mondoweiss.net/2026/02/newl... Newly released Epstein files reveal further ties to Israel. The release of more Jeffrey Epstein files reveals further connections between the late, convicted sex criminal and the state of Israel.

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C4 news. Epstein files so far released amounts to 300 GB. That’s 2% of the seized files!

It’s all but clear that he doesn’t have any friends, or certainly not friends he could believe when they told him what many know: the pit you’re digging for others is the very one you will fall into yourself.

Acclaimed mezzo soprano Denyce Graves took a final bow last month and is pivoting to teaching the next generation. She performed on the world’s top opera stages for more than 40 years. Such a brilliant, beautiful person. And now she's speaking about the racism she faced. #Opera #Classical #BHM

They. Can. Not. Honestly articulate their beliefs or values. This is a powerful line of questioning, cause it dares them to admit how dumb their entire credo is, and they won’t do it.

I dare say it won’t change shit, but it’s important that there’s video evidence of a guy who looks like he’s about to burst into tears because, finally, someone has come within spitting distance of making him admit that Replacement Theory is the politics of lies.

Here's the middle class.

Every sentence is like a Russian nesting doll of weird

So wild that when people like Bondi are asked why they're not prosecuting those in the Epstein files, she says "well Merrick Garland didn't either," and then everyone is like "yes, we know, and we're pissed about that, but you're in charge now," and she just says "Biden didn't do anything ..."

Pam Bondi is literally saying what does it matter if we let rich men rape and traffick kids if the economy is doing well (it is not). There it is y'all. Naked, unabashed late-stage capitalism.

Absolutely. They've released enough to show that it wasn't a hoax ever. But man...nothing is gonna happen. They're literally laughing.

Also LMAO at Pam Bondi getting all the heat when GOP Senator Jim Jordan, another pedophile protector who helped cover up abuse in a NOTORIOUS sex abuse scandal at Ohio State University & who victims said knew the entire time it was occurring, is CHAIRING the Epstein files hearing. They ALL trash.

A negotiated pay raise for support staff working in Charlottesville City Schools is back in the upcoming budget — despite an effort by the school board to backtrack on its agreement.

Weighing on your pocketbook and your nerves!

Not only were the files that were supposed to be made available to Members of Congress still redacted, but we also learned that Pam Bondi has been keeping track of what Members have reviewed. Clearly, this is one big cover-up led by Pam.

Good Lord!! Insuring teenaged drivers is borderline prohibitive.

Pam Bondi is pure trash and an embarrassment to the legal profession and to what used to be a honorable institution - the DOJ.

one thing that comes across in these clips is that bondi is totally out of her depth. just an absolute lightweight. barely sentient.

Pam Bondi is a national threat. She must be removed. The Law cannot be overseen by someone with complete contempt for it.

Lyons repeatedly refuses to say if even a single ICE agent has been fired since Good and Pretti were fatally shot. He also said he will not apologize to the family of Renee Good for Noem falsely accusing Good of being "a domestic terrorist," saying he won't comment while investigation underway.

Q: Is Tom Homan easing the situation in MN? Lyon: "We’ve seen a deescalation in the fact that the protests ... have subsided and ICE has been allowed to do their targeted intelligence-driven enforcement operations." This is false. I talk to MN folks every day who say NOTHING has changed.

Thompson notes committee members invited Lyons to testify nearly a month ago. "I guess DHS needed time to get its story straight before he came to testify under oath."

Thomson says Trump and Noem "are doing real damage to this country" and to DHS, which was stood up after 9/11 to protect Americans from future attacks. "Sec. Noem is a liar with no concern for the lives of Americans killed by the Department she runs. She must go."

Thompson brings up Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old DHS agents nabbed in MN and shipped off to a Texas detention center. A judge later ordered Ramos and his dad released, slamming DHS' "incompetently implemented” deportation campaign. The Bible quote at the end of the judge's opinion: “Jesus wept.”

Thompson says he asked for a moment of silence for Renee Good at the committee's last hearing. Today, he asked for a moment of silence for Alex Pretti, "a law-abiding U.S. citizen and a VA nurse who dedicated his career to caring for our veterans."

"This hearing is just the start of a reckoning of the Trump administration and its weaponization of DHS against American citizens," Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the top Dem on the panel, says at the start of this hearing.

This may be correct, but what I'm thinking about is a lifetime of seeing health care, poverty and environmental programs mocked as impractical and always subject to negotiation while the job-killing misery machines get rushed through the door.

“Before Mr.Trump’s second term, it had been exceedingly rare for grand jurors to rebuff requests by prosecutors seeking indictments. It is now happening with increased frequency, as MrTrump’s appointees push ahead with questionable cases in an effort to appease him.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

How many times has Amazon had a warehouse collapse in a storm with people still working? How many times has Amazon had workers die of heat stroke?

Regular citizens out here just doing their job on this grand jury. Heads screwed on right. Keeping their republic.

If what ICE is doing has anything to do with the law, why are they routinely breaking laws, violating the Constitution, violating civil rights, hunting children, taking trophies from their victims, and hurting and killing innocent people?

And their hypocrisy is breathtaking. "Our country is a cesspool." D. Trump "We are a nation in decline. We're in a failing country." D. Trump "Our country is going to hell." D. Trump "We have blood, death, and suffering on a scale once unthinkable." D. Trump "...a third-world hellhole" D. Trump

To those “Americans” attacking the US athletes who are criticizing ICE and the Trump administration, all I have to say is this. It is unAmerican to sit by meekly as the USA is being decimated by a group of corrupt incompetents, who are shooting US citizens. Deal with it.

Oh, Hi! Ms. Leavitt?!? From the American people to you... OH. NO. WE. ARE. NOT. MOVING. ON. YOU WILL GO TO PRISON FOR YOUR ROLE IN THIS COVER UP.

a powerful account of what’s happening in Minneapolis from Amna Akbar www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Had family meeting that was tagged “Are you willing/prepared to die for your freedom and/or freedom for others.” Grim discussion but absolutely necessary in how we navigate daily mundane life as well as active resistance life.

I was observing at a nearby mobile home park the other day, and a woman stopped by to take peoples' garbage to the dumpsters. There are a million little things people can do.

And I'd caution anyone sheltering or delivering or similar work to not talk about it online (e.g. y'know, don't answer yes to this skeet lol). And be very careful who you talk to in person also. There are other things you should do but the biggest is simply not telling people who don't need to know.

And nothing is better here yet. I will say it’s better when kids are back in school (not because kids missing school is the only problem, but because it’s a measurable indicator).

Anyway. Never again. It has to mean something. To me it does.

Even if you haven’t had to do it, you’ve had to decide what you would do. I know. My family knows. But it’s not a specific conversation I expected us to have.

Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.

"If democracy rests on mutual recognition, on our capacity to see each other as full and equal persons, then the power to speak and be heard lies at the foundation of democratic life."

He’s a national embarrassment.

Trump repeatedly has ordered the prosecutions of adversaries, obliterating the traditional distance kept between the president and DOJ investigations. Trump must have thought he'd have no problem punishing those he saw as enemies criminally, after demanding and receiving oaths of personal loyalty.

It is rare for grand juries to reject indictments, in part because prosecutors only need to convince only a majority of grand jurors that there is a probable cause that a crime was committed — a low threshold. But Trump’s unhinged campaign for revenge has been rebuffed repeatedly by grand juries.

America desperately needs a functioning and independent House as a check on Trump’s chaos and mania. It will never have that as long as Mike Johnson is Speaker. Every vote for a House Republican is a vote to give Trump unchecked power for two more years.