Welcome to CaturSaturday, and it’s the first of November, 2025: the sabbath for Jewish Cats. Here’s the November illustration from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, a set of 15th-century calendar illustrations I love. It appears to show peasants knocking acorns from the trees to feed the pigs:
It’s also All Saints’ Day (the origin of Halloween), Book Lovers Day, National Authors Day, National Bison Day, National Calzone Day, National Cinnamon Day, National Paté Day, National Wine Tasting Day, and World Numbat Day. Numbats (Myrmecobius fasciatus) are endangered marsupials now found only in Western Australia (there are only a couple of thousand left), and they’re lovely little insectivores. Here, have a look at the world’s cutest marsupial:
Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by consulting the November 1 Wikipedia page.
Da Nooz:
*The World Series, for the first time since 2019, will move on to the final and decisive game 7 (tonight), as last night the Dodgers defeated Toronto on their home ground, 3-1. From ESPN:
In a must-win Game 6 of the 2025 World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers delivered. After manager Dave Roberts shook up his lineup, new cleanup hitter Mookie Betts broke out of a series-long slump and starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto was excellent again on the mound.
Then, in the bottom of the ninth inning, Enrique Hernandez and the Dodgers’ defense turned an incredible double play to end a rally and force the Toronto Blue Jays to a winner-take-all finale Saturday night.
It was over when …: Hernandez caught an Andres Gimenez line drive and threw it to Miguel Rojas for an improbable game-ending double play. [See end of video below.] The Blue Jays had put runners on second and third with no one out in the bottom of the ninth off closer Roki Sasaki (an Addison Barger double getting stuck in the outfield fence prevented a run from scoring), and the Dodgers turned to Tyler Glasnow — who got out of the jam, thanks in part to his defense, to force Game 7 on Saturday night.
Star of Game 6: Toronto made Yamamoto work a little harder this time, but he still pitched six outstanding frames, limiting the Blue Jays to one run and working around traffic several times. Yamamoto is now 4-1 with a 1.56 ERA over five October outings. If that’s it for his postseason run, he has done his part and more for the Dodgers. This is why L.A. signed him to the biggest contract ever given to a pitcher when he inked it.
The stat that defined the game: In the past 30 years, there have been five players to pitch 15-plus innings in the World Series and allow two runs or fewer: Randy Johnson in 2001, Josh Beckett in 2003, Jon Lester in 2013, Madison Bumgarner in 2014 — and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in 2025, according to ESPN Research. Each of the previous four saw their team win the World Series.
What it means for the series: Blue Jays manager John Schneider knew he had a game to work with. There was no reason to go all hands on deck, and since the game was well-pitched by both teams, neither bullpen was annihilated by the events of Game 6. Game 7 will be a fascinating chess match from the time the starting pitchers and lineups are announced. If the finale is anything like the different scenes that have come before it, it’s going to be special. — Bradford Doolittle
This is a great series and a nail-biter. Here are the game highlights. The double play started by the right-fielder at the end of the ninth put the game to bed for Los Angeles. Go Dodgers!
*Can you resist an op-ed by the NYT’s David Brooks called “Hey, Lefties! Trump has stolen your game” (archived here). What has he stolen?, you ask. Well, here’s a précis:
Over the last 50 years or so, left-wing revolutionary ideas have entered what the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci called the “spontaneous philosophy,” and what we would call the cultural atmosphere. MAGA has profited by exploiting these ideas in order to destroy the left.
The ideas, conceived when the bourgeois center constituted the cultural establishment, were developed to destroy that establishment. Now the elite university left is the cultural establishment, and left-wing revolutionary ideas work just as well against them. Let me give you a few examples of how MAGA embraces left ideas to get its way (even while not knowing, in most cases, where these ideas came from):
Here are a couple of ways that, says Brooks, the right has used leftist ideas against the left:
Postmodernism. Many postmodernists argued that there’s no such thing as capital-T Truth. Statements are constructed narratives for the imposition of power. What matters is whose narratives gain social dominance. As Jonathan Rauch noted in a brilliant essay in Persuasion, Donald Trump, who probably has never heard of the postmodernists, took that idea and ran with it. Truth is whatever he says it is. Kellyanne Conway talked about “alternative facts.” Rudy Giuliani, that notorious postmodernist, said that “truth isn’t truth.” [JAC: Rauch’s article is here.]
