The drawing that undoubtedly would not exist seems to exist: For Jeffrey Epstein’s fiftieth birthday, well-known figures wrote him naughty poems and drew him soiled photos; the Home Oversight Committee launched the e book yesterday after it subpoenaed Epstein’s property.
It options, as you would possibly anticipate, a cartoon of Epstein lounging in a seashore chair getting a therapeutic massage from 4 topless ladies; drawings of zebras and lions humping; a poem commenting with shock that, at age 50, Epstein “has averted the penitentiary”; one other alluding to when he found the “Maxwell teen-age daughter” within the ’70s (referring to Ghislaine Maxwell); one submission by Invoice Clinton lauding Epstein’s “childlike curiosity”; and one other about knocking down a girl’s pants to grope her and discovering another man’s hand already there.
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“Most notably, the e book incorporates the now well-publicized poem to Mr. Epstein that bears Donald J. Trump’s title,” stories The New York Occasions. “It’s framed by a silhouette drawing of bare ladies and contains what seems to be Mr. Trump’s signature. Elsewhere there may be an outsized verify that purports to be Mr. Epstein jokingly promoting a ‘absolutely depreciated’ lady to Mr. Trump for $22,500.” Trump has in current months denied the existence of such a picture and instructed his press secretary to do the identical; now the picture (together with the “Donald” signature within the place of pubic hair) is extensively out there, and has been analyzed by The Wall Avenue Journal, in contrast with different letters Trump despatched from round that very same time (2003).
For what it is price, I do not assume any of that is hermetic proof that Trump and Co. knew the extent of Epstein’s purported crimes, or the particular involvement of underage women; nevertheless it does appear possible that each one his buddies knew he was a lecherous mofo and located it fairly humorous, which isn’t look in case you’re the sitting president of the US of America. (Then once more, no one actually voted for Trump as a result of his upstanding morals; the vulgarity—aesthetic and ethical and all the pieces in between—was all the time baked in. A function for some voters, greater than a bug.)
Checking in on the Zoomers:
Our NBC Information Resolution Desk ballot requested Gen Z adults (18-29 years outdated) what they think about vital to a profitable life. The mixture of gender and politics produced two very totally different units of priorities: pic.twitter.com/xvm0t4IKaT
— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) September 8, 2025
“This information is admittedly fascinating,” writes enterprise capitalist Katherine Boyle on X, “as a result of it exhibits that marriage shouldn’t be seen as very excessive standing or must-have amongst Gen Z ladies, even amongst Trump-voters. It is clear Harris-supporting ladies don’t prioritize kids. Trump-supporting ladies need them, however not on the expense of their monetary independence as a result of the husband is much less vital, essential or more likely to be within the image. Kids and marriage have gotten excessive standing and aspirational for males and fewer so for ladies, even on the appropriate. Sadly it exhibits the earnings and employment decline of males during the last 30 years, and that girls planning for a household anticipate monetary independence to be a core ingredient to having youngsters, irrespective of their political affiliation.”
The findings most putting to me had been that Harris-voting ladies rank “having emotional stability” as their third-highest precedence, which looks like an outgrowth of remedy tradition (and one thing that turns into completely wrecked when one is pregnant/has younger kids, in my expertise); “having sufficient cash to do the stuff you need” and “reaching monetary independence”—kind of two methods to say the identical factor—rank extraordinarily extremely for each kinds of voters and each genders; “having kids” ranks actually low on the record for each female and male Harris voters; “proudly owning your individual residence” ranks actually excessive on the record for each female and male Trump voters. There are two cultural scripts that seem to have led to defeatism for the youthful era: 1) That kids are quite costly, and that monetary safety is a extremely vital prerequisite to having them; and a pair of) that proudly owning your individual house is the pathway to nice stability and wealth-building. Each concepts comprise grains of reality (your expertise of parenthood might be tougher and worse in case you’re destitute; accruing fairness and never being topic to the whims of anybody else can help you stay in a single place for longer, to enhance it over time, and so on.) however are overstated. Kids do not must be as costly as upper-middle-class dad and mom make them; home-ownership is not the one strategy to steadily construct wealth over time.
Scenes from New York: From the piece excerpted beneath, these chunks on Zohran Mamdani stand out.
All the pieces @micsolana writes right here is true: The socialists are mendacity, and making an attempt to get respectable cowl for his or her horrible concepts.
“No less than Zohran is sweet on housing” — No, he is not. Severely, do not fall for this. pic.twitter.com/gBD7Z3T4gA
— Liz Wolfe (@LizWolfeReason) September 9, 2025
QUICK HITS
- “Supplied that the aim of the Abundance motion is earnestly to impress the left beneath the banner of Abundance, which it is going to then produce, the mission is clearly doomed to fail,” writes my good friend Mike Solana in The Atlantic. “Partly that is due to structural points innate to our political system, and partly it is because massive swaths of the left, which Abundance Dems have to win elections, are actively and infrequently publicly fantasizing about sending Abundance Dems to the guillotine…As America’s political proper embraces financial populism, interesting to voters who care about points just like the affordability of groceries and housing, together with crime and immigration, it is not but clear what the Democratic Occasion of 2028 will seem like, or who might be its chief. What is obvious, nevertheless, is that centrists and elitists within the occasion might want to faucet into the left’s personal rising populist wing to win, and everybody appears to know {that a} recreation like that, with a gaggle of people that genuinely need violence, requires… delicacy, for example.”
- “American high-school seniors’ scores on main math and studying exams fell to their lowest ranges on document, in accordance with outcomes launched Tuesday by the U.S. Training Division,” stories The Wall Avenue Journal. “Twelfth-graders’ common math rating was the worst for the reason that present take a look at started in 2005, and studying was beneath any level since that evaluation began in 1992. The share of Twelfth-graders who had been proficient slid by 2 proportion factors between 2019 and 2024—to 35% in studying and 22% in math.”
- One-third of high-level jobs on the Bureau of Labor Statistics are vacant.
- This does everybody a disservice:
1/ After Jordan Neely randomly punched a 67-year-old lady within the face, which led to one among his three dozen or so arrests, a number of for assault, he spent 15 months in jail, max. Then The Helpers arrived(!), resulting in “a fastidiously deliberate technique between the town and his legal professionals… pic.twitter.com/a05jB0BtGH
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) September 8, 2025
- Prayer for conversion—particularly from homosexual to straight, or transgender to not—is now thought-about unlawful in New South Wales, Australia, punishable by as much as 5 years in jail, per the Conversion Practices Ban Act of 2024. However the legislation, which prohibits praying with or over an individual with the intention of fixing or suppressing their sexual orientation or gender identification (even when they’ve consented to it), units a disturbing precedent, infringing on the rights of the trustworthy. Full, surprising change right here over the legislation and the way it may be enforced:
????????New South Wales Legal professional Basic Michael Daley explicitly says that some Christian prayers are towards the legislation and unlawful, and people discovered participating in ‘illegal’ prayers might face 5 years in jail.
See the story at https://t.co/m9uOp0q9IH pic.twitter.com/64ZmW9Yj5v
— Protestia (@Protestia) September 8, 2025
