@brettmonnard.bsky.social
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I thought this was a bit about how every single email is epstein talking about how big a pedophile Trump is and everyone blowing it off until I saw the email about SPECIFICALLY THIS ANECDOTE next in my feed
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I thought this was a bit about how every single email is epstein talking about how big a pedophile Trump is and everyone blowing it off until I saw the email about SPECIFICALLY THIS ANECDOTE next in my feed
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Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Landon Thomas Jr of the New York Times got told by Jeffrey Epstein that Trump walked into a glass door bc he was so busy staring at girls in Epstein's house and didn't print it. wild that the Times didn't consider that newsworthy.
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Private equity drove a nursing home chain into the ground.
Then it declared bankruptcy, which could let it off the hook for hurting patients.
Now, it's trying to sell the company to the same people who bankrupted it.
@blumenthal.senate.gov @goodlander.house.gov and I are sounding the alarm.
Then it declared bankruptcy, which could let it off the hook for hurting patients.
Now, it's trying to sell the company to the same people who bankrupted it.
@blumenthal.senate.gov @goodlander.house.gov and I are sounding the alarm.
Granddaughter vows justice as nursing home giant shirks $1.6b claims - The Boston Globe
Genesis HealthCare, a troubled nursing home chain with 49 facilities across New England, has a history of violations and low ratings.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Private equity drove a nursing home chain into the ground.
Then it declared bankruptcy, which could let it off the hook for hurting patients.
Now, it's trying to sell the company to the same people who bankrupted it.
@blumenthal.senate.gov @goodlander.house.gov and I are sounding the alarm.
Then it declared bankruptcy, which could let it off the hook for hurting patients.
Now, it's trying to sell the company to the same people who bankrupted it.
@blumenthal.senate.gov @goodlander.house.gov and I are sounding the alarm.
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Fireable offenses for Harvard president: bad faith allegations over half a footnote in something published two decades ago.
Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.
Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.
Why hello there former US Treasury Secretary, president of Harvard, and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers.
Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share.
And here's the source link:
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share.
And here's the source link:
oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Fireable offenses for Harvard president: bad faith allegations over half a footnote in something published two decades ago.
Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.
Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.
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This is very funny because I've been banging on the crime reduction story all year, *particularly* in Chicago prior to federal intervention, which Trump and flunkies have been calling a crime-ridden hell hold.
"Bias is when you choose to not cover things that hurt you politically but focus on things you think are helpful," presented in word and deed.
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is very funny because I've been banging on the crime reduction story all year, *particularly* in Chicago prior to federal intervention, which Trump and flunkies have been calling a crime-ridden hell hold.
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Hoooooooooly shit
Q: Given you answers about transparency, why are WH officials meeting with Boebert in an effort to get her to not sign the Epstein files petition?
LEAVITT: Doesn't it show transparency that members of the Trump administration are willing to brief members of Congress?
LEAVITT: Doesn't it show transparency that members of the Trump administration are willing to brief members of Congress?
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hoooooooooly shit
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In the situation room?
Q: "Why are White House officials…meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the [Epstein] files?"
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
In the situation room?
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It seems like all the progressive lane candidates in Seattle this year learned the lesson from previous cycles where hardline stances on homelessness and policing dragged progressives down
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It seems like all the progressive lane candidates in Seattle this year learned the lesson from previous cycles where hardline stances on homelessness and policing dragged progressives down
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The whole transcript of her interview with DSA is interesting, but I never quite found a home for it in a story. This is probably the answer that caused them to vote against endorsing her. Wilson told me she tried to avoid making promises to anyone she wasn’t sure she could keep
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The whole transcript of her interview with DSA is interesting, but I never quite found a home for it in a story. This is probably the answer that caused them to vote against endorsing her. Wilson told me she tried to avoid making promises to anyone she wasn’t sure she could keep
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Leaked footage from inside an ICE detention facility near Houston. No beds, no bathrooms, hundreds of men, women, and children in one combined cell/room. They are kept in freezing conditions.
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Leaked footage from inside an ICE detention facility near Houston. No beds, no bathrooms, hundreds of men, women, and children in one combined cell/room. They are kept in freezing conditions.
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Cummings describes a sampling of Midway Blitz arrests:
54 were arrested while at work.
20 landscapers, 4 Uber or taxi drivers
2 street vendors
20 were commuting to or from work
9 arrested at Home Depot or Menards
11 in public places, including a Dunkin Donuts drive thru
54 were arrested while at work.
20 landscapers, 4 Uber or taxi drivers
2 street vendors
20 were commuting to or from work
9 arrested at Home Depot or Menards
11 in public places, including a Dunkin Donuts drive thru
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Cummings describes a sampling of Midway Blitz arrests:
54 were arrested while at work.
20 landscapers, 4 Uber or taxi drivers
2 street vendors
20 were commuting to or from work
9 arrested at Home Depot or Menards
11 in public places, including a Dunkin Donuts drive thru
54 were arrested while at work.