Critical Theory. This intellectual hodgepodge that emerged from something called the Frankfurt School built on Marxism and influenced the New Left over the past two generations. One of its tenets is that the supposedly neutral institutions of society are simply shams that the elite use to mask their grip on power. Trump agrees. A neutral Justice Department? Gone. A neutral media? Gone. A neutral Constitution? Going. A neutral judiciary? Going. Free speech? Going.
Identity Politics. This is based, first, on the idea that your group identity explains your worldview more than your individual consciousness. It is based, second, on the idea that history is a struggle between oppressor and oppressed groups. It is based, third, on the idea that victimized groups are innocent and oppressor groups are evil. You are defined by how much your group is oppressed. Over the last few decades identity-based departments flourished in American universities — women’s studies, African American studies, etc.
Trump took this idea and flipped it on its head. Now cultural studies professors are the evil oppressors, and evangelical Christians are the persecuted oppressed. As so many have noted, MAGA is identity politics for white people. It turns out that identity politics is more effective when your group is in the majority.
Cancel Culture. There are more human beings in America eager to be offended than there are those who are eager to offend. A few years ago, people had their careers destroyed for uttering words that offended the snowflake left. Now people see their careers destroyed for uttering words that offend the snowflake right. These are words like diversity, equity, gender, nonbinary, antiracist, trauma and hate speech. Even just typing words like trauma traumatizes me. The horror! The horror!
And his conclusion, which blames both sides:
One of the reasons the Democratic Party is struggling so much is that the radical left ideologies that undergirded its cultural stances are kaput, and it hasn’t yet built a more moderate intellectual tradition to fall back on.
If you want a one-sentence description of where politics is right now here’s my nominee: We now have a group of revolutionary rightists who have no constructive ideology confronting a group of progressives who let their movement be captured by a revolutionary left-wing ideology that failed.
Well, yes, the Democrats did embrace these ideas, and it didn’t help them win many elections. I’m not sure, however, whether Trump et al. deliberately saw these ideas as winners, and then coopted them from the left. It looks to me as if Brooks is making a number of loose analogies. But it sounds convincing.
*Masih Alinejad, one of my heroes, was in court on Wednesday to see two Russian thugs, hired by Iran to assassinate her, get sentenced to 25 years in prison. (This was the second time Iran tried to kill her.) She celebrates their conviction in a piece in the Free Press, “How the country I was taught to hate saved my life“. Some excerpts:
Growing up in a tiny village in northern Iran, I learned to chant “death to America” at the age of 7, along with all the other schoolchildren. In the ideology of the Islamic Republic, America is the monster, the Great Satan, the Other. Every morning we screamed those words until our voices cracked—not out of conviction, but because not joining in was dangerous.
At home, on our black-and-white television, I watched hours of programming in which bearded clerics warned women that if a single strand of their hair revealed itself under their hijabs, they would be condemned to hell for eternity. But there was no need to wait for the afterlife to taste punishment. As a teenager, I was beaten by the regime’s morality police for freeing a few strands of hair and for daring to wear my headscarf a little too loosely. I was jailed for the “crimes” of writing political slogans and handing out pamphlets that questioned the Islamic regime. In a prison cell, I learned how dangerous truth could be in the Islamic Republic.
After more threats from the regime, Masih moved to America. But Iran saw her riling up Iranian women, and they couldn’t let that stand. Two assassination attempts were foiled by the U.S. There may be more, but Masih still celebrates the freedom she’s found in America, and let us not forget that freedom:
In March 2025, I sat in a Manhattan courtroom facing the men accused of orchestrating these plots. My hands shook as I looked them in the eyes, but I was determined to give my testimony. I wanted to send a message to the clerics in Iran: In the United States, law enforcement is protecting me, not harassing me, for being a journalist.
Today, those hitmen will be sentenced in a Manhattan court. This is more than a personal victory. It’s a reminder of why I came to America: how the United States has given me a place to call home, freedom to express myself, and protection from those who wish to harm me. My life in America is proof that dictators do not respect borders. Even here, in my home, I glance over my shoulder. But I believed America could be a sanctuary for those who stand up to tyranny, and I still do.
