mollrat
@mollrat.bsky.social
Lover of democracy and of fun silly things like musicals
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The Religious Right was worried about the gays meanwhile their leaders are pedophile rapists and their representatives having drug fueled orgies.
February 4, 2026 at 2:21 AM
The Religious Right was worried about the gays meanwhile their leaders are pedophile rapists and their representatives having drug fueled orgies.
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Drug and alcohol abuse and sexual deviancy seems to be the undergirding of the Right's elites.
February 4, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Drug and alcohol abuse and sexual deviancy seems to be the undergirding of the Right's elites.
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If this holds it means every person detained without due process potentially costs the taxpayer thousands of dollars.
Why aren't we talking more about how much ICE is costing us?
Why aren't we talking more about how much ICE is costing us?
3d Cir. holds that habeas corpus petitions challenging immigration detention are "civil actions," so prevailing noncitizens may be entitled to attorneys' fees and costs under the Equal Access to Justice Act.
Gonna be a loooooooooot of these.
www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/242...
Gonna be a loooooooooot of these.
www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/242...
February 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
If this holds it means every person detained without due process potentially costs the taxpayer thousands of dollars.
Why aren't we talking more about how much ICE is costing us?
Why aren't we talking more about how much ICE is costing us?
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a lot of the men who were not *directly* abusers still had essentially a class interest in defending abusers
You can really see why they fought so hard against Me Too, they're all implicated either in deed or silence and it's hugely fucking embarrassing for the Masters of the Universe
February 3, 2026 at 7:48 PM
a lot of the men who were not *directly* abusers still had essentially a class interest in defending abusers
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"This guy is clearly a monster, but he's a well-connected and well-resourced monster so I'm going to let it slide" is the universal lapse in judgement here among elites, and it's a huge issue that seems to be getting missed even though it's so damning of the culture around them.
February 3, 2026 at 7:29 PM
"This guy is clearly a monster, but he's a well-connected and well-resourced monster so I'm going to let it slide" is the universal lapse in judgement here among elites, and it's a huge issue that seems to be getting missed even though it's so damning of the culture around them.
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I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.
You can look at the Epstein files and conclude that only bad people have billions of dollars, but I think it’s also possible that having billions of dollars cauterizes your humanity
February 3, 2026 at 7:26 PM
I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.
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In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
February 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
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looking at this along with miller and mizelle begging for DM applications to AUSA positions plus the story about the sUrGe they want to do tells the story of a DOJ that is coming completely unglued
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM
looking at this along with miller and mizelle begging for DM applications to AUSA positions plus the story about the sUrGe they want to do tells the story of a DOJ that is coming completely unglued
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the whole point of technology is to subvert "the natural order," because the natural order is disease and decay and suffering and famine
February 3, 2026 at 4:35 AM
the whole point of technology is to subvert "the natural order," because the natural order is disease and decay and suffering and famine
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transgenderism *is* transhumanism
eyeglasses *are* a perversion of the natural order
appeal to nature fallacies are dumb, stop letting "tech bros" negatively polarize you against genuinely good and cool things
eyeglasses *are* a perversion of the natural order
appeal to nature fallacies are dumb, stop letting "tech bros" negatively polarize you against genuinely good and cool things
February 3, 2026 at 4:33 AM
transgenderism *is* transhumanism
eyeglasses *are* a perversion of the natural order
appeal to nature fallacies are dumb, stop letting "tech bros" negatively polarize you against genuinely good and cool things
eyeglasses *are* a perversion of the natural order
appeal to nature fallacies are dumb, stop letting "tech bros" negatively polarize you against genuinely good and cool things
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Yeah the issue that the GOP has right now is that what they're actually saying is "Republican Primary voters are demanding this."
Given how thoroughly the American people have rejected the cruel Republican vision of "immigration enforcement" -- with clear majorities in poll after poll insisting ICE has gone too far -- he's just lying lazily here by claiming the American people are "demanding" this
Mike Johnson: "You can't in any way lighten the enforcement requirement of federal immigration law. That's what the American people demand and deserve."
February 3, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Yeah the issue that the GOP has right now is that what they're actually saying is "Republican Primary voters are demanding this."
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I fully believe Trump will smash the authoritarianism button harder and harder as he feels the midterms wipe out approaching, I'm less sure that doing so will prevent or mitigate said wipe out
February 2, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I fully believe Trump will smash the authoritarianism button harder and harder as he feels the midterms wipe out approaching, I'm less sure that doing so will prevent or mitigate said wipe out
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Can't believe I hadn't put these together. The reason MeToo caused a panic and we're still living with the subsequent Gender reverberations is the very same as that huge swathes of the international business, entertainment, political, and academic elite were besties with a sex-trafficking paedophile
in retrospect in the wake of the epstein files being released, no wonder ‘me too’ was met with such anger and ultimately those in power it meant to target never face many consequences
February 2, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Can't believe I hadn't put these together. The reason MeToo caused a panic and we're still living with the subsequent Gender reverberations is the very same as that huge swathes of the international business, entertainment, political, and academic elite were besties with a sex-trafficking paedophile
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I think about strategic nonviolence like this: you are trying to defeat the greatest chess grandmaster in world history. The good news is you get to pick the game.
