🇱🇧 Israeli aircraft sprayed chemical substances over areas along the Blue Line across southern Lebanon on Feb. 1, which Lebanon’s Ministries of Ag. & Environ. confirmed included the herbicide glyphosate at concentrations 20 to 30 times higher than normal levels. The ministries said the spraying...

🚨 The Palestine Center for Prisoners Studies reports that 26 Palestinian detainees with cancer are being held in Israeli prisons while deliberately denied cancer treatment, receiving no care beyond painkillers, even in advanced stages of the disease. The center described the policy as a form of...

🚑 Rafah crossing: Israel’s “50 patients a day” promise collapses under the numbers After 4 days of limited operation, the total number of Gaza patients allowed to leave via Rafah still does not equal what Israel pledged for a single day. ➤ Feb 2: 5 patients ➤ Feb 3: 11 patients (Gaza MoH) vs 16...

🇻🇪 “Sanctions failed. They didn’t cause political change. They just hurt the people, hurt the U.S., and weakened the dollar… That’s what you’re saying?” At the World Gov't Summit in Dubai, Tucker Carlson asked Venezuela’s VP of econ. affairs Calixto Ortega Sánchez whether U.S. sanctions achieved...

UAE’s RSF bombed a hospital

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) told Drop Site’s Julian Andreone that he “deliberately tries not to read” about Jeffrey Epstein emails & documents, describing the subject as “tawdry” and saying it’s not where his attention is. Julian Andreone (X: @JulianAndreone) | Sen. Bill Cassidy (X: @SenBillCassidy)

💡 Emails show convicted sex offender and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein arranging the shipment of accessories from the Kaaba to his private compound in the U.S. Virgin Islands, w/ a senior Emirati official included on the correspondence. The emails describe sending sections of the Kiswah...

President Trump "has a very clear message for the regime: no nuclear weapons, stop killing protesters." That’s what Trump is “looking for from the regime,” according to State Department spokesman, ahead of talks on Friday.

🔎 Emails show Jeffrey Epstein exploring ties to Somaliland and discussing a plan to build a film studio there, while separately receiving political briefings from a top Emirati official involved in Somaliland outreach. In an Aug. 9, 2012 email, a correspondent writes to Epstein about an idea to...

🔴 In late 2016, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein pitched himself as a behind-the-scenes financial fixer to Saudi leadership, in a message that was meant for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the architect of Vision 2030. (The email refers to “the Prince” but not MBS by name.) A person...

New: Susan Collins raised more from AIPAC donors last year than small donors. We asked her campaign about it. They hung up. Last year, we asked if she knew how many Americans the Israeli military had killed. She replied: “I am pro-Israel.” @minnahfarshad.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social

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It's easy to criticize the mainstream media generally, & many MSM journalists actually share many of those critiques, but reporters & editors at the Washington Post have put out a steady stream of very impressive work for decades. The fact that a billionaire oligarch is trying to destroy the...

This could shake up Nebraska Senate race. Shockingly poor answer when a town of 10,000 faces complete annihilation.

Donald Graham didn't just sell the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos, who is merrily dismantling it today. Before that Graham let Mark Zuckerberg out of an agreement for the Post to buy 10 percent of Facebook for $6 million. Today that 10 percent would be worth $175 billion.

I'm grateful Alan Dershowitz has lived long enough to learn that Woody Allen and Jeffrey Epstein were ridiculing him behind his back.

As the media starts to reach for the “Epstein was KGB” narrative I wonder how they’ll grapple with our reporting that the back channel he set up with Russia was on behalf of Israel

Will Stancil getting thrown out of the ICE signal chat for being annoying (and apparently not following the rules?) was always the way this was destined to end

"Something tangibly good happened today, and it happened through regular congressional procedure. We spend a lot of time focusing on all the shit that is going horribly wrong....I wanted to do a video to tell you about something that went incredibly right." @samsteindc.bsky.social

Good sign they finally realize they can’t hold back the public’s awareness that Epstein had endless links to Israeli and U.S. intel … so now he’s a Russian spy (and he probably did in fact pass information to Russia too, fwiw)

Israelis just shelled and killed a 4 month old

🇸🇩 BREAKING | Sudan Doctors Network reports a drone attack by RSF targeted the Al-Shartai Health Center in the Hajar Al-Nourneighborhood of Kadugli, South Kordofan, killing 8 civilians, including 5 children & 3 women. ▪️At least 11 other people were injured in the attack. ▪️The health center has...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told Drop Site’s Julian Andreone that he could not say for certain, but it “wouldn’t surprise” him if Jeffrey Epstein had ties to intel. agencies, including Israel’s. “His network was vast,” he said, adding that this is why “total transparency” is needed. Watch the full...

⭕️ Sharif Abdel Kouddous calls claims that the Rafah crossing has meaningfully reopened a political mirage. What’s now being celebrated as an “opening,” including by the EU, Sharif says, is a tightly controlled trickle. On the 1st day, only 5 critically ill Palestinians were allowed to leave Gaza...

