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Mastodon Migration Blog @[email protected] · 2024-11-20 · 17:33 UTC
Mastodon Follow Pack Directory 1.7
Follow entire groups of accounts listed below or simply click on accounts to view their profile page and follow them from there.
This directory includes notices, instructions and follow pack directory listings.
Notices
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NOTIFICATION NOTICE: If you receive this federated WordPress blog post in your Notifications, your account may be included in one or more packs. 
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OPT-OUT NOTICE: If your account is listed in any Follow Pack and you do not want it to be, please message @[email protected] and refer to the pack from which you would like your account removed.
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BRIDGE ACCOUNT NOTICE: Packs that include accounts that bridge outside the Fediverse will be identified with a special notice.
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REPLIES ON MASTODON SPAM NOTICE: Replies include all named accounts. To avoid spamming, please edit any replies to remove addresses you do not intend to send the reply.
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Follow Pack Instructions
Download the pack .csv file and import into Mastodon to follow all accounts:
– Click on a FollowPack .csv file link to download
– Click on Preferences (gear) icon on bottom right
– On mobile or narrow desktop click top right “hamburger” button
– Click Import and Export >>> Import
– Import type dropdown: Select “Lists” (NOT “Following list”)
– Verify that ‘Merge’ is selected (IMPORTANT)
– Click Browse… button >>> Select “[file name] – list.csv”
– Upload >>> Confirm
Follow Pack Directory
ASTRONOMY & SPACE
Pack: Astronomy
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on astronomy and space.
Size: 60
List: Astro
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration
Click to download Astronomy-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRA5Aef7KPIlw6unflo2V1DairG-4B7SNgko3Rs3WScj-2BXSqVeksf_-_qmhWdly69jOm8oju6a6Co/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@65dBnoise, @AkaSci, @apod, @astrobin_iotd, @astrocamp, @AstroHyde, @astrokiwi, @astroland, @Astromeg, @astron, @astronomerstel, @AstronomieNL, @astroptere, @badastro, @benknispel, @bibianaprinoth, @coreyspowell, @CosmicRami, @cosmos4u, @cplberry, @crawfordsm, @dburke, @dstndstn, @ec_euclid, @elizabethtasker, @evilscientistca, @franco_vazza, @fraser, @GravityGrinch, @hannorein, @hausderastronomie, @hfalcke, @IRAP, @JohnBarentine, @kellylepo, @LIGO, @markmccaughrean, @megschwamb, @mpi_astro, @mpi_grav, @mpsgoettingen, @nasa, @NSFVoyager2, @OJ_Astro, @PhilStooke, @pomarede, @rubymoonbeams, @setiinstitute, @skrishna, @spacegeck, @starstryder, @startswithabang, @sundogplanets, @telescoper, @thomasconnor, @vicgrinberg, @VRubinObs, @weltraum, @mustapipa, @emilydoesastro
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AV GEEK
Pack: AVGeek
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on aviation.
Size: 31
List: AVGeek
Admin: @rpmik
Click to download AVGeek-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQwIpsX88KPWBfCW0WxpdqfFzg6QUII8k5baqVbdReu3E4H-Hu-eCSZwZMzjDYLvPZM4Isa70XAFQ5d/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@ai6yr, @AirlineReporter, @alexf24, @aligorith, @andybrwn, @AstroHawk, @[email protected], @Aviation_Librarian, @clemensv, @CosmicTraveler, @cvvhrn, @elanhead, @ErrolNZ, @[email protected], @gb0n, @hypeav, @ikluft, @JetTip, @JohnOCFII, @jp, @mancavgeek, @midendian, @ottergoose, @photoJDL, @photoJDL, @[email protected], @rpmik, @thebaldgeek, @TheSnoopySnoop, @User47, @[email protected]
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BRAZIL FALANTES
Pack: BrazilFalantes
Criteria: Selected Brazilian accounts.
Size: 43
List: BrazilFalantes
Admin: @augustocc
Click to download BrazilFalantes-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSix8DugkdH9Q4cK663XToZ1hCcPmuPqBva0s2Q6Jh6RdnKZtParEjiHsEF156yVk5mpjh4SbCNUlPj/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@dudagc@mstdn.social, @ACarolaRodrigues, @adolfoneto, @alexmelo, @alter, @althieme, @Bruiserzinha, @CaetanoCosta, @caironoleto, @cajuuh, @caparica, @d_nho, @diegopds, @duran, @evaristoramosarte, @fabiocosta0305, @faconti, @felipesiles, @gfpreger, @gutocarvalho, @jimi, @kianda, @kiff, @lffontenelle, @liaamancio, @malcontato, @mari, @msmelo, @not_that_barb, @paulohrpinheiro, @pensadorlouco, @Pitico, @rafael, @retinadesgastada, @Roneyb, @sergiovds, @Tati, @tiagojferreira, @Valdemar1986, @vitordelucca, @vitu, @wag, @[email protected]
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CLIMATE
Pack: Climate
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on climate change and climate science.
Size: 40
List: Climate
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration
Click to download Climate-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRDIriRmHiv7LNZcvSvCpWlSZEvBTrEATlcOkEAZYz9_vbeYLFz3gFtsatI9pwi4o2ozHFQoFQoXXtj/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@AlaskaWx, @allochthonous, @andrewdessler, @Bellingen, @bethsawin, @breadandcircuses, @CelloMomOnCars, @ClimateNewsNow, @Climatologist49, @clive, @CopernicusEU, @ct_bergstrom, @davidho, @douglasvb, @DrEvanGowan, @drsimevans, @GeraldKutney, @greeneralia, @gwagner, @helenczerski, @IcooIey, @janrosenow, @jphuston, @MichaelEMann, @petergleick, @PeterRu, @rahmstorf , @ProgGrrl, @Ruth_Mottram, @ScientistRebellion, @seaice, @SheDrivesMobility, @Snoro, @steve, @W_Lucht, @whatzaname, @weatherwest, @WmOrcutt, @wolfgangcramer, @ZLabe
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CYBERSECURITY
Pack: Cybersecurity
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on cybersecurity, hacking and digital threats.
Size: 50
List: Cybersecurity
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration
Click to download Cybersecurity-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT1kwhmiytfhp6vhsE1bKGrigQBHgeNhRaPjIjem4vgl5ejviQhsuh1RR39P49mAtFDPKEqmuouG8nq/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@adamshostack, @adulau, @Ange, @botconf, @briankrebs, @catsalad, @charlesmok, @circl, @cryptax, @decalage, @deviantollam, @drwhax, @eff, @Em0nM4stodon, @ericfreyss, @evacide, @F_kZ_, @fr0gger, @futex, @GossiTheDog, @hacks4pancakes, @hasherezade, @haveibeenpwned, @jerry, @josephcox, @justicerage, @kimzetter, @malwaretech, @mattblaze, @metacurity, @nopatience, @petersuber, @qutluch, @r00tbsd, @SecurityWriter, @Sh0ckFR, @SheHacksPurple, @shellsharks, @shodan, @spaf, @SteveD3, @SwiftOnSecurity, @talossecurity, @tychotithonus, @virtualabs, @VirusBulletin, @Viss, @volatility, @williballenthin, @zackwhittaker
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HUMOR
Pack: Humor
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly jokes and humor.
Size: 60
List: Astro
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration
Click to download Humor-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ–hRKJff-OrgWcqc0U41Oh2v-1bcAlkD_4VO_tH0y5VmiAtlT3Y5JygUjm8R8wUm5529Rr8hwuIzC/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@abnormalmemery, @AbsoluteMemery, @dadjokes, @Daily_Twerk, @DailySBMemes, @funhouseradio, @humortimes, @johnnyd_cm, @kittencaboodle, @LaffGaff, @lowqualityfacts, @MarkoTheComic, @newsthump, @nicbest, @rooniecomics, @s8n, @sushvee
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INFOSEC PRO
Pack: InfosecPro
Criteria: Curated list of people “identifying” as information and cybersecurity people. See https://github.com/cstromblad/infosec_mastodon/blob/main/README.md for a full description of the methodology and criteria used for inclusion.
Size: 143
List: InfosecPro
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@[email protected]
Click to download InfosecPro-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQZmhqzGFSp-UoamD7l1jJGZDWC2TVXuNXS3g-kHLhm8wOkixnLzujDj5KxASEPWy-BuwCQLkNfG6nk/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@_dm, @againsthimself, @agent0x0, @albinowax, @AlesandroOrtiz, @alethe, @amuse, @andreamm, @andygreenphd, @atoponce, @barbie, @bascule, @bittner, @bknudtson, @bluecat, @bogo, @brynet, @catileptic, @catsalad, @charlesdardaman, @chetwisniewski, @chetwisniewski, @ChocolateCoat, @ChrisJohnRiley, @christophetd, @CommieGIR, @Crudge, @darkoperator, @Dave_von_S, @DavidJBianco, @Dcuthbert, @decalage, @dhw, @dmnk, @dostalcody, @dragosr, @droe, @eljefedsecurit, @enoclue, @epixoip, @ewj, @fj, @Folini, @ForiamCJ, @Foxboron, @fsmontenegro, @fullyabstract, @g0tmi1k, @gcluley, @glennpegden, @Gorka, @gynvael, @hal_pomeranz, @HalvarFlake, @hatr, @hdm, @helma, @hughsie, @Imlordofthering, @insiderphd, @itm4n, @itspeterc, @Janterpstra, @jaybeale, @john, @JohnTimaeus, @jomo, @JosephMenn, @jrenken, @jschauma, @jtk, @jullrich, @kennwhite, @kevincollier, @kravietz, @krelnik, @lattera, @lcamtuf, @lennyzeltser, @liampomfret, @ljrk, @lkarlslund, @LukaszOlejnik, @mainframed767, @maldr0id, @markschultz, @matthew_d_green, @MrMeritology, @mttaggart, @nasko, @nono2357, @nopatience, @nw, @patrickcmiller, @paulasadoorian, @percepticon, @pgl, @phretor, @pixelnull, @PrivacyDigest, @psiinon, @quaithe, @raptor, @redford, @reitinger, @rene_mobile, @ret2bed, @RGB_Lights, @ric, @robert, @ryanc, @ryanc, @sawaba, @Schuldberg, @securestep9, @Secvalve, @seecurity, @sharedsecurity, @Sikorsky78, @SonarResearch, @spacerog, @stevenseeley, @sundhaug92, @Tarah, @tek, @teksquisite, @thegrugq, @theJoshMeister, @timcappalli, @tomchop, @troed, @tsudo, @tweedge, @vanhoefm, @vcsjones, @vinoth, @volt4ire, @williballenthin, @WPalant, @xabean, @Xavier, @xntrik, @z_edian
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LEGAL
Pack: Legal
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on the law, criminal justice and other legal matters
Size: 31
List: Legal
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration
Click to download Legal-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQlxhRYLmA_OW_JrK_y0B5WXI3ENc4nj84XWA8CsDL4m5Z1WybynqcmZjAnFVMnn95tIvhjudI30VWo/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@1br0wn, @alysondecker, @andreamm, @andrew, @annmlipton, @AustinB, @austinkocher, @bespacific, @chargrille, @chrisgeidner, @cmorris, @copyrightlately, @D_J_Nathanson, @davidallengreen, @design_law, @drrimmer, @evacide, @FrankPasquale, @heidilifeldman, @icymi_law, @karlauerbach, @KProfsBlog, @lawfare, @LeftistLawyer, @LeslieBurns, @molly0xfff, @pdxlawgrrrl, @petersuber, @SteveBellovin, @Teri_Kanefield, @trabern
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MISCELLANY
Pack: Miscellany
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on a varying and wide range of topics.
Size: 46
List: Miscellany
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration
Click to download Miscellany-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSdl9t0EDx6igJi7TXyOutp2LedZvtMNnE2m0pxfcEWXVJVUL1uZn4z6Z_OcEbaEYFVjda9d1Lw8UJl/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@Alice, @amydiehl, @AnneTheWriter1, @augieray, @billyjoebowers, @Catvalente, @chris, @clive, @CStamp, @dansinker, @Daojoan, @donni, @emilymbender, @ErickaSimone, @flexghost, @futurebird, @GhostOnTheHalfShell, @godpod, @grimalkina, @hildabast, @inquiline, @jalefkowit, @jawarajabbi, @jaykuo, @jessamyn, @karlauerbach, @kims, @Lana, @lowqualityfacts, @luckytran, @mattblaze, @mcc, @mckra1g, @mekkaokereke, @MostlyHarmless, @paninid, @peterbutler, @RickiTarr, @rysiek, @skeletor, @skinnylatte, @SmudgeTheInsultCat, @Strandjunker, @strypey, @tess, @VeroniqueB99
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MOSTLY DOGS
Pack: MostlyDogs
Criteria: Selected accounts that post mostly dogs and some cats.
Size: 60
List: MostlyDogs
Admin: @moxxi
Click to download MostlyDogs-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSsBqVEiKBn8QQKG94q31P48wgATL8pvLCWGwoZXipT1OuVx455h3rDgy0a75CTuue5YRdYmap9idJO/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@amyfou, @bark_maul, @DerPitcher, @DogWatson, @effies, @flicka, @hopper, @howisyourdog, @huskify, @iris, @ixi, @JoergBM2, @JulietAndJones, @kotetsu, @LisaKalayji, @lumi, @masayuki60, @michaelmeckler, @moxxi, @nicegnome, @PaulaTheSausage, @pieceofthepie, @reggie, @rexi, @Saltywavedog, @simmagolda, @sunguramy, @theclementinecorgi, @TheDoodletons, @thisistheworldofollie, @tykesitsfunny2
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NEWSLETTERS
Pack: Newsletters
Criteria: Selected Mastodon accounts who also publish a non-Substack newsletter or blog.
Size: 8
List: Newsletters
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration
Click to download Newsletters-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ724vJjsQ4RP0KAywj4yhsJ06N9LsVargAapcrepQeqjoWZi9BmARnKOYPA1-LXrp7udY0qYqy-iiD/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@caseynewton, @dangillmor, @Daojoan, @democracydocket, @kissane, @molly0xfff, @pluralistic, @wendysiegelman
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OPEN SCIENCE
Pack: OpenScience
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly from the Open Science Community on Mastodon (https://germanrepro.github.io/Mastodon-OpenScience/).
Size: 110
List: OpenScience
Admin: https://fediscience.org/@rupdecat, https://nerdculture.de/@rmrahal
Click to download OpenScience-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQrNf9konejxz71w-_DZ4THfRXLmGtt9W1YyaGhZOySwMaQ_ImiTPKVQa5PeWETBKZsU5Tg7j-rVxZV/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@aeryn_thrace, @allysonlister, @antikemagie, @askopenscience, @Bibliothecaris, @brembs, @cark, @Centre_Mersenne, @CharlesO, @chartgerink, @christof, @clementaubert, @cnsyoung, @da5nsy, @danielskatz, @datacite, @Datendealerin, @david_colquhoun, @dcanalitica, @dstephenlindsay, @dylanvanassche, @dylanwre, @egonw, @EJWagenmakers, @ElenLeFoll, @ElineVG, @EMarinus, @enroweb, @EuroMathSoc, @EvoMRI, @flavioazevedo, @floe, @FORRT, @forschungsdateninfo, @FrederikAust, @fresseng, @fuzzyleapfrog, @GermanRepro, @gin, @GuidoScherp, @hardyschwamm, @hauschke, @HeidiSeibold, @HelmholtzOpenScienceOffice, @hildabast, @HughShanahan, @hye, @ignactro, @improvingpsych, @jcolomb, @JeffreyRStevens, @jesper, @joerglohrer, @joeroe, @JohannesBreuer, @joshmoore, @jscaux, @juancommander, @julsraemy, @kbroman, @kevinmoerman, @kirk, @ktoddbrown, @kuf, @LeaMariaFer, @leonido, @lgatto, @lnnrtwttkhn, @LudwigHuelk, @Luke_Drury, @MalikaIhle, @marind, @MarkHanson, @MarkRubin, @matherion, @meliimming, @mob, @mostlyphysics, @MsPhelps, @ndporter, @nicebread, @oberman, @OpenScienceNL, @owlyph, @paul4kant, @pcirr, @petersuber, @philipncohen, @prereview, @PublicKnowledgeProject, @re3data, @ReproducibiliTeaGlobal, @researchsoft, @rmounce, @rmrahal, @rob_models, @rupdecat, @saraemilyburke, @SarahHLib, @schochastics, @smirandafield, @SusannAuer, @thofel, @Tontrug, @tullney, @twm, @uwuttke, @veit, @wendympatterson, @zuphilip
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SCIENCE
Pack: Science
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on Science.
Size: 49
List: Science
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration
Click to download Science-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQCFmo86nezpwPhO4b0t9GpueZAjyqn6XTnbYiMuGq6CuSWIZzNnFYDOoozDlhVcDtdmA3cSn0u1XMq/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@[email protected], @Adrenochrome, @AkaSci, @BG_Grace, @bojacobs, @BorisBarbour, @BorkLab, @brembs, @CarveHerName, @ChemistryViews, @coreyspowell, @davidho, @drmambobob, @eLife, @etschopp, @firefoxx66, @furqanshah, @futurebird, @GrrlScientist, @j2bryson, @jby, @JenLucPiquant, @johncormier, @justinmponcet, @KnowableMag, @LingLass, @llewelly, @luckytran, @MarcAbrahams, @markwitton, @memerman, @miekeroth, @mike, @mok0, @mpi_grav, @PaoloViscardi, @PeerCommunityIn, @PeterFalkingham, @physics, @rahmstorf, @rewildingmag, @RSPB, @Ruth_Mottram, @ScienceAlert, @ScienceDesk, @Sheril, @STCmicrobeblog, @weatherwest, @ZLabe
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TRANSIT&URBANISM
Pack: Transit&Urbanism
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on Transit and Urbanism.
Size: 49
List: Transit&Urbanism
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration
Click to download Transit&Urbanism-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSmigGLmwHF5gg8eRmzdxuLTG8Fga3_niqoxcdRulfSbuH7AoPVjWGAvRsoV4iuRNFBgUKrEpU2Nzns/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@Alon, @Andres4NY, @BenRossTransit, @bikegridnow, @BMWSB_Bund, @capntransit, @CelloMomOnCars, @citylab, @cityobs, @danielbowen, @davidzipper, @enobacon, @ggwash, @gwagner, @heartlandurbanist, @IndyPedCrisis, @Iragersh, @JasonThorne, @kkavee, @mattcaff, @mobileharv, @[email protected], @notjustbikes, @ohtheurbanity, @OlivierRazemon, @paige, @parkingreform, @PedestrianError, @pedestrianist, @reece, @rivoluzioneurbanamobilita, @shifter, @sub_urban, @TheOverheadWire, @TheWarOnCars, @tmstreet, @urbanistorg, @waeiski
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US POLITICS
Pack: USPolitics
Criteria: Selected accounts that post regularly on US Politics.
Size: 57
List: USPolitics
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration
Click to download USPolitics-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSK9Jj_AwwHOFnoHnkYFeM8F2FVQ5n9dyo-GrNT8NvWHRkaKQL9V7f2KblNGXFjyXLY-gBz5T29e8Kk/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@AnarchoNinaWrites, @anneapplebaum, @atrupar , @austinkocher, @benroyce, @bjmendelson, @blogdiva, @Brandi_Buchman, @briankrebs, @carnage4life, @cathygellis, @charlesgaba , @courtcan, @dangillmor, @dansinker, @darnell, @davetroy, @DemocracyMattersALot, @dworkin, @eloquence, @evangreer, @gleick, @GottaLaff, @heidilifeldman, @indivisibleteam, @inthehands, @jaykuo, @jeffjarvis, @JuliusGoat, @KimPerales, @kims, @knittingknots2, @lawfare, @LindaCollins11, @lolgop, @mattsheffield, @mckra1g, @mekkaokereke, @molly0xfff, @Nonilex, @Npars01, @palafo, @pbump, @Pineywoozle, @QasimRashid, @rbreich, @skykiss, @StillIRise1963, @TheJen, @timkmak, @TomWellborn, @tzimmer_history, @velshi , @w7voa, @wdlindsy, @wendysiegelman, @z_everson
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US POLITICS BOOSTERS
Pack: USPolBooster
Criteria: Selected accounts that boost and post a lot of US Politics content.
Size: 25
List: USPolBooster
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration
Click to download USPolBooster-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQRbos9d6LHWT9_vqZSRuxiDWXMeSzc0mN16L_bz4eEZi-KtBkvv7KCQGVr8nXPoyjccvF26b3XtXhv/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@Americanist4u, @blogdiva, @Catawu, @courtcan, @dannotdaniel, @DemocracyMattersALot, @futurebird, @Hey_Beth , @inthehands, @Jessicascott09, @JonChevreau, @katrinakatrinka, @Lazarou, @lolgop, @lupus_blackfur, @NewsDesk, @Nonya_Bidniss, @Npars01, @Pineywoozle, @PJ_Evans, @Remittancegirl, @rightardia, @soc_i_ety, @TCatInReality, @TonyStark
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US POLITICS MEDIA
Pack: USPolMedia
Criteria: Selected media accounts that post coverage of US Politics.
Size: 34
List: USPolMedia
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration
Click to download USPolMedia-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTAnZ4TuG716HNsSf4VmLDNPvFn_bAdc8Bq3J9eMPWnW6XKOIol-wZnYj2-ZrFj28zNQQ1fwxgtHURj/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
@19thnews, @404mediaco, @AssociatedPress, @Bellingcat, @BNONews, @bolts, @coloradosun, @crooksandliars, @csmonitor, @damemagazine, @DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss, @freedomofpress, @Grist, @igd_news, @indybay, @Inoreader, @MotherJones2021, @msfreepress, @NewsDesk, @npr, @podnews, @ProPublica, @RollingStone, @TeenVogue, @TexasObserver, @TheAtlantic, @TheConversationUS, @TheSeattleTimes, @theverge, @TucsonSentinel, @UnicornRiot, @uspolitics, @vanityfair, @VOANews
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US POLITICS THREADS
Pack: USPolThreads
Criteria: Selected accounts that post about US Politics from Threads visible on Mastodon.
Size: 20
List: USPolThreads
Admin: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration
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SPECIAL THREADS NOTICE: Following these Threads accounts could lead to your information being shared with Meta as per their privacy policy.
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Click to download USPolThreads-list.csv: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTKAP6T49TEB6Fk9ebBBtIAlaQUkuAtfAdtld78KPDW0VQLZ9o5enoE29MWH09TvI8Mmk9XwQgMaMPr/pub?output=csv
Accounts (click to view profile):
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Size: 60
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Hashtag Lists @[email protected] · 2023-07-22 · 15:37 UTC

CW: Scientists in the Natural Applied Sciences - Long List to Scroll!

