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Tomorrow is the first reckoning for the Epstein Class.

And it will not be the last.
November 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This isn’t about politics. It’s about justice for the brave survivors. It doesn’t matter who is in the files. Democrat, Republican, friend, or rival.

Every member of Congress will be put on record this week when we vote on Rep. Thomas Massie and my bill.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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ICIJ's latest investigation The #CoinLaundry is a collaboration of 113 journalists from 38 media partners in 35 countries that exposes how cryptocurrency companies have empowered a shadow economy that lavishly profits from crime.

Here are our findings:
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Sources: Demis Hassabis pursued a Nobel as a DeepMind goal and favored high-minded work over short-term revenue or a stronger AI race position for Alphabet (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)

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November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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NYT Editor: You write that Epstein piece that wistfully upholds the patriarchy?

NYT Writer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.

NYT Headline Writer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.

Me: what
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
November 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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This is absolutely heartbreaking news. Alice's work was world-changing. It changed me. She was the leader we needed. I have no words to meet the moment. Feels like she always did.
bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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They’re calling her Megyn R. Kelly on TikTok
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Megyn Kelly needs to go into a dark room and listen to the voices of the girls from the High School Epstein raided. One 14 year-old called his penis a "wee-wee." Listen to the voices in this clip. They are children.
November 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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The Epstein class needs to go.
November 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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A profile of Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, who says LLMs are a dead end for reaching AGI and backs world models instead, and is reportedly leaving Meta (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

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November 15, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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The stonewalling over the Epstein files isn’t protection — it’s quicksand. The longer Trump’s team drags this out, the deeper his presidency sinks.
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Sundar Pichai proved to be the "wartime CEO" that Google needed after ChatGPT's launch, making the company an AI leader, in part by empowering Demis Hassabis (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)

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November 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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"I feel much more connected to my students after having engaged with them on this book and reading their journals...I have not felt this energy in a classroom since 2022."

I love this so much 🥹
We're back! Today in The Important Work, Helen Choi and Vance Ricks write about assigning @karenhao.bsky.social's Empire of AI to their students in courses where they had not previously assigned books--and how it went. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/we-made-ou...
We made our students read a book!
And we'd do it again
theimportantwork.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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maybe JD Vance has never taken ibuprofen, assuming that pounding in his skull is just the normal consequence of attempting a thought at all
JD Vance calls ibuprofen "useless medication" and implies it's not "necessary, safe and effective."
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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It’s starting to feel like the walls are closing in on the White House. When Trump screams ‘hoax,’ history tells us the truth is closing in. Now, with leaked Epstein emails and Republicans telling me they're breaking ranks, even his own party knows — they have to vote to release the Epstein Files.
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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standards at big news outlets is a problem & leads to so much red tape and fear and is a big part of why our media is so fucked and toothless and cowardly

bari weiss sucks and yes you need lawyers and quality control and smart journalists and editors but there is too much red tape @ corporate media
“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Bari Weiss wants to take down ‘too much power’ CBS News Standards unit: sources
EXCLUSIVE: Internal rumblings within the newsroom come after the S&P head resigned and the network disbanded its vaunted Race and Culture unit.
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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After losing all my brand deals over my “extreme” political views lol (I’m against genocide) brands are reaching out again. For anyone else who is dealing with organized harassment, deplatforming attempts, etc just keep building your audience and stay strong 🤝
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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This is bad. Sarah Kendzior is one of the scholars that most understands authoritarianism and our current moment in the US.
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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You have to understand what pieces like this from the NYT are and are not.

They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today.

They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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The central question in American politics is simple.

Do you stand with forgotten Americans or the Epstein class?

That's it.
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM