ScipioAsina
@scipioasina.bsky.social
History PhD with a research background in the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea. Chinese American in Southern California. Husband and cat dad. Liberal, humanist, and Christian Universalist.
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ScipioAsina
@scipioasina.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Photographer captures last moments before being mauled by wild animal.
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Why the fuck is this framed as “teenager chose to prostitute herself and ruined the career of innocent congressman”
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 12:54 AM
Why the fuck is this framed as “teenager chose to prostitute herself and ruined the career of innocent congressman”
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The last 48 hours have been incredible if you're a hater
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The last 48 hours have been incredible if you're a hater
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actually it’s because media outlets like the NYT like republicans and want them to win so they just print up whatever republicans tell them to, we already know they explicitly do this with Chris Rufo
Not excusing the NYT's political coverage, but this person makes an important point. The reason legacy media falls all over itself to cover BS like Benghazi, Hunter Biden's laptop, Hilary's server, etc. is because the entire GOP and their media apparatus takes official actions to make them a story.
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 8:07 PM
actually it’s because media outlets like the NYT like republicans and want them to win so they just print up whatever republicans tell them to, we already know they explicitly do this with Chris Rufo
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It’s cool how government agencies can just destroy evidence with zero consequences these days
An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today:
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It’s cool how government agencies can just destroy evidence with zero consequences these days
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Jeffrey Epstein was picking out Trump term 1's cabinet secretaries. I repeat, Jeffrey Epstein was picking out the President of the United States' fucking cabinet.
well that's odd, because in late december 2018 epstein tells larry summers he's in palm beach, summers asks if he's going to mar-a-lago, then christmas morning epstein tells summers he's "being asked for 3 names to replace mnuchin"
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Jeffrey Epstein was picking out Trump term 1's cabinet secretaries. I repeat, Jeffrey Epstein was picking out the President of the United States' fucking cabinet.
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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
They should study journalists’ brains like they do with football players after they die.
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Destroy the careers of every law-enforcement and immigration official who touched this case. Arrest them, imprison them.
A Chicago daycare teacher taken by federal agents has been released. blockclubchi.co/4hYKy3F
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Destroy the careers of every law-enforcement and immigration official who touched this case. Arrest them, imprison them.
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Note how this is obfuscating: "A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is 'dirty' is not a whole news story."
Guy 1: Notorious sexual offender.
Guy 2: Reporter at a leading national newspaper.
Guy 3: Candidate for president.
Guy 1: Notorious sexual offender.
Guy 2: Reporter at a leading national newspaper.
Guy 3: Candidate for president.
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Note how this is obfuscating: "A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is 'dirty' is not a whole news story."
Guy 1: Notorious sexual offender.
Guy 2: Reporter at a leading national newspaper.
Guy 3: Candidate for president.
Guy 1: Notorious sexual offender.
Guy 2: Reporter at a leading national newspaper.
Guy 3: Candidate for president.
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how about a piece of investigative journalism that accuses a mayoral candidate of fraud based on an application for college he filled out when he was 17 that a neo-Nazi gave the paper because they were racist? you're insulting the intelligence of everyone here to imply this is about standards
I am not defending Landon’s relationship with Epstein. In fact, the NYT didn’t even try to defend it. He left the paper. What I’m saying is that a piece of investigative journalism that exposes a secret, criminal act such as statutory rape requires far more than what is in these emails.
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
how about a piece of investigative journalism that accuses a mayoral candidate of fraud based on an application for college he filled out when he was 17 that a neo-Nazi gave the paper because they were racist? you're insulting the intelligence of everyone here to imply this is about standards
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A COUPLE OF EMAILS IS NOT A WHOLE NEWS STORY SAYS A FORMER NYT REPORTER
I CANNOT RIGHT NOW MAN, I AM CRASHING THE FUCK OUT. LOOK AT HOW STUPID THESE ASSHOLES THINK YOU ARE! THEY THINK WE ARE ALL TROGLODYTES!
I CANNOT RIGHT NOW MAN, I AM CRASHING THE FUCK OUT. LOOK AT HOW STUPID THESE ASSHOLES THINK YOU ARE! THEY THINK WE ARE ALL TROGLODYTES!
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 5:21 PM
A COUPLE OF EMAILS IS NOT A WHOLE NEWS STORY SAYS A FORMER NYT REPORTER
I CANNOT RIGHT NOW MAN, I AM CRASHING THE FUCK OUT. LOOK AT HOW STUPID THESE ASSHOLES THINK YOU ARE! THEY THINK WE ARE ALL TROGLODYTES!
I CANNOT RIGHT NOW MAN, I AM CRASHING THE FUCK OUT. LOOK AT HOW STUPID THESE ASSHOLES THINK YOU ARE! THEY THINK WE ARE ALL TROGLODYTES!
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Women will ALWAYS belong in gaming (in any fucking space too, but not my point here) and (not just the hot ones) and I honestly I really don’t give AF who says otherwise.
Go cry about it.
Go cry about it.
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Women will ALWAYS belong in gaming (in any fucking space too, but not my point here) and (not just the hot ones) and I honestly I really don’t give AF who says otherwise.