It’s ironic that a child who once chanted “death to America” has, as an adult, been given a second life in the same country she was taught to hate. When I say America means freedom, I don’t mean the freedom to pursue wealth or power. I mean the right to an ordinary life: the right to sit, to sing, to swim, to dance, to move, to exist without asking permission.
*Prince Andrew has been stripped of his royal title (“Prince”). This is the last and most severe of the punishments the Royals have levied on Randy Andy, almost surely guilty of having sex with Epstein’s trafficked minors.
Andrew, the scandal-scarred younger brother of King Charles III, will be stripped of his title as prince, an extraordinary punishment — unheard-of in the annals of the modern British royal family — that caps his fall from grace over his ties to the convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
In a statement on Thursday, Buckingham Palace said it had begun a formal process to remove the “style, titles and honors of Prince Andrew.” The prince, it said, “will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor,” the family name of members of the House of Windsor. The palace also said that Andrew, 65, would be evicted from his sprawling residence, Royal Lodge, and move to a private house.
The announcement, in a terse three-paragraph statement, came after Britain’s royal family was plunged into a widening crisis over new disclosures about the extent of Andrew’s links to Mr. Epstein and more damning details about his alleged sexual abuse of a young woman trafficked to him by Mr. Epstein.
Andrew has steadfastly denied that he raped the woman, Virginia Roberts Giuffre. But doubts about his account of his relationship with Mr. Epstein — as well as sordid details of his sexual misconduct in a newly published memoir by Ms. Giuffre — made his position in the royal family increasingly untenable.
Some British lawmakers had called on Parliament to take action against Andrew or to pass legislation that would make it easier for the king to do so. The government has resisted getting involved, reflecting an ancient custom of the crown and Parliament staying out of each other’s business. But the drumbeat of disclosures was making it harder to avoid taking more definitive action against Andrew.
Last week, Andrew announced he would give up the use of his other most prominent title, the Duke of York. His status as a prince, the palace said at the time, was based on his being the son of a monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.
On Thursday, palace officials said the king was sending “royal warrants” to the Lord Chancellor requesting that he remove both the titles of Duke of York and prince, as well as the honorific “His Royal Highness,” from the Peerage Roll, which sets out royal and aristocratic titles in Britain.
He won’t be having Christmas dinner with the Royal Family, either.
Not since King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in 1936 over his proposed marriage to a divorced American woman, Wallis Simpson, has the royal family experienced such an abrupt and visible downgrade of one its most senior members.
Andrew will move to a residence at the royal palace at Sandringham, Norfolk, northeast of London, a house owned personally by the King. King Chalres will also support Andrew out of his pocket (that money comes from regular Brits), but will not be supporting Sarah Ferguson, Andy’s former wife.
Here’s the official statement from the royals as given by the BBC. It’s terse and stern.
His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to remove the style, titles and honours of Prince Andrew.
Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
His lease on Royal Lodge has, to date, provided him with legal protection to continue in residence.
Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation.
These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him.
Their Majesties wish to make clear that their thoughts and utmost sympathies have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.
Well, that had to do something, though I don’t think the former Price will be living in privation.
*Although the Louvre jewel heist was pretty well planned and clever, the thieves made some rookie mistakes, including leaving behind some stuff (including the truck) that bore traces of their DNA. Three of the four putative thieves are now detained, though the $102 million in jewelry is still missing. And they didn’t have time to burn up the truck, which also had their DNA on it. From the WSJ:
Left behind on the street outside the Louvre was the truck, a jerry can, a blowtorch, angle grinders, a walkie-talkie and yellow vests. Police also found on the ground nearby the damaged crown of Empress Eugénie, encrusted with 1,354 diamonds and 56 emeralds.
The hunt for the thieves was on.
France mobilized around 100 investigators, ranging from forensic specialists to digital sleuths who tapped security cameras from across the city to reconstruct the thieves’ escape route and find at least one of the scooters.
Forensic teams swabbed the glass-strewn gallery as well as the equipment the thieves left behind. The investigators recovered DNA, fingerprints and other traces that they ran through criminal databases. Two matches quickly came back. One was a 34-year-old Algerian national who had been previously convicted of theft on a much smaller scale. The other was a 39-year-old Frenchman who had been convicted in 2008 and 2014 of aggravated theft after ramming ATMs for cash.
