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Analysis by Channel 4 News has identified emails within the latest Epstein files that suggest that the mountain of information released by the US Department of Justice could amount to just a fraction of the total – potentially just 2% of the information that the FBI retrieved from Epstein’s homes.

Holy confirmation bias. These people are so lost.

Edge was overwhelmingly male, for one. It was said to be an intellectual salon, but in the club photos were tech bro billionaires, including Edge members Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Larry Page. And too many members were men now largely renowned for misconduct, professional or personal: Marc D Hauser, Jonah Lehrer, Lawrence Krauss, and Marvin Minsky.

We might have overheard the Edge men praising race science, rape culture and genetic engineering. We might even have asked where the money came from. Then we would have come face to face with the illiterate child rapist and passionate eugenicist who bankrolled the whole thing. Jeffrey Epstein.

they all converged on a master philosophy: they were apex predators ordained by nature to exploit and subjugate others. This creed allowed the Edge set to steer intellectual history into its current fascist dead-end.

With its contempt for the humanities, Edge offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without even opening a book, they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial theory and queer studies. They could continue to ignore giants like Edward Said, Judith Butler, and David Graeber, and devote their brains instead to the race science and rape apologetics that now pass for scholarship on edgelord podcasts.

Billionaires really like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as a good and natural thing

Epstein funnelled as much as $20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology.

the anarchist Noam Chomsky, described this ethos: “The cool observers – meaning us smart guys – it’s our task to impose necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications to keep these poor simpletons on course.”

The intellectual groundwork was laid for Epstein to spring his world-domination plan on his kept Edge scholars. The big reveal: he hoped to seed the human race with his superior DNA by impregnating women at his ranch in New Mexico.

[Epstein] told at least one fellow eugenicist that he hoped to freeze his peerless brain and penis at his death, so his organs could be revived for future use in “transhumanism”.

With the Epstein files, we’re confronted with exactly what all the Edge men – from Pinker to Dawkins to Musk to Gates – did with the intellectual territory they seized.

https://x.com/i/status/2022398709733224551

This is the video and edited transcript of yesterday's “The Ezra Klein Show” podcast with guest Anand Giridharadas, a journalist and author who has long been focused on how the elite shape the world the rest of us occupy without ever actually changing it much, and who is now focusing on Epstein.

This is an incredible deep dive into how the Epstein class as a whole operates, and how Epstein operated in it to such great success, even though it was such an open secret that the writer Tina Brown, upon being invited to a dinner with Epstein, Prince Andrew and Woody Allen, replied, “What the fuck is this — the pedophiles’ ball?”

If you want to know what's in it for the rich who already have all the money in the world but are not themselves pedos, or the famous or socially lofty who already have all the social cachet they'd ever want but are not themselves pedos, or what sucks people into that network of supporters and enablers of well-connected pedos who would not necessarily choose to be there, this is for you. A sample:

E.K. - There’s this amazing quote from Justin Nelson, Epstein’s personal banker. I’m quoting Nelson from the Times piece: He prepares a memo trumpeting Epstein’s large volume of business with JPMorgan, and noting that despite his status as a sex offender, he was “still clearly well-respected and trusted by some of the richest people in the world.”

His network is the proof that he is worth dealing with and not beyond the pale. Because if he was, well then how would he still have this network?

A.G. - He is revealing how these elites make decisions about trust — that I think are really different from the way folks at home go through the world and make decisions. I think you make character judgments about people, about how honest they have been and therefore will be.

These billionaires, these superelites, these superlawyers are working on a whole different kind of system. Their system has to do, as you say, with how loaded with connections you are in this network, how high your stock is on a given day in this network.

What Epstein figured out was how to game this. He figured out the vulnerability of this entire network, which is that these people are actually not that serious about character. In fact, character may be a liability for some of them, may be an unnecessary source of friction. These people are actually not that grounded in the evidence of how someone has lived.

This is one of the best articles I have ever read on how all the people involved and their hierarchies of favor worked together to protect Epstein, and are still working to protect others equally as heinous but of that same seemingly untouchable class.

The NYT column (embedded video plus lightly edited transcript, not paywalled):
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-anand-giridharadas.html

Archive link:
https://archive.ph/XdncI

Direct NYT link to podcast (not paywalled):
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010705735/the-infrastructure-of-jeffrey-epsteins-power.html

Other links to Ezra Klein podcasts (not paywalled):
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/opinion/how-to-listen-ezra-klein-show-nyt.html

I'm not posting this for the information described by the article title. Rather, I'd like to draw your attention to the very end of the piece:

The justice department had earlier told CBS News that the four men Khanna mentioned were “only included in this one document out of all the files. Wexner is referenced nearly 200 times in the files, and Bin Sulayem appears over 4,700 times.”

A legal representative for Wexner said: “The assistant US attorney told Mr Wexner’s legal counsel in 2019 that Mr Wexner was being viewed as source of information about Epstein and was not a target in any respect. Mr Wexner cooperated fully by providing background information on Epstein and was never contacted again.”

Not entirely true. Les Wexner got a proffer from SDNY. I'll explain.

Looking at the photo of Pam Bondi's folder in this article, I got intrigued by the list of Jamila Priyapal's EFTA searches, and looked up the documents myself. The very last document listed in the photo is a PowerPoint presentation created by the federal Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force and the NYC Joint Bank Robbery / Violent Crime Task Force for distribution to law enforcement.

On page 11 of this presentation, both Les Wexner and his wife Abigail are listed as two of the people receiving proffers, some via the FBI and some via the Southern District of New York.

A proffer is when law enforcement makes you an offer saying, in effect, "If you tell us what you know about this crime, we promise that what you tell us will not be used against you." (In case you're wondering, there is no non-criminal proffer possible in the context of this law enforcement presentation.)

In criminal law, proffers are made to people believed to be chargeable with an offense, usually serious, related to the evidence sought. Proffers are the carrot on the stick of criminal charges. Without a possible charge, a proffer has no power to protect.

Just so you know.

And frankly, had DoJ done their jobs and followed the law as written, Ro Khanna would never have been put in the position of trying to figure out who was who in the files in the first place. Redacting according to the provisions set forth in EFTA was what the DoJ was supposed to have done before the files were released, and did not. The release of unredacted victim names, including these four unrelated persons, is NOT on Ro Khanna. That's on the DoJ.

This is 26 years ago, Matt Groening is in the files it seems...

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) flagged an extraordinarily explosive allegation against President Donald Trump Thursday night, one uncovered in the Justice Department’s release of files on Jeffrey Epstein, and demanded the the DOJ take immediate action in interviewing witnesses.

“Dear [Attorney General Pam Bondi]: Since you creepily spied on the unredacted Epstein files I read, you know I read this one,” Lieu wrote Thursday in a social media post on X, referencing reports that Bondi and her agency appeared to be tracking lawmakers’ searches in its Epstein files database.

“Witness calls FBI’s [National Threat Operations Center] and reports girl, later found dead, told him Trump and Epstein raped her. DOJ NEVER INTERVIEWS WITNESS. When will DOJ interview this witness?”

The DOJ’s three-million-document Epstein trove lets us piece together more details about the little-known dinner. But for anyone who is hoping they shed light on malevolent world-takeover plans or unspeakable crimes, it turns out what they reveal is something much more banal but no less concerning: a Big Tech elite that is more “oblivious rich guy” than “evil genius,” and that was easily impressed and charmed by a prolific sex criminal because he was able to project the illusion of brilliance.

From the link:
Your Gmail account, littlestjeff@gmail.com, has been created

Did they release documents from this email (or the others since i doubt this is the only one) too? Who knows what its about, maybe took another free month of netflix and theres nothing interesting, but still wondering

I found this document after looking up "betray".
It's a very long document with letters from a particular victim (unfortunately she was already outed a few years ago against her will, more on that below. This document is what made me fully realize what the victims are up against. I don't know if I would have had the strength.

In the document she accusess the law firm Boies and Co of "aiding and abetting Epstein and co's sex trafficking conspiracy where I and hundreds if not thousands of children and young women were repeatedly raped." She breaks down how she reached that conclusion really well, and it was a very hard read. They were her lawyers and screwed her over and had her sign a settlement which basically was a tiny amount of hush money to silence her. It seems like that law firm is already under scrutiny for their involvement in Epstein's contested plea deals.

https://legalnewsfeed.com/2026/02/04/david-boies-role-in-jeffrey-epsteins-contested-plea-deal-revealed-amid-ongoing-legal-scrutiny/

Regarding the outing, I quote: "David Boies and Stan Pottinger also asked me to put my name to an op-ed in the New York Times titled "How David Boies Saved Me... I firmly believe this went against my interests and that Boies used me to rehabilitate his reputation." They basically pressure her to out herself to save the reputation of their lawyer. She was a Jane Doe in the proceedings before that.

Oh. in the same letter she says that Alan Dershowitz has people out to kill her. Again, it's a very hard read. I hope she gets justice. I hope they all do. I couldn't finish reading it because she is rightfully spiraling, trying to get justice from powerful people who are only protecting their own.

Photographs taken by Reuters during a congressional hearing on Wednesday showed the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, holding a document titled “Jayapal Pramila Search History”, listing files that the Democratic US representative Pramila Jayapal had accessed during her review of the Epstein materials.

“DoJ has extended Congress the opportunity to review unredacted documents in the Epstein files,” a justice department spokesperson said in a statement. “As part of that review, DoJ logs all searches made on its systems to protect against the release of victim information.”

“There is someone or two people from the [justice department] monitoring you as you sit on those computers,” Mace told NPR. “There is a tech person who logs you into the computer. They log you into the computer because they’re giving you your own identification. They are tracking all of the documents that members of Congress open, and they’re tracking everything that you do in that room.”

I think it would be really big news if they suddenly stopped trying to play dirty.

(I think this is readable without a paywall if not someone let me know and I can paste it in)

The Economist with a handy breakdown of the emails and some good graphics and statistics that make them more understandable, especially the timelines of contacts.

