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Seth Cotlar
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Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
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As of 2011, Epstein was a Level 3 registered sex offender (highest-risk) with a lifetime registrant requirement in NY.
And a registered sex offender in Florida by 2008/2009. He was required to report all international travel.

But sure, visit the Southern White House.
jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I have reinterpreted

the plums

that were in

the poem

and which

Epstein said were probably

A metaphor

for breasts

Forgive me

Jeff’s money was so delicious

And my husband Larry Summers

Is so cold
I have to tell you what really happened to the plums...

Elise New seems to have offered them to Woody Allen in exchange for his involvement with her edX MOOC.

One creepy slimey scammy thing after another in those files.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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I have to tell you what really happened to the plums...

Elise New seems to have offered them to Woody Allen in exchange for his involvement with her edX MOOC.

One creepy slimey scammy thing after another in those files.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
In 1999 Tucker Carlson called out Pat Buchanan’s conspiratorial antisemitism for the toxic threat it posed to American politics. Today he’s giving softball interviews to straight up neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes who make Pat seem quite tame in comparison. youtu.be/AC9QBYdInJk?...
Tucker Carlson has become his exact characterization of Pat Buchanan in 1999
YouTube video by Nerva
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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🔥 The White House released an article on Monday citing a DoorDash report as confirmation that "inflation has been tamed."

I asked a DoorDash spokesperson today if the company had concluded from its report that inflation had been tamed. DoorDash spokesperson told me, "We did not write that."
NEW DATA: Lower Prices, Bigger Paychecks
President Donald J. Trump’s bold economic agenda is delivering real results for American families — with new data from DoorDash’s State of Local Commerce
www.whitehouse.gov
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):

“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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This short thread pretty convincingly ties Trump’s Russian money laundering to the hack charging everyone with mortgage fraud today.
1. This email mentions some machinations involving the dubious sale of a Palm Beach house. bsky.app/profile/davi...
Trump "came to my house many times."
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The unfortunately named Midelfart is the young woman Epstein says he “gave” to Trump. Excuse me while my lunch returns unexpectedly.
4. And here is Trump and Midelfart and Ivanka at a party in 1998.
www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics?

Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Always worth bringing back up that a big part of why evopsych became such a thing was that Jeffrey Epstein was bankrolling it through academic donations
Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics
It seems like all of the rich and powerful people around him patronizingly tolerated the race science stuff (“he has such an inquisitive and childlike mind”) in order to get access to his harem of underage sex slaves
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Worth remembering that Donald Trump has known all along what he did in regards to his good friend Jeffrey Epstein and has probably spent thousands of hours worrying about what would happen to him when the world learned about it.
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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This is early Dec 2015; the Iowa Caucuses were on Feb 1. Trump had been leading most polls, but the outcome was:
Cruz 28%
Trump 24%
Rubio 23%
We can't know, but if Rubio beats Trump for 2nd...There's a very good chance that Trump loses the nomination.
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Whenever Ken Starr returns to the news, it's fun to remember that one deputy investigating Bill Clinton (and Vice Foster) was ... Brett Kavanaugh!

Extra fun to remember that GWBush FL Recount team in 2000 included Brett K, J Roberts, AC Barrett.

Plus help from FL gov Jeb Bush. Good times!
Ken Starr emailing with Epstein in 2018 is a really interesting thing to learn about!!!!!!
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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such exciting book mail!!! @curtisdozier.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
IOW, the US government has stopped making cents.
The US Mint has ended production of the penny after 230 years.
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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As I sometimes like to mention, s the only reason you know who Jeffrey Epstein is (that is, if you weren't one of his friends/clients/beneficiaries) is because Ms Brown, below, broke the story of his sweetheart deal to get out of the 2008 trafficking charges.
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Not a clear term, but I've always liked the phrase "if you stand for nothing, then you'll fall for anything."
We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
November 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Trump getting elected a few weeks AFTER the Access Hollywood tape dropped was to America’s culture of sexual violence what Sandy Hook was for gun violence—a clear sign that tens of millions of “conservatives” were totally fine with it.
i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Wait, I'm supposed to believe that the convicted child sex trafficker who was inexplicably moved to a minimum security prison after an interview with the president's personal lawyer and who the president's allies have been portraying as a victim has blackmail material on the president?
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.

The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM