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Among the 13,000 documents released, some are extensively or virtually totally redacted.

While the law permits withholding information to protect victims, obscured portions include the names and faces of numerous Epstein associates.
Trump’s Epstein coverup is just getting started
The president's underlings are charged with a release detailing the crimes of his "closest friend."
www.motherjones.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Whether it’s Pete Buttigieg learning to speak eight languages or Donald Trump successfully identifying a giraffe, there’s plenty of intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.
December 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Some people are only happy if Spurs are sacking managers every year. And then when we hire a new one, they will all say "let's give him time to rebuild the squad." Then, in a few months, with mostly the same squad, they want to hit another reset button. Clubs do not succeed in this model.
December 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Just seen Frank's post-match stuff. Nice to see him call out the officials when they get major decisions wrong. Sometimes we, as a club, can be too nice. These errors cost teams points, managers their jobs, potentially millions of pounds. And most are rubbish even with all the help they're given.
December 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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President Trump’s tariffs are taxes on American businesses and consumers.

Lather, rinse, repeat
Highly recommended!

"The Incidence of Tariffs: Rates and Reality" by Gita Gopinath and Brent Neiman.

"...tariff pass-through to U.S. import prices is almost 100 percent, so the United States is bearing a large share of the costs."

bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/u...
December 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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"All nonsense!": Michael Jackson’s former bodyguard slams the Trump administration for releasing a deceptive photo of Jackson and Epstein to try to make it appear that the two had ties.
December 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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It is actually borne out in the analysis. Unlike American sports where there is near total parity and any team can win titles in any year the bias is undoubted in the EPL because it is very important for the league executives for the very top clubs to get into Europe and generate revenues.
December 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.
December 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE.

www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...
Available to download Friday, some Epstein files no longer there Saturday afternoon
An NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files.
www.npr.org
December 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I honestly still can’t believe they did this

it’s just photos on a desk! it’s not even in the same league as his fucking birthday note! removing it after the fact is the biggest possible “we are covering shit up” signal they could possibly send, couldn’t look guiltier if they tried
This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release.

AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.
December 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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"Vladimir Putin was interested in meeting Witkoff... There was just one thing: Witkoff would be expected to come alone, without any CIA handlers, diplomats or even an interpreter, a person familiar with the outreach said." www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
How Putin Got His Preferred U.S. Envoy: Come Alone, No CIA
The Kremlin fueled the rise of Trump’s friend Steve Witkoff with a prisoner release, sidelining career diplomats.
www.wsj.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Kristen Welker will be "interviewing" Todd Blanche on MTP tomorrow.

Do you think she'll ask why Ghislaine got moved and has a puppy?
Will she ask why Blanche ordered the kidnapping of Ras Baraka?
Will she ask about Trump's witch hunt against Comey and James?
December 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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This fucking ref.

Romero's first yellow was bullshit, he should get that rescinded.
December 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Fuck off, Gary Neville.
December 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Tottenham [1] - 2 Liverpool - Richarlison 83'
December 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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It's okay guys the PGMOL will issue an apology in a few days that'll make it all better
December 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?
December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Historian here it’s not just the Supreme Court, it’s time for a Third Reconstruction of American democracy now that we have seen how easy it is for bad actors to play the system for nefarious goals.
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Ex-Liverpool and United players are pundits or commentators on every freakin match.
How do we ever escape the bias in English football that has been favoring those 2 clubs since the inception of the prem. Even City/Chelsea funded by autocrats/oligarchs do not get the rub of the green as they do.
December 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Looks like they're right.

Data Set 1 / Photo 468, the image from yesterday's Epstein files release that included photos of Trump in a drawer, was removed.
December 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Blow the bloody whistle you cnut
December 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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For me that's a slow-motion red but never a real-time red. But the laws were not written to withstand modern technological scrunity. The tech has in effect re-written the laws.
December 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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"Tommy Robinson's nothing more than a f*cking little grifter, it's all it's about, 'send me money, send me money, send me money!'" Billy Bragg commenting on Tommy Ten Names "Unite the Kingdom Xmas Rally" in central London, last Saturday.

He's not wrong.
December 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM