Released files reveal elite abuse

Reposted by Will M. Gervais, Philip N. Cohen, Marc Lynch , and 4 more Will M. Gervais, Philip N. Cohen, Marc Lynch, Steve Peers, Mohan J. Dutta, Fabián Muniesa, Brian Keegan

41%

Scholar power: 41.0%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Will M. Gervais	14%	35	8.3%
🎓 Philip N. Cohen	13%	37	7.9%
🎓 Marc Lynch	15%	24	7.3%
🎓 Steve Peers	13%	27	6.8%
🎓 Mohan J. Dutta	7%	52	5.0%
🎓 Fabián Muniesa	6%	34	3.5%
🎓 Brian Keegan	4%	28	2.1%
Total			41.0%

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46.0%

19.5 h

821

41.0%

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0.186

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Carole Cadwalladr

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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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 11:18 AM

Reposted by Cary L. Cooper, Richard W. Painter

9%

Scholar power: 9.4%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Cary L. Cooper	5%	127	5.6%
🎓 Richard W. Painter	12%	10	3.8%
Total			9.4%

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50.0%

13.8 h

10480

9.4%

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0.182

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Reposted by Pádua Fernandes, Jonathan Wolff, Erol Akçay , and 3 more Pádua Fernandes, Jonathan Wolff, Erol Akçay, Manisha Sinha, David Darmofal, Timothy D. McBride

19%

Scholar power: 19.7%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Pádua Fernandes	25%	6	6.1%
🎓 Jonathan Wolff	9%	33	5.2%
🎓 Erol Akçay	7%	29	3.8%
🎓 Manisha Sinha	11%	9	3.3%
🎓 David Darmofal	4%	11	1.3%
🎓 Timothy D. McBride	0%	23	0.0%
Total			19.7%

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47.0%

15.9 h

1861

19.7%

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0.179

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Massie: "Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these people in NYC and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent. But he's not. He's still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration."

February 15, 2026 at 2:58 PM

Reposted by Naomi Klein, Nathan P. Kalmoe, John Marston , and 1 more Naomi Klein, Nathan P. Kalmoe, John Marston, John R. Hutchinson

15%

Scholar power: 15.2%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Naomi Klein	14%	18	5.9%
🎓 Nathan P. Kalmoe	12%	17	4.9%
🎓 John Marston	12%	13	4.3%
🎓 John R. Hutchinson	-	64	-
Total			15.2%

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51.0%

15.0 h

473

15.2%

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0.122

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Jess Calarco

@jessicacalarco.com

"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."

Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 15h

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 3:49 PM

Reposted by Michael E. Mann

4%

Scholar power: 4.2%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Michael E. Mann	4%	111	4.2%

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61.0%

12.3 h

2174

4.2%

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0.119

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by Anders Aslund

12%

Scholar power: 12.2%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Anders Aslund	7%	34	12.2%

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57.0%

9.2 h

13

12.2%

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0.114

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by Jared Yates Sexton

18%

Scholar power: 18.3%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Jared Yates Sexton	14%	19	18.3%

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59.0%

14.5 h

191

18.3%

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0.092

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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 Erin O’Donnell, Nils Zurawski, David Darmofal

11%

Scholar power: 11.9%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Erin O’Donnell	13%	22	6.1%
🎓 Nils Zurawski	14%	10	4.4%
🎓 David Darmofal	4%	11	1.3%
Total			11.9%

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58.0%

15.3 h

209

11.9%

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0.088

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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 Joe R. Feagin

12%

Scholar power: 12.6%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Joe R. Feagin	16%	62	12.6%

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49.0%

14.3 h

698

12.6%

Ranking score

0.087

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@sumoh7.bsky.social

🚨🔅Scott Galloway's Brutal Take on the "Epstein Class" – They've Damaged America

Why Should You Care About Epstein? Because You're Not in the "Epstein Class"

Jim Acosta 2/15/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7GI...

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Scott Galloway's Brutal Take on the "Epstein Class" – They've Damaged America

YouTube video by Jim Acosta

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February 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM

by Richard W. Painter

11%

Scholar power: 11.4%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Richard W. Painter	12%	10	11.4%

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55.0%

10.0 h

33

11.4%

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0.087

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Reposted by Gerald Friedman

4%

Scholar power: 4.0%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Gerald Friedman	11%	13	4.0%

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54.0%

5.7 h

460

4.0%

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0.08

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ThatRoseNoir

@thatrosenoir.bsky.social

So the Epstein files are bringing down everyone except those in the United States, do i have that right?

February 16, 2026 at 1:08 AM

by David Murakami Wood

20%

Scholar power: 20.6%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 David Murakami Wood	14%	24	20.6%

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57.0%

9.5 h

20

20.6%

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0.078

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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

by Alex Callinicos

24%

Scholar power: 24.1%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Alex Callinicos	14%	33	24.1%

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56.0%

13.5 h

0

24.1%

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0.066

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Reposted by Steve Peers, Robert C. Richards

7%

Scholar power: 7.9%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Steve Peers	13%	27	6.8%
🎓 Robert C. Richards	2%	30	1.1%
Total			7.9%

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54.0%

18.4 h

493

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0.062

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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 Nils Zurawski

4%

Scholar power: 4.4%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Nils Zurawski	14%	10	4.4%

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47.0%

12.7 h

2000

4.4%

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0.044

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America Is Divided

@petrep.bsky.social

And it begins - the #EpsteinFiles Analysis.

February 15, 2026 at 6:05 PM

Reposted by Cary L. Cooper

5%

Scholar power: 5.6%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Cary L. Cooper	5%	127	5.6%

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47.0%

14.3 h

1453

5.6%

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0.044

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by Bonnie Honig

20%

Scholar power: 20.0%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Bonnie Honig	12%	31	20.0%

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48.0%

11.5 h

36

20.0%

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0.043

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Bonnie Honig

@bonniehonig.bsky.social

“Race science and rape apologetics” —
the scholarship you hear about on “edgelord podcasts”
They go together because babymaking is a duty of the edgelord class, which must ramp up the birth rate and gift their superior genes to the next generations… 🤮

Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 16h

Epstein & Co HATE humanities:
“It offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without opening a book they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial & queer studies...& devote their brains instead to the race science & rape apologetics that now pass for scholarship on edgelord podcasts.”

February 15, 2026 at 7:19 PM

by Erik Champion

7%

Scholar power: 7.2%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Erik Champion	5%	23	7.2%

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62.0%

3.5 h

1

7.2%

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0.043

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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

28%

Scholar power: 28.8%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Michael Flood	16%	36	28.8%

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66.0%

19.3 h

0

28.8%

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0.041

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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 Richard W. Painter

11%

Scholar power: 11.4%

Story's scientific field profile

Law 35%, Sociology 30%, Psychology 20%, Political science 15%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Richard W. Painter	12%	10	11.4%

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49.0%

16.0 h

108

11.4%

Ranking score

0.041

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