Oh, they mean a joke for conservatives… she’s been a joke for anyone with critical reasoning skills for a while.
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It’s not actually a video showing the cell as such. Just video of a corridor where Epstein can be seen being escorted back to his cell after a meeting with his lawyers. Somewhere in the background.
Of course, this changes everything.
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When I was growing up, a “JD” was one of those kids your parents and teachers warned you to never, ever associate with.
Just sayin’.
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we’ve clipped the missing portion below.
That’s a neat trick. 
Makes it sound like someone use the “enhance” function.
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Strictly speaking, there’s not a minute missing.
They screwed up when they obviously hacked it.
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Of course He will do it…
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Paywalled, so…
I didn’t know about this agreement:
at the end of June, Trump shattered a jewel of multilateralism: the global minimum tax on multinational profits, the result of the broadest international tax agreement ever reached.
In October 2021, for the first time, this agreement put a stop to the global race to the bottom in corporate taxation, which for decades had undermined state revenues and exacerbated inequality. More than 130 countries agreed to a minimum tax of 15% on large corporate profits. Admittedly, the rate remained modest; admittedly, exemptions weakened the measure. But at least, under the leadership of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the G20, an agreement finally made it possible to stand up to large corporations.
It can’t be good for U.S. business nor its citizens that the rest of the world is laughing at King Tramp, while also fuming at the havoc and destruction he’s imposing on other countries. And it sucks that 99% of USians are so very provincial and insular about much of anything going on beyond U.S. borders.
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One of the things I haven’t seen discussed much about the Murder Bill is how Republicans broke Senate rules by ignoring the parliamentarian to retain stricken provisions of the bill that violate the reconciliation process.
I get that Senate rules aren’t law, but what this opens the door for is ignoring the filibuster when Dems have control of the Senate again.
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I guess it does open that door, but I doubt the scrupulous-to-a-fault Dems will ever walk through it.
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Maybe we shouldn’t just always expect them to do the worst thing? Because if we always expect them to, they will. We need to demand they do the best and maybe, just maybe, they will do the right thing now and then.
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I doubt any of them are reading Elsewhere Cafe. 
But yes, I can see how pointing what they could do (if they weren’t so beholden to the interests of the wealthy instead of to ours) can also point to ways we could pressure them to do the right thing.
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I don’t know if they will or not, nor do I know if they should try. I have really mixed feelings, because I very strongly believe that the filibuster does more harm than good, at least in its current implementation (where all it does is serve as a de facto requirement that most legislation needs 60 votes). If they went back to the original rules, where it required holding the floor in a speech and where it held up any other Senate business until it was resolved, I might be ok with it. But the current version just makes it so that most bills need 60 votes, and the framers of the Constitution explicitly and intentionally declined to require a supermajority to pass legislation. And they did that for a reason, because for many issues, the Articles of Confederation required a supermajority, and it was too easy for a small number of legislators to just completely shut down the legislative process.
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If they had ignored the filibuster during the Biden admin, they would have been able to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Considering that several million votes were simply not counted, especially in swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin in the 2024 election, that alone could have swung the outcome.
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