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#Via Elizabeth Lopatto
@elizabeth_lopatto
10:09 AM · Feb 6, 2026

"I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link)"
How the men in the Epstein files defeated MeToo. The emails show the 'anti-woke' crusaders are afraid of accountability."

https://www.theverge.com/tech/874721/epstein-thiel-musk-trump-metoo?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6InB2QVBrNEJieFAiLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvODc0NzIxL2Vwc3RlaW4tdGhpZWwtbXVzay10cnVtcC1tZXRvbyIsImV4cCI6MTc3MDgyMjU1MCwiaWF0IjoxNzcwMzkwNTUwfQ.vFAETVxTibfp3lih93QvHl24u6fFnS_d_yggDGC7f1Y&utm_medium=gift-link

Black and white tuxedo cat named Gandalf the Grey from Harding University. Because I don't like looking at Epstein's face in the link.

The Verge

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo

The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

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Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · 5 days ago

#Via Solomon / solomonmissouri
8:50 AM · Feb 6, 2026

"It has begun"

"Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar:"

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2026/feb/05/border-patrol-boss-gregory-bovino-tossed-from-las/

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Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · 4 days ago

#Via Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas
3:19 PM · Feb 6, 2026

"it's so, so, so frustrating how they act like people applying for asylum are subject to removal proceedings. that is not the law!!!!

i know they don't give a fuck about the law, but it's just maddening how they're like 'ummm accctually this is standard procedure' and it's like no? it's literally not?"

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · 4 days ago

#Via Jen Bendery / jbendery
3:58 PM · Feb 6, 2026

"Still awaiting word on the outcome of this hearing...."

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social replied · 4 days ago

#Via Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas
3:19 PM · Feb 6, 2026

"it's so, so, so frustrating how they act like people applying for asylum are subject to removal proceedings. that is not the law!!!!

i know they don't give a fuck about the law, but it's just maddening how they're like 'ummm accctually this is standard procedure' and it's like no? it's literally not?"

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · 4 days ago

#Via Jen Bendery / jbendery
2:49 PM · Feb 6, 2026

"Ramos' parents, originally from Ecuador, were set for asylum hearing in late Feb. DHS abruptly moved it to THIS MORNING.

They aren't in U.S. illegally & have no criminal record. DHS is simply trying to end their asylum claims.

DHS on why they abruptly expedited:

'These are regular removal proceedings. Standard procedure and nothing retaliatory about enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. He will receive full due process.'

(It's not SOP)"

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social replied · 4 days ago

#Via Jen Bendery / jbendery
3:58 PM · Feb 6, 2026

"Still awaiting word on the outcome of this hearing...."

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · 4 days ago

#Via Jen Bendery / jbendery
2:05 PM · Feb 6, 2026

"HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today.

Rep. Joaquin Castro: 'The Trump administration is trying to take him away again.' "

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-theatens-trevor-noah-grammys-bad-bunny-slams-ice_n_698071c1e4b0926bfc469acd/liveblog_69863772e4b0ddd0303360a9

HuffPost

5-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social replied · 4 days ago

#Via Jen Bendery / jbendery
2:49 PM · Feb 6, 2026

"Ramos' parents, originally from Ecuador, were set for asylum hearing in late Feb. DHS abruptly moved it to THIS MORNING.

They aren't in U.S. illegally & have no criminal record. DHS is simply trying to end their asylum claims.

DHS on why they abruptly expedited:

'These are regular removal proceedings. Standard procedure and nothing retaliatory about enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. He will receive full due process.'

(It's not SOP)"

Alex Akselrod boosted

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · 4 days ago

#Via Jen Bendery / jbendery
2:05 PM · Feb 6, 2026

"HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today.

Rep. Joaquin Castro: 'The Trump administration is trying to take him away again.' "

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-theatens-trevor-noah-grammys-bad-bunny-slams-ice_n_698071c1e4b0926bfc469acd/liveblog_69863772e4b0ddd0303360a9

HuffPost

5-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · 5 days ago

#Via Cooper Lund
@Cooperlund
9:51 PM · Feb 5, 2026

"They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam."

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social replied · 4 days ago

#Via Jen Bendery / jbendery
2:05 PM · Feb 6, 2026

"HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today.

Rep. Joaquin Castro: 'The Trump administration is trying to take him away again.' "

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-theatens-trevor-noah-grammys-bad-bunny-slams-ice_n_698071c1e4b0926bfc469acd/liveblog_69863772e4b0ddd0303360a9

HuffPost

5-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · 5 days ago

#Via Solomon / solomonmissouri
8:50 AM · Feb 6, 2026

"It has begun"

"Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino tossed from Las Vegas bar:"

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2026/feb/05/border-patrol-boss-gregory-bovino-tossed-from-las/

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 boosted

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@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · last week

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@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · last week

@bsmall2 @dnkboston @Lily_and_frog

Here is the email from Chomsky to Epstein, which was forwarded to Hiltzik.

