DG Farnsworth
@dgfarnsworth.bsky.social
Freelance journalist. Author 19 books - RODRIGO GARCÍA OLZA Novel Series: 17 books w/ Barcelona coauthor/actor/director Rodrigo García Olza. Reincarnation of Karen Carpenter & Bombastic Gadflies my earliest novels. Photographer. INFP. Lexington, Kentucky.
"average disapproval rating of 55 percent"
"Wednesday, having jetted off to Mar-a-Lago for the holidays, Trump, 79, claimed on Truth Social: 'I have my highest Poll Numbers, ever, & with record-setting investments being made in America, they should only go up'"
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"Wednesday, having jetted off to Mar-a-Lago for the holidays, Trump, 79, claimed on Truth Social: 'I have my highest Poll Numbers, ever, & with record-setting investments being made in America, they should only go up'"
www.thedailybeast.com/every-pollst...
Every Pollster in America Agrees America Hates Trump
It marks the first time that Trump’s approval rating has been negative with every pollster.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"average disapproval rating of 55 percent"
"Wednesday, having jetted off to Mar-a-Lago for the holidays, Trump, 79, claimed on Truth Social: 'I have my highest Poll Numbers, ever, & with record-setting investments being made in America, they should only go up'"
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"Wednesday, having jetted off to Mar-a-Lago for the holidays, Trump, 79, claimed on Truth Social: 'I have my highest Poll Numbers, ever, & with record-setting investments being made in America, they should only go up'"
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"The Metropolitan Police Department reported around 2:45 p.m. Eastern that it was on the scene of a shooting near the intersection of 17th and I streets NW, just about two blocks from the White House.
MPD reported shortly later on social media that one suspect was in custody."
MPD reported shortly later on social media that one suspect was in custody."
BREAKING: Two National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C., officials confirm
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BREAKING: Two National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C., officials confirm • Kentucky Lantern
Two National Guard members were shot in Washington, D.C., according to the White House, which says President Trump is monitoring the situation.
kentuckylantern.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"The Metropolitan Police Department reported around 2:45 p.m. Eastern that it was on the scene of a shooting near the intersection of 17th and I streets NW, just about two blocks from the White House.
MPD reported shortly later on social media that one suspect was in custody."
MPD reported shortly later on social media that one suspect was in custody."
"'sucked a weary nation dry.'" Sounds familiar -- eh?
"State Department was threatening to financially destroy him—for running against Maduro"
"Trump had taken to calling Juan Guaidó 'the Beto O’Rourke of Venezuela'"
"Trump is wavering on invasion"
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"State Department was threatening to financially destroy him—for running against Maduro"
"Trump had taken to calling Juan Guaidó 'the Beto O’Rourke of Venezuela'"
"Trump is wavering on invasion"
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The $30 Billion Identity Theft of Venezuela - The American Prospect
How Juan Guaidó sucked a weary nation dry, and primed it for the current U.S.-led assault
prospect.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"'sucked a weary nation dry.'" Sounds familiar -- eh?
"State Department was threatening to financially destroy him—for running against Maduro"
"Trump had taken to calling Juan Guaidó 'the Beto O’Rourke of Venezuela'"
"Trump is wavering on invasion"
prospect.org/2025/11/26/3...
"State Department was threatening to financially destroy him—for running against Maduro"
"Trump had taken to calling Juan Guaidó 'the Beto O’Rourke of Venezuela'"
"Trump is wavering on invasion"
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"Trump is suppressing, disappearing... altering data to fit his agenda or to hide inconvenient truths about... impact of...actions"
"accompanied by neglect. Drastic cuts to the federal workforce...hollowed out capacity at... agencies to collect & maintain data"
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"accompanied by neglect. Drastic cuts to the federal workforce...hollowed out capacity at... agencies to collect & maintain data"
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/26/f...