Scientists in the Natural Sciences - Applied Sciences
• Published (not necessarily in field)
Please Message for Additions, Deletions or Edits
Agricultural Science
Birge, Traci @TraciInFinland
Bommarco, Riccardo @bommarco
Cardinael, Rémi @remicardinael
Ehlers, Melf-Hinrich @Melf
ETH Zürich @crop_science_eth
Finger, Robert @robertfinger
Hepworth, Craig @floridafruitgeek
Kniss, Andrew R @AK
Lynch, Megan @ml
Malek, Žiga @zigamalek
Morris, Ed R @Edrmorris
Nordquist, Rebecca @renordquist
Parent, Essi @essi
Plieninger, Tobias @plieninger
Rodriguez, Carolina @CRodriguez
Schulze, Christoph @qris
Schwerdtner, Ulrike @UliSchwerdtner
Biophysics
Bagley, Bryce Allen @babagley
Batalha, Natalie M @nbatalha
Benedetti, Fabrizio @scienceFab
Bonsma-Fisher, Madeleine @mbonsma
Delpierre, Julien @JulienDelpierre
Dmitrieff, Serge @dmitrieff
Etienne, Jocelyn @jocelyn_etienne
Giorgino, Toni @giorginolab
Haase, Albrecht @neurophysics
Kennard, Andrew @askennard
Michieletto, Davide @dmichiel
Lew, Matthew D @lewlab
Meesters, Christian @rupdecat
Meyer, Carola @carbonwoman
Neher, Richard @richardneher
Plested, Andrew @andrewplested
Popescu, Gabriela K @PopStarLab
Rowland, David James @drdrowland
Sadoine, Mayuri @MayuriSadoine
Schwarz, Ulrich Sebastian @UlrichSchwarz
Tyka, Mike @mtyka
Wallace, Mark I @markianwallace
GitHub Biophysicists
Biotremology
López Díez, Juan José @Tremoneta
Climate Science
Brettschneider, Brian @Climatologist49
Campbell, Micheline @michcampbell
Cobb, Kim @coralsncaves
Gironella, Fritzi G @fagg
Gleick, Peter @petergleick
Gowan, Evan J @DrEvanGowan
Hawkins, Ed @ed_hawkins
Hayhoe, Katharine @kathhayhoe
Ilyina, Tatiana @TatianaIlyina
Karmalkar, Ambarish @akarma
Labe, Zach M @ZLabe
LeGrande, Allegra Nicole @atthenius
Marelle, Louis @louismarelle
Mottram, Ruth @Ruth_Mottram
Pollice, Robert @robpollice
Rahmstorf, Stefan @rahmstorf
Thoman Jr, Richard L @AlaskaWx
Van de Velde, Jorn @jornvdv
Climatology
Barnes-Keoghan, Ian @ibk
Dupont, Claire @Cladupont
Lucht, Wolfgang @W_Lucht
Wagner, Gernot @gwagner
@ClimateMigration Follows & boosts Climate Science experts
Engineering
Aldrich, Chris @chrisaldrich
Barba, Lorena A @labarba
Berry, Carlotta A @drcaberry
Ellison, Doug @doug_ellison
Gill, Kevin M @kevinmgill
Hale, Steven J @drstevenhale
Hashemi, Nicole @NicoleHashemi
Hulse, Daniel @Daniel_Hulse
Hurkat, Skand @skandhurkat
Kruger, Justin D @jdavidnet
Subramanian, R @subu_caps
• AeroSpace Engineers
Cothern, Kyle @Risknc
Dubos, Gregory @astroptere
Ellison, Doug @doug_ellison
Hutt, Jason T @jathhutt
• Chemical Engineers
Krawczyk, Paweł @kravietz
McNeill, V Faye @vfmcneill
Meekins, Benjamin H @meekinslab
• Environmental Engineers
Haas, Charles @ProfCharlesHaas
Parent, Essi @essi
Scriven, David @David_Epithet
Walker-Franklin, Imari @calimari
• Software Engineers
Brooker, Marc @marcbrooker
Emir, Burak @burakemir
Famelis, Michalis @mfamelis
Hubbard, Philip @philiphubbard
Mueller-Roemer, Johannes S @JSMuellerRoemer
Pavlic, Theodore P @tedpavlic
Ralph, Paul @paulralph
Sacerdote, David @dsacer
Santander-Vela, Juan de Dios @juandesant
Zaslavsky, David @diazona
• Systems Engineers
Bean, Keri @PlanetaryKeri
Reck, Rebecca M @RebeccaEE
Santander-Vela, Juan de Dios @juandesant
Van Bossuyt, Douglas Lee @douglasvb
Fedi.Directory Engineering
Trunk Engineering
Environmental Science
Brander, Susanne M @smbrander
Büchau, Yann @nobodyinperson
Feldwick, Mark @MarkIngs
Glückler, Ramesh @rglueckler
Gusmão, Felipe @fgusmao
Hart-Davis, Damon @DamonHD
Jehn, Florian Ulrich @florianjehn
Jones, Oliver AH @Dr_Oli_Jones
Killam, Daniel @dantheclamman
Mann, Michael E @MichaelEMann
Manuel, Ivan Ruiz @IvanRManuel
McKinney, Zeke J @ZekeMD
Osborn, Mark @MicrobialLife
O'Shea, Bethany @DrBethRocks
Parent, Essi @essi
Pomeranz, Justin PZ @PZ_ecology
Pyle, Greg @gregpyle
Ruiz Manuel, Ivan @IvanRManuel
Sigmund, Gabriel @GabrielS
Sims, Kerry @DrKerryS
Sultana, Farhana @farhanasultana
Tate, Brandon K @brandontate
Torkelson, Jaclyn @DesertAndReef
Walker-Franklin, Imari @calimari
Weintraub, Michael N @mnweintraub
Zourek, Leonard @leonardzourek
Trunk Environmentalists
Environmental Toxicology
Feldwick, Mark @MarkIngs
Hammer, Sjúrður @sjurdur
Pyle, Greg @gregpyle
Reichman, Suzie M @SuzieReichman
Whitehead, Andrew @andrewwhitehead
Epidemiology
Alwan, Nisreen A @nisreen
Bassani, Diego G @dgbassani
Bastian, Hilda @hildabast
Basu, Arindam @arinbasu1
Baxter, Nancy @enenbee
Bazaco, Michael @MCBazacoPhD
Bergstrom, Carl T @ct_bergstrom
Bolker, Ben @bbolker
Borrell, Luisa N @lborrell
Chiong, Winston @winstonchiong
D'Angelo, Nico @nicod
Fagherazzi, Guy @gfaghe
Feldman, Ryan @EMPoisonPharmD
Fontenelle, Leonardo Ferreira @lffontenelle
Funk, Sebastian @sbfnk
Ghafari, Mahan @mghafari
Gonsalves, Gregg @gregggonsalves
Handel, Andreas @andreashandel
Hernan, Miguel @MiguelHernan
Hill, Edward M @EdMHill
Hyde, Zoë @DrZoeHyde
Jamal, Alainna J @alainnajj
Kinney, Gregory L @mycotropic
Kline, David @DavidKline
Kucharski, Adam @adamjkucharski
Ley, Sylvia @sylvialey
Meesters, Christian @rupdecat
Mekaru, Sumiko @Sumiko_Mekaru
Moss, Rob @rob_models
Murray, Eleanor J @epiellie
Newman, Kira L @KiraNewmanMDPhD
Pearce, Neil @nepearce
Peiper, Nicholas C @doctorpipes
Polis, Chelsea B @cbpolis
Salemi, Jason L @JasonSalemi
Schrom, John @johnschrom
Sesay, Cecirahim @cecirahim
Smith, Tara C @aetiology
Tennant, Peter WG @pwgtennant
Thelwall, Simon @simonthelwall
Tobin, Martin D @martin_tobin
Wakeham, David @wakehamAMR
Wallace, Katrine @EpidemiologistKat
Walsh, Michael @EpiDoctor
• Genetic Epidemiology
Hodcroft, Emma @firefoxx66
Meesters, Christian @rupdecat
Retchless, Adam C @adamr
Tobin, Martin D @martin_tobin
• Wildlife Epidemiology
Shriner, Susan A @SusanAShriner
Fedi.Directory Epidemiology
Evolutionary Science
Albert, Victor A @PlantEvoGenomics
Anderson, Chris @c_n_anderson
Arnold, Sarah EJ @sejarnold
Aylward, Frank O @foaylward
Barber, Matthew F @bioBarber
Barker, Michael S @MikeBarker
Benham, Phred M @TheSaltySparrow
Bergstrom, Carl T @ct_bergstrom
Blazanin, Michael @mikeblazanin
Bolker, Ben @bbolker
Clarke, John T @jclarkepaleo
Constantinides, Bede @bede
Corman, Victor Max @vmcorman
Davison, Angus @snailman
Débarre, Florence @flodebarre
Delph, Lynda @LyndaDelph
Eisen, Jonathan @phylogenomics
Enquist, Brian J @bjenquist
Fisher, Diana O @Diana_mammalecology
Ghafari, Mahan @mghafari
Gogarten, Jan F @communities
Grau-Bové, Xavier @xgrau
Gregory, T Ryan @TRyanGregory
Hakala, Sanja @SanjaHakala
Hancock, John M @jmhancock
Hartberg, Yasha @yasha
Iwaniuk, N Andrew @brainsevolve
Jarochowska, Emilia @Emiliagnathus
Kane, Emily A @TheKaneLab
Katzourakis, Aris @ariskatzourakis
Kellie, Dax J @daxkellie
Kennard, Andrew @askennard
Knell, Robert J @robknell
Knudson, Alexander H @Knudson_H
Koene, Joris M @jkoene
Kovács, Ákos T @EvolvedBiofilm
Kristensen, Nadiah Pardede @nadiah
LeBoeuf, Adria @Adria
Leighton, Gavin M @GMcLeanLeighton
Lenski, Richard @RELenski
Louvel, Guillaume @GullumLuvl
Lukas, Dieter @DieterLukas
McCutcheon, John @mcsymbiont
Meuthen, Denis @DenisMeuthen
Moreau, Corrie S @CorrieMoreau
Neher, Richard @richardneher
Nelson, Chase W @chasewnelson
Osmond, Matthew @mmosmond
Ralph, Peter L @petrelharp
Schreiber, Sebastian @SebastianSchreiber
Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey @jrossibarra
Schürch, Roger @schuemaa
Sheard, Catherine @sheardcat
Shropshire, Dylan J @ShropshireJD
Simon, Alexis @alxsim
Slotte, Tanja @tanjaslotte
Sponheimer, Matt @spon
Stajich, Jason @hyphaltip
Strepsipzerg, Max Aubry @StrepsipZerg
Szala, Anna @anna
Tzovaras, Bastian Greshake @gedankenstuecke
Vlieger, Leon @inqbiol
Warrington, Miya H @MiyaWarrington
White, Rhys Thomas @Rhys
Yoder, Jeremy B @jby
Fedi.Directory Evolutionary Biology
FoodScience
Hammann, Simon @simonhammann
Kupferschmidt, Kai @kakape
Genomics
Albert, Victor A @PlantEvoGenomics
Aninta, Sabhrina Gita @sagitaninta
Bayer, Philipp @PhilippBayer
Benham, Phred M @TheSaltySparrow
Breitbart, Mya @virome_girl
Clare, Elizabeth L @ProfBatGirl
Coassin, Stefan @stncsn
Constantinides, Bede @bede
Davison, Angus @snailman
Eisen, Jonathan @phylogenomics
Fisher, Simon E @ProfSimonFisher
Friedberg, Iddo @iddux
Gebhard, Christian @basepair
Grau-Bové, Xavier @xgrau
Gregory, T Ryan @TRyanGregory
Guhlin, Joseph @josephguhlin
Gunter, Chris @girlscientist
Hamilton, Bruce A @bahome
Hancock, John M @jmhancock
Johnsson, Martin @mrtnj
Katzourakis, Aris @ariskatzourakis
Kieser, Silas @silask
Konda, Prathyusha @prats
Lenski, Richard @RELenski
Louvel, Guillaume @GullumLuvl
MacLean, Dan @danmaclean
McCutcheon, John @mcsymbiont
Mäklin, Tommi @themaklin
Maurizio, Paul L @paul
Meesters, Christian @rupdecat
Mutalik, Vivek K @vivek_mutalik
Neher, Richard @richardneher
Nelson, Chase W @chasewnelson
Pembleton, Luke W @lwpembleton
Phinney, Brett S @UCDProteomics
Porter, Teresita M @DNAdataPhile
Racimo, Fernando @FerRacimo
Ross-Ibarra, Jeffrey @jrossibarra
Salter, Susannah J @zannah_du
Schuster-Böckler Benjamin @bensb
Stajich, Jason @hyphaltip
Tobin, Martin D @martin_tobin
Viñuela, Ana @AnaVinuela
Vlieger, Leon @inqbiol
Walmarth, Phillip A @pwilmart
White, Rhys Thomas @Rhys
Yoder, Jeremy B @jby
Zakour, Nouri Ben @genomiss
GitHub Palaeogenomicists
Library & Information Systems
Brown, Leah @leahdriel
Chalifour, Joshua @owlyph
Cockett, Rowan @rowan
Costas Comesana, Rodrigo @rodrigocostas
DeRosa, Robin @actualham
Deschaine, Anne @aehdeschaine
Dudek, Jonathan @jo_dudek
Eickhoff, Carsten @carsten
Fedorak, Lisa @FedorakIndexing
Gerdes, Thomas @ThomasGerdes
Goldberg, Julie @Julie
Hauschke, Christian @hauschke
Hedreen, Rebecca @delibrarian
Horton, Laurence @laurencehorton
Karcher, Sebastian @adam42smith
Keegan, Brian C @bkeegan
Levine, Kendra K @kklevine
Macgregor, George @g3om4c
Monnin, Jenn @msjennmo
Nazarovets, Serhii @serhii
Nyhan, Kate @kdnyhan
Odell, Jere D @jaireeo
Ramshaw, Veronica @verolynne
Schomberg, Jessica @schomj
Seifried, Rebecca M @rmseifried
Shirazi, Roxanne @roxanneshirazi
University of Groningen Library @Bibliothecaris
Ward, Kestrel @KestrelSWard
Wuttke, Ulrike @uwuttke
Ziegler, Sophie @Sophie
Trunk Librarians
Medicine
Alwan, Nisreen A @nisreen
Argyropoulos, Christos @ChristosArgyrop
Bakke, Håkon Kvåle @BakkeHK
Barber, Carolyn @cbarbermd
Barnkob, Michael B @mikebarnkob
Basu, Arindam @arinbasu1
Baxter, Nancy @enenbee
Bhattacharyya, Roby @roby
Briscoe, Joshua @jcbriscoe
Casas Ciria, Francisco Javier @cientounero
Corman, Victor Max @vmcorman
Crystal, Ruth Ann @catchthebaby
Delaney, Brendan C @bcdelaney1
Feldman, Ryan @EMPoisonPharmD
Flores, Anthony R @pedIDDoc
Fontenelle, Leonardo Ferreira @lffontenelle
Funk, Sebastian @sbfnk
Gebhard, Christian @basepair
Halama, Niels @halama_immuno
Jamal, Alainna J @alainnajj
Johansen, Michael @mike_johansen
McKinney, Zeke J @ZekeMD
Mohr, Emma @Mohr_lab
Newman, Kira L @KiraNewmanMDPhD
Nguyễn, Bích-Mây @bicmay
Pollara, Gabriele @gpollara
Schwartz, Ilan S @GermHunterMD
Steinbach, Daniel @danielsteinbach
Stone, Judy @drjudystone
Tomasson, Michael H @tomasson
Topolsky, Ivan @dryak
Trebach, Joshua D @jtrebach
• Critical Care
Barthélémy, Romain @rombarthelemy
Fedi.Directory Health and Medical
followlists.online Anaesthetist/Anesthesiologist Critical Care
followlists.online Infectious Diseases & #IDMastodon
followlists.online Medical AI
GitHub Medical AI
Trunk Medicine
NeuroScience
Agrawal, Niket @niketagrawal
Aly, Mariam @mariam
Barbour, Boris @BorisBarbour
Bellec, Pierre @pierre_bellec
Brembs, Björn @brembs
Cardona, Albert @albertcardona
Case, Sami @samilcase
Chiong, Winston @winstonchiong
Desrochers, Theresa M @DesrochersLab
Duvelle, Éléonor @elduvelle_neuro
Elsilä, Lauri @laurielsila
Garside, Danny @da5nsy
Gellersen, Helena M @helenagellersen
Hall, Megan C @ScienceisWhere
Haun, Andrew M @amhaun
Hoffman, Kari L @karihoffman
Hofmann, Ulrich G @kraweel65
Hyseni, Fjola @fjola
Iwaniuk, N Andrew @brainsevolve
Jékely, Gáspár @jekely
John, Yohan J @DrYohanJohn
Kachlicka, Magdalena @mkachlicka
Kanev, Jacob @jkanev
Karashchuk, Lili @lili
Karmarkar, Uma R @uma_karma
Leterrier, Christophe @christlet
Lindsay, Grace W @Neurograce
Miller, Earl K @ekmiller
Moleman, Peter @MolemanPeter
Negwer, Moritz @moritz_negwer
Ngiam, William XQ @will_ngiam
Olsen, Rosanna @RosannaOlsen
O’Mara, Shane @shaneomara
Popescu, Gabriela K @PopStarLab
Schultz, Simon R @neuralengine
Seuntjens, Eve @EveSeuntjens
Sinha, Manisha @manisha
Sutterer, Matthew J @mjsutterer
Thakur, Dhananjay P @dhananjaythakur
Timberlake, Ben @ByBenTimberlake
van Bree, Sander @sandervanbree
Wu, Wayne @attninaction
GitHub Neuroscience
Pharmacology
Bartos, Piia @piiabartos
Case, Sami @samilcase
Elsilä, Lauri @laurielsila
Faradilla, Meutia @meutiafaradilla
Feldman, Ryan @EMPoisonPharmD
Konrad, David @dbkonrad
Moleman, Peter @MolemanPeter
Rutz, Adriano @adafede
Wilkins, Justin J @justinwilkins
Pharmacometrics
Smith, Mike K @MikeKSmith
Wilkins, Justin J @justinwilkins
Physiology
Caspar, Kai R @nomascus
Glazier, Amelia @ameliaglazier
Hoffman, Kari L @karihoffman
Olson, Christopher R @ChristophROlson
Schumacher, Michael A @schumacher
Tomasson, Michael H @tomasson
Umbers, Kate DL @kateumbers
Wayne, Nancy L @nancylwayne
Psychiatry
Anderson, Chase TM @ChaseTMAnderson
Briscoe, Joshua @jcbriscoe
Eckert, Anna-Lena @eckertal
Lam, Raymond W @DrRaymondLam
Lee, Kangjoo @kangjoolee
Reeder, Michael @admin
Turban, Jack L @jackturban
Urgelés, Diego @urgeles
followlists.online Psychiatrists
Scientific Computing
Eickhoff, Carsten @carsten
Frost, Jarvist Moore @Jarvist
Jambor, Helena @helenajambor
• Computational Biology
Andreani, Virgile @Armavica
Argyropoulos, Christos @ChristosArgyrop
Bahlai, Christie @cbahlai
Carpenter, Anne E @DrAnneCarpenter
Clark, Chase M @chasingmicrobes
Fagherazzi, Guy @gfaghe
Gatto, Laurent @lgatto
Gómez-Dans, José @jgomezdans
Hauck, Judith @jhauck
Hill, Edward M @EdMHill
Hoffman, Kari L @karihoffman
Hubbard, Philip @philiphubbard
Hyseni, Fjola @fjola
Jarosz, Wojciech @wjarosz
Jessen, Walter @wj
John, Yohan J @DrYohanJohn
Kanev, Jacob @jkanev
Kedzierska, Kasia Zofia @kzkedzierska
Kucharavy, Andrei @andrei_chiffa
Louvel, Guillaume @GullumLuvl
MaClean, Dan @danmaclean
Mendes, Pedro @gepasi
O'Donnell, Cian @cian
MacLean, Dan @danmaclean
Meesters, Christian @rupdecat
Mendes, Pedro @gepasi
Moore, Jason H @moorejh
Moss, Rob @rob_models
Ross, Noam @noamross
Scott, Eric R @LeafyEricScott
Sinha, Manisha @manisha
Stévant, Isabelle @IsabelleStevant
Stowell, Dan @danstowell
Viscownti, Alessia @alesssia
Winkler, Tilo @twinkler
• Climate Modelling
Easterbrook, Steve @steve
Ilyina, Tatiana @TatianaIlyina
Fedi.Directory Data Visualisation
Soil Science
Cardinael, Rémi @remicardinael
Moorberg, Colby J @ColbyDigsSoil
Schymanski, Stanislaus J @schymans
Schwerdtner, Ulrike @UliSchwerdtner
Taxonomy
Brabant, Craig @mutillidae
Brignoli, Gino @gino
De Vivo, Mattia @mdv
Hobern, Donald @dhobern
Musetti, Luciana @DrLu_Musetti
Plazi Species @plazi_species
Toxicology
Feldman, Ryan @EMPoisonPharmD
Trebach, Joshua D @jtrebach
Veterinary Medicine
Firth, Clair @Buxton_Vienna
MacPhee, Daniel J @dmacphee
Mekaru, Sumiko @Sumiko_Mekaru
Nordquist, Rebecca @renordquist
van Vlie, Arnoud @dutchscientist
Voss, Sarah J @Sarah_J_Voss
Wakeham, David @wakehamAMR
More extensive lists on Mastodon can be found exploring the following
Fedi.Directory - Science & Humanities
find.sciences.social - Find Academics on Mastodon
GitHub - Academics on Mastodon Lists
TrueSciPhi - Curated science, philosophy, and mathematics lists covering podcasts, Mastodon, and Bluesky
Trunk - allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people
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Hashtag Lists @[email protected] · 2023-07-19 · 17:57 UTC

CW: Scientists in the Formal Sciences - Long List

Scientists in the Formal Sciences
• Published (not necessarily in field)
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Artificial Intelligence (#AI)
Amsch, Jesper @jesper
Aspuru-Guzik, Alán @aspuru
Bittremieux, Wout @wout
Carpenter, Anne E @DrAnneCarpenter
Delaneey, Brendan @bcdelaney1
Ehsan, Upol @upol
Fagherazzi, Guy @gfaghe
Guest, Olivia @olivia
Guha, Rajarshi @rguha
Honnibal, Matthew @honnibal
Isert, Clemens @clemensisert
Kramer, Roban H @roban
Lieto, Antonio @antoniolieto
Mamo, Nicholas @memonick
Marquetand, Philip @marquetand
Miller, Tristan @Logological
Mohan, Shiwali @shiwali
Molinari, Julia @serenissimaj
Moore, Jason H @moorejh
Pavlic, Theodore P @tedpavlic
Sinapayen, Lana @lana
Tyka, Mike @mtyka
• Machine Learning
Azencott, Chloé-Agathe @cazencott
Bayer, Philipp @PhilippBayer
Caufield, Harry @jhc
Cerisara, Christophe @cerisara
Grøftehauge, Morten K @drgroftehauge
Hunt, Emily Lauren @emilydoesastro
Ji, Yangfeng @yangfeng
Lehmann, Jens @jenslehmann
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Rob Moss @[email protected] · 2026-02-24 · 00:53 UTC

I've recently migrated a few (small) sites from #MkDocs (no longer maintained) to #Zensical, which went very smoothly.
It also motivated me to write a small Markdown extension for including source code for #Python functions, classes, methods, etc, similar to the `:pyobject:` option in reStructuredText's `literalinclude` directive:
https://includepy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
(I'm aware of the snippets extension, which has many more features, but requires adding markers to the source files)

#python #zensical #mkdocs
Rob Moss @[email protected] · 2026-02-24 · 00:53 UTC

I've recently migrated a few (small) sites from #MkDocs (no longer maintained) to #Zensical, which went very smoothly.
It also motivated me to write a small Markdown extension for including source code for #Python functions, classes, methods, etc, similar to the `:pyobject:` option in reStructuredText's `literalinclude` directive:
https://includepy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
(I'm aware of the snippets extension, which has many more features, but requires adding markers to the source files)

#python #zensical #mkdocs
Rob Moss @[email protected] · 2026-02-24 · 00:53 UTC

I've recently migrated a few (small) sites from #MkDocs (no longer maintained) to #Zensical, which went very smoothly.
It also motivated me to write a small Markdown extension for including source code for #Python functions, classes, methods, etc, similar to the `:pyobject:` option in reStructuredText's `literalinclude` directive:
https://includepy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
(I'm aware of the snippets extension, which has many more features, but requires adding markers to the source files)

#python #zensical #mkdocs
Rob Moss @rob_models · 2026-02-24 · 00:53 UTC

I've recently migrated a few (small) sites from #MkDocs (no longer maintained) to #Zensical, which went very smoothly.
It also motivated me to write a small Markdown extension for including source code for #Python functions, classes, methods, etc, similar to the `:pyobject:` option in reStructuredText's `literalinclude` directive:
https://includepy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
(I'm aware of the snippets extension, which has many more features, but requires adding markers to the source files)

#python #zensical #mkdocs
Rob Moss @[email protected] · 2022-11-17 · 12:24 UTC

CW: Reproducible research

Reflecting on ~3 years of #InfectiousDisease #Epidemic #modelling for COVID-19, I'm trying to herd various fuzzy ideas into a clear narrative about how research software engineering (#RSE) can support #Reproducibility and #ResearchQuality (in computational fields, at least). Particularly when timelines are tight.
The essence is: mistakes will be made; how can I detect them as early as possible, fix them, and ensure they don't happen again?
#VersionControl #SoftwareTesting

#softwaretesting #versioncontrol #researchquality #reproducibility #rse #modelling
Chuck Darwin @[email protected] · 2024-01-20 · 21:47 UTC

Rob Horning writes:
It seems to me that #language #models, maybe by definition, are automated versions of #structuralism, in that they construct a synchronic, weighted matrix of language’s possibilities that is forcibly detached from history — a model of la langue that can generate an infinite number of paroles. And some structuralists, like some “#AI” advocates today, were eager to marginalize human #consciousness as a unique constitutive force — thus you find Claude Lévi-Strauss declaring in La Pensée sauvage that “the final goal of the human sciences is not to constitute man but to dissolve him.”
Structuralism seems to want to reveal this “hidden art in the depths of the human soul” and “divine from nature” how and why certain things and concepts are associated.
Lévi-Strauss claims that:
👉 the universe signified long before people began to know what it signified; no doubt that goes without saying. But, from the foregoing analysis, it also emerges that from the beginning, the universe signified the totality of what humankind can expect to know about it. What people call the progress of the human mind and, in any case, the progress of scientific knowledge, could only have been and can only ever be constituted out of processes of correcting and recutting of patterns, regrouping, defining relationships of belonging and discovering new resources, inside a totality which is closed and complementary to itself. 👈
Viewing the universe as a closed totality suggests that #time itself is meaningless, an unfolding of a pre-existing and #unalterable pattern that humans try to fathom but can’t change.
It seems as though this vision animates the claims and the fears of the companies working to impose language models on us as the apotheosis of general intelligence.
https://open.substack.com/pub/robhorning/p/neo-structuralism?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#language #models #structuralism #ai #consciousness #time
BJJ Mental Models @[email protected] · 2023-11-06 · 18:26 UTC

