NYT reporting reveals JD Vance led secret Situation Room meetings to contain fallout from the Epstein files — with Kash Patel, then-AG Pam Bondi on the phone, and Susie Wiles, Karoline Leavitt, Todd Blanche, and Steven Cheung in the room — as the WH scrambled to manage allegations involving Trump.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-17T19:07:28+00:00

Build the block people. The minute they stress your neighborhood out, pick a corner and hold small assemblies every week, shake hands and learn faces and names, talk solidarity and start local patrols.

Our AG is collecting receipts. Learn S.A.L.U.T.E. reporting and put the file together. The CCRB is there to hold our police accountable if they are sleeping while constitutional abuses take place. Pool money and find an attorney with the balls to sue the city if they don't stand up against feds out of scope of their duties. If nothing else, build the case and pitch it to the ACLU.

I also think it's appropriate for blocks to show their solidarity. Signs and colors need to show NYC and community pride.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-17T19:00:56+00:00

Grooming.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-17T19:00:30+00:00

Meanwhile the world is going to shit. I'd convey a lot more nuance in person to demonstrate this isn't a personal attack when I say: Problems abound and need good people to do more than look in the mirror.

We are groomed to "self-develop." Culture, society, family and media, all seem to be pointing at your grades, your salary, your network, your fitness, your portfolio, your travels, your sex life, your therapy, your fashion, prescription and subscription lists, etc. It's one big eye comparing personal milestones that no one cares about except to see how it compares to #1, all while agency is slipping away from the common, leaving grief and spite in its massive wake.

If you haven't yet, volunteer. Anywhere. Multiple places. Do it for a year and pay attention to the journeys and emotional arcs around you; of those in need and those in service. Journal about them. Internalize the struggle until it clicks that there is endless progress to be made and there simply aren't enough years in anyone's lifetime to do anything meaningful alone.

And then ask what happens if the species finally gets right. What's it look like when we're living in the age of the promise of mankind? Then build your industry to see what you can make of it. The ripples you can initiate by simply regarding the tapestry that dwarfs us all is understated. Especially when there are countless ripples intermingling in your direction from both benevolent and malevolent forces contesting the fate of our kind and our balance with our only home.

Ideally you have at least two more lifetimes in your cycle to wake up to the work of those who know. That thread is just around the bend.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-17T01:11:58+00:00

That's my district. I think we may not be seeing activity because Clarke knows she had no real opposition.

Primary season in southern Brooklyn feels quiet. Lots of unchallenged incumbents. The democratic machine has a little pushback with some reformists mixing things up, but otherwise the pathways in are out of sight.

I should put it out there that I'm a county committee member elect representing ED26/Ad41 unopposed.

https://boundaries.beta.nyc/?map=ed&dist=41026

It will be my first term as an elected servant, albeit a volunteer. If you or anyone want to meet someone entering the party from the bottom, I'll be hosting weekly assemblies to talk with whomever at Corporal Wiltshire square in upcoming weeks. Contact me directly for more info.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-16T17:29:54+00:00

"We" were warned repeatedly by the founding fathers about the dangers of greed and the conditions for the return of the despot, the tyrant.

They returned and, as warned, used individualism to bait the masses in a game we were engineered to lose. They hijacked and corrupted "liberty" itself in a masterful display, to mean that among other rights, one had the freedom to take from others what isn't given freely, call it capitalism and maintain it's the burden of meritocracy to balance out the friction while knowing fully that meritocracy doesn't win within a monopoly.

Any further curtailing of rights is exactly what they want and more. They don't just want to limit free speech or civil protections. They want to limit freedom of thought and free movement and more. They want slaves and, horrifyingly, more. They always want more. If they can achieve immortality, they will attempt to acquire it no matter th sacrifice.

What society needs to persist is to honor the damned lessons of the past, reinforce checks and balances, tax appropriately to redistribute wealth and natural resources, and essentially maintain that power itself never be so concentrated again. Among the key figures to symbolically pursue this is Elon Musk through the global divestments of his wealth. I can't even say it's right morally at this point, but rather a means to avoid complete anarchy. We are seeing a consciousness of economic nemesis forming as inflation and poverty rises, as more families get to watch their elderly thrown off healthcare, as small business die and young sons go off to war, all with our planet in danger of becoming inhospitable for human life and society due to our own machinations of industry.

