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  1. https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/politics/maxwell-epstein-grand-jury-files-rejected https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/analysis/trump-epstein-files-distraction-fox-news-russiagate-rcna223977 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-transcripts.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/11/new-york-judge-denies-release-epstein-related-grand-jury-transcript/
  2. Epstein is still a pretty common conversation topic. Hasn't gone away where he needs it to go away.
  3. People are too simple and reactionary. In times of war, the temptation grows, the temptation to construct a barbaric other. Grifters know this and ramp up their antisemitism. MTG is just the canary in the reactionary coal mine, but mark my words you will see a flood of antisemites who will be taking Likud's acts of aggression as confirmation of the validity of their antisemitic beliefs. The exact same way reactionaries took newsreels from the Middle East and acts of terror worldwide as confirmation of the validity of their Islamophobia (which, unlike antisemitism, the mainstream media had no problem with signal boosting). As much as we try to fight the conflation between Zionism and Judiaism, there's only so much that can be done against the fact that most people are fucking morons and prefer reductive explanations and can't be bothered to distinguish between genocidal maniacs and ordinary Jews. Roger Waters unfortunately is too erudite for mainstream audiences. His take on NATO, while overall a good take, failed to properly account for ordinary people's intolerance for military invasions and it came off as too supportive of Russia's invasion of Ukraine which made him look crazy. If the US right-wing is first to abandon Israel, they will overperform in the midterms. Democrats need to ban AIPAC yesterday if they are serious about fighting fascism at home.
  4. I haven't been able to grill much this summer because of scheduling conflicts and inclement weather, but I'm hoping to pick things up when football season begins in earnest and although I can afford higher prices I am definitely noticing them and the wincing faces of shoppers making decisions of what not to get and reconsidering what to buy. No CR though.
  5. I'm not ready to overreact to a preseason performance where both teams are more interested in staying healthy and trying things out than actually winning the game. He still has many of the same tendencies that bothered us, but he also has an incredible arm and with the right attitude he will improve at reading NFL defenses. He knows he's in a competition with Wilson, so that added mental pressure also could have affected his splitsecond decisionmaking. Zach Wilson has been in the league long enough that we can be pretty confident he's not going to get any better, so if we're grading on a curve I wouldn't feel great about my job security, if I'm Wilson. Lots of room for improvement for Ewers, that's for damn sure.
  6. With a good OL he can be a game manager. That's not bad for 7th round.
  7. Wong put up a pretty good fight against Thanos. I was surprised
  8. Meat prices much higher across the board, with only some odd exceptions. Shoulder is especially much higher https://www.beefitswhatsfordinner.com/resources/wholesale-price-update Definitely seeing it at grocery stores.
  9. false starts? really want to make him feel at home eh
  10. I've seen worse debuts but I've seen better. Not bad for a 7th rounder
  11. Still learning to read NFL defenses, but his instincts are still pretty bad
  12. I cannot fathom why they let JD Vance go out in public and talk. He's terrible at it.
  13. If I hadn't seen footage from the night in question of the detectives on the scene you would not be able to convince me that the white dude wasn't pulled off the drag from his regularly scheduled panhandling. No wonder this shit wasn't solved.
  14. How do you build new units in NYC, which is fully developed and surrounded by rivers and the ocean? You need to tear down existing homes and build upwards, which costs a lot of money and it displaces people and businesses in the process. The people who do that will only do it if they can get a return on their investment that exceeds the expected return on alternative investments, which won't happen unless rents and land values go up. That would not help the working class, at all.
  15. We've reached the "he's an asshole for actually living in NYC" phase of the campaign.
  16. Hardwick had lost his fastball during the hiatus, understandably. Huss was noticeably better and hopefully he'll be around much longer.
  17. Gonna have to look up streaming options for 8/30
  18. username may check out
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