Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

In after Baud. Damn.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

When we show up, we win.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Optimism opens the door to great things.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

The National Guard is not Batman.

Come on, man.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

So many bastards, so little time.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Petty moves from a petty man.

War for Ukraine Day 1,453: Another Long Night/Early Morning for Ukraine

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A painting by the Ukrainain artist NEIVANMADE. The upper 1/2 is grey and there are black Shahed drones on it aimed towards the bottom of the painting. The bottom half of the painting has a blood red background and in the center of the bottom is a house, to it's left is a swing set, and to its right is a car. They are charcoal grey on the blood red background background. The drones are targeting the house, swing set, and car. Above the house and below the drones are the words "Russia Kills To Erase Free People".

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All of eastern and almost all of central and western Ukraine are under air raid alert for drone swarms as of 3:20 AM local time/8:20 PM EST.

It’s only been four days since the last big attack on Ukraine by fascist Russia, and there’s usually a gap of 7 to 10 days between its Blitz air raids. However, Putin may be in a rush to put pressure on Ukraine in the talks and take advantage of the expected dip in temperatures.

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— Euan MacDonald (@euanmacdonald.bsky.social) February 16, 2026 at 4:31 AM

Also, for two days in a row, Russia conducted reconnaissance of objects in Kyiv and the region, as well as regions in western Ukraine.

— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) February 16, 2026 at 4:07 AM

❗️❗️Takeoff of a group of strategic bombers Tu-95MS, the planes are heading towards the launch lines.

— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) February 16, 2026 at 5:46 PM

Here’s some of tonight’s outgoing Ukrainian fires:

Massive wave of drones headed towards SW fascist Russia tonight. Meanwhile, fascist Russia has launched drones from six sites, and strategic bombers have been moved to bases within striking range of democratic Ukraine. There are warnings that there may be a Blitz attack tonight.

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— Euan MacDonald (@euanmacdonald.bsky.social) February 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM

Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.

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Monday Night Open Thread

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Just absolute shit weather today, overcast and threatening rain which makes my sinuses implode, the pool was closed for President’s Day, so I am extra stiff and cranky and my right shoulder hurts like hell. Other than that, everything is fine. Let’s check in on the worst fucking people in the world and see what they are up to:

Have a special MAGA birthday that could use a little star power? Need a conservative influencer for your HVAC business? Perhaps a Homeland Security adviser to facilitate your child’s potty training?

Corey Lewandowski is your guy.

President Donald Trump’s longtime loyalist is being paid by private companies and individuals to make video messages even as he wields unprecedented influence inside the Department of Homeland Security alongside his rumored lover, Kristi Noem.

As Border Patrol and TSA agents worked without pay amid the longest government shutdown in US history, Lewandowski was moonlighting as a pitchman on Cameo for businesses willing to shell out more than $500 per video, according to information on Lewandowski’s online account.

The website charges customers a fee for their chosen celebrities and political figures to record personalized video messages.

The 52-year-old’s last recorded clip was sent out on Halloween, as more than one million federal employees went without pay, according to his account. He serves at the Department of Homeland Security without a formal title as a ‘special government employee,’ a designation that has led to him not disclosing his finances while working inside the Trump administration.

In one video from last June, Lewandowski wears what appears to be an official government jacket and states, ‘Presidential Retreat. Camp David,’ as he wishes one boy a very special happy birthday.

These people are just so grotesque and shameless. Every single thing they do is a grift. Just the worst most tackiest people ever:

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A couple academic careers have been ended over Epstein, but not enough:

Columbia University has punished two people affiliated with its dental college after documents released by the Justice Department revealed that they had bypassed the normal process to help Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend gain admission.

The actions taken against the two people, Dr. Thomas Magnani and Dr. Letty Moss-Salentijn, add to the fallout rippling through the worlds of academia, business, politics and beyond with the release of millions of pages of files related to Mr. Epstein.

The documents shed light on communications between Mr. Epstein and College of Dental Medicine representatives that Columbia officials knew about as of 2019, the university said in a statement on Friday.

I gotta be brutally honest- for most of my life when I heard Columbia I thought it was like the GOLD STAR of academia. I know everyone thinks of Princeton, Harvard, and Yale, but for me I thought Columbia, MIT, Berkeley were the schools I would want to go to or my kids to go to. The last couple of years have been eye opening- ratting out their own students and faculty to the feds, not giving two fucks about free speech, bending the knee to Trump, etc. I had no idea it was such a tire fire there and now makes me question the academics, which hopefully have not gone to the shitter, too. What a shame. Still better than the Republican party, which hasn’t done shit about the Epstein cohort in their ranks.

