You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

4chan users posted about Jeffrey Epstein ~40k times since the DOJ released more "Epstein Files" last week. We searched our records to see who they fixated on most. A handful of figures (including the site's founder) drew some initial interest, but two associations really stuck: Trump and Israel.

Paxton also alleges that reported members of Screwston Antifascist Committee participated in the alleged attack on the Prairieland ICE detention center. Screwston has raised funds for the Prairieland defendants but I've seen no reporting/evidence linking Screwston to the incident

Texas AG Ken Paxton has announced legal action against the Houston area Screwston Antifascist Committee, alleging commission of terrorism and doxing. Their account has been quiet for some time, but this was one of their last posts — identifying a neo-Nazi.

Etsy is wild

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Ok helpful: chief confirms that if officer calls ICE and runs it up the chain, the person should no longer be detained then and be free to leave

Super packed meeting in Austin to hear about Austin PD relationship with ICE. This is just like the front portion of the school cafeteria

Svetlana Pozhidaeva: [email protected] www.jmail.world/search?q=sve...

Patriot Front guys will pretend to be modern-day American revolutionaries then spend hours decorating their living rooms to look like a fascist cracker barrel.

can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice

JD Vance getting lip fillers is so fucking funny

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

It also shows a profound lack of curiosity: they have their narrative and they're sticking to it. Rather than taking a few seconds of Googling to find Epstein's 2019 indictment, where it says the victims were as young as 14 years old at the time they were abused.

Josh Berkau aka Bradley TX of Patriot Front gave a presentation at PF's first annual conference in September 2025 on how to infiltrate "conventional political spaces." Looks like he's back to square one. Berkau works alongside other Patriot Front members at Veteran Brothers Roofing.

it's not even close

incredible 🤣

A "firearms blueprint detection algorithm" that scans G-code seems like it would be hard to make robust

New research on Deepfake NCII: if I'm reading this correctly, legislation and site shutdowns are not enough to curb the behavior and demand for deepfaked pornography. It basically shifts those users to other spaces. h/t @tristanl.ee arxiv.org/abs/2602.02754

If you are in the Austin area next month I’ll be around talking about voting rights at the LBJ Library! Put it on your calendars!

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

Some of us independent journalists and newsletter writers were talking about the devastating Post layoffs and were thinking-- would folks find it useful at all if we held a little information session on the ins and outs of going indy, starting + running a newsletter or website, etc?

Deepfake pornography isn’t going away just because we are passing laws and taking down a couple of big websites. Our new pre-print, led by @aedcv.bsky.social suggests that the sharing of this material continued to prosper even after platform and policy shocks. arxiv.org/abs/2602.02754

Patriot Front routinely taking major L's but continuing to exist is b/c it's an MLM scheme making actual money mixed w/ a cult-like environment and dedicated middle-managers who would do anything for their dear leader (pictured below), which is also why the group can't grow past 250-300 people.

Combining those and several others for ddosecrets.org

Where can I get the complete Epstein Data Set 9? Best I can find are some incomplete torrents github.com/yung-megafon...

2/n

The Epstein stuff is really breaking through. My non-political centrist gym bro just told me "turns out it really was satanic pedophiles this whole time"

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

Elizabeth Tsurkov was conducting research in Baghdad in 2023 when she was kidnapped by an Iran-linked militia and held in captivity for more than 900 days. Amna Nawaz speaks with Tsurkov for her first American television interview since her release last September. https://to.pbs.org/4kcbGgZ

My job is to keep the left pro-Turkmenistan

I can't believe they canceled *checks notes* Jeffrey Epstein

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I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

I have read entirely too many Epstein files at this point, but here is what's in there about the tech billionaires (and how often each of them shows up):

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Has anyone made a "write in the style of Jeffrey Epstein's emails" translation app? Would be very funny.

Gus does not have enough followers here. Fucking legend of a Texas journalist. Click the follow button. It don't cost nothin'

Tarrant County is the largest red county in the nation. I cannot emphasize enough how big this is. Rehmet winning this race against Wambsganss would be an earthquake of Biblical proportions.

couple more angles on this

Huge crowd at anti-ICE rally in East Austin. This is a very random angle from the playground area -- but basically Pan Am is packed to the gills.

1. The new batch of Epstein documents helps illuminate one contemporary controversy: What is Bari Weiss up to at CBS? I think the answer is she is trying to rehabilate the Epstein network as a bulwark of reactionary centrism. Let me explain.

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really. Genuinely bizarre.

Nearly missed this one but Epstein was sending SOMEONE to the Yuri board back in fucking 2011. That's when MY ass was active on site. This is insane to think about.

lmao Epstein was banned on Xbox Live

We got Palantir's user guide for ELITE, the tool they made for ICE: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

After years of denial and accusing anyone using the numbers of duplicity or Hamas sympathy, the Israeli military now admits — via anonymous briefing to domestic reporters — that the Gaza Health Ministry's death toll from the war is accurate

Big news that I'm delighted to no longer be keeping a secret: Next week I join @wired.com as a senior writer! As everyone knows, this is a top-tier publication and indispensable record of digital life today. I'll be covering internet culture in all forms, as I have for almost 15 years now.