Police suspected these were the men who entered the Galerie d’Apollon with angle grinders. Both lived in the working-class banlieue of Aubervilliers, just north of Paris.
On Saturday evening, the Algerian national went to the Paris-Charles de Gaulle international airport with a one-way ticket to Algeria. Police intercepted him at the terminal. They also detained the Frenchman near his home.
. . . .Passas, the criminologist, said the attempt to flee by plane from the capital’s main airport showed a lack of experience.
“This is not the best way to get out of the investigative environment,” he said, adding that a better option would have been driving to a neighboring country in the borderless European Union and taking a flight from there.
Days later, police detained a man they suspect of being a third member of the heist team after another DNA match. Police made four other arrests of people Beccuau said might have information on the heist. The fourth member of the team remains at large.
My guess? They’ll never see those jewels again.
*Oh, and Ghost, the Giant Pacific Octopus guarding a batch of sterile eggs in a California aquarium as she starves herself to death, is still alive. I check every day to see her situation (she has been moved off exhibit so viewers cannot watch her senesce. It’s so sad, but that’s the way octopus females die. Here’s a scene from the fantastic movie, “My Octopus Teacher”:
Menwhile in Dobrzyn, you can see Hili’s butt:
Andrzej: What are you looking for?
Hili: None of your business.
In Polish:
Ja: Czego tam szukasz?
Hili: Nie twój interes.
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From Jesus of the Day. Giving out potatoes in lieu of candy is a new tradition in America, and the kids love it! This was on the evening news last night.
From Give Me a Sign:
From The Language Nerds; a Russian with a cold goes “apchkhi!”
Masih is celebrating:
Right after two Russian hitmen got 25 years in U.S. federal court for trying to kill me in Brooklyn, I spoke with @jaketapper on CNN about how dictators hunt their opponents beyond their borders.
When the hitman came to my porch in New York with an AK-47,
I was on a Zoom call… pic.twitter.com/xpJIKW8zof— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) October 31, 2025
But for JKR, it’s business as usual:
.@Riley_Gaines_ doesn’t defend women’s rights for attention or money, any more than I do. We fight because it’s the only thing to do if you’re not a coward, a pick me or a living doormat. https://t.co/FaNyT0qsc9
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 30, 2025
From Simon, who says, “Wait for it. . . . ouch!”:
Hold on… Watch This. Worth every second. pic.twitter.com/VzwY9UwMW6
— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) October 30, 2025
From Malcolm. who wondered if they are real. I think they are.
The Polish crested chicken pic.twitter.com/awnvn7NS37
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 16, 2025
From my feed. The sloppy chicken leaves no genes! (Sound up.)
This chicken is sloppy when incubating and the other chicken warns it pic.twitter.com/cIYHOmwXrI
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) October 30, 2025
One I posted from The Auschwitz Memorial:
This hearty-looking Frenchman, age 33, lasted only five weeks in Auschwitz. The upside-down triangle on his prison garb suggests he was either a political prisoner or a criminal.
— Jerry Coyne (@evolutionistrue.bsky.social) 2025-11-01T10:29:09.388Z
Two from Dr. Cobb. First, a racy tweet from pre-Code days:
Ruth Chatterton signals ex-football star Johnny Mack Brown that she's in the mood for a little horizontal pep meeting. From Female (1933)
— Neglected Books (@neglectedbooks.com) 2025-10-29T18:00:10.000Z
A double tweet: the Pope is a White Sox fan:
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. -Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, poet and critic (1 Nov 1636-1711)
All ailurophiles should rejoice at the recently-posted video of the rare white Iberian lynx captured on camera in Spain.
The darkened illustration for November symbolizes the dreaded time change tonight?
Not just dread! In the words of Mr. Kurtz, “the horror, the horror!”
Thanks for the Brooks reference and Rauch article link. I think this simply shows how vacuous some of the progressives’ epistemological foundations are that trump stumbled on them while blindly traipsing through the barnyard. As a scientist/engineer I need to suspend my learned critical thinking to read about critical theory and simply stare at post-modernism as I do with most contemporary art.
A post hoc ergo propter hoc perhaps?
