This hearing was a total disaster for Bondi. There was no hiding what a monster she is, and it’s now come out that photographers captured images of her burn book which included info from illegal DOJ surveillance of members of Congress search histories of the Epstein files. Bondi is spying on Congress while they review the Epstein files, a blatant violation of the separation of powers.
At least we won the fight for our right to party.
You can understand why Paul Weiss rolled over so easy for Trump. Karp and others were active participants in a sex trafficking ring, if not as actual rapists at least as facilitators for other members of their criminal organization to more effectively exploit their victims.
Another interesting detail, Epstein was already being protected before he was even arrested:
Reiter explained that he was upset when the state attorney, Barry Krischer, rebuffed police efforts to arrest Epstein in 2006. After Krischer declined to prosecute, Reiter took the unusual step of writing a later asking Krischer to recuse himself from the case. When Krischer refused, Reiter then took the case to the FBI.
Random super markets can license access to their data. I could easily imagine a company like Palantir or Flock leveraging systems like these in their government contracting. Whether or not these things are privately owned by creepy corporations or under the direct control of a government agency feels like a distinction without a difference, either way the infrastructure of totalitarianism is being constructed around us with these technologies.
It is truly shocking just how many Republicans rape kids. Kid Rock bragging about it in a song is very on brand.
This is how crime reporting in the US works too. There isn’t a connection really between crime rates and news reporting, the news media broadly choose to focus on certain types of crimes because they serve the interests of their owners and/or are popular with their audiences. There’s decades of polling showing Americans largely have never had any idea what the actual risks are of crime.
Inherent in the phrase “jury trial” is the presumption of a legal system carrying out a legitimate legal process. I think jury trials can only be mob justice when that legal process functions illegitimately (e.g. by violating the rights of the accused).
They skipped the weirdest one, the VC formerly known as Masha Drokova.
I find it depends on my mood and the method of brewing. I enjoy fruity and berry flavors, and chocolate and nutty flavors, and really kind of anything that isn’t too funky or burnt. I seem to be a little strange and fortunate in that I love light, medium, and dark roasts. I always have multiple bags going and switch between them depending on what I feel like in the moment.
That Hiltzik guy in the email is conveniently now the “crisis manager” for the ex-Microsoft executive who was exposed in the Epstein files for using Epstein to extract a $14 million dollar golden parachute out of Microsoft when he got fired for Windows 8 sucking. It’s incredible how interconnected the Epstein class is, it’s a small world for them.
It’s complicated to explain but the easiest summary is “neoconservative ideology” and a certain kind of postmodern imperialism that came to dominate US elite culture following 9/11. Read up on PNAC if you want to dig into it more.
The descriptions I’ve seen said there are at least 40 nude pictures of Epstein victims and that some of the subjects do appear to potentially be teenagers. It sounds like the DOJ released CSAM, yes.
To some extent but it’s really not that important. Oil gets traded for all kinds of things besides dollars, it’s never been so big a deal that the US would engineer a very dumb war over it. Maybe there were some for whom it was a motivating factor in their support for attacking Iraq, but by and large the animating force was not concern about what currency Iraqi oil exports are traded for. It makes no real difference to anything, it’s not significant.
There isn’t really any reason to think the Fediverse won’t be used for AI training, if it isn’t already. Everything is in the open here, it’s easy enough to scrape all the data.
Eventually the reddit thread would probably balance out, and incorrect information should get downvoted and replaced by corrections from people who know better.
This seems optimistic.
Linking the invasion of Iraq with their selling oil in Euros makes no sense at all.
The promotional campaign for this movie is very unconventional. Is that Melania in the picture between Epstein and Ratner?
Another one I saw mentioned by the NYT is his missing tattoo. Epstein apparently testified in a deposition that he had a tattoo of barbed wire on his upper arm, except it is not visible in pictures of his corpse. Not sure what to make of that but it’s odd and hasn’t been explained yet.