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That took me a sec.

05.08.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents β€˜would not be appropriate or warranted....

Weird thing about Sydney Sweeney: no amount of irreverent denim ads nor horny POTUS swooning can distract from #EpsteinCoverup

04.08.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 196    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

Please read and keep sharing.

This is the deposition that Ghislaine Maxwell fought to hide.

I attached the wrong link earlier, so this is the correct one.

www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

04.08.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 298    πŸ” 207    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 9
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More of this, please.

04.08.2025 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 38436    πŸ” 8300    πŸ’¬ 944    πŸ“Œ 522
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Crockett: Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shitβ€”we know that. But in a functioning democracy, he still wouldn’t be able to get away with this. He’s been able to get away with it because Republicans are complicit andβ€”most importantlyβ€”the Supreme Court is complicit.

04.08.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 8655    πŸ” 2661    πŸ’¬ 254    πŸ“Œ 201

The politics of the mob, documented.

03.08.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Michael Wolff says he urged Epstein to release information he had on Trump, but Epstein appeared worried about what Trump would do to him.

β€œHe said, β€˜I may be a pervert, but I’m not crazy.’ He then said, β€˜Trump is a man without any scruples.’”

02.08.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6407    πŸ” 2644    πŸ’¬ 288    πŸ“Œ 159
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02.08.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3658    πŸ” 849    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 43
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This didn’t age well .

02.08.2025 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6156    πŸ” 2042    πŸ’¬ 133    πŸ“Œ 98

I was the AEA's President Elect as the first Trump term began. We worried about government statistics then, and appointed a committee that included members (such as Google's Chief Economist) who might be in a position to help make reliable statistics available if the government went dark.
#econsky

02.08.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 179    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Trump trying to fix a historically bad jobs report by firing someone.

01.08.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4479    πŸ” 1149    πŸ’¬ 177    πŸ“Œ 76
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Grok and I are best buds now

01.08.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 786    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 5
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

31.07.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 14281    πŸ” 3446    πŸ’¬ 438    πŸ“Œ 539

Bluesky doesn't penalize you for using links, tags, using key words like Patreon or commissions, and doesn't have a central algorithm on your following feed, which means all the power rests on you to help your favourite creators be seen!

30.07.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 15265    πŸ” 6172    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 1
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Was reading about phenom Mira Murati, cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab

Just raised a $2B β€œseed round” 🀯

Their idea of multi-modal AI will be a huge breakthrough.
She wrote a superb 2022 essay about LLM for Daedalus

www.amacad.org/publication/...

31.07.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UPDATE: @SenatorHagerty and the Republicans just voted to let Trump take the Qatari jet with him when he leaves office.

Insane corruption. There is no bottom.

31.07.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5027    πŸ” 2152    πŸ’¬ 470    πŸ“Œ 205
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Frontiers to retract 122 articles, links thousands in other publishers’ journals to β€œunethical” network The publisher Frontiers has begun retracting a batch of 122 articles across five journals after an investigation found a network of authors and editors engaged in β€œunethical actions” such as manipu…

Better delete Frontiers publications now. Also, who are the other seven companies?

retractionwatch.com/2025/07/29/f...

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This thread contains excerpts from the government’s June 2022 sentencing memorandum in π™π™£π™žπ™©π™šπ™™ π™Žπ™©π™–π™©π™šπ™¨ 𝙀𝙛 π˜Όπ™’π™šπ™§π™žπ™˜π™– 𝙫. π™‚π™π™žπ™¨π™‘π™–π™žπ™£π™š π™ˆπ™–π™­π™¬π™šπ™‘π™‘, No. 20 Cr. 330 (S.D.N.Y.).

26.07.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4255    πŸ” 2239    πŸ’¬ 149    πŸ“Œ 190
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See through it.

23.07.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1727    πŸ” 650    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 37
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World religions, by population

#religion
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/07/worl...

18.07.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pamela Jo Bondi is sitting on THOUSANDS of Epstein documents that she could have released months ago.

Instead, she and Donald (who appears in those documents) are going through the theater of pretending to want to release the thing courts are least likely to allow-- secret grand jury testimony.

20.07.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2259    πŸ” 716    πŸ’¬ 210    πŸ“Œ 46
Aging in bursts

β€œEvidence now suggests that rather than a long, steady decline, we dramatically age around three specific times in our lives.”

marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/07/agin...

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Massie is forcing a vote on the Epstein files

15.07.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2814    πŸ” 617    πŸ’¬ 163    πŸ“Œ 42
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An Irish tourist visiting his girlfriend overstayed his visa by 3 days for a health issue… ended up in ICE detention for over 100 days. Trump’s America. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

15.07.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1026    πŸ” 453    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 29

Why? Sample size per se is only so meaningful, no?

15.07.2025 05:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe … theory that Epstein was blackmailing powerful people with tacit government support was not crazy. (Unproven, yes. Impossible, no.) The crazy part was that this theory had been assimilated into the pro-Trump worldview. Epstein had been Trump’s buddy.”

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

15.07.2025 05:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1685    πŸ” 387    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 8

Yes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

15.07.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nope. That's how Harvard's lawyers call it - see page 144 here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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FIRST: "The Epstein list is on my desk waiting for review."

NEXT: "The Epstein list doesn't even exist."

NOW: "Oh, wait, the Epstein list DOES exist after all, but it was written by Biden, Obama, and Hillary, so if the name 'Donald Trump' appears on it, you know it's a hoax."

13.07.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2829    πŸ” 598    πŸ’¬ 131    πŸ“Œ 31

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