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Thousands of Epstein Files Released as Shutdown Ends | Explainer
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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"but what really jumps out to me about the Epstein files and so much of what else is going on in the country right now is the fact that people are finally waking up to the fact this system has been rigged since the 1980s. and they are pushing back against that."
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"but what really jumps out to me about the Epstein files and so much of what else is going on in the country right now is the fact that people are finally waking up to the fact this system has been rigged since the 1980s. and they are pushing back against that."
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"Kushner is collecting $157 million in fees from foreign governments while conducting shadow diplomacy with sanctioned Russian officials."
"In December he flew to Moscow for five hours with Vladimir Putin. He holds no government position. The #Corruption is obvious."
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"In December he flew to Moscow for five hours with Vladimir Putin. He holds no government position. The #Corruption is obvious."
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How to Put Jared Kushner in Handcuffs
What if I told you that one email, one phone call, and one social media post could help put Jared Kushner in handcuffs?
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December 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"Kushner is collecting $157 million in fees from foreign governments while conducting shadow diplomacy with sanctioned Russian officials."
"In December he flew to Moscow for five hours with Vladimir Putin. He holds no government position. The #Corruption is obvious."
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"In December he flew to Moscow for five hours with Vladimir Putin. He holds no government position. The #Corruption is obvious."
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DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
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This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy.
These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6.
They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6.
They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
December 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy.
These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6.
They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6.
They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
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Erin Banco and Gram Slattery of Reuters reported the proposal had come from a meeting in Miami between Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Dmitriev, who leads one of Russia’s largest wealth funds. Senior officials in the DoS and the NSC were not briefed about the plan.
www.reuters.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Erin Banco and Gram Slattery of Reuters reported the proposal had come from a meeting in Miami between Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Dmitriev, who leads one of Russia’s largest wealth funds. Senior officials in the DoS and the NSC were not briefed about the plan.
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"Misrepresentations" and "bad faith." That’s how a federal judge once again described the conduct of Trump Admin lawyers in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case. They need to stop lying to the judge & the public and protect his due process rights. That is what this has always been about.
Judge extends prohibition on Kilmar Abrego García’s re-detainment
Judge Paula Xinis earlier this month ordered the Trump administration to release the 30-year-old undocumented immigrant and longtime Maryland resident after finding that the government lacked a deport...
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"Misrepresentations" and "bad faith." That’s how a federal judge once again described the conduct of Trump Admin lawyers in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case. They need to stop lying to the judge & the public and protect his due process rights. That is what this has always been about.
"ultimately, the problem is not the individual the problem is the system of power that has been constructed to allow any individual to influence billions of people's lives with their decisions."
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youtu.be/Jd8ZTI2Ft0w
Tech author Karen Hao: 'The Sam Altmans of the world are going to be fine" | Science Quickly Podcast
YouTube video by Scientific American
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December 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"ultimately, the problem is not the individual the problem is the system of power that has been constructed to allow any individual to influence billions of people's lives with their decisions."
youtu.be/Jd8ZTI2Ft0w
youtu.be/Jd8ZTI2Ft0w
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Seven things to know about the EU’s €90bn loan to Ukraine - www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-anal...
Seven things to know about the EU’s €90bn loan to Ukraine - PubAffairs Bruxelles
European Council meetings are rarely nerve-racking, but the one that took place on 18th-19th December broke the mould. Two topics were at the top of the agenda: a long-awaited free-trade agreement wit...
www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu
December 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Seven things to know about the EU’s €90bn loan to Ukraine - www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-anal...
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Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus
Censorship. Bari Weiss
Censorship. Bari Weiss
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus
Censorship. Bari Weiss
Censorship. Bari Weiss
Clumsy ships, big risks: China’s evolving maritime playbook: ecfr.eu/article/clum...
Clumsy ships, big risks: China’s evolving maritime playbook – European Council on Foreign Relations
China’s maritime grey-zone activities threaten Taiwan’s and Europe’s security. Europeans need to work with Indo-Pacific partners to expose and counter China’s e
ecfr.eu
December 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Clumsy ships, big risks: China’s evolving maritime playbook: ecfr.eu/article/clum...
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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2. What he says about climate is patently false (more on that later) but to the extent he's saying "politicians shouldn't do the right thing unless it's popular", I'd note only that that is a toddlers view of leadership. If the popular kids are mean, should you be mean?
