Was there not an entire deal during the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings where the GOP was up in arms about the left being ‘anti-Catholic’ for questioning her beliefs about abortion and about queer rights? And now they’re doing this?

I’m not surprised by the hypocrisy, I just feel like it merits pointing out.

I find myself wondering if her cushy “private sector” exit is a direct result of her having seen the fully unredacted Epstein Files. Trump knows he can’t piss her off enough to spill those beans.

I fully believe that this happened, but holy hell is it unbelievably fucked up that, if I am reading this correctly, this man possessed photographic evidence of the sexual abuse of an underage girl (itself illegal to possess!) and managed to use them to blackmail the victim’s mother with the threat to reveal them. The threat of the victim being revealed as a victim was considered blackmail material, while Atkins was absolutely secure in the idea that he could just possess child sexual abuse material and wasn’t going to get busted for it.

Fuck this world.

Does anyone have a paywall-free version?