So many layers of symbolism:
• The narcissist's mirror, fouled by his own hand.
• The sterile sealant that caused nature to run wild.
• The public taking home chunks, as a symbol.
• A fence to protect public space from... people.
There's a fable in here somewhere.
Both these headlines are from Texas this month.
Texas sentenced anti-ICE protestors to 100 years in prison, but a serial pedophile to only 30 days. This is MAGA exemplified.
Supreme Court rules against Rastafarian man over religious rights claim against prison officials
The conservative majority often backs religious claims, although recent high-profile wins tend to involve conservative Christians
https://t.co/Uz0HwQbATq
Apple has closed down the first of its US stores to unionize.
Over half of the 70 unionized workers at the Towson, MD store are losing their jobs.
The union says Apple is retaliating after it only offered transfers to workers at the two nonunion stores it also closed.
In 1980, Trump bought the historic Bonwit Teller department store and demolished it for Trump Tower but he promised to donate these reliefs to the Met Museum, only to destroy them and later say they were basically worthless.
@Liesorliars Less than a week after 3 Sept 2018 Epstein assistant confirms Sept 4 lunch with Bari Weiss and Nellie Bowles “Masha believes you both will enjoy each others company”.
Bannon and Epstein had been discussing what to do about stories on Trump and Vice NewsZ
THE STRATEGIST
Jeffrey Epstein was directing Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation defence through Steve Bannon.
This was September 30 2018. The Senate judiciary committee hearing had concluded 2 days earlier. Christine Blasey Ford had testified. The FBI investigation had been ordered. The confirmation vote was days away.
Epstein sent this.
"tell burke they should make sure they ask ford about her medications, what type and for how long. my guess is that katz won't let her answer"
Bill Burck was Kavanaugh's personal attorney. Rachel Katz was Christine Blasey Ford's attorney. Epstein knew both names. He knew the procedural dynamics. He was feeding cross examination strategy to Bannon to relay directly to the defence team.
In the same exchange Epstein had already sent Bannon research links on medications that cause memory loss and academic papers on false memories in social anxiety disorder.
A convicted sex offender. Directing the confirmation strategy of a Supreme Court Justice. Through the former Chief Strategist of the White House.
Source: DOJ Epstein Files Transparency Act release. Jmail iMessage Archive. steve-bannon thread. Message 1220. September 30 2018.
THE NETWORK
7 days after Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never came out, Jeffrey Epstein sent Steve Bannon a private map of MBS's covert operations network.
No preamble. No context. Just names.
"Yemen / Iran / oil - zamel, nader . Prinz / 1mdb / deripaska"
Every name on that list is a thread in a separate international scandal.
George Nader. convicted paedophile and Mueller witness. Fixer between Gulf states and the Trump campaign. Joel Zamel. Israeli social media manipulation firm Psy Group. Offered influence operations to the Trump campaign. Elliott Broidy. Republican fundraiser. 1MDB. The Malaysian sovereign wealth fund looted of $4.5 billion. Oleg Deripaska. Russian oligarch. Paul Manafort's handler.
Epstein was not reading the news. He was reading the network. Every name connects to Gulf money, covert influence operations, and the orbit of the 2016 Trump campaign.
Khashoggi had been dead for 4 days. Epstein's first response was to map who else MBS had his hands on.
This is message 1271 of 3,356 in the Bannon thread alone. We have read 1,300.
Source: DOJ Epstein Files Transparency Act release. Jmail iMessage Archive. steve-bannon thread. Message 1271. October 9 2018.
Musk is doing damage control.
I know a number people in SA who lost their jobs because DOGE so recklessly shuttered USAID and PEPFAR.
I know patients who needed meds and were met by a padlocked door.
He doesn’t get to walk that back.
He has blood on his hands.
ICE agents beat a man in Minnesota for following and observing their abuses so badly that they gave him brain damage. They chained him to his hospital bed for 5 days and charged him, but like so many other cases, the video led to a dismissal but not charges for the agents.
NEW: The DEA permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico in bid to build prosecutions
“We poisoned our community to make cases,” DEA Agent David Howell tells @AP
“We 100% got people killed”
w/ @APjoshgoodman
https://t.co/1tRshl8Xoa
Flock: “Our cameras only track vehicles involved in crimes.”
Me: Then why do we have photos of your cameras aimed at Kids’ gymnastics rooms, schools… and now a bike path?
That’s not "fighting crime."
That’s blanket surveillance.