Here's a VH1 segment on Jeffrey Epstein from 2007

Good morning. Here's a VH1 segment on Jeffrey Epstein from 2007.

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— Eoin Higgins (@eoinhiggins.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM

Here's part 2 of the VH1 Epstein segment

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— Eoin Higgins (@eoinhiggins.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM

New contribution to this piece from @malachybrowne and myself: the Epstein novelty check photo was indeed taken at Mar-a-Lago.https://t.co/5cQjd3X0NS
The palm trees in the background are near a small hut by a tennis court (taken down in ~2005-6).
Compare with a 1997 photo here: pic.twitter.com/8fZ2JWj8so

— Aric Toler (@AricToler) September 9, 2025

House Oversight Chairman James Comer says he will take Trump “at his word” that letter to Epstein with his name and signature are not his.

His panel won’t probe the issue.

“I don't think the Oversight Committee is going to invest in looking up something that was 22 years ago” pic.twitter.com/6iagmJvQKi

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 9, 2025

ABBY PHILLIPS: "The deputy attorney general met with Ghislaine and she shortly there after moved to a mininum security prison, why?

PRO TRUMP ATTORNEY WHO REPRESENTED MAXWELL:

stumbles uhh... "there's always a quid pro quo." pic.twitter.com/pt1etCca3d

— Will Ragland (@citizenwillis) September 9, 2025

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— Robert Smith (@bondhack.ft.com) September 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM

Wes Streeting has defended Lord Peter Mandelson’s relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein after it was revealed the Labour peer called the convicted paedophile his 'best pal'

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— The National (@scotnational.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM

("Britain’s US ambassador ... appeared to call Epstein ‘best pal’")

Oh no not this, I am going to have to take off my Bill Clinton Hat and return all of my Bill Clinton Coin and stop reading my Bill Clinton Bible

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— Jill Filipovic (@jillfilipovic.bsky.social) September 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM

Trump-Epstein joke roundup

do you want it done fast or do you want it done right

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— Lloyd’s Soil (@toil.bsky.social) July 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM

Would swamp tomorrow's roundup otherwise:

Here's what Jeff Bezos says about Trump visiting Blue Origin the same day of the announcement that the WaPo would not make a presidential endorsement

The background is that, if accurate, the loss of subscribers is stunning:

NEWS: More than 200,000 subscribers have canceled their digital subscriptions to the Washington Post after the revelation that owner Jeff Bezos blocked an endorsement of VP Harris.
That's about 8 percent of WaPo's subscriber base - a staggering sum
MOREhttps://t.co/nCJhJrmlq0

— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) October 28, 2024

Far less dramatic than the WaPo number, but I’m told in the week since we reported that the LA Times would not endorse, over 7,000 LAT subscribers canceled and specifically cited editorial content as the reason. The total number of cancelations is significantly higher, I’m told.

— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 28, 2024

Presumably because the type of people who pay for a LA Times or Washington Post subscription need to know which of these worlds the paper has decided to exist in:

Really, it's amazing. It's like there's an impermeable wall between them. pic.twitter.com/DeWAqNTBtR

— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) October 28, 2024

Here is the part of Bezos's new statement that stood out to me:

By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but it’s a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy.

I would also like to be clear that no quid pro quo of any kind is at work here. Neither campaign nor candidate was consulted or informed at any level or in any way about this decision. It was made entirely internally. Dave Limp, the chief executive of one of my companies, Blue Origin, met with former president Donald Trump on the day of our announcement. I sighed when I found out, because I knew it would provide ammunition to those who would like to frame this as anything other than a principled decision. But the fact is, I didn’t know about the meeting beforehand. Even Limp didn’t know about it in advance; the meeting was scheduled quickly that morning. There is no connection between it and our decision on presidential endorsements, and any suggestion otherwise is false.

No details are provided as to the nature of that meeting (let alone explain why keeping the nature of that meeting secret is helpful for improving society's trust in the Washington Post). 

The NY Times explores the source of the rumor that Venezuelan gangmembers had taken over a Colorado apartment complex

NYT (a few weeks ago):

As far back as May 2023, Aurora officials had been trying to force an out-of-state landlord to fix up three blighted apartment complexes in the downtrodden East Colfax Corridor, which connects the cities of Denver and Aurora.

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On Aug, 5, a public relations agent ... hired by [the landlord], pitched a “tip” to the local Fox television network affiliate in Denver.

“An apartment building and its owners in Aurora, Colorado have become the most recent victims of the Venezuelan Gang Tren de Aragua’s violence, which has taken over several communities in the Denver area,” she wrote on Fox 31’s tip line, according to an email obtained by The Times. 

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[The "conservative Republican mayor"]... quickly repeated [the landlord]’s unverified claim in interviews.

