Paul Gordon
@paulgordon.bsky.social
Tony-Award losing composer and writer of stuff. JANE EYRE, DADDY LONG LEGS, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO HEATHER, ANALOG AND VINYL, EMMA. Cheerios connoisseur.
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Pam Bondi ignored questions about the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein case, which has enraged lawmakers, survivors, and the public.
Pam Bondi Melts Down as Dems Press for Answers on Epstein Files Fiasco
Attorney General Pam Bondi lashed out at lawmakers who pressed her for answers on the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files.
rollingstone.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Pam Bondi ignored questions about the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein case, which has enraged lawmakers, survivors, and the public.
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The gutting of the Washington Post was not inevitable. Billionaires did it, on purpose.
The opinion section -- Bezos's megaphone for right-wing, billionaire-friendly agitprop -- is doing just fine.
The opinion section -- Bezos's megaphone for right-wing, billionaire-friendly agitprop -- is doing just fine.
Jeff Bezos Gutted the Newsroom. He Kept the Megaphone.
Bezos didn’t abandon the Washington Post. He just decided which part of it he wanted.
www.readtpa.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
The gutting of the Washington Post was not inevitable. Billionaires did it, on purpose.
The opinion section -- Bezos's megaphone for right-wing, billionaire-friendly agitprop -- is doing just fine.
The opinion section -- Bezos's megaphone for right-wing, billionaire-friendly agitprop -- is doing just fine.
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The US government is spending taxpayer dollars to sue a 5-year-old refugee/kindergartener for seeking asylum here through the legal and proper channels when he was an infant
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 5:08 AM
The US government is spending taxpayer dollars to sue a 5-year-old refugee/kindergartener for seeking asylum here through the legal and proper channels when he was an infant
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The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 10:09 AM
The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero
i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.
February 4, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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the image of liam ramos circulated
it was more powerful than the entire gop propaganda machine, including the white house, fox news, and their courtiers in the mainstream media
it was such a compelling story that they had to furiously react with spin. they can be beaten. they bleed.
it was more powerful than the entire gop propaganda machine, including the white house, fox news, and their courtiers in the mainstream media
it was such a compelling story that they had to furiously react with spin. they can be beaten. they bleed.
February 2, 2026 at 2:49 PM
the image of liam ramos circulated
it was more powerful than the entire gop propaganda machine, including the white house, fox news, and their courtiers in the mainstream media
it was such a compelling story that they had to furiously react with spin. they can be beaten. they bleed.
it was more powerful than the entire gop propaganda machine, including the white house, fox news, and their courtiers in the mainstream media
it was such a compelling story that they had to furiously react with spin. they can be beaten. they bleed.
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I joined my friend Greg and other cartoonists to draw something to welcome Liam Ramos home, but ~3800 children remain in ICE custody, including at least three students from Liam's school (and 25 parents). Join us at #Comics4Liam !
February 1, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I joined my friend Greg and other cartoonists to draw something to welcome Liam Ramos home, but ~3800 children remain in ICE custody, including at least three students from Liam's school (and 25 parents). Join us at #Comics4Liam !
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Thirty point swing to Democrats deep in the heart of Texas.
Hard to overstate how big a deal a Rehmet win would be. Tarrant County is the epicenter of Christian nationalism in Texas, an incubator for far-right policies, and nexus of billionaire Tim Dunn's network, which is riding hard for Wambsganss. Rehmet almost entirely funded by donations of $100 or less
‼️‼️ Still a lot TBD, but Rehmet is leading early vote count by **13 POINTS** in a district that Trump won by 17 points. I'll be updating in this thread throughout the night.
February 1, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Thirty point swing to Democrats deep in the heart of Texas.
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As we're sifting through the latest Epstein Files release with all the bombshells about Elon, the Trump administration and even the new CBS News Zoo Crew, please remember that they still haven't released half of what they were supposed to release.
January 31, 2026 at 4:09 PM
As we're sifting through the latest Epstein Files release with all the bombshells about Elon, the Trump administration and even the new CBS News Zoo Crew, please remember that they still haven't released half of what they were supposed to release.
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Again, when Bari Weiss said she wanted to do "the fucking news" she apparently meant something different than what we initially assumed
Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100
January 31, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Again, when Bari Weiss said she wanted to do "the fucking news" she apparently meant something different than what we initially assumed
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I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis.
If not, why not?
If not, why not?
Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
Doo do doo
January 31, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis.
If not, why not?
If not, why not?
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I guess I just misinterpreted his multiple emails asking Epstein when he could go to the island
Elon Musk's full comment on the Epstein files release, just posted on X:
January 31, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I guess I just misinterpreted his multiple emails asking Epstein when he could go to the island
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Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.
January 31, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.
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If the crew at 60 MINUTES is looking for a big scoop, they should probably look into Bari Weiss's connections to Jeffrey Epstein, given that her wife was friendly with him and she just hired another longtime friend of his too.
If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss
January 31, 2026 at 3:48 PM
If the crew at 60 MINUTES is looking for a big scoop, they should probably look into Bari Weiss's connections to Jeffrey Epstein, given that her wife was friendly with him and she just hired another longtime friend of his too.
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This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
This just in: "Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards," Lemon's attorney Abbe Lowell says.
January 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
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i haven’t been paying attention to meghan mccain at all but apparently she has lost her mind?
January 29, 2026 at 11:33 PM
i haven’t been paying attention to meghan mccain at all but apparently she has lost her mind?
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"In theater" is a nice touch for describing Minneapolis. Worth noting the people involved, from Trump to Miller to Noem to Homan to Bovino to the majority of ICE and CBP goons, have never served in the military. They're playing out a war fantasy, dressing up in army costumes, like incredible losers.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 3:51 PM
"In theater" is a nice touch for describing Minneapolis. Worth noting the people involved, from Trump to Miller to Noem to Homan to Bovino to the majority of ICE and CBP goons, have never served in the military. They're playing out a war fantasy, dressing up in army costumes, like incredible losers.
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Like I said, they're targeting children for a reason
January 29, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Like I said, they're targeting children for a reason
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An advance look at the cover for next week’s issue: “Targeted,” by Till Lauer.
January 28, 2026 at 11:10 PM
An advance look at the cover for next week’s issue: “Targeted,” by Till Lauer.
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"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now.
#AccountabilityIsComing
#AccountabilityIsComing
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
January 28, 2026 at 7:31 PM
"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now.
#AccountabilityIsComing
#AccountabilityIsComing
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this quotation comes to a satisfying conclusion
NEW from @justinrohrlich.bsky.social:
“I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.”
"In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
“I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.”
"In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Brother calls Ilhan Omar suspect ‘right-wing extremist,’ has hated Somalis for years
Exclusive: ‘In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t,’ Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother told The Independent
www.independent.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 7:31 PM
this quotation comes to a satisfying conclusion
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Republicans have never met a victim they couldn’t blame.
Rep. Randy Fine on Ilhan Omar getting attacked: "I blame Ilhan Omar for what happened"
January 28, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Republicans have never met a victim they couldn’t blame.
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You can't reform this. It must be abolished.
January 27, 2026 at 3:28 PM
You can't reform this. It must be abolished.