Federal Data Are Disappearing
Former U.S. chief data scientist warns that Trump is suppressing, altering, and dismantling data essential to public safety and the economy.
washingtonmonthly.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"Trump is suppressing, disappearing... altering data to fit his agenda or to hide inconvenient truths about... impact of...actions"
"accompanied by neglect. Drastic cuts to the federal workforce...hollowed out capacity at... agencies to collect & maintain data"
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/26/f...
"accompanied by neglect. Drastic cuts to the federal workforce...hollowed out capacity at... agencies to collect & maintain data"
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/26/f...
"Scouting is and has always been a nonpartisan organization"
"Hegseth criticizes Scouting for being "genderless" and for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion."
"The military has provided support to the Scouts for more than 100 years, assistance that was formalized in 1937."
"Hegseth criticizes Scouting for being "genderless" and for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion."
"The military has provided support to the Scouts for more than 100 years, assistance that was formalized in 1937."
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. Military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formally known as the Boy Scouts
n.pr
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"Scouting is and has always been a nonpartisan organization"
"Hegseth criticizes Scouting for being "genderless" and for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion."
"The military has provided support to the Scouts for more than 100 years, assistance that was formalized in 1937."
"Hegseth criticizes Scouting for being "genderless" and for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion."
"The military has provided support to the Scouts for more than 100 years, assistance that was formalized in 1937."
"spends a good deal of his time as president these days exhibiting his exemption from all accountability... brazenly parades his corruption right out in the open now, caring nothing...that the American people are angry about the economy & resent that their needs are going unmet"
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tinyurl.com/2khjk2jp
The truth about Trump is sinking in for his MAGA followers
Once viewed by MAGA voters as a regular guy, Trump is now seen as part of the elite they despise
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November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"spends a good deal of his time as president these days exhibiting his exemption from all accountability... brazenly parades his corruption right out in the open now, caring nothing...that the American people are angry about the economy & resent that their needs are going unmet"
tinyurl.com/2khjk2jp
tinyurl.com/2khjk2jp
"Without Trump, Russia would have lacked a key component... to return to imperial greatness"
"offers the 1st comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, & the Russian Mafia that...helped win Trump the White House"
www.amazon.com/House-Trump-...
"offers the 1st comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, & the Russian Mafia that...helped win Trump the White House"
www.amazon.com/House-Trump-...
House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia
It is a chilling story that begins in the 1970s, when Trump made his first splash in the booming, money-drenched world of New York real estate, and ends with Trump’s inauguration as president of the U...
www.amazon.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 AM
"Without Trump, Russia would have lacked a key component... to return to imperial greatness"
"offers the 1st comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, & the Russian Mafia that...helped win Trump the White House"
www.amazon.com/House-Trump-...
"offers the 1st comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, & the Russian Mafia that...helped win Trump the White House"
www.amazon.com/House-Trump-...
"Before electricity, the area was known for sailors & coral divers, pirates and witches"
"Cadaqués... an Instagram sensation... for daytrippers seeking selfies"
"Barcelona under Franco,,, grey, very boring,... Cadaqués was very colourful... a lot of foreigners, things happening; it opened my eyes"
"Cadaqués... an Instagram sensation... for daytrippers seeking selfies"
"Barcelona under Franco,,, grey, very boring,... Cadaqués was very colourful... a lot of foreigners, things happening; it opened my eyes"
Where artists once painted naked on the beach and fishermen slept “dreamless on the sand”, real estate agencies now outnumber galleries.
JA Hopkin on the tragedy of modern Cadaqués.
JA Hopkin on the tragedy of modern Cadaqués.
Cadaqués is sublime. Stay away
This Catalan refuge, which attracted Dalí, Duchamp, Man Ray and so many other artists, is losing its identity due to a steep rise in tourists and seco...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"Before electricity, the area was known for sailors & coral divers, pirates and witches"
"Cadaqués... an Instagram sensation... for daytrippers seeking selfies"
"Barcelona under Franco,,, grey, very boring,... Cadaqués was very colourful... a lot of foreigners, things happening; it opened my eyes"
"Cadaqués... an Instagram sensation... for daytrippers seeking selfies"
"Barcelona under Franco,,, grey, very boring,... Cadaqués was very colourful... a lot of foreigners, things happening; it opened my eyes"
When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, the event and its aftermath were broadcast to a stunned nation through photography and television.
