@urlyman That was my experience too. I think the invite only thing was a contributor.

@blogdiva I can't believe you have to say it either. Alcohol consumption and gun ownership really *aren't* the same things as something every citizen has a Constitutional right to do.

@selzero https://audiomack.com/thatyorubagirl001/song/any-song-amunorae

@GeofCox Malik gets the characterization well: Epstein was a human trafficker, but it was in large part to facilitate intelligence.

@notyourfanboy But still.

I always assume people should know what I do because I'm really not *that* well-informed. Nothing I know is a secret, I have no access to insider information on anything. So if I know about it, a journalist should, too. I feel comfortable saying that.

@ben

@Jorsh Ding ding ding ding ding @notyourfanboy @ben

@notyourfanboy That's incredible to me. It's pretty well-publicized, and isn't a journalist supposed to be up on the latest news? @ben

@ben I don't have a fricking clue why people who claim to be all in for democracy and antifascism *choose* to put their information on Substack. I also don't understand why people need it proven--repeatedly--that Substack is a Nazi platform that has gotten *more* Nazi accounts since it was publicized that they hosted them. But here we are!

Good luck with the monetization, kids. (Spoiler: the scam has an expiration date, like all of the others.)

@benroyce I think I blocked this troll a few weeks ago when she couldn't handle me saying that people like her who didn't vote for Harris were the reason ICE was terrorizing us. Or she blocked me. Win win @ambiguous_yelp@veganism.social

@AndreaChalupa It was helpful to hear you and Olga going over these revelations, but disturbing that even people who study Russia's predations were impressed

Yeah, it seems pretty clear that #Epstein was working numerous sides; I'm waiting to hear more about a Saudi connection, and China.

I desperately want to see someone's board charting out all of the financial connections, but until proven otherwise, I'll assume that if someone is listed, they're a predator.

@miss_rodent I love that essay. He didn't spend that much time on the aesthetics of fascism as he did with other points, but in part because it was well understood at the time. Fascism is defined in part by performative violence as well as destruction for its own sake, and the ultimate expression of it is war.

@inthehands

@mekkaokereke That is valid advice, but I'm glad I saw the longer video of the man assaulted in the street who refused to be dragged away. It was a gut punch.