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Sarah Longwell: "This is the Epstein administration because there are two types of people in it — there are people who are in the Epstein files and there are people who are covering up the Epstein file."

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

691 words about Cheesecake. 434 words about rape.

You can't expect the New York Times to give any attention to a story about the president being credibly accused of violent rape when the story breaks so close to an election. It's not like we're talking about something *really* important, like email security protocols.

Here's a direct link to House Dem's Judiciary Cmte report. The executive summary begins: "A growing body of evidence demonstrates that Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s." democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

#voterfraudfraud

Trump and Republicans are restarting their voter fraud misinformation machine ahead of the midterms. When I checked, Republican candidates were implicated in voter fraud at up to 38,000x the public’s rate. If they were actually worried about voter fraud, they’d start with their own candidates.

Again, just in case people lose sight of this amid all the other crap: There is NO EVIDENCE AT ALL of a problem caused by trans inclusive sports policies. Every story you’ve heard isn’t what happened. This is the far right getting its way because of weak media.

Glad the Dems finally got something out condemning it. But if there were 1 or 2 who didn't sign onto this I could believe there was a medical or family emergency. 49 missing names feels like a problem.

It’s not like eugenics. It is eugenics.

Had he run for city council, he probably would have won and been well-positioned to run for mayor next time

Ladies and gentlemen, I predict tomorrow’s instalment of “good morning / bonjour Ottawa” will be *exceptionally* mediocre

For anyone wondering if young people still protest in America today, the answer is: absolutely and so many more wish they were protesting (and these data are from spring, so the numbers are likely even higher now).

You’re gonna want to see what the BlueSky guys have decided is too intolerant for you to read.

Metaphor alert:

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

If Kennedy’s larger point is that some political cultures are associated with an unfriendly attitude to knowledge that might be slightly more persuasive if he was not a MAGA anti-vax ideologue who is undermining the largest US research center (NIH) as part of a broader assault on higher education

Had to check first that this is not some parody account, scam or wind up. I mean, look at the cover image! WTAF? But it's real enough.

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But is there anything about Trump's public behavior or attitudes about women that might suggest he's a rapist? Oh? Never mind.

Full judiciary report released by the Democrats here, detailing her encounter amongst others ⤵️ bsky.app/profile/thec...

Racist to their core

yup.

There is a vaccine for this disease. There is no reason for anyone to ever get measles.

The undeniable outlines of this are far worse than any society of adults should tolerate.

This just in: the sky is blue, water is wet, pigs cannot fly.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Damn

The Dutch CHOD was asked by @mephenke.bsky.social what is the most important thing Dutch have to do to become less dependent on US, he gave a one word answer: space.

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

Love to see them already thinking along these lines, though I'm curious how this will play out against an administration that will walk right into a government shutdown before signing budget/appropriations bills it doesn't like

if only there had been a way to predict this might happen based on nearly every midterm election cycle in modern american political history

I think the fact that Marissa Mayer would voluntarily disclose this to a reporter is a pretty good demonstration of how deeply the culture of Silicon Valley has diverged from the rest of humanity

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

Trump's vicious abuse of a female reporter who pointed out the sexual abuse that Amy Acton faced shows MAGA is betting on misogyny as their midterm Hail Mary. On the pod, @pastpunditry.bsky.social is just brilliant on misogyny as longtime bedrock of MAGA politics: newrepublic.com/article/2171...