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NYT: Maxwell Opposes Request to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Papers The disgraced financier's former companion said disclosure would harm her legal rights. "Jeffrey Epstein is dead," her lawyers wrote. "Ghislaine Maxwell is not."

By Benjamin Weiser Aug. 5, 2025 Updated 3:24 p.m. ET Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sexually exploiting and abusing teenage girls, asked a Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday to deny the government's request to unseal grand jury transcripts from its investigation of the two. "Jeffrey Epstein is dead," her lawyers wrote. "Ghislaine Maxwell is not. Whatever interest the public may have in Epstein, that interest cannot justify a broad intrusion into grand jury secrecy in a case where the defendant is alive, her legal options are viable and her due process rights remain." The court filing came as two judges are considering requests by the Trump Justice Department to release the grand jury transcripts in the Epstein and Maxwell cases. The judges had set Tuesday as the deadline for victims of the scheme and Ms. Maxwell to offer their views on the proposed disclosure.

“ghislaine we need you to make sure the grand jury testimony isn’t made public”

“ok what do i get”

“we’ll move you to a cushy prison that you normally wouldn’t be eligible for”

“say no more fam”

That is not “arrest,” it’s kidnapping. These legislators haven’t violated any laws, so there is no basis to “arrest” them. The corporate media is completely failing to accurately portray what’s happening in this country.

This is it. Freeze it in amber. Hang it in a museum. The ultimate expression of the NYT and the elite class behind it.

The utter moral failure of ceding power to Trump? Acceptable ... if it is done in a clever, savvy way!

Obama would not be effective in this political environment. None of the old guard would. No one cares about statescraft or oratory anymore.

Communication is more important than ever, but it can't be centered on a podium

I'm not sure more or less liberal is a particularly useful barometer. I suspect that the divide is more based on the desire to adhere to prior norms.

Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.s.. Follow liberals: i can't believe this is happening leftists: we predicted all of this, here are all our articles, books and lectures explaining it from years ago. liberals: shut up. vote blue no matter who. your stupid socialist revolution will never happen. we have to move to the right. June 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM Everybody can reply

I don't know what leftist and liberal mean anymore, cause I was told by hammer and sickle people on this website that I was being hysterical and vote shaming when I said people were gonna get put in camps

Shows that don't hold up are the most ripe for a remake.

I'm looking at you, Laverne and Shirley

Huh, I guess the bond markets don't understand that Lindsey Graham proclaimed it fine or something.

Also Dems need to make DC and PR states. PR needs to fish or cut bait.

Since the interviewee must remain anonymous, we are now calling this Moynihan's Law:
"The easier a governmental task looks to an outsider, the more likely it has been found to be impossible by many smart people in the past."

Deregulation in reverse.

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New Sims mod just dropped

In 2025, institutions with money and power are complicit little cowards while everyday people are unimaginably brave

Columbia bends the knee. A random LA principal blocks ICE from coming into his school

Paramount cancels shows. A Bronx baseball coach tells ICE agents to fuck themselves

If he runs again, the next Dem should promise to throw him in prison on Inauguration Day

The "duopoly" is created by the Senate, which we both agree thwarts popular will (alongside the EC and SCOTUS).

Ever ask yourself why the UK has healthcare, and not us? That's the answer. The quality of Dems we get are right wing -- look at Manchin -- because of these anti popular will structures

I think Dems need to begin recruitment & civic education of children.

Every four years, a bunch of young voters emerge as political naifs.

AOC seems to intuitively sense this problem -- her outreach includes social media popular with sub 18 year olds

You have a problem with the Senate, which creates the situation where popular will doesn't matter.

Dems having Sinemas and Manchins is a function of the Senate's "rule by a minority" structure

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Dems have been trying to pass universal healthcare since the 90's, not sure what you're on about

How Kash Patel Was Duped Trump’s lickspittle FBI director fell for obviously fake Russian documents. So much for Wizard Kashs’s “smoking gun.”

ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social on how the FBI director fell for crude, obvious Russian propaganda:

Hi, former Foreign Service Officer here

The Secretary of State might be interested to learn that visa requirements and terms are generally reciprocal. We do it to them, they do it to us.

It's ironic to attack AI as a unique threat to "knowing", with leftist social media being so especially bubbled. Compare the Democrat party -- hyper diverse -- to the narrow spectrum of leftism

For work, I was at multiple rallies and debates in the 2008 cycle. Ron Paul had a surprising number of young, liberal coded supporters, initially. You see vibes, you incorporate vibes into your thesis -- check against data.

The Bruenig thing is a paraphrased quote, her on her home life

The biggest thread is mood affiliation. It's Liz Bruenig sitting across from her Trump voting relatives saying Fuck Democrats. A big, happy family

The meta here is that social media -- particularly for people ensconced in bubbles -- is a confirmation bias engine.

Organic or algorithm driven, doesn't matter. The algo wants to give you little dopamine hits, and you train it how to do that. People train each other to do that, to each other

Ah, YouTube. Worse than AI for confirmation bias

Leftism in the US represents a deviation from the norm (compare to UK leftism, which is more status quo oriented). Any time you threaten people with change, you run the risk of scaring white people so much they lose their shit and start throwing people in vans

It's simply lore from Bernieland -- the Bernie/Trump voter.

While you have "pure" leftists in your coalition, you also rely on these people to fill out your ranks. Those people didn't start existing in 2016 -- they have a history that goes back to Perot and arguably Nixon

There you go, a deep cut

More like, "I was just going to waste everyone's time with an ironic Ron Paul post, but disaffected people on the left were actually among his supporters in 2008, so it gained relevance."