the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

The "like every other heterosex male" and the "this is how men behave" tell the whole story of the powerful white male class. Not just the ease and familiarity with which excusing abusive behavior is done, but the sense that this is how ALL men are because this is how YOU and EVERY MAN YOU KNOW is.

This is true, and also the best response to this is organizing the largest voter registration drive this country has seen in years and making plans to accompany citizens of color to the polls this November This is a trial balloon. Pop it, don't ignore it

This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association. Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

Minnesota prosecutors have formally demanded that the Trump administration turn over any evidence gathered by federal authorities after the shooting death of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark sent a tip to the FBI accusing Trump of authorizing his murder: “I have reason to believe he was killed because he was about to name names. I believe Present Trump authorized is murder.“

It’s infuriating and dispiriting how cozy scientists and science communicators were with Epstein. Not just creeps like Krauss and Horner, but former SciAm editor-in-chief Mariette DiChristina corresponding with Epstein in 2014-2015. “He’s done so much for science, I think that deserves some fun!”

Absolutely fucking repulsive.

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

Accountability! Brad Karp, head of Paul Weiss, steps down after Epstein revelations. More please!

Super interesting research @jdweng.bsky.social. Look forward to delving into this more deeply!

The meeting is adjourned. Mayor Kevin Sartor ended the long meeting by saying “We hear you, we have a lot to consider and your voices are impactful and powerful.” Surprise showed tf up. The overflow room filled + hundreds outside. It ended with only 2 speakers in favor of the ICE camp.

Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

I’ve heard from two anonymous survivors today who say the White House has been offering D.C. reporters exclusive interviews with the President in exchange for running stories that counter the Epstein file revelations.

Friends at the Post say they have been asked to sign up for two hour times slots to come pick up their things after getting news of their jobs being gone

This is the correct take. Let a thousand Isthmuses & Capital Times flourish across the land.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway

"Sen. @edmarkey.bsky.social coauthored a letter to the CEOs of Apple & Google asking the companies to pull X from its app stores due to Grok’s repeated generation of nonconsensual sexual imagery ... On the same day that he sent the letter, Markey made 5 posts on X." @phileil.bsky.social

Student publications — at Stanford, Harvard and Yale, and likely elsewhere — have been at the vanguard of reporting on their schools' Epstein entanglements, while more official and higher-profile voices remain silent. We should all commend them for their bravery.

Every senator, congressperson and reporter in Washington should be beating down the DOJ's door to ask why in the hell these names are redacted — and why so many survivor names are not. (h/t @pbirk.bsky.social)

New: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...

This is not how an innocent person responds to half a question about survivors.

More abuse heaped on a female reporter after she was asking about abused victims.

Virologist Nathan Wolfe sought funding from Jeffrey Epstein to study whether sexually transmitted infections increased women’s sex drive. He planned to conduct this study among female undergraduate students.

But, but, free speech!

In addition to all the generally horrific stuff, for me personally, Epstein's involvement in US science communication is the most shocking. The searchable Epstein files www.justice.gov/epstein are naturally a big puzzle - has anyone seen a good writeup in Epstein's involvement in Scienceblogs.com 1/

Shero!

Was there any scientist or researcher who, upon being invited into Epstein's orbit, did a quick google search, realized the extent of the rot, and said "hell no"? Those are the stories I want to hear. We need to understand how and why people resist this.

"Period sis"?!?!?!?

CBS News’ Star Hire Peter Attia Hung With Epstein as Baby Son Fought for Life. #EpsteinFiles

HUGE. A victory for more than a quarter million Haitians with Temporary Protected Status. A significant majority of them entered the United States legally and have never been out of status since. Even the Trump admin isn't saying Haiti is a safe country for them to go back to.

Please proceed, Bari.

David Brooks announcing that he's "terrified" (his word!) to change jobs, while people in Minneapolis who earn 1/30th or less of his (guessing) pay stand in the streets and risk being murdered by ICE. I just about threw my computer across the room (but that would only harm me, so I cooled it).

I think it would be most helpful to conceptualize culpability wrt Epstein's worst crimes as a series of concentric circles expanding from him, ranging from people who participated, facilitated, or conspired with him, to those who simply knew about his reputation and sought his money/advice, on down

This is what democracy looks like!

“Reminds me of Anne Frank.” Trump’s America😕🇺🇸 www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...

I think there are a lot of academics who were knowingly attended dinners and lunches where they knew Epstein would be in the 2010s that are telling themselves that actually it's cool because it's not like they're pedophiles but by the 2010s he was an unrepentant convicted pedophile, folks

Holy shit. Not only was Tulsi Gabbard present for the raid on Georgia's election center, she called Trump and put him on speaker phone to the FBI agents conducting the raid! (Gift link)

I will just say that in my review of the first criminal complaint files over the weekend, there were *dozens* of instances in which the names, initials, high schools, and locations of victims' parents' homes were not redacted. It's another victimization, and it's deplorable.

I may have missed something, but I haven't seen any of these people try to get out ahead of the Epstein files and admit/ reckon with their involvement with him before it gets leaked. Instead we have denials and minimizations, many of which are revealed as lies with each new document dump.

So does this mean the NYT (and David Brooks by extension) were lying when they claimed, "Mr. Brooks had no contact with him before or after this single attendance at a widely-attended [2011] dinner”? (www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp told Jeffrey Epstein: ‘You’re amazing’ ft.trib.al/0dStAqB

David Brooks wrote an entire column about offensive it was to say "Epstien Class" without volunteering that he was at a conference with Epstien.

U Mass Amherst prof whose former advisor, Nicholas Christakis, is seen in the latest batch of Epstein docs ingratiating himself with Epstein, several years after Epstein plead guilty to procuring a child for prostitution:

TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend

Here is Raymundo (Ray) Gutierrez, the second agent to shoot Alex Pretti (seen at a 2013 Halloween party in a Border Patrol vest and more recently.)