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Kate Briquelet

@kbriquelet.bsky.social

Journalist. Formerly @thedailybeast.bsky.social & NY Post.

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“The ricochet is happening around the world, and yet nothing here,” survivor Dani Bensky said. “It just feels like all the rest of the countries in the world are saying that this is problematic, and they’re looking into it and investigating it, and here we’re saying, ‘Nope, nothing to see here.’”

20.02.2026 16:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Epstein accusers say Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest shows ‘power can be toppled’ Exclusive: ‘I’m really in shock that anything this magnificent could occur,’ Epstein accuser Maria Farmer told The Independent

“I’m feeling elated,” Epstein survivor Maria Farmer said. “... I think it’s going to make all the difference for everyone. It proves that power can be toppled.” New piece w/ @justinrohrlich.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/epst...

20.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Goldman Sachs Grapples With Top Lawyer’s Epstein Problem A key executive told others he was formulating a contingency plan for Kathryn Ruemmler to leave after revelations about her Epstein ties.

As the WSJ noted...

Ruemmler's "Epstein ties began to show. She gave a heads up to several Goldman executives before the Daily Beast published an article in November 2020 revealing she was in the courtroom at Epstein’s 2019 arraignment."

www.wsj.com/finance/gold...

13.02.2026 02:35 — 👍 30    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0

5+ years after The Daily Beast started asking questions about her relationship with Epstein. www.thedailybeast.com/what-was-cli...

13.02.2026 01:43 — 👍 228    🔁 72    💬 12    📌 3

If there’s any group of people that comes out looking better from the Epstein files, it’s woman journalists. @jkbjournalist.bsky.social and @tinabrownlm.bsky.social of course, but also @kbriquelet.bsky.social and ex-Page Six editor Emily Smith who wrote articles in 2018 that got under Epstein’s skin

06.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 33    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

24.01.2026 16:04 — 👍 47136    🔁 13484    💬 6116    📌 1901

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

genuinely stunning image

24.01.2026 01:37 — 👍 31566    🔁 7295    💬 362    📌 346

Initial report is that two observers got into a shoving match with eight agents, one observer was wrestled to the ground, and then an ICE agent pulled out a sidearm and shot the man on the ground five times.

24.01.2026 15:19 — 👍 2892    🔁 1299    💬 129    📌 335

Sounds like another extremely bad situation in Minneapolis this morning.

24.01.2026 15:10 — 👍 1805    🔁 324    💬 32    📌 57
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Harvard Will Open a New Inquiry Into Faculty Ties to Epstein

@kbriquelet.bsky.social broke the story for The Beast of the secret Epstein charity funneling money to Harvard in *2019*.

archive.ph/urSDo/again?...

Better late than never, I guess.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

19.11.2025 16:07 — 👍 83    🔁 28    💬 4    📌 3
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Ghislaine Maxwell told DOJ Trump never did anything concerning around her: Sources During her interview with the DOJ last month, former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell said nothing that would be harmful to President Trump, sources say.

To absolutely no one's surprise... Ghislaine Maxwell told DOJ Trump never did anything concerning around her: Sources - ABC News
abcnews.go.com/US/trump-adm...

06.08.2025 12:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Virginia Giuffre, Voice in Epstein Sex Trafficking Scandal, Dies at 41 She accused Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, of recruiting her to join their sex-trafficking ring and sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault.

I'm so sorry to Virginia, her family, and other survivors of predator Jeffrey Epstein.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

26.04.2025 02:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI Video of Trump Kissing Elon's Bare Feet Plays Throughout HUD Office An AI-generated video of Donald Trump kissing Elon Musk’s bare feet played on monitors the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

I've lost count of how many times I've had to verify "This is not the Onion."
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

24.02.2025 19:59 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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FAA Employees Say Trump and Musk's Purge Is a 'Threat' to Air Safety Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees. The administration argues it won’t affect air safety.