Episode 257 is now live! Rob Biernacki breaks down his competition mindset: a rejection of the “alpha” tropes we see all over social media.
Listen now by subscribing to the BJJ Mental Models podcast on any of the major podcast services. Alternately, follow the direct link to this episode in the @bjjmentalmodels bio, or by visiting this URL: https://bjj.plus/257
#bjj #jiujitsu #brazilianjiujitsu #gi #nogi #grappling #martialarts #ibjjf #adcc #bjjmentalmodels

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Richard @[email protected] · 2023-02-03 · 22:51 UTC

@MatthewToad42 @rob_cornelius @breadandcircuses
Ok, I appreciate that perspective. Either way, the approach is the same -- build sustainability and the capacity of regeneration at the community level. That's where policy meets the individual. That's where production happens, and production is the game no matter what else. So... accomplishing that goal serves both of these representational models of the future. Heck yeah.
#SustainableLifestyle
#SustainableCommunities #TransitionTowns

#sustainablelifestyle #sustainablecommunities #transitiontowns
Martel Innovate @[email protected] · 2025-02-02 · 09:49 UTC

🚀This morning at #FOSDEM2025, our won Rob Van Kranenburg was on stage spotlighting Disposable Digital Identities!
In the session “We need Disposable Digital Identities for a more secure and resilient digital society”, Rob and the team explored:
🔑 The evolution from traditional identity models to Disposable Identities for privacy-first, secure interactions.
#DigitalIdentities #OpenSource #SelfSovereignIdentity #DisposableIdentities #MartelInnovate #FOSDEM

#fosdem2025 #digitalidentities #opensource #selfsovereignidentity #disposableidentities #martelinnovate
Thor A. Hopland @[email protected] · 2024-06-26 · 13:37 UTC

Hi, I'm a #VentureCapitalist and my job is to make sure we can rob you and call it "free market" in the same breath.
Why do data tracking and canvasing with your own servers, when you can save on the cost of processing by letting people pay for expensive GPUs and electricity to do the work for you/?
We call this model the schmuck model.
Not all ‘open source’ AI models are actually open: here’s a ranking
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02012-5

#venturecapitalist
Lee Bogomil @[email protected] · 2023-05-28 · 19:40 UTC

These outrageous acts of socioeconomic cleansing (see thread linked below) give the lie to all the mendacious claims that evictions of poor people’s encampments are about public health, safety, or “environmental impacts”. Even those that are exemplary models of minimizing those impacts are being evicted all over the country to appease landlords and upper-middle-income gentrifiers who have many times more detrimental effects on the local community and global ecology.
This is not about public safety, the environment, or even “quality of life”. It’s about maintaining extortionate housing prices and propping up the system of rentier capitalism by comprehensively criminalizing the mere act of existing anywhere, in any way whatsoever, without paying the banks and landlords their monthly pounds of flesh and engaging in the consumer economy at a level that the wealthy consider “respectable”.
There is simply no conceivable moral justification for this legalized neo-feudal protection racket, where if you don’t keep making skyrocketing extortion payments every month, the landlord / “property investor” class sends a band of sadistic psychopaths with guns to rob you of your belongings and displace you from your home by violent force.
This is happening practically everywhere and every day across the entire USA. And it’s not going to stop until people of conscience start organizing in large numbers to say, “No more! We won’t be forced to pay rent to live on the earth where we were born!” Every time these thugs show up for another round of evictions against the most marginalized people in this country, they need to start finding themselves faced with overwhelming resistance, including support for elements willing to engage in vigorous, forceful self-defense if necessary. That’s the only way we’re going to keep these crimes against humanity from continuing to accelerate.
This is, for me, on an equal footing with the climate and ecological emergency as the most urgent domestic problem in the US today, and it is inextricably intertwined with all the others. If we have no right to exist (and no, something we have to purchase is not a right - it’s a commodity), then none of our other rights count for a goddamn thing. This country’s unhoused people are on the front lines of one of the most crucial and urgent social justice struggles of our time, and need a hell of a lot more solidarity than they’re currently getting. Let’s all step up!
https://social.coop/@mlncn/110436188668525614
#Housing #HousingJustice #SocialHousing #Homeless #Houseless #Unhoused #RentStrike #RightToExist #PropertyIsTheft #Capitalism #SimpleLiving #Police #Minneapolis #Minnesota

#housing #housingjustice #socialhousing #homeless #houseless #unhoused
Oliver Kay 🤖 @[email protected] · 2025-09-04 · 15:32 UTC

Eleven players were signed by the Premier League's "Big Six" clubs from "other 14" clubs this summer — not just Isak, but Norgaard, Eze, Joao Pedro, Enciso, Kerkez, Trafford, Ait-Nouri, Cunha, Mbeumo, Kudus.
https://nytimes.com/athletic/65921…
Between 2015/16 and 2021/22, such deals had slowed to a trickle. In 2017/18 there were just two: Riyad Mahrez (#LCFC to #MCFC) and a 38-year-old Rob Green (#HTFC to #CFC).
What's changed? Some will immediately scream "PSR!"
But that's a little too easy and convenient an explanation because
a) financial regulation was introduced in 2013
b) (this surprised me) the "Big Six" have contributed a far smaller share of Premier League spending in recent years than they did in the pre/early-PSR period.
(And if, like me, you're inclined to view it as a "Big Six Plus One" (#NUFC) now, then yes you lose the sale of Isak from that list of 11, but you also add the signings of Elanga, Wissa and Ramsey.)
PSR has certainly been a factor in
a) reinforcing the established order — bad
b) leading clubs to pursue more sensible, sustainable business models — good
but there are bigger factors, which relate to the concentration of wealth and talent in the Premier League — undeniably good for the Premier League, undeniably bad for football further afield
https://nytimes.com/athletic/65921…

#lcfc #mcfc #htfc #cfc #nufc
Oliver Kay 🤖 @[email protected] · 2025-09-04 · 15:32 UTC

Eleven players were signed by the Premier League's "Big Six" clubs from "other 14" clubs this summer — not just Isak, but Norgaard, Eze, Joao Pedro, Enciso, Kerkez, Trafford, Ait-Nouri, Cunha, Mbeumo, Kudus.
https://nytimes.com/athletic/65921…
Between 2015/16 and 2021/22, such deals had slowed to a trickle. In 2017/18 there were just two: Riyad Mahrez (#LCFC to #MCFC) and a 38-year-old Rob Green (#HTFC to #CFC).
What's changed? Some will immediately scream "PSR!"
But that's a little too easy and convenient an explanation because
a) financial regulation was introduced in 2013
b) (this surprised me) the "Big Six" have contributed a far smaller share of Premier League spending in recent years than they did in the pre/early-PSR period.
(And if, like me, you're inclined to view it as a "Big Six Plus One" (#NUFC) now, then yes you lose the sale of Isak from that list of 11, but you also add the signings of Elanga, Wissa and Ramsey.)
PSR has certainly been a factor in
a) reinforcing the established order — bad
b) leading clubs to pursue more sensible, sustainable business models — good
but there are bigger factors, which relate to the concentration of wealth and talent in the Premier League — undeniably good for the Premier League, undeniably bad for football further afield
https://nytimes.com/athletic/65921…

#nufc #cfc #htfc #mcfc #lcfc
Oliver Kay 🤖 @[email protected] · 2025-09-04 · 15:32 UTC

Eleven players were signed by the Premier League's "Big Six" clubs from "other 14" clubs this summer — not just Isak, but Norgaard, Eze, Joao Pedro, Enciso, Kerkez, Trafford, Ait-Nouri, Cunha, Mbeumo, Kudus.
https://nytimes.com/athletic/65921…
Between 2015/16 and 2021/22, such deals had slowed to a trickle. In 2017/18 there were just two: Riyad Mahrez (#LCFC to #MCFC) and a 38-year-old Rob Green (#HTFC to #CFC).
What's changed? Some will immediately scream "PSR!"
But that's a little too easy and convenient an explanation because
a) financial regulation was introduced in 2013
b) (this surprised me) the "Big Six" have contributed a far smaller share of Premier League spending in recent years than they did in the pre/early-PSR period.
(And if, like me, you're inclined to view it as a "Big Six Plus One" (#NUFC) now, then yes you lose the sale of Isak from that list of 11, but you also add the signings of Elanga, Wissa and Ramsey.)
PSR has certainly been a factor in
a) reinforcing the established order — bad
b) leading clubs to pursue more sensible, sustainable business models — good
but there are bigger factors, which relate to the concentration of wealth and talent in the Premier League — undeniably good for the Premier League, undeniably bad for football further afield
https://nytimes.com/athletic/65921…

#lcfc #mcfc #htfc #cfc #nufc
DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2023-11-24 · 22:59 UTC

#Nevada rancher cites ‘shroud of #secrecy’ at #LithiumMine
By Scott Sonner, Associated Press
Published Friday, Oct. 29, 2021
RENO — “A Nevada rancher suing to block construction of the largest lithium mine in the U.S. says the government’s #environmental assessment of the project relies on a baseline set by a consultant for the #mining company with a conflict of interest that trivializes potential harm to water resources and #wildlife near the #Oregon line.
“Bartell Ranch LLC wants a U.S. judge to order the Bureau of Land Management to provide documents, contracts and internal communications with all third-party consultants the agency used to reach its conclusion that #LithiumNevada Corp.’s mine won’t affect threatened species or significant scientific, cultural or historic resources.
“The ranch filed a lawsuit in February challenging plans for the #ThackerPass mine it says would rob the ranch of its precious water rights.
“The case has been consolidated with lawsuits subsequently filed in U.S. District Court in Reno by conservation groups and tribes alleging the mine would destroy critical #SageGrouse habitat and damage sacred tribal lands that were the site of a massacre in the 1860s.
“The bureau hired its own independent consultant, ICF International Inc., to prepare the scientific foundation for a 2,700-page environmental impact statement required under the National Environmental Policy Act.
“‘But it includes 1,300 pages of studies on groundwater pumping that established the models and baseline created by Tyler Cluff, a hydrogeologist in Reno for Canada-based Piteau Associates, according to the motion the ranch’s lawyers filed last week.
“They say Cluff currently is serving as an expert for Lithium Nevada in a separate water right protest proceeding in which he’s relying on much of the same data and work he did for the mine’s final environmental impact statement.
“’This unusual relationship between a third-party contractor for the NEPA analysis, Piteau, and LNC suggests that Piteau was not working for BLM on the FEIS in a neutral and independent capacity, but rather, was working directly for #LNC,' the motion states.
“Piteau didn’t respond to emails and phone messages seeking comment.
“The ranch’s lawyers say they’re seeking an order to obtain the documents because the bureau and Piteau have refused their requests to collect data at Piteau’s test wells and monitoring locations or turn over field data. They say it’s created a 'shroud of secrecy' over the basis for the mine’s approval.
“'The entirety of the water resources analysis appears to have been entrusted to Piteau Associates, who appears to have worked mostly, if not exclusively, at the direction of LNC,' the motion said. It said the bureau didn’t verify Piteau’s field work and 'simply assumed it was reliable.'
“Bartell’s own hydrogeologist strongly disputes the baseline water quantity and quality, and forage conditions.
“'Piteau could have inputted faulty data into the models to generate a particular baseline and model outcomes to benefit their employer LNC,' it said. 'BLM’s decision to trust the NEPA process to parties like Piteau who may have a financial stake in the approval of the (mine) raises the specter of bad faith.'
“The new filing seeks to add the field studies and samples to the court’s administrative record, which currently contains Piteau’s final reports and analysis 'but excludes nearly all drafts and communications from Piteau.'
“'The environmental baseline is so insufficient that actual baseline conditions are hidden.'
“The bureau has until Nov. 5 to respond to the latest filing.
“A Justice Department lawyer representing the agency said in an email to the ranch’s lawyer last month the bureau wasn’t provided any field reports and 'relied on those contractors’ baseline reports, which are included in the EIS.'
“'BLM has the expectation that contractors with appropriately credentialed staff will provide accurate data and conclusions in a professional manner,' Leilani Doktor wrote in the email attached as an exhibit to the ranch’s motion.
“Lithium Nevada said in its latest filing last week that 'BLM fully analyzed and ensured compliance with water quality standards and appropriately adopted adaptive management.' It said earlier that the bureau conducted a comprehensive review based on its 'experience and expertise,' public comment and 'extensive data collected ... over years in coordination with state and federal environmental agencies.'
“Doktor said the bureau considers the documents sought by the ranch 'internal and deliberative' material exempt from the administrative record. Third-party contracts are exempt because they 'are not materials considered during the decision-making process.'
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2021/oct/29/nevada-rancher-cites-shroud-of-secrecy-at-lithium/
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Garry Knight @[email protected] · 2023-03-11 · 14:17 UTC

Using AirPods as a Hearing Aid (Revised)
I posted a link to an article earlier about what we can do to prevent dementia.
https://mstdn.social/@garry/110004588618144618
One thing that was news to me is that there is a link between poor hearing and dementia. And one thing that many people don't know is that you can use AirPods as a hearing aid. It takes a few minutes to set up but can make a world of difference.
I spent a lot of time some years ago working with very loud sound while producing music with pro level headphones. Subsequently my ability to hear sounds at 1,000 Hz and above was greatly reduced. Amongst other things this meant that it was difficult to hear consonants in speech, effectively making me partially deaf.
I got a pair of AirPod Pro earbuds and set them up for my personal hearing needs. Later that day I went for a walk in my local woods and literally gasped out loud at hearing the birds I'd been missing for some years!
The way you set them up is buried deep in the Settings, so it's not surprising that not many people know about it. Here's where you need to go. You need to have the AirPods connected to your iPhone or iPad.
Settings
Accessibility
AirPods
Audio Accessibility Settings
Headphone Accommodations
Custom Audio Setup
Headphone Audio Customisation
You run through a couple of hearing tests, one for voice volume levels and one for best music settings. After the tests you should see a volume slider. It's important to move that to wherever you need it. Hearing sounds at all frequencies is great, but I found that I wanted a slight volume boost to enhance conversations. Some people might want to turn it down if it's enhancing the sound too much.
After this you should be good to go, but you can always set it up again. And maybe make a note of where the settings are. (Why can't we bookmark particular settings, Apple?)
"A few points to note:
1) If you can get an audiogram (from a free hearing test?) you can input that at an early stage of the setup. I didn't have one to test but I imagine that it speeds up the whole process.
2) This process worked for me, but I'm not an audiologist, so it's your decision whether to go this route.
3) Here's the list of devices it works with, and the news is good for anyone with any of these devices:
AirPods Pro (1st and 2nd generation)
AirPods (2nd and 3rd generation)
AirPods Max
Apple EarPods (with 3.5mm Headphone Plug or Lightning Connector)
Powerbeats
Powerbeats Pro
Beats Solo Pro
Beats Fit Pro
I tried it with the EarPods that came with my iPhone XS and they weren't recognised for some reason. Maybe it's only with newer models.
4) Airpods Pro 2 cost £248 currently in the UK. That's a fair amount of money. Hearing aids that actually work typically cost between £500 and £3,000, and that's just for one. You usually get a discount for two, but it's still a lot of money. Cheaper to get an audiogram and the AirPods.
5) It should be obvious that you need to use the AirPods in Transparency mode for this to work. You can, of course, listen to music in Transparency mode, and you should find that you can turn the music up or down without affecting the volume of the sounds around you. Now, if Apple would just add extra sensitivity for the sound of ebikes and scooters...
6) Dr Rob (@PapaBear) reminded me that you can use Live Listen (sometimes jokingly referred to as Espionage Mode), which is where, say, you put your iPhone in the middle of a desk during a meeting, or right in front of the TV. You can read about that here:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/airpods/dev85c352340/web
7) I'm going to repeat the warning that Apple (and every other manufacturer of such audio devices gives you, slightly revised for the context: Listening (to anything through AirPods) at high volumes can damage your health.
8) Paul (@beerbaking) suggested a way of using a Shortcut to access the Settings without having to dive down one level at a time.
Open the Shortcuts app, tap Add Action, tap URL (you can search for it first), enter prefs:root=ACCESSIBILITY&path=AUDIO_VISUAL_TITLE/AXPAEnableSpecID (perhaps copy and paste to avoid mistakes) in the field with the paperclip icon, tap Open URLs under Next Action suggestions, tap Done. Tap the new Shortcut to try it. You can then long-press on the Shortcut to Rename it. You can also long-press, tap Share, then tap Add to Home Screen for a one-tap solution that avoids going back into the Shortcuts app every time.
I hope you find this information useful. And especially that it keeps some of you from worse hearing loss, let alone dementia.
There are a couple of articles you might be interested in:
Study: AirPods Pro are this close to being full-fledged hearing aids
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/11/study-airpods-pro-are-this-close-to-being-full-fledged-hearing-aids/
Apple AirPods getting new health features in the next few years
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/03/12/apple-airpods-getting-health-features-in-the-next-few-years
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Voice of East @[email protected] · 2022-08-27 · 14:28 UTC

CNN Defamed Darya Dugina As A “Disinformation” Agent To Discredit Her Multipolar Legacy
CNN Defamed Darya Dugina As A “Disinformation” Agent To Discredit Her Multipolar Legacy
By Andrew Korybko
Far from being forgotten, Darya will go down in history as a Russian hero, especially after President Putin posthumously awarded her the Order of Courage. It’s precisely because of her de facto canonization as one of the emerging Multipolar World Order’s secular saints that CNN decided to defame her as a “disinformation” agent in order to discredit her indisputably influential legacy.

The assassination of journalist Darya Dugina by a Ukrainian terrorist in late August proved that the US’ information warfare campaign against Russia has dangerous consequences for its innocent targets. That declining unipolar hegemon and its Western vassals (which in this context also includes the fascist puppet regime in Kiev) are dedicated to literally destroying the lives of those who speak out against them, first through fake news and then through targeted killings that are subsequently justified on that false basis exactly as Kiev’s Ambassador to the Vatican recently sought to justify Darya’s. A special hatred is reserved for people who share different paradigms for interpreting the ongoing global systemic transition since it’s those who stand the greatest chance of waking up the Western masses.
Darya was among those who passionately spread her multipolar worldview to whoever had the interest in listening. She was a rising political star her homeland upon the time that her life was abruptly ended by that dastardly terrorist attack, but her killing only served to raise global awareness of the causes that were so dear to her and can therefore be described as extremely counterproductive in hindsight. Far from being forgotten, Darya will go down in history as a Russian hero, especially after President Putin posthumously awarded her the Order of Courage. It’s precisely because of her de facto canonization as one of the emerging Multipolar World Order’s secular saints that CNN decided to defame her as a “disinformation” agent in order to discredit her indisputably influential legacy.
Rob Picheta, who describes himself as a journalist for CNN Digital in London, published a hateful screed on the front page of their site about how “Darya Dugina’s death provides a glimpse into Russia’s vast disinformation machine — and the influential women fronting it”. The purpose behind his piece was to mislead his targeted Western audience into thinking that she was nothing more than a propagandist whose sole role in life was to spew easily discredited “disinformation”. To that end, he quoted a Ukrainian-based member of the Atlantic Council – which is financed by Western governments and was thus designated by Russia as a foreign agent – as well as the similarly US Government-financed Russian “expert” Kamil Galeev who’s infamous for sharing a treasonous and pro-terrorist thread on Twitter.
The simple points being pushed in his piece are that Darya was supposedly one of her country’s rising disinformation agents, had allegedly meddled in the French elections, and that other women like her are nothing but puppets. It’s very heavily implied upon reading between the lines that her assassination therefore wasn’t entirely all that bad since Picheta misrepresented her as a legitimate target due to her active role in articulating a particular version of multipolarity, which he smeared as “imperialist”. In other words, he misogynistically removed all agency from Darya and the other Russian women who he disagrees with to independently arrive at their own political opinions, objectified them as being part of some global conspiracy coming from the Kremlin, and thus implied that it’s alright if they’re killed.
“What’s Dishonestly Smeared As ‘Russian Propaganda’ Is Just The Multipolar Worldview”, however, though those like Picheta who are committed to reversing the US’ declining unipolar hegemony can’t countenance that it’s possible for people to simply have a contrarian opinion. This is entirely due to their belief in the discredited supremacist view of Western Civilization as “exceptional”, which correspondingly also implies that its models will “inevitably” spread across the world since they’re supposedly the best and most effective ones that could ever be conceived by humanity. Those like Darya and the vast majority of humanity across the Global South who disagree with this hateful innuendo that Caucasians are superior in all respects are branded as “conspiracy theorists” and “enemies”.
This observation confirms that Darya and the billions of others like her actually play polar opposite roles than those that were maliciously ascribed to them. She and the vast majority of humanity aren’t “conspiracy theorists” who Picheta implied are legitimate targets of terrorist attacks on the supposed basis that their contrarian views are “dangerous” and “imperialist”. In reality, it’s he and his peers who participate in the US-led Western Mainstream Media’s (MSM) objectively existing disinformation ecosystem that are the bonafide conspiracy theorists whose work is genuinely dangerous and imperialist since it aims to put a target on the back of every one of their political opponents. That said, neither Picheta nor his colleagues deserve to die like he so disgustingly implied about Darya and hers.
The very fact that CNN would publish Picheta’s hateful and misogynist piece, not to mention on the front page of its website, shows how desperate the MSM has become to discredit Darya and her multipolar legacy. Kiev’s assassination of this rising Russian visionary turned her into an eternal martyr of the emerging world order that’s systematically dismantling the US’ declining unipolar hegemony. More people across the world are aware of her insightful work than ever before, including Westerners whose minds will be liberated from the MSM’s propaganda upon reading more about the views of this famous Russian journalist. It’s precisely this outcome that scares the US the most, yet all efforts to defame Darya like CNN’s latest high-profile one will only further solidify her multipolar legacy.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

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#alexanderDugin #geopolitics #multipolarWorldOrder #multipolarity #russia

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Voice of East @[email protected] · 2022-08-27 · 14:28 UTC

CNN Defamed Darya Dugina As A “Disinformation” Agent To Discredit Her Multipolar Legacy
CNN Defamed Darya Dugina As A “Disinformation” Agent To Discredit Her Multipolar Legacy
By Andrew Korybko
Far from being forgotten, Darya will go down in history as a Russian hero, especially after President Putin posthumously awarded her the Order of Courage. It’s precisely because of her de facto canonization as one of the emerging Multipolar World Order’s secular saints that CNN decided to defame her as a “disinformation” agent in order to discredit her indisputably influential legacy.

