et consumimur igni

displaced citizen of erewhon

[Ivan Werning @IvanWerning]

A friend just revealed to me that the middle name of Benoit B. Mandelbrot is Benoit B. Mandelbrot.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

We all laugh and roll our eyes and yet I am trying to think what the reaction -especially from rightwing media - would have been in 2013 if Obama had showed a foreign dictator around the White House while chuckling and revealing 2016 *third term* merch to him hidden in a closet.

[Aaron Bady @zunguzungu]

There simply is no modern equivalent--maybe even no historical equivalent, full stop--to the way this city of two million has been completely and totally destroyed.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Preach. It's not even subtle anymore. You could add "crime" to that as well where a temporary post-COVID spike was covered like we were returning to the darkest days of the 1970s and then when murders hit a 50 year low in 2024 you barely heard a word about it.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

To their credit, the Founding Fathers always knew a king-like tyrant would one day try to rule as personal dictator and use the powers of the presidency to live above the law.
But they never foresaw an entire branch of government abdicating oath in favor of partisan complicity and grift, and they certainly never foresaw algorithmic media producing a citizenry so manipulated by obvious deceit.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Entire news crew wiped out: 2 journalists + 2 cameramen.

Killed by Israel which has killed more journalists than died in WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Afghanistan & Yugoslavia combined.

[Casual Geopolitics @Adamemedia]

434,800 dead in Gaza. — The Lancet

[Whistleblower Aid @wbaidlaw]

BREAKING: @DeptofJustice “lost” our whistleblower client’s evidence - re. Emil Bove and other senior DOJ officials’ defiance of court orders and coverup - from May 5 until just yesterday, the eve of Bove’s confirmation vote.

https://t.co/qTaK5CiCS6

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: Two top antitrust officials at the Justice Department have been fired.
-CBS News

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

1/ Important:

"Epstein was actually still on the Mar-a-Lago membership logs up to 2007. ... That of course is a year after Jeffrey Epstein's arrest in Florida."

So Trump didn't kick him out for many years after knowing Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre from MAL in 2000.

🧵

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

Can we stop electing monsters?

[et consumimur igni @rmmacrae]

Or maybe I mean everybody.

[Sylvia Plath Bot @SylviaPlathBot]

Nobody dies or is born without their knowing it.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Every day brings another example of something that would have launched 1,000 stories in the press questioning Biden's mental acuity if the same words came out of his mouth but Dear Leader gets the "hey man, just Trump being Trump" pass and the public is none the wiser.

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

People (led by the media) really went from "Joe Biden is corrupt bc something something Hunter Biden (paintings)" to just accepting the most blatant, open corruption in history with a total shrug.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

finally, the perfect time to use this meme

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

Didn't Trump accept a $400 million airplane?

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Victims testified under oath that Maxwell sexually abused them with Epstein. Victims testified under oath that she recruited them and schooled them on how to give sexualized massages to Epstein. Victims testified that she took their passports so that they became prisoners on the island. Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking.

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

Biden actually made a lot of progress towards miraculous cancer cures

and then Trump cut the funding to cancer research

[Stephanie "LB" 🟧 @LincolnsBible]

The thing about sending your attorney to Epstein’s child sex-trafficking co-conspirator for information that you already have, but are refusing to release, is that probably you’re guilty as shit.