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wait, I saw 'peril' earlier and just assumed 'oh bc they knew this was behavior that could get them in trouble'
now that I see 'born in China' I'm like, bitch, did they mean YELLOW PERIL oh my God?
now that I see 'born in China' I'm like, bitch, did they mean YELLOW PERIL oh my God?
The Harvard Crimson has ID'ed and published the name of a well-known economist who was the subject of emails between Larry Summers and Epstein.
Born in China, she did her B.A. – Ph.D. at Harvard.
The code name that Summers and Epstein used in their emails about her was "peril." What a vile pig.
Born in China, she did her B.A. – Ph.D. at Harvard.
The code name that Summers and Epstein used in their emails about her was "peril." What a vile pig.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
wait, I saw 'peril' earlier and just assumed 'oh bc they knew this was behavior that could get them in trouble'
now that I see 'born in China' I'm like, bitch, did they mean YELLOW PERIL oh my God?
now that I see 'born in China' I'm like, bitch, did they mean YELLOW PERIL oh my God?
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Someone on the Minneapolis subreddit caught Waymos being delivered. We need the City Council need to ban the use of driverless cars. The technology isn't there. Our city cannot be a testing ground for 1.5 ton autonomous projectiles.
November 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Someone on the Minneapolis subreddit caught Waymos being delivered. We need the City Council need to ban the use of driverless cars. The technology isn't there. Our city cannot be a testing ground for 1.5 ton autonomous projectiles.
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Anyone know if you can request one of these bike racks be put on a pole in Minneapolis?
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Anyone know if you can request one of these bike racks be put on a pole in Minneapolis?
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Everyone does know what's going on here, right? Should the Epstein evidence bill pass both the House and Senate, these criminals will say it can't be released because there is an active investigation. Never mind that a thorough investigation was completed, and the DOJ was prepared to try Epstein.
November 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Everyone does know what's going on here, right? Should the Epstein evidence bill pass both the House and Senate, these criminals will say it can't be released because there is an active investigation. Never mind that a thorough investigation was completed, and the DOJ was prepared to try Epstein.
Maybe just changed our weekend plans. Amazing.
Here’s the Maroon Loon merch that UMD Stores has available at tonight’s game:
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Maybe just changed our weekend plans. Amazing.
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I’m gonna miss our only true poster Senator
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I’m gonna miss our only true poster Senator
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all of the absurdly talented writers whose careers have imploded through no fault of their own over the past decade plus of media consolidation and olivia nuzzi gets soft focus profiles for her memoir about fucking a fascist crank
really makes the blood boil
really makes the blood boil
November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
all of the absurdly talented writers whose careers have imploded through no fault of their own over the past decade plus of media consolidation and olivia nuzzi gets soft focus profiles for her memoir about fucking a fascist crank
really makes the blood boil
really makes the blood boil
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this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
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Shorter NYT:
“17 year old poor sex worker ruined Matt Gaetz's career to get money for braces”
“17 year old poor sex worker ruined Matt Gaetz's career to get money for braces”
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Shorter NYT:
“17 year old poor sex worker ruined Matt Gaetz's career to get money for braces”
“17 year old poor sex worker ruined Matt Gaetz's career to get money for braces”
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so much to unpack with this framing, but in particularly struck by the way they put the victim's life circumstances as something that also happens to her abuser
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
so much to unpack with this framing, but in particularly struck by the way they put the victim's life circumstances as something that also happens to her abuser
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Shockingly craven even by 2025 standards
2023: "They're taking advantage of a 16-year-old MINOR!! I have a daughter close to that, if you come near her as a 31-year-old man, we're going to have a SERIOUS PROBLEM!!"
2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."
2025: "He was not a pedophile; he was into the barely legal type. Like he liked 15-year-old girls... that is what I believe."
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Shockingly craven even by 2025 standards
Retroactive????
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Retroactive????
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How many professors haven’t advised a Chinese student in the previous 5 years?
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
How many professors haven’t advised a Chinese student in the previous 5 years?