December 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
2. What he says about climate is patently false (more on that later) but to the extent he's saying "politicians shouldn't do the right thing unless it's popular", I'd note only that that is a toddlers view of leadership. If the popular kids are mean, should you be mean?
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From massive solar panels to the difficulty of staying cool - not to mention high-energy radiation - there are a lot of engineering problems that need to be solved before we can build data centres in space
Putting data centres in space isn't going to happen any time soon
From massive solar panels to the difficulty of staying cool - not to mention high-energy radiation - there are a lot of engineering problems that need to be solved before we can build data centres in space
www.newscientist.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
From massive solar panels to the difficulty of staying cool - not to mention high-energy radiation - there are a lot of engineering problems that need to be solved before we can build data centres in space
Republicans are planning to expand prior authorization in Medicare which has private contractors using AI systems to review requests, those contractors will be compensated based on the money saved, which, in practice, means based on the number of denials they make.
thedemlabs.org/2025/12/18/e...
thedemlabs.org/2025/12/18/e...
The Epstein Class profits from denying your Medicare claim
How does the Epstein Class profit from denying your Medicare claim? Follow the money!
thedemlabs.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Republicans are planning to expand prior authorization in Medicare which has private contractors using AI systems to review requests, those contractors will be compensated based on the money saved, which, in practice, means based on the number of denials they make.
thedemlabs.org/2025/12/18/e...
thedemlabs.org/2025/12/18/e...
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Tech bros, drunk with power and money, ignorant in the ups and downs and ins and outs of US politics, strangely blind to the realities of the new media landscape they helped remake, are betting it all that declaring for Trump and MAGA will not bite them on the ass. It will. Sooner than they think.
December 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Tech bros, drunk with power and money, ignorant in the ups and downs and ins and outs of US politics, strangely blind to the realities of the new media landscape they helped remake, are betting it all that declaring for Trump and MAGA will not bite them on the ass. It will. Sooner than they think.
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I also have been assuming that the primary purpose of this conflict is domestic
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I also have been assuming that the primary purpose of this conflict is domestic
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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
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An excellent and very clear piece on LLM's and thinking. See also Farrell et al. in Science, our piece making the point about LLM's as a form of communication rather than cognition. alisongopnik.com/Papers_Aliso...
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
An excellent and very clear piece on LLM's and thinking. See also Farrell et al. in Science, our piece making the point about LLM's as a form of communication rather than cognition. alisongopnik.com/Papers_Aliso...
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In a memo John Roberts wrote just 4 yrs out of law school, he said the “time may be ripe to reconsider the existence” of independent agencies & bring them back into the executive branch. Now he’s poised to end what he has long called “a constitutional anomaly.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
Conservative Project at Supreme Court Meets Trump’s Push to Oust Officials
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In a memo John Roberts wrote just 4 yrs out of law school, he said the “time may be ripe to reconsider the existence” of independent agencies & bring them back into the executive branch. Now he’s poised to end what he has long called “a constitutional anomaly.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...
SCOTUS the captured Court.
Senator Whitehouse and Marc Elias discuss the current Corruption and why Supreme Court reform is the only path forward.
youtu.be/Zyg0mHpBQwE
Senator Whitehouse and Marc Elias discuss the current Corruption and why Supreme Court reform is the only path forward.
youtu.be/Zyg0mHpBQwE
URGENT Supreme Court Warning | Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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December 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
SCOTUS the captured Court.
Senator Whitehouse and Marc Elias discuss the current Corruption and why Supreme Court reform is the only path forward.
youtu.be/Zyg0mHpBQwE
Senator Whitehouse and Marc Elias discuss the current Corruption and why Supreme Court reform is the only path forward.
youtu.be/Zyg0mHpBQwE
Giving this or any President _more_ Power is a fools errand. I fear very much SCOTUS Republicans will be FOOLS.
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Behind the Supreme Court’s Push to Expand Presidential Power
YouTube video by The New York Times
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December 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Giving this or any President _more_ Power is a fools errand. I fear very much SCOTUS Republicans will be FOOLS.
youtube.com/shorts/8r28k...
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They just don't want anyone traveling to the US for any reason at all
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
They just don't want anyone traveling to the US for any reason at all
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DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
December 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.
My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.