Jim, I exhausted my comment allotment yesterday, but I wanted to note that I share your reverence for the craftsmanship and historical associations of many of the old buildings. As Leslie said, nothing cheesy about it at all.
Thanks Doug. Yes yesterday was a rich day for comments it seemed. But with these old buildings a small bit of me wonders if their mystique is like membership in our Key Clubs in U.S. high schools…making it an honor to scrape gum off the bottom of auditorium seats on a saturday morning….
The convergence of right and left in the rejection of objective truth has been obvious for some time. But I don’t think the co-opting of postmodernism is deliberate policy in the case of Trump. And Brooks, of course, fails to associate the authoritarianism and irrationality of Christian theology with postmodernist thought.
But the Rauch article is a very helpful analysis.
“irrationalism, i.e., disbelief in objective fact, arises almost always from the desire to assert something for which there is no evidence, or to deny something for which there is very good evidence. But the belief in objective fact always persists as regards particular practical questions, such as investments or engaging servants. And if fact can be made the test of the truth of our beliefs anywhere, it should be the test everywhere, leading to agnosticism wherever it cannot be applied.” (11-12) [34-35]
Bertrand Russell: Can man be rational? in: The will to doubt. New York, 1958, 9-16 [also in: Sceptical essays. Routledge, 2004, first edition 1928, 32-39]
Thanks, I have got to read that (was a Bertrand Russell fan when young, and I see it’s on Google Books).
The link to the Brooks essay leads to the Masih Alinejad story?
I fixed it, thanks.
The money King Charles will use to support Andrew does not come from “regular Brits.” It’s worth clarifying this. Since the 1890s al income from land owned by the monarch (the Crown Estates) has been given directly to the Treasury. In return, the Treasury refunds the monarch a small portion, which used to be called the Civil List and is now the Sovereign Grant. This is an unequal deal, in that the income exceeds the Sovereign Grant by over 200 million pounds a year. Furthermore the monarch now pays income tax on the Sovereign Grant. Now the Crown also has private sources of income that are not included in the Crown Estates, that were kept aside for this purpose. The Duchy of Cornwall provides income for the Prince of Wales and his family, and the Duchy of Lancaster does the same for the monarch (and, yes, tax is paid). This is the money that may be spent on Andrew. Similarly, Balmoral and Sandringham are owned privately by the monarch, so any arrangement for Andrew there costs the King, but not the taxpayer.
Many people do not understand the monarchy, apart from its constitutional role, is a net contributor to the exchequer: it pays in many times more per year than it costs. To abolish it would cost the country that money, never mind the far larger amount it brings in via tourism.
I think the conceit among the abolitionists is that The People will confiscate all the private wealth of the royal family, not stopping at the listed Crown Estates, making abolition a clear win for the Treasury. Abolition is essentially a Bill of Attainder, so might as well go whole hog and put whatever you want in the bill. You’ll only get one shot. Maybe even the King’s head.
As an American, I tend to follow the Constitution. Article 1, Title 9 bans all titles of nobility. That makes me an abolitionist. Would I favor confiscating the land, houses, money, and other property of any royal family? No.
“It looks to me as if Brooks is making a number of loose analogies.”
Bingo. David Brooks stopped making sense a long time ago. Now he writes to pay the bills.
He’s not worth reading. Including this article.
My latest article about the NYC race: syndicated, most visually here:
https://democracychronicles.org/forgetabaht-it/
excerpt: “Zohran is the ultimate rich kid playing poverty. His “decolonization” (killing white people and destroying capitalism) is popular with these youngsters educated by tiktok.
We’re used to conmen as well (I thought!), New Yorkers can spot them a “long city block” away: after all – we gave the world Trump. But we never voted for him. …”
D.A.
NYC
Good opinion piece.
My favorite sentence:
Second favorite:
Third favorite:
Thanks Peter. Feedback from people at WEIT means more to me than regular people where I publish, or twitter, b/c WEIT selects for a smarter readership!
best,
D.A.
Natural selection at work? 😉
Just a reminder to our friends down-under on Bison Day, the you can’t wash your face in a buffalo.
I’ve complained about this before, but my observation is that Republicans use a lot of the Left’s terminology almost ironically, seeking to point out hypocrisy, but do it so ham-handedly that they wind up using the same terms as badly as the Left does.
