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    Let’s not gloss over this part:

    …that the Department of Homeland Security had also posted a few hours earlier.

    It’s all fucked up. I can only hope Easmin’s family sues and get a massive payout for the extra trauma inflicted by having this tragedy exploited for political purposes by both DHS and Trump. Truly ghoulish.

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      It sucks that tax payers will end up paying that bill.

      The individuals who committed the act the and law makers who enabled it should have to pay…judges too for not stopping it

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      Given that Melanie has just made a completely unprompted speech about how she totally was never friends with Maxwell, i suspect that something new is about to drop

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        We are NOT past that. That’s what he wants. We haven’t even gotten 10% of what the FBI have.

        For anyone who wants to browse what the public do have:

        EpsteinExposed - for deep dives of who is involved and how everyone is linked

        JMail - gmail format archive of his emails, easier to browse by contacts/specific persons of interest

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    As I’ve said all along, if you import the Third World, you become the Third World

    You know I think this is the closest my aggressively pragmatic self comes to feeling the juxtaposition of sacred and profane. There are two metrics that we use to describe our species: intelligence and prosocial behavior, and this flapping husk shits on both.

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      I think along similar lines, but I’ve taken a third descriptor onboard: disaster-prone. A mirthless history professor once told me that “history is a litany of unintended consequences”. Everything about the world and our history makes so much more sense if you mentally allow for the fact that we as a species tend to make rather absurd mistakes at scale, and now at the height of our global culture, our powers at their greatest, our need for common sense, tolerance, and cooperation at their most urgent in history due to impending climate collapse, geopolitical tension, and wealth inequality, the most powerful nation in history elected, twice, the most foolish, wicked man alive.

      A single person is still intelligent and prosocial. I sincerely agree. But humanity i think has a critical mass at which point all of that is hidden behind layers of systematically disastrous behaviour.

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    It’s a distraction from the disastrous outcome of his vibe warmongering campaign in Iran, which itself was a distraction from the Epstein files.

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      He brought up Epstein to distract from the a pointless war only to now attempt to distract Epstein again. Trump is just tumbling down an endless flight of stairs at this point.

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    The absolute hilarity of this, insofar as there can be, is that ICE was involved in the arrest, meaning he is likely in federal custody awaiting deportation.

    So there is a non zero chance this guy gets deported and faces no consequences.

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    Does Trump still have the faculties to handle his social media posts, or is this Stephen Miller, et al?

    Trump is as evil as can be, but he’s also hanging on by a thread. The ghouls around him are responsible for this to some degree that may turn out to be incredibly high.

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      Last couple of posts “from him” that I’ve read are way too cohesive to be actually from him. The most recent was obviously written by an LLM, em dashes and all.