20 landscapers, 4 Uber or taxi drivers
2 street vendors
20 were commuting to or from work
9 arrested at Home Depot or Menards
11 in public places, including a Dunkin Donuts drive thru
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Cummings says it's clear there have been "repeated material violations" of the consent decree under "Midway Blitz," and that under his reading of the law, the only arrestees subject to mandatory detention have prior removal orders or criminal histories.
The rest deserve a bond.
The rest deserve a bond.
November 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Cummings says it's clear there have been "repeated material violations" of the consent decree under "Midway Blitz," and that under his reading of the law, the only arrestees subject to mandatory detention have prior removal orders or criminal histories.
The rest deserve a bond.
The rest deserve a bond.
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Cummings agrees the government should not seek voluntary departure agreements while arrestees are still in custody.
"If they want to go, they can decide to go, but that is not until after they get released," Cummings says
"If they want to go, they can decide to go, but that is not until after they get released," Cummings says
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Cummings agrees the government should not seek voluntary departure agreements while arrestees are still in custody.
"If they want to go, they can decide to go, but that is not until after they get released," Cummings says
"If they want to go, they can decide to go, but that is not until after they get released," Cummings says
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Judge Cummings is on the bench. They're starting with detainees where the feds have already agreed that their arrests were in violation of the consent decree, yet they have not released them.
Government attorney saying they are in the process of being bonded out
Government attorney saying they are in the process of being bonded out
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Judge Cummings is on the bench. They're starting with detainees where the feds have already agreed that their arrests were in violation of the consent decree, yet they have not released them.
Government attorney saying they are in the process of being bonded out
Government attorney saying they are in the process of being bonded out
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The vast majority of those arrested had ZERO criminal history or prior removal orders, the plaintiffs say, arguing they should be immediately released while their cases play out because their arrests/detention are in violation of a 2018 consent decree
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The vast majority of those arrested had ZERO criminal history or prior removal orders, the plaintiffs say, arguing they should be immediately released while their cases play out because their arrests/detention are in violation of a 2018 consent decree
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Good morning from Judge Jeffrey Cumming's courtroom, where he's considering a motion to release 100s of "Midway Blitz" arrestees on EM who were subjected to "warrantless" arrest.
ICE and CBP recently produced a list of 3,300 people arrested since June
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/c...
ICE and CBP recently produced a list of 3,300 people arrested since June
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/c...
Federal judge appears poised to order release of at least some ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ arrestees
A Chicago federal judge appeared poised Friday to order at least a portion of the thousands of people detained in “Operation Midway Blitz” released on electronic monitoring while litiga…
www.chicagotribune.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Good morning from Judge Jeffrey Cumming's courtroom, where he's considering a motion to release 100s of "Midway Blitz" arrestees on EM who were subjected to "warrantless" arrest.
ICE and CBP recently produced a list of 3,300 people arrested since June
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/c...
ICE and CBP recently produced a list of 3,300 people arrested since June
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/c...
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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
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/...
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That's nearly a million dollars total, fyi
///BREAKING/// Judge Jeffrey Cummings orders that by noon of Nov. 17, he will order the release of all of the 615 "Operation Midway Blitz" detainees identified as class participants (at least those still here in the country) once they pay a $1,500 bond.
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
That's nearly a million dollars total, fyi
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Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities
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did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal
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These Rippling ads are pretty much everywhere in lower Manhattan. My one and only thought is: with all your eggs in one basket, that's gonna hurt real bad if/when they get hacked.
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
These Rippling ads are pretty much everywhere in lower Manhattan. My one and only thought is: with all your eggs in one basket, that's gonna hurt real bad if/when they get hacked.
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This is technical and medical malpractice. People running RCTs need to have a strong qualitative understanding of the context and data generating processes related to their trials. We should ask at least as much of “disruptive” technologies.
flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools
![“If you want to know how a model will behave, the only way of doing it is to run it,” Mensch also suggested. “You do need to have some empirical testing, what’s happening. Knowing the input data that has been used for training is not going to tell you whether your model is going to behave well in [a healthcare use-case], for instance. You don’t really care about what’s in the training data. You do care about the empirical behaviour of the model. So you don’t need knowledge of the training data. And if you had knowledge of the training data, it wouldn’t even teach you whether the model is going to behave well or not. So this is why I’m saying it’s neither necessary nor sufficient.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26hkfmtr7jrchexamh7hk6rz/bafkreibp7oaeovg7xt43dlk3qtmkft6irldgf44tz75sbaiqvoqdq4kpjy@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is technical and medical malpractice. People running RCTs need to have a strong qualitative understanding of the context and data generating processes related to their trials. We should ask at least as much of “disruptive” technologies.
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All that Q stuff about how the Democrats were all paedophiles was, in fact, a self-admission. It appears that Epstein is saying that Trump spent hours with one of his underage girls*. We knew Trump was a sexual offender but this is worse. But will it matter to the far right GOP?! Also Wolff is over.
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
All that Q stuff about how the Democrats were all paedophiles was, in fact, a self-admission. It appears that Epstein is saying that Trump spent hours with one of his underage girls*. We knew Trump was a sexual offender but this is worse. But will it matter to the far right GOP?! Also Wolff is over.
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I love typewriter art so much
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I love typewriter art so much