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Okay, I deleted the original post because people didn't check the link at all and mistook my typo of "young men" seriously. I clearly meant young women. Not sure why this isn't a bigger story, but I read this entire report today. It's gutting. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

House Judiciary Democrats have just released a 50-page report that pulls together years of assault allegations against Trump and his reported connections to Jeffrey Epstein. The report calls for a special counsel to investigate Trump's ties to Epstein.

That's not enough, we needed to post en mass, the people, not just Lula, and we needed to use the tags of the enemy. So instead of using #lula we would use #fláviobolsonaro in our pro-Lula posts.

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

WATCH: #KY06 GOP candidate Ralph Alvarado can’t answer how higher prices have affected him at the grocery store. He cannot be trusted to work for Kentuckians if he doesn’t know what they’re going through.

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

They DM'd us this 2 minutes before publishing their official statement

Jesus CHRIST taleb

"And then the nurse puts a spoon in the applesauce and brings it up -- and here's what confuses most people -- she says it's an airplane. An airplane! And she tells you to open up the hangar, but what they don't tell you is your mouth is the hangar. But I knew! And I opened my mouth like a big boy!"

www.joeposnanski.com/p/the-full-l...

Of all the great baseball literature in history, no one—not WP Kinsella or Ring Lardner, Richard Ben Cramer nor Leigh Montville; neither Halberstam nor Harbach or Rogers Kahn and Angells—NO ONE has written a gem as good as this one by @joeposnanski.com & Mike Schur open.substack.com/pub/joeposna...

God Bruce Catton goes hard

Holy. Fucking. Shit. Y'all, this is not a drill. That's "you're either withdrawing this brief [the one that said there was no final decision on the golf course reno] or you're getting sanctioned"

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

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The ICE officer who faces charges for road raging in Minneapolis (pulling a gun on a random motorist who blocked him from driving his unmarked SUV on the shoulder) broke into tears on the stand and said he was under a lot of stress, ok?

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

Minor potentate so charmed by a mechanical bird whose movement and song is so lifelike that they demand the bird or else have a tradesperson executed is a beautiful story thst echoes through time.

Sen. Ossoff: You see what we have right here is the Washington establishment. Congress is full of congressmen's sons who are only in Congress because their daddies were congressmen just like Mike Collins who are perfectly happy to send other people's children to die in a war.

How to track the effects of Trump's mismanagement? Look at a) emergencies and b) big, public-facing agencies. New at Can We Still Govern? @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & Ellis Chen break down the data of the mess at IRS. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/things-rea...

“No one should be surprised that all the scrutiny from the mainstream press is focused squarely on the spotted hyena with its jaws dug into the right buttock of the president and not on our historically prosperous economy.” — Beni Rae Harmony, assistant press secretary

Jose Ramirez with a 2 run 9 iron out of the park in right

guy's not fucking around

Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters."

Entire ownership group filled with the dumbest motherfuckers ever I’m crying

This reminds me of a Simpson gag from the episode where Homer’s trying to find his soulmate and does not understand the abbreviation in a personal ad

She was maliciously shot by CBP agents who proceeded to lie about every single element of the incident and criminally charged her. The charges were dismissed after film and photos showed she was right and they were lying. Now she demands criminal charges against the CBP agents.

Germany and Ukraine are allies. This is how it supposed to be.

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

Inktober Day 3, miniature

Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?

Guys, it was in the pocket of the shorts I wore yesterday

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/

By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.

Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.

just saw a guy walking in the rain with an umbrella. and i’m just like, come on man. that’s cheating. don’t be a dick

This might be the easiest and most wtf pick six I've ever seen

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