Note that it's FAR past the 2008 date of Epstein's conviction.

[Image posted twice to accommodate all the alt text]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_/115998439538924072

Regardless whether this specific email is true, and proof positive of participation, Chomsky remained friends with Epstein to the end. If nothing else, he knew of the 2008 conviction.

#Via Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan
5:48PM · Jan31 2026

"...the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the 'believe women' slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter."

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Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · 6 days ago

#Via Eoin Higgins
@EoinHiggins
1:50 PM · Feb 4, 2026

"Chomsky likens the outrage over Epstein's crimes in 2018 to a culture 'swept by craziness' like Nazism or the KKK.

Full conversation (quite a bit here):"

[pdf link]

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01010009.pdf

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On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 8:56 AM Noam Chomsky <

wrote:

From the point of view of a jihadi, Klan, evangelical Christian, my ultra-orthodox grandfather..... it's the rest of the world that's crazy. I think we can do better than just to take the fall-back position that craziness is a value judgment, but not so easy.

On consciousness, my suspicion is that we'll never do much better than Russell's picture: what we understand with highest confidence is our own immediate conscious experience. The rest of our intellectual efforts (science especially) are an attempt to make sense of that (and in the course of doing so, instructs us that our experience is a construct of our internal modes of cognition acting on an external world that we (naively?) assume to exist. And it also tells us, I think, that consciousness is a thin and superficial fringe of an internal mental life that is inaccessible to introspection.

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:39 AM J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

.. cultures swept by craziness, isnt it the same for an individual. the brain sends signals based on faulty sensors or information. to see if the brain is functioning. there are word tests. memory tests. etc. why isnt conciousness the property of those things. like culture is to fads etc.

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 8:09 AM Noam Chomsky

> wrote:

Cultures unfortunately can be swept by craziness. Nazism for example. Or the Great Awakening. We're in one of those phases now. — On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 8:56 AM Noam Chomsky < wrote: From the point of view of a jihadi, Klan, evangelical Christian, my ultra-orthodox grandfather..... it's the rest of the world that's crazy. I think we can do better than just to take the fall-back position that craziness is a value judgment, but not so easy. On consciousness, my suspicion is that we'll never do much better than Russell's picture: what we understand with highest confidence is our own immediate conscious experience. The rest of our intellectual efforts (science especially) are an attempt to make sense of that (and in the course of doing so, instructs us that our experience is a construct of our internal modes of cognition acting on an external world that we (naively?) assume to exist. And it also tells us, I think, that consciousness is a thin and superficial fringe of an internal mental life that is inaccessible to introspection. On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:39 AM J <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: .. cultures swept by craziness, isnt it the same for an individual. the brain sends signals based on faulty sensors or information. to see if the brain is functioning. there are word tests. memory tests. etc. why isnt conciousness the property of those things. like culture is to fads etc. On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 8:09 AM Noam Chomsky > wrote: Cultures unfortunately can be swept by craziness. Nazism for example. Or the Great Awakening. We're in one of those phases now.

If there's a charge, it's true, in fact True. Any response is "mansplaining," another power play, reinforcing the charge. You've seen I'm sure what happened to Lawrence. Full and complete response, amounts to zero. Isn't even considered. It's like trying to discuss rationally with religious fanatics.

Noam

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:41 AM J<jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:

As the stories get wilder and the writers make the girls younger. prostitution is a tabloid s dream, I wondered if having something out in the cyber world that let some people point to rational arguments might allow some to defend themselves from their wives "how could you" etc. — If there's a charge, it's true, in fact True. Any response is "mansplaining," another power play, reinforcing the charge. You've seen I'm sure what happened to Lawrence. Full and complete response, amounts to zero. Isn't even considered. It's like trying to discuss rationally with religious fanatics. Noam On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 10:41 AM J<jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: As the stories get wilder and the writers make the girls younger. prostitution is a tabloid s dream, I wondered if having something out in the cyber world that let some people point to rational arguments might allow some to defend themselves from their wives "how could you" etc.

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Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · 5 days ago

#Via MPR News / mprnews.org‬
9:17 PM · Feb 5, 2026

"The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family."

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/05/liam-conejo-ramos-dhs-requests-expedited-deportation-proceedings-for-family

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social replied · 5 days ago

#Via Cooper Lund
@Cooperlund
9:51 PM · Feb 5, 2026

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@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · last week

#Via Jacqueline Antonovich
@jackiantonovich
10:09 AM · Feb 1, 2026

"I hope he gets his pilot wings and gets to see the cockpit, if he wants to."

12:51 AM · Feb 1, 2026

"You guys! He did!!!"

Screenshot from John Quiñones, showing Liam Ramos getting to sit in the plane cockpit and try out the controls.

Text:
John Quiñones

Some very kind pilots on the delta flight from San Antonio - Minneapolis today. 5 year old, Liam Conejo Ramos was in Heaven. What a difference 24 hours make. From DHS detention in Texas - to this. Being a kid again. And now, Liam is home again. — Screenshot from John Quiñones, showing Liam Ramos getting to sit in the plane cockpit and try out the controls. Text: John Quiñones Some very kind pilots on the delta flight from San Antonio - Minneapolis today. 5 year old, Liam Conejo Ramos was in Heaven. What a difference 24 hours make. From DHS detention in Texas - to this. Being a kid again. And now, Liam is home again.

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social replied · 5 days ago

#Via MPR News / mprnews.org‬
9:17 PM · Feb 5, 2026

"The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family."

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/05/liam-conejo-ramos-dhs-requests-expedited-deportation-proceedings-for-family

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · last week

If somebody is pals with my abuser, while KNOWING of it, then they are definitely declaring their enmity for me.

If somebody is pals with a mass-abuser of women and children, while KNOWING of it, then they are definitely declaring their enmity for women and children.

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social replied · 6 days ago

#Via Eoin Higgins
@EoinHiggins
1:50 PM · Feb 4, 2026

"Chomsky likens the outrage over Epstein's crimes in 2018 to a culture 'swept by craziness' like Nazism or the KKK.

Full conversation (quite a bit here):"

[pdf link]

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01010009.pdf

2 media

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@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · last week

#Via Drew Harwell
@drewharwell
10:15 AM · Feb 3, 2026

"A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account.

A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/02/03/homeland-security-administrative-subpoena/

"Unconscionable," Jon thought as he found an email address online for the lead prosecutor, Joseph Dernbach, who was named in the story. Peering through metal-rimmed glasses, Jon opened Gmail on his computer monitor.

"Mr. Dernbach, don't play Russian roulette with H's life," he wrote. "Err on the side of caution. There's a reason the US government along with many other governments don't recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency."

That was it. In five minutes, Jon said, he finished the note, signed his first and last name, pressed send and hoped his plea would make a difference.

Five hours and one minute later, Jon was watching TV with his wife when an email popped up in his inbox. He noticed it on his phone.

"Google," the message read, "has received legal process from a Law Enforcement authority compelling the release of information related to your Google Account." — "Unconscionable," Jon thought as he found an email address online for the lead prosecutor, Joseph Dernbach, who was named in the story. Peering through metal-rimmed glasses, Jon opened Gmail on his computer monitor. "Mr. Dernbach, don't play Russian roulette with H's life," he wrote. "Err on the side of caution. There's a reason the US government along with many other governments don't recognise the Taliban. Apply principles of common sense and decency." That was it. In five minutes, Jon said, he finished the note, signed his first and last name, pressed send and hoped his plea would make a difference. Five hours and one minute later, Jon was watching TV with his wife when an email popped up in his inbox. He noticed it on his phone. "Google," the message read, "has received legal process from a Law Enforcement authority compelling the release of information related to your Google Account."

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · last week

#Via Drew Harwell
@drewharwell
10:15 AM · Feb 3, 2026

"A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account.

A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/02/03/homeland-security-administrative-subpoena/

Alex Akselrod boosted

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · last week

#Via Jacqueline Antonovich
@jackiantonovich
10:09 AM · Feb 1, 2026

"I hope he gets his pilot wings and gets to see the cockpit, if he wants to."

12:51 AM · Feb 1, 2026

"You guys! He did!!!"

Alex Akselrod boosted

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · last week

#Via Elizabeth Shockman / eshockmanwrites
11:19 AM · Feb 1, 2026

"We know that four more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE."

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/01/liam-conejo-ramos-5-returned-to-minnesota-following-judges-order

Alex Akselrod boosted

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · last week

#Via Joaquin Castro
@Joaquincastrotx
10:49 AM · Feb 1, 2026

"Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack."

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Liam and his father posed sitting on the stairs, Liam is wearing his blue bunny hat and activating the ears. Dad has a little smile but both look emotionally spent.

Liam is standing on the same stairs by himself squeezing the puffs that make the ears on his hat go up.

Liam sitting on his couch with some of his belongings including a plush Pikachu. He has a little smile. Congressman Castro stands behind the couch looking at him with a smile.

A really long hand-written letter to Liam on Congressman Castro's letterhead saying he shouldn't have had to go through that and how many Americans were rooting for him and that immigrants make the US stronger.

Mother Bones

@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · last week

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@_L1vY_@mstdn.social · last week

@bsmall2 @dnkboston @Lily_and_frog

Here is the email from Chomsky to Epstein, which was forwarded to Hiltzik.

Note that it's FAR past the 2008 date of Epstein's conviction.

[Image posted twice to accommodate all the alt text]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_/115998439538924072

Regardless whether this specific email is true, and proof positive of participation, Chomsky remained friends with Epstein to the end. If nothing else, he knew of the 2008 conviction.

#Via Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan
5:48PM · Jan31 2026