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the mayor has started a crusade to try to undo the damage Mr. Trump is inflicting.

“I mean, I agree with him on a lot of policies as it pertains to immigration,” [the mayor] said in City Hall on Thursday. “But I’m also the mayor of the City of Aurora, and my job is not only to make sure that the city is safe, but also to protect the image of the city. This narrative out there is exaggerated, and it’s our responsibility to correct it.”

A roundup of stories about Walz--he sounds like a Paul Bunyan of decency

handing out YOU’RE FIRED signs to people standing behind vance is a democrat-level unforced error pic.twitter.com/2EK6KXa1ux

— Bill Hanstock (@sundownmotel) August 3, 2024

Here's why you should hire union stagehands and stage designers:

(They did not) pic.twitter.com/ihEqoopGv8

— IATSE // #IASolidarity (@IATSE) August 6, 2024

First, the other guys, they're so weird, it's hard to accept these are all real:

Leaning back in his chair...and guilty

CNN has a live blog.

Update: CNN says he is "staring ahead motionless"

Alex Goldman says an Imagineer confirmed Disney's Trump animatronic was a hastily repurposed Hillary

It's apparently been replaced by a properly sculpted one. From his substack:

The imagineer closed with a fascinating bit of Disney animatronic trivia

Alot [sic] of people hear that Disney has a new animatronic, and they think it’s getting designed somewhere from scratch in a Swiss lab. For some of the more advanced ones, that’s definitely the case but for most of them, it’s much more like Dr. Frankenstein’s lab. They’ll repurpose and put together existing heads and appendages for new rides or if they need spare parts. There’s an old attraction called Ellen’s Universe of Energy. It was a really long ride, and I’ll bet there were at least a dozen Ellen Degeneres animatronics. After the ride closed down, they didn’t throw out those Ellens. They repurposed them. I know they put a beard and probably an eyepatch on at least one and moved it into one of the background scenes of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

So just because it appears Hilary is no longer hiding underneath a latex Trump mask in The Hall of Presidents, it doesn’t mean she couldn’t be hiding elsewhere in the park

The insurrectionist in the pink beret was identified by an ex-boyfriend after her photos went viral last week

NBC:

Toward the end of those months, the designer said, [she] posted on his Discord that she was reading Hitler’s 1925 manifesto. They got into a discussion about it that revealed more of Vargas’ far-right politics, he said.

“I was just instantly turned off, like, ‘Yo, I don’t think this is going to work out,’” he said. “You’re, like, reading ‘Mein Kampf,’

"Trump’s Site Is Being Weaponized Against the FBI and Their Families"

Rolling Stone:

A review of Truth Social postings by Rolling Stone shows Trump supporters have spent the past week doxxing both ... the magistrate judge who approved the Mar-a-Lago warrant, and an FBI agent involved in preparing the request, as well as their families. The information includes their purported home addresses, phone numbers, places of worship, private offices, and similar information about the men’s families and junior employees.

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[A] Former Trump White House aide ... posted the name of an FBI agent involved in the preparation of the warrant on Truth Social, as well as the names of his wife and child, their social media accounts, and the school the child attends. 

Newspaper ad for Disney's "The Black Hole"; Conch shell hat; AI illustrates a fish's mecha; Gorilla channel, perhaps?

Dig this newspaper ad from 1981 by First City for Disney's "The Black Hole" pic.twitter.com/BDdcWP1pAw

— Brandon Schaefer (@seekandspeak) July 16, 2022

"Trump E.P.A. Chief 'Endangered Public Safety' by Ordering His Drivers to Speed"

NYT:

Scott Pruitt, while in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Trump administration, repeatedly pressured his federal security officers to drive at excessive and sometimes dangerous speeds on routine trips, with sirens and emergency lights on, because he had a habit of running late, according to a federal report released on Thursday.

The security officers said they knew this was a violation of federal policies and “endangered public safety,” the report said. Among the incidents cited in the report was a 2017 trip in which a special agent drove Mr. Pruitt with the lights and sirens going, in the wrong direction into oncoming traffic, to pick up Mr. Pruitt’s dry cleaning

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an agency supervisor told the members of Mr. Pruitt’s security detail “to disable/unplug the lights and sirens so they wouldn’t use them because the administrator will still instruct they be used, but the agent can say they don’t work,”

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now running as a Republican for the United States Senate in Oklahoma

"A top deputy overseeing election issues for Virginia’s new Republican attorney general resigned" after Facebook posts were brought to light

WaPo:

A top deputy overseeing election issues for Virginia’s new Republican attorney general resigned Thursday after The Washington Post questioned the office about Facebook posts she had made praising rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and falsely claiming President Donald Trump won the 2020 election.