Kind of reminded me of the Manchin/Heather Bresch scandal a few years back.

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Robert Duvall died today, and I got a bit nostalgic thinking about all the amazing roles he played and I enjoyed. Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore is still one of the coldest roles ever played in fil, just a certified psychopath. And the Godfather, of course. And the Apostle. And on and on and on. It’s kind of crazy to think about how many amazing talents with home my life has overlapped and I was lucky to witness it. Such greatness, but in 100 years maybe a few of them will be known, and in a thousand, anyone?

Every time I think about the Godfather, I think about John Cazale (Fredo), because no one can top the quality of his complete film career (it was very short). And if you think of someone who can, I want to know, because these are the only movies John Cazale appeared in:

The Godfather
The Godfather II
The Conversation
Dog Day Afternoon
The Deer Hunter

That’s bonkers. Just absolutely incredible films, every single one of them. As a side note, every time someone says something like “there were no trans people when I was a kid hurr durr” or something about trans people being a new thing because WOKE all I can think is “motherfucker Dog Day Afternoon was made in 1975.”

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I don’t live there so I am not sure how the people there think about Gov. Spanberger, but I have seen some of her actions and I like them and like them a lot, but to me the surest sign she is doing ok is that the Republicans HATE her so obviously the NYT had the column inches to let them air their grievances in this piece, which, in my opinion, reads like a Spanberger campaign commercial:

Abigail Spanberger ran for governor of Virginia on her record as one of the most bipartisan members of the House and as a mother of three who worked undercover for the C.I.A. It was the disciplined campaign of a centrist Democrat in a purple state. Even her supporters called it boring.

Things have picked up.

In her first weeks as governor, Ms. Spanberger ended all cooperation agreements between Virginia’s state law enforcement agencies and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She signed a bill for an April vote on whether to redraw Virginia’s political map ahead of the fall midterms, potentially giving Democrats an edge in 10 of the state’s 11 congressional districts compared with their 6-to-5 margin now.

Before taking office, Ms. Spanberger demanded and got the resignations of five University of Virginia board members, who all participated in a Trump White House push that removed James E. Ryan as the university’s president, largely because of his diversity efforts.

The right wing is on fire. Suddenly, to partisan critics eager to take down a Democrat whose political future is already discussed in terms of national office, she is a witch, a “Bond villain” and dangerous.

Was there something in there I was not supposed to like? Beats me. I loved this:

They already are in Richmond. “She’s the same thing as Mamdani in New York, except that Mamdani at least admits that he’s a socialist,” said Bryce E. Reeves, a Republican state senator, who said he would give Ms. Spanberger “an F for working across the aisle right now” because “none of my colleagues have seen her.”

Told of Mr. Reeves’s remarks, Ms. Spanberger reached across her desk for her cellphone and began scrolling through past messages from him. “That tone and tenor seems to differ very significantly,” she said calmly, “from his direct outreach to me at the beginning of January, and the lengthy conversation we then had.”

I think Gov. Spanberger is going to be constantly prepared to shiv someone if needs be, and I am ok with that.

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You all be good. Joelle has had her alone time after work so now I am going to go grace her with my sparkling personality.

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The Vaccine Crisis…It’s here.

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Sometimes, working on a book means that you see references to your work everywhere you look, when what’s really going on is that you (me, to be honest) only retains stuff that connects with your (my) obsession of the moment.

Other times, though, it really is all about whatever it is I’m most deeply engaged with at the moment.

As now.

The vaccine crisis is real, much more imminently threatening than I dreamed a year ago, when I started working on a polemical history of objections to vaccination.

Rebecca Robins captures the current state of play in her story today in the New York Times. The headline and its subhed pretty much say it all: “Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs” followed by “Federal policies under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that are hostile to vaccines have “sent a chill through the entire industry,” one scientist said.”

The rest of the piece lays out in detail what’s going wrong. There’s a flat rejection of the most promising new vaccine approach, the use of mRNA technology, which that noted virologist and molecular biologist Robert Kennedy tells is not effective. (He’s neither, of course, and he’s flat wrong.) There’s a sustained discouragement of vaccination coming down from the top ranks of US public health, starting with lopping off one third of the list of (formerly) recommended childhood vaccines. (Measles, pertussis, and now mumps all thank Secretary Kennedy.) And Robins writes of perhaps the most potent weapon anti-vax campaigners at HHS have to shadow ban most or all vaccines: revising the current vaccine injury compensation system to expose vaccine makers to unlimited liability for alleged harms. That would mark a return to the way it was in the 1970s and 80s, when almost all vaccine manufacturers were driven from the US market. No need to prohibit immunization if it’s impossible to buy a shot.