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963, the event and its aftermath were broadcast to a stunned nation through photography and television.
" 940 self-portrait El sueño (La cama) sold for $54.7 million on November 20"
"The painting also broke the record for a women artist more generally"
"The painting depicts Kahlo reclining on a floating bed, on top of which lies a skeleton"
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"The painting also broke the record for a women artist more generally"
"The painting depicts Kahlo reclining on a floating bed, on top of which lies a skeleton"
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Frida Kahlo Painting Sells at Sotheby’s for $54.7 M., a Record for a Woman Artist at Auction
A Frida Kahlo painting sold for $54.7 million during a sale of Surrealist art at Sotheby's. It made her the most expensive woman artist.
www.artnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
" 940 self-portrait El sueño (La cama) sold for $54.7 million on November 20"
"The painting also broke the record for a women artist more generally"
"The painting depicts Kahlo reclining on a floating bed, on top of which lies a skeleton"
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
"The painting also broke the record for a women artist more generally"
"The painting depicts Kahlo reclining on a floating bed, on top of which lies a skeleton"
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
"'unitary executive theory'... the president has nearly unlimited authority in the conduct of foreign policy, to the extent that he could legally order the testicles of a child to be crushed"
"In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law”
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"In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law”
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The Right-Wing Legal Movement Made Trump a King - The American Prospect
John Roberts created a monster: Donald Trump compressed a solid millennium or two of monarchical misrule into a mere ten months.
prospect.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"'unitary executive theory'... the president has nearly unlimited authority in the conduct of foreign policy, to the extent that he could legally order the testicles of a child to be crushed"
"In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law”
prospect.org/2025/11/21/r...
"In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law”
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"'Things happen' is a characteristically amoral Trump excuse for barbarism...also sounds like, as the venture capitalist Paul Graham pointed out, Mafia-speak. Sometimes your hired thugs off the wrong guy. You move on. After all, there’s money to be made -trilllions"
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
The Grim Spectacle of Trump’s Gaudy Saudi Summit
A weeklong debauch brought together tech insiders and the leaders of a brutal monarchy to keep stoking the AI bubble.
www.thenation.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"'Things happen' is a characteristically amoral Trump excuse for barbarism...also sounds like, as the venture capitalist Paul Graham pointed out, Mafia-speak. Sometimes your hired thugs off the wrong guy. You move on. After all, there’s money to be made -trilllions"
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
No, we know how bad they are.
U.K. won't share intelligence about suspected Caribbean drug trafficking vessels: major setback to anti-drug efforts"
"Trump’s bigoted & myopic obsession w/ ridding America of immigrants... undermining counterterrorism operations"
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/21/t...
U.K. won't share intelligence about suspected Caribbean drug trafficking vessels: major setback to anti-drug efforts"
"Trump’s bigoted & myopic obsession w/ ridding America of immigrants... undermining counterterrorism operations"
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/21/t...
Trump’s Policy Failures Are Even Worse Than We Realize
Daily chaos from Trump keeps overshadowing damning investigations into his national security and justice failures. Consequences are mounting.
washingtonmonthly.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
No, we know how bad they are.
U.K. won't share intelligence about suspected Caribbean drug trafficking vessels: major setback to anti-drug efforts"
"Trump’s bigoted & myopic obsession w/ ridding America of immigrants... undermining counterterrorism operations"
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/21/t...
U.K. won't share intelligence about suspected Caribbean drug trafficking vessels: major setback to anti-drug efforts"
"Trump’s bigoted & myopic obsession w/ ridding America of immigrants... undermining counterterrorism operations"
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/21/t...
"tech company oligarchs were there in flocks (Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Jensen Huang)"
"new Paramount CEO David Ellison... controls... CBS"
"has anyone ever favored the wealth fund of another country taking a stake in our country’s leading privately owned news outlets?"
