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I think, for those of us on the political left, we need to address morale as a real and pressing issue that will fuck up our ability to fight if left unaddressed. We *need* to figure out a way to keep people feeling at least minimally good about things even in shitty situations.
Every one of you: post at least once a day about some small thing that makes you happy that has nothing to do with politics. This is a hard and fast rule. I won’t be keeping a spreadsheet or anything but if you don’t do it, I’ll know.
If your go-to attack, before accusations of conspiracy theorizing and misogyny, is that someone is beneath your regard because they’re a “rando” unlike you, one of the Important People, maybe take a step back and think about what that says about you.
"I'm a rando who prefers to believe that everything is a conspiracy and am happy to tell women that I know better than she does how their literal job works" That a news org makes an editorial decision you wouldn't (or I wouldn't) doesn't mean someone is killing a story on behalf of a powerful person
"I write for the New York Times, and I can assure you that we've never buried stories on behalf of powerful people, many of those powerful people being part of NYT management. We only publish what's fit to print, like Zohran's application to Columbia that was leaked by a white nationalist"
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
If your go-to attack, before accusations of conspiracy theorizing and misogyny, is that someone is beneath your regard because they’re a “rando” unlike you, one of the Important People, maybe take a step back and think about what that says about you.
One big change that seems small is if they changed the filibuster rules back from “chosen and sworn” to “present and voting,” all of a sudden the burden shifts from a majority to break a filibuster to a minority to maintain it. If they could do only one small thing, this would be the thing IMO.
Tim Kaine will 1000% vote to kill the filibuster in 2029 if we have a D trifecta just fwiw. he wanted to kill it in 2021 for voting rights legislation.
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
One big change that seems small is if they changed the filibuster rules back from “chosen and sworn” to “present and voting,” all of a sudden the burden shifts from a majority to break a filibuster to a minority to maintain it. If they could do only one small thing, this would be the thing IMO.
They also say they’re gonna protect their IP, so what exactly is it that they’d allow users to generate?
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users
(via THR)
(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
They also say they’re gonna protect their IP, so what exactly is it that they’d allow users to generate?
I agree with this. Just alone, the voter restrictions that a Republican senate majority would be able to pass ahead of the midterms would potentially blunt a good bit of the rage at them for having done so.
people are being very flip about the possible harms of getting rid of the filibuster *right now* in a way that imo undermines the core case that the Republic is in special peril. it's clearly all downside until 2027 even if you grant electoral backlash! Dems can't have a trifecta until 2029!
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I agree with this. Just alone, the voter restrictions that a Republican senate majority would be able to pass ahead of the midterms would potentially blunt a good bit of the rage at them for having done so.
Donald Trump doesn’t think rape is a crime.
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Donald Trump doesn’t think rape is a crime.
Anyway, Trump thinks his sweaty floundering to prevent the world from seeing what’s in the Epstein materials is not as bad for him as what’s actually in the Epstein materials, and in this one narrow instance we do in fact gotta hand it to him.
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Anyway, Trump thinks his sweaty floundering to prevent the world from seeing what’s in the Epstein materials is not as bad for him as what’s actually in the Epstein materials, and in this one narrow instance we do in fact gotta hand it to him.
Amid everything else I had almost forgotten that even without a pardon, Trump has offered Ghislaine Maxwell amenities unexplainable by anything but some sort of quid pro quo.
Raskin on Ghislaine Maxwell: "The fact she was able to be transferred to a prison camp where no sex offenders had ever been allowed to enter before, much less live there, is an indication they've got some kind of meeting of the minds about what Trump can provide to her & what she can provide to him"
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Amid everything else I had almost forgotten that even without a pardon, Trump has offered Ghislaine Maxwell amenities unexplainable by anything but some sort of quid pro quo.
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I've got all the text documents from the Epstein Files drop loaded into NotebookLM if anyone wants it.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I've got all the text documents from the Epstein Files drop loaded into NotebookLM if anyone wants it.
notebooklm.google.com/notebook/0d5...
notebooklm.google.com/notebook/0d5...
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Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.
Anyway I just called up Andy Harris to tell him I wanted to see him vote for the release of the Epstein files if he believed they’d be exculpatory to Mister Trump and that if he didn’t I’d be forced to draw my own conclusions about why.
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Anyway I just called up Andy Harris to tell him I wanted to see him vote for the release of the Epstein files if he believed they’d be exculpatory to Mister Trump and that if he didn’t I’d be forced to draw my own conclusions about why.
“numbers , not good for many things”
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“numbers , not good for many things”
Note that not an awful lot of people on the GOP side right now are jumping forward to defend Trump as a good and decent man who *of course* didn’t do this.