Even before that, trials of potentially major new vaccines are on hold, at best. Say goodbye for the time being to possible preventatives for strep infections, for shigella, for the flu (one of the mRNA vaccines sacrificed on the altar of Kennedy’s utterly convinced ignorance), for Epstein Barr syndrome, with, I’m sure, more retreats to follow.

The Vaccine Crisis...It's here.

As Robins writes, each of those at least temporarily abandoned shots fell to business decisions, which presumably could be reversed if/when political winds shift. Another story, this one from the Boston Globe points to a less reversible loss: A brain drain (the paper’s term) of biomedical investigators that already is eroding the US research enterprise across the spectrum of medical research, very much including vaccine science.

The key takeaway from this piece, which is based on a survey of Massachusetts scientists, is that once you halt work in a lab–no matter how close that lab might be to a breakthrough–not only is that immediate result gone, the capacity to return to that research collapses too. Teams scatter, informal knowledge evaporates, and any prior results, the accumulation of insights that lead to something important, don’t travel intact as the various groups scatter.

Which is to say that the damage Trump, Kennedy, et al. doesn’t end when they lose power. It will take years—decades, quite possibly—to rebuild the scientific infrasture that we had just a little over twelve months ago. Other nations will pick up some of our people and with them the intellectual possibilities our research surrender has created.

But potential advances will be slowed, perhaps some actually lost for the foreseeable future. And for vaccines themselves, all those infections, the illnesses and deaths that could have been prevented by existing vaccines or the new ones that are now indefinitely delayed—that burden of misery will accumulate day by day until we finally get back to the status quo ante.

None of this needed to happen, but here we are. One job we need to do (and this post is part of that effort) is to make sure that Kennedy and his allies own every harm, every loss they’re inflicting on the American people. Another is to do whatever we can at the state level and with private money to save as much of American science as we can.

I wish I had something happier to write about. When I get good news, I promise to shout it from the rooftops. In the meantime I’ll just say that Paul Krugman speaks for me at the end of his post today on the madness of Trump’s energy “policy:”

For the most part, all MAGA will do is help make the United States backward, poorer, sicker and irrelevant.

Yes, yes, and yes.

This thread is as open as RFK Jr.’s mind is closed.

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Open Thread: There *Will* Be Elections

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Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this — they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM

Yeah this is kind of key. There isn't really an executive order that the president can sign that meaningfully changes election administration. Basically what he can do is direct the FEC to work with states to change things (or something) and maybe impose penalties somewhere if they don't?

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— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) February 16, 2026 at 10:30 AM

It’s not wrong to keep highlighting Trump’s feckless rhetoric, but it’s foolish to succumb to doomerism about it. Per an actual legal specialist, Steve Vladek, at his SubStack One First:

… In an effort to cajole the Senate into passing the deeply controversial “SAVE” Act, President Trump has continued to publicly make claims about his putative authority to ban certain voting practices (like mail-in ballots) through unilateral executive action. Leaving aside the wildly overstated voter fraud claims purportedly animating these efforts, and the not-so-subtle attempt to make it harder for Americans without ready access to government-issued identification to vote, I wanted to use today’s “Long Read” to explain why the President’s threats are both legally and practically empty.

The legal argument is straightforward enough: the President has neither unilateral constitutional authority nor delegated statutory authority to set nationwide election rules. (This is why the SAVE Act is even on the table.) But for those who wave their hands and say “that hasn’t stopped this administration before” (even though, in point of fact, it has), there are also some pretty significant practical reasons why the President’s threats can’t amount to anything in practice, most of which sound in long-settled principles of constitutional federalism.

That doesn’t mean we won’t see other efforts from this administration and its supporters to interfere with—and otherwise attempt to undermine—the electoral process come this fall. But the President changing the rules all by himself is, both legally and practically, a complete non-starter…

… The relevant constitutional provision is the Elections Clause—Article I, Section 4: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations.”…

This reality matters to President Trump’s ongoing efforts to purport to interfere with state election rules in two different respects: First, any legal authority to so interfere must come from a statute—not from the Constitution itself. And there’s no existing federal statute that gives the federal government as a whole, let alone the executive branch by itself, the unilateral authority to set identification requirements for everyone voting in federal elections.

