Maybe it's just me but I don't think Jeffrey Epstein's clients should be the ones to decide if Jeffrey Epstein's clients should be prosecuted.

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.

(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue

The next administration must make clear that any immigrant, refugee, or asylum seeker wrongly deported, exiled, or otherwise mistreated by this administration will be readmitted with an expedited path to citizenship. Send a plane to get them.

We can't undo the damage. But we can do something.

I’m currently looking at a completely dry Blue River in Breckenridge. Ten Mile
Creek has water, but it seems like late summer / early fall levels instead of the usual roar of spring.

Yeah, some of your fellow Democrats have called Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide. Do you agree with that? That’s becoming one of those new litmus tests that we said we would never do as a party again. It’s trying to throw out a word and, “Are you going to raise your hand or are you not going to?” I understand that Israel was hit with a terrorist attack the likes of which it had never seen and it has been through a lot and that it deserves the right to defend itself and to eradicate that terrorist organization. I believe that it could have been done without a lot of the suffering, but I put a lot of that blame also on Donald Trump. If he’d said we are coming in and we are bringing food and aid and you are going to make sure that we’re safe, it would’ve happened.

Terrible answer from Beshear
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

RFK Jr. is a guy who was meant to commit a series of themed animal crimes in Gotham City with the ultimate goal to “eat the Bat” before being subdued and returned to Arkham.

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

One of the joys of ski instructing is watching so many of my male colleagues (young and old, parents or not) choose to teach little kids and do so spectacularly well — with joy and patience and kindness.

Anywhoodles, fuck this bitch and her one-dimensional caricature of men.

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

from the AP Lit FB group, this kind of thing happens across states—

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

the penne opticon

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

I feel like "anti rich current reaches crescendo" is when the guillotine operators are getting OT not when you find a way to levy a new small tax on an undertaxed upper class

Conservative podcaster Benny Johnson is encouraging Republicans to back a bill defining the "nuclear family" as a husband, a wife, children, and the husband's Grindr hook-ups.

Hartzog said lawmakers need to create more specific rules tailored to the unique threat posed by the combination of facial recognition and nearly undetectable surveillance technology before it becomes ubiquitous. Those laws need to target not only people using the technology, but also the companies behind it, he said. “A lot of these conversations tend to focus on, ‘is it OK to use these glasses or this tool to surveil other people?’” he said. “What often gets lost in this conversation is, ‘is it OK for companies to design these really socially hostile tools in ways that will foreseeably lead to massive violations of privacy?’”

🛎️🛎️🛎️

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

pope tweets good

Trump, IRS in talks to settle US president's $10 billion lawsuit Lawyers for Donald Trump ​and the Internal Revenue Service are in talks to settle the U.S. president's $10 billion lawsuit against the tax ‌collection agency for leaking his tax returns to the media i...

Every presidential administration gets accused of corruption—sometimes with good reason, sometimes not. But the corruption of the Trump administration is of a magnitude that is not only without precedent in American history but so large and brazen as to be difficult to wrap one's head around.

Sure dude, release those files too. Release every last fucking secret file detailing crimes by powerful people. We will still remember that you’re a murderer, rapist, and pedophile too!

I was skiing a cattrack (flat road) at Copper yesterday, and one squirrel chased another squirrel out of the woods… and then the first squirrel BONKED right into my ski boot as I flew past! Squirrel was unharmed, but WTF DUDE.

Exactly one year ago today:

This needs to happen in ski towns. We have so many huge multimillion dollar homes that sit empty most of the year. Those people could help pay for workforce housing and childcare so that the county can function economically.

Jim Jordan is commenting on Eric Swalwell's sexual misconduct allegations. Jordan was assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State while team doctor Richard Strauss sexually abused at least 177 athletes. Multiple wrestlers testified under oath they told Jordan. He did nothing. He was never charged.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

I’m not a procrastinator! I started my taxes yesterday morning, and I finished them this morning — a whole 16 hours before they were due!

I was just very excited to make my own contribution to a senseless war and enriching corrupt pedophiles, so I wanted to pa them nice and early.

Training in such challenging conditions often such a struggle, and it’s certainly less fun than hero snow. But bad conditions make good skiers, and I’ve been spoiled for too long! 4/ #ski #colorado #psia #nationalacademy

It felt amazing — mentally and physically. I’ve worked so so hard on my skiing for 11 (!!) years. it’s really coming together in new and glorious ways as I train for my Alpine 3. Just so much joy in that level of mastery and flow. 3/

In years past, and even earlier this season, these conditions would have been nothing but struggle. But thanks to some great coaching over the years and this season and at this event, I was able to ski with ease and grace and flow. FINALLY! 2/

View east (I think?) from Copper Mountain, Colorado

Me, standing next to my skis in my Wonder Woman costume

Today was my second day of training at PSIA’s National Academy at Copper. We got a few inches of powder on top of frozen slush at Copper. By the afternoon, I was skiing on ice topped irregularly by sprays & piles of snow. 1/