The media seems to agree, Epstein has loosed the winds of change. But while AG Sulzberger's New York Times whines about the lose of a "clubby world", The Philadelphia Inquirer's Will Bunch welcomes "the whole thing crashing down." gift article:
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Epstein’s emails are the end of America as they ruined it | Will Bunch
If the evil banality of the world's most powerful people exposed in the Epstein emails doesn't cause a revolution, nothing will.
 (h/t @catsrule0000 on Bluesky) "The timing couldn’t be better, or worse, for this midnight of the elites... an electoral bloodbath in the 2026 midterms is the best outcome Trump can hope for, on a list of dire possibilities."
Time to Migrate by Tim Brey Mastodon treasure @Tim Bray just published what may be the best Mastodon pitch yet!
ongoing by Tim Bray
Time to Migrate
 "The simplest argument · Have you noticed that social-media products, in the long term, can’t seem to manage to stay fun and safe and useful? I have. But there’s one huge exception... I’m talking about email... Why does email stay reasonably healthy? Because nobody owns it... Mastodon’s like email that way. Plus it does all the...stuff that you’re used to."
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Attached: 3 images I am currently in Newport, OR for a public hearing at city hall to listen to resident concerns on a potential ICE facility that...
 Folks, this is real reporting! If you care about what is really happening in Oregon, and don't follow Alissa Azar @Alissa Azar you are missing out on some truly exceptional independent journalism. View quoted note →
One of the smartest people on the internet. Wish she were here. [Yeah, we ran her off too.] emptywheel @emptywheel [on Bluesky] One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it. image
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 Will Bunch, as he so often does, said it best: A nation of heroes, a Senate of cowards - Americans out fighting for democracy while their Senate works to destroy it
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A nation of heroes, a Senate of cowards | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, Cheney didn’t save us from Trump. He created him.
 Chuck Schumer is keeping his head low, hoping like in the spring after the last betrayal, that Democrats will move on. Let's not move on. Schumer must go. We need heroes, not cowards. Sign the petition. @npub1ejmn...g9td