Second, the distribution of responsibility for elections is also the biggest practical obstacle to President Trump attempting to impose new federal rules through executive order: no one who’s actually in charge of those elections would be bound to comply with such an order. So unlike the President’s ability to order, say, executive branch agencies (or, say, immigration judges) to obey an unlawful executive order, here, he’d have no coercive power whatsoever. Some jurisdictions may choose to comply with an unlawful election-related executive order from the Trump administration, but the key for present purposes is that it would be those state/local officials’ choice, not a federal mandate, that does the work…

It is, or at least ought to be, deeply alarming that we’re even having to talk about a President trying to unilaterally change the rules for federal elections—especially given this particular President’s … history … concerning respect for the integrity of our electoral processes. One might also point out that the number of eligible voters who would likely be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act this fall is many degrees of magnitude higher than the total number of documented cases of voting by non-citizens over decades’ worth of elections. But without getting too deep into the policy debate here (which ought to militate against both disenfranching eligible voters and empowering this specific President), it’s worth underscoring that there’s just no viable legal argument, and no plausible practical basis, on which a President could unilaterally tell states that don’t want to listen how they must run their elections—including what, if any, identification registered voters need to produce in order to cast their ballots.

If the SAVE Act doesn’t make it through the Senate, that should be the end of the matter, at least on this topic, and at least for now.

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Not THAT woman either…

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The other day, we discussed the global authoritarian movement and how it will remain a threat, even after the worms stop playing pinochle on Piggy’s snout and begin the serious business of converting the organic matter of international authoritarianism’s current avatar into compost. We talked about how to neutralize the threat the authoritarian movement poses to democracy. I said:

Figuring out how to do that is above my paygrade, but taxing billionaires out of existence seems like an essential component, along with reestablishing a global democratic movement, hopefully with less cynicism and a more sincere commitment to human rights. I have no idea if that’s possible, but defining the opponent and understanding their weak points is a good start.

The next day, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addressed these very issues at a Munich Security Conference panel. Here’s a clip where she talks about how concentrated wealth undermines democracies:

AOC: “Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver.”

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 13, 2026 at 12:50 PM

And here’s a clip where she points out that cynicism and hypocrisy undermine a rules-based order.

AOC💪at the Munich Security Conference: “In a rules-based order, hypocrisy is vulnerability…kidnapping heads of state, threatening allies, colonizing Greenland, or looking the other way on a genocide”

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— Van Jackson (@vanjackson.bsky.social) February 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM

I think she’s right on both counts, though I will note it’s devilishly hard for an average person to get through a day without at least a little hypocrisy, let alone a whole-ass superpower. Anyhoo, if you’re interested in hearing more about what AOC had to say in Europe, here’s a YouTube link to an interview she did this weekend at TU Berlin (link courtesy of pantsless paragon Baud).

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Agree with her or not, AOC is no lightweight. Some pundits speculate that she went to the Munich conference to bolster her foreign policy chops because she plans to run for president in 2028, or perhaps she’ll run for a senate seat and then run for president.

I don’t know if that’s true or even if it would be a good idea, but I do know this: every shitty political media hack will immediately drop their frantic efforts to sane-wash the demented president’s ravings to make AOC look dumb:

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

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— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman.bsky.social) February 16, 2026 at 1:24 PM

I suspect this tendency to reflexively undermine Dems and polish Republican turds is not unrelated to our corporate-captured media problem, which loops back to the oligarchy issue. So, something else to watch out for.

Open thread.

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Heartening News Out of New York (via Jay Kuo)

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Heartening News Out of New York (via Jay Kuo)

Really heartening news out of New York.  (Jay Kuo)

Last night I was asked to speak on behalf of the Human Rights Campaign at the Stonewall National Monument, the site where the modern day LGBTQ+ civil rights movement first began in 1969.

Stonewall is known the world over because it was here that the people of my community, led by trans and drag queen protesters, finally said “no more” to continued police harassment and brutality. Stonewall was a riot that lasted for days, and it marked a turning point from which we have never looked back.

But our fight is far from over.

This week, the federal government ordered the Pride flag to be taken down from the Stonewall National Monument, citing technical reasons for not allowing it to fly. But we all know what this really was: a targeted attack on our community, just as they did earlier by erasing all mention of trans people from the monument’s own website.

