Joyce Carol Oates tweet reading: Harold Bloom said lots of silly things. No need to make a movie out of any of them — in response to a tweet reading: Hamlet is not about grief, it's about what Harold Bloom called the invention of the human" — they should make a movie about that
okay we just need to get JCO on Bluesky and our journey to the dark side will be complete
Employees at Camp East Montana are being told that the massive detention Center in El Paso is not closing, internal messages obtained by the El Paso Times show.
My story:
NYT Hed/Dek: Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.
put it in a museum
NEW from me: Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
NEW @npr.org: The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.
But 37 pages of records are still not public.
More:
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
![US Issues License to Allow Some Russian Oil Sales to India
By Natalie Choy
03/05/2026 19:14:03 [BFW]
(Bloomberg) -- Treasury Dept’s Office of Foreign Assets Control says it is issuing a Russia-related general license to allow some Russian oil sales to India, according to a statement.
License related to Russia oil sale to India valid to April 4, 2026](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ra6gopdeuq77naoqp3qob5od/bafkreifef4he7uibhvtguruopaelmhd5vbhctfxoh7oi2g6nv5gwgmiho4@jpeg)
US Issues License to Allow Some Russian Oil Sales to India By Natalie Choy 03/05/2026 19:14:03 [BFW] (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Dept’s Office of Foreign Assets Control says it is issuing a Russia-related general license to allow some Russian oil sales to India, according to a statement. License related to Russia oil sale to India valid to April 4, 2026
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Middle East chaos stems from erosion in international law, EU's Kallas says reut.rs/4ssBacK
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.
“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.
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This script conveys, in linear form, series of mechanical crises that must be resolved under time pressure. It’s the space version of “I don’t know if Javier is going to have this paint job done in time to take the Torino to Bakersfield!”
I have watched it more times than I can count so this is not a criticism, but have you ever noticed how closely it resembles every car restoration show on TV?
The Trump DOJ has been taking down Epstein files.
The massive tranche of files the Justice Department currently maintains is more than 65,000 pages shorter than what the agency initially released, according to a CBS analysis — and the number continues to fluctuate.
BREAKING on MS NOW:
The House Oversight Committee just voted to subpoena Pam Bondi as part of the panel's Epstein investigation.
The vote was 24-19. 5 Republicans voted in favor.
I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem denied that aide Corey Lewandowski had any role in approving contracts. But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency staffers contradict her testimony.
'There are currently 306 Black-owned bookstores in the United States, representing approximately 8% of independent bookstores nationwide.
Nearly 90% report annual revenue under $250,000'
www.nab2.org/state-of-bla...
Holy shit. These people shouldn’t be near sharp cutlery, let alone seats of power.
Mullin: “This is war.”
Raju: “You concede this is war?”
Mullin: “We haven’t declared war.”
Reporter: “You just said it’s a war.”
Mullin: *stammer
I feel like we typically see these sorts of completely outraged opinions from federal judges a couple times a year across the whole country, maybe a little more often in last few years. Now, in cases stemming from Trump's immigration crackdown, judges are ringing the alarm bell several times a week.
The judge describes a string of discriminatory, retaliatory and unrebutted abuses by DHS and ICE against a man who was granted accces to the country and had permission to work -- then was arrested for ... seeming Latino? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.
"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
spread lies about you to friends or family; say that you are really the one being abusive; or call the police and make a false report against you, accusing you of doing what s/he did to you. Some people call this pattern “DARVO,” which stands for “deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.”1 It’s a way to shift blame away from the abuser and make you seem like the one at fault.
“It’s a way to shift blame away from the abuser and make you seem like the one at fault.”
Forms of emotional and psychological abuse Abuse of pets Coercive control Gaslighting Isolation Shifting blame (“DARVO”) Another form of emotional abuse is when the abuser denies the abuse, blames you for his/her actions, or makes you look like the bad one. For example, s/he might
Hey have you heard the term DARVO?
“There’s Always a Tweet” is having a career year.
Q: Was there a plan in place to evacuate Americans before the attack?
MARCO RUBIO: That's the plan we're trying to carry out. The problem is airspace closures.
REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran--
RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday?
REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question
This is a distressing story about Trump’s attempts to impede Thomas Massie’s efforts to release the Epstein files. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
This makes me miss Gawker so much
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