Drop Site’s Julian Andreone asked Sen. Tommy Tuberville about his remarks condemning Alex Pretti for bringing a firearm to the protest against ICE, & whether he applies the same condemnation to Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot protesters after arriving armed at a 2020... His response:👇

3. Diplomacy ▪️Separately, Iranian Foreign Min. Abbas Araghchi held phone calls today w/ the foreign ministers of Turkey, Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait, exchanging views on regional developments and emphasizing close coordination and cooperation for regional security and stability, according to respite...

2. Incidents at Sea: ▪️ Reuters reports that a U.S. fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone near the USS Abraham Lincoln, citing U.S. Central Command, which said the drone “aggressively approached” the US vessel, but its intent was “unclear.” No US personnel were harmed & no equipment was damaged...

🚨 IRAN | Talks Still On as Western Media Report Disputed Claims of “Iranian Provocations” Axios reported that Iran is seeking changes to the venue & format of planned talks w/ the US, while reporting disputed claims of Iranian “aggression” in the Gulf. There are competing narratives on recent...

Big update from Sudan 👇

Today's story from our Business of Sports issue is from me, on how it's becoming harder to be a sports fan. Our love for our teams is monetized. Our stadiums and arenas have become gated communities. Now we're paying even to watch on TV. When will we say enough? prospect.org/2026/02/03/f...

⭕️ Murtaza Hussain breaks down why the current US–Iran talks are stacked against any real diplomatic breakthrough. He outlines 3 major US demands Iran considers red lines: limits on its nuclear program, curbs on support for regional allies, & restrictions on Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities...

⭕️ WATCH | Jeremy Scahill lays out where things stand on the US escalation w/ Iran, as Iranian officials are now openly signaling willingness to meet US envoys, w/ talks potentially taking place in Ankara later this week. Scahill warned that diplomacy has been used before as a tactical cover. He...

🎥 Ryan Grim & Jeremy Scahill discuss how Trump’s mounting domestic crises intersect w/ the US escalation toward Iran — & how Tehran is signaling that any attack could trigger a wider regional war. They note Trump’s recent domestic troubles, from the ICE killing in Minnesota to renewed fallout...

This email from Chomsky giving advice to Epstein in 2019 on how to beat the allegations is truly horrifying. This is completely indefensible.

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Guys, the David Stern in the Epstein emails is not the NBA guy, looks to be German entrepreneur David Stern who is an EV guy and does a lot of business w/ China. We've written on him in some of our stories. Seeing a lot of people dragging NBA Stern for this but it appears to be...misidentification.

Why would this be redacted? How is the Mooch a victim?

🚨🇸🇩 NEW: US diplomats told Sudan Tribune that Washington is putting final touches on a plan to end Sudan’s war by the end of March, working through Pres. Trump’s newly created Board of Peace. Diplomats said the plan aims to decisively halt the fighting while advancing military and security reform...

Drop Site’s Julian Andreone asked Sen. Elizabeth Warren about Epstein’s ties to intel. agencies. “This is the problem — nobody knows where the edges of the Jeffrey Epstein corruption scandal is,” Warren said. Congress must first see the full, unredacted files, “and then it’s time to start the...

Elsewhere in this conversation, Ehud Barak & Epstein talk about Barak forming a partnership w/ fmr. CIA Director Leon Panetta, top CIA official Jeremy Bash (ex-husband of Dana Bash) & Israeli intel official Yoni Koren (whom we reported stayed at Epstein's NY place multiple times). Barak says he...

This is right. And it's not a coincidence that Epstein enters this scene with Iran-Contra, the scandal that helped build the shadow global networks that would ultimately erode and replace democratic institutions

Mallory McMorrow's struggle to find a middle ground between Hayley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed now has her saying we need "ICE out" but after it's "out" then it can be reformed from the inside.

📌 Mouin Rabbani, Dutch-Palestinian Middle East analyst, posits that Israel used the missing remains of its last captive as a pretext to avoid transitioning to phase 2 of the Trump plan. Once the US forced the shift, Israel “suddenly” found the remains in an area it already controlled - suggesting...

🔴 BREAKING | Israeli forces announced the killing of four Palestinians in northern Gaza, claiming they were shot for approaching the so-called “Yellow Line” and “pvosing an imminent threat” to Israeli soldiers earlier today. Israel has repeatedly used this pretext to kill Palestinians during the...

For the next two weeks we at @prospect.org are rolling out a special issue on the business of sports. Maybe you think this sounds trivial, that there are weightier topics to be tackled. Actually it encompasses so much about our economy and society. (🧵)

As Ehud Barak was leaving official govt service in Israel, he turned to Jeffrey Epstein for guidance. Epstein told him he needed to look at a Peter Thiel company called Palantir. Rare audio of Epstein and Barak from the latest DOJ release:

Happening now in Liberty, Maine: population 934. Remember back when the national media said our campaign was dead?

“We don’t really have to rely on Zionist money. I’ll put it out there. Or Silicon Valley money, in order to become big. There are a lot of people out there who want us to be successful.” —UpScrolled founder Issam Hijazi on whether he can still raise funding to scale the platform without using a...