Ransome said:

probably something genuine like "facilitate an internship opportunity with an influential philanthropist"
typical lib media click bait

I know and have long admired Noam. He is, arguably, our greatest and most principled intellectual. I can assure you he is not as passive or gullible as his wife claims. He knew about Epstein’s abuse of children. They all knew. And like others in the Epstein orbit, he did not care. From the email correspondence between Epstein and Valéria it appears she particularly enjoyed the privileges that came with being in Epstein’s circle, but this does not absolve Noam’s acquiescence. Noam, of all people, knows the predatory nature of the ruling class and the cruelty of capitalists, where the vulnerable, especially girls and women, are commodified as objects to be used and exploited. He was not fooled by Epstein. He was seduced. His association with Epstein is a terrible and, to many, unforgivable stain. It irreparably tarnishes his legacy. If there is a lesson here, it is this. The ruling class offers nothing without expecting something in return. The closer you get to these vampires the more you become enslaved. Our role is not to socialize with them. It is to destroy them.

have patience said:

If you meet the buddha on the road, kill him.

Noam and I were introduced to Epstein at the same time, during one of Noam’s professional events in 2015, when Epstein’s 2008 conviction in the State of Florida was known by very few people, while most of the public – including Noam and I – was unaware of it.

threephin said:

the rabid commie left has had a bad opinion of chomsky for a while

The company said starting this year it would stop publishing approval and favorability ratings of individual political figures, saying in a statement it “reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership.”

“Our commitment is to long-term, methodologically sound research on issues and conditions that shape people’s lives,” a spokesperson for the agency said. “That work will continue through the Gallup Poll Social Series, the Gallup Quarterly Business Review, the World Poll, and our portfolio of U.S. and global research.”

A Detroit billionaire [Matthew Moroun] who owns a major U.S.-Canada border crossing met privately with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just hours before Donald Trump publicly threatened to block the opening of a competing international bridge, according to a report from The New York Times.

The family has spent decades trying to block the publicly backed international bridge through litigation and lobbying efforts, and “had previously called on Mr. Trump to halt the construction of bridge — which, once opened, would compete with the Ambassador Bridge for the more than $300 million in daily cross-border trade,” according to the report.

butterknife said:

it just never bottoms out does it
every day is more pathetic and scarier than the last

Space Cat said:

How does someone even own a border crossing?

On Feb. 11 a pro-coal group ... awarding Trump the "Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal” award at a White House event where the president announced funding for coal-fired power plants in five states and signed an order directing the Pentagon to buy electricity from coal plants.

West Virginia, one of the states Trump singled out for coal plant funding

A few days ago, conservative watchdog group Media Research Center (MRC) published the results of a study that alleged that Apple had “refrained from using any right-leaning outlets in the top 20 articles” of Apple News’ “morning editions between Jan. 1 and Jan. 31, 2026.”

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Today, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson sent a letter to Tim Cook, suggesting that Apple News might be in breach of Section 5 of the FTC Act, which “prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices,” including material misrepresentations and omissions to consumers.

Nationally, a third of commercial contractors reported being affected by immigration-enforcement actions in the past six months, according to a January report by trade group Associated General Contractors of America.

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a landmark scientific finding that serves as the legal foundation for federal regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions, in a devastating blow to efforts to combat climate change.

The Environmental Protection Agency's endangerment finding, established under President Barack Obama in 2009, classified carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases as a threat to public health and welfare.

According to WIRED's review of court records and official judicial statistics, attorneys filed nearly as many so-called habeas corpus petitions in Minnesota alone as were filed across the US during an entire year.

Previously, undocumented immigrants who had been living in the country for several years were typically given a bond hearing in front of an immigration judge. Those judges were supposed to weigh the facts of a detainee’s case, including their criminal history and relative flight risk, and make a decision about their release while their cases were pending.

Meanwhile, Bondi’s Justice Department is hemorrhaging prosecutors, and nowhere is the crisis more visible than in Minnesota. The state’s U.S. Attorney’s office has been decimated, shrinking from 70 assistant federal prosecutors under Biden to as few as 17 now. The four prosecutors who spearheaded the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud case all resigned within days of each other, joining more than a dozen others in resigning rather than defending an immigration enforcement campaign so aggressive and sloppy that federal judges are openly threatening contempt citations on a near-routine basis.