The assassination of journalist Darya Dugina by a Ukrainian terrorist in late August proved that the US’ information warfare campaign against Russia has dangerous consequences for its innocent targets. That declining unipolar hegemon and its Western vassals (which in this context also includes the fascist puppet regime in Kiev) are dedicated to literally destroying the lives of those who speak out against them, first through fake news and then through targeted killings that are subsequently justified on that false basis exactly as Kiev’s Ambassador to the Vatican recently sought to justify Darya’s. A special hatred is reserved for people who share different paradigms for interpreting the ongoing global systemic transition since it’s those who stand the greatest chance of waking up the Western masses.
Darya was among those who passionately spread her multipolar worldview to whoever had the interest in listening. She was a rising political star her homeland upon the time that her life was abruptly ended by that dastardly terrorist attack, but her killing only served to raise global awareness of the causes that were so dear to her and can therefore be described as extremely counterproductive in hindsight. Far from being forgotten, Darya will go down in history as a Russian hero, especially after President Putin posthumously awarded her the Order of Courage. It’s precisely because of her de facto canonization as one of the emerging Multipolar World Order’s secular saints that CNN decided to defame her as a “disinformation” agent in order to discredit her indisputably influential legacy.
Rob Picheta, who describes himself as a journalist for CNN Digital in London, published a hateful screed on the front page of their site about how “Darya Dugina’s death provides a glimpse into Russia’s vast disinformation machine — and the influential women fronting it”. The purpose behind his piece was to mislead his targeted Western audience into thinking that she was nothing more than a propagandist whose sole role in life was to spew easily discredited “disinformation”. To that end, he quoted a Ukrainian-based member of the Atlantic Council – which is financed by Western governments and was thus designated by Russia as a foreign agent – as well as the similarly US Government-financed Russian “expert” Kamil Galeev who’s infamous for sharing a treasonous and pro-terrorist thread on Twitter.
The simple points being pushed in his piece are that Darya was supposedly one of her country’s rising disinformation agents, had allegedly meddled in the French elections, and that other women like her are nothing but puppets. It’s very heavily implied upon reading between the lines that her assassination therefore wasn’t entirely all that bad since Picheta misrepresented her as a legitimate target due to her active role in articulating a particular version of multipolarity, which he smeared as “imperialist”. In other words, he misogynistically removed all agency from Darya and the other Russian women who he disagrees with to independently arrive at their own political opinions, objectified them as being part of some global conspiracy coming from the Kremlin, and thus implied that it’s alright if they’re killed.
“What’s Dishonestly Smeared As ‘Russian Propaganda’ Is Just The Multipolar Worldview”, however, though those like Picheta who are committed to reversing the US’ declining unipolar hegemony can’t countenance that it’s possible for people to simply have a contrarian opinion. This is entirely due to their belief in the discredited supremacist view of Western Civilization as “exceptional”, which correspondingly also implies that its models will “inevitably” spread across the world since they’re supposedly the best and most effective ones that could ever be conceived by humanity. Those like Darya and the vast majority of humanity across the Global South who disagree with this hateful innuendo that Caucasians are superior in all respects are branded as “conspiracy theorists” and “enemies”.
This observation confirms that Darya and the billions of others like her actually play polar opposite roles than those that were maliciously ascribed to them. She and the vast majority of humanity aren’t “conspiracy theorists” who Picheta implied are legitimate targets of terrorist attacks on the supposed basis that their contrarian views are “dangerous” and “imperialist”. In reality, it’s he and his peers who participate in the US-led Western Mainstream Media’s (MSM) objectively existing disinformation ecosystem that are the bonafide conspiracy theorists whose work is genuinely dangerous and imperialist since it aims to put a target on the back of every one of their political opponents. That said, neither Picheta nor his colleagues deserve to die like he so disgustingly implied about Darya and hers.
The very fact that CNN would publish Picheta’s hateful and misogynist piece, not to mention on the front page of its website, shows how desperate the MSM has become to discredit Darya and her multipolar legacy. Kiev’s assassination of this rising Russian visionary turned her into an eternal martyr of the emerging world order that’s systematically dismantling the US’ declining unipolar hegemony. More people across the world are aware of her insightful work than ever before, including Westerners whose minds will be liberated from the MSM’s propaganda upon reading more about the views of this famous Russian journalist. It’s precisely this outcome that scares the US the most, yet all efforts to defame Darya like CNN’s latest high-profile one will only further solidify her multipolar legacy.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

7 Courses in 1 – Diploma in Business Management
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Voice of East @[email protected] · 2022-08-27 · 14:28 UTC

CNN Defamed Darya Dugina As A “Disinformation” Agent To Discredit Her Multipolar Legacy
CNN Defamed Darya Dugina As A “Disinformation” Agent To Discredit Her Multipolar Legacy
By Andrew Korybko
Far from being forgotten, Darya will go down in history as a Russian hero, especially after President Putin posthumously awarded her the Order of Courage. It’s precisely because of her de facto canonization as one of the emerging Multipolar World Order’s secular saints that CNN decided to defame her as a “disinformation” agent in order to discredit her indisputably influential legacy.

The assassination of journalist Darya Dugina by a Ukrainian terrorist in late August proved that the US’ information warfare campaign against Russia has dangerous consequences for its innocent targets. That declining unipolar hegemon and its Western vassals (which in this context also includes the fascist puppet regime in Kiev) are dedicated to literally destroying the lives of those who speak out against them, first through fake news and then through targeted killings that are subsequently justified on that false basis exactly as Kiev’s Ambassador to the Vatican recently sought to justify Darya’s. A special hatred is reserved for people who share different paradigms for interpreting the ongoing global systemic transition since it’s those who stand the greatest chance of waking up the Western masses.
Darya was among those who passionately spread her multipolar worldview to whoever had the interest in listening. She was a rising political star her homeland upon the time that her life was abruptly ended by that dastardly terrorist attack, but her killing only served to raise global awareness of the causes that were so dear to her and can therefore be described as extremely counterproductive in hindsight. Far from being forgotten, Darya will go down in history as a Russian hero, especially after President Putin posthumously awarded her the Order of Courage. It’s precisely because of her de facto canonization as one of the emerging Multipolar World Order’s secular saints that CNN decided to defame her as a “disinformation” agent in order to discredit her indisputably influential legacy.
Rob Picheta, who describes himself as a journalist for CNN Digital in London, published a hateful screed on the front page of their site about how “Darya Dugina’s death provides a glimpse into Russia’s vast disinformation machine — and the influential women fronting it”. The purpose behind his piece was to mislead his targeted Western audience into thinking that she was nothing more than a propagandist whose sole role in life was to spew easily discredited “disinformation”. To that end, he quoted a Ukrainian-based member of the Atlantic Council – which is financed by Western governments and was thus designated by Russia as a foreign agent – as well as the similarly US Government-financed Russian “expert” Kamil Galeev who’s infamous for sharing a treasonous and pro-terrorist thread on Twitter.
The simple points being pushed in his piece are that Darya was supposedly one of her country’s rising disinformation agents, had allegedly meddled in the French elections, and that other women like her are nothing but puppets. It’s very heavily implied upon reading between the lines that her assassination therefore wasn’t entirely all that bad since Picheta misrepresented her as a legitimate target due to her active role in articulating a particular version of multipolarity, which he smeared as “imperialist”. In other words, he misogynistically removed all agency from Darya and the other Russian women who he disagrees with to independently arrive at their own political opinions, objectified them as being part of some global conspiracy coming from the Kremlin, and thus implied that it’s alright if they’re killed.
“What’s Dishonestly Smeared As ‘Russian Propaganda’ Is Just The Multipolar Worldview”, however, though those like Picheta who are committed to reversing the US’ declining unipolar hegemony can’t countenance that it’s possible for people to simply have a contrarian opinion. This is entirely due to their belief in the discredited supremacist view of Western Civilization as “exceptional”, which correspondingly also implies that its models will “inevitably” spread across the world since they’re supposedly the best and most effective ones that could ever be conceived by humanity. Those like Darya and the vast majority of humanity across the Global South who disagree with this hateful innuendo that Caucasians are superior in all respects are branded as “conspiracy theorists” and “enemies”.
This observation confirms that Darya and the billions of others like her actually play polar opposite roles than those that were maliciously ascribed to them. She and the vast majority of humanity aren’t “conspiracy theorists” who Picheta implied are legitimate targets of terrorist attacks on the supposed basis that their contrarian views are “dangerous” and “imperialist”. In reality, it’s he and his peers who participate in the US-led Western Mainstream Media’s (MSM) objectively existing disinformation ecosystem that are the bonafide conspiracy theorists whose work is genuinely dangerous and imperialist since it aims to put a target on the back of every one of their political opponents. That said, neither Picheta nor his colleagues deserve to die like he so disgustingly implied about Darya and hers.
The very fact that CNN would publish Picheta’s hateful and misogynist piece, not to mention on the front page of its website, shows how desperate the MSM has become to discredit Darya and her multipolar legacy. Kiev’s assassination of this rising Russian visionary turned her into an eternal martyr of the emerging world order that’s systematically dismantling the US’ declining unipolar hegemony. More people across the world are aware of her insightful work than ever before, including Westerners whose minds will be liberated from the MSM’s propaganda upon reading more about the views of this famous Russian journalist. It’s precisely this outcome that scares the US the most, yet all efforts to defame Darya like CNN’s latest high-profile one will only further solidify her multipolar legacy.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

7 Courses in 1 – Diploma in Business Management
#alexanderDugin #geopolitics #multipolarWorldOrder #multipolarity #russia

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Sky Dancing @[email protected] · 2025-06-06 · 17:20 UTC

Finally Friday Reads: Page Not Found

“The National Divorce is a difficult time for all of us.” John Buss, repeat1968

Good Day, Sky Dancers!
It seems uniquely American to be focused on the drama between two rich narcissistic men when so many things are going sideways in this country and this world. It’s embarrassing and depressing.
The current zeitgeist appears to be privileged, cis white men trying to get rid of their small penis energy by displaying a hypertoxic version of masculinity. The entire White House has a Lord of the Flies vibe about it. The press has totally gotten carried away with the narcissistic displays of abuse, seemingly jolting between adolescent bouts of testosterone overdose, middle-life crises complete with bright red Teslas, and male menopause.
Meanwhile, a coterie of women display Lady Macbeth levels of ruthlessness, ambition, and descent into madness and body dysmorphia with their clownish plastic surgery. This is a mad court worthy of a Shakespearean tragedy with policies worthy of a Sinclair Lewis novel. The level of ignorance on display is beyond description. I can’t believe the news all day yesterday was obsessed with the madness of Yam Tits and Musk. Let’s focus on the damage they’ve done and leave them to their latest reality show.
I think political cartoonists have a better take on this ordeal than any media outlet. Then there’s the silent majorities in Congress, saying nothing, and doing anything but the people’s business. Not since the Iraq war have I seen more shock and awe. They governed during Watergate. Are they all afraid of the cult that serves Yam Tits? Maybe we should flood their offices with copies of the Constitution with Sharpie instructions saying DO YOUR JOB!
I’m sitting here wondering if I should even start in on all the mainstream media articles and coverage about Musk and Trump. Way to feed two men with obvious narcissistic personality disorder and a side of antisocial personality disorder.
Right now, I’ll start with ProPublica, which has reliably searched out stories worthy of Upton Sinclair or Nellie Bly. Once again, our own government is doing wrong by our veterans. It’s quite sad. “DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts. DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts. We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said.” This bit of investigative journalism is by Brandon Roberts, Vernal Coleman, and Eric Umansky.
The more I know about AI, see its use, and am forced to sit in seminars to learn the Purdue way of dealing with it, the more I want to write a sci-fi book where their programs go mad. I do not trust bros with personality disorders, likely on the spectrum, to think with real human insight. It makes me long for Isaac Asimov.
As the Trump administration prepared to cancel contracts at the Department of Veteran Affairs this year, officials turned to a software engineer with no health care or government experience to guide them.
The engineer, working for the Department of Government Efficiency, quickly built an artificial intelligence tool to identify which services from private companies were not essential. He labeled those contracts “MUNCHABLE.”
The code, using outdated and inexpensive AI models, produced results with glaring mistakes. For instance, it hallucinated the size of contracts, frequently misreading them and inflating their value. It concluded more than a thousand were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
The DOGE AI tool flagged more than 2,000 contracts for “munching.” It’s unclear how many have been or are on track to be canceled — the Trump administration’s decisions on VA contracts have largely been a black box. The VA uses contractors for many reasons, including to support hospitals, research and other services aimed at caring for ailing veterans.
VA officials have said they’ve killed nearly 600 contracts overall. Congressional Democrats have been pressing VA leaders for specific details of what’s been canceled without success.
We identified at least two dozen on the DOGE list that have been canceled so far. Among the canceled contracts was one to maintain a gene sequencing device used to develop better cancer treatments. Another was for blood sample analysis in support of a VA research project. Another was to provide additional tools to measure and improve the care nurses provide.
ProPublica obtained the code and the contracts it flagged from a source and shared them with a half dozen AI and procurement experts. All said the script was flawed. Many criticized the concept of using AI to guide budgetary cuts at the VA, with one calling it “deeply problematic.”
Cary Coglianese, professor of law and of political science at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the governmental use and regulation of artificial intelligence, said he was troubled by the use of these general-purpose large language models, or LLMs. “I don’t think off-the-shelf LLMs have a great deal of reliability for something as complex and involved as this,” he said.
Sahil Lavingia, the programmer enlisted by DOGE, which was then run by Elon Musk, acknowledged flaws in the code.
“I think that mistakes were made,” said Lavingia, who worked at DOGE for nearly two months. “I’m sure mistakes were made. Mistakes are always made. I would never recommend someone run my code and do what it says. It’s like that ‘Office’ episode where Steve Carell drives into the lake because Google Maps says drive into the lake. Do not drive into the lake.”
Though Lavingia has talked about his time at DOGE previously, this is the first time his work has been examined in detail and the first time he’s publicly explained his process, down to specific lines of code.
Further technical information can be found in this follow-up article at ProPublica. “Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health.”
Sahil Lavingia, who wrote the code, told it to cancel, or in his words “munch,” anything that wasn’t “directly supporting patient care.” Unfortunately, neither Lavingia nor the model had the knowledge required to make such determinations.
“I think that mistakes were made,” said Lavingia, who worked at DOGE for nearly two months, in an interview with ProPublica. “I’m sure mistakes were made. Mistakes are always made.”
It turns out, a lot of mistakes were made as DOGE and the VA rushed to implement President Donald Trump’s February executive order mandating all of the VA’s contracts be reviewed within 30 days.
ProPublica obtained the code and prompts — the instructions given to the AI model — used to review the contracts and interviewed Lavingia and experts in both AI and government procurement. We are publishing an analysis of those prompts to help the public understand how this technology is being deployed in the federal government.
The experts found numerous and troubling flaws: the code relied on older, general-purpose models not suited for the task; the model hallucinated contract amounts, deciding around 1,100 of the agreements were each worth $34 million when they were sometimes worth thousands; and the AI did not analyze the entire text of contracts. Most experts said that, in addition to the technical issues, using off-the-shelf AI models for the task — with little context on how the VA works — should have been a nonstarter.
Lavingia, a software engineer enlisted by DOGE, acknowledged there were flaws in what he created and blamed, in part, a lack of time and proper tools. He also stressed that he knew his list of what he called “MUNCHABLE” contracts would be vetted by others before a final decision was made.
Even the word “munchable” makes these guys sound like 7th graders. I don’t even know what to say about the University of Michigan. I was a 7th grader when anti-Vietnam War protests picked up, but I don’t recall anything like this.
However, all over our institutions are in the service of racist and xenophobic Big Brother. (I really wish I could stop using references to dystopian literature, but sadly, it works.) This is from The Guardian. “University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters. Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted.”
The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned.
The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said. The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shared with the Guardian.
Students say they have frequently identified undercover investigators and confronted them. In two bizarre interactions captured by one student on video, a man who had been trailing the student faked disabilities, and noisily – and falsely – accused a student of attempting to rob him.
The undercover investigators appear to work for Detroit-based City Shield, a private security group, and some of their evidence was used by Michigan prosecutors to charge and jail students, according to a Guardian review of police records, university spending records and video collected in legal discovery. Most charges were later dropped. Public spending records from the U-M board of regents, the school’s governing body, show the university paid at least $800,000 between June 2023 and September 2024 to City Shield’s parent company, Ameri-Shield.
Among those who say they’re being regularly followed is Katarina Keating, part of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (Safe), a local chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. Keating said the surveillance has caused her to feel “on edge”, and she often looks over her shoulder since November, when she was first followed.
“But on another level it sometimes feels comedic because it’s so insane that they have spent millions of dollars to hire some goons to follow campus activists around,” Keating added. “It’s just such a waste of money and time.”
How’s this for government efficiency? The NYPD and ICE mistakenly arrest a Chilean woman on vacation in New York City. Police left her 12-year-old daughter on the street alone. This country is no longer safe from arbitrary arrest and detention by morans in law enforcement.

There appears to be a bit of a correction of the DOGE overreach in the Federal Government. This is reported in the Washington Post by Hannah Natanson, Adam Taylor, Meryl Kornfield, Rachel Siegel, and Scott Dance. That’s a lot of reporters for a lot of agencies. “Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people. Across the government, officials are rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.” Do you suppose all the Trump/Musk drama is just a distraction from the kind of news that’s falling off the front pages but should be screamed in front-page headlines? They fucked up folks! Let’s bury the lede!
Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many federal employees dismissed under DOGE’s staff-slashing initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.
Since Musk left the White House last week, he and Trump have fallen out bitterly, sniping at each other in public over the cost of Trump’s sweeping tax legislation and government subsidies for Musk’s businesses. But even before that, the administration was working to undo some of DOGE’s highest-profile actions.
Trump officials are trying to recover not only people who were fired, but also thousands of experienced senior staffers who are opting for a voluntary exit as the administration rolls out a second resignation offer. Thousands more staff are returning in fits and starts as a conflicting patchwork of court decisions overturn some of Trump’s large-scale firings, especially his Valentine’s Day dismissal of all probationary workers, those with one or two years of government service and fewer job protections. A federal judge in April ordered the president to reinstate probationary workers dismissed from 20 federal agencies, although a few days later the Supreme Court — in a different case — halted another judge’s order to reinstate a smaller group.
Some fired federal employees, especially those at retirement age or who have since secured jobs in the private sector, are proving reluctant to return. So the administration is seeking work-arounds and stopgaps, including asking remaining staff to serve in new roles, work overtime or volunteer to fill vacancies, according to interviews with 18 federal workers across eight agencies and messages obtained by The Washington Post. A Post review found recent messy re-hirings at agencies including the Food and Drug Administration, the IRS, the State Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In some cases, the government is posting new online job listings very similar to positions it recently vacated, a Post review of USAJobs found
The ever-shifting personnel changes are yet another strain on a workforce already weary of Trump-induced uncertainty, said current and former employees, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
“They wanted to show they were gutting the government, but there was no thought about what parts might be worth keeping,” said one FDA staffer who was fired and rehired. “Now it feels like it was all just a game to them.”
Notice they just had to point out the Trump/Musk WWE event just to distract you for even a moment. It seems we no longer have caped crusaders but black-robed ones. This is from The Harvard Crimson. “Judge Blocks Trump Proclamation Banning International Students From Entering U.S. on Harvard Visas.” I’m just seeing Trump failures everywhere. No wonder they needed a new reality show season.
A federal judge granted Harvard’s request for a temporary restraining order hours after the University asked her to block the Trump administration’s Wednesday proclamation banning international students from entering the United States on Harvard-sponsored visas.
The order was issued just four hours after Harvard filed an amended complaint accusing the Trump administration of retaliating against the University by preventing incoming international students from entering the U.S. to attend Harvard.
U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs also announced that the court would extend the TRO first granted to Harvard on May 23 — one day after the DHS revoked Harvard’s eligibility to host international students — until June 20, the date requested by the University. Burroughs had already agreed to extend the TRO once before, following a May 29 hearing.
Thursday’s TRO will reinstate international students’ ability to enter the country to attend Harvard until a June 16 hearing scheduled by Burroughs — but the University will need to file for a preliminary injunction to extend its ability to host international students until the court determines its legality in court.
In the amended complaint, Harvard wrote that Trump’s proclamation was “a transparent attempt to circumvent the temporary restraining order this Court already entered against the summary revocation of Harvard’s SEVP certification.”
It argued that — without urgent action — the proclamation would have dramatic costs for admitted students attempting to enter the U.S. and subject current students to fear they would be arbitrarily deported.
Burroughs, in an order published well after working hours Thursday night, deemed that Harvard had made a “sufficient showing” that it would sustain “immediate and irreparable harm” unless a TRO was granted.
But both the TRO — and a future preliminary injunction, if Harvard seeks one and Burroughs rules favorably — are only provisional protections.
CBS shows that the Yam Tits Administration still thinks getting every little thing to the Supreme Court will solve all of its problems. Melissa Quinn reports that “Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow mass layoffs at Education Department.
President Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for it to continue with its efforts to dismantle the Department of Education and lay off more than 1,300 employees while a legal fight over the future of the department moves forward.
The Justice Department is seeking the high court’s intervention in a pair of disputes brought by a group of 20 states, school districts and teachers unions, which challenge Mr. Trump’s plans to unwind the Department of Education. The president signed an executive order in March directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to facilitate the department’s closure to the maximum extent allowed under the law.
As part of Mr. Trump’s pledge to get rid of the department, the administration canceled a host of grants and executed a reduction in force, or a layoff, that impacted 1,378 employees — roughly a third of the department’s workforce. Affected workers were placed on administrative leave and were to receive full pay and benefits until June 9.
Mr. Trump also announced that the Small Business Administration would take over the Education Department’s student-loan portfolio, and the Department of Health and Human Services would handle special education, nutrition and other related services.
In response to the lawsuits challenging Mr. Trump’s actions, a federal judge in Massachusetts blocked the administration from carrying out its layoffs, finding that the reduction-in-force was a unilateral effort to close the department, which would violate the separation of powers.

Okay, this is an update, and I just had to put it up

Oh, speaking of those delightful Republican Congress Critters, here’s a headline for you from The Guardian. “Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery. Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism.” Gosh, another Cis White Male Christian Nationalist for Adolf! What a surprise!
A staffer for Missouri Republican senator Eric Schmitt was previously fired from Ron DeSantis’s unsuccessful presidential campaign after making a video containing neo-Nazi imagery, and later peddled far-right conspiracy theories in a Marco Rubio-linked thinktank.
Nate Hochman’s job in the hard-right senator’s office, along with earlier Trump appointments to executive agencies, suggest to some experts there are few barriers to far-right activists making a career in Republican party politics.
The Guardian contacted Eric Schmitt’s office for comment.
Heidi Beirich, the co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, told the Guardian: “Hochman’s position shows once again that there are no guardrails against extremists in the GOP nowadays.”
She added: “Racism, antisemitism and other abhorrent beliefs don’t seem to stop extremists from appointments with far-right politicians, including in the highest office of the presidency.”
Hochman, 26, has worked for Schmitt since February, according to congressional information website LegiStorm, a development that was first noted on political newsletter Liberal Currents.
He has also posted dozens of times to X to publicize Schmitt’s initiatives, media appearances, and speeches.
The Guardian reported last September on Hochman’s previous job at America 2100, an organization founded in 2023 as a thinktank. The organization was founded by Mike Needham, who served as Marco Rubio’s chief of staff from 2018 to 2023 when Rubio was a senator and who is once again his chief of staff at the state department.
In that and subsequent reporting, it was revealed that Hochman’s work for America 2100 was focused on producing videos, some of which targeted Haitian migrants in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, and others that rehearsed conspiracy theories about LGBTQ people and human rights organizations.
This was the latest in a string of scandals in the young operative’s political career.
In July 2023 he was fired from the presidential campaign of Florida governor Ron DeSantis after retweeting a pro-DeSantis, anti-Trump video.
As the Guardian reported, the video portrayed a “‘Wojak’ meme, a sad-looking man popular on the right, against headlines about Trump policy failures before showing the meme cheering up to headlines about DeSantis and images of the governor at work”, all to the tune of Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill.
Finally, it superimposed DeSantis on to ranks of marching soldiers and a Sonnenrad – a Norse symbol frequently appropriated by neo-Nazis.
As Hochman departed the campaign, Axios reported he had made the video but endeavored to make it “appear as if it was produced externally”.
The New York Times has a Guest Op-Ed up from two law professors about how the Trump administration is giving a loyalty test to anyone looking for a job within the Federal Government. How unconstitutional is that? “How to Stack the Federal Work Force With ‘Patriotic Americans’ Who Agree With Trump.”
The White House took a step last week that significantly undercuts the idea that federal employment should be nonpartisan. A May 29 memo from the Office of Personnel Management may seem technical, but the policy that it outlines has grave implications for how the government functions and creates an unconstitutional political test for federal hiring.
At heart, the new policy is about viewpoint discrimination: People applying for federal jobs whose views the Trump administration does not like will not be hired. This is the most recent of the administration’s actions to undermine the nonpartisan Civil Service and consolidate control over almost all federal employees in the White House.
In a densely worded, 12-page memo, Vince Haley, an assistant to the president for domestic policy, and Charles Ezell, the acting O.P.M. director, make fealty to the president’s agenda a criterion for hiring for most federal positions. Imposing such a litmus test for nonpolitical positions runs afoul of the nearly 150-year-old federal Civil Service law, the 1939 Hatch Act and the First Amendment.
Under federal law, about 4,000 federal jobs are filled by political appointees. These positions allow the president to appoint those who share his views and to remove those who do not support his policy priorities. Most remaining federal jobs are hired based on nonpartisan and objective assessments of merit, and the hiring criteria are tied to the job duties.
The recent memo would, in effect, dramatically expand that exception for political appointees to include everyone at what’s known as level GS-5 or above — a group that includes clerical positions, technicians for soil conservation and firefighters. The ideologies and views of these individuals should play no role in their potential hiring.
The policy announced in the memo requires every person applying for a position level GS-5 or above to submit four essays. One requires that the applicant address: “How would you help advance the president’s executive orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant executive orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.” Another prompt: “How has your commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States inspired you to pursue this role within the federal government? Provide a concrete example from professional, academic or personal experience.”
Imagine that someone applying to be a secretary or a soil technician or a firefighter were to answer with: I believe the founding principles of this country were racist and I do not adhere to them. Or: I will perform my job to the best of my abilities and will follow federal law, but I do not see my position as political in any way.
It’s hard to imagine that those people would be hired. And yet, the Civil Service was created in the 19th century precisely to avoid such politically based hiring. The prohibition on political considerations in hiring was strengthened by the Hatch Act, which was enacted at the behest of conservatives who worried that too many Democrats had been hired to staff New Deal agencies.
One more Op-Ed from Dana Milbank at the Washington Post before I close. “They are not good at this. Nearly five months into Trump’s new reign of error, his administration’s mistakes are multiplying.
On May 29, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem released a “comprehensive list of sanctuary jurisdictions.” She was “exposing these sanctuary politicians” because they are “endangering Americans and our law enforcement in order to protect violent criminal illegal aliens.”
But it immediately became clear that the list of more than 500 states, counties and cities was riddled with errors: misspellings, cities and counties mistaken for each other, and places that don’t exist. Cincinnati became “Cincinnatti,” Campbell County (Kentucky) became “Cambell” County, Greeley County (Nebraska) became “Greenley” County, Takoma Park (Maryland) became “Tacoma” Park, while “Martinsville County” (Virginia) was invented. And so on.
Worse, scores of the “sanctuary politicians” she called out turned out to be leaders of MAGA counties and towns with no sanctuary policies on their books. Complaints poured in from Trump allies across the country. “You don’t have that many mistakes on such an important federal document,” said Pat Burns, the Trump-backing mayor of the right-wing stronghold of Huntington Beach, California, mislabeled as a sanctuary city. He told the Associated Press that “somebody’s got to answer” for this “negligent” behavior.
Good luck with that. The only answer was to disappear the list this week, leaving behind a “Page Not Found” error.