CNN: Do you still have a question about whether Donald Trump knew about the sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein?
GOP REP. PETE SESSIONS: Well, I've not gone through all of the documents
GOP REP. PETE SESSIONS: Well, I've not gone through all of the documents
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Note that not an awful lot of people on the GOP side right now are jumping forward to defend Trump as a good and decent man who *of course* didn’t do this.
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So all but two Republicans in Congress voted to pay $500k of taxpayer dollars to each of ten Republicans senators. That's a big payout. If I had $500k (possibly tax free?) dollars paying for college would be so much easier.
$500k is a lot, right?
$500k is a lot, right?
November 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
So all but two Republicans in Congress voted to pay $500k of taxpayer dollars to each of ten Republicans senators. That's a big payout. If I had $500k (possibly tax free?) dollars paying for college would be so much easier.
$500k is a lot, right?
$500k is a lot, right?
GOP in “are we supposed to say he didn’t do it or are we supposed to say if he did it it’s actually not that bad I DON’T KNOW I’LL JUST TRY SOMETHING” mode.
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
GOP in “are we supposed to say he didn’t do it or are we supposed to say if he did it it’s actually not that bad I DON’T KNOW I’LL JUST TRY SOMETHING” mode.
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A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A convicted felon who had also been found liable for sexual assault and committed additional crimes in plain sight was close with a notorious child sex trafficker and likely participated in some of those crimes too got elected with much of that known and spent his presidency railing against “crime.”
Laying down my marker: I think betting markets are *way* underpricing this.
Democratic leaders hope history rhymes. Schumer thinks the Senate can flip, with an expanded map including Trump states like North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, Texas, Florida, Alaska plus Susan Collins' Maine, etc. (Betting markets give them about 1 chance in 4 to net 4 seats).
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Laying down my marker: I think betting markets are *way* underpricing this.
Worth remembering that whatever skepticism we might have about what specifically in the Epstein materials, the royal family of the UK saw enough for them to more or less do a damnatio memoriae on the king’s brother while he’s still alive.
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Worth remembering that whatever skepticism we might have about what specifically in the Epstein materials, the royal family of the UK saw enough for them to more or less do a damnatio memoriae on the king’s brother while he’s still alive.
I think it’s probably important to add this to @joshtpm.bsky.social list of priorities I’d posted about the other day. Probably do it concurrently with a push for court reform because if Trump allies are let off the hook for blatant bribery it emphasizes the need to clean house.
something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I think it’s probably important to add this to @joshtpm.bsky.social list of priorities I’d posted about the other day. Probably do it concurrently with a push for court reform because if Trump allies are let off the hook for blatant bribery it emphasizes the need to clean house.
I see people saying to this “well yeah that’s how the wriggling works,” or “this is how it is for rich people,” but the thing here is that while there’s truth to that, it has become far more true, about more institutions, to a far greater extent, with Trump than it ever was for anyone else.
this gets reposted a lot, but truth be told trump has never really wriggled out of anything. what actually happens is that other people passively or actively support him
November 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I see people saying to this “well yeah that’s how the wriggling works,” or “this is how it is for rich people,” but the thing here is that while there’s truth to that, it has become far more true, about more institutions, to a far greater extent, with Trump than it ever was for anyone else.
Are the European ideas he’s talking about the ones I think he’s talking about?
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Are the European ideas he’s talking about the ones I think he’s talking about?
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Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
In my mind I feel like people talking to a known child rapist would be something like Clarice Starling talking to Hannibal Lecter, but in reality they’re mostly just pals shooting the shit.
If anything counts as a smoking gun, it’s this email.
“i was pointing out that that alleged rape was reported to be at my house with Donald and I raping her”
“i was pointing out that that alleged rape was reported to be at my house with Donald and I raping her”
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
In my mind I feel like people talking to a known child rapist would be something like Clarice Starling talking to Hannibal Lecter, but in reality they’re mostly just pals shooting the shit.
*As* the president? Is this the first hint we’ve had of that?
trump spent thanksgiving 2017 with epstein LOL
fuck it keep the government open this is tremendous content
fuck it keep the government open this is tremendous content
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
*As* the president? Is this the first hint we’ve had of that?
Did an accent wall in the kitchen today so it doesn’t look so gray boxy anymore.
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Did an accent wall in the kitchen today so it doesn’t look so gray boxy anymore.
Trying to rip the band aid off of a gaping femoral artery wound.
Breaking on MSNBC:
Mike Johnson says he intends to put the Epstein resolution on the House floor NEXT WEEK.
Mike Johnson says he intends to put the Epstein resolution on the House floor NEXT WEEK.
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Trying to rip the band aid off of a gaping femoral artery wound.