The Quintessential Epstein Files Email - The American Prospect Jeffrey Epstein and his friends standing up for Mary Jo White against Elizabeth Warren tells you everything about the class war at the heart of the files.

When you hear the term Epstein Class, this is what it refers to. A group of elites that support one another, bury each other's secrets, defend each others indefensible acts.
It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
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One rueful side note to this is that Ruemmler was once a kind of lonely hero in the fight for real accountability in America. In the 2000s, she was the deputy director of the Enron Task Force, a Justice Department initiative that would eventually convict the energy trader’s top executives, Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. In 2006, Ruemmler gave the closing arguments in the Enron trial, and she was a key source in Jesse Eisinger’s book The Chickenshit Club, about why nobody with wealth and privilege goes to jail anymore. Yet within a few years of this triumph, Ruemmler sided with the literal pioneer of elite impunity in America, against Warren—the one woman with a modicum of power who called it out. And she went on to become a backup executor of Jeffrey Epstein’s will (in 2019!), while advising him about how to evade the law and diminish the credibility of his accusers. This is the Epstein class in all its glory. It’s an elite that schemes to remain as unaccountable for sexual crimes as it does for corporate crimes. It has its own hierarchy of friends and foes, and it will defend those friends no matter what they do, while the spoils of privilege flow. Its instinct is to protect and preserve money and power, with the concerns of anybody without a corporate jet tangential at best. And once you set those ground rules, once you build a wall around a certain class so they don’t have to pay any price for their actions, it’s inevitable that the actions will get darker and darker.

White would go on after the SEC stint to represent Les Wexner (!) & the Sackler family (!!). And in a moment of crisis, where she needed a strategy to avoid disgrace, she turned to corporate lawyer Ruemmler, pal of Jeff Epstein, to help her defend herself.
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Epstein email where Kathy Ruemmler says "I am working on a PR strategy for MJ White v. Elizabeth Warren." Epstein replies "Good, mj is good." And Ruemmler replies: "Yes, and EW is the worst."

Here it is. prospect.org/2026/02/17/e...

The Quintessential Epstein Files Email - The American Prospect Jeffrey Epstein and his friends standing up for Mary Jo White against Elizabeth Warren tells you everything about the class war at the heart of the files.

Guys I found the best Epstein Files email. The one that illuminates an elite class that's cocooned themselves into an unaccountable shell of wealth and privilege, fighting to protect their secrets and offenses.
I could write a novel about this email.
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Big Three and New Two reflections with Steve Flink

Before the #AustralianOpen, a wide-ranging conversation with tennis historian Steve Flink on Alcaraz-Sinner compared to Federer-Nadal-Djokovic, Evert-Navratilova, and past iconic rivalries at Tennis With An Accent:

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See You In The Principal’s Office, Ivy League A federal judge has denied elite U.S. universities’ request to dismiss a price-fixing lawsuit alleging students overpaid roughly $1,200 annually.

A federal judge has denied elite U.S. universities’ request to dismiss a price-fixing lawsuit alleging students overpaid roughly $1,200 annually.

Via @levernews.com

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John Harbaugh makes total sense as top candidate for Michigan opening Michigan can pick from a large pool of candidates. John Harbaugh makes the most sense. Moreover, Tom Brady could be his GM in Ann Arbor

John Harbaugh makes total sense for #Michigan --

collegesportswire.usatoday.com/story/sports... at College Sports Wire

Brent Venables outcoaching Kalen DeBoer is a seismic SEC event It's not a surprise Brent Venables ate Kalen DeBoer's lunch - he did it last year - but the story is how both coaches' fates have flipped 180 degrees.

