Mike Cherepko
@mikecherepko.bsky.social
I'd rather be grocery shopping.
📍Brooklyn, NY
📍Brooklyn, NY
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Merrick Garland should be in jail
The Biden DOJ had a perfectly legal avenue to release this to the public—a response to a FOIA request. They may have even been legally obligated to produce it in response to the FOIA request. And they decided not to, to protect Donald Trump’s reputation? What?
Found the Associated Press article where the existence of this letter was first disclosed two years ago, in response to a FOIA request
It's definitely real
apnews.com/article/jeff...
It's definitely real
apnews.com/article/jeff...
December 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Merrick Garland should be in jail
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i am specifically recommending a ruby ridge every week until these people stop showing up to protests and literally leveling their front-carried assault rifles with bump stocks at the entire crowd to make the protests stop. this is from 2020, about 90m north of my hometown.
December 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
i am specifically recommending a ruby ridge every week until these people stop showing up to protests and literally leveling their front-carried assault rifles with bump stocks at the entire crowd to make the protests stop. this is from 2020, about 90m north of my hometown.
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The Biden DOJ had a perfectly legal avenue to release this to the public—a response to a FOIA request. They may have even been legally obligated to produce it in response to the FOIA request. And they decided not to, to protect Donald Trump’s reputation? What?
Found the Associated Press article where the existence of this letter was first disclosed two years ago, in response to a FOIA request
It's definitely real
apnews.com/article/jeff...
It's definitely real
apnews.com/article/jeff...
December 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The Biden DOJ had a perfectly legal avenue to release this to the public—a response to a FOIA request. They may have even been legally obligated to produce it in response to the FOIA request. And they decided not to, to protect Donald Trump’s reputation? What?
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Holy shit, was googling around to find out if this could possibly be real and came across this Rolling Stone June 2023 story about the EXISTENCE of this letter, but the content wasn’t known — until now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
December 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Holy shit, was googling around to find out if this could possibly be real and came across this Rolling Stone June 2023 story about the EXISTENCE of this letter, but the content wasn’t known — until now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
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It's a travesty that Bari Weiss (or David Ellison, or Trump) censored this report on CECOT, forcing Americans to watch bootleg Canadian versions of 60 Minutes to find out what our own government is doing.
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
It's a travesty that Bari Weiss (or David Ellison, or Trump) censored this report on CECOT, forcing Americans to watch bootleg Canadian versions of 60 Minutes to find out what our own government is doing.
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You may not believe that building new housing lowers rents, but your landlord does:
New housing stops landlords from raising rents—take it from the CEO of AvalonBay, one of NYC's largest landlords:
"We're well-positioned… we face significantly less new supply. Land entitled for multifamily is hard to come by, the amount of time it takes to get those entitlements… sets us up well.”
"We're well-positioned… we face significantly less new supply. Land entitled for multifamily is hard to come by, the amount of time it takes to get those entitlements… sets us up well.”
December 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
You may not believe that building new housing lowers rents, but your landlord does:
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"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
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This is a hit job. The "conflict of interest" is that Jesse's day job aligns with the values that got him elected.
In Santa Monica, the FPPC has disqualified pro-housing Councilmember Jesse Zwick from all future housing votes. They said that because he works for a housing non-profit, he’s “conflicted” and must recuse.
Pretty absurd. The NIMBY deep state strikes again.
www.smdp.com/state-regula...
Pretty absurd. The NIMBY deep state strikes again.
www.smdp.com/state-regula...
State regulators say Councilman Zwick is conflicted on housing votes
The California Fair Political Practices Commission has ruled that Santa Monica Mayor Pro Tem Jesse Zwick must recuse himself from housing production decisions
www.smdp.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is a hit job. The "conflict of interest" is that Jesse's day job aligns with the values that got him elected.
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This is obscene. Good on Sharyn Alfonsi for speaking up. Keep going. So many of us look at 60 Minutes as our North Star. Gift link attached. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is obscene. Good on Sharyn Alfonsi for speaking up. Keep going. So many of us look at 60 Minutes as our North Star. Gift link attached. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
The guy killed Epstein and everyone pretends we don’t know that.
i mean compare this with bill barr’s SUCCESSFUL effort to effectively kill the mueller report
December 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The guy killed Epstein and everyone pretends we don’t know that.
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i mean compare this with bill barr’s SUCCESSFUL effort to effectively kill the mueller report
December 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
i mean compare this with bill barr’s SUCCESSFUL effort to effectively kill the mueller report
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The only right answer is this.
December 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The only right answer is this.
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george costanza-ass punditry
December 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
george costanza-ass punditry
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Among board members voting YES today, in favor of renaming the Kennedy Center the “Trump-Kennedy Center”:
Bob Kraft’s wife.