Go cry about it.
Go cry about it.
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I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
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Just another day in the Trump administration's campaign to erase any reminder that African Americans are part of our history. 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
U.S. WWII cemetery in the Netherlands removes displays about Black troops
The Netherlands American Cemetery previously had two displays honoring Black American soldiers’ experiences in World War II.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Just another day in the Trump administration's campaign to erase any reminder that African Americans are part of our history. 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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WE ARE APPROACHING THE EPHEBOPHILE THRESHOLD
November 13, 2025 at 4:29 AM
WE ARE APPROACHING THE EPHEBOPHILE THRESHOLD
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[know nothing voice] just punched a hole in the wall because the new mayor is yet another Catholic
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
[know nothing voice] just punched a hole in the wall because the new mayor is yet another Catholic
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as i keep saying i now 100% believe everything ancient historians wrote and can't do that "it was just a poetic allusion" or "it combined different figures together" bullshit
America has long feared it would suffer the same fate as the Roman republic, but never quite truly appreciated how utterly absurd Roman elites had become by the time of the late republic.
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 AM
as i keep saying i now 100% believe everything ancient historians wrote and can't do that "it was just a poetic allusion" or "it combined different figures together" bullshit
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I can one-up you on this take.
Criticizing Epstein’s grammar essentially makes you a grammar Nazi, which I shouldn’t have to explain how problematic it is to act in a Nazi-like way about a Jewish man.
Criticizing Epstein’s grammar essentially makes you a grammar Nazi, which I shouldn’t have to explain how problematic it is to act in a Nazi-like way about a Jewish man.
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I can one-up you on this take.
Criticizing Epstein’s grammar essentially makes you a grammar Nazi, which I shouldn’t have to explain how problematic it is to act in a Nazi-like way about a Jewish man.
Criticizing Epstein’s grammar essentially makes you a grammar Nazi, which I shouldn’t have to explain how problematic it is to act in a Nazi-like way about a Jewish man.
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something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
something I've been thinking about if/when we retake power is we're really going to need to shock & awe the elites with accountability. hit em hard and fast. gotta break the entire system and don't give it time to regroup.
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Every sociological study ever: here are dynamics replicated in every stigmatized, insular minority around the world regardless of race, ethnicity, geography, or political system type, including ethnic groups now considered “white” back when they weren’t
Eugenicists: iT mUsT bE gEnEtIc
Eugenicists: iT mUsT bE gEnEtIc
To be honest I’m pretty sure the “sincere“ eugenicists - i.e., people who are in favor of immigration from China or wherever - are simply racists whose fixation is specifically ANTI-BLACK RACISM instead of strict white supremacy
there are a few sincere eugenicists like Richard Hannania and they are meaningfully different than just garden-variety racists (no, this is not me saying "they're great! I love them! no problems!"). in theory it's an elitist but not necessarily racist mindset. in practice it like 90% is.
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Every sociological study ever: here are dynamics replicated in every stigmatized, insular minority around the world regardless of race, ethnicity, geography, or political system type, including ethnic groups now considered “white” back when they weren’t
Eugenicists: iT mUsT bE gEnEtIc
Eugenicists: iT mUsT bE gEnEtIc
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The New York Times knew and buried it to bury Clintons candidacy
And these are the same editors that printed Russian leaked stolen email and printed emails leaked to them by a literal nazi
And these are the same editors that printed Russian leaked stolen email and printed emails leaked to them by a literal nazi
This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The New York Times knew and buried it to bury Clintons candidacy
And these are the same editors that printed Russian leaked stolen email and printed emails leaked to them by a literal nazi
And these are the same editors that printed Russian leaked stolen email and printed emails leaked to them by a literal nazi
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>Jeffrey Epstein was personally advising Churkin and Lavrov on specifically how to extort Trump to make him do what Russia wanted using Trump’s history of child rape that he facilitated
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
>Jeffrey Epstein was personally advising Churkin and Lavrov on specifically how to extort Trump to make him do what Russia wanted using Trump’s history of child rape that he facilitated
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None of this shit happens without a great many powerful people deciding that it's more important to generally preserve the impunity of elites they like than to pierce the elite impunity of child molesters.
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
None of this shit happens without a great many powerful people deciding that it's more important to generally preserve the impunity of elites they like than to pierce the elite impunity of child molesters.
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The main thing I want you to understand is that if you're like an unironic Bluesky liberal the people who control the heights of American culture and the intelligentsia genuinely despise you and would prefer the company of fascist pedophiles.
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The main thing I want you to understand is that if you're like an unironic Bluesky liberal the people who control the heights of American culture and the intelligentsia genuinely despise you and would prefer the company of fascist pedophiles.
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Exactly. I knew Trump was a Russian puppet and I knew he was a pedophile but I didn’t know his pedophile supplier also offered to be his go between with the Russians.
like the surprising thing here is that 'russiagate' and 'the epstein files' are literally the same thing, not that the former was true lol.
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Exactly. I knew Trump was a Russian puppet and I knew he was a pedophile but I didn’t know his pedophile supplier also offered to be his go between with the Russians.