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It's time for MeThree
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
It's time for MeThree
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Not to vaguepost but I have an exclusive and *exciting scoop* about the university of Minnesota, the ongoing labor/negotiation issues, general shenanigans. DMs are open if you like to write about local issues and want the first details!
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Not to vaguepost but I have an exclusive and *exciting scoop* about the university of Minnesota, the ongoing labor/negotiation issues, general shenanigans. DMs are open if you like to write about local issues and want the first details!
I got to hear Blair Braverman talk today at a CLE and her 2019 tweet thread on dogs and body positivity is still something I think about from time to time.
I'm not going to check X to see if this is the complete thread, but the gist is still there www.buzzfeed.com/sydrobinson1...
I'm not going to check X to see if this is the complete thread, but the gist is still there www.buzzfeed.com/sydrobinson1...
This Woman Shared What Her Sled Dog Team Taught Her About Body Positivity, And It's Perfect
ALL 🐕 BODIES 🐕 ARE 🐕 DIFFERENT 🐕
www.buzzfeed.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I got to hear Blair Braverman talk today at a CLE and her 2019 tweet thread on dogs and body positivity is still something I think about from time to time.
I'm not going to check X to see if this is the complete thread, but the gist is still there www.buzzfeed.com/sydrobinson1...
I'm not going to check X to see if this is the complete thread, but the gist is still there www.buzzfeed.com/sydrobinson1...
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Le fait que Tigrane Khachatrian travaillait pour Trump devrait alerter, quand même. Son métier est scout de TRES jeunes filles russes.
Epstein à Daniel Siad : "tigran has the best taste next to you.. "
Epstein à Daniel Siad : "tigran has the best taste next to you.. "
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Le fait que Tigrane Khachatrian travaillait pour Trump devrait alerter, quand même. Son métier est scout de TRES jeunes filles russes.
Epstein à Daniel Siad : "tigran has the best taste next to you.. "
Epstein à Daniel Siad : "tigran has the best taste next to you.. "
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Little Cover Girls Star in an Adult Reality (Published 2012)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Wait a minute, you can't have spellcheck or autocorrect in Gmail anymore unless you grant Google access to use your entire account for training AI? Oh fuck no.
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Wait a minute, you can't have spellcheck or autocorrect in Gmail anymore unless you grant Google access to use your entire account for training AI? Oh fuck no.
The three options I was surveyed on this week were:
Leave a Future
Unlearn Limits
Do Incredible
Leave a Future
Unlearn Limits
Do Incredible
These new options make "Driven to Discover" sound like the work of Shakespeare...
Ski-U-Marketing: University of MN Shells out $15M for 'Vital' New Tagline Options - Racket
Plus right-wing prayer-mongering, 4-H kids in love, and a Deftones throwback in today's Flyover news roundup.
racketmn.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The three options I was surveyed on this week were:
Leave a Future
Unlearn Limits
Do Incredible
Leave a Future
Unlearn Limits
Do Incredible
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The thing about the U is, however hard it’s sucking right now, if Walz faceplants the next administration will be phantasmagorically worse. I hate having the fate of my state lashed to a weakened third-term attempt but here we are.
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The thing about the U is, however hard it’s sucking right now, if Walz faceplants the next administration will be phantasmagorically worse. I hate having the fate of my state lashed to a weakened third-term attempt but here we are.
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Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).
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This is so instructive about the reality distortion field that happens at the NYT. People inside really can't see the difference in what gets covered, and how, and how the amount of emphasis/focus changes what a story *is*. The example of the panic over trans kids is such an instructive case.
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is so instructive about the reality distortion field that happens at the NYT. People inside really can't see the difference in what gets covered, and how, and how the amount of emphasis/focus changes what a story *is*. The example of the panic over trans kids is such an instructive case.
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"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!
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I want someone to write an unauthorized biography of Larry Summers and title it MEDIOCRE WHITE MAN. He is the most listened to and promoted white guy who is consistently treated like a genius while being wildly wrong about nearly everything who isn't Elon Musk
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I want someone to write an unauthorized biography of Larry Summers and title it MEDIOCRE WHITE MAN. He is the most listened to and promoted white guy who is consistently treated like a genius while being wildly wrong about nearly everything who isn't Elon Musk