I have read an interview with a former French professional burglar. He said that fences would explain to the thiefs that the Louvre jewellery, estimated to be worth €88 million, would have to be dismantled and cut up. After that, tthe value would be around 3 to a maximum of 5 million €.
Therefore, no, I do not think the jewels will ever reappear. Especially not intact and complete.
The situation about the former Prince Andrew reminds me of the earlier scandal involving King Edward and Wallis Simpson. There is this extraordinary documentary (I guess it’s an all-true documentary) called Scotty and the secret history of Hollywood, which can be seen on various streaming services. Its about the man who was the go-to arranger for Hollywood stars and moguls to have prostitutes, orgies, whatever they wanted in the under-the-pants department back in the ’40’s and ’50’s. So be ready to have your eyes bug out and your ears be scandalized! In the tale are King Edward and Wallis Simpson, who were apparently frequent customers. They, apparently, would be game for pretty much anything.
Thx Mark. I’m not a Hollywood guy but that does sound interesting from an evolution point of view.
It is almost a human universal that high status men get to indulge the male “dual mating strategy” when it comes to… extra broads. 🙂
The work-arounds differ depending on context (and are fascinating) – African tribes, Samurai, Kings and today’s “masters of the universe” but the result is the same.
Many setups embrace it: Islam, and (I think) s/t like 80% of civilizations throughout time.
Happily, or we all wouldn’t be here!
D.A.
NYC
Excellent World Series! Best in many years.
And Trump. I don’t think that he purposely co-opted Postmodernism, Critical Theory, and all the rest. It wasn’t that deliberate. The left had simply become so obviously wacked in its beliefs and practices that Trump and the team just started calling them out. And the Democrats, rather than tacking away from their absurdities, leaned in and doubled down, leaving them bereft of credibility.
I enjoyed Game 6. Lots of the baseball I love to watch: three double plays (including the game ender) and lots of K’s. No home runs, no problem. I love to see a pitcher work his way out of a jam with runners in scoring position, especially when he looked shaky for a few pitches. When the count’s three and two with only one out and the pitcher is sweating, I’m rooting for him to get a strike. The game ticked all the boxes for me. Who won? Who cares?
women’s relationship to their society is defined by the fact that they can conceive and bear children and men want to control this fact. transwomen have no relationship to this fact. their inequalities have no intersection with the inequalities women face. therefore each group can form exclusive associations from each other for the purposes of those respective groups achieving greater equalities within society.
I would probably get kicked out of any social science class where intersectionalism is at the core of the perfessors teachings.
Interesting observation, thank you.
“Here are a couple of ways that, says Brooks, the right has used leftist ideas against the left: …”
There is the Woke Left, and now there is the Woke Right:
“Woke Right refers to right-wing people who have adopted the characteristics and underlying worldview orientation of the Woke Left for putatively “right-wing,” “conservative,” or reactionary causes. They are, as reactionaries, the image of the Right projected by the Left made real by players claiming to be on the Right. That is, they’re right-wing people who act and think about the world like Woke Leftists.”
Source: https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-woke-right/
Prince Andrew is a bottom-feeder of the first order, that much has been clear for a very long time. But I am made very uneasy by his being the only person to be identified and face consequences for his activities with Jeffrey Epstein. We know there are others, we know who some of them probably are, but no effort is made to name or shame them in the way PA has been. At the moment he is something of a scapegoat, with anger and retribution being heaped on from both sides of the Atlantic. There is something very sick still going on here.
AM, I partially disagree. The list of folks who have been punished for association with Epstein is long. A partial list would include Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Alan Dershowitz, etc.
Is PA being made a scapegoat? I would say yes. So was SBF (he was a scapegoat and he was guilty)
Some information about Louis Paulin Coutelas (in french). Best wishes, Jean
https://deportes-politiques-auschwitz.fr/2014/06/coutelas-paulin-louis/
AOC (and others) are making a grievous mistake (in my opinion) in attacking Riley Gains and JKR. The last thing the Democrats want in 2026 or 2028 is to be tarred with the trans brush. Sadly, AOC just can’t help herself. Trans is a core issue for ‘progressives’ and she is doing what come natural for her.