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"new Paramount CEO David Ellison... controls... CBS"
"has anyone ever favored the wealth fund of another country taking a stake in our country’s leading privately owned news outlets?"
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Ellisons Tap Saudis to Fund News Media Takeover - The American Prospect
If the Saudi crown prince owns a piece of CNN and CBS News, how will they cover No Kings Days?
prospect.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
"tech company oligarchs were there in flocks (Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Jensen Huang)"
"new Paramount CEO David Ellison... controls... CBS"
"has anyone ever favored the wealth fund of another country taking a stake in our country’s leading privately owned news outlets?"
prospect.org/2025/11/20/e...
"new Paramount CEO David Ellison... controls... CBS"
"has anyone ever favored the wealth fund of another country taking a stake in our country’s leading privately owned news outlets?"
prospect.org/2025/11/20/e...
"instantly becoming one of the most valuable portraits of the 20th century... 2nd most expensive artwork ever sold at auction"
"record had been held by Pablo Picasso’s 1955 Les Femmes d’Alger (“Version O”)... sold at Christie’s New York in 2015 for $179.4 million"
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"record had been held by Pablo Picasso’s 1955 Les Femmes d’Alger (“Version O”)... sold at Christie’s New York in 2015 for $179.4 million"
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Gustav Klimt’s ‘Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer’ Sells for $236.4 M., Highest Price for Any Work of Modern Art Sold at Auction
Gustav Klimt's 'Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer' achieved $236.4 million at Sotheby's, marking a record for a modern artwork sold at auction.
www.artnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"instantly becoming one of the most valuable portraits of the 20th century... 2nd most expensive artwork ever sold at auction"
"record had been held by Pablo Picasso’s 1955 Les Femmes d’Alger (“Version O”)... sold at Christie’s New York in 2015 for $179.4 million"
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
"record had been held by Pablo Picasso’s 1955 Les Femmes d’Alger (“Version O”)... sold at Christie’s New York in 2015 for $179.4 million"
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
"Never underestimate Trump’s willingness to throw friends under the bus when that proves expedient"
"press...played...headline...as Trump excusing MBS for...role in...assassination of...Jamal Khashoggi...deeper story...foreign-policy concessions...for Trump family grift"
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"press...played...headline...as Trump excusing MBS for...role in...assassination of...Jamal Khashoggi...deeper story...foreign-policy concessions...for Trump family grift"
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Trump’s New Best Friend - The American Prospect
His one-sided deal with MBS throws Bibi under the bus and gets nothing for the United States other than more wealth for the Trump family.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"Never underestimate Trump’s willingness to throw friends under the bus when that proves expedient"
"press...played...headline...as Trump excusing MBS for...role in...assassination of...Jamal Khashoggi...deeper story...foreign-policy concessions...for Trump family grift"
prospect.org/2025/11/19/t...
"press...played...headline...as Trump excusing MBS for...role in...assassination of...Jamal Khashoggi...deeper story...foreign-policy concessions...for Trump family grift"
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"give refugee status to white South Africans who are uncomfortable living in a country where they are a racial minority & white Europeans who oppose the migration of non-Europeans into their countries... racist & reflects a misunderstanding... who a refugee is."
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Why Trump’s White Refugee Gambit Could Backfire
Trump is denying most seeking refugee status—but granting preferences for white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration.
washingtonmonthly.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"give refugee status to white South Africans who are uncomfortable living in a country where they are a racial minority & white Europeans who oppose the migration of non-Europeans into their countries... racist & reflects a misunderstanding... who a refugee is."
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washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/19/t...
At computer desk, alerted by fast shrieking call, rumble by the 3rd floor balcony squirrel feeder. Shocked by large gray unknown feathered mass (not squirrel) in air by rails.
Squirrel safe inside 2-door keyhole house & leaped at Cooper Hawk. Bummed bird flew to nearby branch🦅
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Squirrel safe inside 2-door keyhole house & leaped at Cooper Hawk. Bummed bird flew to nearby branch🦅
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Cooper’s Hawk & Squirrels: A Journey of Spiritual Enlightenment
Exploring the Intricate Symbolism and Their Roles in Our Lives
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November 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
At computer desk, alerted by fast shrieking call, rumble by the 3rd floor balcony squirrel feeder. Shocked by large gray unknown feathered mass (not squirrel) in air by rails.
