Marianne Stack

I write to follow up regarding your failure to cooperate with my existing investigation related to the financing of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network. As you are aware, on March 11, 2025 I sent a request to the agencies you lead for a host of documents in your possession that would shed light on hundreds of millions of dollars in payments to Epstein by several ultrawealthy individuals, including billionaire financier Leon Black.1 In light of recent developments, I am deeply concerned that the Trump Administration may be withholding these documents to prevent exposure of President Trump’s own ties to Jeffrey Epstein. As you are aware, my original request on March 11th included new information from my investigation highlighting how $170 million in payments from Black and his associates to Epstein were used to finance Epstein’s trafficking activities. For example, I provided you with a copy of a settlement agreement Black signed with the U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General acknowledging that “Jeffrey Epstein used the money Black paid him to partially fund his operations in the Virgin Islands.”2 The request also detailed how the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has already compiled this information, a portion of which has been reviewed in camera by my investigative staff at the Senate Finance Committee and that of Committee Chairman Senator Mike Crapo. During the first Trump Administration, as with Administrations before that, Treasury regularly produced these sorts of documents to Congress. However, although the Treasury Department recently acknowledged it possesses the records I requested in an April 30th letter, it refused to provide copies of the documents to my office for further analysis.

Apparently people On Here are oblivious to ways HJC, Oversight, & others have been hammering on Epstein consistently. But this, from @wyden.senate.gov, is one even I haven't given due attention.

Bessent is withholding financial docs abt who FUNDED Epstein.

www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

NEVER FORGET THIS: He refused to call out the National Guard at the Capitol during the real insurrection on January 6.

#Trump

Full interview: President Trump says he’ll be a ‘two-term president,’ downplays third-term talk President Donald Trump joins Meet the Press for an exclusive and wide-ranging interview reflecting on the first 100 days of his second term and laying out his vision for the rest of his presidency – a...

The shorter Meet The Press interview:
① Trump doesn't think he needs to follow the Constitution
② Trump thinks a recession is no big deal, really
③ Trump thinks Americans will do just fine with less money and less things
④ Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”

Today was a horrible day in the US. JD Vance and Trump make me feel ashamed to be an American citizen. Democrats need to get their acts together and fight! I have resisted posting, but today I am in shock but not surprised by these horrible men.

Secret Service agents arrived yesterday at Hamline Elementary School in Chicago searching for an 11-year-old child who posted an anti-Trump video. AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD CHILD.

The principal said school administrators followed protocols and denied entry to the agents.

“What time is the inauguration or do we have to break in again?

The dumbest.

The high level of violent crime Trump keeps talking about will be an easy problem to solve because Trump made it up. Violent crime has been falling sharply and is at historically low levels.

The press is ignoring the real Liz Cheney scandal It's not about her at all.

"Harris was right — Trump’s enemies list is his entire to-do list. It’s been clear in the seven weeks since the election how focused he is on persecuting his enemies while he ignores actual policy issues that don’t directly impact his ego."

Last Christmas we gave Bluesky a logo. This Christmas we give you trending topics 📈

Elon Musk Wants to Pay for His Tax Cuts With Your Social Security and Medicare — Rolling Stone The point of Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE is to cut entitlement programs so Trump can give tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and corporations

Elon Musk Wants to Pay for His Tax Cuts With Your Social Security and Medicare.

The point of Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE is to cut entitlement programs so Trump can give tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and corporations. apple.news/AovzGgCzhThS...

Damn.

A Twitter post by The New York Times states that Elon Musk spent over $250 million to help Donald Trump win the presidency. The post includes an image of a group of people walking, with one individual prominently carrying a child on their shoulders.

One person spent this much money in a very close election. Our system can’t withstand this kind of assault. Citizens United must be overturned.

This Thanksgiving, Call Your Racist Uncle a “Racist” Avoiding political conflict at the dinner table is overrated.

From the archives, by former Editor @gabrielarana.bsky.social: Each year, one publication after another pushes some version of a piece doling out advice for avoiding conflict with one’s problematic relatives at the dinner table. This isn't one of those guides.

This is why we do what we do at @costplusdrugs.com

Republicans don’t give a fuck if you have sex with minors, but don’t you dare use the bathroom of your own choosing.

Two points against the “let Trump implode and the GOP can own it” theory.

1) Jan 6, which he egged on
2) The pandemic, that happened on his watch.

Both resulted in massive demonstrable harm, where people suffered & died. He did not implode. He consolidated more power.

How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Yes.

RVA

rare to have a social network where the CEO isn't the main character and we'd like to keep it that way

but for the record, @jay.bsky.team is the CEO of bluesky, jack dorsey is no longer on the board and he owns 0% of the company

If Mullin votes to confirm -- he's a senator now, remember -- Democrats need to troll the shit out of him with these quotes.

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

What about audiobooks? We use Audible all the time, and I’d like to replace it. Our local library doesn’t have a great selection of audiobooks. I’d love to have some suggestions.

#ETTD