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Behold the hollow man. Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

The United States Postal Service, USPS, doesn’t “lose” money. It costs money. It’s a public service. Don’t fall for the privatization propaganda.

I know damn well her parents didn’t name her ‘Mexican scientist.’ What’s with these headlines? in 2026.

Three banks. Three settlements. Zero prosecutions. JPMorgan: $290 million. Deutsche Bank: $75 million. Bank of America: settled today. Every bank that banked Epstein has now paid survivors. Not a single executive has been charged.

@MattGoldstein26 Why is sex trafficking only a civil and not criminal matter?

We really need to be paying attention, America. Something awful is happening.

Well, when a child is conceived, the DNA split is 50/50 from both parents. Except for one small detail: mitochondrial DNA. It’s passed down only through the mother and never through sperm. Which means something interesting: all living humans can trace their mitochondrial line back to one woman, not one man. And every daughter born continues passing that same line forward. Happy Women’s Day 💐

Pete Hegseth is emotionally ill-equipped to serve as SecDef. It is clear why his service in the National Guard was terminated.

Not to sound like a broken record, but it really freaking matters who controls your state government

I've been trying to get the Treasury's hidden Epstein files turned over since 2023. Last night I tried again to get them disclosed and Republicans blocked my bill to do so.

she is beauty she is grace she will punch you in your face

Americans watching their tax dollars being used to bomb Iran while they set up a GoFundMe account for insulin.

Perfection.

@ageofdisclosure It’s official, @ageofdisclosure has changed the course of history. Everyone in the world needs to watch this documentary, get informed, and join the conversation. #ageofdisclosure

“I did not dedicate my life to advocating for women and girls just so that I could be lectured by a bunch of pedophile protectors.” ~Hillary Rodham Clinton

Today in America, a woman was forced to testify in a closed-door deposition about the crimes of men who are not being forced to testify at all.

“For almost the entirety of her married life, she has had to answer questions about her husband’s actions,” said Patti Solis Doyle. “There is no reason for her to have to suffer this last indignity. She has nothing to do with it. It is infuriating." nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/…

I am the House Ethics Committee. I keep the record. Here is what the record shows, in order: 2018: Congress passes a rule. HR 6395, Section 3. The rule prohibits sexual contact between members and staff. I am created to enforce it. I file the rule. The rule is filed. 2024: A congressman texts a young staffer requesting explicit photos. The texts say "sexy pic." The staffer is in her twenties. The congressman is in his forties. The texts are on a government phone. 2024: The staffer replies: "This is going too far boss." 2025: The staffer dies by suicide. 2026: I am "notified." 2026: The congressman is serving. Not a sentence. His term. That is the record. I keep it. I keep it carefully. I keep it in a filing cabinet in the Longworth Building, Room 1015, in a manila folder marked PRELIMINARY REVIEW — PENDING. Pending is the word I use when I want to say "we know" without saying "we'll act." The congressman votes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He attends subcommittee hearings. He has a parking spot in the Rayburn garage. He shakes hands with constituents who do not know about the texts. He will do this for the duration of my review. My review will take months. The rule was broken in weeks. The staffer's life ended before my review began. My review is the consequence. There is no other consequence. In my entire history — fifty-seven years — I have expelled five members. The last one was 2002. Twenty-four years ago. I meet weekly. I expel per decade. I act on behalf of the American people. That is what it says in my charter. "On behalf of the American people." The American people have a 28% approval rating of Congress. 71% disapprove. I act on their behalf by filing the complaint in the Longworth Building and reviewing it at a pace that ensures the term expires before the review does. Acting on behalf of the American people is too much to ask. So I act on behalf of the institution. The institution's primary interest is the institution. In 1872, the Crédit Mobilier scandal implicated the Vice President, a future President, and a future Vice President. Congress censured two members. Did not expel. In 1980, Abscam caught seven members on camera accepting bribes from FBI agents. Convictions. Not expulsions. In 2026, Senator Menendez faces bribery charges. Representative Cuellar faces bribery charges. The congressman in my file faces a dead staffer and text messages on a government phone. The institution is consistent. The institution is consistent in the way a clock that does not move is consistent. It is always the same time. The time is: later. But bribery is the gentle file. The other file is thicker. The other file is the one about the bodies. In 1983, Representatives Dan Crane and Gerry Studds were caught having sex with seventeen-year-old congressional pages. Children. In the building. Congress censured them. Did not expel. Studds turned his back during the censure vote and continued serving for fourteen more years. Fourteen years. The page was seventeen. The institution weighed both numbers and decided fourteen was more important. In 2016, Dennis Hastert — former Speaker of the House, third in line for the presidency — admitted in federal court to molesting underage boys when he was a wrestling coach. He had paid $1.7 million in hush money. He served fifteen months. For the financial crime. Not the boys. The institution did not investigate Hastert while he was Speaker. The institution did not investigate Hastert after he was Speaker. The institution knew. The institution always knows. Knowing is not the same as acting. I should know. Knowing is my entire job. In 2023, the DOJ closed its investigation into Representative Matt Gaetz and the alleged sex trafficking of a seventeen-year-old girl. No charges. The Ethics Committee investigated. Gaetz resigned before the report was released. The report was shelved. He was nominated for Attorney General. The institution shrugged. The institution shrugs the way a building settles. Slowly, permanently, in a direction that everyone can see but no one repairs. And then there is Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein trafficked children to the most powerful people in the world. Some of those people work in this building. Everyone knows this. No one will say which ones. The client list has not been fully released. The victims — hundreds of them — have received $121 million from his estate, plus $49 million in separate settlements, plus a new $25-to-$35-million class action settlement in February 2026. The estate paid without admitting wrongdoing. "Without admitting wrongdoing" is the institution's native language. I speak it fluently. The victims asked for names. The victims asked for justice. The victims received settlements. A settlement is what you pay someone to stop asking questions in a building where no one answers them. Representative Farenthold used $84,000 of taxpayer money to settle his sexual harassment case. Taxpayer money. The taxpayers did not consent. The settlement was not disclosed until reporters found it. The Office of Congressional Workplace Rights processed the payment. The office is named Congressional Workplace Rights. The name is aspirational. The 2018 rule exists so that someone, somewhere, can say it exists. That someone is me. I just said it. I said it after Hastert. I said it after Gaetz. I said it after Epstein's victims begged Congress for a hearing. I am saying it now, after the staffer. I will say it again. Saying it is what I do. It is the only thing I do. Seventy-one percent of Americans disapprove of this body. I do not take that personally. They disapprove because they believe Congress should function. I know better. Congress functions perfectly. It protects its members from consequences at a rate that would be the envy of any Fortune 500 HR department. Five expulsions in fifty-seven years. That is not a failure rate. That is a success rate. We retain 99.99% of our workforce regardless of performance. The record is complete. The record shows everything. The record changes nothing. I am the Ethics Committee. I act on behalf of the American people. The American people did not ask for this. Nobody asked for this. The staffer asked for it to stop. The staffer said "this is going too far boss." The record shows the request. The record does not show a response. The record is impeccable. The staffer is dead.

It’s an outrage that @jkbjournalist has never won the Pulitzer Prize for her trailblazing, courageous work. A question for everyone serving on the Pulitzer board: Why?