Elizabeth
@tinymysteries.bsky.social
Dilettante. Bad Catholic. Mets fan.
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“ended up”? “setting off”? The Times explores new lows with this perversely upside down synopsis of a story of powerful men sexually abusing a child and getting away with their crimes.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
“ended up”? “setting off”? The Times explores new lows with this perversely upside down synopsis of a story of powerful men sexually abusing a child and getting away with their crimes.
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They should invent a government that isn’t senile pedophile adolf hitler
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
They should invent a government that isn’t senile pedophile adolf hitler
She is also an alcoholic. Her oldest son records himself and his friends beating up the homeless in NYC. Mother of the Year material.
Just last month Clare Malone wrote a fairly sympathetic profile of Jessica Reed Kraus who has been smearing Epstein’s victims while cozying up to Ghislaine Maxwell.
Clare Malone at the New Yorker somehow managed to write a sympathetic profile of this degenerate freak last year
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
She is also an alcoholic. Her oldest son records himself and his friends beating up the homeless in NYC. Mother of the Year material.
Just last month Clare Malone wrote a fairly sympathetic profile of Jessica Reed Kraus who has been smearing Epstein’s victims while cozying up to Ghislaine Maxwell.
Clare Malone at the New Yorker somehow managed to write a sympathetic profile of this degenerate freak last year
Trump’s White House communications director raged at a Democratic congresswoman for daring to question the Trump administration’s narrative on the release of more than 20,000 documents from the Epstein estate.
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Just last month Clare Malone wrote a fairly sympathetic profile of Jessica Reed Kraus who has been smearing Epstein’s victims while cozying up to Ghislaine Maxwell.
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What a picture (via Big Boi)
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
What a picture (via Big Boi)
Nah, it’s The Chain.
No sorry, it’s Second Hand News
"The Chain" is the best song on Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' (1977). Agree or disagree?
album.ink/FMrumours
album.ink/FMrumours
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Nah, it’s The Chain.
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This shit is deadly serious
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This shit is deadly serious
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just checked in on matt taibbi and he's claiming that covid was created in a north carolina research lab as part of a joint CIA and Chinese intelligence operation
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
just checked in on matt taibbi and he's claiming that covid was created in a north carolina research lab as part of a joint CIA and Chinese intelligence operation
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What a godforsaken humiliation it is to be American. Like the mark of Satan himself.
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
What a godforsaken humiliation it is to be American. Like the mark of Satan himself.
We are getting an invasion of Venezuela to distract from the Epstein files and the Trump being a pedophile.
okay so reporting by CNN supports the operation being connected to Venezuela, but still no operational decision made yet
www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/13/p...
November 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
We are getting an invasion of Venezuela to distract from the Epstein files and the Trump being a pedophile.
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meanwhile the guy who rounded up the harper’s letter is like “morality is a land of contrasts”
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
meanwhile the guy who rounded up the harper’s letter is like “morality is a land of contrasts”
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I understand why it's preferable to believe that the country is being run by little Gordon Gekkos rather than little Eichmanns, because the little Gekkos can be bought off for the right price, but sorry, I need you to look these people in the eye and realize that they are little Eichmanns
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I understand why it's preferable to believe that the country is being run by little Gordon Gekkos rather than little Eichmanns, because the little Gekkos can be bought off for the right price, but sorry, I need you to look these people in the eye and realize that they are little Eichmanns
I think the main reason TCW hates the Left is because we think Bari Weiss is a fraud and we hate her. I think his hatred of the Left is centered around his friendship with Bari Weiss.
This paragraph especially!
If I understand him right, he's saying "moral clarity it good" and the right has been utterly immoral so it might sound weird to criticize moral clarity. HOWEVER, because the left is bad [unspecified reasons], "moral clarity is an obstacle to insight." ???
If I understand him right, he's saying "moral clarity it good" and the right has been utterly immoral so it might sound weird to criticize moral clarity. HOWEVER, because the left is bad [unspecified reasons], "moral clarity is an obstacle to insight." ???
