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Jonah Blank
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Anthropologist, author, dad. Order purely alphabetical
Can it be delivered by an AI-avatar of Zuck?

Maybe one modeled on the current version of Zuck: Woody-Allen-with-a-talk-show?

Who wouldn't love to see that every morning? Before even having one's coffee!
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
November 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Clearly, he's not thinking much about #JeffreyEpstein.

(Actually, this novella was probably not written by him: Far too grammatical)
(Actually, actually: I only got through the first chapter)
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Love him or hate him, you'd probably agree that Trump isn't a cheery guy. Lots of rage, lots of whining, lots of resentment.

But just LOOK how happy he is in the presence of a billionaire dictator:
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Yeah, but for her the problem is:
♦️Not enough of 'em.
November 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Don't take it personally, Ms Takaichi.
#XiJinping really hates shaking hands with EVERYONE.
November 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I don't begrudge #OliviaNuzzi writing a book full of this.
I very much begrudge the editors who paid her actual money (a LOT of it), and agreed to publish it.

Her book publisher is Simon & Schuster.
Which (I'm embarrassed to say) published the UK edition of one my books.
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Yes, NYT, a "clubby world that is all but gone."

Perhaps its passing can be remembered like that of the antebellum South:
♦️A genteel, gracious society where everybody was friendly and polite to each other. And absolutely nothing untoward ever occurred?
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
#LarrySummers has, for several decades, been one of the most insufferable people in public life. Somehow, his email exchanges with #JeffreyEpstein reveal new depths.

Here he is telling Epstein how he's going to cut off contact with a student he's been harassing:
"Suspect she will miss it."
November 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Julie K. Brown (@jkbjournalist.bsky.social) has been covering #JeffreyEpstein better than anyone in #journalism.

Here's reminder from her about the 2008 sweetheart deal negotiated by Epstein's lawyer (who would later be Trump's lawyer) & the GOP US Atty (who would later be Trump's Cabinet Secy)
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Your government officials.
Getting paid from your tax dollars.
Saying this.
To, and about, you.
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Trump's call to primary MTG may turn out to be the biggest story of the coming year:
♦️Trump's dictatorship rests on unwavering GOP support: Every GOP Member of Congress is terrified of getting primaried by him.

If MTG survives the 2026 midterms, will others dare to stand up to him?
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Is THIS the 🔥 Trump is so fearful might come out in #EpsteinFiles?
♦️Epstein HIMSELF said a woman had accused him & Trump of BOTH raping her-- when she was 13 years old.

He said the charge was false-- and it probably is. But is THAT what's got Trump so rattled?
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
He's spiraling.
Now explicitly calling for a primary against "ranting Lunatic" (and MAGA zealot) Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Whatever's in the #EpsteinFiles must really be 🔥.
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Another utterly-damning email, from an Epstein victim:
👉🏼 "i don't want to come early to find trump in your house."

She's probably joking (it's 2017, so he's already president).
But just think about this:
♦️One of Epstein's victims finds Trump more awful than Epstein himself.
November 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Thank you, Sens Warnock & Ossoff.

Also:
♦️Sen @ossoff.senate.gov is doing an uncanny impression of my Labrador Retriever when, mid-walk, she catches sight of a squirrel.
November 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It's just a laugh now.

But bookmark this: Before he leaves office...
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Per rumor-mill, these are the ten Dem senators said to be contemplating terms of surrender:
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
This lady don't crack.
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Within minutes of him issuing this thuggish threat, a Novo Nordisk executive standing behind him collapsed.

And while everyone else rushed to the man's aid, Trump just stood there.

Because that's who he is.
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Lori Lightfoot hasn't been Mayor of Chicago for two and a half years.

The only thing he remembers about her is that she "gets her hair done very expensively, right?...She's got beautiful, luxurious hair."

Here's Lightfoot, with a woman Trump knows somewhat better. Maybe he's got them mixed up?
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
He keeps better company.
November 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
So Chuck Schumer not only refused to endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social-- he refuses to tell his own constituents who he voted for. To be mayor of his own city.

Schumer owes us ALL an explanation:
♦️If Establishment Dems won't support progressives, then please stop demanding our support for YOU.
November 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM