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"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas" our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...

Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.

I'm a professor at the flagship university for the fourth whitest state in the US. Over 80% of our students are white. The biggest barrier to access here is that due to lack of state funding, we have top 10 highest tuition per capita of public unis in the country. We also have a food pantry.

"ICE is arresting people based on accent" is an absolutely wild sentence to read

The best part about calling 911 to verify if the person who says they’re ICE is real is that then you can have two people who might shoot you

Honestly it’s good to know that when a guy who spent decades hanging out with a famous pedophile and is accused of being a pedophile himself spends years hyping up the existence of pedophile files and doesn’t release them, people will only elect him president twice before they get suspicious.

It is frustrating to me that (a) the word "alpha" came out of studies on wolves in skewed situations, (b) the word was used to designate leaders, but (c) is now just being used to describe assholes who couldn't lead a group of lemmings out of a paper bag.

with the important caveat that I'll take what I can get at this point: I feel like it definitely says something if it's the Epstein stuff that turns out to be the one lie too many for the MAGA base, but not sold on the particular thing it says ca.news.yahoo.com/cnn-data-chi...

Something I want to do more in 2026 is to actively encourage more people to organize grassroots public history projects where they live. Instead of wringing our hands re the Fed attacks on Black studies, women's studies, LGBTQ studies etc we can just teach at the community level intergenerationally.

The past 7 months have involved constant deep breathing for me. It's really really hard to see people rediscovering that jails and prisons in the U.S. are torture chambers and that U.S. policing cannot be reformed.

you are SUPPOSED to signal virtue. The actual argument, such as it exists, is that people are signaling virtue while not actually being virtuous. But you are supposed to signal virtue and BE VIRTUOUS.

This is Hazel. Yesterday Hazel got offended that I lightly tossed some treats down to her and one of them bounced off her paw. So she ran away, about six feet at a time, with me stopping and apologizing and offering treats again, until finally she went to sulk at the top of the stairs without any

it feels like this year we've been rolling the dice every Sunday to see if it's a Tariffs Week, Deportations Week, Constitutional Crisis Week, or Wild Card

the thing is this is like the third thing I've heard a theory of this being a distraction for and I think we need to start accepting the fact none of these are distractions, he's just this distracted because his brain is bread pudding

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Potential death due to police tactics: There’s footage on Instagram of what appears to be an unhoused person in Haverhill, MA with several police on top of him and he’s yelling for help and then … CPR and he’s dead Like it looks like George Floyd, folks www.instagram.com/reel/DMBnpXh...

Now that poll data shows that Americans have overwhelmingly become pro-immigrant in the last few months -- to the tune of a 25 year high, with most shift from GOP voters -- anyone want to apologize for saying that Mexicans waving Mexican flags at protests was going to go over badly with Americans?

whats the german word for everyone smelling blood in the water

this came out yesterday. Times says: "We found that at key stages in the war, Netanyahu’s decisions extended the fighting in Gaza longer than even Israel’s senior military leadership deemed necessary."

A plague upon the tyrant

So a thing to understand about Grok’s Hitler praising Nazism is that Musk intentionally does stuff that’s over the line to see how far others will follow and bc he’s confident the consequences will be minimal, even when people get upset. See also: the Nazi salute

It's not quite tank man but it's not quite not

Man, I wish I’d grown up in the Wisconsin that conehead Nazi claims exists, where racial minorities controlled everything, instead of the one I grew up in, where all the black people I knew fled because no one wanted to hire us to do anything.

hate to be the “it’s a distraction” guy but the sole reason Trump’s talking about Rosie O’Donnell is to take the heat off his admin being responsible for loss of American lives in Texas. Everybody is taking the bait. Or they’ll say dumb shit like “we can do two things.” No. Keep your eye on the ball

That this apparent contradiction is revealing itself is maybe a politically promising place to be—to see how cities are effectively governed by police power, and how police power is in service of other forms of state violence

hate living in a timeline where this truly might be the key to the midterms, but I do actually think the Democrats making themselves the party of “release the files and agree to exile everyone in them, loudly calling on Trump to keep his promise and do the same” would be pretty metal actually

Taking the radical position that race should not determine citizenship because I’m apparently living in 1850

I find the idea that every dem president for 30 years has been adding to the Epstein files like a group creative writing project very funny

America has never been without cruelty, but the fervor with which some people want to increase it instead of going the other way is truly horrifying. I have really had to cling to the people trying to make things better and support them where I can.