Such a massive screwup hadn’t happened since … well, the previous week, when Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went to the White House and released his ballyhooed “Make America Healthy Again” report full of citations of studies that don’t exist, the product of AI hallucinations.
This, in turn, was reminiscent of President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff rollout, which targeted an island full of penguins and other unpopulated or sparsely populated corners of the globe — and raised taxes on most of the world based on a math error.
And these, of course, were on top of the “mistakes” that led Trump officials to share war plans with a journalist, to deport people protected by court order, to launch a destructive fight with Harvard University, to fire and then attempt to rehire thousands of crucial federal workers, to cancel and then reinstate various vital government functions, and to misstate, often by orders of magnitude, the alleged savings from its cost-cutting attempts.
Trying to make sense of any of this? Page Not Found.

It’s obvious Trump is not interested in the best and brightest. They give him facts and truth over what he wants to hear and do, and that’s not what his massive need for attention and ego-stroking requires. Oh, up to 4000 words, and I still have managed to do something other than cover the two biggest jerks in the world jousting for air and social media time.
As you know, my Dad bombed NAZIs. I’d like to think I’d be capable of doing something brave if I were called to duty. He made it back. Many others did not. I’d just like to close with a remembrance of D-Day. There are still some D-Day vets out there who returned to the field. This is from the AP. “D-Day veterans return to Normandy to mark 81st anniversary of landings.” I remember growing up in absolute awe of all the men and women I met in my life who helped free the world of Fascists. I do not understand why the country is failing to do that now.
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler’s regime.
Along the coastline and near the D-Day landing beaches, tens of thousands of onlookers attended the commemorations, which included parachute jumps, flyovers, remembrance ceremonies, parades, and historical reenactments.
Many were there to cheer the ever-dwindling number of surviving veterans in their late 90s and older. All remembered the thousands who died.
Harold Terens, a 101-year-old U.S. veteran who last year married his 96-year-old sweetheart near the D-Day beaches, was back in Normandy.
“Freedom is everything,” he said. “I pray for freedom for the whole world. For the war to end in Ukraine, and Russia, and Sudan and Gaza. I think war is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.”
Terens enlisted in 1942 and shipped to Great Britain the following year, attached to a four-pilot P-47 Thunderbolt fighter squadron as their radio repair technician. On D-Day, Terens helped repair planes returning from France so they could rejoin the battle.
Let us forever be thankful for their service and sacrifice. May we also remember that we were not alone in these battles. We have allies. At least at this moment. This song by the Dropkick Murphys is about World War 1, but the sentiment is the same.
What’s on your reading and blogging list today?

#JohnbussBskySocialJohnBuss #DDay #ICEKidnappings #JudgesRuleAgainstTrump #TrumpAdministrationScrewUpsAndCrimes #TurningBackTheDogeDisasters

#johnbussbskysocialjohnbuss #dday #icekidnappings #judgesruleagainsttrump #trumpadministrationscrewupsandcrimes #turningbackthedogedisasters
DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-05-31 · 23:58 UTC

I just read a piece about #Palantir in the latest issue [June 2025] of the #DSA newsletter, "In These Times." A very timely piece indeed!
Palantir and American #TechnoFascism
by #AlbertoToscano
"A new recruitment campaign appeared on the elite U.S. college campus last April. In schools such as Carnegie Mellon, Cornell and Penn, posters glued to bus stops, with black background, issued a disturbing warning: the time has come for reckoning for the West, before accusing most technology companies of not considering the national interest when they decide what should be built. On the contrary, Palantir, the defense contractor specializing in data analysis and responsible for this recruitment campaign, stated that he does not merely build technological products - to guarantee the future of the United States, but, in fact, to dominate.
"The implicit message of advertising reflects the conviction of Palantir's leaders, including founder #PeterThiel and Chief Executive Officer #AlexKarp, that Silicon Valley's real mandate is to consolidate the military supremacy of the United States and the West, a nostalgic reaction to the happy days of the Cold War and its merger between state, engineering and capital.
"In this version of technological #nationalism, the make America great again translates into an impulse for dominance, of course, against foreign adversaries but also against the "Woke capital," effeminate consumerism and a university system dedicated to social justice and diversity (the Palantir posters were published together with a new initiative that invites talented high school students to "judge the indoctrination" of higher education in exchange for a four-month Palantir scholarship).
"Palantir has strong reason to organize his recruiting career. Although critics retangled when their shares plummeted briefly after Trump's tariff announcement, Palantir's stock market capitalization currently exceeds $270 billion, more than triple its value last September. In addition, the company's ability to establish high-level contacts among national security personnel has generated a series of government contracts linked to the acceleration of #Trumpist #authoritarianism.
"Palantir has already collaborated with #ElonMusk's #SpaceX and the AI and robo robotor #Anduril (another tech company with the theme of The Lord of the Rings led by another #FarRight businessman) to begin building Trump's #GoldenDome, an American version of #Israel's Iron Dome air defense system. It is also working with Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (#DOGE) to create an app programming interface that will allow #HomelandSecurity to track tax data for more undocumented taxpayers to expel.
"In April, Palantir, who has long boasted of his collaborations with military, police and border agents, won a $29.8 million contract with #ICE to improve his #dystopian Immigration Lifecycle Operating System. That is, it is intended to provide molecular and real-time information on immigrants that the government seeks to monitor, arrest and expel. The company is preparing to review ICE's investigative case management system to better track target populations across hundreds of data categories, from eye color to tattoos, job management and social security numbers.
"Palantir's #fascist research and development does not stop at the borders of the United States: the company and Karp have proclaimed their ideological and material support for Israel, which carries out the genocide in Gaza. In January 2024, during an extraordinary board meeting in Tel Aviv, the company announced its strategic alliance with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, providing it with technology for war, possibly including its Artificial Intelligence Platform, sold as a way to incorporate language models-fueled chatbots into real-time decision-making processes in war zones. The company's leadership has made it clear that its conception of Western supremacy implies the uncompromising defense of Zionism abroad and far-right nationalism in the country.
"In all this, it has become clear that Palantir represents the alliance between the technology industry and authoritarian nationalism much more than Musk's clumsy Nazi salutes, sensationalist pronatalism or trolling 'dark #MAGA.' As technology academic Jathan Sadowski recently wrote, 'From the beginning, Palantir's purpose has been to provide... the ontological plan to fascism, helping his ideological objectives come true materially.
"In other words, Palantir is building the digital infrastructure to integrate the multiple forms of violence and state control on which contemporary #authoritarianism is based: from the software needed for mass deportations to AI used in wars against #ColonizedPeoples.
"But Palantir not only builds to dominate, he also wants to tell us why. Less than a month after Trump's inauguration, Karp published his book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, written with the head of Palantir's affairs, Nicolas W. - Zamiska. The book is a strange and prolific mix of neoconservative texts, pseudo-erudite reflections and corporate pamphlets (and apparently shows strong signs of possible use of artificial intelligence).
"In its attempt to unite the praise of Silicon Valley engineers with a strident demand for rearmament from the West, The Technological Republic draws a vision of the future in which the intuitions about creativity, taken from the study of swarms of bees or Jackson Pollock's paintings, are put at the service of ensuring a broad spectrum technological dominance. At the centre is the regret that a compact liberal elite has exhausted the moral courage and technological dynamism of the West just as it faces the revolution of artificial intelligence and emerging Chinese hegemony. After the vague rhetoric of the cultural war, it is not difficult to perceive Karp and Palantir's angry reaction to the #resistance organized by technological workers through campaigns such as '#NoTechForIce or #TechWorkersCoalition' to the project of building to dominate.
"Just as Karp has underlined his company's commitment to Israeli supremacy, so does his book speak of a 'left' chased by the spectre of #Palestine. The executive director of a company that reaps huge profits from surveillance and data extraction systems, aimed at expelling dissidents and undocumented people, Karp writes with contempt of those who want to remain anonymous during Israel's war camps in #Gaza. Quote a student who says, 'If I give my name, I lose my future.' With an astonishing lack of self-consciousness he comments: 'The protective veil of #anonymity could [...] rob this generation of the opportunity to develop an instinct for true mastery of an idea, of the reward of victory in the public square, as well as the costs of defeat.
"This is the same book that, in a variant of the conspiracy theory of cultural Marxism, Edward Said's Orientalism is the main culprit of the emasculation of an academic world built around Western civilization and, therefore, as one more factor in the hesitant technological supremacy of the United States. As Karp states, the book of the Palestinian-American critic has destabilized - a whole way of being an academic in the university establishment, has been the vehicle through which the academic world would be remade.
"The Technological Republic reveals that contemporary #TechnoNationalism and #TechnoMilitarism have nothing to do with building infrastructure for state control and violence, but also with the promotion of an indistinguishable ideology of those who try to sell you something. Palantir reaps benefits not only from the way fear of migrants, artificial intelligence, the upcoming wars waged by drone swarms, mobilizes the resources of governments, but also from speech and uproar. His company's stock market capitalization has quadrupled in the past year, far surpassing revenue-derived growth. This vacuum is filled with speculation, that is, with words and ideas about the future. The future Karp sells is one in which the alternative is ruin (China geopolitical supremacy) or (American) dominance. Behind all the complaints of The Technological Republic about the crisis of confidence in the West, what Karp really wants us to believe is in Palantir, that is, the old business of war, racism and repression marketed through a brilliant new interface."
[Original - in Spanish]
https://ficciondelarazon.org/2025/05/14/alberto-toscano-palantir-y-el-tecno-fascismo-estadounidense/
#BigBrother #ICERaids #CorporateColonialism #Colonialism #Fascism #USPol #WorldPol

#palantir #dsa #technofascism #albertotoscano #peterthiel #alexkarp
Andy Arthur - Threadinburgh @[email protected] · 2024-05-25 · 19:52 UTC

Craigroyston: the thread about a wandering placename on the map of north Edinburgh

This thread was originally written and published in July 2021.
It has come to my attention that there is a football club in Edinburgh with a Gaelic phrase on their badge: Craigroyston FC having the motto ‘s Rioghal mo Dhream, meaning my people/kin are royal. Gaelic mottos are unusual in official use in Anglophone Scotland, another rare example being Neart nan Gleann of the old North of Scotland Hydro Board: power of the glens.
Club badge of Craigroyston FC
Gaelic is of course much more common in the clan mottos of Scotland, and ‘s Rioghal mo Dhream is that of Clan Gregor/ MacGregor. The Craigroyston FC club badge is adapted from the clan heraldry; a crowned lion’s head, an oak tree and a sword. Clan Gregor claims an ancient royal ancestry, hence the motto, and hence the crown on the lion’s head. The lion’s head is in addition a symbol of family strength and power, as is the tree and the sword.
Coat of Arms of Clan McGregor
So how did a football team in lowland Edinburgh come to have the badge and motto of a Highland clan ? The team grew out of the Berwickshire club of Eyemouth FC, whose Edinburgh-based manager and players formed a team closer to home in 1976. They played their first games at Craigroyston Community Centre in the north of the city, from where they took their name. As far as I’m aware, there isn’t some sort of ancient link between Berwickshire and the Gregor clan lands of Glenorchy. Rather, if we take the -roy- bit out of Craigroyston and join the dots we get to the most famous 17th and 18th century son of the Clan, Raibeart Ruadh MacGriogair – Rob Roy MacGregor – as popularised by Sir Walter Scott. And it just so happens that Rob Roy was at one time the laird of Craig Royston, near Inversnaid on the east bank of Loch Lomond.
Rob Roy MacGregor, 19th century engraving “from an original drawing” produced for illustrating the Walter Scott book
So it seems obvious that when the club was hunting around for a badge and a motto that it found the connection to the romantic rebel of Rob Roy and borrowed some of the clan symbolism. But that doesn’t explain how there was already a corner of Edinburgh called Craigroyston. Is there any link with that to Rob Roy and the Clan MacGregor?
The Edinburgh Craigroyston we find is a relatively modern place name, coined in the 19th century for a house of the same moniker. The name is partly from the Scots Craig– (from the Gaelic, Creag), describing the rocky Granton shoreline below it. The -Royston part is rather older and is first recorded in 1611 as an alternative name for the lands of Easter Granton. The name etymology is obvious; -ton being from the Old English for an enclosure, estate or farmstead and Roy a landowner.
25 inch Ordnance Survey Map of Edinburgh, 1892, showing Craigroyston House relative to Granton House. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland
Adair’s map of 1682 and Roy’s map of 1750 both show Royston (or Rauston on Adair) although confusingly it’s somewhat to the south and east of where Craigroyston House would later be built. Roy and Adair’s Royston is placed where the farmstead of Royston Mains was located – Mains being a Scots term for the principal (or “main”) farm of an estate. Notice also Granton Mains on the map below.
6 inch Ordnance Survey map of Edinburgh, 1888 showing Craigroyston House to the west (left), Royston Mains to the east (right) and the ruins of an older Royston House to the north (top). Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland
That Victorian Craigroyston House still exists, having been built in the 1850s for Rear Admiral Henry Dundas, the second son of Robert Dundas of Arniston, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. It is recorded in the Ordnance Survey Name Book for Midlothian of 1852-53 as “a good substantial building, 3 storeys high, attached in a small portion of ornamental ground, proprietor Captain Dundas”.
Craigroyston House, © RCAHMS
The older Royston House dates to 1585 and was rebuilt by its then owner (George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cramrtie and Viscount Tarbat) in the late 17th century in a modern style, with a distinctive ogee roof-line on the corner and central bays, apparently by diverting materials from the reconstruction of the Palace of Holyroodhouse which the owner and architect were involved in! It was purchased in 1739 by the Duke of Argyll who renamed it Caroline Park after his daughter, he confused things by having the old ruin of Granton Castle renamed to Royston House at this time. The name and locus of the estate farm of Royston Mains remained unchained this whole time.
A print of Royston House
And so things would remain for the best part of 100 years, until in 1936 the Corporation of Edinburgh purchased the estate farmlands of Muirhouse, Broomfield and Craigroyston for housing development. This included the farms of East Pilton, Granton Mains, West Pilton and Muirhouse Mains and Pennywell, areas that would later become synonymous with decades of council house building. The streets of the northwestern part of the council housing built before 1939, and its primary school, took the name of the farm of Royston Mains, on which they were built.
Bartholomew Post Office Directory maps of Edinburgh, 1932 and 1939, showing pre- and post-development of the council housing estates of East Pilton, Royston and Wardieburn. Slide the arrow to compare.
The Royston name is also present a few miles to the east on Royston Terrace at Goldenacre, a nursery here once having been a detached portion of the old estate before being feud for housebuilding in the 1870s.
In 1957 the Corporation announced it was building two junior secondary schools of a new design, one each in the north and south of the city; these would come to life as Craigroyston and Gracemount. The Craigroyston school was quite close to the Victorian house of that name, but is strictly speaking located on the lands of Muirhouse Mains, some distance west of Royston Mains. This school was completed in 1963 as what was then called a Junior Secondary, but would later evolved into a Community High School under the pioneering headmaster Hugh Mackenzie who was instrumental in the abolition of corporal punishment in schools in Edinburgh and the Lothians..
Craigroyston Community High School, 2009, prior to demolition of the old buildings. CC-by-SA 2.0 Denna Jones
It was at the Community Centre attached to this school where the nascent Craigroyston FC played their first games, not long after one well known local lad and former pupil of that school made his move from the area to Dundee.
Gordon Strachan, Scotland, Aberdeen, Manchester United and Leeds United legend.
Craigroyston FC would later find a permanent home at City Park in East Pilton, one time home to Edinburgh City, Spartans and Meadowbank Thistle. They moved from here in 2009 to a new base in St. Marks Park between Powderhall and Warriston. Given how much the Royston and Craigroyston placenames have wandered around the map of north Edinburgh in the last 300 years, it’s probably quite appropriate that the team of that name no longer play their football there.
Postscript: since I wrote this post, it turns out that the Craigroyston FC senior team has been wound up, however a youth team, formed in 2007, is still going under the same name and badge and plays closer to the team’s spirtual home, at Craigie Park in Muirhouse. The 2010s squad recently won the David Innes Cup on penalties.
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Sky Dancing @[email protected] · 2026-02-07 · 18:49 UTC

Lazy Caturday Reads: Trump’s Racism and Epstein Fallout

Good Afternoon!!
Yesterday, Dakinikat wrote about Trump’s disgusting Truth Social post of a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. Trump left it up for at least 12 hours before someone at the White House finally deleted it. Of course Trump, who is a hateful and repulsive racist, won’t apologize.
The Washington Post: Trump refuses to apologize over video showing the Obamas as apes.

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump declined to apologize for sharing a social media video that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, saying he did not realize the image of the former president and first lady was tacked on to the end of the clip.
The president said Friday that he had watched and passed along the video — which focused on claims of voter fraud until the final seconds of the clip — to unidentified “people” to post to his Truth Social account, but that he “didn’t see the whole thing,” including the brief portion that showed the heads of the Obamas edited onto the bodies of apes.

In response to a question from The Washington Post about whether he would heed the calls of some Republicans to apologize for posting the video, which was widely condemned as racist and offensive, Trump said he would not.
“No, I didn’t make a mistake,” Trump said on his way to Palm Beach, Florida, for the weekend. “I look at a lot of — thousands of things. And I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine.”
Trump referred to the controversial video, which was online for about 12 hours before being deleted, as “a very strong post in terms of voter fraud.” [….]
…[T]he pushback was swift, including from Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), the chamber’s only Black Republican, who also serves as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Scott called the post “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.” Several other GOP senators and House members joined Scott in condemning the video, with some calling on Trump to apologize….
Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Friday, Trump dismissed the notion that the post and his handling of it could hurt him with the minority voters he had made gains with during the 2024 election. He touted criminal justice reform legislation passed during his first term, as well as his efforts to ensure funding to historically Black colleges and universities.

