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#epstein-files

The move to cancel gender studies is explicitly justified as a way to comply with Donald Trump's executive order of last year titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. That document makes the biological reality of sex a matter not of science but of law.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) took a victory lap after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche unredacted a name from the release of the latest Epstein files at Massie's urging. Massie also took a swipe at FBI Director Kash Patel and accused him of misleading Congress when he testified that the FBI did not believe Epstein had any suspected accomplices. Massie held a press conference on Monday after viewing the unredacted files available to be read by members of Congress at the Justice Department.

Despite not mentioning the Epstein files in her post, her decision comes after the agency's boss Casey Wasserman - who is also chairman of the 2028 LA Olympics - was revealed to have sent emails to both Jeffery Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003, the latter of which appear to be flirty exchanges. The old emails came to light as part of the latest tranche of files released by the US Department of Justice in January 2026.

DOJ Lawyer Invites Judge To Hold Her In Contempt Just To Get Some Rest: Government attorney called out the challenges preventing her from complying with court orders and begs for rest. The DOJ immediately fired her.

I cannot wait for the Democrats to take the House, they subpoena and investigate Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski and they find so much corruption. It's going to make the impeachments during Trump 1 look like a joke. All that stuff about Paul Manafort and the business documents and the Ukrainian phone call. The corruption that they will discover when the Democrats are in the House, it's going to make all that stuff look like a joke, and they're just going to keep stacking it

The Epstein files reveal not just a catastrophic breach of trust, but the final act in a long political psychodrama. Donald Macintyre reveals how a man so adept at managing risk came to take one that could destroy a government not to mention his own career and says the answers lie deep in a life shaped by a fatal attraction to wealth and influence

in other countries are going down hard for it. Not in America. We're just going to act like it never happened or that it's fake.

Ahern said that Mitchell has been a friend of his for 30 years and that if he did have contact with Epstein after his 2008 conviction, "he shouldn't have"

Another round of Epstein files-approximately three million documents-was released January 30, and this batch included a lot of prominent names. That list included philanthropist and business magnate Bill Gates, entrepreneur Elon Musk, and author, doctor and longevity influencer Peter Attia. They were all allegedly connected to Epstein in different ways, and as a result, their mentions in the documents are varied. But it's their responses that offer lessons to others in the business world about how to respond when faced with a crisis.

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The close friendship that Noam Chomsky maintained with Jeffrey Epstein continued being detailed extensively among millions of investigative records pertaining to the late convicted sex offender recently released by the US justice department, including Chomsky fantasizing about the Caribbean island. In Friday's tranche of the so-called Epstein files, which built upon earlier disclosures of their close social ties, there is no indication that the famed academic and linguist was referring

Marius Borg Hoiby, the son of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit, denies four counts of rape but faces over 30 other charges just days after his mother was named several hundred times in the Epstein files. The eldest son of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit was on trial in Oslo on Tuesday facing a string of charges including rape, domestic violence, property damage, drug offenses and traffic violations.