABvBq
Okay but if you DID have integrity…
Democrats Are Showing How You Do It: Threatening Jail Time open.substack.com/pub/thefucki... @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social "..even the most loyal Trump servant is on notice that he won’t live forever & the rest of us see what they’re doing. And democratic leaders are going to make sure
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Happy Labor Day, oh dignified workers, we. Here’s a good little read about a slightly alt aspiration from the dignity of grind and toil. h/t @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
Somewhere along the way … they got us to lose our way.
Some Democrats aren't sitting back waiting for Trump's and Kennedy's grossness and measles to wash over the country... ...They're taking action to protect the people of their states...
"How Dems Come Back: Be Real; FIGHT #DonaldTrump & His MAGA Mobsters!" I debate w @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social how Dems can win on policy/politically based on my 1st piece in a series of 4 on this called, simply, "Be Sherrod Brown" Please check out & Share! www.blueamp.co/p/cliff-v-jo...
It’s not just Pritzker. The movement is growing.
Big ruling against Trump's blatantly illegal imposition of tariffs, which are taxes on every American. Working my way through the 127 pages of opinion, so more later. THIS IS A REALLY BIG DEAL, WITH NO LESS THAN THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AT ISSUE! See: share.google/0v8nPm966u0H...
Look at The Onion.
The People Just Freed The Subway™ Vigilante open.substack.com/pub/thefucki... @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social "Aug. 28: Hero-tossing hero vindicated by anonymous grand-jury heroes … Jaws of death snapping shut on “Alligator Alcatraz” … New vaccine ruling will help Kennedy make America Covid again …
Wait, what are you talking about? You did nothing wrong!
I don’t wanna call out anyone specific.
I can't with leftie media that start important stories about policy with endless personal observations and minutiae. It's getting worse and I'd bet fewer and fewer people are reading and therefore learning about the real, systemic, policy-based stuff squirreled away inside. Sorry. End rant.
Wonder-Jury Powers: Nullify! open.substack.com/pub/thefucki... @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social "Aug. 26: Juries keep standing in the way of Trump’s prosecutors … Windy City tells presidential gasbag to blow … FEMA workers warn that FEMA itself is an unnatural disaster …
Thank you, Kat!
Ghislaine Maxwell Said "Some Are In Your Cabinet" — and No One Followed Up @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thefucki... "Some are in your cabinet, she says. Some are in ur cabinet." Some are in your cabinet.Some are in your cabinet.Some are in your cabinet.Some are in your cabinet.
Thanks, Dani.
Maxwell: “…and some [of Epstein’s cast of characters] are in your cabinet…” Hold up, WHAT?!?! Maybe we wanna follow up on that?! #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles Massive 👏👏👏 to @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social for flagging this. Article link👇 open.substack.com/pub/thefucki...
I Don't Like Mondays- except that @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social joins me to discuss The F'ng News from thefuckingnews.substack.com. Join us LIVE at 3ET/noon PT at youtu.be/HKfaxSL18Hk, nicolesandler.com, pod later, nicolesandler.substack.com
hi! do you work in renewable energy development and want to vent off the record? i wanna chat about how things are going in the U.S. right now. shoot me a message? email: jael@heatmap.news signal: leajnamzloh.53
Yeah, how about it, @thehill.com? 🤨
So, no … no one told him about Hitler?
Untold numbers of kids are going to get Jeffrey Epsteined thanks to Trump... ...unless he reverses course by Oct. 1
Everyone's screaming about how the left doesn't compromise and I keep saying I will vote for this guy. I am a communist who will vote for a billionaire. Centrists, tell me about even one instance when you have compromised like anything close to this. Or at all.
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Whew! Trump will be so relieved…
We're looking forward to seeing a lot of people here on 9/7. Please help us spread the word.
This is how it’s done. Bravo! 👏🏽🔥
Everyone’s looking at the Ghislaine Maxwell transcript. But the real story is what’s not in it.
