mollrat
@mollrat.bsky.social
Lover of democracy and of fun silly things like musicals
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A big challenge for urbanism/Yimbyism is a necessary part of your coalition is 'guy who hates living in the city but is forced to either live or commute there', and you need to make him feel involved while chucking out maybe 90 per cent of his ideas.
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A big challenge for urbanism/Yimbyism is a necessary part of your coalition is 'guy who hates living in the city but is forced to either live or commute there', and you need to make him feel involved while chucking out maybe 90 per cent of his ideas.
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It literally means "not grooming," it means raising a child outside of the conservative social engine of massive sexual coercion and exploitation
It's almost weird that they manage to get upset about Epstein's actual literal child predation
It's almost weird that they manage to get upset about Epstein's actual literal child predation
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It literally means "not grooming," it means raising a child outside of the conservative social engine of massive sexual coercion and exploitation
It's almost weird that they manage to get upset about Epstein's actual literal child predation
It's almost weird that they manage to get upset about Epstein's actual literal child predation
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Yeah exactly.
The conservative social system is, among other things, a giant engine of sexual exploitation. Doing insane conspiracy theories about libs eating children or whatever is like, some kind of feverish outgrowth of that, of the sublimated guilt
You see it in how they use "grooming"
The conservative social system is, among other things, a giant engine of sexual exploitation. Doing insane conspiracy theories about libs eating children or whatever is like, some kind of feverish outgrowth of that, of the sublimated guilt
You see it in how they use "grooming"
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Yeah exactly.
The conservative social system is, among other things, a giant engine of sexual exploitation. Doing insane conspiracy theories about libs eating children or whatever is like, some kind of feverish outgrowth of that, of the sublimated guilt
You see it in how they use "grooming"
The conservative social system is, among other things, a giant engine of sexual exploitation. Doing insane conspiracy theories about libs eating children or whatever is like, some kind of feverish outgrowth of that, of the sublimated guilt
You see it in how they use "grooming"
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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 12:25 AM
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.
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he’s a provider of access to money, connections and beautiful women and girls — everything that these people need to affirm their own status. being rich and powerful is a grift which requires other to bolster & buy in. That’s the service Epstein provided.
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
he’s a provider of access to money, connections and beautiful women and girls — everything that these people need to affirm their own status. being rich and powerful is a grift which requires other to bolster & buy in. That’s the service Epstein provided.
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
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This is the thing I just can’t shake. They’re just acting guilty as fuck in public. Part of my brain is like “a major political party can’t be an enterprise to cover up organized child rape” but then I look at the thing and it’s what they seem to be doing.
November 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is the thing I just can’t shake. They’re just acting guilty as fuck in public. Part of my brain is like “a major political party can’t be an enterprise to cover up organized child rape” but then I look at the thing and it’s what they seem to be doing.
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If the Epstein materials were anywhere between exculpatory and bad-but-survivable for Trump, the White House would almost certainly be behind congress pushing to release them. Instead they directed the house to take two months off and are pressuring republicans in the situation room.
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If the Epstein materials were anywhere between exculpatory and bad-but-survivable for Trump, the White House would almost certainly be behind congress pushing to release them. Instead they directed the house to take two months off and are pressuring republicans in the situation room.
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this is the thing, authoritarians like to portray themselves as hard-headed realists doing the national interest that liberals won't... but actually these guys are morons, acting out their atavistic bullying instincts and calling it Master Plan
It really is funny how common "military action in the near abroad to distract from domestic troubles at home" is in the authoritarian playbook
It has a success rate of like 5% and a backfire rate probably north of 50
It has a success rate of like 5% and a backfire rate probably north of 50
so at what point does the president greenlight Venezuela strikes to take energy away from the new epstein drops?
