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He/Him. 💚🤍🩶🖤 🏹 Lapsed atheist, unrequited paleontologist, struggling writer. Obsessed with Tolkien, audiobooks, TTRPGs, DC & Valiant comics, flintlock fantasy, medical suspense, vegan food, liberation theology, and martial arts.
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Lots of Amish folks on my train lol.
Sure. I’ll be there after a 3 day train trip lol.
Then let’s vow to support one another in never being in a rush again. This is a sacred vow.
If not in a rush, for sure. I’m tempted to say I’ll never fly again.
*fine with me
Wobbly is firm with me. No danger of falling out of the sky. And so much leg room! I love that I can just get up and wander the train for hours if I want to.
It wasn’t available on the trip up from Nawlins, but they did have a cool observation lounge. Looking forward to it on the trip out to LA.
I’m about to. I’m at the Chicago station right now. No charging stations. No place for coach travelers to sit comfortably to wait for our trains. I’ve resorted to loitering in the food court.
Commuting to LA from FL. decided to do a train trip. New Orleans station was great. Chicago?
@yourcatbuttface.bsky.social Why does Chicago’s Amtrack terminal suck so much? I expect better from a major metropolitan transportation hub. I need you to devote all your attention to this problem. Kthxbai
Order your National Guard & state police to intervene against ICE. Trump will not respond to being asked politely.
Fair enough. But some things aren't worth the effort if no one knows about them. Anonyminity would be protective, as the powerful people could simply have forgotten about him or considered him beneath notice.
They're powerful, but not omniscient, nor necessarily wise.
Devil's advocate here: he hasn't been consequential until now. And they haven't killed any of the other survivors, either (that we know of). Killing off someone saying these things could lend credibility to their claims. Before last month, Riley could just be safely ignored.
It's def fake. Riley never claims to have gone to any island. He was aged out before any of that happened.
It's valid to be skeptical of the Sascha Riley story. It's NOT valid to base your skepticism on claims Riley isn't making but are falsely attributed to them. Most skepticism I've seen of Riley's story have been of the latter variety.
Get the details right first. Then apply skepticism.
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Suddenly? He’s been posting about it since 2021
He’s been posting about it since 2021, under his birth name Sascha Barros. He’s provided names, dates, and places where investigators should look to find records the he can’t get to. People are doing that now, & a surprising number of the details are adding up. Even the Jane Goodall thing.
Here’s what flipped me from skepticism: Jane Goodall actually was in Texas in the mid 80s working with child psychologists, at exactly the time & place Riley’s story says she was. It’s actually possible he met her.
Also worth noting that Trump and Ghislaine have both known each other longer than either of them knew Epstein. Check out Tara Palmeri’s reporting. And Riley says it was his impression that Trump was in charge. So it’s possible he heard the name in convo before Epstein was the big boss.
Thanks for the clarification!
Yes, Bill Riley was a PI that Epstein hired to discredit & intimidate the victims. That name is also in the files that have been released. We don't know yet if it's the same Bill Riley who allegedly adopted & trafficked Sascha. There needs to be a real investigation.
The Jane Goodall claim becomes more, rather than less, plausible when looked at more closely. This, IMO, dramatically increases the likelihood that the rest of the story is true.
Does this prove Riley met Goodall? No. But it DOES make that claim more, rather than less, plausible.
And IMO, if the wildest-sounding claim in the interviews becomes more plausible upon closer inspection, the likelihood of the rest of it being true goes way up.
The Jane Goodall claim was a big red flag for me. So I did some digging. Turns out, Jane Goodall WAS, in fact, working with American child psychologists at that time specifically to apply her work with chimps to childhood development issues. Here are some news clippings to corrorborate this... 2/3
That's because Sascha doesn't claim he ever went to the island. All of this would be before the island was a thing. And a man with his dad's name is in the files that have been released, as a P.I. hired by Epstein to discredit the victims.
Even the Jane Goodall thing checks out... 1/3
This is why it should be investigated, not dismissed out of hand.
His doesn't claim any of it happened at the height of those activities. They're before the island, etc.
No, it's a new allegation. Riley alleges that he was forced to watch a girl get SA'd & murdered, then told he'd get the same if he didn't comply with the next person to come in the room. That person was Trump. It gets worse, & the context & details are all horrific.
TL;DR SFW version: alleged male survivor who claims first-hand experience with Trump in Epstein's network, implicates Trump directly in a murder. There's hours of interview audio, some of which people find hard to believe. But Riley comes across as credible, so it's gaining steam on social media.