1/ The Epstein files don’t have an incentive to lie for a coverup.

A convicted sex trafficker in search of a pardon does.

The dead giveaway: DOJ can simply release all the Epstein files, but refuses.

Also, what's with the wiggle words in Blanche's statement?

He's gonna pardon Ghislaine and she's gonna say under oath Michelle Obama did January 6th.

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

After years of wrestling Issue #25’s puzzle pieces into a shape, it suddenly arrives—printed, bound, and ready to send out—as a missive from the Before Times. A most welcome reminder that life in the arts is refuge.

As well as fuse.

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A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

The fact that there’s so much more engagement here than on threads seems to point a real throttling of content

A work in progress. Will continue to add as I find my peeps on here.

go.bsky.app/QoxQfM5

When you realize the only choice you have is to fight, because who you are and what you love will not let you give up or capitulate, that clarity of purpose will melt the fear away.

Shoutout to everyone who is making all the starter packs.

They are so helpful.🙏

Meanwhile in Russia: addressing Putin's refusal to be the first to call Trump, Professor Dmitry Evstafiev asserts that Russia — and not the U.S. — is now in a position of strength. He hints that Trump should walk away from NATO to win Putin's approval.
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“I write most often about women's lives and the exquisite moments of insight that flicker and surprise during humdrum, routine tasks. ... [M]y work pays homage to the astounding complexity of seemingly ordinary women doing seemingly ordinary things.“—Kate Falvey

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i wonder if anyone is going to scream at the teamsters union for playing identity politics?

“TVBR Weekly Reader” editors are pleased to offer Martha Greenwald’s poetry response to our “Housekeeping” theme.

Martha is the editor/curator of the “Who We Lost” Project. See link in the comments for more information about that important memorial project.

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