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
this is the thing, authoritarians like to portray themselves as hard-headed realists doing the national interest that liberals won't... but actually these guys are morons, acting out their atavistic bullying instincts and calling it Master Plan
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"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
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The release of this Epstein information about Trump does now put the Democratic Party retreat into a rather different context from a few days ago.
Everyone in the Dem leadership would have been aware about what was about to drop.
Everyone in the Dem leadership would have been aware about what was about to drop.
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The release of this Epstein information about Trump does now put the Democratic Party retreat into a rather different context from a few days ago.
Everyone in the Dem leadership would have been aware about what was about to drop.
Everyone in the Dem leadership would have been aware about what was about to drop.
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QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"
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I am deliriously laughing at the image of Boebert facing dawning revelation that she's actually found the pedophile elite conspiracy ring and that she's standing right in the middle of it
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I am deliriously laughing at the image of Boebert facing dawning revelation that she's actually found the pedophile elite conspiracy ring and that she's standing right in the middle of it
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Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."
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the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
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Right, and the side effect of this is they've decided nothing matters about Trump and everything still matters about everyone else, so you get this dramatically different coverage that drives everyone (justifiably) insane.
I legitimately think one of the absolute poisons of American political discourse is how “but will this matter electorally” has become the only metric used by basically the entire non-partisan media for assessing a story’s importance
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Right, and the side effect of this is they've decided nothing matters about Trump and everything still matters about everyone else, so you get this dramatically different coverage that drives everyone (justifiably) insane.
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Trump shattering a bunch of norms in a clumsy power grab which winds up causing lots of noise but not actually netting him anything feels pretty on brand
This is really something. Trump/GOP efforts to rig midterms running into serious trouble
November 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Trump shattering a bunch of norms in a clumsy power grab which winds up causing lots of noise but not actually netting him anything feels pretty on brand
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if AIPAC controls both parties why doesn’t big pharma control either party
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
if AIPAC controls both parties why doesn’t big pharma control either party
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ok Big Pharma spends so, so much more money on lobbyists for both parties than Israel does
Big Pharma clearly does not control the government
why do people attribute things like the shutdown to AIPAC when clearly lobbying money cannot even protect Tylenol from being slandered
Big Pharma clearly does not control the government
why do people attribute things like the shutdown to AIPAC when clearly lobbying money cannot even protect Tylenol from being slandered
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
ok Big Pharma spends so, so much more money on lobbyists for both parties than Israel does
Big Pharma clearly does not control the government
why do people attribute things like the shutdown to AIPAC when clearly lobbying money cannot even protect Tylenol from being slandered
Big Pharma clearly does not control the government
why do people attribute things like the shutdown to AIPAC when clearly lobbying money cannot even protect Tylenol from being slandered
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I hate this shit so much, because the actual piece is a thoughtful rebuttal to Andrews but the headline writers know what's gonna drive rageclicks. This is how French's piece closes:
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I hate this shit so much, because the actual piece is a thoughtful rebuttal to Andrews but the headline writers know what's gonna drive rageclicks. This is how French's piece closes:
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very long good thread about why trump is so central to the current GOP--he's the only thing holding together what is in fact a very fractious coalition, and even if he lives out this presidency he's clearly not gonna be a force for much longer
Trump is the *only* one that was able to hold together the core coalition that brought this wave of the American conservative movement to power. It feels bad to us because he is flaunting norms and acting in such a way that suggests he has no plans to leave power, and the GOP w/him, for generations
November 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
very long good thread about why trump is so central to the current GOP--he's the only thing holding together what is in fact a very fractious coalition, and even if he lives out this presidency he's clearly not gonna be a force for much longer
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most divorced man in existence
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
most divorced man in existence
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I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!
the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election.
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!
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you have to understand maga's obsession with weirdo fucking plastic surgery as basically the same things as gang members getting face tattoos
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[marx voice] IT'S A COSTLY SIGNAL
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
you have to understand maga's obsession with weirdo fucking plastic surgery as basically the same things as gang members getting face tattoos
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