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I think the main reason TCW hates the Left is because we think Bari Weiss is a fraud and we hate her. I think his hatred of the Left is centered around his friendship with Bari Weiss.
It really is a big club etc, etc.
Editors tend to be beholden to things, right?
November 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It really is a big club etc, etc.
Elizabeth got testy when I called her out for trying to get everyone back on track to hating on the DNC. Called me a simpleton in a following tweet lol.
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Elizabeth got testy when I called her out for trying to get everyone back on track to hating on the DNC. Called me a simpleton in a following tweet lol.
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No one is making you do this, you can still delete it
"I'm a rando who prefers to believe that everything is a conspiracy and am happy to tell women that I know better than she does how their literal job works" That a news org makes an editorial decision you wouldn't (or I wouldn't) doesn't mean someone is killing a story on behalf of a powerful person
"I write for the New York Times, and I can assure you that we've never buried stories on behalf of powerful people, many of those powerful people being part of NYT management. We only publish what's fit to print, like Zohran's application to Columbia that was leaked by a white nationalist"
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
No one is making you do this, you can still delete it
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NYT has great writers like Spiers and Bouie, but when I see an email from an NYT reporter saying he knew about Trump and Epstein in 2015, I’m not extending the benefit of the doubt to the most influential paper in America. If NYT would occasionally admit its fuckups, I’d have reason to trust it.
I don't understand why people have to concoct wild conspiracy theories in order to critique the NYT. I say this as someone who writes for them: there is plenty to critique without making up wild scenarios and insisting they're true!
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
NYT has great writers like Spiers and Bouie, but when I see an email from an NYT reporter saying he knew about Trump and Epstein in 2015, I’m not extending the benefit of the doubt to the most influential paper in America. If NYT would occasionally admit its fuckups, I’d have reason to trust it.
Under no circumstances do you have to hand it to Rod Dreher.
For my money, Rod Dreher — the man who is, somewhat ironically, sounding the alarm about Groypers in @hunterw.bsky.social's piece here — is one of the most bizarre figures in right-wing politics.
JD Vance Received a Dire Warning About the Groyper Takeover of the GOP From a Strange Source
The call warning of a dangerous tide of extremism in Donald Trump’s...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Under no circumstances do you have to hand it to Rod Dreher.
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"VIRGINIA GIUFFRE IS A STONE COLD LIAR!" -- THE GREAT MICHAEL TRACEY, TONIGHT ON "BATH TIME WITH MICHAEL TRACEY" HIS SHOW WHERE HE ADDRESSES THE AUDIENCE FROM A DUMPSTER HE BATHES IN EACH MONTH!
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"VIRGINIA GIUFFRE IS A STONE COLD LIAR!" -- THE GREAT MICHAEL TRACEY, TONIGHT ON "BATH TIME WITH MICHAEL TRACEY" HIS SHOW WHERE HE ADDRESSES THE AUDIENCE FROM A DUMPSTER HE BATHES IN EACH MONTH!
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Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).
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FYI this is kind of like saying “a cardiac arrest flare-up”
John Fetterman was taken to the hospital after suffering from a “ventricular fibrillation flare-up” and falling near his home
John Fetterman Hospitalized After Fall
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
FYI this is kind of like saying “a cardiac arrest flare-up”
Vaxxed?
Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania has been hospitalized after a fall near his Pennsylvania home, which caused minor injuries to his face, his spokesman said.
Fetterman hospitalized after fall near his Pennsylvania home
A spokesman for Sen. John Fetterman said a "ventricular fibrillation flare-up" led to him feeling light-headed.
www.cbsnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Vaxxed?
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The way the press circled the wagons over Olivia Nuzzi should have prepared me for this but somehow my expectations are still not low enough.
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The way the press circled the wagons over Olivia Nuzzi should have prepared me for this but somehow my expectations are still not low enough.