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[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie: The Epstein scandal is “deeper and darker” than anyone imagined.

“It’s bigger than Watergate.”

“It’s bigger than Iran-Contra.”

“It’s not about Joe Biden or Donald Trump.”

“There are degrees of evil here that we’ve never seen at this scale … ”

“Our government was compromised by wealthy, connected billionaires, and by Jeffrey Epstein himself.”

“At the age of 14, these girls that were being sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein were told if they could go find another girl to take their place, then they wouldn’t have to be sexually abused.”

“And some of them took that deal.”

“It’s one thing to be evil to a child.”

“It’s another thing to get a child to do evil.”

“The light sentence that was given to Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 that allowed him to victimize hundreds of more women, we want to know, why was he given that light sentence?”

@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY @Local12

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

After 12 years of absence during the Orban rule, the Hungarian parliament raised the EU flag again.

It is the latest sign that you should never surrender to populism or any other form of radicalism, even when the odds are against you.

This is a decisive European victory.

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

🎶✨Glen Campbell’s legendary guitar break on Gentle on My Mind.
Masterful hybrid picking — smooth, fast, and insanely precise.🫶
No show-off, just pure musicality: melodic lines dancing on the high strings with perfect hammer-ons, pull-offs, and bends.✨🎸
One of the best acoustic country guitar solos ever. 😍

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

An hour after announcing his resignation, the US Army Chief of Staff says: "A madman is about to lead the great US military to ruin."

[Chris Cooper @chriscooperwcu]

The End of the Berger Era: Why is Phil Berger's loss such a big deal? 🔗 ⤵️ #ncpol #statepolitics

https://t.co/jKHYAGbq1S

[Chris Cooper @chriscooperwcu]

After the #ncpol primary, a few folks have asked whether the parties might shut Unaffiliated voters out of their primaries.

SB 747 said they can't⤵️

For more, see the bottom of this piece in @TheAssemblyNC:

https://t.co/5LE4kyBotL

[Judge Bob Orr @JudgeBobOrr]

With a roughly 20+ vote lead, it's unlikely that the electronic counting of ballots made any mistakes. Errors are far more likely in a hand count which was limited to the few provisional ballot. I don't know what legal grounds there would be to challenge the results.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Republican Senator Thom Tillis just publicly destroyed Kristi Noem and called for her resignation.
Then got a standing ovation.

Then threatened to block Trump’s nominees until she stops stonewalling Congress.

A Republican. Doing this. Today.

The walls are closing in — and it’s not just Democrats saying it anymore.

[Chris Cooper @chriscooperwcu]

This ⬇️is interesting, but the laws of pedantic political science require me to tap the sign and refer you to this piece (From 2022 when it was Madison Cawthorn's internal poll in ?) about the problems of internal polls.

https://t.co/wvYLbrN0mH

#ncpol #nc11

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Imagine living in 1978 and hearing this amazing Song for the first time!

[WPVM 103.7 The Voice of Asheville @Davyne_Dial]

@JudgeBobOrr Crème fraîche, grated sharp cheddar cheese, chopped onion, blue corn tortilla chips. That is all.

[Stella Parton @StellaParton]

What else is new?

[Wiley Nickel 🇺🇸 @WileyNickel]

The NC GOP just pushed through another gerrymandered map—because they can’t win fair elections.

It’s cheating, and it’s a disgrace. Voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around. #ncpol

[Judge Bob Orr @JudgeBobOrr]

With ICE agents roaming the streets in N.C., I am wondering if any of their actions are in violation of the rights of residents under the N.C. Constitution? While any such rights cannot be in contravention of federal law or the U.S. Constitution, we are otherwise still protected.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Over the past several weeks, I've been back in the lab working crazy hours like old times, and loving life. This was much needed. I'm happy ;-)

If I'm not programming, hands-on with robots/hardware for many hours a day, I feel a bit lost and less able to think clearly about the world. It's just how my brain is built. I think it's because engineering humbles me to the reality of the world.

I need both literature & engineering in my life 🤣 I love both, and both are a source of truth.

I'm still doing the podcast, just adding much more engineering back into the mix ;-) The podcast gives me an opportunity to celebrate great scientists, engineers, and builders. This is one of the things I love doing most.

In the coming months, I'll continue splitting time between MIT and Caltech (Boston & LA) working with some brilliant people. The focus of the work is human-robot interaction with quadrupeds and humanoid robots.

I'll also likely be at NeurIPS in San Diego this year.

If you want to chat over coffee in Boston, LA, or San Diego for NeurIPS or have guest suggestions in those places, please fill out the coffee or guest forms respectively (see link in comment). For NeurIPS, please choose the "NeurIPS 2025" option for special event in the form.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

ALERT: Justice Dept puts prosecutors on leave … hours after they submitted court filing in which they describe Jan 6 as a riot, cite “conspiracy theories” about Jan 6, and ascribe blame to Trump for posting Obama home address

[GigiRNC @GigiRNC]

@JoshStein_ Seems you've forgotten how elections work
THE REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE REPRESENTS THE VOTERS WHO SENT THEM THERE
THEY VOTE THE WAY THEIR CONSTITUENTS PREFER THEY VOTE
VS redistricting conducted by INSTALLED DEM LACKEY JUDGES. WHO'S KING NOW JOSH

[paris martineau @parismartineau]

my latest investigation for @ConsumerReports is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day — some by more than 10 times !

[Will Doran @will_doran]

Gov. Josh Stein announcing this morning that a medical debt relief program, started by former Gov. Roy Cooper in partnership with hospitals statewide, has now wiped out $6.5 billion in medical debt for millions of North Carolina residents. #ncpol

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

@TBP_3 Organized religion has been used to justify violence across centuries. That’s exactly why people of faith have a higher duty to reject cruelty. My point stands.