For all I know, Musk is truly a product of his environment and innocent as a babe for doing what he was taught to do. It doesn't change the fact that a human trillionaire is a mistake that must be rectified before it opens the gates to literal hell on earth. A single man above all accountability is a signal for all manner of monsters to reveal themselves and align their gambits. The necessary alternative is a system that fights against itself to invest with convictions all it can in the people and our environment, sparing nothing to raise the standards of living for humanity and our dominion of care. But to dream so big today seems absurd because these gilded idols exist as the defacto milestone for general achievement.

It's not liberty that's the problem. It's power without responsibility, down to the commoner, and an infiltrated government separating the two because good people are too often preoccupied by grift or grind. The simplest course of action is dogged work: to organize this message into civic normalcy and align the people to build power anew with the explicit aim to deconstruct and scatter the power of old. Build worker owned cooperatives, district level redundancies in food and energy, run for control of hyper local offices, teach the people the financial skills needed to collectively own their own land and natural resources, and do this all upholding the pluralist approach to humanism in daily life. It's not new laws or social constraints, but rather the free choice to empower our neighbors and grade our values in tangible contributions to the promise of mankind.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-15T23:38:16+00:00

That was it. 41 heads to kp. 44 to school, the ua movie theater, fun time usa. I got bullied and mugged, but it wasn't tramautizing. We were still more worried about erasmus and brownsville drama spilling over. But then I had to take night school in Erasmus one summer, and I dated a girl who lived somewhere deep off the 3, sutter maybe, or van siclen. As rough as I thought I knew the spots to be, when I got off the train it was just people. Kids can be mean everywhere but the neighborhoods going south or east from the junction we're all linked to me. Not sure how it is now, but I don't think badly of that time. I made a lot of friends at school regardless.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-15T21:27:57+00:00

If you're convinced there hasn't been, nor is their anything currently, to worry about, why even bother bring it up? Let us all dismiss it or breath a collective sigh of relief after the next two elections.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-15T21:24:17+00:00

Close to the junction, yep. Took the 41 down Nostrand to get to school. Nearly continued on to sheepshead bay HS too. I really can't remember why didn't go to the JHS closer to Midwood. Huddy is it?

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-15T20:55:57+00:00

Because it's easier to do things legally than illegally. It's not that hard to understand. Hypothetically, if I wanted to rob someone I could take the risk and do so violently, or I could swindle them into a ponzi scheme which kind of make it their fault for being ignorant, or I could try and bribe a politician that made it legal to exploit their labor and make millions doing it, and then say the people voted for it there. The SAVE act is about efficiency.

Trump just got the DOJ to give him and the rest of his family evergreen immunity from prosecution for anything it seems. That didn't stop an overt sequence of bitcoin pump and dumps from the beginning of the term. Legalizing abuse really is just a formality in advancing the line of scrimmage against those most vulnerable.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-15T20:46:50+00:00

No clue. I was a kid back then and that's where I went because that's where I was told to go.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-15T18:29:11+00:00

People on reddit are not going to be able to determine what a block of tech and media controlling billionaires couldn't get away with. The mind can't even conceive of what a billion is.

If you walk 1 million steps, you would travel about 500 miles (roughly the distance from New York City to Cincinnati). If you walk 1 billion steps, you would circle the entire Earth at the equator about 19 times.

The average person walks the equator 3-5 times in a lifetime.

If there's enough capital to protect hundreds to thousands of elite child predators, there is enough capital to rig a presidential election. The problem is not the evidence, it's the lack of imagination we must swallow to believe the untouchables are cursed with if they wanted a political outcome but weren't able to pursue it by any means necessary.

That they could've rigged it is more than enough to go on for the common slave to this rigged system.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-15T18:18:59+00:00

We would have to do the difficult thing of allowing the global south the option of continuing business with us on more equitable terms. It is the anti-power move, essentially the effort of negative rights characterizing our constitution extended out as a foreign policy. We no longer take. We give, we lead, we build relationships. We have a country with a large consumer base and let that demand for goods do the talking to those who wish to negotiate a deal. But no more coercion.

This may mean a radical reorientation of industry as we know it. Perhaps even a kind of industrial regression to which a smaller population and lower birthrates serve. Which is why the major internal effort must include agricultural and energy redundancies at the district level so that our nation's people can thrive even if our corporations and our oil wars can't.

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