tbd
banner
tumescentnumpty.bsky.social
tbd
@tumescentnumpty.bsky.social
god that other place sucked
Reposted by tbd
If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Reposted by tbd
Sorry but it's extra funny the NYT is running a glamour profile on RFKs mistress/reporter the day after people were going to the mattresses defending their ethics surrounding the Epstein cover up
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Reposted by tbd
For the record: this would pretty much ends American field work in the geosciences in China.

That includes:
-the world's largest plateau
-the world's best ice age land sedimentary archive
-number of major fault systems
“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 1:49 PM
Reposted by tbd
Thatcher's government did this with Section 28, banned the "promotion of homosexuality" as a danger to children, while actively protecting Jimmy Savile and who knows how many other pedophiles. It's the same damn playbook.
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Reposted by tbd
Thinking about how one of the first Epstein victims was trans and got relentlessly mocked in the media when she spoke up www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/when...
When a trans woman first accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape, the media mocked her - LGBTQ Nation
The New York Post called her a "man" and a "gender-bend shocker."
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Reposted by tbd
for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Reposted by tbd
"JD why don't women like me?"

"I stopped worrying about that after I upholstered the inside of my underwear?"

"What?"

"Hmm? Oh, uh, I'm sure it's just the deep state out to get you sir"
November 2, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Reposted by tbd
They should study journalists’ brains like they do with football players after they die.
The emails that you’re seeing now are news in themselves, but that’s because of how they’re coming out—a congressional committee released them—& the context in which they’re being viewed. A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is “dirty” is not a whole news story.
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Reposted by tbd
A problem with legacy media trying to compete with the right-wing bullshit machine for audience share is that it destroys the credibility of the real newsgathering by association. Many influential people disagree with me on this and they’re all in a club where they rape middle-schoolers together
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Epstein brain: I wish I could keep dill on my shelf

Epstein email to self he reads at a later date:
i now believe that jeffrey epstein killed himself because if i wrote like that i would kill myself
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reposted by tbd
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
Reposted by tbd
another neighbor got abducted today, new gofundme about to drop. if you're in the NW side he was a server at Alps and they are donating 25% of sales this weekend to him. as for my prior neighbor who got abducted, his gofundme was a huge help to his family and will be used to bond him out imminently
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Reposted by tbd
Probably a good time to really put the screws to the guy who has multiple times backed out of congressional deals at the behest of unelected sex pests
December 23, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Reposted by tbd
“Shortly after midnight on Sept. 30, some 300 agents from Border Patrol, the FBI and other agencies stormed the 130-unit apartment complex. SWAT teams rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades.“
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.
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Reposted by tbd
Adding to the stupidity file. Guy who thinks SNAP payments had to do with the shutdown and not Trump doing something illegal because he hates poor people
Imagine if Dems in the Senate hadn't caved. The House wouldn't be in session rn, the discharge petition wouldn't be signed, people wouldn't have SNAP, govt workers would be RIF'd & the GOP would have some decent talking points. But also online rage addicts would be happier! YMMV!
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Reposted by tbd
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
1 weird trick to endear yourself to the rich and powerful, .
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Reposted by tbd
Also, just a reminder, anyone emailing Epstein regularly after 2008 knows he's been convicted of felonies related to sex with minors.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Reposted by tbd
Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Reposted by tbd
When identity thieves destroyed our credit rating, it was the CFPB who fixed it, which is why we now own the house that we live in.
The Trump regime is declaring that funding for the CFPB is illegal.

Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.

Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Reposted by tbd
The Baileys, @schumer.senate.gov's imaginary friends that he votes in support of, are professional scammers. Joe Bailey has a dog fighting ring in his basement, and Eileen is likes to seduce married men to break up their families.

Their children haven't talked to them in years.
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Reposted by tbd
It's obviously not the ✨MAIN THING✨ going on in the emails, but why is it every time a bunch of emails of super-powerful rich people gets leaked they always read like the communications of barely-literate children (I know the answer to this question)?
Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Reposted by tbd
it's stunning the way you almost forget how many opportunities this corrupt mess of a country had to put an unremarkable grifter away before he could do significant harm
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Reposted by tbd
Prairie Archives’ innovative box storage system
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by tbd
I’d started to wonder whether the Epstein files were a bit of a macguffin, but no no they implicate the President of the United States in a pedophilia ring—and show the entire Republican Party as well as much of the federal government has been baldly covering it up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM