Dahlia #Lithwick has been one of my North Stars when it comes to deciphering legal shenanigans. Today she published an article that makes me green that I didn’t write it, it’s so good.
“Those of us who cannot even begin to imagine a permission structure that allowed and encouraged passing young girls around, trading insults and articles about them (“your littlest girl was a little naughty”), can barely comprehend why it was that this class of men always took the gift and the plane trip, because access to yet more of the same somehow became the coin of the realm.
The psychological tendency to assume that others are operating within the same moral and ethical universe as yourself—means that we are all, once again, annihilated by the fact that America’s shared moral universe is a collective fiction, one that constrains one class of people and merely titillates another.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/pam-bondi-epstein-files-testimony-reveal.html