The DREADED COMMUNISM is just fine if Trump does it. Hello, Republicans? Can’t claim the “conservative” mantle anymore, you hypocrites.
35 states & cities told AG Pam Bondi to fuck off. Last week, Bondi ordered them to start helping Trump’s hunt for immigrants Responses show Dem leaders telling Bondi she can stick it up her sanctuary for poop ROFLMAO BA guest piece by @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social! www.blueamp.co/p/tim-walz-a...
As per @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
My bad, it's old! x.com/realDonaldTr...
My first thought. Twitter verified though.
In case anyone forgot his other pageant-going best friend.
It's Monday so @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social returns to the show to help me wade through TheFuckingNews..substack.com! Join us LIVE at 3ET/noon PT at youtu.be/k7v7uamf2cY, nicolesandler.com, pod later, nicolesandler.substack.com
Sharing for the headline alone!
Friday’s summit yielded wins for Putin, Russia, Moscow, and the Kremlin. But Trump DID get something only Russian media seem to have noticed…
We could all use some good news today, no? Here it is, courtesy of @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social . (And remember, this polling was taken before yesterday’s Putin fiasco. open.substack.com/pub/thefucki...
Trump voters are starting to crack. And when you combine the findings of two new polls, an explanation starts to suggest itself...
Thank you, Jim! 🙏
This is the magnificently, invigoratingly sweary coverage of current affairs I’m very much here for 👏👏👏 @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thefucki...
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The law that Rubio wiped from the State Dept. report was passed by the Ugandan branch of... ...the Fellowship Foundation, aka The Family. Rubio's been an insider for years. The photo for my article is from their C Street townhouse:
The State Department's own site warns of ongoing human-rights abuses in Uganda specifically targeted at sexual orientation. They've wiped acronyms, as you can see from the 2024 travel advisory, left. But the current one still acknowledges laws targeting sexual orientation. Wait. There's more.
Here's a shot from last year's State Dept. report on Uganda's human rights. And this year's, under Rubio. That's not all...
EXCLUSIVE: The new State Department human-rights report drops all mention of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act... ...which includes the death penalty.
The new State Dept. report on human rights abuses by other countries sure strikes a lot of familiar notes... "...abducted and held citizens at unidentified detention facilities without charge..." Oh noes.
Trump is punishing schools for not cracking down on people who hurl antisemitic slurs. But the White House just told me they don’t want to comment on the White House Bible study teaching that the Jews killed Jesus. The oldest antisemitic smear there is.
TFN today hit a little close to home(town), as rockford, IL — where i grew up — made crime-ridden city list & numbers-stroker-in-chief nominee e.j. antoni got his ph.d from northern illinois — closest major university to that city. thx for making me grateful again i left @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
Trump isn’t raising a teeny tiny finger to help red-state cities actually under siege from violent crime…
The work that the Freedom From Religion Foundation does is more important now than ever. If you're not already, give them a follow @ffrf.org!
their work “will also be about Cleanliness and the General Physical Renovation and Condition of our once beautiful and well maintained Capital.” At this rate, I expect Trump to cover the city in gold leaf. What the big media outlets are glossing over is Trump’s plan to steamroll over unhoused people
Dems, USE this crisis Trump has created. Tell law enforcement & military. "We will come after you if you follow illegal, unlawful orders. You will be sued in civil court and held accountable." @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social on the @nicolesandler.bsky.social show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0pF...
It’s too bad Trump’s such a stickler for obeying judicial orders and the sanctity of government documents.
There’s a lot we’re not hearing about the targets of Trump’s DC invasion…
ICYMI over the weekend, as Trump keeps trying to distract from the Epstein files, @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social broke some news on one of the scandal's most notorious figures, Alex Acosta
Aw, thanks, Joe! Who is correct.
@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social with another scoop. Y'all should sign up for his TFN substack.
Thank you.
I’m afraid there’s more. (And thank you.)
Um…
NEW FROM ME: The man who teaches Bible lessons to Pete Hegseth and other cabinet members... ...says the National Prayer Breakfast is a "curse" on America because it permits "false religion" including even Christian denominations...