Just one year ago, Bob was regularly explaining how he had distanced himself from Donald Trump because of Trump’s views, and how he hadn’t spoken with Trump since 1/6/2021.
Bob Kraft’s wife.
Just one year ago, Bob was regularly explaining how he had distanced himself from Donald Trump because of Trump’s views, and how he hadn’t spoken with Trump since 1/6/2021.
December 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Among board members voting YES today, in favor of renaming the Kennedy Center the “Trump-Kennedy Center”:
Bob Kraft’s wife.
Just one year ago, Bob was regularly explaining how he had distanced himself from Donald Trump because of Trump’s views, and how he hadn’t spoken with Trump since 1/6/2021.
Bob Kraft’s wife.
Just one year ago, Bob was regularly explaining how he had distanced himself from Donald Trump because of Trump’s views, and how he hadn’t spoken with Trump since 1/6/2021.
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The NY TWU turned opposed congestion pricing as well. Really seems like they're laser-focused on extracting the rents they can from a static or declining system rather than participating in a positive-sum program to expand transit service to more New Yorkers
the reaction from the TWU President:
December 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The NY TWU turned opposed congestion pricing as well. Really seems like they're laser-focused on extracting the rents they can from a static or declining system rather than participating in a positive-sum program to expand transit service to more New Yorkers
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This is blasphemous.
December 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This is blasphemous.
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This is a surgical dismantling of yet another dumb Matt Yglesias argument by a former clean energy exec and current Representative. This is the sort of thing that should make people stop listening to people like Yglesias.
Read the whole thing.
Read the whole thing.
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is a surgical dismantling of yet another dumb Matt Yglesias argument by a former clean energy exec and current Representative. This is the sort of thing that should make people stop listening to people like Yglesias.
Read the whole thing.
Read the whole thing.
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The war on vaccines is a war on child mortality on the side of death, & everyone who did anything to aid and facilitate RFK Jr's rise to authority over vaccine rules has a hand in the future rise in child deaths. Widespread vaccination for a time was a pinnacle of human achievement, undone by fools
December 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The war on vaccines is a war on child mortality on the side of death, & everyone who did anything to aid and facilitate RFK Jr's rise to authority over vaccine rules has a hand in the future rise in child deaths. Widespread vaccination for a time was a pinnacle of human achievement, undone by fools
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Anyway, low budget productions will tell you they simply can't afford union contracts but it's a lie - all Hollywood unions have separate contracts for very low budget productions with sliding wage scales to accommodate their limited means without sacrificing worker protections.
The thing where the workers are being paid as 1099s is egregiously illegal but sadly common in non-union productions. A way not just to cheap out on paying crew what they're owed but also to skirt compliance with other labor laws
December 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Anyway, low budget productions will tell you they simply can't afford union contracts but it's a lie - all Hollywood unions have separate contracts for very low budget productions with sliding wage scales to accommodate their limited means without sacrificing worker protections.
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Leila Bozorg is great and was literally a board member of Open New York, the largest YIMBY nonprofit in NYC.
this is so awesome. NIMBYs in shambles rn
this is so awesome. NIMBYs in shambles rn
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to announce Friday that Leila Bozorg will serve as his deputy mayor for housing and planning, a transition team spokesperson told Gothamist: gothamist.visitlink.me/7exzI_
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Leila Bozorg is great and was literally a board member of Open New York, the largest YIMBY nonprofit in NYC.
this is so awesome. NIMBYs in shambles rn
this is so awesome. NIMBYs in shambles rn
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Can I just say 2 things: First, Matt fails to see how these two sentences are different:
"Trump is weak on the economy and highlighting it is bad for him"
"Trump is weak on the economy, so Democrats shouldn't talk about immigration"
I think this says a lot about his ideological priors
"Trump is weak on the economy and highlighting it is bad for him"
"Trump is weak on the economy, so Democrats shouldn't talk about immigration"
I think this says a lot about his ideological priors
Here's a good post from Elliott Morris, the leader of the anti-Yglesias bandwagon, about how Trump's biggest political vulnerability is the cost of living and how Trump is screwing up by drawing more attention to it.
bsky.app/profile/gell...
bsky.app/profile/gell...
Trump's White House speech on affordability shows his team is desperate to try anything to help his numbers (except, of course, change the policies that majorities of Americans disapprove of)
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-vote...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-vote...
December 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Can I just say 2 things: First, Matt fails to see how these two sentences are different:
"Trump is weak on the economy and highlighting it is bad for him"
"Trump is weak on the economy, so Democrats shouldn't talk about immigration"
I think this says a lot about his ideological priors
"Trump is weak on the economy and highlighting it is bad for him"
"Trump is weak on the economy, so Democrats shouldn't talk about immigration"
I think this says a lot about his ideological priors