eileen
@espiegler.bsky.social
Former journalist who still writes, edits, designs. Geek who loves art, music, words, what you do with them. I'm on Threads too @_eileenie_ for now.
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"Release the MRI results" is an appropriate response to something that unhinged.
Tim Walz clapped back at Donald Trump’s use of an offensive slur against him by demanding the president release the results of his MRI.
Walz Demands Trump’s MRI Results After Unhinged Slur Attack
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz hit back after Trump used a slur to question his supposed stance on immigration.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Release the MRI results" is an appropriate response to something that unhinged.
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I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy with Eliot Higgins
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Nick Cave's Red Hand Files today is perfect. www.theredhandfiles.com/im-a-golden-...
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #345 - I was coming up to wakefulness when I felt the presence of my son, dead ten years. “I’m so sorry, I’m so very sorry”, I murmured to him. “Don’t be sad, Mo...
Dear Susan,Thank you for your letter and for succinctly summarising the spiritual position that I and many others find ourselves in. You...
www.theredhandfiles.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Nick Cave's Red Hand Files today is perfect. www.theredhandfiles.com/im-a-golden-...
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Republicans really are going to punch themselves in the face purely so they can make Americans suffer.
Who wants to tell Speaker Johnson that Americans are very much interested in ACA subsidies?!?!
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November 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Republicans really are going to punch themselves in the face purely so they can make Americans suffer.
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Keep your eyes watching these races. Bolts does a great job reporting, analyzing and tracking. A Top Notch follow.
More elections are already around the corner, mere days.
And Democrats have opportunities to build on their November gains by flipping more offices: in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Florida.
And that's just the tip of a busy election month.
My new guide, just out:
And Democrats have opportunities to build on their November gains by flipping more offices: in Tennessee, in Georgia, in Florida.
And that's just the tip of a busy election month.
My new guide, just out:
The 25 Elections to Watch This December - Bolts
On the heels of their sweeping wins in November, Democrats have opportunities to gain further ground in December runoffs and special elections. They’re hoping for upsets in conservative territory, fro...
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Keep your eyes watching these races. Bolts does a great job reporting, analyzing and tracking. A Top Notch follow.
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The sheer cruelty is breathtaking.
After Biden commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row last year, the Trump administration is retaliating by sending them to the supermax. Prisoners are locked in cells smaller than a parking space 22-24 hours a day.
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
One prisoner told me he fears he won't make it out alive.
My latest:
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for "Living Hell" Under Trump - Bolts
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The sheer cruelty is breathtaking.
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There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?
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NOTE: This is part of a series of stories based on emails and other documents sent to and from Jeffrey Epstein's private Yahoo account obtained by @bloomberg.com earlier this year. These weren't included in more than 20K pages of docs that a congressional committee released publicly on Nov. 12.
NEW/EXCLUSIVE: A French branch of HSBC closed a bank account maintained by Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 after compliance officers flagged transactions for suspicious activity, including payments tied to a modeling agent later accused of rape & sex trafficking
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November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
NOTE: This is part of a series of stories based on emails and other documents sent to and from Jeffrey Epstein's private Yahoo account obtained by @bloomberg.com earlier this year. These weren't included in more than 20K pages of docs that a congressional committee released publicly on Nov. 12.
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PAMELA BROWN: Texting with the president is different than texting with a pedophile, right?
RASKIN: Are you saying would I want to censure someone just because they had a phone call with a convicted felon and an adjudicated sex assailant? Because that's what Donald Trump is
RASKIN: Are you saying would I want to censure someone just because they had a phone call with a convicted felon and an adjudicated sex assailant? Because that's what Donald Trump is
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
PAMELA BROWN: Texting with the president is different than texting with a pedophile, right?
RASKIN: Are you saying would I want to censure someone just because they had a phone call with a convicted felon and an adjudicated sex assailant? Because that's what Donald Trump is
RASKIN: Are you saying would I want to censure someone just because they had a phone call with a convicted felon and an adjudicated sex assailant? Because that's what Donald Trump is
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Predictions:
1. This won’t “scare” Kelly and will have the opposite (ie Streisand Effect)
2. The incompetence or process under which this is done will be so bad that it will blow-up badly in their face
3. This will piss the fuck off of a lot of people in the military command structure
1. This won’t “scare” Kelly and will have the opposite (ie Streisand Effect)
2. The incompetence or process under which this is done will be so bad that it will blow-up badly in their face
3. This will piss the fuck off of a lot of people in the military command structure
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Predictions:
1. This won’t “scare” Kelly and will have the opposite (ie Streisand Effect)
2. The incompetence or process under which this is done will be so bad that it will blow-up badly in their face
3. This will piss the fuck off of a lot of people in the military command structure
1. This won’t “scare” Kelly and will have the opposite (ie Streisand Effect)
2. The incompetence or process under which this is done will be so bad that it will blow-up badly in their face
3. This will piss the fuck off of a lot of people in the military command structure
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I stand by my prediction made weeks ago that Trump was going to sell out Taiwan in exchange for soybean purchases.
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I stand by my prediction made weeks ago that Trump was going to sell out Taiwan in exchange for soybean purchases.
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A U.S. government cable said that Kremlin-run outlets had scaled up their efforts across Latin America, seeking to turn people against the U.S. and garner support for Russia. nyti.ms/3JVxQGB
Russian Disinformation Comes to Mexico, Seeking to Rupture US Ties
A U.S. government cable said that Kremlin-run outlets had scaled up their efforts across Latin America, seeking to turn people against the United States and garner support for Russia.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A U.S. government cable said that Kremlin-run outlets had scaled up their efforts across Latin America, seeking to turn people against the U.S. and garner support for Russia. nyti.ms/3JVxQGB
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Elon's "Rosebud" is posting. His deepest desire is for everyone to tell him what a hilarious and clever poster he is. The problem is that he isn't funny. And it kills him.
