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Cokie
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Rare book crone. Cat lady. Knitter. Gardening enthusiast. Library supporter. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ally.
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ellecordova.bsky.social
Grammarian and Errorist are at it again! 🖊️
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Deeply ashamed just because you were soliciting a convicted child predator for advice on cheating on your wife my pressuring a younger colleague into sleeping with you while sneering at her and her work?

Gosh Ross Douthat better write another piece decrying woke culture
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them...
The Jeffrey Epstein cover-up is an affront to US democracy | Rebecca Solnit
Democracy means a society and system in which everyone’s rights matter. Rapists count on this being untrue – and Trump is proving them right
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten.

For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.
jordanuhl.com Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 4h
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'

people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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toobigtofail.bsky.social
I am a lawyer, and... Jesus Christ. This is unfathomable. My expectations for an insurance lawyer becoming a US Attorney were low, but not *this* low.
jilltwiss.bsky.social Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 9h
I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”
He noted that during her grand jury presentation she appears to have misrepresented a basic tenet of the law by suggesting that Mr. Comey did not have the right, under the Fifth Amendment, to avoid testifying at his own trial. She also appears to have made another astonishing error, Judge Fitzpatrick said. In his ruling, he pointed out that she told grand jurors that they did not have to rely solely "on the record before them" to return an indictment against Mr. Comey, but instead "could be assured the government had more evidence - perhaps better evidence - that would be presented at trial."
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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golikehellmachine.com
OH MY GOD, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 4h
I cannot render in print the noise I made when I opened this
andylevy.net andy™ @andylevy.net · 4h
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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ehekkala.bsky.social
❤️‍🩹🧪🧬🥼🦠💉 #ScienceMatters
pbsnews.org PBS News @pbsnews.org · 7h
Between the end of February and mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease. https://to.pbs.org/47KbPDE
NIH cuts affected over 74,000 patients enrolled in experiments, report finds
Between the end of February and mid-August, funding lapsed for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions like cancer, heart disease and brain disease.
www.pbs.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
You don’t need research when your plan for infectious diseases is herd immunity through infection.
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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andylevy.net
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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ashtonpittman.bsky.social
Unimaginable cruelty and evil.
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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alisoncybe.bsky.social
The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Many elites are concerned that Trump's net disapproval rating is now at 13. But, don't worry, they'll lose interest when it hits 18.
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Yeah, that’s what really set America apart — we were the first and only nation in history to put a religious angle on wars.
bradduplessis.bsky.social Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 12h
Straight up Christian Nationalism from DoD.
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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atrupar.com
guy who shot himself in the foot yesterday wants credit for not doing it two days in a row
The White House @WhiteHouse Thanks to President Trump’s deal-making, we’re making trade fair again, & winning BIG. Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices, bananas, oranges, tomatoes, beef, fertilizers, & more are now exempt from reciprocal tariffs. America First policies delivering for American workers & families🇺🇸
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
At some point, incompetence and deliberate indifference to the law reaches a point where it is indistinguishable from deliberate misconduct. This is why you don’t hand a complex matter to someone who has never presented to a grand jury before.
klasfeldreports.com Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 13h
A federal judge ORDERS the disclosure of James Comey's grand jury minutes to the defense, citing a "disturbing pattern pattern of profound investigative missteps" and casting doubt on Lindsey Halligan's declaration about the gap in the record.

Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
The Court recognizes that the relief sought by the defense is rarely granted. However, the record points to a disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps, missteps that led an FBI agent and a prosecutor to potentially undermine the integrity of the grand jury proceeding. Therefore, in this case, “the Court has before it a rare example of a criminal defendant who can actually make a ‘particularized and factually based’ showing that grounds exist to support the proposition that irregularities may have occurred in the grand jury proceedings and may justify the dismissal of one or more counts of the indictment.” See Naegele, 474 F. Supp. 2d at 10 (citations omitted). Accordingly, the defense request for all grand jury materials is granted.
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
I think the universities didn’t convey clearly enough to Larry Summers and Laurence Krauss that they were expected to get sexual harassment PREVENTION training
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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amiberger.bsky.social
Them: An English degree? You’ll never get a job
Also them, panicking, at every fucking job I’ve ever had: OMG OMG OMG CAN YOU PLEASE HELP ME WRITE THIS
November 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
So @brianstelter.bsky.social has a good cheat sheet on the cracks in MAGA
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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tomandlorenzo.bsky.social
I'm watching so many people on here gleefully sharing excerpts from Nuzzi's book and I just want to ask what the fuck they think they're doing? Dunking on things is no different from endorsing them. The outcome is exactly the same. Can't believe we still haven't learned this.
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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maddow.bsky.social
religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
At least seven faith leaders arrested at Broadview ICE facility protest
(RNS) — 'I've got bruises all over my body,' the Rev. Michael Woolf, who was thrown to the ground and arrested by police, told RNS.
religionnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
Gary has seen some shit
bridgetemob.bsky.social Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 1d
Amazing, no notes, I do not desire to learn anything else about this story, for it would only detract from the perfection on this headline.
A screenshot with a photograph of a light brown cat whose smooshed face has the effect of making him look grumpy. In the blurry distance is a drawing of this same cat, with a sadder expression. Under the photo, text reads: "Meet Gary, the cat who ended a friendship and cost $25,000 in legal fees" A calligraphic "I" (the logo of the Philadelphia Inquirer) is in the bottom right corner of the image.
November 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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profmmurray.bsky.social
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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joshchafetz.bsky.social
This is some horrifying predatory shit.
November 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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njsmith.bsky.social
Now, that’s a writer. (But you knew that already.)
junoryleejournalism.com Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · Oct 9
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
I’m not a big supporter of violence but if the next ten or so strangers to meet Larry Summers just straight-up sucker-punch him in the face I am not going to lose any sleep.
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Harvard Crimson Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name "peril" but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship. On at least two occasions, the two men discussed Jin's emails to Summers, which he forwarded to Epstein. In later messages, the two men appeared to joke about the probability that Summers would have sex with the woman, apparently Jin.
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM