Elizabeth Glass Turner 📚

a raccoon standing in an aisle at the library

what is he doing here? he can’t even read

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Feds asked New Mexico to halt Jeffrey Epstein Zorro Ranch sex trafficking probe, records show Former AG says feds halted New Mexico’s Epstein inquiry without sharing promised evidence as state reopens Zorro Ranch investigation.

www.abqjournal.com/news/feds-as...

Feds asked New Mexico prosecutors for their Zorro Ranch evidence.

"We'll take it from here."
(Probably in Will Arnett voice)

New Mexico complied.

Fed 1 shared it with Fed 2, who apparently, what? Stored it with Newman's bags of mail?

Now New Mexico says its evidence isn't in released files.

Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876 A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.

Before universities opened their doors to women, one woman spent 7 years making a quilt of the Solar System to teach other women astronomy: www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

Gift link:

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"...which included a leading role in the 2019 capture of Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman. The administration transferred various responsibilities, including 5,000 existing cases, to a new set of task forces under the DHS that are focused mainly on immigration enforcement."

But last year, "OCDETF was defunded and shut down amid the Trump administration’s cost-cutting spree, sparking alarm among law enforcement officers given the task forces’ achievements over the decades..." -

In 2011, "the DEA requested the help of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces...

OCDETF worked jointly on investigations with other agencies to combat illicit finance and take down transnational criminal networks."

"The investigation grew out of a longstanding probe into organized crime conducted by a...unit of the DEA and a transnational crime-fighting task force."

"The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration opened an investigation into Epstein and a dozen other individuals in 2015 that centered on allegations of money laundering, drug trafficking and the procurement of Eastern European prostitutes for high-profile clients..."

From Bloomberg: "Ketamine, Prostitution & Money: Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein"

@jasonleopold.bsky.social

One strategic way to honor International Women's Day:

amplify reporting on Epstein files.

Like transnational organized crime/money laundering.

A lot of files material? $ records.

But last year, OCDETF, the central hub that boosted DEA probe into Epstein?

Shut down by administration. ⬇️

Ewwww get "Minority Report" advertising, pricing, & wages out of here ewwww.

If I owned a spider detector and it said zero spiders in the room,

maybe there are zero.

Maybe it only scans and identifies moving objects, and none are moving.

Maybe it only works if all 8 legs are scannable, and from some angles only 6 are apparent.

Etc.

Imaging: A Tool, Not Proof

If I could get the average doctor to appreciate causation vs correlation & basic logic I'd be ecstatic.

Example:

Lack of evidence in imaging (which has many variables) does not equal absence of problem.

To friend: "X-ray doesn't show break."

[days]

Friend surgery: "So your ankle was smashed."

This was just one day ago.

From yesterday -

In the files, at one point prosecutors discuss best avenues for protecting victims, because Epstein defense lawyers were so aggressively harassing those giving testimony - including showing up on someone's college campus.

*1980s

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ICE deports 6 year old deaf boy—without his hearing aids.

He was home sick from school when agents detained him without his critical medical devices—and without due process.

Agents lied to the family's attorney so they could deport the mother and 2 young children.

Sidenote: delightful pillows.

My mental picture of this is a delight.

Flickering.

Rattling filing cabinets as ground shudders.

Lights dimming; industrial power-down vwoom.

Someone pushing a big switch to increase output a la Natl Lampoons Christmas Vacation.

"Slade, Kyle at utilities says you owe him a dozen Krispy Kremes"

The WH official statement also needs to be read with this firmly in mind:

the president has been found liable for assault *and defamation* of E. Jean Carroll.

After denied appeal last fall, Trump's lawyers asked the Supreme Court to consider it.

Last month, his lawyers claimed he was too busy:

Also worth noting WH official statement mimics Dershowitz's defense strategy of Epstein in 2000s Palm Beach, when he tried to smear credibility of young teenagers, including poor girls, trying to leverage MySpace pages etc.

In that context, his attempt couldn't undo carefully assembled evidence.

Justice Department publishes documents with sexual assault allegations against Trump The department shared FBI documents outlining allegations involving Trump.

When playing [sport], drive your offense where their defense hopes you don't go.

My primary feed includes lots of voices prone to comment on this but so far this AM - they aren't.

20+ year history of media suppression of Epstein material.

Blast it from rooftops.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Get. It. Out. Of. There.

I don't care about propping up companies that went all in on AI products. That's on them.

Ways Women Met Their Moment: the Von Trapps, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, a Fiesty Journalist, & an FDA Team Courage comes in many forms.

The most robust testing I've yet given to newsletter word count, but also some of the work I remain the most proud of:

open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...