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17.11.2025 20:01 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0We saw her on the 40th anniversary of Horses. This is the 50th anniversary concert!
17.11.2025 01:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Right? 10 years since we last saw her! This is Walt Disney Concert Hall
17.11.2025 01:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Saw Patti Smith last night in LA. She is an absolute legend. Spectacular show.
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The professionals who surrounded Jeffrey Epstein defended and deflected, coached and countermessaged, burnished and polished. Together, they helped extend Epstein’s influence and freedom, even lending an air of invincibility.
This is "The Network"
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In 2019, in Jeffrey Epstein’s last weeks of freedom, he made his final purchases for his Kindle: a guide to raising children, though he wasn’t known to have any, The Annotated Lolita and Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy.
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New from me: Global Entry revocations are surging in the last ~2 years, well outpacing enrollment, according to data from a FOIA. People often don't know why their membership was revoked. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
14.11.2025 15:16 — 👍 28 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 11. A $71K Lexus for Dershowitz (he told us it was for his wife)
2. An $11K Rolex for Tom Barrack (his rep said he never received it)
3. A $35K Audemars Piguet watch for former Bill Clinton aide Doug Band
The spreadsheet was created by one of Epstein’s accountants
From the first @bloomberg.com story in Sept on Jeffrey Epstein's Yahoo emails we obtained
A spreadsheet that reveals 2K gifts, luxury items & payments totaling $1.8M. Notations indicated they were intended for Epstein’s friends, biz associates & victims
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GTFO
15.11.2025 21:41 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(Trump is not the chief law enforcement officer of the country)
15.11.2025 21:24 — 👍 112 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 0“I’m the chief law enforcement officer of the country,” Trump said of requesting the Epstein investigation. “Not that I want to use that, but I am the chief law enforcement agent in the country, and I’m allowed to do it.”
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Here’s a Look at What the FBI’s Epstein Files Would Reveal
An index from an 8-year-old #FOIA lawsuit shows the FBI is withholding bank & phone records, photos, comms w/foreign govt agencies & other revealing material related to its 2006 investigation
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Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal the unusual collection of books he bought prior to his arrest on sex-trafficking charges in 2019. From Trump to power and sex, the titles offer an unusual insight into his interests and mindset
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Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal the unusual collection of books he bought prior to his arrest on sex-trafficking charges in 2019. From Trump to power and sex, the titles offer an unusual insight into his interests and mindset
15.11.2025 19:57 — 👍 56 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 1The agency withheld it under a privacy exemption
15.11.2025 16:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Unfortunately it did not
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NEW: In Oct 2016, when a new book about Jeffrey Epstein came out, he bought 17 copies. In 2019, in Epstein’s last weeks of freedom, he made his final purchases: a guide to raising children, The Annotated Lolita & Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy
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An email sent to Peace Corps personnel about DOGE As you are probably aware, a DOGE employee visited Peace Corps today. She and a few of her colleagues will be working here with us over the coming weeks. They will be sitting in conference room 7218 for the duration of their stay. During their stay with us, please observe the following: • Do NOT walk by the conference room to peek in. The location was selected for their privacy. Be mindful of your hallway conversations. • Do NOT discuss their presence outside the agency. Do NOT share their names with anyone. • Be courteous and respectful of their time. These folks are professionals with a big job to do and a narrow window in which to do it. We want them to be able to do their job safely and effectively. Your decorum and professionalism is expected.
NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out!
‘This is Not a Drill.’ How the Peace Corps Prepared for a DOGE Visit
The agency spent two months running through training exercises leading up to DOGE’s arrival in April, according to emails I obtained via #FOIA
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Welcome back #FOIA officers!
FOIA requests are being processed again!
FROM: Gmax <gmax To: <jeeproject@yahoo.com> DATE: Thu, Aug 23 2007 5:31 PM SUBJECT: You have to assume they wen t to donald trump then, gossman, the docs in wpb, paschow etc G
In Sept, my colleagues & I published one of the first stories in our series from the trove of 18K emails we obtained from Jeffrey Epstein's private Yahoo acct.
This email Maxwell sent to Epstein on Aug 23, 2007 still piques my interest
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REUPPING from August
The FBI redacted Trump’s name, as well as the names of other prominent public figures, from the Epstein files under privacy exemptions
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And in Dec/Jan 2019
14.11.2025 16:01 — 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0A cache of 18,000 emails offers another window into Epstein’s mind. Bloomberg parsed Amazon receipts from that inbox—filtering, verifying, and cataloging book orders—to build this timeline.
14.11.2025 15:57 — 👍 78 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 1W/ @suryamattu.com Max Abelson, Chris Cannon, @jeffykao.bsky.social Harry Wilson, Ava Benny-Morrison and @dmehro.bsky.social
14.11.2025 15:55 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Yes, it's strange but also hard to look away
These are the books on Trump Epstein purchased in 2018
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An email sent to Peace Corps personnel about DOGE As you are probably aware, a DOGE employee visited Peace Corps today. She and a few of her colleagues will be working here with us over the coming weeks. They will be sitting in conference room 7218 for the duration of their stay. During their stay with us, please observe the following: • Do NOT walk by the conference room to peek in. The location was selected for their privacy. Be mindful of your hallway conversations. • Do NOT discuss their presence outside the agency. Do NOT share their names with anyone. • Be courteous and respectful of their time. These folks are professionals with a big job to do and a narrow window in which to do it. We want them to be able to do their job safely and effectively. Your decorum and professionalism is expected.
NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out!
‘This is Not a Drill.’ How the Peace Corps Prepared for a DOGE Visit
The agency spent two months running through training exercises leading up to DOGE’s arrival in April, according to emails I obtained via #FOIA
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
