John Smolenski
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"Ended up having sex" is a weird way of saying, "was raped."
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"Ended up having sex" is a weird way of saying, "was raped."
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This was so infamous that law and order criminal intent did an episode where a university president is murdered and one of the key suspects is a Black professor who was slighted so similarly to the way Larry did at Harvard that the crimson noted it
www.thecrimson.com/article/2002...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2002...
"'I’m not sure what we’ve learned from it all,' Walter Johnson, a professor of History and African and African American Studies, wrote in a statement. 'I think Larry Summers told us who he was a long time ago.'"
Professor Johnson knows wassup.
Professor Johnson knows wassup.
Harvard Faculty Disturbed by Revelations of Summers’ ‘Cozy Friendship’ With Epstein | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard professors responded with outrage to a tranche of emails showing a close yearslong correspondence between former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein, reop...
www.thecrimson.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This was so infamous that law and order criminal intent did an episode where a university president is murdered and one of the key suspects is a Black professor who was slighted so similarly to the way Larry did at Harvard that the crimson noted it
www.thecrimson.com/article/2002...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2002...
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Something funny about Larry Summers musing about how clever he was in calling women dumb while asking Mr Sex Crimes about how to run game
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Something funny about Larry Summers musing about how clever he was in calling women dumb while asking Mr Sex Crimes about how to run game
I mean, what else was Summers supposed to do? Rewatch Magnolia and study all of Tom Cruise’s scenes?
Who among us has not asked a convicted pedophile for advice on an extramarital affair
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I mean, what else was Summers supposed to do? Rewatch Magnolia and study all of Tom Cruise’s scenes?
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Who among us has not asked a convicted pedophile for advice on an extramarital affair
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Who among us has not asked a convicted pedophile for advice on an extramarital affair
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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Trump ups the ante from cutting Obamacare funds to abolishing Obamacare completely. I’m sure this will help his cratering numbers
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Trump ups the ante from cutting Obamacare funds to abolishing Obamacare completely. I’m sure this will help his cratering numbers
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I need you all to know that my mother sent me this. 🤣 That is all.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I need you all to know that my mother sent me this. 🤣 That is all.
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Who called him Nap-oleon? I demand to know!
photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Who called him Nap-oleon? I demand to know!
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Increasingly of the opinion that the Rosetta Stone to understanding elite politics in America in the present era --news media, tech, & finance elites esp--is Me Too, The Pandemic, & BLM experienced thru the prism of social media and group chats.
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Increasingly of the opinion that the Rosetta Stone to understanding elite politics in America in the present era --news media, tech, & finance elites esp--is Me Too, The Pandemic, & BLM experienced thru the prism of social media and group chats.
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Everyone, tonight might be the last night for quite awhile that we get any mileage out of this @theonion.com headline. We should enjoy it while it lasts. theonion.com/de-blasio-we...
If you have a local election tomorrow (CT, that's you too), remember to vote if you haven't already!
If you have a local election tomorrow (CT, that's you too), remember to vote if you haven't already!
De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’
NEW YORK—Clucking his tongue with mock disappointment, Bill De Blasio announced to New Yorkers that “It’s not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit after all, huh?” during a press conference ...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Everyone, tonight might be the last night for quite awhile that we get any mileage out of this @theonion.com headline. We should enjoy it while it lasts. theonion.com/de-blasio-we...
If you have a local election tomorrow (CT, that's you too), remember to vote if you haven't already!
If you have a local election tomorrow (CT, that's you too), remember to vote if you haven't already!
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Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!
I know how hard you worked for this.
I know how hard you worked for this.
![Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.
At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25
Then beneath it
TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5hrotody26iqi24hcusufxu/bafkreib7wnor7hl45ryvmifde4sov74rrnexa3iecbyu7zxjx6brrslsiy@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!
I know how hard you worked for this.
I know how hard you worked for this.
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Always has been. open.substack.com/pub/moiradon...
November 3, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Always has been. open.substack.com/pub/moiradon...
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Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
I watched Adaptation while I was working on revising my book and it drove me nearly insane. (That’s only a slight exaggeration; ask my doctors.) It’s important to avoid movies about writing sometimes.
there’s a certain irony in watching “Misery” to procrastinate on a large writing project
October 31, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I watched Adaptation while I was working on revising my book and it drove me nearly insane. (That’s only a slight exaggeration; ask my doctors.) It’s important to avoid movies about writing sometimes.
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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hello 29k followers, time for my periodic reintro to find lefty friends etc!
i'm the 1-person politics section at @teenvogue.com (feat. TV pics 😎) where I cover and edit coverage of youth organizing, abolition, LGBTQ rights + healthcare, student debt, climate, education, electoral politics + more 🫡
i'm the 1-person politics section at @teenvogue.com (feat. TV pics 😎) where I cover and edit coverage of youth organizing, abolition, LGBTQ rights + healthcare, student debt, climate, education, electoral politics + more 🫡
October 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
hello 29k followers, time for my periodic reintro to find lefty friends etc!
i'm the 1-person politics section at @teenvogue.com (feat. TV pics 😎) where I cover and edit coverage of youth organizing, abolition, LGBTQ rights + healthcare, student debt, climate, education, electoral politics + more 🫡
i'm the 1-person politics section at @teenvogue.com (feat. TV pics 😎) where I cover and edit coverage of youth organizing, abolition, LGBTQ rights + healthcare, student debt, climate, education, electoral politics + more 🫡
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even the democratic consultants are evaluating the democratic party according to the caricatures put out by republican-aligned media
Incredible to claim that “abolish the police” is in any way a Democratic policy
October 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
even the democratic consultants are evaluating the democratic party according to the caricatures put out by republican-aligned media
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We're almost upon every fire department's favorite time of the year, when they get to make cool ass videos under the guise of PSAs of them setting turkeys on fire.
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
We're almost upon every fire department's favorite time of the year, when they get to make cool ass videos under the guise of PSAs of them setting turkeys on fire.
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Truer words have never been spoken
October 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Truer words have never been spoken