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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

The Trump admin keeps insisting that a lot of the accusations in the Epstein Files were baseless, and surely some were.

But the FBI held FOUR different interviews with one of Trump's accusers and then SIX more with another accuser, which suggests the agents thought *these* women were on the level.

Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service."

Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself.

A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing traders to buy the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in case tariffs were struck down. trib.al/be2l16x

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

Opinion | The Former British Prince and the Very American Outrage At least monarchies have developed limits on arbitrary power.

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“No one is likely to mistake contemporary Britain for a model democracy,” Fintan O’Toole writes. “And yet it is in Britain that some semblance of justice for the women and girls so ruthlessly exploited by Mr. Epstein’s network of well-connected men may be finally beginning to emerge.”

‘Murky Waters’ for Global Businesses After Trump’s Tariff Loss

My latest - ‘Murky Waters’ for Global Businesses After Trump’s Tariff Loss www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

Opinion | Britain’s Jewel-Encrusted Shell of Privilege Has Been Thoroughly Breached

Interesting take on how in Britain's case, a monarchy is subject to democratic norms of justice than the US www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

Congressman Jamie Raskin just conducted an unannounced oversight visit to an ICE facility — and what he witnessed raises serious questions.

Dozens of men were packed shoulder-to-shoulder in a single room with one toilet, no showers, and aluminum foil blankets — despite a massive federal budget.

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

Disgusting. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

ICE officers claimed they shot a Venezuelan man out of self-defense. Today, that case has been dismissed and those officers are under investigation for lying under oath—according to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons. trib.al/RRdaWwU

really worth listening to or reading

Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.

Homeland Security is said to have sent Google and Meta hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or criticize ICE.

Americans Are Paying the Bill for Tariffs, Despite Trump’s Claims

Americans Are Paying the Bill for Tariffs, Despite Trump’s Claims www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...

Trump’s Disdain for Borders Is Triggering Alarms Over Financial and Tech Sovereignty

My latest: Trump's threats to Greenland and seizure of Venezuelan oil are clear threats, but there are other, less obvious risks to countries' financial and tech sovereignty. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...

Under Trump, ICE’s Work Force Grew as Other Immigration Agencies Shrank With more ICE agents and fewer judges and asylum officers, the balance of the federal immigration apparatus has shifted.

As ICE hired droves of new agents last year, the immigration system lost staffers who process asylum claims and preside over court hearings, according to a New York Times analysis of government work force data.

GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski comes out against Trump's election bill, with a warning to her party The Alaskan reminded her fellow Republicans that they claimed to oppose any new federal election laws just a few years ago, insisting that the issue should be left to states.

New: Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski comes out against the SAVE Act, the Trump-backed election bill www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

He doesn't know if the Census Bureau is part of the department he runs?! Or he doesn't know the Census Bureau establishes the poverty line?

Either way, that's the kind of staggering admission of utter cluelessness that should get this ass-kissing toady shown the door

What’s in a number? Volodymyr Zelensky warns of $12trn deal between US-Russia - Monocle Panellists Patti Cohen and John Everard assess the Ukrainian president’s claim that a US-Russia economic deal is in the works....

Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. @patcohen.bsky.social and John Everard on the prospects of peace in Ukraine and the day's other stuff, and an excerpt from the first episode of our new Olympics-adjacent pop-show, Monocle In Milan. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Jeffrey Epstein’s Bonfire of the Élites His correspondence illuminates a rarefied world in which money can seemingly buy—or buy off—virtually anything, and ethical qualms are for the weak-minded.

The Epstein files “illuminate, in indelible detail, the ways in which Epstein’s money and connections appeared to count for more than his well-earned reputation as a sexual predator and procurer,” John Cassidy writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/MPMVz8

ICE Uses Disguises and Fake Plates for Immigration Enforcement in Minnesota A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to inquiries about whether the men were federal immigration officers. As the sweeping imm...

There are a growing number of reports of agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers & anti-ICE activists, heightening fears in the state.

That's deceptive & unconstitutional, because they use trickery to get around warrant & consent protections.

Rep. Raskin Confirms ‘Troubling’ And ‘Unnecessary’ Epstein File Redactions

Jamie Raskin said he reviewed an email sent from Epstein to co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell that was a forwarded conversation between Epstein’s lawyers and lawyers for Donald Trump.

The DOJ (illegally) redacted Trump's name in the public files.
What else are they hiding?

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

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Renee Good’s vehicle after an immigration agent fatally shot her, but Trump administration officials ordered them to stop investigating. About a dozen prosecutors have since resigned, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office in turmoil.

Trump wanted Dulles Airport and Penn Station named after him as condition of releasing rail tunnel funds Funding for the Gateway Project has been held up since October.

Politico: Trump wanted Dulles Airport and Penn Station named after him as condition of releasing federal rail tunnel funds

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

Watch this, it's astonishing.

Trump Says He’s Seeking $1 Billion From Harvard University President Donald Trump said he’s seeking $1 billion in “damages” from Harvard University after the New York Times reported that his administration had backed off demands for $200 million to satisfy ac...

Trump now demands $1B from Harvard
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Binance is currently seeking to end federal monitoring that had been imposed when he was convicted for violating anti-money-laundering laws. Now the company is goosing the Trumps’ stablecoin profits in another way. On December 11th, Binance dropped its fees for certain crypto trades if they were conducted in USD1. Then, on December 23rd, Binance began paying users of its platform to hold USD1: Binance announced that, for the next month, it would give users a bonus equal to about 1.7 per cent on up to fifty thousand dollars’ worth of USD1 holdings. If this return rate were annualized, it would yield an eye-popping twenty per cent. And, on January 23rd, Binance announced a combination of new giveaways to USD1 holders which roughly extended that offer. Many users leapt at these opportunities. In the months preceding Binance’s maneuvers, the total volume of USD1 in circulation had held steady at about two billion dollars. On December 25th, shortly after Binance announced its first giveaway, World Liberty announced that USD1’s volume had crossed three billion dollars. It has now climbed to roughly five billion, and most of that expansion appears to have taken place on the Binance platform.

Binance is effectively paying 20% annual interest to holders of a Trump family-linked stablecoin, David Kirkpatrick reports in the New Yorker. The circulation volume of the stablecoin, World Liberty Financial's USD1, has since risen from $2 billion to $5 billion. www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...