A remarkable interview that goes into depth about some of the political contacts of Jeffrey Epstein as well as the testimony of victims and people who knew him. For example I did not know, until watching this, that Peter Mandelson had taken Jeffrey Epstein into 10 Downing St. to meet with Tony Blair, or that "a well known Prime Minister" had violently abused Virginia Giuffre to the point where she almost died. The concluding remarks are also unusually stark and insightful about the political context to this kind of violence.

Once again: accountability outside the US, and again links with Russia and Epstein circles.

On Wednesday, the Council of Europe said it was honouring a request from Norwegian authorities to waive Jagland’s immunity from legal processes that he had previously enjoyed.

The pan-European human rights body based in Strasbourg said that such immunity aims "to safeguard the independent exercise of official functions," and wasn't intended for "personal benefit."

Jagland was a controversial figure when he headed the Council of Europe and was repeatedly accused by both Norwegian and international media of being too servile towards Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin.

Following the initial invasion of Ukraine and the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia was placed under voting sanctions, but Jagland spearheaded efforts in 2019 to restore Moscow's voting rights.

I mean at the very beginning, 90s, early 2000s, when he finally got into the crosshairs of the authorities.

SWAT storming his mansion an hour after the first victim shows up at the police station? Brought into custody, decades of jail following conviction? No. Depositions, inconvenient questions, police desperately going through his garbage etc.

Just imagine it were some low-life in his trailer, luring underage girls from the Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Bush, Gates family into his dirty trailer. Would the same happen?

Imagine how the local police would talk about it:

A: I don't believe it - now this dirtbag lured Cheney's granddaughter in!

B: Well, he got it coming now. That family has great lawyers.

A: Oh yes. The best. They gonna deposition him.

B: Gonna deposition him, absolutely. And if he doesn't show up - bad look on him.

A: That'd look BAD. He wouldn't dare.

B: By the way, I just heard back from the law firm that represents the Gates family.

A: He dragged his granddaughter into his trailer last year, didn't he?

B: Yep. You wouldn't believe it: This dirtbag sent his shady wannabe-PI methhead neighbour to sneak into the Gates' garden and shine a flashlight into fucking Bill Gates granddaughter's room and filmed her while she was sleeping!

A: Ha, he won't have much luck with that! I bet they called the law firm right away?

B: They absolutely did, and action followed on the foot! A senior partner drove over there, picked her up and hid her in a hotel.

A: Fantastic, that wannabe-PI clearly bit off more than he could chew that time!

B: Oh yes.

The Ditch gained access to Jeffrey Epstein’s FedEx account – with records showing it was used for shipments long after his death and an address book including a senior Israeli military officer now considered a “strategic consultant” for “diplomatic matters”.

One of the shipments sent less than two years ago was delivered to a dissolved company that owned and operated Epstein’s private jet.

The US Department of Justice published millions of files related to Epstein late last month and The Ditch identified an unredacted password for Epstein’s FedEx account. The record with the account login details has since been deleted. Live and accessible

Jeffrey Epstein’s FedEx account included the addresses and contact details of his high-profile associates like convicted child abuser Ghislaine Maxwell, sex trafficker Jean-Luc Brunel and disgraced billionaire Les Wexner.

Among the lesser-known of the almost 100 names is ex-Israeli Air Force Lieutenant Colonel-turned-strategic consultant Danny Grossman, who lists Alan Dershowitz as one of his clients.

Grossman served in the US Air Force before moving to Israel in 1979 and joining that state’s equivalent. He claims to have had reports placed on the front page of the New York Times and has been a director of the American Jewish Congress.

The FedEx account was used as recently as summer 2024 – despite Epstein’s death in 2019.

A shipment weighing just under half a kilogramme was collected from aircraft company Gulfstream product support in Savannah, Georgia and shipped to Plan D LLC in Kennesaw, Georgia on 20 May, 2024.

Plan D is the now-dissolved company that Epstein incorporated to own and operate his private jet, which Donald Trump used during the 2024 US presidential election campaign.

Meanwhile another package weighing 1.4 kilogramme was shipped from the same Gulfstream address in Georgia to Empire Aviation in West Palm Beach, Florida, on 12 March, 2024, according to invoices.

The FedEx account names ex-Epstein accountant Bella Klein as its administrator while Jeffrey E Epstein is listed as the account holder.

The FedEx account was still live and accessible at the time of publication.

The US Department of Justice has been contacted for comment.

A powerful class of tech billionaires believes democracy is an obstacle — not a value.

From crypto empires and AI dominance to “network states” and effective altruism, a growing broligarchy envisions a future ruled by elites, insulated from accountability and untethered from democratic norms.

David Z. Morris — longtime technology and finance journalist and author of Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia — joins the show to expose how Epstein’s elite network, Silicon Valley power players, and crypto utopians are reshaping politics in ways that threaten democratic institutions worldwide.

http://thelefthook.substack.com/

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EFTA01619707

If that IS Epstein's number that seems like a direct admission of guilt AND directly links it to Trump (as late as 2018).

Edit: it IS indeed Epstein's number: EFTA01612126.pdf