Some things don't change MAD Magazine 1969. 👇
Former Trump Labor Sec Alex Acosta, who protected Epstein while working for Bush admin, did not get subpoenaed by Comer But Acosta is palling around with Team Trump at the White House as @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social revealed open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Would not have guessed Argentina...
NEW FROM ME: In June, the former prosecutor who let Jeffrey Epstein off easy joined the White House Bible study as a sponsor. The next month, Attorney General Pam Bondi — a participant in the White House Bible study — announced no more files would be released.
NEW FROM ME: In June, the former prosecutor who let Jeffrey Epstein off easy joined the White House Bible study as a sponsor. The next month, Attorney General Pam Bondi — a participant in the White House Bible study — announced no more files would be released.
It isn't perfect, but Wikipedia is still the closest thing we have to a site that actually fulfills the original promise of the internet as a radical experiment in participatory democracy. We must protect it from AI slop at all costs. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
I am SO sorry to have cost you that hour of your life. I hope you were at least on a beach or something.
Thank you. And congrats, I guess? Although, you should click through to the links. I didn't include EVERYTHING that makes for godly women or Bad Babes of the Bible...
Amazing article. Huh. Turns out I’m both a Godly Woman AND a Bad Babe of the Bible! Unthinkable! Great work, Larson. Probably going to to fire off my displeasure on your substack
CNN just reported that Pete Hegseth's pastor opposes leadership roles for women. Wait'll they get a load of Hegseth's OTHER pastor...
Was still there two hours later. Co-working?
I am incandescent with fury and disgust
Stop being an a$$hole? Respect women? Realize that being woke is a good thing?
Sitting outside putting together today's edition of The Fucking News and this guy decided to hang out on my screen and honestly I kinda dig the company. TheFuckingNews.substack.com
Thanks!
When you look at how Trump's staunchest allies have tried to whitewash his Epstein ties for the last decade-plus, it doesn't add up. Unless it does:
Texas Democrats To GOP: Suck It open.substack.com/pub/thefucki... "It’s worth noting, so I’m gonna fuckin’ note it, that McLaughlin’s boss, DHS Secretary #KristiNoem, attends a White House Bible study that teaches that the Jews killed Jesus..." @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
LOL @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social had me today at "geraldmandering." Insightful AND funny. open.substack.com/pub/thefucki...
In the arts, too, genius is a myth. norman-rockwell-town-hall-painting-guy.jpg
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto... By: @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social on @meidastouch.com
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Thanks!
Keep the two distinct in your head.
Thank you, Kelly!
Really great reporting here by @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social on the recruitment and hiring practices at Mar-a-Lago around the time that it hired Virginia Giuffre and other teenage girls, which was also when #Epstein was using the club as a hunting ground. jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/trumps-mar...
You inspired me to dig up what we knew about Mar-a-Lago at the time. Trump basically created a perfect hunting ground for Epstein and Maxwell:
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It's not surprising Trump presented young female workers as sexual objects. Even today he can't seem to reconcile whether his ostensible rift with Epstein was over professional poaching or personal predation. Trump himself implied just last week that he doesn't see a difference:
And once the spa attendants were hired, they had to wear a uniform appropriate for the position. The employee handbook said if you didn't have a uniform, mini-skirts were "not permissible." So, what was the uniform they gave Giuffre, which she was wearing when Maxwell spotted her?
...The woman named in that ad was fired in 2001. She claimed age discrimination. Not just against her. "It has always been known through the club that Mr. Donald Trump wants young, attractive people working for him." This is Trump's fired HR manager in her 2004 complaint.
I found a Mar-a-Lago job listing for "spa attendants" -- the same job Virginia Giuffre was hired for. "College students encouraged to apply." But not just any college students...
NEW FROM ME: How come no one's asked Trump WHY Epstein and Maxwell chose his upscale resort to hunt for vulnerable girls? It turns out that court records and even help-wanted ads from the time offer plenty of answers...