Squirrel safe inside 2-door keyhole house & leaped at Cooper Hawk. Bummed bird flew to nearby branch🦅
tinyurl.com/3dz7e7ws
Squirrel safe inside 2-door keyhole house & leaped at Cooper Hawk. Bummed bird flew to nearby branch🦅
tinyurl.com/3dz7e7ws
"Including humanities in medical education leads to doctors w/ improved diagnostic & empathic skills... contributes to a program partnering art & music in medical education... precise movements required to play the clarinet greatly overlap w/ those needed to perform surgery"
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Science Partnering With the Arts Enhances Medical Education
A retired physician-musician contributes to a program incorporating art and music in medical school education, leading to doctors with enhanced diagnostic and empathic skills.
tinyurl.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"Including humanities in medical education leads to doctors w/ improved diagnostic & empathic skills... contributes to a program partnering art & music in medical education... precise movements required to play the clarinet greatly overlap w/ those needed to perform surgery"
tinyurl.com/3eeencpp
tinyurl.com/3eeencpp
Saturday November 15 Kentucky defeated Tennessee Tech 42-10 in a college football game.
🥳🏈 🍺 🍻🍷 🍗 🐔 🍰 🍪 🍹🥂 🍖 🥪 🍭 😊#tailgate #party #collegefootball #universityofkentucky #bourbon #academics
🥳🏈 🍺 🍻🍷 🍗 🐔 🍰 🍪 🍹🥂 🍖 🥪 🍭 😊#tailgate #party #collegefootball #universityofkentucky #bourbon #academics
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Saturday November 15 Kentucky defeated Tennessee Tech 42-10 in a college football game.
🥳🏈 🍺 🍻🍷 🍗 🐔 🍰 🍪 🍹🥂 🍖 🥪 🍭 😊#tailgate #party #collegefootball #universityofkentucky #bourbon #academics
🥳🏈 🍺 🍻🍷 🍗 🐔 🍰 🍪 🍹🥂 🍖 🥪 🍭 😊#tailgate #party #collegefootball #universityofkentucky #bourbon #academics
📚Your soul displays itself by the people you attract 🤔
One of the most important Spanish poets and dramatists of the 20th Century, Federico García Lorca (The Butterfly's Evil Spell), is a recurring character.
One of the most important Spanish poets and dramatists of the 20th Century, Federico García Lorca (The Butterfly's Evil Spell), is a recurring character.
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
📚Your soul displays itself by the people you attract 🤔
One of the most important Spanish poets and dramatists of the 20th Century, Federico García Lorca (The Butterfly's Evil Spell), is a recurring character.
One of the most important Spanish poets and dramatists of the 20th Century, Federico García Lorca (The Butterfly's Evil Spell), is a recurring character.
Epstein "one of the world’s preeminent geopoliticians...why he entangled so many powerful people in his misdeeds. The human-trafficking sexcapades were not the main thing bringing him together w/ his pedo friends. It was money & power politics, forming a vital artery of US global hegemony" Jeet Heer
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Epstein "one of the world’s preeminent geopoliticians...why he entangled so many powerful people in his misdeeds. The human-trafficking sexcapades were not the main thing bringing him together w/ his pedo friends. It was money & power politics, forming a vital artery of US global hegemony" Jeet Heer
"Epstein’s name is inextricably linked w/ sexual predation... But it should just as readily be linked to global militarism & authoritarianism. Epstein trafficked...in the bodies of the children he abused...also in social connections that could bring elites together"
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.
Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy.
www.thenation.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"Epstein’s name is inextricably linked w/ sexual predation... But it should just as readily be linked to global militarism & authoritarianism. Epstein trafficked...in the bodies of the children he abused...also in social connections that could bring elites together"
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...