It explains why he bought Twitter. It's why Grok is the way it is. And it explains . . . whatever the holy hell this is.
It explains why he bought Twitter. It's why Grok is the way it is. And it explains . . . whatever the holy hell this is.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Elon's "Rosebud" is posting. His deepest desire is for everyone to tell him what a hilarious and clever poster he is. The problem is that he isn't funny. And it kills him.
It explains why he bought Twitter. It's why Grok is the way it is. And it explains . . . whatever the holy hell this is.
It explains why he bought Twitter. It's why Grok is the way it is. And it explains . . . whatever the holy hell this is.
When Erik Prince again oozes out of the sewer, you know scum and villainy are afoot.
www.economist.com/internationa...
www.economist.com/internationa...
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
When Erik Prince again oozes out of the sewer, you know scum and villainy are afoot.
www.economist.com/internationa...
www.economist.com/internationa...
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If you dare to displease the despot, you will be declared an enemy of the state and every lever of it will be deployed against you.
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If you dare to displease the despot, you will be declared an enemy of the state and every lever of it will be deployed against you.
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Can this administration get any more Racist?
Do you need any more proof that they are Nazis?
I don’t care what your heritage is, these are Americans & removing reports on missing/murdered Americans is absolutely despicable & unconscionable.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #OneV1
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Do you need any more proof that they are Nazis?
I don’t care what your heritage is, these are Americans & removing reports on missing/murdered Americans is absolutely despicable & unconscionable.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #OneV1
www.bia.gov/service/mmu
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Can this administration get any more Racist?
Do you need any more proof that they are Nazis?
I don’t care what your heritage is, these are Americans & removing reports on missing/murdered Americans is absolutely despicable & unconscionable.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #OneV1
www.bia.gov/service/mmu
Do you need any more proof that they are Nazis?
I don’t care what your heritage is, these are Americans & removing reports on missing/murdered Americans is absolutely despicable & unconscionable.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #OneV1
www.bia.gov/service/mmu
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"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
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The first real turning point for me after Obama's election was the refusal to prosecute those involved in the Bush era torture program
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The first real turning point for me after Obama's election was the refusal to prosecute those involved in the Bush era torture program
I didn’t want this episode - on Vince Gilligan’s “Pluribus,” on utopia(s) and whether such a thing is gettable or good, in which Vinson Cunningham chokes up talking about The Giver - to end.
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Critics at Large | The New Yorker
Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Weekly · Critics at Large is a weekly culture podcast from The New Yorker. Every Thursday, the staff writers Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz di...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I didn’t want this episode - on Vince Gilligan’s “Pluribus,” on utopia(s) and whether such a thing is gettable or good, in which Vinson Cunningham chokes up talking about The Giver - to end.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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Trump's personal family businesses (real estate and crypto) are going gangbusters, as the same people and countries touting fake investments in the U.S. are making real investments into his ventures. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump Wants to Bullshit The Economy Into Greatness
The president insists he’s scored $21 trillion in foreign investment. It’s gobbledygook.
www.thebulwark.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Trump's personal family businesses (real estate and crypto) are going gangbusters, as the same people and countries touting fake investments in the U.S. are making real investments into his ventures. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
“Nuzzi's poor decision-making sours public trust in her work, and ultimately the public's opinion on journalism as a whole. If you're a political journalist that keeps "falling in love" with the politicians you're tasked with covering, you're a fucking shitty journalist.”
If you read one thing about Olivia Nuzzi, read this one.
If you've already read many things about Olivia Nuzzi, read this one.
If you've already read many things about Olivia Nuzzi, read this one.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
“Nuzzi's poor decision-making sours public trust in her work, and ultimately the public's opinion on journalism as a whole. If you're a political journalist that keeps "falling in love" with the politicians you're tasked with covering, you're a fucking shitty journalist.”
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Pretty sinister undercurrent to this story about how a much older, very wealthy man in journalism lured a teenager into the profession through extremely inappropriate power dynamics
November 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Pretty sinister undercurrent to this story about how a much older, very wealthy man in journalism lured a teenager into the profession through extremely inappropriate power dynamics
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So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?
Btw about this from Lizza's reply: Olivia and I lived together for 4+ years (4 b'days, 4 Xmases, 4 anniversaries). That's like $1250 of jewelry per celebration. And her apartment was a writing studio. And I made an f-ton then. What was I supposed to do? Get her a lot of Gift Certificates from Kmart?
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?
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Why it's almost as if putting a crank in charge of the health of the American public was a horrendous idea.
I'm saying this now before Olivia Nuzzi starts thinking her book caused this and tweets "Revenge is a dish best served cold."
I'm saying this now before Olivia Nuzzi starts thinking her book caused this and tweets "Revenge is a dish best served cold."
In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…”
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
CDC backpedals on vaccines and autism, despite earlier assurances from RFK Jr.
The CDC, under the direction of an unqualified health secretary, is now promoting claims that flunk Logic 101.
www.ms.now
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Why it's almost as if putting a crank in charge of the health of the American public was a horrendous idea.
I'm saying this now before Olivia Nuzzi starts thinking her book caused this and tweets "Revenge is a dish best served cold."
I'm saying this now before Olivia Nuzzi starts thinking her book caused this and tweets "Revenge is a dish best served cold."