Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.

WOW: Fox News reports that the DOJ used the same redaction standards for “politically exposed individuals and government officials” as it did for victims.

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

The “offenders” are NOT victims. Name them all!!

"politically exposed individuals and government officials" is the exact reason to release the files in the first place.

Politically exposed individuals and government officials are not victims and actually are the ones we should become aware of. Embarrassment is not a defense.

"politically exposed individuals and government officials" is an extremely long way to write "the perpetrators."

"files indicated that the agency had spent at least $851,344 the week of March 17, 2025, in overtime pay for 934 agents mobilized to process and redact the Epstein files as part of a project called Epstein Transparency Project 2025" www.allsides.com/news/2025-12...

As others have noted, these redactions appear to be blatantly illegal (assuming Fox News' report is correct). www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. " h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social

Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

It was found in a bog at Coggalbeg, Roscommon in 1945, and consists of a #gold lunula (a crescent shaped "little moon") and two small gold discs, of a type known from other examples, decorated with a cross motif within two circles. #Ireland #Archaeology #History #FindsFriday

Italian restorers use laser beams to clean an ancient Roman column | AP News apnews.com/article/rome...

Fourth White-tailed Eagle 'disappears' & RSPB offers £10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...

The remarkably well-preserved York Helmet, dated AD 770-775, is one of only six surviving helmets from Anglo-Saxon Britain. A Latin inscription bears the name ‘Oshere’. Discovered by a digger operator in York in 1982. Iron and copper-alloy. Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

The Ballinderry Sword • Westmeath This is one of the finest Viking swords ever found in Ireland. It was discovered in the 1930s during excavations at Ballinderry Crannog by the Harvard Archaeological Mission. You can see it on display in @nmireland.bsky.social. #FindsFriday #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

FOURTH White-tailed Eagle disappears - RSPB offers reward for information leading to a conviction for this one or any of the other three. New blog ⬇️⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...

‘Buddo’ - a rare representation of a human figure from the British Neolithic, dating to around 2900-2400 BC. Discovered at Skara Brae in the mid-C19th, it was re-discovered amongst the archaeological collections at Stromness Museum in 2016. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Archaeology

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice will fail to publicly release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by a Friday deadline, violating a new federal law explicitly mandating that the trove of documents be turned over for public scrutiny. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

On the 4th day of fossils, my true love gave to me... A 4 toed amphibian track! Batrachichnus is from the Carboniferous Mansfield Formation of southern Indiana. This is the name of the trace fossil because it's unknown exactly what animal produced it. The print is ~2cm long. 1/x #12DaysofFossils

Genius as always from This Cannot Possibly Get Worse Correspondent @mrhenrymorris.substack.com in #TheNewWorld , have a read of his year in review now . . . www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...

Something a bit different for #FindsFriday - this is a lock of hair that once belonged to a Roman woman. She was buried at Poundbury in Dorset and her body was packed in gypsum, which preserved her carefully plaited locks. Now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social.

Day 387 of nonstop nationwide protests in Georgia. #GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪🇪🇺 📷 @protest24.bsky.social

Ukraine has carried out its first drone strike in the Mediterranean on a Russian shadow fleet tanker. Message: nowhere is safe. #explodey

No one likes a geezer-slob who can’t dance or take being a loser.

Just magine if this lot got their hands on the country’s finances - Reform’s flagship council continues to fail drastically

NY Times: “This a presidency that celebrates nastiness and spite, not empathy or grace, a reflection, perhaps, of a coarser era in American life.”

People who have escaped the unimaginable horror of torture are increasingly being targeted by far-right violence in the UK | Sile Reynolds

Still astonished and horrified by yesterday's intervention from the Leader of the Opposition. In a normal country, at any normal time, it would be a resigning matter - immediately. Yet it just blows past, like everything else. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Disgraceful comments by a Reform UK mayoral candidate. Reform UK must condemn this. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/19/reform-candidate-lammy-go-home-questioned-mps-loyalty-uk-chris-parry

Farage's failed Brexit promised the world and has delivered nothing but misery. So why trust Farage's Reform with the UK economy? They can't even run councils they've won. #SpottedNews

The idea of “imported” violence against women and girls is a deeply comforting fiction - one that allows people to avoid looking at where it actually happens: within our homes and behind closed doors.

This headline is wrong and misleading, and the brief text below it is not much better. Whatever might constitute a full explanation of the differences between sapiens and other hominins, we remain confident that 'genes' will be central to it. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's that time of year again... 🎁 @plaidcymru.bsky.social

Michel Mone linked firm goes bust bit.ly/3Yzqwns Liquidation means the money will not be repaid unless the govt can go after the personal assets in trust but that could be tricky.

Nigel Farage said that the 'Raise the Colours' campaign was a "grassroots movement driven by ordinary people”. Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity" Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France

I am shocked at this, even from Kemi Badenoch. Such cynical politics (from a politician who spends a lot of time online)

A third of 16-18 year olds girls say in surveys that they experienced unwanted sexual touching at school. There are several hundred rapes reported in schools every year.

It's hard to find the words for how disgusting this is. It completely silences girls' experiences of male violence. It fails to recognise the importance of education for prevention. It ignores the drivers of men's violence. And it's racist. Oh and for good measure, which party cut police numbers?

Labour needs a new PM with a new agenda. The reboot needs to: ✔️ Introduce PR. ✔️ Apply to rejoin the Single Market and EU. ✔️ Accept austerity doesn't work. ✔️ Accept immigration does work. ✔️ Introduce a new tax bracket for the super-rich. ✔️ Write a constitution. ✔️ Fight disinformation.

Caloplaca sp #lichen on seaside cliffs. Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

"Not all cultures are equally valid" Open racism from the leader of the Conservative party.

Badenoch had called this dangerously wrong. Using our children as a soapbox for some very racist sounding ideas. I’ve been a primary school governor. I’ve overseen safeguarding. Primary school is exactly where this kind of education needs to start. Show children a better way to live.

If you needed a better example of the way politicians use and discard young teenage girls, this is it. The stats are there if you’d care to view them, Kemi

Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence

3/3 The Saint Wolfgang Altar even looks great when it's closed, as here. More of these individual scenes to come today, because it's Michael Pacher's day.

2/2 Coronation of the Virgin, at heart of Michael Pacher’s extraordinary ensemble, the Saint Wolfgang Altar. Completed in 1481 after a decade of work!

Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Tyrolean painter & sculptor Michael Pacher. Let us just all admit that his Saint Wolfgang altar, at 12+ meters high, is simply stupendous. Completed in 1481.

Think you are getting her mixed up with Oakshitt, but they are 2 ragebaiting gobshites cut from the same cloth,

So is she ‘working from home’ in Dubai? I thought the Telegraph didn’t agree with WFH?!