Maxwell offers testimony for clemency

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by Anders Aslund

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by Richard W. Painter

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Reposted by Erin O’Donnell, Nils Zurawski, David Darmofal

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Virginia Heffernan

@virginiaheffernan.bsky.social

About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

www.thenerve.news

February 15, 2026 at 3:32 PM

Reposted by Cary L. Cooper

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by Richard W. Painter

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Reposted by Steve Peers, Robert C. Richards

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Julie K. Brown

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social

Eight years of Jeffrey Epstein Coverage by the Miami Herald
How we got here
jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/eight-year...

Eight years of Jeffrey Epstein coverage

The Miami Herald's original series, videos, timeline and more

jkbjournalist.substack.com

February 15, 2026 at 12:28 PM

Reposted by David Darmofal

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

NEW: The FBI interview implicating Trump for raping and assaulting a 14 year old took place one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, and emails about the credible accusation came around the time Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell in pirson. substack.com/home/post/p-...

FBI Interviewed Trump Accuser, Epstein Files Show

Trump was credibly accused of sexual assault in the Epstein files. It's unclear what became of the DOJ's investigation.

substack.com

February 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM

by Jared Yates Sexton

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Jared Yates Sexton

@jysexton.bsky.social

It’s a rough moment when you realize any “falling out” between Epstein and Trump was likely because they became competitors and then you have to think about who took over operations after Epstein was imprisoned and then that’s just…a sobering thing to consider.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Rep. Robert Garcia: "Why was Mar-a-Lago a location where women continued to be trafficked from. We have questions for President Trump. And the broader issue here is why wasn't this investigated when these accusations were heard by the FBI years ago?"

February 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM

Reposted by Steve Peers, Nils Zurawski

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The Guardian

@theguardian.com

UK’s top prosecutor says ‘nobody above law’ as detectives investigate Andrew’s Epstein links

Emails suggest former prince leaked information about RBS bailout and held meetings suggested by convicted sex offender The UK’s top prosecutor has said that “nobody is above the law” amid growing pressure on police to fully investigate Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s links with Jeffrey Epstein. Thames Valley police said earlier this week that they were in discussion with the Crown Prosecution Service over allegations against the former prince of misconduct in public office. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

February 15, 2026 at 7:28 PM

by Michael E. Mann

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by David Murakami Wood

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keep your electric eye on me

@ubisurv.net

@virginiaheffernan.bsky.social: "With the Epstein files, we’re confronted with exactly what all the Edge men [...] did with the intellectual territory they seized [...] the would-be intellectuals [...] converged on nothing less than the ideology of Mein Kampf."

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science

Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

www.thenerve.news

February 15, 2026 at 9:18 PM

Reposted by Gerald Friedman

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Myelita Melton

@myelita.bsky.social

Nope. I don’t believe a word she’s says.

Pammy’s #Epstein cover-up.

l.smartnews.com/p-7aAUjepO/Y...

Pam Bondi announces 'all' Epstein files have been released including 300 high-profile names (Unilad)

A newly released letter by US Attorney General Pam Bondi states that all the Epstein files have now been released in accordance with the Epstein Files Transp...

l.smartnews.com

February 15, 2026 at 5:25 PM

Reposted by David Darmofal

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre: “I was trafficked to a lot of types of different men — billionaires, royalty… he used me as a form of blackmail so these people would owe him favors.”

February 15, 2026 at 11:49 PM

by Alex Callinicos

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by Erik Champion

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Erik Champion

@erikmc.bsky.social

I've been puzzled by the whole Epstein conflation between network, academia, perversion and politics, but now perhaps I see motive behind the Epstein 'intellectual' circle: powerful (male) social outsiders he could blackmail...

February 16, 2026 at 3:22 AM

by Michael Flood

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Michael Flood

@michaelgflood.bsky.social

Epstein files reaffirm even a conviction doesn't taint 'good bloke' status
The rich and powerful were all too happy to maintain connected to Epstein after his conviction for procuring a child for prostitution, until it became the less convenient option.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Even a criminal conviction can't taint 'good bloke' status

The rich and powerful were all too happy to stay connected to Jeffrey Epstein until it became the less convenient option.

www.abc.net.au

February 15, 2026 at 11:32 AM

by Alex Callinicos

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Alex Callinicos

@alexcallinicos.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

www.nytimes.com

February 15, 2026 at 5:20 PM

by Michael Flood

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Michael Flood

@michaelgflood.bsky.social

"The Epstein case should be a reckoning [...] with the systems that enabled it. Every institution that looked the other way. Every person who knew and said nothing. Every structure that values the reputation of powerful men over the safety of vulnerable girls."
2/3

February 15, 2026 at 11:31 AM

by Michael Flood

18%

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Law 45%, Sociology 20%, Political science 20%, Psychology 15%

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Michael Flood

@michaelgflood.bsky.social

Never forget Epstein’s helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway
Many of the richest and most powerful men alive were just not bothered enough by their male colleagues’ exploitation and abuse of women and girls.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Never forget Epstein’s little helpers – the powerful men who knew about his crimes, and helped him out anyway | Marina Hyde

I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

February 15, 2026 at 11:30 AM

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