Don’t pick chess.
Don’t pick chess.
what do you make of the theory i’ve seen in various places that nonviolence really only works when it has a violent wing to back it up? “how to blow up a pipeline” argues that many successful nonviolent movements had such an arrangement
February 2, 2026 at 1:02 PM
I think about strategic nonviolence like this: you are trying to defeat the greatest chess grandmaster in world history. The good news is you get to pick the game.
Don’t pick chess.
Don’t pick chess.
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Like the very center point of this is that men are superior to women. They believe this is biological rather than theological and pay scientists who will back them up.
It’s less specific on race, but it is ruthlessly anti-Black and welcomes all sorts of niche ethnocentric takes.
It’s less specific on race, but it is ruthlessly anti-Black and welcomes all sorts of niche ethnocentric takes.
There’s something of a thruline imo in which Epstein’s predatory behavior with teenage girls was ultimately *ideological*. It’s not a paraphilia or a compulsion he was unable to control.
It was inherent to a worldview and one he shared with many other powerful people.
It was inherent to a worldview and one he shared with many other powerful people.
February 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Like the very center point of this is that men are superior to women. They believe this is biological rather than theological and pay scientists who will back them up.
It’s less specific on race, but it is ruthlessly anti-Black and welcomes all sorts of niche ethnocentric takes.
It’s less specific on race, but it is ruthlessly anti-Black and welcomes all sorts of niche ethnocentric takes.
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the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability
February 1, 2026 at 9:27 PM
the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability
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Conspiracy theorists are paranoid reactionaries looking for a strongman to protect them and I have been fully validated in this belief.
The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it
February 1, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Conspiracy theorists are paranoid reactionaries looking for a strongman to protect them and I have been fully validated in this belief.
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also remains hilarious that he's like become this avatar of rural reactionary masculinity and machismo when he's a fat, actively anti-athletic, theater queen
February 2, 2026 at 12:30 AM
also remains hilarious that he's like become this avatar of rural reactionary masculinity and machismo when he's a fat, actively anti-athletic, theater queen
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The government published CSAM???
NEW: The Justice Department published dozens of unredacted images of nude women (and possibly teens) as part of its Epstein release.
The faces of those people were also left unredacted.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
The faces of those people were also left unredacted.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:05 AM
The government published CSAM???
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This is good, actually.
This is what a movement fracturing looks like.
This is what a movement fracturing looks like.
February 2, 2026 at 2:57 AM
This is good, actually.
This is what a movement fracturing looks like.
This is what a movement fracturing looks like.
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Two things can be true: we’re a competitive authoritarian state with all sorts of efforts to put a thumb on the scale of who has power AND we have sufficiently free and sufficiently fair elections that every month we see the party in power lose.
JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards.
With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43.
Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.
February 1, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Two things can be true: we’re a competitive authoritarian state with all sorts of efforts to put a thumb on the scale of who has power AND we have sufficiently free and sufficiently fair elections that every month we see the party in power lose.
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The common 🧵 in every single election, from Susan Crawford in Wisconsin to Zohran Mamdani in NYC to Taylor Rehmet in Texas, is that a clear majority of voters don't like evil, hate, incompetence, & far right authoritarianism. The policy details are election-specific, but that's the hummable tune.
Data / quant note: What model or message testing predicted how public opinion would shift 32 points in one year in this Texas seat?
None. No quant data could solely determine the correct message for this, no linear model could based on ad tests or issue polls.
None. No quant data could solely determine the correct message for this, no linear model could based on ad tests or issue polls.
Blue wave watch: Democrat flips Trump +17 Texas Senate seat in 32-point swing
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/blue-wave-...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/blue-wave-...
February 1, 2026 at 6:05 PM
The common 🧵 in every single election, from Susan Crawford in Wisconsin to Zohran Mamdani in NYC to Taylor Rehmet in Texas, is that a clear majority of voters don't like evil, hate, incompetence, & far right authoritarianism. The policy details are election-specific, but that's the hummable tune.
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The President trusted a fart and it betrayed him JUST LIKE HE BETRAYED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
RT AND FOLLOW IF YOU AGREE
RT AND FOLLOW IF YOU AGREE
February 1, 2026 at 9:17 PM
The President trusted a fart and it betrayed him JUST LIKE HE BETRAYED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
RT AND FOLLOW IF YOU AGREE
RT AND FOLLOW IF YOU AGREE
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worth scanning the whole 50-page document here, but even this topline is stunning. imagine if, say, the fbi had a crime rate like this.
February 1, 2026 at 10:12 PM
worth scanning the whole 50-page document here, but even this topline is stunning. imagine if, say, the fbi had a crime rate like this.
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Am I positive that video shows the president shitting himself on camera? No.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
February 1, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Am I positive that video shows the president shitting himself on camera? No.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.