Why fund the DOJ if they won’t really reveal the Epstein files? | Opinion
What we are seeing playing out in real time is the government taking a posture that protects wealthy sexual predators. | Opinion
“The response of Trump (& most Republican politicians) to the release of the Epstein Files clarifies who they are really trying to protect: Rich, well-connected pedophiles and the ppl in Epstein’s orbit who are willing to aid, abet or look the other way while girls are trafficked & sexually abused.”
08.02.2026 16:31 — 👍 49 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 1
‼️📣 Rep. Thomas Massie is ready to read the names of the #Epstein clients/co-conspirators on the House floor if the DOJ refuses to unredact the names.
“If the victims want to give them to me, I’ve expressed that I’m willing to do that.”
08.02.2026 16:28 — 👍 158 🔁 62 💬 11 📌 2
There is so much crazy shit coming out of the USA, the news shows can all talk about completely different things... and still not talk about the Epstein files. If any President had done any one of these things, they would be impeached and removed.
08.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 127 🔁 35 💬 8 📌 1
Musk and Thiel both lied about their relationship with Epstein
08.02.2026 16:34 — 👍 136 🔁 47 💬 12 📌 3
Epstein was a registered sex offender in 2008.
But Musk, Zuckerberg and Thiel don’t mind and are still happy to attend his ‘wild’ party.
#Epstein #Musk #Zuckerberg #Thiel
08.02.2026 16:35 — 👍 100 🔁 61 💬 11 📌 7
Howard Lutnick used to be a fixture on the Sunday shows. He did more TV appearances in 2025 than anyone in the Trump admin other than Stephen Miller. But since the last Epstein drop, Lutnick has been hiding from the press.
08.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 1769 🔁 441 💬 114 📌 20
Files Detail Epstein’s Dealings With Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick
Files Detail Epstein’s Dealings With Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/n...
08.02.2026 17:12 — 👍 34 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 1
#Epstein
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#Epstein
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08.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 36 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
"Historically, when we look back at the Epstein scandal, it's going to be bigger than Watergate, and bigger than Iran-Contra...it's longer in time, and involved multiple administrations, and that's why we have to get to the bottom of it."
U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie
08.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 61 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 1
It's going to take a global movement to rid us of this evil global cabal.
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#Epstein
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08.02.2026 16:55 — 👍 64 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 5
PEDO BOWL! #Trump #nfl #NFL #nflmemes #Superbowl #PedoBowl #MAGA #Epstein #Seahawks #Patriots #
08.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 141 🔁 59 💬 6 📌 3
One of the world's absolutely insane 100% evil overlords.
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"Chomsky added: "That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder."' This demonstrates how misogyny pervades the entire political spectrum.
08.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
No excuses. From right or left.
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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this morning is invoking Jeffrey Epstein to smear a political rival, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak from Israel’s security establishment who sits to Netanyahu’s left.
But Drop Site’s reporting shows Epstein wasn’t just tied to Barak. He helped open doors for Netanyahu too.
An investigation by Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim documents how Epstein facilitated a 2011 meeting between Netanyahu and senior JPMorgan executives at a decisive moment in Israel’s offshore gas fight, the same day the Knesset was voting on tax rules that would determine the future of the Leviathan gas field. Emails show JPMorgan thanking Epstein directly for securing the meeting.
At the time, Netanyahu was using state power to override antitrust law and lock in a gas framework that protected monopoly control and foreign financing. Meanwhile, Barak worked the private side, seeking foreign partners to keep Leviathan afloat, with Epstein acting as an adviser and connector. Netanyahu ultimately forced the framework through by invoking “national security” powers.
Netanyahu’s attempt to use Epstein to discredit a rival obscures the record. Epstein moved in the same elite financial and political circles that advanced Netanyahu’s own energy agenda.
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Jeffrey Epstein's unusual close relationship with Ehud Barak doesn't suggest Epstein worked for Israel. It proves the opposite.
Stuck on his election loss from over two decades ago, Barak has for years obsessively attempted to undermine Israeli democracy by working with the anti-Zionist radical left in failed attempts to overthrow the elected Israeli government.
Barak's personal fixation led him to engage in activities publicly and behind the scenes to undermine the government of Israel, including fueling mass protest movements, fomenting unrest and feeding false media narratives.
Israeli PM Netanyahu two mornings ago is invoking Epstein to smear a political rival, fmr. PM Ehud Barak from Israel’s security establishment who sits to Netanyahu’s left.
But Drop Site’s reporting shows Epstein wasn’t just tied to Barak. He helped open doors for Netanyahu too.
