Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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when rfk tells you to eat your vegetables and cut out soda: yes health daddy when a democrat says the same thing: help help i’m being nannied!!!

Here's the spectrum that I think should be used: communist->socialist->progressive->liberal->conservative->reactionary->monarchist Biden is in the liberal camp. I see Bill Clinton as more conservative than Biden. Immigration is not an ideological issue compared to others imo

The Christian right has a decades-long record of using panics about porn and kids to enact censorship laws that eventually come to restrict adults' political, religious, and commercial speech. They want to ban VPNs and have a Great Firewall here. Don't fall for the lies about SCREEN Act.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 24h ago

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

🧵 This Thomas Edsall column is extremely subpar. It is the case that "democratic socialist" is a slight liability, however, being endorsed by Trump or being MAGA is even more of a liability. Edsall does not mention that because it goes against his Clintonian conservative wishful thinking.

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · yesterday

The article is on democratic socialism and I wish he had explored a bit what the term means in practice today in our post-Cold War environment. What policies are associated with it? Are they popular? Do they mark a departure from New Deal liberal traditions? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

Some folks in the Democratic coalition could learn from Black understanding of power ~ voting is a necessary (while also insufficient) tool, not a whimsy of self expression.

Mrs. Congresswoman, my child is a dog-shit dumb assed idiot who has absolutely no chance of attending college on the basis of their academic record. The queers are to blame for this. Please tell my story.

The article quotes the tired saw of the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money, but our government has been offering agricultural subsidies for a very long time, and it turns out that we have yet to run out of other people's money.

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

His point was that teaching more words to the word-guessing program would produce consciousness, an argument I always liken to "breeding horses to run faster and faster until one of them foals a locomotive." 11/

Glorious thread for those who like a good legal transcript. Counsel is absolutely getting his arse handed to him by the expert witness, aka @kathryntewson.bsky.social 's grandmother.

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d ago

I have been laughing at this for ten solid minutes

queen shit. "it is profitless to speculate on error."

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d ago

“It is profitless to speculate on error.” Once again I must stress that my grandmother talked like this all the fucking time, she could have been describing a salad that wasn’t as good as she was hoping it would be

The way we're supposed to listen to this guy 35 years after his one achievement is incredible. Pat Caddell (Carter's Carville) was by 1992 a pariah in the Democratic Party, and he ended up on Brietbart, Fox News, and the Trump campaign. They all do this. You can just stop listening to them.

Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · 3d ago

James Carville isn’t even good at what he got famous for anymore (folksy bullshit that appeals to consultants who think southern people are some kind of pixie), now he just goes on TV to go “you’d probably be happy if I killed myself”

Means-tested programs like SNAP are shaped not just by benefit levels, but by hassle. And hassle is regressive: it hits hardest when you lack a car, flexibility, cash, or time.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-snaps-new-rules-make-eligible

This was one of several points that @siridahl.com and I discussed on a recent podcast about AI and sexuality: plus.flux.community/p/culture-da...

Siri Dahl on how new labor dynamics and AI have changed sex, porn, and dating

Women have remade adult media and some people are very upset about it

plus.flux.community

I realize these are all things that sex workers have told us and could tell us better. Consumer-facing AI is basically a sex worker so of course it’s personalizing various iterations of financial domination for men because that’s what they want.

There’s also something to how women are socialized to be suspicious of flattery — it’s how we transfer responsibility for men’s desire onto women’s bodies; we are taught to defend against that in service to our “innocence” or whatever — whereas men accept flattery as their due. Perfect marks.

Suresh has a good track record of writing trenchant, frank criticism of AI. You may know him from his 2024 essay, "I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again": ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-... 11/

The world is full of people who insist "AI is changing everything" but who - when pressed - have to admit that what they mean is that they're pretty sure that AI *will* change everything. Eventually. After we allow it to consume all the planet's energy, carbon, water and financial resources. 8/

Snowflake has a useless, expensive AI bolt-on called Cortex, that Snowflake itself describes as being 92% accurate under ideal circumstances (that is, at least 8% of the time, it will mislead you, perhaps very badly). 45/

Suresh describes meetings with execs who were lukewarm on the idea of retooling with Snowflake, but were very interested in Cortex. Against their better judgment, Suresh and team provided them with a Cortex demo, carefully explaining that this AI tool *could not* satisfy their requirements. 46/

So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

Matthew provides a unique insight with his past experiences with religion and politics. I enjoy hearing from him. Hoping you can contribute a little to help him out…. And listen to his podcasts.

Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 5d ago

Hi guys, I'm sorry to have to ask for this again but I really could use your support. My father died recently and now I have fallen behind on rent. If you could please chip in a few dollars, it would really help me keep going. I need to raise $10,000 asap to pay expenses. Thank you so much ❤️

Get in, there’s a new secret political influence campaign paying people to post. This time, a network targeting people in Michigan. First paid to post about how hard it is to afford groceries and gas, the accounts have gone hard in recent days, supporting Haley Stevens. www.ms.now/news/haley-s...

Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race

Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.

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First Trump banned all foreign made drones, and now they’re apparently coming for ALL foreign made robots - that’s right, Trump Take Roomba. www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2...

Did robot vacuums get sucked into new robot ban?

The Federal Communications Commission has expanded a ban to new foreign-made robotic devices due to national security threats.

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My theory is this is more evidence of Fox News’s influence on the mainstream media. Fox’s outrage machine set the news agenda for 2 decades now. If they’re screaming about something, the rest of the media treats it as a major story. If Fox isn’t screaming, mainstream journalists are at a loss.

It’s completely nuts that Trump won by less than 2M votes with near universal media help and worldwide rage at incumbents and the media treated this like a permanent sea change towards MAGA and now less than 2 years later he’s the least popular President in history and there’s no media reckoning

Talarico is right here. Trickle Down economics is a failure and multiple studies confirm it. “Trickle down economics is not a theory, it is theft.”

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 6d ago

James Talarico: Everywhere I go, I hear about the struggles to afford the basics. Texans are drowning. And it’s because for 50 years, puppet politicians like Ken Paxton have been rigging this economy in favor of their mega donors at our expense. Trickle down economics is not a theory, it is theft.

EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social spoke with @cnn.com about the anti-ALPR sentiment sweeping the nation. “Once people start learning about the massive scale of the data that’s being collected and who it’s being accessed by, it starts to freak them out.”

Flock cameras are getting mobbed | CNN

From coast to coast, Americans across the political spectrum have been taking official or vigilante action against the always-on, searchable camera network.

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