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Why USC's 2025 team is the best Lincoln Riley has had -- yes, better than 2022 With two games left in the season, Lincoln Riley has already proven the USC program is in a better state than ever, regardless of the outcome vs Oregon

Comparing 2022 and 2025 #USC -- trojanswire.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Kenny Easley's death recalls Terry Donahue's biggest regret as UCLA football coach If there was just one thing Terry Donahue might have wanted to change about his tremendous UCLA tenure, it was the Ronnie Lott recruitment

Kenny Easley's death recalls Terry Donahue's one big regret -- via #UCLA Wire

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USC legend Ronnie Lott praises a UCLA legend, the late Kenny Easley Ronnie Lott and Kenny Easley almost became UCLA teammates. They did become the best safeties of their time. Lott praised Easley, who recently died:

#USC legend Ronnie Lott praises #UCLA legend Kenny Easley -- via UCLA Wire

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Sale of a home?

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WTA stability is taking a summer vacation at Wimbledon, @burtonad.bsky.social

Miss you at the bluebird cafe, Tripp.

#CrucibleOfMensTennisAlert, @argonproductions.bsky.social

It's the Tsame old Tstory, the Tsame old Tsong.

Championship Week Bubble Watch guide for all the conference tournaments We identify all the key Bubble Watch storylines in the various conference tournament brackets for Championship Week.

Conference tournament bubble drama this week. It's that time of year:

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ACC Tournament bracket puts all the heat on North Carolina The ACC Tournament bracket layout makes it absolutely certain that North Carolina must make the final to have any possible at-large bubble chance

Moment of truth for #UNC basketball and Hubert Davis at the #ACC Tournament -->

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Championship Week Bubble Watch guide for all the conference tournaments We identify all the key Bubble Watch storylines in the various conference tournament brackets for Championship Week.

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Championship Week bracket primer at @collegesportswire.bsky.social

Tonight's biggest college hoops game is #UCLA (23-0, 11-0 #B1G) at #USC (21-2, 11-1)

Visit Trojans Wire and UCLA Wire for full coverage. Lots of pregame content posted, and we'll do postgame coverage all day on Friday.

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Let's talk USC Women's Basketball This channel includes all things USC WBB including Game recaps, play breakdowns, interviews, post game press conferences and unique videos of the legacy days. USC wbb, Women's Basketball, Post Ga...

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ESPN fails to serve college basketball fans with NBA-centric decisions ESPN wanted Luka Doncic, LeBron James, and the Lakers on TV, but it came at the expense of the biggest college basketball games on the schedule

ESPN shifted games at the last minute and pre-empted one game midway through the second half, just to satisfy its Luka Lakers craving. There's a right way and a wrong way to do this.

ESPN did this the wrong way. More at College Sports Wire:

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ESPN fails to serve college basketball fans with NBA-centric decisions ESPN wanted Luka Doncic, LeBron James, and the Lakers on TV, but it came at the expense of the biggest college basketball games on the schedule

ESPN is treating college basketball fans the way it often treats tennis fans --->

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Thought you would approve ... and hey:

Congratulations on the Birds!!!! :-)

College basketball hot seat becomes a bigger talking point as March nears Adrian Autry of Syracuse simply can't be losing to Miami if he wants his job to be safe and secure. Other coaches are also on the hot seat.

#Syracuse #Iowa #BostonCollege #UNLV and #Villanova all need to be thinking about their next coach.

More on the college hoops hot seat at College Sports Wire

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College basketball hot seat becomes a bigger talking point as March nears Adrian Autry of Syracuse simply can't be losing to Miami if he wants his job to be safe and secure. Other coaches are also on the hot seat.

A look at where the college basketball coaching hot seat needle is moving -- #Syracuse has to be proactive with the rapidly-sinking Adrian Autry (cc @johnny2hats.bsky.social )

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USC hammers Ohio State, sets up Big Ten championship bout with UCLA USC women's basketball has knocked Ohio State out of the Big Ten race, setting up a mammoth game against rival UCLA on February 13

Reaction to #USC WBB's win over Ohio State in Saturday night's top-10 showdown

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Free Throw Awareness Pod: Rick Pitino and the coaching conversation | Matt Zemek Get more from Matt Zemek on Patreon

New Free Throw Awareness Podcast on Rick Pitino and more:

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