Today in Stupid: Epstein ‘Hoax’ Edition

By Michael Woyton

So now Jeffrey Epstein is a hoax, so says President Donald J. Felon. Maybe I’m confused but isn’t Ghislaine Maxwell serving a 20-year sentence for this hoax?

I guess he’s cutting his “PAST supporters” loose, because he doesn’t need them anymore.

And for someone who tells us to stop talking about Epstein, it seems he won’t shut up about it.

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Sure an 830 percent increase in assaults on ICE thugs sounds bad on paper. And it sounds bad when ICE Barbie says in on Fox News.

We now know that an β€œ830% increase” is an increase from 10 assaults in 6 months to 93 assaults in 6 months, at a time when DHS has *massively* increased at-large arrests and officers deployed in the community.For comparison, NYPD is averaging 194 assaults on officers per MONTH.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-07-15T20:06:55.459Z

Someone needs to ask her what she considers “an assault.”Β 

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Evil or chaos?$800K worth of high-nutrient biscuits destined for hungry children in Afghanistan and Pakistan through USAID will be burned instead.They passed their expiration date due to cuts made by the Trump administration.Cost to destroy the biscuits: an additional $130k

Laurie Loves Data (@laurelann.bsky.social) 2025-07-16T11:44:46.372Z

My vote is definitely evil. 

Perfectly good food worth $800,000 destroyed at a substantial cost rather than distributed.

Can’t let the hungry children be less hungry, can we?

Project 2025, my friends, and this administration is all about cruelty.

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Death threats targeted a journalist who drew an editorial cartoon concerning the deadly floods in Texas.

The threats against Adam Zyglis caused an event in support of local reporting to be postponed, the Associated Press reported.

Zyglis, who is a Pulitzer Prize winner, depicted a man in a MAGA cap being swept away by the floodwaters. He is seen holding up a sign that says “HELP” while a speech bubble floating downstream reads: “Gov’t is the problem not the solution.”

Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News. Zyglis faced death threats from Texas Republicans over this cartoon.

Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 2025-07-14T13:23:25.635Z

The event, sponsored by the Buffalo Newspaper Guild, was planned to highlight the need for local journalism at a museum exhibit of Zyglis’ work.

AP said the event will be rescheduled. There is no word when common sense or common decency will be back.

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Lead art: Screen grab from ABC News (Australia) via YouTube

Published by Michael Woyton

Michael Woyton is an award-winning journalist who covered municipalities and school districts for the Poughkeepsie (NY) Journal and local and regional news in the Hudson Valley for Patch Media.

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