Local and state leaders in New York, along with activists, swung into action. On Thursday, they re-raised the Pride flag in a bold act of defiance.

Then yesterday, the White House doubled down, saying it would move to remove it once more.

Congressional lawmakers, including Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Dan Goldman from New York, then stepped up with a bold and welcome response: legislation authorizing and approving the Pride flag as a nationally recognized one. This would allow it to fly in the spot where it most belongs—at Stonewall—no matter the politics or hate coming out of D.C.

I’ve had differences with Sen. Schumer on other matters, but when it comes to our LGBTQ+ community, of which his own daughter is a member, he has been rock solid: pushing through the Respect for Marriage Act, championing the Equality Act, and now introducing this Pride flag recognition along with Rep. Goldman as his House counterpart.

Click the link to see the remarks from Jay Kuo.

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Robert Reich calls it the squalor of the Epstein Class.  That’s definitely a word that needs to be used more often these days.

Here’s how Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie responded on Sunday, during ABC’s “This Week,” to a question about the Trump regime’s handling of the Epstein files:

“This is about the Epstein class …. They’re billionaires who were friends with these people, and that’s what I’m up against in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these kinds of people, in New York City and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent. But he’s not. He’s still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration. And they’re attacking me for trying to get these files released.”

The Epstein Class. Not just the people who cavorted with Jeffrey Epstein or the subset who abused young girls. It’s an interconnected world of hugely rich, prominent, entitled, smug, powerful, self-important (mostly) men. Trump is honorary chairman.

Who’s in the Epstein Class?

The Epstein Class isn’t limited to Trump donors. Bill Clinton is a member (1,192times), as is Larry Summers (5,621 times). So are LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman (3,769 times), Prince Andrew (1,821 times), Bill Gates (6,385 times), and Steve Tisch, co-owner of the New York Giants (429 times).

If not politics, then what connects the members of the Epstein Class? It’s not just riches. Some members are not particularly wealthy, but they’re richlyconnected. They trade on their prominence, on whom they know and who will return their phone calls.

They exchange inside tips on stocks, on the movements of currencies, on IPOs, on new tax-avoidance mechanisms. On getting into exclusive clubs, reservations at chic restaurants, lush hotels, exotic travel.

It’s definitely a club, and we are most definitely not members!

Most members of the Epstein Class have seceded into their own small, self-contained world, disconnected from the rest of society. They fly in one other’s private jets. They entertain at one other’s guest houses and villas. Some exchange tips on how to procure certain drugs or kinky sex or valuable works of art. And, of course, how to accumulate more wealth.

Fuck democracy.  Peter Thiel don’t need not stinkin’ democracy!

Many don’t particularly believe in democracy; Peter Thiel (recall, he appears2,710 times in the Epstein files) has said he “no longer believes that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

This, to me, is the scariest part.

Many are putting their fortunes into electing people who will do their bidding. Hence, they are politically dangerous.

The Epstein Class is the by-product of an economy that emerged over the last two decades, from which this new elite has siphoned off vast amounts of wealth.

The value of businesses in this new economy isn’t in factories, buildings, or machines. It’s in algorithms, operating systems, standards, brands, and vast, self-reinforcing user networks.

As we learned from Pam Bondi last week, it’s all about the stock prices!  That’s not the way most of us live.

Members of the Epstein Class are compensated in shares of stock. As corporate profits have soared, the stock market has roared. As the stock market has roared, the compensation of the Epstein Class has reached the stratosphere.

I thought this was super interesting.  Et tu Ro Khanna?  Hell hath no fury like the Epstein Class called out with the trust.

When Silicon Valley’s biggest tech proponent in Congress — Rep. Ro Khanna — recently announced his support for a tax on California billionaires, to help fill the void created by Trump’s cuts in Medicare and Medicaid (which, in turn, made way for Trump’s second huge tax cut for the rich), the Epstein Class blew a gasket.

Vinod Khosla, one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture capitalists, with a net worth estimated at more than $13 billion (and who’s mentioned 182 times in the Epstein files but is no friend of Trump), called Khanna a “commie comrade.”

He seems nice.

Khosla, by the way, is best known by the public for purchasing 89 acres of California beachfront property in in 2008 for $32.5 million, then trying to block public access to the ocean with a locked gate and signs. Despite losing multiple court rulings, including a 2018 Supreme Court appeal, he carries on with the dispute.

In spite of what the Epstein Class thinks, this land is made for you and me.

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