Someone asked me: "so you would just tell people not to work for ICE?" I was like...

fwiw I remember being a lonely younger guy trying to date in NYC and a lot of the advice I got was bad even pre-manosphere. good advice boils down to “groom yourself, drink enough water to have decent breath, and have a range of interests that includes the feelings of the people you want to fuck”

are his files As full as thy report?

These guys are segregationists, which is not actually that surprising given the political history of Silicon Valley that they came up in and perpetuated. The ten years when some execs pretended to like Obama was the anomaly. This is the return to form.

Here are some nice mushrooms

Given the sexual politics of the MAGA right I’m honestly kind of surprised that they view Jeffrey Epstein as scandalous and not aspirational.

the 53% of women think DnD is unattractive is wild to me, like every ttrpg group I've ever been to is about 60-70% women

Excited for next year when I get to read a law professor’s op-ed about how the court’s 6-3 decision allowing Trump to vacate Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship is in fact consistent with existing article 2 jurisprudence.

In response to the ?, the anti Israeli/US genocide protesters are still protesting. But you may also have noticed that they are being falsely imprisoned, deported, losing their jobs, being kicked out of school, fighting charges in court, being threatened by government officials... hope that helps

oh.

This guy is fundamentally not thinking of women as anything except a video game prize that you collect if you hit the magic items, but I'm also really puzzled at him thinking that he has the kind of money that would attract gold diggers.

People like this really do not understand either how people read or what libraries do.

The reason newsroom editors and others found Mamdani’s self-identification more newsworthy than someone stealing millions of people information to prove Black people are inferior is because they object to his self-identification more.

I'm not convinced this is quite right--my read is that they think it's popular in red states to 'own the libs' So part of the appeal of visibly cruel ICE raids is inflicting harm on their perceived enemies in blue states

Bondi gotta know she's in pole position to be the fall guy over all this, right?

rewatching Mad Men. I can't tell if January Jones is an incredible actor or a not so good actor who was incredibly cast

Every once in a while I think about how the best paid jobs are usually the least helpful or most actively harmful to society (medicine being the one big exception), while the worst paid ones are the most helpful to society. Then I stare out the window for a while

In my last column, when I pointed out to people that Obama earned the nickname “deporter-in-chief”, many liberals were like.. “HE ONLY DEPORTED CRIMINALS!” And then when I pointed to facts that children were representing themselves in court and entire families were being locked up … crickets.

look, just saying, maybe the guy who raced to hire the subway strangler is actually just a gutter racist

they could have released a toilet paper square with Bill Clinton written on it in pencil and they'd have lapped it up, gotta be the wildest own goal in history

sorry but I’m 43 and I knew this word wasn’t okay by the time I was in kindergarten and first learned about mean words. this is NOT NEW. it is absurd to pretend like this is just another breezy colloquialism baked into our culture which the woke police are suddenly just now trying to take away

I personally think it's good that Liberals are insulting the fascists.

fuck you I wont do what you tell me

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Sarah. Sarah is only 15 years old and is trying to help her entire family including her parents Mohammad and Layla, her grandmother, Basma and her siblings, Samir, 19, Ahmed, 13, Abdullah, 9 and Hamza, 3. They are all living together in a tent

you're not part of the cult so you can't predict what issues might become most salient to its members.

Gavin got his eye on the prize all the way, this is the correct use of his passion for self advancement

When your enemy is drowning, you don't have to hand him a rope.

People running newsrooms have decided racism is simply the background noise of the US.

Something I'm glad I aged out of is the need to not let people "get away with" doing bad things to me. Sometimes people do bad things and they're not going to give a shit no matter if you confront them or not, and you don't really have any recourse. It's a waste of energy & sanity to continue.

is it because he sucks?

My favorite part is probably “prior experience,” you know, were you on the wrong side of World War II?

I checked and he really posted 'stop taking about Epstein" in ALL CAPS.

me in the first movement of Philip Glass's Violin Concerto No. 1: ah, yeah, there's old Phil. Doin his thing. Not sure what the point is really, it's pretty but it's no Music in 12 Parts me by the 3rd movement: I have discerned the structure of eternity and am prepared to describe it to the jury

Superman was created by Joel Shuster and Jerry Siegel, both children of immigrants to North America. Shuster himself was an immigrant to the U.S. from Canada Anyway, I present to you the fictionalized story of why Superman and Captain America emerged from the minds of Jewish children of immigrants

Yes. For anyone who knows about white folks pouring acid in pools when black people started swimming after segregation ended… the answer is.. YES.

