“The ricochet is happening around the world, and yet nothing here,” survivor Dani Bensky said. “It just feels like all the rest of the countries in the world are saying that this is problematic, and they’re looking into it and investigating it, and here we’re saying, ‘Nope, nothing to see here.’”
“I’m feeling elated,” Epstein survivor Maria Farmer said. “... I think it’s going to make all the difference for everyone. It proves that power can be toppled.” New piece w/ @justinrohrlich.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/epst...
As the WSJ noted...
Ruemmler's "Epstein ties began to show. She gave a heads up to several Goldman executives before the Daily Beast published an article in November 2020 revealing she was in the courtroom at Epstein’s 2019 arraignment."
www.wsj.com/finance/gold...
5+ years after The Daily Beast started asking questions about her relationship with Epstein. www.thedailybeast.com/what-was-cli...
If there’s any group of people that comes out looking better from the Epstein files, it’s woman journalists. @jkbjournalist.bsky.social and @tinabrownlm.bsky.social of course, but also @kbriquelet.bsky.social and ex-Page Six editor Emily Smith who wrote articles in 2018 that got under Epstein’s skin
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times
genuinely stunning image
Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.
Sounds like another extremely bad situation in Minneapolis this morning.
@kbriquelet.bsky.social broke the story for The Beast of the secret Epstein charity funneling money to Harvard in *2019*.
archive.ph/urSDo/again?...
Better late than never, I guess.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
To absolutely no one's surprise... Ghislaine Maxwell told DOJ Trump never did anything concerning around her: Sources - ABC News
abcnews.go.com/US/trump-adm...
I'm so sorry to Virginia, her family, and other survivors of predator Jeffrey Epstein.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
I've lost count of how many times I've had to verify "This is not the Onion."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
If you wanna read a thing that just published that might make your piss boil, this new @rollingstone.com item from @andrewperez.bsky.social with an assist from me, might do the trick sadly:
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Apparently we’re going to have an “explosive disclosure event” in four weeks where we meet literal extraterrestrials, according to a UFO lobbyist quoted secondhand at the new age conference. Everyone set your calendars for aliens
The ironic thing is, the charges against Eric Adams were only meant to be preliminary -- the first of many.
And the stronger case, many believed, concerned the illegal donations coming from China-connected organizations.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Same day.
Headline from The City: “Mayor Adams to Top Commissioners: Don’t Criticize Trump, Don’t Interfere with Immigration Enforcement”
Headline from The New York Times: “Justice Dept. Seeks Dismissal of Federal Corruption Case Against Adams”
How it started:
How it’s going:
Updated just now with a new lawsuit just filed focused on CFPB disbandment.
www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...
Free speech baby
I voted for Trump. But when he said he was going to wreck the economy, I didn’t know that he really meant that he was going to wreck the economy.
Email sent to all CFPB staff this morning: "Please do not perform any work tasks."
1. EXCLUSIVE
Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information.
The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work
I just want to go back to the time when every single song on the radio was by the goo goo dolls
I don't think people realize how complicated the federal government is and how much institutional knowledge matters and how it's currently being run by people who are just like "Fuck it, that sounds fun"
Russell Vought—an architect of Project 2025 & new OMB director—is now also the acting leader of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.
www.npr.org/2025/02/08/n...
The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem
With immigrants and labor under attack, I created this starter pack of labor & immigration reporters.
Give them all a follow
go.bsky.app/4JJcYdi
She has been saying this for a while now in defense of RFK, and it never stops getting more ridiculous -- that you can just scarf down pounds of magical European pasta and never gain weight because they don't use the same pesticides we do.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bernie Sanders grilling RFK Jr for selling anti-vaccination onesies is the energy I needed today.