We’ll see. I think Trump expects to be able to rig the 2026 election anyway.
Hanna Kiros at The Atlantic (gift link): The Obama Meme on Trump’s Truth Social Was Exactly What It Looked Like.
Donald Trump supercharged his political career by claiming that Barack Obama wasn’t American. Yesterday, 16 minutes before midnight, the president’s account on Truth Social posted a video that suggests Obama isn’t even human. It briefly shows the head of the first Black president and that of his wife superimposed onto the bodies of apes. They dance along to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
The video, which Trump’s account shared twice, seems to be a screen recording. Its first minute shows a clip promoting the lie that voting-machine tampering handed Joe Biden the presidency in 2020. Then, someone seems to swipe up, and the clip depicting the Obamas as apes flashes into focus. [The post was removed after about 12 hours.]….
In the interim, hundreds if not thousands of people responded to the clip with enthusiasm. Immediately after the video was first posted on Truth Social, the memecoin $APEBAMA was minted. Within 12 hours, more than $4 million worth of $APEBAMA had been traded back and forth. In an X group with the same name that now has hundreds of members, the pinned tweet implies that the meme stock will succeed because of how outrageous the video is: “this is pretty much on par with him calling Obama a nigga.” Some members posted their own depictions of Obama as a monkey or ape. The ape video’s apparent creator, the X user @xerias_x, reposted the full video to their X account early this morning. Besides the Obamas, the video shows a menagerie of Democratic politicians as animals, bowing down to Trump, who appears as a lion. It now has more than 1 million views. (@xerias_x also seems to be the originator of an AI-generated video Trump reposted in October that shows the president raining down what appears to be excrement on protesters from the sky.)
The “joke” that Trump’s account spread is plainly sinister. The idea that Black people sit somewhere between white people and apes has long been used to justify cruelty. In 1377, a historian wrote that Africans “have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals,” meaning they “are, as a whole, submissive to slavery.” Cartoons circulated during the Civil War were printed with images similar to the one Trump posted: One labels a monkey holding a book upside down as a NEGRO-MAN; another depicts a Black man on all fours, accompanied by the words WHAR’S JEFF DAVIS. In 1906, a man born in what was then the Belgian Congo, Ota Benga, was displayed at the Bronx Zoo in a cage with an orangutan. In 1975, white teenagers harassed Black students desegregating a Boston public school with the chant “Two, four, six, eight, assassinate the nigger apes.”
The ape caricature still colors how Black people are received in America. But this morning, the administration played the video off for laughs. “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in response to a comment request before the Truth Social posts were removed. (The Lion King features a monkey named Rafiki, but no apes appear in the film.)
There is absolutely no question that Trump is a vicious racist.
In other news, there are so many fascinating revelations coming out of the latest release from the FBI’s Epstein files. I haven’t had the patience to actually try searching through them myself, but I’ve been following what reporters are finding. Some of the latest examples:
Allison Quinn at The Daily Beast: Epstein’s Top Secret Relationship With Trained Russian Spy Revealed.
Jeffrey Epstein had a years-long relationship with an FSB-trained Russian official who sought his help connecting with a well-known hacker in 2016.
The late sex trafficker’s corresponJeffrdence with Sergei Belyakov is among the strangest revelations in the millions of case files released by the Justice Department last month.
Belyakov, a former deputy economic minister, helped Epstein secure visas to visit Russia, provided him with a dossier on a Russian woman Epstein had complained was trying to blackmail “a group of powerful businessmen,” and reported to Epstein about his work for the Russian government.
Epstein’s frequent bids to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov feature heavily in the newly released files—his assistant reminds him in one September 2011 email that he’d told his bodyguard he “had an appointment with Putin” coming up—but he appears to have had Belyakov at his beck and call.
In one January 2016 email under the subject, “My new position,” Belyakov told Epstein he’d started working at the Russian Direct Investment Fund–now led by Kirill Dmitriev, one of Vladimir Putin’s most trusted envoys, and a key player in ongoing peace talks with the Trump administration to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Much of their correspondence focused on investment opportunities and potential investors, though it’s unclear to what extent Belyakov involved Epstein in his work beyond the emails documented in the latest files.
The pair met several times in person over the years. In numerous email exchanges from 2014 through 2018, they reference personal meetings they had together, along with sporadic phone calls.
Epstein described Belyakov as a “very good friend” in a 2015 email to billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel as he tried to arrange for the pair to meet. Belyakov also apparently put Epstein in touch with other Russian officials, with emails showing he helped Epstein apply for a Russian visa in 2014 to meet with then-Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak and Alexei Simanovsky, the deputy head of Russia’s Central Bank at the time.
There’s more interesting stuff at the link.
J Oliver Conroy at The Guardian: The Epstein files reveal that a vast global conspiracy actually exists – sort of.
The millions of Jeffrey Epstein files dumped last Friday by the US Department of Justice will provide journalists, conspiracy theorists and interested members of the public with months of reading. And what they will read is enraging.
What makes these files so infuriating, however, is not just Epstein’s horrific predatory behavior, which is well-known, but the more mundane examples of elite conduct that the documents continue to expose. They vividly illustrate a world whose existence many everyday people, whether fevered with visions of the Illuminati or just jaundiced by banal anti-establishment cynicism, already suspected exists: an informal global club of powerful, ultra-rich people who all seemingly know each other, help one another out, and protect each other from the consequences of their depravity.
The new files will probably not provide satisfying answers to questions about, say, whether any of Epstein’s famous friends participated in his sex trafficking, or if his death in custody in 2019 was truly a suicide, as authorities have said. But conspiracy theorists may still feel vindicated – and to some extent they should, Matthew Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University, said.
Although the documents may not expose an actual criminal conspiracy, he said, they confirm the belief behind most conspiracy theories: that elites “get special treatment, that they’re shielded from the rules that are supposed to apply to everyone equally, and that there is a kind of corruption in the broadest sense of the word”.
The new material is the largest, and possibly last, tranche of the so-called Epstein files, though the government is keeping as many as 3m more pages under wraps. Yet even the initial revelations of these files deepen the astonishing constellation of ties between Epstein and members of the global elite – including tech billionaires; a former US president; British, Norwegian and Saudi royalty or royal courtiers; current and former US cabinet secretaries and governors; and prominent business executives and academics….
[T]he files, especially Epstein’s typo-filled email and text-message correspondences, are fascinating – and ultimately grim – in what they show of how elites act in private, among themselves. At the least, many of Epstein’s powerful acquaintances remained friendly with him years after the notoriously lenient sweetheart bargain, in 2008, in which he pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution, and as survivors continued to accuse Epstein of further crimes.
Again, there is lots more enraging material at the link.
AP: Epstein revelations have toppled top figures in Europe while US fallout is more muted.
LONDON (AP) — A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States.
The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites — dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations.
Former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.
Apart from the former Prince Andrew, none of them faces claims of sexual wrongdoing. They have been toppled for maintaining friendly relationships with Epstein after he became a convicted sex offender.
“Epstein collected powerful people the way others collect frequent flyer points,” said Mark Stephens, a specialist in international and human rights law at Howard Kennedy in London. “But the receipts are now in public, and some might wish they’d traveled less.”
The documents were published after a public frenzy over Epstein became a crisis for President Donald Trump’s administration and led to a rare bipartisan effort to force the government to open its investigative files. But in the U.S., the long-sought publication has not brought the same public reckoning with Epstein’s associates — at least so far.
Rob Ford, a professor of political science at the University of Manchester, said that in Britain, “if you’re in those files, it’s immediately a big story.”
“It suggests to me we have a more functional media, we have a more functional accountability structure, that there is still a degree of shame in politics, in terms of people will say: ‘This is just not acceptable, this is just not done,’” he said.
In other words, our media sucks and many of our politicians are shameless. I can’t argue with that.
A couple of Trump cabinet members captured in the files:
CBS News: Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had “limited interactions” with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014.
Lutnick and Epstein each signed on behalf of limited liability companies that agreed on Dec. 28, 2012, to acquire stakes in a now-shuttered advertising technology company called Adfin, documents released among the so-called Epstein files show.
Epstein and Lutnick’s signatures appear on neighboring pages in the contract, with Epstein signing for his Southern Trust Company, Inc. and Lutnick for a limited liability company called CVAFH I. The documents list nine shareholders in total.
Lutnick, the former chairman of the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald who at one point lived next door to Epstein, told the New York Post in October that he and his wife Allison had cut ties with Epstein in 2005, deciding after taking a tour of Epstein’s New York townhouse, “I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.”
However, it appears Epstein and Lutnick continued to maintain contact and emails show they arranged calls and planned to have drinks in 2011.
The following year, the couple and their four children planned a visit to Epstein’s island, Little St. James, emails show. Lutnick was invited for lunch on Dec. 24, 2012, and later, Epstein’s assistant wrote on behalf of Epstein, “it was nice seeing you.”
Their Adfin deal was signed four days later.
Lutnick is such a fucking liar.
Farah Tomazin at The Daily Beast: RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, according to the latest tranche of documents released by the Justice Department.
As the fallout over the Epstein files continues, an email exchange between the two sex predators centers on the now-Trump Cabinet secretary, one of the many prominent people whose friendship the pair cultivated over the years.
The exchange took place in 2012, seven years before Epstein died in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial.
In one email, Epstein writes to Maxwell about a trip involving “dinosaur and fossill hunitng (sic) with jack horner on the ranch, found 90 million year old clams and fossils.”
“Right up your alley,” he adds.
The following day, Maxwell replies: “Love that – didn’t we go fossil hunting with him and Bobby Kennedy in N Dakota?”
“Yes,” Epstein replies.
Maxwell, a former British socialite now serving 20 years for her crimes, also disclosed the fossil hunt during an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last year, apparently catching him off guard when she said of Epstein: “Bobby Kennedy knew him.”
One more from Amelia Gentleman at The Guardian on women in the Epstein files: Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club.
Pluck an email at random from the millions in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. It is a Saturday evening in February 2013, and Jeffrey Epstein is messaging Bill Gates’s assistant about guests for a dinner he wants to organise.’
“People for Bill,” the email begins. Epstein starts listing possible candidates: the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, the film director Woody Allen, the prime minister of Qatar, a couple of Harvard academics, the billionaire CEO of Hyatt hotels, a White House communications director, a former US secretary of defence.
He names 10 powerful men, before suggesting “Anne Hathaway (really)”. Epstein has to make it clear, with the bracketed word, that he is not joking when he proposes that a woman might join them at the table. The lists ends tentatively: “victoria secret models?” Epstein wonders: “Who on the list do you think he would enjoy the most?”
The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not. The emails showcase the private behaviour of a male ruling class, as they network, joke and trade information. Women exist at the periphery, tolerated because they organise the diaries of the busy men, they arrange food, they grace a table, they provide sex.
A typical email from Epstein to a woman might say: “Take a selfie of your pussy and send.”
Spend three days rummaging through the chaotic, sprawling, sordid pit of information contained in the Epstein files, and you learn valuable lessons about how this modern global patriarchy operates: through flattery, the exchange of favours and occasional curt reminders of who owes what to whom.
For women, these files offer an unprecedented chance to eavesdrop on conversations from which they are usually excluded. They provide salutary insights into what a set of distinguished global figures think and say about women when they assume the women aren’t listening.
Read the rest at The Guardian.
I’ll end with a few tales of Trump idiocy:
Jonathan Karl at ABC News: Trump wants Penn Station, Dulles Airport named after him in funding deal with Schumer, sources say.
President Donald Trump last month told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that he would be willing to unfreeze $16 billion in funding for a major infrastructure project in New York if Schumer would agree to rename New York’s Penn Station and Washington’s Dulles Airport after him, two sources familiar with the conversation told ABC News.
The Hudson Tunnel Project — which would connect New York City and New Jersey — had already started. The project includes building nine miles of new passenger rail track and rehabilitating the North River Tunnel, according to the commission responsible for it.
Officials in New York and New Jersey said if the money isn’t freed-up by Friday, the project would stop, leaving approximately 1,000 construction jobs in jeopardy.
Sources told ABC that Schumer rejected Trump’s offer.
Daniel Dale at CNN: ‘I did that’: Trump takes credit for a prisoner release that happened before he even ran for president.
At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Donald Trump spoke from prepared remarks as he discussed the persecution of Mariam Ibrahim. Ibrahim was unjustly imprisoned and sentenced to death in Sudan in 2014, in a case centered on her Christian faith, until she was released that same year following a global outcry.
Trump correctly said: “Believers all over the planet rallied to Mariam’s cause, prayed for her protection, and successfully pressured for her release.”
But then the president appeared to ad-lib – and claimed that he was the one who got Ibrahim freed.
“I did that. I did that. I did that with one phone call, actually,” he said. “And she had such support, it was so easy. And when I explained it to the powers that be: ‘Yes, sir, we will do it right away.’ I just wish I knew earlier. But it’s a big world with a lot of people.”
For years, Trump has told fictional stories that feature unnamed people referring to him as “sir.” This was another one.
Ibrahim was released in 2014, during the Obama administration. Trump did not become president until January 2017. He was not even a presidential candidate until June 2015. There has never been the slightest indication that a private citizen in the US, a businessman and celebrity at the time, was the person who convinced Sudanese authorities to let her out of prison.
A former Obama administration official who served on the National Security Council in 2014 told CNN on Friday: “I neither had at the time nor have now any knowledge of Trump’s involvement whatsoever. It’d be very surprising if he were.”
Jack Jenkins, a reporter for Religion News Service, first raised skepticism about Trump’s story on Thursday.
Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor who is a prominent conservative legal scholar, said in a Friday email: “As Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in 2014, I advocated for Mariam Ibrahim. I do not recall Donald Trump being involved in the case or assisting our Commission’s efforts. Of course, he was not President at the time.
Jack Revell at The Daily Beast: Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will.
Thousands of active-duty military personnel may have been “pressured” into seeing the Melania documentary at cinemas around the country, a watchdog has warned.
The $75 million Amazon film opened last week to $7 million at the box office—despite universally terrible reviews.

According to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, those numbers have been artificially inflated by pressure from MAGA-aligned officers leaning on their troops to buy tickets.
“People are scared,” Mikey Weinstein, president and founder of the MRFF, said. Weinstein said he has received letters from members of the U.S. military at eight facilities worldwide, complaining that their superiors encouraged or pressured them to see the film.
He told Business Insider. “They were pressured to see the movie. Your military superior, that’s not your shift manager at Taco Bell or Starbucks. They have complete and total control over you.”
The MRFF, a non-profit founded in 2005 to promote the separation of church and state within the military, has roughly 100,000 members.
“Nobody that I know wanted to go except for those that did not want to get jacked up by our unit commander for not attending,” one of those members told Weinstein in a letter seen by journalist Jonathan Larsen.

That’s it for me today. What stories have you been following?
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Sky Dancing @[email protected] · 2026-02-07 · 18:49 UTC

Lazy Caturday Reads: Trump’s Racism and Epstein Fallout

Good Afternoon!!
Yesterday, Dakinikat wrote about Trump’s disgusting Truth Social post of a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. Trump left it up for at least 12 hours before someone at the White House finally deleted it. Of course Trump, who is a hateful and repulsive racist, won’t apologize.
The Washington Post: Trump refuses to apologize over video showing the Obamas as apes.

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump declined to apologize for sharing a social media video that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, saying he did not realize the image of the former president and first lady was tacked on to the end of the clip.
The president said Friday that he had watched and passed along the video — which focused on claims of voter fraud until the final seconds of the clip — to unidentified “people” to post to his Truth Social account, but that he “didn’t see the whole thing,” including the brief portion that showed the heads of the Obamas edited onto the bodies of apes.

In response to a question from The Washington Post about whether he would heed the calls of some Republicans to apologize for posting the video, which was widely condemned as racist and offensive, Trump said he would not.
“No, I didn’t make a mistake,” Trump said on his way to Palm Beach, Florida, for the weekend. “I look at a lot of — thousands of things. And I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine.”
Trump referred to the controversial video, which was online for about 12 hours before being deleted, as “a very strong post in terms of voter fraud.” [….]
…[T]he pushback was swift, including from Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), the chamber’s only Black Republican, who also serves as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Scott called the post “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.” Several other GOP senators and House members joined Scott in condemning the video, with some calling on Trump to apologize….
Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Friday, Trump dismissed the notion that the post and his handling of it could hurt him with the minority voters he had made gains with during the 2024 election. He touted criminal justice reform legislation passed during his first term, as well as his efforts to ensure funding to historically Black colleges and universities.

We’ll see. I think Trump expects to be able to rig the 2026 election anyway.
Hanna Kiros at The Atlantic (gift link): The Obama Meme on Trump’s Truth Social Was Exactly What It Looked Like.
Donald Trump supercharged his political career by claiming that Barack Obama wasn’t American. Yesterday, 16 minutes before midnight, the president’s account on Truth Social posted a video that suggests Obama isn’t even human. It briefly shows the head of the first Black president and that of his wife superimposed onto the bodies of apes. They dance along to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
The video, which Trump’s account shared twice, seems to be a screen recording. Its first minute shows a clip promoting the lie that voting-machine tampering handed Joe Biden the presidency in 2020. Then, someone seems to swipe up, and the clip depicting the Obamas as apes flashes into focus. [The post was removed after about 12 hours.]….
In the interim, hundreds if not thousands of people responded to the clip with enthusiasm. Immediately after the video was first posted on Truth Social, the memecoin $APEBAMA was minted. Within 12 hours, more than $4 million worth of $APEBAMA had been traded back and forth. In an X group with the same name that now has hundreds of members, the pinned tweet implies that the meme stock will succeed because of how outrageous the video is: “this is pretty much on par with him calling Obama a nigga.” Some members posted their own depictions of Obama as a monkey or ape. The ape video’s apparent creator, the X user @xerias_x, reposted the full video to their X account early this morning. Besides the Obamas, the video shows a menagerie of Democratic politicians as animals, bowing down to Trump, who appears as a lion. It now has more than 1 million views. (@xerias_x also seems to be the originator of an AI-generated video Trump reposted in October that shows the president raining down what appears to be excrement on protesters from the sky.)
The “joke” that Trump’s account spread is plainly sinister. The idea that Black people sit somewhere between white people and apes has long been used to justify cruelty. In 1377, a historian wrote that Africans “have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals,” meaning they “are, as a whole, submissive to slavery.” Cartoons circulated during the Civil War were printed with images similar to the one Trump posted: One labels a monkey holding a book upside down as a NEGRO-MAN; another depicts a Black man on all fours, accompanied by the words WHAR’S JEFF DAVIS. In 1906, a man born in what was then the Belgian Congo, Ota Benga, was displayed at the Bronx Zoo in a cage with an orangutan. In 1975, white teenagers harassed Black students desegregating a Boston public school with the chant “Two, four, six, eight, assassinate the nigger apes.”
The ape caricature still colors how Black people are received in America. But this morning, the administration played the video off for laughs. “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in response to a comment request before the Truth Social posts were removed. (The Lion King features a monkey named Rafiki, but no apes appear in the film.)
There is absolutely no question that Trump is a vicious racist.
In other news, there are so many fascinating revelations coming out of the latest release from the FBI’s Epstein files. I haven’t had the patience to actually try searching through them myself, but I’ve been following what reporters are finding. Some of the latest examples:
Allison Quinn at The Daily Beast: Epstein’s Top Secret Relationship With Trained Russian Spy Revealed.
Jeffrey Epstein had a years-long relationship with an FSB-trained Russian official who sought his help connecting with a well-known hacker in 2016.
The late sex trafficker’s corresponJeffrdence with Sergei Belyakov is among the strangest revelations in the millions of case files released by the Justice Department last month.
Belyakov, a former deputy economic minister, helped Epstein secure visas to visit Russia, provided him with a dossier on a Russian woman Epstein had complained was trying to blackmail “a group of powerful businessmen,” and reported to Epstein about his work for the Russian government.
Epstein’s frequent bids to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov feature heavily in the newly released files—his assistant reminds him in one September 2011 email that he’d told his bodyguard he “had an appointment with Putin” coming up—but he appears to have had Belyakov at his beck and call.
In one January 2016 email under the subject, “My new position,” Belyakov told Epstein he’d started working at the Russian Direct Investment Fund–now led by Kirill Dmitriev, one of Vladimir Putin’s most trusted envoys, and a key player in ongoing peace talks with the Trump administration to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Much of their correspondence focused on investment opportunities and potential investors, though it’s unclear to what extent Belyakov involved Epstein in his work beyond the emails documented in the latest files.
The pair met several times in person over the years. In numerous email exchanges from 2014 through 2018, they reference personal meetings they had together, along with sporadic phone calls.
Epstein described Belyakov as a “very good friend” in a 2015 email to billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel as he tried to arrange for the pair to meet. Belyakov also apparently put Epstein in touch with other Russian officials, with emails showing he helped Epstein apply for a Russian visa in 2014 to meet with then-Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak and Alexei Simanovsky, the deputy head of Russia’s Central Bank at the time.
There’s more interesting stuff at the link.
J Oliver Conroy at The Guardian: The Epstein files reveal that a vast global conspiracy actually exists – sort of.
The millions of Jeffrey Epstein files dumped last Friday by the US Department of Justice will provide journalists, conspiracy theorists and interested members of the public with months of reading. And what they will read is enraging.
What makes these files so infuriating, however, is not just Epstein’s horrific predatory behavior, which is well-known, but the more mundane examples of elite conduct that the documents continue to expose. They vividly illustrate a world whose existence many everyday people, whether fevered with visions of the Illuminati or just jaundiced by banal anti-establishment cynicism, already suspected exists: an informal global club of powerful, ultra-rich people who all seemingly know each other, help one another out, and protect each other from the consequences of their depravity.
The new files will probably not provide satisfying answers to questions about, say, whether any of Epstein’s famous friends participated in his sex trafficking, or if his death in custody in 2019 was truly a suicide, as authorities have said. But conspiracy theorists may still feel vindicated – and to some extent they should, Matthew Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University, said.
Although the documents may not expose an actual criminal conspiracy, he said, they confirm the belief behind most conspiracy theories: that elites “get special treatment, that they’re shielded from the rules that are supposed to apply to everyone equally, and that there is a kind of corruption in the broadest sense of the word”.
The new material is the largest, and possibly last, tranche of the so-called Epstein files, though the government is keeping as many as 3m more pages under wraps. Yet even the initial revelations of these files deepen the astonishing constellation of ties between Epstein and members of the global elite – including tech billionaires; a former US president; British, Norwegian and Saudi royalty or royal courtiers; current and former US cabinet secretaries and governors; and prominent business executives and academics….
[T]he files, especially Epstein’s typo-filled email and text-message correspondences, are fascinating – and ultimately grim – in what they show of how elites act in private, among themselves. At the least, many of Epstein’s powerful acquaintances remained friendly with him years after the notoriously lenient sweetheart bargain, in 2008, in which he pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution, and as survivors continued to accuse Epstein of further crimes.
Again, there is lots more enraging material at the link.
AP: Epstein revelations have toppled top figures in Europe while US fallout is more muted.
LONDON (AP) — A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States.
The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites — dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations.
Former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.
Apart from the former Prince Andrew, none of them faces claims of sexual wrongdoing. They have been toppled for maintaining friendly relationships with Epstein after he became a convicted sex offender.
“Epstein collected powerful people the way others collect frequent flyer points,” said Mark Stephens, a specialist in international and human rights law at Howard Kennedy in London. “But the receipts are now in public, and some might wish they’d traveled less.”
The documents were published after a public frenzy over Epstein became a crisis for President Donald Trump’s administration and led to a rare bipartisan effort to force the government to open its investigative files. But in the U.S., the long-sought publication has not brought the same public reckoning with Epstein’s associates — at least so far.
Rob Ford, a professor of political science at the University of Manchester, said that in Britain, “if you’re in those files, it’s immediately a big story.”
“It suggests to me we have a more functional media, we have a more functional accountability structure, that there is still a degree of shame in politics, in terms of people will say: ‘This is just not acceptable, this is just not done,’” he said.
In other words, our media sucks and many of our politicians are shameless. I can’t argue with that.
A couple of Trump cabinet members captured in the files:
CBS News: Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had “limited interactions” with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014.
Lutnick and Epstein each signed on behalf of limited liability companies that agreed on Dec. 28, 2012, to acquire stakes in a now-shuttered advertising technology company called Adfin, documents released among the so-called Epstein files show.
Epstein and Lutnick’s signatures appear on neighboring pages in the contract, with Epstein signing for his Southern Trust Company, Inc. and Lutnick for a limited liability company called CVAFH I. The documents list nine shareholders in total.
Lutnick, the former chairman of the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald who at one point lived next door to Epstein, told the New York Post in October that he and his wife Allison had cut ties with Epstein in 2005, deciding after taking a tour of Epstein’s New York townhouse, “I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.”
However, it appears Epstein and Lutnick continued to maintain contact and emails show they arranged calls and planned to have drinks in 2011.
The following year, the couple and their four children planned a visit to Epstein’s island, Little St. James, emails show. Lutnick was invited for lunch on Dec. 24, 2012, and later, Epstein’s assistant wrote on behalf of Epstein, “it was nice seeing you.”
Their Adfin deal was signed four days later.
Lutnick is such a fucking liar.
Farah Tomazin at The Daily Beast: RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, according to the latest tranche of documents released by the Justice Department.
As the fallout over the Epstein files continues, an email exchange between the two sex predators centers on the now-Trump Cabinet secretary, one of the many prominent people whose friendship the pair cultivated over the years.
The exchange took place in 2012, seven years before Epstein died in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial.
In one email, Epstein writes to Maxwell about a trip involving “dinosaur and fossill hunitng (sic) with jack horner on the ranch, found 90 million year old clams and fossils.”
“Right up your alley,” he adds.
The following day, Maxwell replies: “Love that – didn’t we go fossil hunting with him and Bobby Kennedy in N Dakota?”
“Yes,” Epstein replies.
Maxwell, a former British socialite now serving 20 years for her crimes, also disclosed the fossil hunt during an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last year, apparently catching him off guard when she said of Epstein: “Bobby Kennedy knew him.”
One more from Amelia Gentleman at The Guardian on women in the Epstein files: Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club.
Pluck an email at random from the millions in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. It is a Saturday evening in February 2013, and Jeffrey Epstein is messaging Bill Gates’s assistant about guests for a dinner he wants to organise.’
“People for Bill,” the email begins. Epstein starts listing possible candidates: the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, the film director Woody Allen, the prime minister of Qatar, a couple of Harvard academics, the billionaire CEO of Hyatt hotels, a White House communications director, a former US secretary of defence.
He names 10 powerful men, before suggesting “Anne Hathaway (really)”. Epstein has to make it clear, with the bracketed word, that he is not joking when he proposes that a woman might join them at the table. The lists ends tentatively: “victoria secret models?” Epstein wonders: “Who on the list do you think he would enjoy the most?”
The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not. The emails showcase the private behaviour of a male ruling class, as they network, joke and trade information. Women exist at the periphery, tolerated because they organise the diaries of the busy men, they arrange food, they grace a table, they provide sex.
A typical email from Epstein to a woman might say: “Take a selfie of your pussy and send.”
Spend three days rummaging through the chaotic, sprawling, sordid pit of information contained in the Epstein files, and you learn valuable lessons about how this modern global patriarchy operates: through flattery, the exchange of favours and occasional curt reminders of who owes what to whom.
For women, these files offer an unprecedented chance to eavesdrop on conversations from which they are usually excluded. They provide salutary insights into what a set of distinguished global figures think and say about women when they assume the women aren’t listening.
Read the rest at The Guardian.
I’ll end with a few tales of Trump idiocy:
Jonathan Karl at ABC News: Trump wants Penn Station, Dulles Airport named after him in funding deal with Schumer, sources say.
President Donald Trump last month told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that he would be willing to unfreeze $16 billion in funding for a major infrastructure project in New York if Schumer would agree to rename New York’s Penn Station and Washington’s Dulles Airport after him, two sources familiar with the conversation told ABC News.
The Hudson Tunnel Project — which would connect New York City and New Jersey — had already started. The project includes building nine miles of new passenger rail track and rehabilitating the North River Tunnel, according to the commission responsible for it.
Officials in New York and New Jersey said if the money isn’t freed-up by Friday, the project would stop, leaving approximately 1,000 construction jobs in jeopardy.
Sources told ABC that Schumer rejected Trump’s offer.
Daniel Dale at CNN: ‘I did that’: Trump takes credit for a prisoner release that happened before he even ran for president.
At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Donald Trump spoke from prepared remarks as he discussed the persecution of Mariam Ibrahim. Ibrahim was unjustly imprisoned and sentenced to death in Sudan in 2014, in a case centered on her Christian faith, until she was released that same year following a global outcry.
Trump correctly said: “Believers all over the planet rallied to Mariam’s cause, prayed for her protection, and successfully pressured for her release.”
But then the president appeared to ad-lib – and claimed that he was the one who got Ibrahim freed.
“I did that. I did that. I did that with one phone call, actually,” he said. “And she had such support, it was so easy. And when I explained it to the powers that be: ‘Yes, sir, we will do it right away.’ I just wish I knew earlier. But it’s a big world with a lot of people.”
For years, Trump has told fictional stories that feature unnamed people referring to him as “sir.” This was another one.
Ibrahim was released in 2014, during the Obama administration. Trump did not become president until January 2017. He was not even a presidential candidate until June 2015. There has never been the slightest indication that a private citizen in the US, a businessman and celebrity at the time, was the person who convinced Sudanese authorities to let her out of prison.
A former Obama administration official who served on the National Security Council in 2014 told CNN on Friday: “I neither had at the time nor have now any knowledge of Trump’s involvement whatsoever. It’d be very surprising if he were.”
Jack Jenkins, a reporter for Religion News Service, first raised skepticism about Trump’s story on Thursday.
Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor who is a prominent conservative legal scholar, said in a Friday email: “As Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in 2014, I advocated for Mariam Ibrahim. I do not recall Donald Trump being involved in the case or assisting our Commission’s efforts. Of course, he was not President at the time.
Jack Revell at The Daily Beast: Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will.
Thousands of active-duty military personnel may have been “pressured” into seeing the Melania documentary at cinemas around the country, a watchdog has warned.
The $75 million Amazon film opened last week to $7 million at the box office—despite universally terrible reviews.

According to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, those numbers have been artificially inflated by pressure from MAGA-aligned officers leaning on their troops to buy tickets.
“People are scared,” Mikey Weinstein, president and founder of the MRFF, said. Weinstein said he has received letters from members of the U.S. military at eight facilities worldwide, complaining that their superiors encouraged or pressured them to see the film.
He told Business Insider. “They were pressured to see the movie. Your military superior, that’s not your shift manager at Taco Bell or Starbucks. They have complete and total control over you.”
The MRFF, a non-profit founded in 2005 to promote the separation of church and state within the military, has roughly 100,000 members.
“Nobody that I know wanted to go except for those that did not want to get jacked up by our unit commander for not attending,” one of those members told Weinstein in a letter seen by journalist Jonathan Larsen.

That’s it for me today. What stories have you been following?
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Sky Dancing @[email protected] · 2026-02-07 · 18:49 UTC

Lazy Caturday Reads: Trump’s Racism and Epstein Fallout

Good Afternoon!!
Yesterday, Dakinikat wrote about Trump’s disgusting Truth Social post of a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. Trump left it up for at least 12 hours before someone at the White House finally deleted it. Of course Trump, who is a hateful and repulsive racist, won’t apologize.
The Washington Post: Trump refuses to apologize over video showing the Obamas as apes.