Micah's right and I was wrong, posted out of irritability over, y'know, all the stuff. Maddest atm about funds not flowing to flood victims in Texas than other stuff but that's just me, minimizing other bad thing isn't the look, mea culpa.

We really didn't appreciate George Carlin enough

the reason they’re so mad about normalizing a genetic condition which cannot be prevented or reversed is because they are eugenicists

If you say “cybrarian” you should go to jail.

starting to believe that the Upton Sinclair quote about a man and his salary is the single most accurate sentence ever uttered in the English language.

Just a reminder: The tenth anniversary editions of the original Southern Reach trilogy are still out in the wild, selling well. NYT bestsellers and on a lot of best-of-decade or this century lists. With new intros by Karen Joy Fowler, NK Jemisin, and Helen MacDonald. Buy from you favorite indie.

going to bed with Christmas Eve levels of giddiness because I finally have a long enough stretch of weeks without grant deadlines that tomorrow morning I am officially cracking back open the draft of Rewind Files book 2 that Editor Chris and I haven’t touched in a year and a half for a final rewrite

What's going on with my "boys" and, in some cases, "gals?"/Why do they gotta front?/What did we ever do to these guys (and in some cases gals)/That made them so violent?/But you know I’m yours/And I know you’re mine/And that’s for all time

If Trump wasn't implicated, he would have released the files unredacted. Who would doubt that? No one.

me at half the skyline these days

Every response should be: "Just release the unedited list." [doesn't matter if there is no list]

Epstein files proving that Adrian Veight was right and a common enemy can unite everyone if ppl hate it enough

Do you know about my book drive in support of Bluestockings Bookstore?

how the Facebook algo seems to think things are going

1) he didn't write this 2) he scared

The fact that they are still calling this a "war" should tell you all you need to know.

they want a king and they want this king

important point in this useless discourse -- to say "I'm gonna bloviate about Rosie O'Donnell" is not "strategy," it's exactly what a child would do. the child does it until the parent stops taking the bait. in this analogy we are the parents, and we are not doing our job.

every time a mosquito bites me I curse that piece of shit Noah who could have prevented all this with a little exclusion

people on twitter trying to explain away those epstein files reaching so hard rn I could use them as a land bridge to get back to asia

this made me laugh out loud because it can mean so many people...

lol people saying "no no, we have to talk about the president's thread to denaturalize Rosie O'Donnell on his vanity social network -- it's every bit as important as his admin's failure to save Texan lives" are just wild. literally he wants you to fog up the air with dumb shit, and you say "ok boss"

Friends, I too am slowly culling my shelves. I have so many books that they are in piles and boxes across my apartment. And I still find it difficult to give books away that I KNOW I'm not going to read again. Solidarity.

I wrote about “Alligator Alcatraz” and the spectacle of concentration camps that are built to be Instagrammed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

this is literally how the model has always worked, they were doing this in colonies in the 17th century

look, maybe he's just a gutter racist

Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice double shame on you. Fool me twice quadruple shame on you. Want to make it 8? 16? 32? You’ll never recover

the "files written by Obama" is the tell. He's in there

also how exactly does a president take citizenship away from someone, like there doesn't even seem like theres a mechanism for it?

if you get a steak delivered you should be arrested for food crimes

someone just reply to him with "pedo"

I can’t believe we’re coming up on the anniversary of almost being spared all of this An inch or two in a different direction and it’s months of yelling at a Democratic trifecta to stop stepping on their own dicks

J6 protest but at the WH over the Epstein Files is how the writers of America 2017-2025 redeem the narrative arc

it's gone. farewell wrong post, your heart was true but your thought was incomplete

Sometimes the best advice to give is that you just have to be comfortable with the reality that someone people will negatively judge your opinions, desires, and actions.

I think actually that this is generally correct. "pushing back" on things they say allows them to set the terms of debate, and they know that if they talk shit, then we'll say "cool, let's talk shit." the failure is Texas is 1) ongoing 2) catastrophic 3) actionable 4) sitting right there.

Shoutout to unmasking and discovering you’re kind of mean lol