The Alexander Brothers now face Life in prison for their years-long sex trafficking & sexual abuse of young women & underage girls.
My take on how Jeffrey Epstein & the Alexander Brothers used the same playbook to try to intimidate victims & undermine their credibility.
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One of the funny things about this plaintive bleat “good people can do bad things!” Is that this grace is never extended to some people—specifically Bill Clinton, Obama, HRC, etc… Let one of these engage in political negotiations or horse trading and its the biggest betrayal of all time.
This is what I mean: Platner represents a fantasy of a conversion experience so he’s more valued (to these idiots) than any life long Democrat or any (shudder) woman like Mills who has never lived the dirty side. Platner’s con is the usual “once I was a sinner!” Con.
'positioning yourself at the exact bottom of the basin of peoples libidinal desires' is a real and dangerous skill that he undeniably has, but if he lost despite inheriting a good economy, giving people a bunch of free money, and having an excuse to be racist to china, he can be beaten.
i think jamelle bouie is where i got this point from (though its obviously not unique to him): trump doesnt escape consequences so much as the institutions designed to impose consequences refuse to penalize him. this is absolutely not the same thing. hes not magic, people are just lazy and stupid.
I thought this was depicting Starmer as the God Emperor of Dune
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This is amazing. White collar defense attys are upset at the lack of prosecutorial competence. Which makes their job easier, but - "They weren’t as enthused about Weiss’ later joke that closed out the panel: 'I think all of us should be considering developing other practices.'"
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This triangulation has been a constant in US politics for quite some time; it is unsettling how much progressive discourses proceed to talk about allyship with the assumption that Islamophobia, anti-Blackness, antisemitism, and the Red Scare were all independent, separate things.
They don’t think the Platners of the world are actually dangerous while they’re convinced every Muslim is a terrorist waiting to be activated.
We'll see what happens, but my prediction is that Greenblatt will continue to have more bad things to say about Mamdani AND Jewish Voice for Peace than Graham Plattner.
If anything describes the donor class at the moment is that they seem more driven by libidinal urges than anything ideological, so any talk of "left-wing antisemitism" is only useful if it acts as a permission slip to indulge in racism and antisemitism (of the "Soros is behind Gaza protests" kind)
It’s become obvious that the Trump administration gave zero thought to how this war would play out. Even now, though, I don’t think they quite appreciate how locked in they are to a complete and total clusterfuck. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/im-sick-an...
Yeah you get a Gift Link for this one.
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not sure why everyone thinks this is such a big problem when an obvious solution exists
I don’t think we talk enough about how the foundational, most aspirational premise of the AI industry is “what if there was a human-level intelligence that didn’t have human rights.” Like. Exploitation is literally the whole point! Of COURSE they hold human life, intelligence and labour in contempt!
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He was going to.
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“I’m just my own national team; I don’t have a contract that I can show to the government or immigration,” said Indian speedskater Shruti Kotwal, who trains in Utah.
“I have to kind of constantly prove and provide evidence that I am a speedskater."
A thing I learned doing genocide research is that it can be hard for people to feel the difference between 70,000 and 700,000 even if we intellectually know it's 10x more.
So for scale, 700,000 forced from their homes is roughly equivalent to the entire Twin Cities evacuating in less than 2 weeks.
Readers may not be aware that all Philip had to do was ask nicely and he already got my “expert advice” on his (very good) book Citizen Scholar. No slop, no bullshit.
We should all do more of that: Reach out to humans we know and/or trust.
Texas, I know it’s hard but you’ve got to want better for yourselves. This is pitiful.
So much ink will be spilled but bookmark this from @abuaardvark.bsky.social which probably explains 99% of it. The other 1% was Witkoff and Kushner.
When BlueSky changes ownership, all I ask for is that I can still get a chronological feed as a default.
It no longer exists on Facebook, and Twitter makes it difficult.
I follow people because I want to see their posts when they post them.
“Non-diverse participants” is the euphemism of the year
Anybody who isn't easily dazzled by bullshit could've told you this. Of course, in all fairness, that's a minuscule fraction of 21st century Americans.
There’s also often a devil’s bargain buried in all this, that you flatter and, yeah, respect these white people who think this country is theirs by throwing other people under the bus—by disrespecting immigrants and queer people and feminists and their rights and views. And you reinforce that constituency’s sense that they matter more than other people when you pander like this, and pretty much all the problems we’ve faced over the past four years, to say nothing of the last five hundred, come from this sense of white people being more important than nonwhites, Christians than non-Christians, native-born than immigrant, male than female, straight than queer, cis-gender than trans. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito just complained that “you can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman. Now it’s considered bigotry.” This is a standard complaint of the right: the real victim is the racist who has been called a racist, not the victim of his racism, the real oppression is to be impeded in your freedom to oppress. And of course Alito is disingenuous; you can say that stuff against marriage equality (and he did). Then other people can call you a bigot, because they get to have opinions too, but in his scheme such dissent is intolerable, which is fun coming from a member of the party whose devotees wore “fuck your feelings” shirts at its rallies and popularized the term “snowflake.”
When you call misogyny misogyny, you're allying with the victims of it and maybe rendering the misogynists uncomfortable, and you're also telling the truth. Whose comfort matters? Matters more than truth? The Times and a lot of the mainstream has been telling us conservative white men come first.