If you wanna read a thing that just published that might make your piss boil, this new @rollingstone.com item from @andrewperez.bsky.social with an assist from me, might do the trick sadly:

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

18.02.2025 17:09 — 👍 390    🔁 152    💬 13    📌 15

Apparently we’re going to have an “explosive disclosure event” in four weeks where we meet literal extraterrestrials, according to a UFO lobbyist quoted secondhand at the new age conference. Everyone set your calendars for aliens

10.02.2025 19:40 — 👍 436    🔁 25    💬 77    📌 46
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Eric Adams Has a Foreign Corruption Problem. New York's Is Way Bigger New York City mayor's indictment on bribery, fraud charges is just the latest federal investigation into foreign influence there

The ironic thing is, the charges against Eric Adams were only meant to be preliminary -- the first of many.

And the stronger case, many believed, concerned the illegal donations coming from China-connected organizations.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

11.02.2025 00:09 — 👍 220    🔁 86    💬 6    📌 2
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Same day.

10.02.2025 23:54 — 👍 652    🔁 209    💬 37    📌 22
Headline from The City: “Mayor Adams to Top Commissioners: Don’t Criticize Trump, Don’t Interfere with Immigration Enforcement”

Headline from The City: “Mayor Adams to Top Commissioners: Don’t Criticize Trump, Don’t Interfere with Immigration Enforcement”

Headline from The New York Times: “Justice Dept. Seeks Dismissal of Federal Corruption Case Against Adams”

Headline from The New York Times: “Justice Dept. Seeks Dismissal of Federal Corruption Case Against Adams”

How it started:

How it’s going:

10.02.2025 23:57 — 👍 117    🔁 52    💬 7    📌 5
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Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders We put them all in one place.

Updated just now with a new lawsuit just filed focused on CFPB disbandment.

www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...

10.02.2025 02:39 — 👍 89    🔁 42    💬 1    📌 3

Free speech baby

10.02.2025 15:04 — 👍 8537    🔁 1915    💬 407    📌 81
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I voted for Trump. But when he said he was going to wreck the economy, I didn’t know that he really meant that he was going to wreck the economy.

10.02.2025 14:11 — 👍 5411    🔁 856    💬 140    📌 45
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Email sent to all CFPB staff this morning: "Please do not perform any work tasks."

10.02.2025 14:27 — 👍 3860    🔁 1844    💬 470    📌 223
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The NSA's "Big Delete" Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion." The "...

1. EXCLUSIVE

Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information.

The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

10.02.2025 14:15 — 👍 12771    🔁 6337    💬 1007    📌 1610

I just want to go back to the time when every single song on the radio was by the goo goo dolls

09.02.2025 07:16 — 👍 3512    🔁 191    💬 185    📌 31

I don't think people realize how complicated the federal government is and how much institutional knowledge matters and how it's currently being run by people who are just like "Fuck it, that sounds fun"

08.02.2025 15:46 — 👍 241    🔁 36    💬 14    📌 1
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Russell Vought takes the helm at CFPB as Musk's DOGE accesses key systems Vought was an architect of Project 2025. He takes over at the consumer finance watchdog as Elon Musk's representatives gained access to the bureau's systems and accounts, including sensitive data.

Russell Vought—an architect of Project 2025 & new OMB director—is now also the acting leader of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.
www.npr.org/2025/02/08/n...

08.02.2025 17:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

04.02.2025 22:37 — 👍 44538    🔁 6933    💬 570    📌 209

With immigrants and labor under attack, I created this starter pack of labor & immigration reporters.

Give them all a follow

go.bsky.app/4JJcYdi

04.02.2025 17:13 — 👍 128    🔁 70    💬 9    📌 6

She has been saying this for a while now in defense of RFK, and it never stops getting more ridiculous -- that you can just scarf down pounds of magical European pasta and never gain weight because they don't use the same pesticides we do.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

29.01.2025 16:11 — 👍 307    🔁 66    💬 67    📌 15
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Bernie Sanders grilling RFK Jr for selling anti-vaccination onesies is the energy I needed today.

29.01.2025 17:31 — 👍 8160    🔁 1858    💬 286    📌 324