[She] espoused unfounded conspiracy theories about voter fraud and election interference in more than a dozen Facebook comments that spanned months.

An assertion that the US was tricked by Russia into thinking Denmark was interested in selling Greenland

Reuters:

Denmark warned on Thursday of a rising espionage threat from Russia, China, Iran and others

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The report cited a 2019 incident of a forged letter purporting to be from Greenland's foreign minister to a U.S. senator saying an independence referendum was in the offing.

"It is highly likely that the letter was fabricated and shared on the Internet by Russian influence agents, who wanted to create confusion and a possible conflict between Denmark, the USA and Greenland," it said.

From 2019:

[Tom] Cotton last week also told a group in Arkansas that he urged the president to buy Greenland and met with the Danish ambassador about selling Greenland to the U.S.

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President Donald Trump has expressed interest in purchasing Greenland, which is an autonomous region of Denmark. Last week, Trump canceled a visit to Denmark, after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called the idea “absurd.” 

A peace officer was reported to the FBI by a friend for disclosing the secure location where lawmakers were evacuated to

Miami Herald summarizing the various disciplinary actions against capitol police officers:

The allegation stems from a conversation the officer had with a friend the week after the riot in which he allegedly revealed information about the secure location he helped evacuate lawmakers to during the riot.

The friend, who is referred to as “ANONYMOUS” in the documents, called the FBI tip line to report the conversation and expressed concerns that the agent subscribed to Trump’s election conspiracy theories.

“I don’t want to report a friend of forty years but he’s says enough concerning statements that I feel like I need to do this... he’s just fallen into this cult and these beliefs”

Those George P. Bush campaign koozies are real

I missed out on the @georgepbush swag yesterday: The koozie says "this is the only Bush that likes me. This is the Bush that got it right. I like him" - Donald Trump #txlege pic.twitter.com/pFTzQCmoRG

— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) June 3, 2021

"George P. Bush is the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Trump's 2016 primary opponent whom he dubbed 'Low Energy Jeb.'"

 

inventing new character "George X. Bush" the most fucked george bush yet

— wint (@dril) December 23, 2019

"A handful of competent people with noble intentions can thwart a mob of incompetent people with malicious intentions"

The first people who broke into the Capitol were wearing full tactical gear, then the guy in a QAnon shirt, then a man with a Confederate Flag. https://t.co/ncCXNosGk9

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) February 10, 2021

Knowing how much bloodier the insurrection could have been inspires some optimism in me.

A handful of competent people with noble intentions can thwart a mob of incompetent people with malicious intentions. https://t.co/pdZVyIwNTq

— Travis View (@travis_view) February 10, 2021

Disturbing patch allegedly worn by a New York police officer

Spotted on an NYPD cop at a protest tonight. pic.twitter.com/3Vg9ELWYB5

— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) February 6, 2021

Someone fired a bullet into the home of an official at the Ohio Department of Health

Columbus Dispatch:

Although [the assistant medical director of the Ohio Department of Health] works at the state health department, she's mostly remained behind the scenes during the pandemic. 

There's an ongoing campaign of intimidation in the state:

Before [former director of the Ohio Department of Health] resigned in June, she became the target of threats and anti-Semitic slurs.

People protested outside of [the former director's] home. Some of the protesters showed up with guns.

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After [the former director] left her job atop the state health department, [the governor] announced her replacement... But, just hours after she was announced...[the replacement] withdrew her name from consideration.

Related:

When I was a Planned Parenthood nurse, a Christian radio station rented out the commercial space next door and would broadcast when we arrived and left work, our license plate numbers, what we were wearing, and our names if they knew them. https://t.co/8FZctM6RvQ

— jade (@BacklineNurse) January 5, 2021

Also:

Been awhile since I looked back on my essay about the McCloskeys but it sure feels relevant today https://t.co/D7gPUCnAN1 pic.twitter.com/1W0GBw0bZF

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) January 13, 2021

Foreclosure Quilt; The complicated setup to film food for commercials; Highway emerging from floodwaters

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I started following this guy on tik tok who shoots food commercials, and the set up is WILD pic.twitter.com/kimjoLvIbR

— Radio Free Amanda 余美娜 (@catcontentonly) January 10, 2021

A section of Nakuru-Segor Highway submerged by the rising waters of Lake Baringo in Loruk area of Baringo North. pic.twitter.com/9OYmRdCyI3

— Elon MuskYoka! (@KimNelson_) January 9, 2021

This ice thawing from underneath is rather mesmerising... pic.twitter.com/8kI7Cdy5Lr

— ElizabethRose Murray (@ERMurray) January 10, 2021

Some microfiction

This Stephen Miller story is bonkers. pic.twitter.com/hKnBN5YW3w

— Rogue WH Snr Advisor (@roguesnradvisor) January 13, 2021