@shalgrim.bsky.social
Was she the Appalachian Trail?
Reading these stories abt how Vanity Fair is shocked that Olivia Nuzzi had a fling with presidential candidate Mark Sanford. I wld think this is the one thing one wouldn’t be shocked abt, considering the larger context? www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...
Condé’s Nuzzi Conundrum
Inside Condé Nast's media drama: Gabriel Nuzzi's revelations spark controversy, exposing internal tensions and unfolding newsroom dynamics with dramatic flair.
www.status.news
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Was she the Appalachian Trail?
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Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
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Trump just claimed on Truth Social that he’s “terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Trump just claimed on Truth Social that he’s “terminating, effective immediately, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS Program) for Somalis in Minnesota.”
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Ah yes, this warrants the Both Sides approach.
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Ah yes, this warrants the Both Sides approach.
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Trump's Transportation Secretary posts new video on his plans to improve air travel:
'Let's bring civility and manners back. Are you dressing with respect? Are you saying please and thank you in general? The golden age of travel begins with you.'
'Let's bring civility and manners back. Are you dressing with respect? Are you saying please and thank you in general? The golden age of travel begins with you.'
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Trump's Transportation Secretary posts new video on his plans to improve air travel:
'Let's bring civility and manners back. Are you dressing with respect? Are you saying please and thank you in general? The golden age of travel begins with you.'
'Let's bring civility and manners back. Are you dressing with respect? Are you saying please and thank you in general? The golden age of travel begins with you.'
Oof
The CDC says that vaccines cause autism. Medical professionals say that they do not. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Oof
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Our apologies if the same happens for all mentions of Trump in the Epstein Files
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Our apologies if the same happens for all mentions of Trump in the Epstein Files
Who could have predicted?
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Who could have predicted?
Oh
Q: Ambassador Huckabee had a meeting with Jonathan Pollard, a former US citizen who was convicted and spent 3 decades in jail for selling state secrets to Israel. Did the WH know that meeting was happening?
LEAVITT: The WH was not aware of that meeting but the president stands by our ambassador
LEAVITT: The WH was not aware of that meeting but the president stands by our ambassador
November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Oh
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reminder that Donald Trump said on the record that he partied with his buddy Jeffrey Epstein and women “on the younger side” and yet we’re pretending like the natural of their relationship is some big mystery
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
reminder that Donald Trump said on the record that he partied with his buddy Jeffrey Epstein and women “on the younger side” and yet we’re pretending like the natural of their relationship is some big mystery
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ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
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Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
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Andrew Johnson — a Jan. 6 rioter who went by "Am🇺🇸rican T🇺🇸rrorist” on Elon Musk’s platform — has been arrested on child molestation charges, with police saying he used the promise of a taxpayer-funded payout from Trump's DOJ to try and keep one of the victims silent.
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.
theintercept.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Andrew Johnson — a Jan. 6 rioter who went by "Am🇺🇸rican T🇺🇸rrorist” on Elon Musk’s platform — has been arrested on child molestation charges, with police saying he used the promise of a taxpayer-funded payout from Trump's DOJ to try and keep one of the victims silent.
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
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"In the short term, no enforcing mechanism exists that would incentivize Justice Department officials or the Trump White House to abide by Congress’ demand. [...] Practically, there’s no real way for Congress to know if the Trump administration buries damaging documents or files."
Trump Gives Himself an Enormous Out on the Epstein Files
Epstein Politics Shift on the Hill President Trump’s absurd effort to avoid...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"In the short term, no enforcing mechanism exists that would incentivize Justice Department officials or the Trump White House to abide by Congress’ demand. [...] Practically, there’s no real way for Congress to know if the Trump administration buries damaging documents or files."
"99.9% of House Republicans were united" ... 219*.999 = 218.781
Mike Johnson claims House Republicans did "some of the best work of their careers" during the govt shutdown
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"99.9% of House Republicans were united" ... 219*.999 = 218.781
I have an infinite appetite for trolling Larry Summers
If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?
by Larry Summers
by Larry Summers
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I have an infinite appetite for trolling Larry Summers
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Trump has pardoned people convicted of seditious conspiracy (Stewart Rhodes & Enrique Tarrio) and who have provided a vehicle for terrorists to exchange money (Binance CEO "CZ" Changpeng Zhao)
And at least ten of the people Trump has pardoned have been rearrested
And at least ten of the people Trump has pardoned have been rearrested
New in PN: The hysteria over Biden's pardons seems extra ridiculous now
"Trump has perverted the pardon power far beyond the most questionable actions of any other modern president, emboldening a diverse cast of crooked politicians and outright fraudsters in a new American age of corruption."
"Trump has perverted the pardon power far beyond the most questionable actions of any other modern president, emboldening a diverse cast of crooked politicians and outright fraudsters in a new American age of corruption."
The hysteria over Biden's pardons seems extra ridiculous now
Trump's abuse of the pardon power makes everything else look like child's play.
www.publicnotice.co
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Trump has pardoned people convicted of seditious conspiracy (Stewart Rhodes & Enrique Tarrio) and who have provided a vehicle for terrorists to exchange money (Binance CEO "CZ" Changpeng Zhao)
And at least ten of the people Trump has pardoned have been rearrested
And at least ten of the people Trump has pardoned have been rearrested
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Trump’s Republican Party has become the party that protects criminals
November 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Trump’s Republican Party has become the party that protects criminals
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With @arynbraun.bsky.social, this week we ran this big look at what ICE/CBP has become under Donald Trump and how the agencies increasingly resemble a sort of national police force he can send to whatever city he likes to intimidate people:
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
See how Donald Trump is creating his own police force
Immigration agents are operating in cities with few legal constraints
www.economist.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
With @arynbraun.bsky.social, this week we ran this big look at what ICE/CBP has become under Donald Trump and how the agencies increasingly resemble a sort of national police force he can send to whatever city he likes to intimidate people:
www.economist.com/interactive/...
www.economist.com/interactive/...
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5/ criminal conduct of other members of the conspiracy. But to fall back to the common tongue, NOT GREAT! I mean, they tried to help overthrow the election. Now they want a $1M cash payment. No different from these various J6rs and Flynn and the others who also want a taxpayer pay off. Fuck That.
November 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
5/ criminal conduct of other members of the conspiracy. But to fall back to the common tongue, NOT GREAT! I mean, they tried to help overthrow the election. Now they want a $1M cash payment. No different from these various J6rs and Flynn and the others who also want a taxpayer pay off. Fuck That.
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They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.
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Look, Donald Trump may have had a lengthy, well documented friendship with America’s most famous pedophile, and he may have spent decades giving quotes like “if there’s one thing I love, its beautiful girls—young ones, too,” but I just need 4-5 more drops of damning evidence to buy these accusations
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Look, Donald Trump may have had a lengthy, well documented friendship with America’s most famous pedophile, and he may have spent decades giving quotes like “if there’s one thing I love, its beautiful girls—young ones, too,” but I just need 4-5 more drops of damning evidence to buy these accusations
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epstein in dozens of pieces of written documentation: the presidential candidate my best friend loves coming over to my house for the young girls i rent
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
epstein in dozens of pieces of written documentation: the presidential candidate my best friend loves coming over to my house for the young girls i rent
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open
So much winning
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
So much winning