Tristan Palmgren
@tristanpalmgren.bsky.social
Author of Marvel Prose Novels (Domino: Strays, Outlaw: Relentless, Siege of X-41), and Quietus and Terminus, science fiction novels set during the Black Death. Newest: Twilight Imperium: Voice of One, out now! Somehow on Bluesky now. They/them.
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His sincere updates on his attempted relationship with a student are so creepy and cringe, and then you remember the person Larry Summers is pouring his heart out to is DISGRACED CHILD SEX TRAFFICKER JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHTEEN
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
His sincere updates on his attempted relationship with a student are so creepy and cringe, and then you remember the person Larry Summers is pouring his heart out to is DISGRACED CHILD SEX TRAFFICKER JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHTEEN
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It makes a mockery of those of us who were taught that hard work is what yields the greatest rewards, whose parents sacrificed everything so we could go to school... to be told to look up to people like *this.*
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
It makes a mockery of those of us who were taught that hard work is what yields the greatest rewards, whose parents sacrificed everything so we could go to school... to be told to look up to people like *this.*
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One of the most infuriating--and liberating--things about all this is seeing how utterly pathetic our rulers are. A man as powerful as Summers, this empty and sad, with the kind of petty misogyny that he runs crying to *Jeffrey Epstein* about...
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
One of the most infuriating--and liberating--things about all this is seeing how utterly pathetic our rulers are. A man as powerful as Summers, this empty and sad, with the kind of petty misogyny that he runs crying to *Jeffrey Epstein* about...
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Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”
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why would i do that when devoting my life to biblical-tier earth-shattering revenge feels so much cooler 😎
They want you despairing, suicidal, and quiescent. They want you to be convinced of their ultimate victory, and they want you to tell all your friends about it on social media, where everyone can see. They eat this shit up.
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
why would i do that when devoting my life to biblical-tier earth-shattering revenge feels so much cooler 😎
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capping a week of stories about elite depravity with a story about a journalist who broke basically every possible ethical rule (and was rewarded for it) to elevate an unqualified wealthy failson who is trying to destroy american public health is, well, it's a lot, tbh
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
capping a week of stories about elite depravity with a story about a journalist who broke basically every possible ethical rule (and was rewarded for it) to elevate an unqualified wealthy failson who is trying to destroy american public health is, well, it's a lot, tbh
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I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.
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Oh, so you’re reaching the correct opinions? You’ve come to agree with me? You ass. You fucking moron. You inbred piece of filth. You subhuman drooling waste of genetic material. What took you so long? Do you want a cookie? Do you want a bottle and a baby blanket? Does baby want a nap? You ghoul. Yo
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Oh, so you’re reaching the correct opinions? You’ve come to agree with me? You ass. You fucking moron. You inbred piece of filth. You subhuman drooling waste of genetic material. What took you so long? Do you want a cookie? Do you want a bottle and a baby blanket? Does baby want a nap? You ghoul. Yo
This is just straight-up taunting the idea of journalism. Not just journalistic ethics or responsibility, but journalism - the idea of reporting anything that people might want or need to read.
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is just straight-up taunting the idea of journalism. Not just journalistic ethics or responsibility, but journalism - the idea of reporting anything that people might want or need to read.
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see that’s poster’s bushido, the way of the hater, right there
I got banned once for saying Lord Byron, who is dead, should die again
I was okay with it. I hate that guy
I was okay with it. I hate that guy
November 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
see that’s poster’s bushido, the way of the hater, right there
Rvturn to the era of just leaving coffee stains in Spock's Starfleet uniform because broadcast quality of the time wouldn't pick it up.
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Rvturn to the era of just leaving coffee stains in Spock's Starfleet uniform because broadcast quality of the time wouldn't pick it up.
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how could you ask America's finest minds to break off contact with a genius like this simply for abusing children?
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
how could you ask America's finest minds to break off contact with a genius like this simply for abusing children?
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Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/
"does the eye transmit information"
"skin as part of brain?"
This is that great intellect people talk about?
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"does the eye transmit information"
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I guess this is about as close as it gets to good news these days (previous estimate was about 3.6C of heating)
Lot of people are already passing this around with the usual "WHY ISN'T ANYONE DOING ANYTHING" shrieks, while ignoring the fact that the article literally says that this is a *significant* decrease from the warming that we were on track for even a few years ago.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I guess this is about as close as it gets to good news these days (previous estimate was about 3.6C of heating)
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Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
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 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
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he was the sitting president of the united states
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
he was the sitting president of the united states
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fun crimes last night..
donald . nutso on tv
cant wait for further crimes,.. let me know if i can help you avoid justice
slippery hugs
- Clyde Newsanchorman
donald . nutso on tv
cant wait for further crimes,.. let me know if i can help you avoid justice
slippery hugs
- Clyde Newsanchorman
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
fun crimes last night..
donald . nutso on tv
cant wait for further crimes,.. let me know if i can help you avoid justice
slippery hugs
- Clyde Newsanchorman
donald . nutso on tv
cant wait for further crimes,.. let me know if i can help you avoid justice
slippery hugs
- Clyde Newsanchorman
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Epistemic violence against sexual abuse accusers—smearing them as deluded, crazy, or incompetent—is something rapists know works, and they conspire to do it.
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Epistemic violence against sexual abuse accusers—smearing them as deluded, crazy, or incompetent—is something rapists know works, and they conspire to do it.
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Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
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no see using these photos would be beneath the Times, which would never take material from a dubious source, unless it was, say, hacked documents showing that a guy born in Africa had put 'African-American' on his application form for a university he didn't get into. You know, something important.
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
no see using these photos would be beneath the Times, which would never take material from a dubious source, unless it was, say, hacked documents showing that a guy born in Africa had put 'African-American' on his application form for a university he didn't get into. You know, something important.
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It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.