Maybell Romero

Yes we did! I harped about it extensively starting in like 2015 or so, and absolutely no one wanted to hear anything about it, because you ladies are just being hysterical! that could NEVER HAPPEN, we have free speech here! Etc etc

It's wild to me that people would come forward to write something that makes it sound like they don't think child sexual abuse and rape is all that big a deal.

So banal; so not as sensationalistic as I thought he would be.

I started reading the selection and wondered if I was having a stroke, it's that bad.

Thank you!

It is difficult for me, as someone who flipped through the Bar periodicals reviewing suspensions and disbarments when I was looking for work, to fully articulate how much I enjoy watching the DOJ eat shit at court right now.

He didn't care enough to follow the news about the files until learning that one of his pieces had been emailed to Epstein? What a schmuck. 2/2

Let me explain. I am not one of Jeffrey Epstein’s former clients. The only islands I have ever visited are in Lake Huron. My name does not even appear in the documents released by the Department of Justice. Instead my claim to infamy is simply that on April 28, 2019, Mr. Epstein’s accountant, Richard Kahn, emailed Mr. Epstein a link to an article I wrote in The Week. The email is not especially interesting. It contains no commentary or gloss on my work; in fact, it contains no text at all. I would not have known of the email’s existence if a former colleague had not brought it to my attention two weeks ago. Until then, I had paid little attention to the release of the Epstein files. But after seeing the link to my article, I began looking at the materials.

The actual released materials have been less momentous. What we have is not a trove of CD-Rs assembled by Mr. Epstein that implicate a host of powerful men in child abuse and satanic rituals but, rather, a more random collection of less sensational documents related to Mr. Epstein and his associates assembled for release by the Department of Justice. Some two dozen people — including Mr. Summers and Mr. bin Sulayem — have lost jobs or even face. But this is not the apocalyptic reckoning we were promised.

Still, the paucity of truly shocking evidence in the released files should not lead us to issue contrarian pronouncements, as some have done, about an Epstein myth. I have a sneaking suspicion that the more conspiratorial portrait of Mr. Epstein will be the one historians remember — that his reputation as not just a sexual predator but also a scheming panderer of underage sex for his famous buddies will turn out to be largely deserved. The banality of the files, with their dull opinions and conventional consumer habits, is a reminder that primary sources, considered in isolation, often fail to provide us with a satisfactory picture of any human life, much less one as horrifying as Mr. Epstein’s. Imagine if an enthusiastic biographer of Pope Alexander VI — a byword for the corruption of the early modern papacy — were to...

Selections from the latest bizarre Op-Ed on the Epstein Files from the NYT.

It feels like he's trying to convince us that, because there's a lot of everyday stuff in the files that the truly awful content isn't that big of a deal. What's to be gained by this characterization? 1/2

damn, if the Childcrusher 5000 GTX pickup truck owners can’t afford gas, how are they going to be able to tote their massive loads of a single loaf of bread and a canned Starbucks latte

By bullying Anthropic, the Pentagon is violating the First Amendment. Here’s why. Government pressure on Anthropic raises a core question: can Washington punish an AI company for refusing to redesign its systems for the Pentagon?

Whether you love AI or think it's overhyped satanic sludge, we should all agree on one thing: government should never be allowed to control it, or force developers to build it in ways that violate their conscience:

www.fire.org/news/bullyin...

It's good that Kristi Noem is out but her replacement Markwayne Mullin is best known for threatening a brawl on the Senate floor and thus more broadly reflective of the eagerness of a surprising number of figures on the right to use physical violence. Prof Neil Buchanan provides details on the blog.

Huh; I didn’t read the headline to mean that the school itself was involved at all.

JFC

OMG they serious did this?

YES

Calling this "Meeting with Romania" cracks me up

I really encourage everyone to spend some time with the DHS Flickr page, which in one year posted thousands and thousands of glamour shot propaganda photos of Kristi Noem and little else. Our tax dollars! www.flickr.com/photos/dhsgov/

Why are we having to care about JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette again? I just remember them being two boring cokeheads.

We had public access TV in Ithaca when I was in college, and some Ithaca College students made a satirical infomercial for Girls Gone Mild: "Watch them study; do homework, shop for groceries, and walk the dog!"

Could West Palm Police have stopped Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001? After learning Maxwell was recruiting 'young, beautiful, women' from PBAU to work at Epstein's home, West Palm police referred the matter elsewhere.

#Florida cops had a report about Ghislaine Maxwell recruiting girls in 2001, but passed on doing anything about it. www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/c...

I am especially pleased to see @mcsweeney1693.bsky.social liking this post.

Learning about a High Middle Ages poem that rhymes Magna Carta with Magna Farta.

But that’s the only good thing about hotdog!

Is bologna just a giant hotdog? I’ve never actually eaten it.

And told with such economy!

There was once a yutz on Twitter who was *shocked* that I didn’t agree with Brian about something that the dude cared. I blocked the dude across all platforms for that. 🤗

@brianlfrye.bsky.social and I *strongly* disagree on all manner of AI related stuff, just saying!

Because we’re friends we can disagree and still be friends after! 🥰

That’s a fascinating analogy that also made my skin crawl! Nicely done!

People do that?! Yikes.