Joé McKen
@joemcken.net
Personal account · Freelance composer in Québec, Canada · Progressive godless civil-libertarian · He/him · Seize the day, but not today, I’m tired · Music account: @music.joemcken.net
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Joé McKen
@joemcken.net
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» Personal – You’re here!
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» Music
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Reposted by Joé McKen
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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“I need to write music to fit a certain mood. Ooh, maybe a bed of soft bowed electric-guitar sound design, and a nice pulsing sub-bass, and these breathy violin flautandos, maybe some tinkling celesta arpeggios in the background …
“Oh. Should probably add a melody. Uhhh … doo do-do doo doo …”
“Oh. Should probably add a melody. Uhhh … doo do-do doo doo …”
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“I need to write music to fit a certain mood. Ooh, maybe a bed of soft bowed electric-guitar sound design, and a nice pulsing sub-bass, and these breathy violin flautandos, maybe some tinkling celesta arpeggios in the background …
“Oh. Should probably add a melody. Uhhh … doo do-do doo doo …”
“Oh. Should probably add a melody. Uhhh … doo do-do doo doo …”
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It’s funny …
When I started writing music, it was heavily melodic; I was mediocre with harmony and texture, so I focused on making hummable tunes instead.
Since then, it’s somehow switched: Texture and tonality are the first things to come to mind when composing, whereas melody has become harder.
When I started writing music, it was heavily melodic; I was mediocre with harmony and texture, so I focused on making hummable tunes instead.
Since then, it’s somehow switched: Texture and tonality are the first things to come to mind when composing, whereas melody has become harder.
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It’s funny …
When I started writing music, it was heavily melodic; I was mediocre with harmony and texture, so I focused on making hummable tunes instead.
Since then, it’s somehow switched: Texture and tonality are the first things to come to mind when composing, whereas melody has become harder.
When I started writing music, it was heavily melodic; I was mediocre with harmony and texture, so I focused on making hummable tunes instead.
Since then, it’s somehow switched: Texture and tonality are the first things to come to mind when composing, whereas melody has become harder.
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In 2017, the sitting president had Thanksgiving with his old friend who had been convicted of sex crimes with a minor.
And we’re only learning about this now?
And we’re only learning about this now?
trump spent thanksgiving 2017 with epstein LOL
fuck it keep the government open this is tremendous content
fuck it keep the government open this is tremendous content
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
In 2017, the sitting president had Thanksgiving with his old friend who had been convicted of sex crimes with a minor.
And we’re only learning about this now?
And we’re only learning about this now?
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Looks like JD Vance is going to need to change religions again.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Looks like JD Vance is going to need to change religions again.
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New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
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It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
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The thing about my Daily Beast tenure I'm proudest of? How we stayed on the Epstein story for years, when all of the uptown elites were rolling their eyes and telling us to go away.
Oof.
Here's the article that Ruemmler, former Obama White House counsel, dismissed: www.thedailybeast.com/how-did-trum...
Here's the article that Ruemmler, former Obama White House counsel, dismissed: www.thedailybeast.com/how-did-trum...
![From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Kathy Ruemmler
6/22/2018 2:42:02 PM
jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Re:
Importance:
High
Good lord. A novella of rehashed crap.
On Jun 22, 2018, at 10:20 AM, jeffrey E. < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-did-trump-and-clinton-pal-jeffrey-epstein-escape-metoo](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreigz326bznt2qcvjr4s6i52udio23qreyi6qoeai7y7lu7fzm7njii@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The thing about my Daily Beast tenure I'm proudest of? How we stayed on the Epstein story for years, when all of the uptown elites were rolling their eyes and telling us to go away.
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genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 AM
genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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hook JD up to one of those "experience period cramps" machines and watch him crumble before your eyes
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
hook JD up to one of those "experience period cramps" machines and watch him crumble before your eyes
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Wasn’t expecting the Epstein scandal to blow up the New York Times but sure, why not
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 11:15 PM
Wasn’t expecting the Epstein scandal to blow up the New York Times but sure, why not
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Me, watching as children's motrin magically lowers Littler Girl's fever from 104.x down to 100.x, easing her very obvious discomfort and allowing her to get the sleep she desperately needs:
"I don't think this is doing anything and maybe it's dangerous. Probably better for her to burn up?"
"I don't think this is doing anything and maybe it's dangerous. Probably better for her to burn up?"
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Me, watching as children's motrin magically lowers Littler Girl's fever from 104.x down to 100.x, easing her very obvious discomfort and allowing her to get the sleep she desperately needs:
"I don't think this is doing anything and maybe it's dangerous. Probably better for her to burn up?"
"I don't think this is doing anything and maybe it's dangerous. Probably better for her to burn up?"
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Same applies to someone’s career, their social life, and their freedom.
If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Same applies to someone’s career, their social life, and their freedom.
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Sadly, the most obvious "tell" that these deportation videos are AI generated slop is that the ICE agents show their faces.
The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook
An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Sadly, the most obvious "tell" that these deportation videos are AI generated slop is that the ICE agents show their faces.
When you’re “so gross” that the world’s most infamous sex criminal says you creep him out
Responding to a 2017 message that Trump was 'so gross', Jeffrey Epstein said Trump was "worse in real life and upclose."
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
When you’re “so gross” that the world’s most infamous sex criminal says you creep him out
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Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
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When you tell the ringleader of the pedophile conspiracy that, fine, you’ll see him but you don’t want to run into Donald Trump …
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
When you tell the ringleader of the pedophile conspiracy that, fine, you’ll see him but you don’t want to run into Donald Trump …
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Underscoring how exceptionally lawless the maritime strikes are.
I wrote on the UK's reported suspension of some intel sharing with the US on legal grounds. I spoke to several former intel officials & all agreed that they could not think of a comparable case over decades. Some expressed serious concern over retaliation www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Underscoring how exceptionally lawless the maritime strikes are.
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Thanks to SCOTUS, they couldn't touch Obama even if he did the worst stuff in Trump's imagination. But also thanks to SCOTUS, no one can stop them from trying -- and running DOJ into the ground in the process. Consequently, we have entire agencies whose mission right now is to salve a sad man's ego.
BREAKING: Justice Department prosecutors are resigning because they have refused to work on politically motivated investigations designed to indict and arrest President Obama.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YkX2...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=YkX2...
'Everyone is on pins and needles': DOJ subpoenas texts and emails related to 2016 probe
YouTube video by MSNBC
m.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Thanks to SCOTUS, they couldn't touch Obama even if he did the worst stuff in Trump's imagination. But also thanks to SCOTUS, no one can stop them from trying -- and running DOJ into the ground in the process. Consequently, we have entire agencies whose mission right now is to salve a sad man's ego.
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A normal reaction to today's news, dear Nancy, would be to express shock and horror at the significant possibility that the president of the United States is a child molester.
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A normal reaction to today's news, dear Nancy, would be to express shock and horror at the significant possibility that the president of the United States is a child molester.
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As we were saying--
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
As we were saying--
I hope all you folks who live in places that aren’t entombed under semi-permanent cloud cover get to enjoy the fancy sky lights tonight
November 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I hope all you folks who live in places that aren’t entombed under semi-permanent cloud cover get to enjoy the fancy sky lights tonight