Claudia O'Keeffe

Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

So he couldn’t stand to watch Kid Rock, either.

Kids can't hang out in parks. They can't hang out at the mall. They don't have 3rd spaces because no one wants kids around and then we are surprised when they rely on SM for connection.
If you take that away, what do they have left?

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

"The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US. The modern Olympics sell themselves on a simple premise: the whole world, watching the same moment, at the same time. On Fri night in Milan, that illusion fractured in real time." www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert "There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW

I’m having a hard time thinking of an interview between two human beings I enjoyed more than tonight’s interview of the great Ian McKellen by the great Stephen Colbert. Every moment of it was a pleasure that I highly recommend… but then came the most REMARKABLE ending that you really HAVE to watch.

Howard Lutnick went to Jeffrey Epstein's island 5 days before Lutnick and Epstein went into business together.

12/23/2012 — Lutnick goes to Epstein's island.

12/28/2012 — Lutnick and Epstein sign a stock purchase agreement.

Folks,

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

🗣️ #DC MASKED UP 😷

There were many, many emails in the released documents between Epstein and Matthew Bronfman. Matthew's two sisters were heavily involved in running NXIVM, giving the org over $150 million.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew...

Christina Oxenberg's niece was in the NXIVM cult from 2011-2018. (The cult leader was arrested in 2018.)
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Epstein & NXIVM are showing up together in a lot of places.
"Meanwhile, Salinas de Gortari was meeting with Epstein to discuss his secret mansion in Morocco, while his son Emiliano Salinas was part of NXIVM, the cult dedicated to sex trafficking and abuse."

Israel spraying pesticide (that are banned in the EU) over south Lebanon as part of its ongoing campaign of ecocide. The goal is simple: to make sure that life itself is rendered impossible.

This remains rarely reported in the news despite them doing so for years.

www.instagram.com/reel/DUV2aoB...

Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show Though the commerce secretary has called his interactions with Epstein as "limited," the two were in business together four years after Epstein's 2008 guilty plea.

"Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show" www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-...

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

This is scathing. Kash Patel and anyone else involved in this must be impeached.

Gift article:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/renee-good-investigation-minnesota-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVA.pAnP.FE6p37Nwd1TA&smid=nytcore-ios-share

NYT: How Trump/Kash blocked an investigation into the murder of Renee Good. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Jeffrey Epstein told people like Landon Thomas, Jr. specific and detailed info about Donald Trump.

Info that Epstein didn’t want to put in writing.

Probably not too far from the Dubin situation.
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That’s actually a really good trap question with no good answer and several catastrophic ones.

Lutnick and Epstein were in business together, Epstein files show Though the commerce secretary has called his interactions with Epstein as "limited," the two were in business together four years after Epstein's 2008 guilty plea.

(CBS News) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had "limited interactions" with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014.

@cbsnews.com
www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-...

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥

Yet again, Trump does something that disqualifies him for the office he's in. Once more the bar is lowered and he is not held to account.
An apology is nowhere near enough. This should result in his removal from office.
Same story, different day.

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Here’s the thing - Trump blaming a staffer for a wildly racist post might hit a little different if his official government DHS/DOL feeds weren’t posting a steady drumbeat of white supremacist messaging all day every day

The Distance.
My entry into the Super Bowl ad mix.

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz: “I have left X. That network is a place of hate.

“We are not vassals of Elon Musk or Trump.”