Mark Leccese
@mleccese.bsky.social
Raconteur. Roustabout. Professor Emeritus of Journalism, Emerson College. Trumpet player. Bass player.
Wow, this is so good.
Anand Giridharadas' discussion of the Epstein emails as a record of the thought and conduct of white mail elites is the best writing on this subject I have seen in the last several weeks. Read it.
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Wow, this is so good.
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/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
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You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Stewart Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy and released by Trump, visits Capitol Hill
Rhodes, the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder, was found guilty of orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Tr...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.
www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
New York Times, February 26, 2021. Gift link. The source is a declassified CIA report.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/u...
Saudi Crown Prince Is Held Responsible for Khashoggi Killing in U.S. Report (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:08 AM
New York Times, February 26, 2021. Gift link. The source is a declassified CIA report.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/u...
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Love! this
“Everybody has an origin story. All these people in power have been rejected by polite society. There are two ways to handle that: reform, be a better person and look inward, or become a full fascist authoritarian. Most chose the second.”
“Everybody has an origin story. All these people in power have been rejected by polite society. There are two ways to handle that: reform, be a better person and look inward, or become a full fascist authoritarian. Most chose the second.”
Ben Collins, from ‘The Onion’: ‘The powerful have a revenge fantasy, it’s the revenge of the dorks’
The CEO of the leading US satirical website explains what to do when reality is crazy, and how he is trying to buy the website of a famous conspiracy theorist
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November 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Love! this
“Everybody has an origin story. All these people in power have been rejected by polite society. There are two ways to handle that: reform, be a better person and look inward, or become a full fascist authoritarian. Most chose the second.”
“Everybody has an origin story. All these people in power have been rejected by polite society. There are two ways to handle that: reform, be a better person and look inward, or become a full fascist authoritarian. Most chose the second.”
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The Epstein emails are a “skeleton key” for understanding a culture “in which the wealthy and powerful appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved,” @cwarzel.bsky.social argues.
The Dumb Truth at the Heart of the Epstein Scandal
When QAnon meets Veep
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The Epstein emails are a “skeleton key” for understanding a culture “in which the wealthy and powerful appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved,” @cwarzel.bsky.social argues.
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On the one hand, this little shit is a real piece of work. On the other hand, the real scandal is not so much that Teenage Douchbags like this exist (they always have) but that we have set up a quasi-military governmental apparatus ready to take orders from them
RAISE YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE THIS dailyfreepress.com/11/13/10/216...
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
On the one hand, this little shit is a real piece of work. On the other hand, the real scandal is not so much that Teenage Douchbags like this exist (they always have) but that we have set up a quasi-military governmental apparatus ready to take orders from them
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Do criminals not have a shift button on their keyboards?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Do criminals not have a shift button on their keyboards?
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Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896
This is brilliant satire — moral outrage as humor.
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This is brilliant satire — moral outrage as humor.
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Jack DeJohnette, just one of the deepest musicians ever, and a personal hero. Here is my obituary for NPR Music.
Jack DeJohnette, dynamic and instantly recognizable jazz drummer, dies at 83
Jack DeJohnette, of the most daring and singular jazz drummers of the last 60 years, died on Sunday.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Jack DeJohnette, just one of the deepest musicians ever, and a personal hero. Here is my obituary for NPR Music.
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Happy birthday to Bootsy
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BOOTSY'S BASIC FUNK FORMULA
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October 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Happy birthday to Bootsy
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Highly recommend the new book by @billjanovitz.bsky.social, “The Cars: Let the Story Be Told.“ It’s about a band and its time and its place, and it’s about The Cars as musicians, pop stars, and — my favorite part — as people. I have a suggestion for Mr. Janovitz‘s next book: a memoir of Buffalo Tom.
October 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Highly recommend the new book by @billjanovitz.bsky.social, “The Cars: Let the Story Be Told.“ It’s about a band and its time and its place, and it’s about The Cars as musicians, pop stars, and — my favorite part — as people. I have a suggestion for Mr. Janovitz‘s next book: a memoir of Buffalo Tom.
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Reagan was like Joe Free Trade. He and Thatcher are the avatars of the neoclassical economics resurgence, trade liberalization, etc. good or bad this is pure reality. The idea that this conversation is even happening shows how much we’re in the mad king 2+2=7 world.
Trump: "They cheated on a commercial. Ronald Reagan loved tariffs and they said he didn't. And I guess it was AI or something. They cheated badly. Canada got caught cheating on a commercial. Can you believe it?"
October 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Reagan was like Joe Free Trade. He and Thatcher are the avatars of the neoclassical economics resurgence, trade liberalization, etc. good or bad this is pure reality. The idea that this conversation is even happening shows how much we’re in the mad king 2+2=7 world.
Lu grew up in Bedford.
Eric Lu, a 27-year-old pianist from Massachusetts, became the first American since 1970 to win what some consider the Olympics of classical music. https://wapo.st/43wmHSS
October 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Lu grew up in Bedford.
You said it.
Jaw-dropping. There’s never been anything remotely like this game.
October 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
You said it.
If brains were dynamite, this guy couldn’t blow his nose.
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
October 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
If brains were dynamite, this guy couldn’t blow his nose.
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Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.
October 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.
Even the credits are funny.
Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Watch Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjhSoGcQhWU.
October 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Even the credits are funny.
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The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.
October 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.
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the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul
October 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul
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BREAKING: Immergut has *granted* Oregon and California's motion to block the new call-up of Guard troops to Portland. She says this effort to bring CA and TX troops to Oregon is in "direct contravention" of her oroginal order.
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
BREAKING: Immergut has *granted* Oregon and California's motion to block the new call-up of Guard troops to Portland. She says this effort to bring CA and TX troops to Oregon is in "direct contravention" of her oroginal order.
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Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info.
SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...
SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...
October 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info.
SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...
SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...
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Massive escalation at the ICE facility. Federal agents made multiple arrests (at least 4), threw out gas, and shot tons of pepper balls.
Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.
Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.
October 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Massive escalation at the ICE facility. Federal agents made multiple arrests (at least 4), threw out gas, and shot tons of pepper balls.
Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.
Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.
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The "military is woke" stuff actually started because they didn't help Trump do a coup in 2020. That's what their actual issue is and why they gave that speech. They want to purge the military of anyone who might not follow an order to kill other americans
September 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The "military is woke" stuff actually started because they didn't help Trump do a coup in 2020. That's what their actual issue is and why they gave that speech. They want to purge the military of anyone who might not follow an order to kill other americans