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump declined to apologize for sharing a social media video that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, saying he did not realize the image of the former president and first lady was tacked on to the end of the clip.
The president said Friday that he had watched and passed along the video — which focused on claims of voter fraud until the final seconds of the clip — to unidentified “people” to post to his Truth Social account, but that he “didn’t see the whole thing,” including the brief portion that showed the heads of the Obamas edited onto the bodies of apes.

In response to a question from The Washington Post about whether he would heed the calls of some Republicans to apologize for posting the video, which was widely condemned as racist and offensive, Trump said he would not.
“No, I didn’t make a mistake,” Trump said on his way to Palm Beach, Florida, for the weekend. “I look at a lot of — thousands of things. And I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine.”
Trump referred to the controversial video, which was online for about 12 hours before being deleted, as “a very strong post in terms of voter fraud.” [….]
…[T]he pushback was swift, including from Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), the chamber’s only Black Republican, who also serves as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Scott called the post “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.” Several other GOP senators and House members joined Scott in condemning the video, with some calling on Trump to apologize….
Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Friday, Trump dismissed the notion that the post and his handling of it could hurt him with the minority voters he had made gains with during the 2024 election. He touted criminal justice reform legislation passed during his first term, as well as his efforts to ensure funding to historically Black colleges and universities.

We’ll see. I think Trump expects to be able to rig the 2026 election anyway.
Hanna Kiros at The Atlantic (gift link): The Obama Meme on Trump’s Truth Social Was Exactly What It Looked Like.
Donald Trump supercharged his political career by claiming that Barack Obama wasn’t American. Yesterday, 16 minutes before midnight, the president’s account on Truth Social posted a video that suggests Obama isn’t even human. It briefly shows the head of the first Black president and that of his wife superimposed onto the bodies of apes. They dance along to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
The video, which Trump’s account shared twice, seems to be a screen recording. Its first minute shows a clip promoting the lie that voting-machine tampering handed Joe Biden the presidency in 2020. Then, someone seems to swipe up, and the clip depicting the Obamas as apes flashes into focus. [The post was removed after about 12 hours.]….
In the interim, hundreds if not thousands of people responded to the clip with enthusiasm. Immediately after the video was first posted on Truth Social, the memecoin $APEBAMA was minted. Within 12 hours, more than $4 million worth of $APEBAMA had been traded back and forth. In an X group with the same name that now has hundreds of members, the pinned tweet implies that the meme stock will succeed because of how outrageous the video is: “this is pretty much on par with him calling Obama a nigga.” Some members posted their own depictions of Obama as a monkey or ape. The ape video’s apparent creator, the X user @xerias_x, reposted the full video to their X account early this morning. Besides the Obamas, the video shows a menagerie of Democratic politicians as animals, bowing down to Trump, who appears as a lion. It now has more than 1 million views. (@xerias_x also seems to be the originator of an AI-generated video Trump reposted in October that shows the president raining down what appears to be excrement on protesters from the sky.)
The “joke” that Trump’s account spread is plainly sinister. The idea that Black people sit somewhere between white people and apes has long been used to justify cruelty. In 1377, a historian wrote that Africans “have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals,” meaning they “are, as a whole, submissive to slavery.” Cartoons circulated during the Civil War were printed with images similar to the one Trump posted: One labels a monkey holding a book upside down as a NEGRO-MAN; another depicts a Black man on all fours, accompanied by the words WHAR’S JEFF DAVIS. In 1906, a man born in what was then the Belgian Congo, Ota Benga, was displayed at the Bronx Zoo in a cage with an orangutan. In 1975, white teenagers harassed Black students desegregating a Boston public school with the chant “Two, four, six, eight, assassinate the nigger apes.”
The ape caricature still colors how Black people are received in America. But this morning, the administration played the video off for laughs. “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in response to a comment request before the Truth Social posts were removed. (The Lion King features a monkey named Rafiki, but no apes appear in the film.)
There is absolutely no question that Trump is a vicious racist.
In other news, there are so many fascinating revelations coming out of the latest release from the FBI’s Epstein files. I haven’t had the patience to actually try searching through them myself, but I’ve been following what reporters are finding. Some of the latest examples:
Allison Quinn at The Daily Beast: Epstein’s Top Secret Relationship With Trained Russian Spy Revealed.
Jeffrey Epstein had a years-long relationship with an FSB-trained Russian official who sought his help connecting with a well-known hacker in 2016.
The late sex trafficker’s corresponJeffrdence with Sergei Belyakov is among the strangest revelations in the millions of case files released by the Justice Department last month.
Belyakov, a former deputy economic minister, helped Epstein secure visas to visit Russia, provided him with a dossier on a Russian woman Epstein had complained was trying to blackmail “a group of powerful businessmen,” and reported to Epstein about his work for the Russian government.
Epstein’s frequent bids to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov feature heavily in the newly released files—his assistant reminds him in one September 2011 email that he’d told his bodyguard he “had an appointment with Putin” coming up—but he appears to have had Belyakov at his beck and call.
In one January 2016 email under the subject, “My new position,” Belyakov told Epstein he’d started working at the Russian Direct Investment Fund–now led by Kirill Dmitriev, one of Vladimir Putin’s most trusted envoys, and a key player in ongoing peace talks with the Trump administration to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Much of their correspondence focused on investment opportunities and potential investors, though it’s unclear to what extent Belyakov involved Epstein in his work beyond the emails documented in the latest files.
The pair met several times in person over the years. In numerous email exchanges from 2014 through 2018, they reference personal meetings they had together, along with sporadic phone calls.
Epstein described Belyakov as a “very good friend” in a 2015 email to billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel as he tried to arrange for the pair to meet. Belyakov also apparently put Epstein in touch with other Russian officials, with emails showing he helped Epstein apply for a Russian visa in 2014 to meet with then-Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak and Alexei Simanovsky, the deputy head of Russia’s Central Bank at the time.
There’s more interesting stuff at the link.
J Oliver Conroy at The Guardian: The Epstein files reveal that a vast global conspiracy actually exists – sort of.
The millions of Jeffrey Epstein files dumped last Friday by the US Department of Justice will provide journalists, conspiracy theorists and interested members of the public with months of reading. And what they will read is enraging.
What makes these files so infuriating, however, is not just Epstein’s horrific predatory behavior, which is well-known, but the more mundane examples of elite conduct that the documents continue to expose. They vividly illustrate a world whose existence many everyday people, whether fevered with visions of the Illuminati or just jaundiced by banal anti-establishment cynicism, already suspected exists: an informal global club of powerful, ultra-rich people who all seemingly know each other, help one another out, and protect each other from the consequences of their depravity.
The new files will probably not provide satisfying answers to questions about, say, whether any of Epstein’s famous friends participated in his sex trafficking, or if his death in custody in 2019 was truly a suicide, as authorities have said. But conspiracy theorists may still feel vindicated – and to some extent they should, Matthew Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University, said.
Although the documents may not expose an actual criminal conspiracy, he said, they confirm the belief behind most conspiracy theories: that elites “get special treatment, that they’re shielded from the rules that are supposed to apply to everyone equally, and that there is a kind of corruption in the broadest sense of the word”.
The new material is the largest, and possibly last, tranche of the so-called Epstein files, though the government is keeping as many as 3m more pages under wraps. Yet even the initial revelations of these files deepen the astonishing constellation of ties between Epstein and members of the global elite – including tech billionaires; a former US president; British, Norwegian and Saudi royalty or royal courtiers; current and former US cabinet secretaries and governors; and prominent business executives and academics….
[T]he files, especially Epstein’s typo-filled email and text-message correspondences, are fascinating – and ultimately grim – in what they show of how elites act in private, among themselves. At the least, many of Epstein’s powerful acquaintances remained friendly with him years after the notoriously lenient sweetheart bargain, in 2008, in which he pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution, and as survivors continued to accuse Epstein of further crimes.
Again, there is lots more enraging material at the link.
AP: Epstein revelations have toppled top figures in Europe while US fallout is more muted.
LONDON (AP) — A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States.
The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites — dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations.
Former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.
Apart from the former Prince Andrew, none of them faces claims of sexual wrongdoing. They have been toppled for maintaining friendly relationships with Epstein after he became a convicted sex offender.
“Epstein collected powerful people the way others collect frequent flyer points,” said Mark Stephens, a specialist in international and human rights law at Howard Kennedy in London. “But the receipts are now in public, and some might wish they’d traveled less.”
The documents were published after a public frenzy over Epstein became a crisis for President Donald Trump’s administration and led to a rare bipartisan effort to force the government to open its investigative files. But in the U.S., the long-sought publication has not brought the same public reckoning with Epstein’s associates — at least so far.
Rob Ford, a professor of political science at the University of Manchester, said that in Britain, “if you’re in those files, it’s immediately a big story.”
“It suggests to me we have a more functional media, we have a more functional accountability structure, that there is still a degree of shame in politics, in terms of people will say: ‘This is just not acceptable, this is just not done,’” he said.
In other words, our media sucks and many of our politicians are shameless. I can’t argue with that.
A couple of Trump cabinet members captured in the files:
CBS News: Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had “limited interactions” with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014.
Lutnick and Epstein each signed on behalf of limited liability companies that agreed on Dec. 28, 2012, to acquire stakes in a now-shuttered advertising technology company called Adfin, documents released among the so-called Epstein files show.
Epstein and Lutnick’s signatures appear on neighboring pages in the contract, with Epstein signing for his Southern Trust Company, Inc. and Lutnick for a limited liability company called CVAFH I. The documents list nine shareholders in total.
Lutnick, the former chairman of the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald who at one point lived next door to Epstein, told the New York Post in October that he and his wife Allison had cut ties with Epstein in 2005, deciding after taking a tour of Epstein’s New York townhouse, “I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.”
However, it appears Epstein and Lutnick continued to maintain contact and emails show they arranged calls and planned to have drinks in 2011.
The following year, the couple and their four children planned a visit to Epstein’s island, Little St. James, emails show. Lutnick was invited for lunch on Dec. 24, 2012, and later, Epstein’s assistant wrote on behalf of Epstein, “it was nice seeing you.”
Their Adfin deal was signed four days later.
Lutnick is such a fucking liar.
Farah Tomazin at The Daily Beast: RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, according to the latest tranche of documents released by the Justice Department.
As the fallout over the Epstein files continues, an email exchange between the two sex predators centers on the now-Trump Cabinet secretary, one of the many prominent people whose friendship the pair cultivated over the years.
The exchange took place in 2012, seven years before Epstein died in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial.
In one email, Epstein writes to Maxwell about a trip involving “dinosaur and fossill hunitng (sic) with jack horner on the ranch, found 90 million year old clams and fossils.”
“Right up your alley,” he adds.
The following day, Maxwell replies: “Love that – didn’t we go fossil hunting with him and Bobby Kennedy in N Dakota?”
“Yes,” Epstein replies.
Maxwell, a former British socialite now serving 20 years for her crimes, also disclosed the fossil hunt during an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last year, apparently catching him off guard when she said of Epstein: “Bobby Kennedy knew him.”
One more from Amelia Gentleman at The Guardian on women in the Epstein files: Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club.
Pluck an email at random from the millions in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. It is a Saturday evening in February 2013, and Jeffrey Epstein is messaging Bill Gates’s assistant about guests for a dinner he wants to organise.’
“People for Bill,” the email begins. Epstein starts listing possible candidates: the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, the film director Woody Allen, the prime minister of Qatar, a couple of Harvard academics, the billionaire CEO of Hyatt hotels, a White House communications director, a former US secretary of defence.
He names 10 powerful men, before suggesting “Anne Hathaway (really)”. Epstein has to make it clear, with the bracketed word, that he is not joking when he proposes that a woman might join them at the table. The lists ends tentatively: “victoria secret models?” Epstein wonders: “Who on the list do you think he would enjoy the most?”
The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not. The emails showcase the private behaviour of a male ruling class, as they network, joke and trade information. Women exist at the periphery, tolerated because they organise the diaries of the busy men, they arrange food, they grace a table, they provide sex.
A typical email from Epstein to a woman might say: “Take a selfie of your pussy and send.”
Spend three days rummaging through the chaotic, sprawling, sordid pit of information contained in the Epstein files, and you learn valuable lessons about how this modern global patriarchy operates: through flattery, the exchange of favours and occasional curt reminders of who owes what to whom.
For women, these files offer an unprecedented chance to eavesdrop on conversations from which they are usually excluded. They provide salutary insights into what a set of distinguished global figures think and say about women when they assume the women aren’t listening.
Read the rest at The Guardian.
I’ll end with a few tales of Trump idiocy:
Jonathan Karl at ABC News: Trump wants Penn Station, Dulles Airport named after him in funding deal with Schumer, sources say.
President Donald Trump last month told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that he would be willing to unfreeze $16 billion in funding for a major infrastructure project in New York if Schumer would agree to rename New York’s Penn Station and Washington’s Dulles Airport after him, two sources familiar with the conversation told ABC News.
The Hudson Tunnel Project — which would connect New York City and New Jersey — had already started. The project includes building nine miles of new passenger rail track and rehabilitating the North River Tunnel, according to the commission responsible for it.
Officials in New York and New Jersey said if the money isn’t freed-up by Friday, the project would stop, leaving approximately 1,000 construction jobs in jeopardy.
Sources told ABC that Schumer rejected Trump’s offer.
Daniel Dale at CNN: ‘I did that’: Trump takes credit for a prisoner release that happened before he even ran for president.
At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Donald Trump spoke from prepared remarks as he discussed the persecution of Mariam Ibrahim. Ibrahim was unjustly imprisoned and sentenced to death in Sudan in 2014, in a case centered on her Christian faith, until she was released that same year following a global outcry.
Trump correctly said: “Believers all over the planet rallied to Mariam’s cause, prayed for her protection, and successfully pressured for her release.”
But then the president appeared to ad-lib – and claimed that he was the one who got Ibrahim freed.
“I did that. I did that. I did that with one phone call, actually,” he said. “And she had such support, it was so easy. And when I explained it to the powers that be: ‘Yes, sir, we will do it right away.’ I just wish I knew earlier. But it’s a big world with a lot of people.”
For years, Trump has told fictional stories that feature unnamed people referring to him as “sir.” This was another one.
Ibrahim was released in 2014, during the Obama administration. Trump did not become president until January 2017. He was not even a presidential candidate until June 2015. There has never been the slightest indication that a private citizen in the US, a businessman and celebrity at the time, was the person who convinced Sudanese authorities to let her out of prison.
A former Obama administration official who served on the National Security Council in 2014 told CNN on Friday: “I neither had at the time nor have now any knowledge of Trump’s involvement whatsoever. It’d be very surprising if he were.”
Jack Jenkins, a reporter for Religion News Service, first raised skepticism about Trump’s story on Thursday.
Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor who is a prominent conservative legal scholar, said in a Friday email: “As Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in 2014, I advocated for Mariam Ibrahim. I do not recall Donald Trump being involved in the case or assisting our Commission’s efforts. Of course, he was not President at the time.
Jack Revell at The Daily Beast: Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will.
Thousands of active-duty military personnel may have been “pressured” into seeing the Melania documentary at cinemas around the country, a watchdog has warned.
The $75 million Amazon film opened last week to $7 million at the box office—despite universally terrible reviews.

According to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, those numbers have been artificially inflated by pressure from MAGA-aligned officers leaning on their troops to buy tickets.
“People are scared,” Mikey Weinstein, president and founder of the MRFF, said. Weinstein said he has received letters from members of the U.S. military at eight facilities worldwide, complaining that their superiors encouraged or pressured them to see the film.
He told Business Insider. “They were pressured to see the movie. Your military superior, that’s not your shift manager at Taco Bell or Starbucks. They have complete and total control over you.”
The MRFF, a non-profit founded in 2005 to promote the separation of church and state within the military, has roughly 100,000 members.
“Nobody that I know wanted to go except for those that did not want to get jacked up by our unit commander for not attending,” one of those members told Weinstein in a letter seen by journalist Jonathan Larsen.

That’s it for me today. What stories have you been following?
#BobbyKennedyJr #DonaldTrump #DullesAirport #EpsteinFiles #GhislaineMaxwell #HowardLutnick #HudsonTunnelProject #JeffreyEpstein #MariamIbrahim #MelaniaDocumentary #PennStation #PeterMandleson #PrinceAndrew #Racism #USMilitary #VideoDepictingObamasAsApes #womenInEpsteinWorld

#bobbykennedyjr #donaldtrump #dullesairport #epsteinfiles #ghislainemaxwell #howardlutnick
Sky Dancing @[email protected] · 2026-02-07 · 18:49 UTC

Lazy Caturday Reads: Trump’s Racism and Epstein Fallout

Good Afternoon!!
Yesterday, Dakinikat wrote about Trump’s disgusting Truth Social post of a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. Trump left it up for at least 12 hours before someone at the White House finally deleted it. Of course Trump, who is a hateful and repulsive racist, won’t apologize.
The Washington Post: Trump refuses to apologize over video showing the Obamas as apes.

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump declined to apologize for sharing a social media video that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, saying he did not realize the image of the former president and first lady was tacked on to the end of the clip.
The president said Friday that he had watched and passed along the video — which focused on claims of voter fraud until the final seconds of the clip — to unidentified “people” to post to his Truth Social account, but that he “didn’t see the whole thing,” including the brief portion that showed the heads of the Obamas edited onto the bodies of apes.

In response to a question from The Washington Post about whether he would heed the calls of some Republicans to apologize for posting the video, which was widely condemned as racist and offensive, Trump said he would not.
“No, I didn’t make a mistake,” Trump said on his way to Palm Beach, Florida, for the weekend. “I look at a lot of — thousands of things. And I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine.”
Trump referred to the controversial video, which was online for about 12 hours before being deleted, as “a very strong post in terms of voter fraud.” [….]
…[T]he pushback was swift, including from Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), the chamber’s only Black Republican, who also serves as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Scott called the post “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.” Several other GOP senators and House members joined Scott in condemning the video, with some calling on Trump to apologize….
Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Friday, Trump dismissed the notion that the post and his handling of it could hurt him with the minority voters he had made gains with during the 2024 election. He touted criminal justice reform legislation passed during his first term, as well as his efforts to ensure funding to historically Black colleges and universities.

