Julie K. Brown

Trump Approves the Release of the Epstein Files, but Loopholes Remain

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Good morning

House votes to release Epstein files, nearly 20 years after first sex charges It now moves to the Senate, where 17 Republicans would need to vote with Democrats to reach the 60-vote supermajority required to pass it.

BREAKING: House overwhelmingly passes Epstein bill www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

I think Epstein crashed Twitter...lol

Is anyone else having trouble with Twitter? Or did I just get "Deleted" by Elon?

A graphic from the front page of the WSJ, titled, "The Epstein Email Cache: 2,300 Messages, Many of Which Mention Trump." Using blue does it compares how many of the email threads released by Oversight are about various people. 1,670 are about Trump. 207 mention Michael Wolff. 155 Kathryn Ruemmler, 117 Larry Summers, and 512 Clinton.

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

Epstein files reveal his obsession with Trump The president is mentioned over a thousand times in sex trafficker’s emails

NEW: President Trump mentioned over 1,000 times in Epstein files, more than anyone else. (gift) www.miamiherald.com/article31290...

Will Miami’s Congressional delegation vote to release Epstein files? Democrats are counting on dozens of Republicans to break with Donald Trump on the proposal. South Florida Republicans haven’t committed yet to how they’ll vote.

Miami Congressional Delegation not convinced, won't commit to releasing Epstein files www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social at The Miami Herald deserves the Nobel Peace Prize - her dogged determination is finally delivering a morsel of peace to Epstein and Trump’s victims

Either that or a Pulitzer Prize

Thank you Julie K! 👏👏👏

Thanks George!

Jeffrey’s journalists: Epstein emails reveal cozy relationship with two reporters Emails reveal Jeffrey Epstein’s close interactions with reporters and how Michael Wolff counseled him after the Miami Herald’s South Florida investigation.

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I am joining @arimelber on @msnbc about 6:30 pm.

New Epstein emails claim Trump ‘spent hours’ with victim Democrats on the House Oversight say the emails provide evidence of a cover-up by the White House

BREAKING: (Gift) New Epstein emails reveal that Epstein claimed he had kompromat on President Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Exclusive: Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.

This is brutal, and Amazon is making *$86 BILLION* this year — with $20 billion of that in profit. This may well be the first domino that reveals what so many already know, which is that everyone but the wealthy are already in a recession. www.reuters.com/business/wor...

Opinion | Adelita Grijalva Just Wants to Get to Work. The House Speaker Won’t Let Her.

Adelita Grijalva Just Wants to Get to Work. The House Speaker Won’t Let Her. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

3 times in the past 2 weeks, a WashPost editorial "has taken on matters in which Bezos has a financial or corporate interest without noting his stake. In each case, the Post's editorial line landed in sync with its owner's interests"

Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

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Epstein had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show Matthew Menchel, who spearheaded Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 criminal prosecution, left the DOJ in 2007 to take a job as a trial lawyer at Kobre & Kim. Epstein’s calendars show Menchel met with Epstein in ...

SCOOP: (gift) One of the top prosecutors who negotiated Jeffrey Epstein's sweetheart deal had dinners, meetings with the convicted sex offender after the prosecutor left DOJ. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Column | Kimmel’s suspension confirms what many suspected after Colbert’s cancellation Media companies must punish Trump critics if they want their mega-mergers approved.

Gift article: Broadcast television, as it has existed for decades, is coming to an end. wapo.st/4nwhz92

GOP lawmaker makes blockbuster claim: FBI has at least 20 names of suspected Epstein clients “We know these people exist in the FBI files, the files that you control.”

NEW: GOP Lawmaker says the FBI does indeed have a LIST of names of wealthy men who Jeffrey Epstein trafficked victims to, among them he named British banker Jes Staley. List,https://www.miamiherald.com/article312146310.html?giftCode=84626696b99f40a656df0fc384bc9f2db6e809f9f730c8b3b4ab961986e86566

What Epstein records have not been made public?

Miami Herald, New York Times seek to unseal records on Jeffrey Epstein’s estate The Miami Herald has joined an effort by The New York Times asking a judge to unseal financial records from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

NEW: (Gift) Follow the Money: Miami Herald, NYT seek to unseal Jeffrey Epstein estate records www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

"....I'm still mystified as to how a first, second, fourth or sixth grader would pose any type of risk to our nation's national security that would require Homeland Security to deploy its agents to two elementary schools." -- LA Schools Super Alberto Carvalho @maddow.msnbc.com @maddowblog.msnbc.com

I’m no lawyer but this doesn’t sound legal.

Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.

I've volunteered for Habitat for Humanity. The idea that people who go so much to those less fortunate would be considered criminals is appalling. I don't care what side of the political spectrum you are on, this is just wrong. newrepublic.com/post/192660/...

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