An investigation...
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The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.
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Settler Colonialism–Genocide–Athleticide: The Destruction
of Sport in Occupied Palestine
Derek Silva,1 Nathan Kalman-Lamb,2 Chen Chen,3 Kristi Allain,4 Jason Laurendeau,5 Janelle Joseph,6
Daniel Sailofsky,7 Shrehan Lynch,8 Anthony Weems,9 Leyla Hamed,10 Priyansh,7 Adam Ali,11
Roc Rochon,12 Zuleikha Chikh,13 Charlotte Phillips,14 Jules Boykoff,12 R. Taha,7 Jess Nachman,14
Zeana Hamdonah,7 Thomas Ross Griffin,15 Anima Adjepong,16 and Jeffrey Montez de Oca17
1 King’s University College, Western University, London, ON, Canada; 2 University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada; 3
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT,
USA; 4
St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB, USA; 5 University of Lethbridge, Calgary, AB, Canada; 6
Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada;
7
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; 8 University of East London, London, United Kingdom; 9 Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USA;
10
Independent Journalist, Madrid, Spain; 11
Western University, London, ON, Canada; 12 Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, USA; 13
Loughborough University,
Loughborough, United Kingdom; 14 York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; 15 Qatar University, Doha, Qatar; 16
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA;
17
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
In this paper, our scholarly collective traces how athleticide—defined here as the obliteration of sport, sporting cultures, and
athletics through the killing, arrest, detention, or disabling of athletes, coaches, staff, officials, and administrators and the
destruction of athletic infrastructure and history—has been part of the US–NATO-funded Israeli state’s genocide of Palestinians
in Gaza since October 2023. Although much of the literature focuses on the philosophical, ethical, and political foundations of
events that are conventionally described as “genocide,” little scholarly attention has been paid to genocide in the disparate fields
that make up sports studies. Even less attention has been paid t…
No Israeli appearance in global sport can be understood outside the context of the athleticide it has committed in Gaza—and not been held accountable for.
journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
08.02.2026 16:45 — 👍 44 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 2
It is clear that Israel's ongoing actions in Gaza constitute a genocide.
When governments avoid the term genocide, it is not because facts on the ground are unclear.
It is because the implications are inconvenient.
We must call it what it is and do all we can to stop it.
08.02.2026 17:08 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
"The collapse of mass party membership and the long assault on trade unions have left both the Conservatives and Labour hopelessly dependent on donor cash." And that's the root of the matter.
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"...a coterie of political saboteurs picked out Starmer and ran him as their candidate for the Labour leadership. Their leader is Morgan McSweeney, now Starmer’s Chief of Staff. Their objective was the destruction of the left, and Holden shows that they were not scrupulous about the means."
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"Starmer has no agency and is the hapless protagonist in a project he cannot comprehend." This seems very believable from what I've observed.
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Starmer👎
"McSweeney’s core job is electoral strategy, and I suppose I can see the rationale in mopping up as many voters as possible regardless of how racist or bigoted they are. But Harold Wilson was onto something important when he said the Labour Party was a “moral crusade or it is nothing”."
08.02.2026 16:47 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
it's not a conspiracy that morgan mcsweeney and 'labour together' purged progressives from labour.
they bragged about it in public shortly after the election bcos they thought it made them look good. they stopped as soon as they realised it was an admission that they had subverted our democracy.
08.02.2026 16:36 — 👍 65 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0
Had a recollection that there was a cracking paragraph on Mandelson in Andrew Rawnsley's Servants of the People (published over a quarter of a century ago). It is as good as I remember, especially the Murdoch line about him being "easy... because he was a star-fucker"
08.02.2026 15:25 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
Faisal Islam: Mandelson, Darling and the conversation I can't forget
The Epstein files appear to give extraordinary context to a call between the former chancellor and JP Morgan's boss.
Mandelson advised the capo of JP Morgan Chase to threaten the British government in violent terms, and he did so. Now we have all the backstory. Mandelson's conduct reflects a sweeping betrayal of the government that invested trust in him. www.bbc.com/news/article...
08.02.2026 15:19 — 👍 45 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 0
Smug Pat McFadden, claimed over £40,000 in parliamentary expenses for rent on a constituency home between 2012 and 2017, while owning the property next door. While he maintained he followed IPSA rules at all times, critics argued it exploited the "spirit of the rules"
Mandelson’s deputy 🤔
08.02.2026 15:42 — 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Very good question.
Because there's absolutely no accountability for rich, powerful, corrupt people in America anymore?
08.02.2026 16:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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