We’ll see. I think Trump expects to be able to rig the 2026 election anyway.
Hanna Kiros at The Atlantic (gift link): The Obama Meme on Trump’s Truth Social Was Exactly What It Looked Like.
Donald Trump supercharged his political career by claiming that Barack Obama wasn’t American. Yesterday, 16 minutes before midnight, the president’s account on Truth Social posted a video that suggests Obama isn’t even human. It briefly shows the head of the first Black president and that of his wife superimposed onto the bodies of apes. They dance along to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
The video, which Trump’s account shared twice, seems to be a screen recording. Its first minute shows a clip promoting the lie that voting-machine tampering handed Joe Biden the presidency in 2020. Then, someone seems to swipe up, and the clip depicting the Obamas as apes flashes into focus. [The post was removed after about 12 hours.]….
In the interim, hundreds if not thousands of people responded to the clip with enthusiasm. Immediately after the video was first posted on Truth Social, the memecoin $APEBAMA was minted. Within 12 hours, more than $4 million worth of $APEBAMA had been traded back and forth. In an X group with the same name that now has hundreds of members, the pinned tweet implies that the meme stock will succeed because of how outrageous the video is: “this is pretty much on par with him calling Obama a nigga.” Some members posted their own depictions of Obama as a monkey or ape. The ape video’s apparent creator, the X user @xerias_x, reposted the full video to their X account early this morning. Besides the Obamas, the video shows a menagerie of Democratic politicians as animals, bowing down to Trump, who appears as a lion. It now has more than 1 million views. (@xerias_x also seems to be the originator of an AI-generated video Trump reposted in October that shows the president raining down what appears to be excrement on protesters from the sky.)
The “joke” that Trump’s account spread is plainly sinister. The idea that Black people sit somewhere between white people and apes has long been used to justify cruelty. In 1377, a historian wrote that Africans “have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals,” meaning they “are, as a whole, submissive to slavery.” Cartoons circulated during the Civil War were printed with images similar to the one Trump posted: One labels a monkey holding a book upside down as a NEGRO-MAN; another depicts a Black man on all fours, accompanied by the words WHAR’S JEFF DAVIS. In 1906, a man born in what was then the Belgian Congo, Ota Benga, was displayed at the Bronx Zoo in a cage with an orangutan. In 1975, white teenagers harassed Black students desegregating a Boston public school with the chant “Two, four, six, eight, assassinate the nigger apes.”
The ape caricature still colors how Black people are received in America. But this morning, the administration played the video off for laughs. “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in response to a comment request before the Truth Social posts were removed. (The Lion King features a monkey named Rafiki, but no apes appear in the film.)
There is absolutely no question that Trump is a vicious racist.
In other news, there are so many fascinating revelations coming out of the latest release from the FBI’s Epstein files. I haven’t had the patience to actually try searching through them myself, but I’ve been following what reporters are finding. Some of the latest examples:
Allison Quinn at The Daily Beast: Epstein’s Top Secret Relationship With Trained Russian Spy Revealed.
Jeffrey Epstein had a years-long relationship with an FSB-trained Russian official who sought his help connecting with a well-known hacker in 2016.
The late sex trafficker’s corresponJeffrdence with Sergei Belyakov is among the strangest revelations in the millions of case files released by the Justice Department last month.
Belyakov, a former deputy economic minister, helped Epstein secure visas to visit Russia, provided him with a dossier on a Russian woman Epstein had complained was trying to blackmail “a group of powerful businessmen,” and reported to Epstein about his work for the Russian government.
Epstein’s frequent bids to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov feature heavily in the newly released files—his assistant reminds him in one September 2011 email that he’d told his bodyguard he “had an appointment with Putin” coming up—but he appears to have had Belyakov at his beck and call.
In one January 2016 email under the subject, “My new position,” Belyakov told Epstein he’d started working at the Russian Direct Investment Fund–now led by Kirill Dmitriev, one of Vladimir Putin’s most trusted envoys, and a key player in ongoing peace talks with the Trump administration to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Much of their correspondence focused on investment opportunities and potential investors, though it’s unclear to what extent Belyakov involved Epstein in his work beyond the emails documented in the latest files.
The pair met several times in person over the years. In numerous email exchanges from 2014 through 2018, they reference personal meetings they had together, along with sporadic phone calls.
Epstein described Belyakov as a “very good friend” in a 2015 email to billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel as he tried to arrange for the pair to meet. Belyakov also apparently put Epstein in touch with other Russian officials, with emails showing he helped Epstein apply for a Russian visa in 2014 to meet with then-Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak and Alexei Simanovsky, the deputy head of Russia’s Central Bank at the time.
There’s more interesting stuff at the link.
J Oliver Conroy at The Guardian: The Epstein files reveal that a vast global conspiracy actually exists – sort of.
The millions of Jeffrey Epstein files dumped last Friday by the US Department of Justice will provide journalists, conspiracy theorists and interested members of the public with months of reading. And what they will read is enraging.
What makes these files so infuriating, however, is not just Epstein’s horrific predatory behavior, which is well-known, but the more mundane examples of elite conduct that the documents continue to expose. They vividly illustrate a world whose existence many everyday people, whether fevered with visions of the Illuminati or just jaundiced by banal anti-establishment cynicism, already suspected exists: an informal global club of powerful, ultra-rich people who all seemingly know each other, help one another out, and protect each other from the consequences of their depravity.
The new files will probably not provide satisfying answers to questions about, say, whether any of Epstein’s famous friends participated in his sex trafficking, or if his death in custody in 2019 was truly a suicide, as authorities have said. But conspiracy theorists may still feel vindicated – and to some extent they should, Matthew Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University, said.
Although the documents may not expose an actual criminal conspiracy, he said, they confirm the belief behind most conspiracy theories: that elites “get special treatment, that they’re shielded from the rules that are supposed to apply to everyone equally, and that there is a kind of corruption in the broadest sense of the word”.
The new material is the largest, and possibly last, tranche of the so-called Epstein files, though the government is keeping as many as 3m more pages under wraps. Yet even the initial revelations of these files deepen the astonishing constellation of ties between Epstein and members of the global elite – including tech billionaires; a former US president; British, Norwegian and Saudi royalty or royal courtiers; current and former US cabinet secretaries and governors; and prominent business executives and academics….
[T]he files, especially Epstein’s typo-filled email and text-message correspondences, are fascinating – and ultimately grim – in what they show of how elites act in private, among themselves. At the least, many of Epstein’s powerful acquaintances remained friendly with him years after the notoriously lenient sweetheart bargain, in 2008, in which he pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution, and as survivors continued to accuse Epstein of further crimes.
Again, there is lots more enraging material at the link.
AP: Epstein revelations have toppled top figures in Europe while US fallout is more muted.
LONDON (AP) — A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States.
The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites — dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations.
Former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.
Apart from the former Prince Andrew, none of them faces claims of sexual wrongdoing. They have been toppled for maintaining friendly relationships with Epstein after he became a convicted sex offender.
“Epstein collected powerful people the way others collect frequent flyer points,” said Mark Stephens, a specialist in international and human rights law at Howard Kennedy in London. “But the receipts are now in public, and some might wish they’d traveled less.”
The documents were published after a public frenzy over Epstein became a crisis for President Donald Trump’s administration and led to a rare bipartisan effort to force the government to open its investigative files. But in the U.S., the long-sought publication has not brought the same public reckoning with Epstein’s associates — at least so far.
Rob Ford, a professor of political science at the University of Manchester, said that in Britain, “if you’re in those files, it’s immediately a big story.”
“It suggests to me we have a more functional media, we have a more functional accountability structure, that there is still a degree of shame in politics, in terms of people will say: ‘This is just not acceptable, this is just not done,’” he said.
In other words, our media sucks and many of our politicians are shameless. I can’t argue with that.
A couple of Trump cabinet members captured in the files:
CBS News: Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had “limited interactions” with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014.
Lutnick and Epstein each signed on behalf of limited liability companies that agreed on Dec. 28, 2012, to acquire stakes in a now-shuttered advertising technology company called Adfin, documents released among the so-called Epstein files show.
Epstein and Lutnick’s signatures appear on neighboring pages in the contract, with Epstein signing for his Southern Trust Company, Inc. and Lutnick for a limited liability company called CVAFH I. The documents list nine shareholders in total.
Lutnick, the former chairman of the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald who at one point lived next door to Epstein, told the New York Post in October that he and his wife Allison had cut ties with Epstein in 2005, deciding after taking a tour of Epstein’s New York townhouse, “I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.”
However, it appears Epstein and Lutnick continued to maintain contact and emails show they arranged calls and planned to have drinks in 2011.
The following year, the couple and their four children planned a visit to Epstein’s island, Little St. James, emails show. Lutnick was invited for lunch on Dec. 24, 2012, and later, Epstein’s assistant wrote on behalf of Epstein, “it was nice seeing you.”
Their Adfin deal was signed four days later.
Lutnick is such a fucking liar.
Farah Tomazin at The Daily Beast: RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, according to the latest tranche of documents released by the Justice Department.
As the fallout over the Epstein files continues, an email exchange between the two sex predators centers on the now-Trump Cabinet secretary, one of the many prominent people whose friendship the pair cultivated over the years.
The exchange took place in 2012, seven years before Epstein died in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial.
In one email, Epstein writes to Maxwell about a trip involving “dinosaur and fossill hunitng (sic) with jack horner on the ranch, found 90 million year old clams and fossils.”
“Right up your alley,” he adds.
The following day, Maxwell replies: “Love that – didn’t we go fossil hunting with him and Bobby Kennedy in N Dakota?”
“Yes,” Epstein replies.
Maxwell, a former British socialite now serving 20 years for her crimes, also disclosed the fossil hunt during an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last year, apparently catching him off guard when she said of Epstein: “Bobby Kennedy knew him.”
One more from Amelia Gentleman at The Guardian on women in the Epstein files: Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club.
Pluck an email at random from the millions in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. It is a Saturday evening in February 2013, and Jeffrey Epstein is messaging Bill Gates’s assistant about guests for a dinner he wants to organise.’
“People for Bill,” the email begins. Epstein starts listing possible candidates: the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, the film director Woody Allen, the prime minister of Qatar, a couple of Harvard academics, the billionaire CEO of Hyatt hotels, a White House communications director, a former US secretary of defence.
He names 10 powerful men, before suggesting “Anne Hathaway (really)”. Epstein has to make it clear, with the bracketed word, that he is not joking when he proposes that a woman might join them at the table. The lists ends tentatively: “victoria secret models?” Epstein wonders: “Who on the list do you think he would enjoy the most?”
The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not. The emails showcase the private behaviour of a male ruling class, as they network, joke and trade information. Women exist at the periphery, tolerated because they organise the diaries of the busy men, they arrange food, they grace a table, they provide sex.
A typical email from Epstein to a woman might say: “Take a selfie of your pussy and send.”
Spend three days rummaging through the chaotic, sprawling, sordid pit of information contained in the Epstein files, and you learn valuable lessons about how this modern global patriarchy operates: through flattery, the exchange of favours and occasional curt reminders of who owes what to whom.
For women, these files offer an unprecedented chance to eavesdrop on conversations from which they are usually excluded. They provide salutary insights into what a set of distinguished global figures think and say about women when they assume the women aren’t listening.
Read the rest at The Guardian.
I’ll end with a few tales of Trump idiocy:
Jonathan Karl at ABC News: Trump wants Penn Station, Dulles Airport named after him in funding deal with Schumer, sources say.
President Donald Trump last month told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that he would be willing to unfreeze $16 billion in funding for a major infrastructure project in New York if Schumer would agree to rename New York’s Penn Station and Washington’s Dulles Airport after him, two sources familiar with the conversation told ABC News.
The Hudson Tunnel Project — which would connect New York City and New Jersey — had already started. The project includes building nine miles of new passenger rail track and rehabilitating the North River Tunnel, according to the commission responsible for it.
Officials in New York and New Jersey said if the money isn’t freed-up by Friday, the project would stop, leaving approximately 1,000 construction jobs in jeopardy.
Sources told ABC that Schumer rejected Trump’s offer.
Daniel Dale at CNN: ‘I did that’: Trump takes credit for a prisoner release that happened before he even ran for president.
At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Donald Trump spoke from prepared remarks as he discussed the persecution of Mariam Ibrahim. Ibrahim was unjustly imprisoned and sentenced to death in Sudan in 2014, in a case centered on her Christian faith, until she was released that same year following a global outcry.
Trump correctly said: “Believers all over the planet rallied to Mariam’s cause, prayed for her protection, and successfully pressured for her release.”
But then the president appeared to ad-lib – and claimed that he was the one who got Ibrahim freed.
“I did that. I did that. I did that with one phone call, actually,” he said. “And she had such support, it was so easy. And when I explained it to the powers that be: ‘Yes, sir, we will do it right away.’ I just wish I knew earlier. But it’s a big world with a lot of people.”
For years, Trump has told fictional stories that feature unnamed people referring to him as “sir.” This was another one.
Ibrahim was released in 2014, during the Obama administration. Trump did not become president until January 2017. He was not even a presidential candidate until June 2015. There has never been the slightest indication that a private citizen in the US, a businessman and celebrity at the time, was the person who convinced Sudanese authorities to let her out of prison.
A former Obama administration official who served on the National Security Council in 2014 told CNN on Friday: “I neither had at the time nor have now any knowledge of Trump’s involvement whatsoever. It’d be very surprising if he were.”
Jack Jenkins, a reporter for Religion News Service, first raised skepticism about Trump’s story on Thursday.
Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor who is a prominent conservative legal scholar, said in a Friday email: “As Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in 2014, I advocated for Mariam Ibrahim. I do not recall Donald Trump being involved in the case or assisting our Commission’s efforts. Of course, he was not President at the time.
Jack Revell at The Daily Beast: Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will.
Thousands of active-duty military personnel may have been “pressured” into seeing the Melania documentary at cinemas around the country, a watchdog has warned.
The $75 million Amazon film opened last week to $7 million at the box office—despite universally terrible reviews.

According to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, those numbers have been artificially inflated by pressure from MAGA-aligned officers leaning on their troops to buy tickets.
“People are scared,” Mikey Weinstein, president and founder of the MRFF, said. Weinstein said he has received letters from members of the U.S. military at eight facilities worldwide, complaining that their superiors encouraged or pressured them to see the film.
He told Business Insider. “They were pressured to see the movie. Your military superior, that’s not your shift manager at Taco Bell or Starbucks. They have complete and total control over you.”
The MRFF, a non-profit founded in 2005 to promote the separation of church and state within the military, has roughly 100,000 members.
“Nobody that I know wanted to go except for those that did not want to get jacked up by our unit commander for not attending,” one of those members told Weinstein in a letter seen by journalist Jonathan Larsen.

That’s it for me today. What stories have you been following?
#BobbyKennedyJr #DonaldTrump #DullesAirport #EpsteinFiles #GhislaineMaxwell #HowardLutnick #HudsonTunnelProject #JeffreyEpstein #MariamIbrahim #MelaniaDocumentary #PennStation #PeterMandleson #PrinceAndrew #Racism #USMilitary #VideoDepictingObamasAsApes #womenInEpsteinWorld

#womeninepsteinworld #videodepictingobamasasapes #usmilitary #racism #princeandrew #petermandleson
Sky Dancing @[email protected] · 2026-02-07 · 18:49 UTC

Lazy Caturday Reads: Trump’s Racism and Epstein Fallout

Good Afternoon!!
Yesterday, Dakinikat wrote about Trump’s disgusting Truth Social post of a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. Trump left it up for at least 12 hours before someone at the White House finally deleted it. Of course Trump, who is a hateful and repulsive racist, won’t apologize.
The Washington Post: Trump refuses to apologize over video showing the Obamas as apes.

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Donald Trump declined to apologize for sharing a social media video that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, saying he did not realize the image of the former president and first lady was tacked on to the end of the clip.
The president said Friday that he had watched and passed along the video — which focused on claims of voter fraud until the final seconds of the clip — to unidentified “people” to post to his Truth Social account, but that he “didn’t see the whole thing,” including the brief portion that showed the heads of the Obamas edited onto the bodies of apes.

In response to a question from The Washington Post about whether he would heed the calls of some Republicans to apologize for posting the video, which was widely condemned as racist and offensive, Trump said he would not.
“No, I didn’t make a mistake,” Trump said on his way to Palm Beach, Florida, for the weekend. “I look at a lot of — thousands of things. And I looked at the beginning of it. It was fine.”
Trump referred to the controversial video, which was online for about 12 hours before being deleted, as “a very strong post in terms of voter fraud.” [….]
…[T]he pushback was swift, including from Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), the chamber’s only Black Republican, who also serves as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Scott called the post “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.” Several other GOP senators and House members joined Scott in condemning the video, with some calling on Trump to apologize….
Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Friday, Trump dismissed the notion that the post and his handling of it could hurt him with the minority voters he had made gains with during the 2024 election. He touted criminal justice reform legislation passed during his first term, as well as his efforts to ensure funding to historically Black colleges and universities.

We’ll see. I think Trump expects to be able to rig the 2026 election anyway.
Hanna Kiros at The Atlantic (gift link): The Obama Meme on Trump’s Truth Social Was Exactly What It Looked Like.
Donald Trump supercharged his political career by claiming that Barack Obama wasn’t American. Yesterday, 16 minutes before midnight, the president’s account on Truth Social posted a video that suggests Obama isn’t even human. It briefly shows the head of the first Black president and that of his wife superimposed onto the bodies of apes. They dance along to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
The video, which Trump’s account shared twice, seems to be a screen recording. Its first minute shows a clip promoting the lie that voting-machine tampering handed Joe Biden the presidency in 2020. Then, someone seems to swipe up, and the clip depicting the Obamas as apes flashes into focus. [The post was removed after about 12 hours.]….
In the interim, hundreds if not thousands of people responded to the clip with enthusiasm. Immediately after the video was first posted on Truth Social, the memecoin $APEBAMA was minted. Within 12 hours, more than $4 million worth of $APEBAMA had been traded back and forth. In an X group with the same name that now has hundreds of members, the pinned tweet implies that the meme stock will succeed because of how outrageous the video is: “this is pretty much on par with him calling Obama a nigga.” Some members posted their own depictions of Obama as a monkey or ape. The ape video’s apparent creator, the X user @xerias_x, reposted the full video to their X account early this morning. Besides the Obamas, the video shows a menagerie of Democratic politicians as animals, bowing down to Trump, who appears as a lion. It now has more than 1 million views. (@xerias_x also seems to be the originator of an AI-generated video Trump reposted in October that shows the president raining down what appears to be excrement on protesters from the sky.)
The “joke” that Trump’s account spread is plainly sinister. The idea that Black people sit somewhere between white people and apes has long been used to justify cruelty. In 1377, a historian wrote that Africans “have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals,” meaning they “are, as a whole, submissive to slavery.” Cartoons circulated during the Civil War were printed with images similar to the one Trump posted: One labels a monkey holding a book upside down as a NEGRO-MAN; another depicts a Black man on all fours, accompanied by the words WHAR’S JEFF DAVIS. In 1906, a man born in what was then the Belgian Congo, Ota Benga, was displayed at the Bronx Zoo in a cage with an orangutan. In 1975, white teenagers harassed Black students desegregating a Boston public school with the chant “Two, four, six, eight, assassinate the nigger apes.”
The ape caricature still colors how Black people are received in America. But this morning, the administration played the video off for laughs. “This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in response to a comment request before the Truth Social posts were removed. (The Lion King features a monkey named Rafiki, but no apes appear in the film.)
There is absolutely no question that Trump is a vicious racist.
In other news, there are so many fascinating revelations coming out of the latest release from the FBI’s Epstein files. I haven’t had the patience to actually try searching through them myself, but I’ve been following what reporters are finding. Some of the latest examples:
Allison Quinn at The Daily Beast: Epstein’s Top Secret Relationship With Trained Russian Spy Revealed.
Jeffrey Epstein had a years-long relationship with an FSB-trained Russian official who sought his help connecting with a well-known hacker in 2016.
The late sex trafficker’s corresponJeffrdence with Sergei Belyakov is among the strangest revelations in the millions of case files released by the Justice Department last month.
Belyakov, a former deputy economic minister, helped Epstein secure visas to visit Russia, provided him with a dossier on a Russian woman Epstein had complained was trying to blackmail “a group of powerful businessmen,” and reported to Epstein about his work for the Russian government.
Epstein’s frequent bids to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov feature heavily in the newly released files—his assistant reminds him in one September 2011 email that he’d told his bodyguard he “had an appointment with Putin” coming up—but he appears to have had Belyakov at his beck and call.
In one January 2016 email under the subject, “My new position,” Belyakov told Epstein he’d started working at the Russian Direct Investment Fund–now led by Kirill Dmitriev, one of Vladimir Putin’s most trusted envoys, and a key player in ongoing peace talks with the Trump administration to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Much of their correspondence focused on investment opportunities and potential investors, though it’s unclear to what extent Belyakov involved Epstein in his work beyond the emails documented in the latest files.
The pair met several times in person over the years. In numerous email exchanges from 2014 through 2018, they reference personal meetings they had together, along with sporadic phone calls.
Epstein described Belyakov as a “very good friend” in a 2015 email to billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel as he tried to arrange for the pair to meet. Belyakov also apparently put Epstein in touch with other Russian officials, with emails showing he helped Epstein apply for a Russian visa in 2014 to meet with then-Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak and Alexei Simanovsky, the deputy head of Russia’s Central Bank at the time.
There’s more interesting stuff at the link.
J Oliver Conroy at The Guardian: The Epstein files reveal that a vast global conspiracy actually exists – sort of.
The millions of Jeffrey Epstein files dumped last Friday by the US Department of Justice will provide journalists, conspiracy theorists and interested members of the public with months of reading. And what they will read is enraging.
What makes these files so infuriating, however, is not just Epstein’s horrific predatory behavior, which is well-known, but the more mundane examples of elite conduct that the documents continue to expose. They vividly illustrate a world whose existence many everyday people, whether fevered with visions of the Illuminati or just jaundiced by banal anti-establishment cynicism, already suspected exists: an informal global club of powerful, ultra-rich people who all seemingly know each other, help one another out, and protect each other from the consequences of their depravity.
The new files will probably not provide satisfying answers to questions about, say, whether any of Epstein’s famous friends participated in his sex trafficking, or if his death in custody in 2019 was truly a suicide, as authorities have said. But conspiracy theorists may still feel vindicated – and to some extent they should, Matthew Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University, said.
Although the documents may not expose an actual criminal conspiracy, he said, they confirm the belief behind most conspiracy theories: that elites “get special treatment, that they’re shielded from the rules that are supposed to apply to everyone equally, and that there is a kind of corruption in the broadest sense of the word”.
The new material is the largest, and possibly last, tranche of the so-called Epstein files, though the government is keeping as many as 3m more pages under wraps. Yet even the initial revelations of these files deepen the astonishing constellation of ties between Epstein and members of the global elite – including tech billionaires; a former US president; British, Norwegian and Saudi royalty or royal courtiers; current and former US cabinet secretaries and governors; and prominent business executives and academics….
[T]he files, especially Epstein’s typo-filled email and text-message correspondences, are fascinating – and ultimately grim – in what they show of how elites act in private, among themselves. At the least, many of Epstein’s powerful acquaintances remained friendly with him years after the notoriously lenient sweetheart bargain, in 2008, in which he pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution, and as survivors continued to accuse Epstein of further crimes.
Again, there is lots more enraging material at the link.
AP: Epstein revelations have toppled top figures in Europe while US fallout is more muted.
LONDON (AP) — A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files. And all in Europe, rather than the United States.
The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites — dominating headlines, ending careers and spurring political and criminal investigations.
Former U.K. Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson was fired and could go to prison. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a leadership crisis over the Mandelson appointment. Senior figures have fallen in Norway, Sweden and Slovakia. And, even before the latest batch of files, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles III, lost his honors, princely title and taxpayer-funded mansion.
Apart from the former Prince Andrew, none of them faces claims of sexual wrongdoing. They have been toppled for maintaining friendly relationships with Epstein after he became a convicted sex offender.
“Epstein collected powerful people the way others collect frequent flyer points,” said Mark Stephens, a specialist in international and human rights law at Howard Kennedy in London. “But the receipts are now in public, and some might wish they’d traveled less.”
The documents were published after a public frenzy over Epstein became a crisis for President Donald Trump’s administration and led to a rare bipartisan effort to force the government to open its investigative files. But in the U.S., the long-sought publication has not brought the same public reckoning with Epstein’s associates — at least so far.
Rob Ford, a professor of political science at the University of Manchester, said that in Britain, “if you’re in those files, it’s immediately a big story.”
“It suggests to me we have a more functional media, we have a more functional accountability structure, that there is still a degree of shame in politics, in terms of people will say: ‘This is just not acceptable, this is just not done,’” he said.
In other words, our media sucks and many of our politicians are shameless. I can’t argue with that.
A couple of Trump cabinet members captured in the files:
CBS News: Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had “limited interactions” with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014.
Lutnick and Epstein each signed on behalf of limited liability companies that agreed on Dec. 28, 2012, to acquire stakes in a now-shuttered advertising technology company called Adfin, documents released among the so-called Epstein files show.
Epstein and Lutnick’s signatures appear on neighboring pages in the contract, with Epstein signing for his Southern Trust Company, Inc. and Lutnick for a limited liability company called CVAFH I. The documents list nine shareholders in total.
Lutnick, the former chairman of the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald who at one point lived next door to Epstein, told the New York Post in October that he and his wife Allison had cut ties with Epstein in 2005, deciding after taking a tour of Epstein’s New York townhouse, “I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again.”
However, it appears Epstein and Lutnick continued to maintain contact and emails show they arranged calls and planned to have drinks in 2011.
The following year, the couple and their four children planned a visit to Epstein’s island, Little St. James, emails show. Lutnick was invited for lunch on Dec. 24, 2012, and later, Epstein’s assistant wrote on behalf of Epstein, “it was nice seeing you.”
Their Adfin deal was signed four days later.
Lutnick is such a fucking liar.
Farah Tomazin at The Daily Beast: RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, according to the latest tranche of documents released by the Justice Department.
As the fallout over the Epstein files continues, an email exchange between the two sex predators centers on the now-Trump Cabinet secretary, one of the many prominent people whose friendship the pair cultivated over the years.
The exchange took place in 2012, seven years before Epstein died in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial.
In one email, Epstein writes to Maxwell about a trip involving “dinosaur and fossill hunitng (sic) with jack horner on the ranch, found 90 million year old clams and fossils.”
“Right up your alley,” he adds.
The following day, Maxwell replies: “Love that – didn’t we go fossil hunting with him and Bobby Kennedy in N Dakota?”
“Yes,” Epstein replies.
Maxwell, a former British socialite now serving 20 years for her crimes, also disclosed the fossil hunt during an interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last year, apparently catching him off guard when she said of Epstein: “Bobby Kennedy knew him.”
One more from Amelia Gentleman at The Guardian on women in the Epstein files: Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club.
Pluck an email at random from the millions in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. It is a Saturday evening in February 2013, and Jeffrey Epstein is messaging Bill Gates’s assistant about guests for a dinner he wants to organise.’
“People for Bill,” the email begins. Epstein starts listing possible candidates: the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, the film director Woody Allen, the prime minister of Qatar, a couple of Harvard academics, the billionaire CEO of Hyatt hotels, a White House communications director, a former US secretary of defence.
He names 10 powerful men, before suggesting “Anne Hathaway (really)”. Epstein has to make it clear, with the bracketed word, that he is not joking when he proposes that a woman might join them at the table. The lists ends tentatively: “victoria secret models?” Epstein wonders: “Who on the list do you think he would enjoy the most?”
The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not. The emails showcase the private behaviour of a male ruling class, as they network, joke and trade information. Women exist at the periphery, tolerated because they organise the diaries of the busy men, they arrange food, they grace a table, they provide sex.
A typical email from Epstein to a woman might say: “Take a selfie of your pussy and send.”
Spend three days rummaging through the chaotic, sprawling, sordid pit of information contained in the Epstein files, and you learn valuable lessons about how this modern global patriarchy operates: through flattery, the exchange of favours and occasional curt reminders of who owes what to whom.
For women, these files offer an unprecedented chance to eavesdrop on conversations from which they are usually excluded. They provide salutary insights into what a set of distinguished global figures think and say about women when they assume the women aren’t listening.
Read the rest at The Guardian.
I’ll end with a few tales of Trump idiocy:
Jonathan Karl at ABC News: Trump wants Penn Station, Dulles Airport named after him in funding deal with Schumer, sources say.
President Donald Trump last month told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., that he would be willing to unfreeze $16 billion in funding for a major infrastructure project in New York if Schumer would agree to rename New York’s Penn Station and Washington’s Dulles Airport after him, two sources familiar with the conversation told ABC News.
The Hudson Tunnel Project — which would connect New York City and New Jersey — had already started. The project includes building nine miles of new passenger rail track and rehabilitating the North River Tunnel, according to the commission responsible for it.
Officials in New York and New Jersey said if the money isn’t freed-up by Friday, the project would stop, leaving approximately 1,000 construction jobs in jeopardy.
Sources told ABC that Schumer rejected Trump’s offer.
Daniel Dale at CNN: ‘I did that’: Trump takes credit for a prisoner release that happened before he even ran for president.
At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Donald Trump spoke from prepared remarks as he discussed the persecution of Mariam Ibrahim. Ibrahim was unjustly imprisoned and sentenced to death in Sudan in 2014, in a case centered on her Christian faith, until she was released that same year following a global outcry.
Trump correctly said: “Believers all over the planet rallied to Mariam’s cause, prayed for her protection, and successfully pressured for her release.”
But then the president appeared to ad-lib – and claimed that he was the one who got Ibrahim freed.
“I did that. I did that. I did that with one phone call, actually,” he said. “And she had such support, it was so easy. And when I explained it to the powers that be: ‘Yes, sir, we will do it right away.’ I just wish I knew earlier. But it’s a big world with a lot of people.”
For years, Trump has told fictional stories that feature unnamed people referring to him as “sir.” This was another one.
Ibrahim was released in 2014, during the Obama administration. Trump did not become president until January 2017. He was not even a presidential candidate until June 2015. There has never been the slightest indication that a private citizen in the US, a businessman and celebrity at the time, was the person who convinced Sudanese authorities to let her out of prison.
A former Obama administration official who served on the National Security Council in 2014 told CNN on Friday: “I neither had at the time nor have now any knowledge of Trump’s involvement whatsoever. It’d be very surprising if he were.”
Jack Jenkins, a reporter for Religion News Service, first raised skepticism about Trump’s story on Thursday.
Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor who is a prominent conservative legal scholar, said in a Friday email: “As Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in 2014, I advocated for Mariam Ibrahim. I do not recall Donald Trump being involved in the case or assisting our Commission’s efforts. Of course, he was not President at the time.
Jack Revell at The Daily Beast: Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will.
Thousands of active-duty military personnel may have been “pressured” into seeing the Melania documentary at cinemas around the country, a watchdog has warned.
The $75 million Amazon film opened last week to $7 million at the box office—despite universally terrible reviews.

According to the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, those numbers have been artificially inflated by pressure from MAGA-aligned officers leaning on their troops to buy tickets.
“People are scared,” Mikey Weinstein, president and founder of the MRFF, said. Weinstein said he has received letters from members of the U.S. military at eight facilities worldwide, complaining that their superiors encouraged or pressured them to see the film.
He told Business Insider. “They were pressured to see the movie. Your military superior, that’s not your shift manager at Taco Bell or Starbucks. They have complete and total control over you.”
The MRFF, a non-profit founded in 2005 to promote the separation of church and state within the military, has roughly 100,000 members.
“Nobody that I know wanted to go except for those that did not want to get jacked up by our unit commander for not attending,” one of those members told Weinstein in a letter seen by journalist Jonathan Larsen.

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